The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, Usually Called Blue Laws of Connecticut, Quaker Laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts, Blue Laws of New York, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, First Record of Connecticut: Interesting Extracts from Connecticut Records, Cases of Salem Witchcraft, Charges and Banishment of Rev. Roger Williams, &c., and Other Interesting and Instructive Antiquities |
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... nature and circumstances of the same . That none be suffered to retale wine or strong water , or suffer the same to be druncke in their houses , except it be at some inne or victualing house , and there only to strangers at their first ...
... nature and circumstances of the same . That none be suffered to retale wine or strong water , or suffer the same to be druncke in their houses , except it be at some inne or victualing house , and there only to strangers at their first ...
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... nature of the offence . It is also enacted , that if a motion of marriage be duly made to the master , and through any sinister end or cove- tous desire , he will not consent thereunto , then the cause to be made known unto the ...
... nature of the offence . It is also enacted , that if a motion of marriage be duly made to the master , and through any sinister end or cove- tous desire , he will not consent thereunto , then the cause to be made known unto the ...
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... nature of it . 11. If any person rise up by false witness , wittingly and of purpose to take away any man's life ... natural parents , lay hold on him , and bring him before the magistrates assembled in court , and testifie unto them ...
... nature of it . 11. If any person rise up by false witness , wittingly and of purpose to take away any man's life ... natural parents , lay hold on him , and bring him before the magistrates assembled in court , and testifie unto them ...
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... nature of the offence . 6. That all talking and not keeping sylence during the time of the exercise , jereing , quarrelling , fighting , dept'ing . collers without lycence or dismission & c . or any other mis- demeanor , ( so adjudged ...
... nature of the offence . 6. That all talking and not keeping sylence during the time of the exercise , jereing , quarrelling , fighting , dept'ing . collers without lycence or dismission & c . or any other mis- demeanor , ( so adjudged ...
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... nature of it , or so doubtful in the issue , or of such general concern , that the said council shall judge best that it be referred to a fuller Council , consisting of the Churches of the other Consocia- tion within the same County ...
... nature of it , or so doubtful in the issue , or of such general concern , that the said council shall judge best that it be referred to a fuller Council , consisting of the Churches of the other Consocia- tion within the same County ...
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Page 265 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Page 270 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's, the same shall save it.
Page 98 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 103 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 98 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 67 - Whereas, Mr. Roger Williams, one of the elders of the church of Salem, hath broached and divulged divers new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magistrates ; as also writ letters of defamation, both of the magistrates and churches...
Page 98 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 99 - Second and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the style and title of King of England by the name of James the Third or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth or the style and title of King of Great Britain hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm or any other the dominions thereunto belonging.
Page 98 - I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.
Page 99 - Do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King George is lawful and rightful King of this realm and all other His Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging.