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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… are magistrates, and being under the great obligation of church membership they durst not openly appear in it. No person here can be a magistrate unless first a church member and chosen by the freemen. No man can be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Stede, both men of loyalty, integrity, and zeal for the Church and fit for all commands but the military. I hope that … that freedom of conscience be given to members of the Church of England; that all other sects, Papists excepted, be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… inhabitants are charged with guards, with building of a church, of fortifications, which cost 3,000 l. a year, have … to put difficulties on me; but I know him too well to trust him to look after any interests but his own. He and his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of a fishery at Pemaquid we hope may be successful. We trust that you will get enough to join you, but we do not …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to inspect the affairs of the Government, and first of the Church. The clergy unanimously agreed to take the oaths of … Since the arrival of Vaughan and Weare, the preachers and church-members have used all imaginable industry to prevent …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… (as in New York). No men of credit will undertake that trust, unless they have a competent allowance for it. A … for saying that the King was only supreme head of the Church under Christ. Sworn 12 August 1686. Scrap. Endorsed. … Governor made him swear that the King was supreme of the Church. Sworn 12 August 1686. Scrap. Endorsed. 841. XLIV. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Government, but it has been the artifice of some in the Church of England to traduce us as disloyal. We are not … declaration of liberty of conscience. The service of the Church of England has been forced upon our meeting houses. … Non-conformists will be taken from them and given to the Church of England. 1 pp. [ Col. Papers, Vol. LXIII., Nos. 52, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… been kindled in three different placesin the turret of the church and in the fort. Six thousand pounds of powder were …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… yourself in fault; or if he should grant you leave, don't trust his word, for I would not take it over much smaller …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in that nor in any other station has he discharged his trust with greater zeal than myself, and though I am far from … residents on the Island if the King thinks it too great a trust for a Governor to put in such men as he finds in the …