 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 686 pages
...Religious man shall be admitted to the freedom of this i<«t forth. ___... _ _ _ franchise. body pol1tIc, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." l The men who laid this singular foundation for the commonwealth which they were instituting,... | |
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - 1859 - 606 pages
...and agreed, that for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,' and... | |
 | SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD - 1859 - 594 pages
...and agreed, that for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same. 7 ' 1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,... | |
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - 1859 - 602 pages
...and agreed, that for the time to tome, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,8 and... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 674 pages
...to come, no ° . Religious man shall be admitted to the freedom of this test for the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." l The men who laid this singular foundation for the commonwealth which they were instituting,... | |
 | Charles Hudson - 1862 - 584 pages
...peculiar care. As early as 1631, they ordered that " no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the Commonwealth, but such as are members of some of the...churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." This law operating hardly against some recent emigrants, it was so modified in 1662, that all Englishmen... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1864 - 432 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbc admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymltts of the same." — (.May 18, 163!,) Jia-ords of the Colony of Matt. liny, vol. I., p. 87. Tlie... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 350 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man slmibe admitted to the freedome of this bojy polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the ly mitts of the same." —(May 1S, 1031,l Records ofthe Colony of Mass. Bay, voi, i, p. S7. The Connecticut... | |
 | 1866 - 690 pages
...States," i. 338. fundamental laws, " that no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."* As the churches were all of one kind — the Independent or Congregational, — and as... | |
 | 1867 - 830 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the ' See North American Review, Izxxiv., p. 453. f Monrt's Relation, p. 3. \ Mau. Col. Rtc., i., 73. lymitts... | |
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To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the... 
