Virginia Carolorum: The Colony Under the Rule of Charles the First and Second, A.D. 1625-A.D. 1685, Based Upon Manuscripts and Documents of the Period |
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Page 336 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 251 - liberty of conscience" repugnant to this. If men will profess, — be they those under Baptism, be they those of the Independent judgment simply, or of the Presbyterian judgment, — in the name of God, encourage them, countenance them...
Page 284 - A Song of Sion. Written by a Citizen thereof, whose outward Habitation is in Virginia ; and being sent over to some of his Friends in England, the same is found fitting to be Published, for to warn the Seed of Evil-doers. . . . With an Additional Post-Script from another Hand. Printed in the Year, 1662. 4°, 6 leaves. In verse. [Col.] Printed for Robert Wilson, 1662.
Page 30 - You shall here distinctly by John Turner,! who I thinke shall come hence on Tewsday night. I had thought to have come with him, to have...
Page 218 - Hale, when of high rank at the bar, took the engagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England without a King or House of Lords.
Page 343 - Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me.
Page 335 - I can knowingly affirm, that there is no government of ten years settlement, but has thrice as much allowed him. But I am supported by my hopes, that his gracious majesty will one day consider me.
Page 38 - London company, was confirmed in office ; and he and his council, far from being rendered absolute, were only empowered to govern " as fully and amplye as any governor and council resident there, at any time within the space of five years now last past.
Page 329 - ... for, contrary to the laws of England, we never did, nor dare make any, only this, that no sale of land is good and legal, unless within three months after the conveyance it be recorded in the general court, or county courts.
Page 248 - To prevent and forbid any force or violence to be offered by either of the Plantations of Virginia or Maryland, from one to the other, upon the differences concerning their bounds: the said differences being then under the consideration of Ourself and Council here.