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 immediate 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 PROCLAMATION By The PRESIDENT and COUNCIL of His Majeftiy'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, bearing 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 Malfachufets 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 specified 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 Jofeph Dudley Efq to be the firft 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-Prefident, Surron Bradstreet, Robert Mafust, John Fuz-Winthrope, John Pynchon, Peter Bulkley, Edward Randolph, Wait Winthrope, Richard Wharton, Jobs Ufer, Nathaniel Saltonftal Bartholomew Gidney, Jonathan Tyng, Dudley Braaftreet, 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 funding 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 Countrey or Kings-Province, which hath hitherto been unfettled. They the faid Prefident & Council have refolved speedily to erect and fettle a conftant Court of Record upon the place; and that the Prefident, Deputy-Frefident, or fome others of the Members of His Majefties Council fhall be prefent to give all neceflary Power and Directions for Efteblifhing His Majefties Government there, and Administration of Justice to A His Majefties Subjects within the faid Narraganfer Country or Kings-Province, and all the lands, Rights, and Members thereof. And the faid Prefident & Council have in the interim affigned Richard Smith Efq: James Pendleton, and John Foxes Gentlemen, Jufticea 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 & Foot within the Narraganset Countrey or Province, and all the Iflands 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 forbear 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 Wafte 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 Prefident & 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 difcharge all His Majefties Subjects within the faid Narraganset Country or Kings Province and all the Ilands, Rights & Members thereof from the Government of the Governor & CON pany of Connecticut & 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 Yffices of the Peace, the Sergeant Major 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 Conftables & fuch as are to be Ordeined. And all other perfons are to be aiding & affiftng unto them the faid Juftices and Conftables in the Execution and Difcharge of their refpective Offices, Charges and Trufts, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Peril. Given from the Council-houfe in Bofton ipis 28th Day of May Anno Domini 1686. Annoq: Regni Regis Jacobi Secundi fecundo. By the Prefident 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. |