Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the Religious, Moral and Educational, Legal, Military, and Political Condition of the People Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's sons, 1910 |
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... MEETING AND MEMBERSHIP 653 XIX . GENERAL COURT - ITS ORIGINAL JURIS- DICTION 665 XX . GENERAL COURT - ITS APPELLATE JURIS- · 681 DICTION XXI . REMAINING COURTS . GENERAL ASSEMBLY 690 XXII . REMAINING CHANCERY COURTS - ADMIRALTY AND 696 ...
... MEETING AND MEMBERSHIP 653 XIX . GENERAL COURT - ITS ORIGINAL JURIS- DICTION 665 XX . GENERAL COURT - ITS APPELLATE JURIS- · 681 DICTION XXI . REMAINING COURTS . GENERAL ASSEMBLY 690 XXII . REMAINING CHANCERY COURTS - ADMIRALTY AND 696 ...
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... meeting , by the returns from their labor , the charge of educating thirty Indian children in " true religion and civility . " 3 Numerous instances of private gifts and bequests for the advancement of the same general object are ...
... meeting , by the returns from their labor , the charge of educating thirty Indian children in " true religion and civility . " 3 Numerous instances of private gifts and bequests for the advancement of the same general object are ...
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... meetings in their character of sheriffs was justly regarded as repugnant to the religious aspects of such an occasion.1 If possible , the determination to enforce the strict observance of the Sabbath was , during the last quarter of the ...
... meetings in their character of sheriffs was justly regarded as repugnant to the religious aspects of such an occasion.1 If possible , the determination to enforce the strict observance of the Sabbath was , during the last quarter of the ...
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... meeting , to be held at Elizabeth River . Some years later , a woman , residing in Northampton , was punished for defamation by being condemned to stand at the door of her parish church , during the singing of the psalm , with a gag in ...
... meeting , to be held at Elizabeth River . Some years later , a woman , residing in Northampton , was punished for defamation by being condemned to stand at the door of her parish church , during the singing of the psalm , with a gag in ...
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... meeting of all the people would be held at that place on a specified date to choose a vestry . This manner of selecting was , in 1644 , con- firmed by an Act of Assembly , which provided that the choice should be determined by a ...
... meeting of all the people would be held at that place on a specified date to choose a vestry . This manner of selecting was , in 1644 , con- firmed by an Act of Assembly , which provided that the choice should be determined by a ...
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Page 14 - Lastly and chiefly, the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind, for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the Giver of all goodness; for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.
Page 614 - Correction'], there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of , and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal, this day of , in the year of our Lord , at , in the [county] aforesaid.
Page 245 - Majesties protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws...
Page 29 - Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges, that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their dioceses and charges, as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues, wherewith Almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome law.
Page 442 - Many lords of manors had received an education differing little from that of their menial servants. The heir of an estate often passed his boyhood and youth at the seat of his family with no better tutors than grooms and gamekeepers, and scarce attained learning enough to sign his name to a Mittimus...
Page 17 - It is provided and enacted, that every person at his or their respective admission to be incumbent in any...
Page 4 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Page 205 - England, very few of good conversation would adventure thither, (as thinking it a place wherein surely the fear of God was not), yet many came, such as wore Black Coats, and could babble in a Pulpit, roar in a Tavern, exact from their Parishioners and rather by their dissoluteness destroy than feed their Flocks.
Page 7 - Likewise adding hereunto her great appearance of love to me, her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God, her capableness of understanding, her aptness and willingness to receive any good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her own, incitements stirring me up hereunto.
Page 456 - But in truth they lost little by living in rural seclusion. For, even in the highest ranks, and in those situations which afforded the greatest facilities for mental improvement, the English women of that generation were decidedly worse educated than they have been at any other time since the revival of learning.