Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

The Laws Enacted by the General Court, are, tis true, to be transmitted unto the King for His Royal Approbation: But those Laws, when made, are in Force, as soon as they are made; and ⟨p. 143⟩until such Time as they are Disallowed by the King: And if within the space of Three Years the Kings Disapprobation be not Signified, the Laws are Perpetual until the General Court shall Repeal them. Now by the Old Charter, the Governor and Company might not make any Laws Repugnant unto the Laws of England; and the Laws which have Reason and Justice in them, under the New Charter, need not fear losing the Royal Allowance, if the People be not Egregiously wanting to themselves.

The Laws Enacted by the General Court, are, tis true, to be transmitted unto the King for His Royal Approbation: But those Laws, when made, are in Force, assoon as they are made; and ⟨p. 143⟩until such Time as they are Disallow'd by the King: And if within the space of Three Years the Kings Disapprobation be not Signified, the Laws are Perpetual until the General Court shall Repeal them. Now by the Old Charter, the Governour and Company might not make any Laws Repugnant unto the Laws of England; and the Laws which have Reason and Justice in them, under the New Charter, need not fear losing the Royal Allowance, if the People be not Egregiously wanting to themselves.

Upon the whole, The Persons of the most Consummate Wisdom that Mr. Mather could consult withal, agreed in This; Take your NEW-CHARTER and be Thankful for it! The most sensible Men added, That as Poor a Charter as wanton and froward Minds might think it, if any People of Sway in the Country should be so under the Sting of an Hornet as to do those Rash and Mad Things, which may procure the Loss of the Privilege• which it brings unto them, the rest of the People will certainly have little Honour for the Memory of the Unhappy Men, who have been the Instruments of bringing such Mischiefs upon them. Among the rest, that Sagacious and Ingenious Person President Bond of Barbados (then at London) said unto him: What would not we in our Islands give for such a Charter as yours And the famous Mr. Matthew Mead then wrote! unto the Person who is now Writing about the Faithful Agent, If Men Reward not his Great Work, and Labour of Love, I am sure, GOD will. What he has done has not been without