 The deputies having conceived great danger to our state, in regard that our magistrates, for want of positive laws, in many cases, might proceed according to their discretions, it was agreed, that some men should be appointed to frame a body of grounds...  Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Page 204by Massachusetts Historical Society - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - Church history - 1855 - 758 pages
...be designated to 214 CODE AS THE MAGNA CHARTA. form a set of rules in resemblance to a magna charts, which, " being allowed by some of the ministers and. the General Court, be received as fundamental laws." The work, written by Israel Stoughton, which disparaged the power... | |
 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1885 - 336 pages
...was agreed that some men should be appointed to frame a body of grounds of laws, in resemblance to magna charta, which being allowed by some of the ministers...General Court, should be received for fundamental laws." Accordingly the governor and others were appointed by the General Court for the purpose.17 But it does... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Academic libraries - 1886 - 576 pages
...magistrates, for want of positive laws in many cases, might proceed according to their discretion, it was agreed that some men should be appointed to...general court, should be received for fundamental laws."1 In 1636 John Cotton, having been requested to assist the magistrates in compiling a body of... | |
 | Edward Pease Allinson, Boies Penrose - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1887 - 576 pages
...magistrates, for want of positive laws in many cases, might proceed according to their discretion, it was agreed that some men should be appointed to...general court, should be received for fundamental laws." l In 1636 John Cotton, having been requested to assist the magistrates in compiling a body of laws,... | |
 | Duane Hamilton Hurd - Essex County (Mass.) - 1887 - 702 pages
...that some men shall be appointed to frame the body of grounds of laws in resemblance to a Aluijnn, Charta, which, being allowed by some of the ministers...General Court, should be received for fundamental laws." The above extract does not appear in the records of the court, but the following entry is found in... | |
 | American Statistical Association - Computer network resources - 1912 - 986 pages
...the period 1631-1635. Governor Winthrop tells us that in May, 1635, on the demand of the deputies, "it was agreed that some men should be appointed to...General Court, should be received for fundamental laws." Although committees to draft such laws were appointed both in 1635 and 1636 little was accomplished... | |
 | Duane Hamilton Hurd - Essex County (Mass.) - 1887 - 748 pages
...some men shall be" appointed to frame the body of grounds of laws in resemblance to a Magna Ckarta, which, being allowed by some of the ministers and...General Court, should be received for fundamental laws." The above extract does not appear in the records of the court, but the following entry is found in... | |
 | William Henry Whitmore - Archives - 1890 - 206 pages
...elected once a year " — F . C. Gray. Winthrop (History, i. 191) confirms this as follows : — " 6th of 3d month (May) 1635. The deputies having conceived...general court, should be received for fundamental laws." • At the General Court for March 3d, 1635-6 (Records, i. 169, 170), the system of Courts to be held... | |
 | William Henry Whitmore - Archives - 1890 - 212 pages
...proceed according to their diseretions, it was agreed, that some men should be appointed to frame a bodv of grounds of laws, in resemblance to a Magna Charta,...general court, should be received for fundamental laws." At the General Court for March 3d, 1635-6 (Records, i. 169, 170), the system of Courts to be held by... | |
 | William Thomas Davis - Lawyers - 1895 - 854 pages
...agreed that some men shall be appointed to form the body of laws in resemblance to a magna ckaria, which, being allowed by some of the ministers and the General Court, shall be received for fundamental laws." The governor (John Haynes), deputy-governor (Richard Bellingham),... | |
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