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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 …
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
… 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
… me. I then prayed God to bless him. We continued these holy sort of compliments for a time, when he said he would …