1684 94. Advertisement [of a runaway servant, Matthew Jones, the property of Hannah Bosworth, of Hull.] Dated March 6, 1683. HARVARD COLLEGE. 95. Quaestiones. Evans, 361. MASSACHUSETTS BAY, COLONY. MHS HC 96. [Colony seal.] At a | General Court | on Adjournment, held at Boston Feb. 13 1683/4. (An order for encouraging buildings of brick and stone.) [Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green. 1684.) BA Reproduced in Whitmore's reprint of the General Laws and Liberties, 1672, 309. Evans, 365. 97. Bond. 1685 MA Archives, XL. 529. The varieties of this form are too many to be noted. The earliest example of a bond or recognizance in the files of the Supreme Judicial Court is dated 1688. HARVARD COLLEGE. 98. Catalogus. No copy has been located. LANE. 99. The London Gazette: | Published by Authority. | From Thursday February 5th to Monday February 9 1684 (On the death of Charles II.) Colophon: Printed by Thomas Newcomb in the Savoy, 1684. And Reprinted at Boston in NewEngland, by Samuel Green, 1685. The text is reprinted in 1 Proceedings, XIII. 105. Evans, 388. MASSACHUSETTS BAY, COLONY. MHS 100. [Colony seal.] At a General Court Held at Boston, January 28, 1684. (Amending the law for building with brick and stone.) [Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green. 1684.] BA Reproduced in Whitmore's reprint of the General Laws and Liberties, 1672, 327. Evans, 364. 101. [Colony seal.] The Governovr and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England. | At a | General Court | Held at Boston, by Adjournment from the 28th of January | to the 18th of March, 1684. BPL An explanation of the Law about Conveyances. 2 Proceedings, XVII. 33. Whitmore did not know of this broadside and he prints the text in his reprint of the General Laws and Liberties, 1672, 353, in a form of two pages which he believed to be necessary to complete the supplement. 102. [Colony seal.] By the Governour and Council | Assembled at Boston the 2d. of April, 1685. (Forbidding intercourse with a vessel cruising in the neighborhood, believed to have been taken by pirates.) [Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green. 1685. BA Reproduced in Whitmore's reprint of the General Laws and Liberties, 1672, 355. Evans, 391. 1686 103. Advertisement | Forasmuch as by His Majesty's Gracious Care, His imme- | diate Goverment is now Settled, and such Regulations like to be speedily made in the Narraganset Countrey or Kings-Province . . . (Calling a meeting of proprietors.) Dated, Boston, June 9, 1686. 2 Proceedings, IX. 469. HARVARD COLLEGE. 104. Theses. Evans, 406. MASSACHUSETTS BAY, COLONY. MHS HC 105. [Colony seal.] A Proclamation By the President and Council of his Majestiy's Territory and Dominion of NewEngland in America whereas we have received from His most Excellent Majesty our Sovereign Lord James the Second . The Exemplification of a Judgment in His High Court of Chancery ... against the Governour and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. . . Dated, May 25, 1686. [Boston: Printed by Richard Pierce, 1686.] ... 106. [Colony seal.] A Proclamation | By the President and Council of His Majestiys Territory and Dominion of NewEngland in America. Dated, May 28, 1686. (Announcing that a President and Council had been constituted over NewEngland and the appointment of Joseph Dudley, governor.) Boston, in N. E. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable his Majesties President and Council of this Government. 2 Proceedings, Ix. 471. Evans, 409. MHS 107. [Colony seal.] A | Proclamation | by the | President and Council for the Orderly Solemnization of Marriage. Dated, May 29, 1686. Boston. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable His Majesty's | President & Council of this His Majesties Teritory & Dominion of N-England. 2 Proceedings, Ix. 472. Evans, 411. MHS 108. By the President and Council of his Majesties Territory and Dominion of New-England in America. (Notice of a court in the Narragansett Country.) Dated, June 8, 1686. Boston. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable His Majesty's President & Council in this His Territory and Do- minion of New-England. The text is given in 5 Collections, IX. 152. Evans, 410. MHS 109. The General Courts Answer to | Joseph Dudley Esqr &c. | This was pass'd by the whole Court, nemine non consentiente. (Refusing assent to his commission as governor.) [Boston: Printed by Richard Pierce. 1686.] † MA Archives, CCXLII. 334. Evans, 412. TOMPSON, EDWARD. 110. An Elegiack Tribute to the Sacred Dust of the Reverend and Worthy | Mr. Seaborn Cotton | Pastour of the Church of Christ at Hampton in New-England: who was discharged from his Work and Office, to be admitted into Heaven, April 20th 1686. [Boston: Printed by Samuel Green.] MHS 111. Upon the Death of that Aged, Pious, Sincere-hearted Christian, John Alden Esq: | Late Magistrate of New-Plimouth Colony, who dyed Sept. 12th, 1687, | being about eighty nine years of age. BA. MHS It may have been printed in 1714 (Proceedings, XLI. 208) and it was reprinted, in 1806, by Timothy Alden, Jun. Evans, 426. HARVARD COLLEGE. 112. Quaestiones. [Boston: Printed by Samuel Green.] Evans, 428. HC 113. Theses. HC 2 Proceedings, XVII. 58. They are reproduced in Am. Antiq. Soc., Proceedings, October, 1914, 282. WALTER, NEHEMIAH. 114. An Elegiack verse, on the Death of the Pious and Profound Grammarian and Rhetorician, Mr. Elijah Corlet, Schoolmaster of Cambridge, who Deceased Anno Aetatis 77, Feb. 24, 1687. HC A PROCLAMATION Br The PRESIDENT and COUNCIL-of His Majestiy's Territory & Dominion of NEW-ENGLAND in AMERICA W HEREAS His Moft Excellent Majefty our Soveraign LORD JAMES the Second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c. by COMMISSION or Letters Patents under His Great Seal of England, bear.. ing Date the Eight day of October in the first of His Reign hath been graciously pleafed to erect and contitute a PRESIDENT and COUNCIL to take Care of all that His Territory and Dominion of New-England called the Maachufets Bay, the Provinces of New-Hampshire & Main, and the Narraganset Country, otherwife called the Kings-Province, with all the lands, Rights and Members thereunto appertaining; and to Order Rule and GOVERN the fame according to the Rules, Methods and Regulations fpecified in the faid Commiffion: Together with His Majefties Gracious Indulgence in matters of Religion. And for the Execution of His Royal pleafure in that behalf, His Majefty hath been pleafed to appoint Jofesh Dudley Efq to be the first PRESIDENT of His Majefties faid Council, & VICE-ADMIRAL of thefe Seas. And to Continue in the faid Offices until his Majefty fhall otherwife direct, & alfo to nominate & appoint William Stoughton, Efq: now Deputy-Frefident, Siren Bradstreet, Robert Mafon, John Fuz-Winthrope, John Pynchon, Peter Bulkley, Edward Randolph, Wait Winthrope, Richard Wharton, Jola Ufer, Nathaniel Saltontal, Bartholomew Gidney, Jonathan Tyng, Dudley Bradftreet, John Hinks, and Edward Tyng, Efq'so, be His Majesties Council in the faid Colony and Territories. The Prefident & Council therefore being convened and having according to the Direction & Form of the faid Commiflion, taken their Oathes and Entered the GOVERNMENT aforefaid, and fading it needful, that speedy & effectual Care be taken for the Obfervati on of His Majefties Commands, and particularly for the Regulation and good Government of the Narraganfer Countrcy or Kings-P ce, which hath hitherto been unfailed. They the faid Prefident & Council have refolved speedily to erect and fettle a conftant Court of Record upon the place; and that the Prefident, Deguty-Frefident, or fome others of the Members of His Majeftics Council fhall be prefent to give all neceflary Power and Directions for abling His Majetties Government there, and Administration of Justice to All His Majefties Subjects within the faid Narraganset Country or Kings-Province, and all the lands, Rights, and Members thereof. And the faid Prefident & Council have in the interim afligned Richard Sinith Efq: James Pendleton, and John Foxer Gentlemen, Justices to keep the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the KING and all His Subjects: And alfo given Commiflion to the faid Richard Smith to be Sergeant Major, and Chief Commander of His Majefties Milia, both of Horfe & Foor within the Narraganset Countrey or Province, and all the Ilands Rights and Members thereof. THEREFORE the faid Prefident & Council doe hereby in His Majefties Name and by virtue of His faid Commillion ftrictly Require & Command all other perfons being or coming upon the place, to for bear the Excercife of all manner of Jurisdiction, Authority, and Power, and to ceafe all further Proceedings for the Allotments or Divifions of Land, or making any Strip or Waste upon any part of the faid Province, fave only on each man's fated Propriety, except by Licence obtained from the faid Court, or the President & Council, until there fhall be fuch effectual Regulation and Government established as is directed by His Majefty. And the faid Prefident & Council doe hereby henceforth discharge all His Majefties Subjects within the faid Narraganfer Country or Kings Province and all the lflands, Rights & Members thereof from the Government of the Governor & Com pany of Connecticus & Rhode-Ifland and Providence Plantation, & all others pretending any Power or Jurisdiction. Hereby Charging & Commanding all His Majefties Subjects to yeild ready & due Obedience to the faid fices of the Peace, the Sergeant Mayor or Cheif Commander of His Majefties Militia. And George Weightman, Thomas Eldridge, Thomas Monford and Wiliam Chaplin are hereby appointed & authorized prefent Conftables: and Liberty given to the aforefaid Juftices to appoint fo many more as they fhall fee needful to them, and to adminifter Oathes unto the aforefaid Constables & fuch as are to be Ordeined. And all other perfons are to be aiding & affift ng unto them the faid Juftices and Conftables in the Execution and Difcharge of their respective Offices, Charges and Trufts, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Peril. Given from the Council-houfe in Bafton pis 28th Day of May Anno Domini 1686. Anmoq: Regni Regis Jacobi Secundi fecundo. By the President and Council, Edward Rudolph Secr': GOD SAVE THE KING BOSTON, in N. E. Printed by Richard Pierce, Printer to the Honourable His Majefties Prefident and Council of this Government. No. 106. |