A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I, Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell: Who, at the Restoration, 1660, Fled to America and Were Secreted and Concealed in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for Near Thirty Years : with an Account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, Supposed to Have Been Also One of the JudgesElisha Babcock, 1794 - 357 pages |
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... matters and lower felonies , much like the Juftices for keeping the peace , and local for the town , or rather fimilar to our County Court Judges for the Counties . These four deputies , chofen by the towns , were report- ed or ...
... matters and lower felonies , much like the Juftices for keeping the peace , and local for the town , or rather fimilar to our County Court Judges for the Counties . These four deputies , chofen by the towns , were report- ed or ...
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... matters , and fettlement of inteftate eftates . This Court adminiftered juftice with great firmnefs , impartiality , and dignity . It was in the conftitution that this judiciary power fhould veft in the Magistracy , and not be the ...
... matters , and fettlement of inteftate eftates . This Court adminiftered juftice with great firmnefs , impartiality , and dignity . It was in the conftitution that this judiciary power fhould veft in the Magistracy , and not be the ...
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... matter , that an answer should be prepared againft their return from the Dutch . The Court being met , when they heard the matter declared , and had heard his Majefty's letter , and the letter from the Governor of the Maffachusetts ...
... matter , that an answer should be prepared againft their return from the Dutch . The Court being met , when they heard the matter declared , and had heard his Majefty's letter , and the letter from the Governor of the Maffachusetts ...
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... matter into ferious con- fideration , after much debate and advice , concluded that the writing fhould be fent to ... matters , were in the dark to hit it in way of agreement , as to a former fatisfaction that might be acceptable ; but ...
... matter into ferious con- fideration , after much debate and advice , concluded that the writing fhould be fent to ... matters , were in the dark to hit it in way of agreement , as to a former fatisfaction that might be acceptable ; but ...
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... matter of fuch moment , as his Majesty may receive full and juft fatisfaction , the mouths of all oppofers stop- ped , and the profeffion of the truth that is in you and us may not in the least suffer by your acting , is the prayer of ...
... matter of fuch moment , as his Majesty may receive full and juft fatisfaction , the mouths of all oppofers stop- ped , and the profeffion of the truth that is in you and us may not in the least suffer by your acting , is the prayer of ...
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Page 98 - ... Whalley between 1674 and 1676, which is the first vital difference between the narratives published up to this time and the theory of the present essayist. Let us examine, then, their authorities for this assertion. A letter of Goffe's to his wife, in England, dated 1674, in which he says of Whalley, "your old friend, Mr. R., is yet living, but continues in that weak condition of which I formerly have given you account, and have not now much to add.
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