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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by the Council from the office of Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for St. Michael, St. George and St. … the Board that the Fortune, having been condemned in the Court of Admiralty here for being foreign built and … and suits as were discontinued in the late Superior Court, and an Act for the confirmation of a patent granted by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Wait Winthrop was chosen Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, in place of Lieut.-Governor Stoughton, … appointed to acquaint the Hon. Wait Winthrop that this Court have appointed him Agent. Mr. Increase Mather, … College, attending as he had been invited, acquainted the Court that he was now removed from Cambridge to Boston, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in order for defence. No letters or orders from the Court have arrived to the Government here of any later date … the Board that he hath filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature a suggestion for a prohibition to set aside a sentence given in the Court of Admiralty on an Information there filed against the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Admiralty Circuit, ye contributeing towards setling a Court of Chancery, and ye approach of a General Assembly, … impracticable for me to go to Boston to open an Admiralty Court there, till after ye Supream Cort of this Province, to … ye Governor and Council, I have advised ym. to appoint ye court to sit specially for this matter before ye usuall time …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a sloop within this Port by a writ out of the Supreme Court of Judicature, which during the last war with France … cargo of the sloop, if she be not tried until the Supreme Court in Oct. next, and prayed that the Chief Justice be … try the matter on Saturday next, at which time a Special Court is to sit. Ordered that Col. Gabriell Minviele, the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… on the contrary, I have been so supine and easy to that Court in all respects, that I have been highly upbraided by … I suppose is grounded. In other cases the Officers of that Court are not wanting, where the least dawn of interest … each County, that jurors may be taken to attend ye General Court. (18) That they renew the imposition Acts. (19) Some …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Byfield was chosen one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the County of Bristol in the room of John Saffin, one of the Justices of the said Court. Choice of a Judge of Probate adjourned unto to-morrow. … to obstructions given to the settling of the Admiralty Court there, in pursuance of the Commission sent thither by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… acting. The Chief Justice has absolutely refused to hold a Court, which has made some others timorous. I have no power …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… compared with the last appraisement, commanded by the High Court of Admiralty in England, and yet the appraisers would … H.E. nominated John Hathorne to be Justice of the Superior Court, and Penn Townsend to be Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the County of Suffolk. The Council …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… [ see Aug. 15], ought to take the ordinary process in the Court of Admiralty for their relief. Aug. 18. Upon the … (2) whether it be convenient that this October General Court be kept at the Capitol, and if so, that directions may … Beverley several proceedings at Elizabeth City County Court in two suits wherein he is voucher were declared void, …