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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52210	The charter granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the inhabitants of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England; Charter	Massachusetts.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)	1699 (1699)	Wing M999; ESTC R7972	21,076	16

Broadstreet John Richards Nathanael Saltonstall Wait Winthrop John Phillips James Russel Samuel Sewall Samuel Appleton Bartholomew Gedney John Hathorn Elisha Hutchinson Robert Pike Jonathan Corwin John Jolliffe Adam Winthrop Richard Middlecot John Foster Pater Serjeant Joseph Lynd Samuel Heyman Stephen Mason Thomas Hinkley William Bradford John Walley Barnabas Lothrop Job Alcot Samuel Daniel and Silvanus Davis Esq the first and present Councellors or Assistants of our said Province to continue in their said respective Offices or Trusts of Councellors or Assistants until the last Wednesday in May To continue until May 1693. and until others are chosen by the Assembly which shall be in the Year of our Lord 1693 and until other Councellors or Assistants shall be chosen and appointed in their stead in such manner as in these Presents is expressed And we do further by these Presents constitute and appoint our trusty and Well beloved Isaac Addington Esq to be our first and present Secretary of our said Province during our pleasure And our Will and Pleasure is That the Governour of our said Province for the time being shall have Authority from time to time at his Discretion The Governour with seven Assistants to be a Council to assemble and call together the Councellors or Assistants of our said Province for the time being And that the said Governour with the said Assistants or Councellours or seven of them at the least shall and may from time to time hold and keep a Council for the ordering and directing the Affairs of our said Province And further We Will and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Ordain and Grant that there shall and may be convened A general Court or Assembly to be held the last Wednesday in May or oftener every Year held and kept by the Governour for the time being upon every last Wednesday in the Month of May every Year for ever and at all such other times as the Governour of our said Province shall think sit appoint a Great and General Court or Assembly which said Great General Court or Assembly shall consist of the Governour and Council or Assistants for the time being and of such Free-holders of our said Province or Territory as shall be from time to time elected or deputed by the major part of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the respective Towns or Places who shall be present at such Elections each of the said Towns and Places being hereby impowred to elect and depute Two Persons and no more to serve for and represent them respectively in the said Great and General Court or Assembly Two Assembly-men to be Chosen by the Freeholders in every Town To which Great and General Court or Assembly to be held as aforesaid We do hereby for Us our Heirs and Successors give and grant full Power and Authority from time to time to direct appoint and declare what number each County Town and Place shall elect and depute to serve for and represent them respectively in the said Great and General Court or Assembly Provided always that no Free holder or other person shall have a Vote in the Election of Members to Serve in any Great and General Court or Assembly to be held as aforesaid who at the time of such Election shall not have an Estate of Free hold in Land within our said Province or Territory to the value of Forty Shillings per Ann. at the least or other Estate to the value of Fifty Pounds sterling And that every Person who shall be so elected shall before he Sit or Act in the said Great and General Court or Assembly take the Oaths mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of our Reign entituled An Act for Abrogating of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and appointing other Oaths and thereby appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And shall make repeat and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the said Act before the Governour or Lieutenant or Deputy-Governour or any Two of the Assistants for the time being who shall be thereunto authorized and appointed by our said Governour The Governour has Power to Adjourn Prorogue and Dissolve the Assembly And that the Governour for the time being shall have full Power and Authority from time to time as he shall judge necessary to Adjourn Prorogue and Dissolve all Great and General Courts or Assemblies met and conven'd as aforesaid And our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby for Us our Heirs and Successors grant establish and ordain That yearly once in every Year for ever hereafter the aforesaid number of Eight and twenty Councellors or Assistants shall be by the General Court or Assembly newly Chosen that is to say Eighteen at least of the Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay and Four at the least of the Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called New-Plymouth and Three at the least of the Inhabitants of The Governours Councellors to be Inhabitants or Proprietors of Land in New England or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called the Province of Maine and one at the least of the Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Land within the Territory lying between the River of Sagadahock and Nova Scotia And that the said Councellors or Assistants or any of them shall or may at any time hereafter be removed or displaced from their respective Places or Trust of Councellors or Assistants by any Great or General Court or Assembly and that if any of the said Councellors or Assistants shall happen to die or be removed as aforesaid before the General Day of Election that then and in every such Case the Great and General Court or Assembly at their first sitting may proceed to a New Election of one or more Councellors or Assistants in the room or place of such Councellors and Assistants so dying or removed And We do further grant and ordain Judges Sheriffs Justices c. to be appointed with the Consent of the Governours Council That it shall and may be lawful for the said Governour with the Advice and Consent of the Council or Asistants from time to time to nominate and appoint Judges Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer Sheriffs Provosts Marshals Justices of the Peace and other Officers to our Council and Courts of Justice belonging Provided alwayes that no such Nomination or Appointment of Officers be made without Notice first given or Summons issued out seven days before such Nomination or Appointment unto such of the said Councellors or Assistants as shall be at that time residing within our said Province And our Will and Pleasure is That the Governour and Lieutenant or Deputy-Governour and Councellors or Assistants for the time being and all other Officers to be Appointed or Chosen as aforesaid shall before the undertaking the Execution of their Offices

and Places respectively take their several and respective Oaths for the due and faithful performance of their Duties in their several and respective Offices and Places What Oaths are to be taken and also the Oaths appointed by the said Act of Parliament made in the First Year of our Reign to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and shall make repeat and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the said Act before such Person or Persons as are by these Presents herein after appointed That is to say The Governour of our said Province or Territory for the time being shall take the said Oaths and make repeat and subscribe the said Declaration before the Lieutenant or Deputy-Governour or in his Absence before any two or more of the said Persons hereby nominated and appointed the present Councellors or Assistants of our said Province or Territory to whom We do by these Presents give full Power and Authority to give and administer the same to our said Governour accordingly And after our said Governour shall be sworn and shall have subscribed the said Declaration that then our Liutenant or Deputy-Governour for the time being and the Councellors or Assistants before by these Presents nominated and appointed shall take the said Oaths and make repeat and subscribe the said Declaration before our said Governour And that every such Person or Persons as shall at any time of the Annual Elections or otherwise upon Death or Removal be appointed to be the New Councellors or Assistants and all other Officers to be hereafter Chosen from time to time shall take the Oaths to their respective Offices and Places belonging and also the said Oaths appointed by the said Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and shall make repeat and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the said Act before the Governour or Lieutenant-Governour or any two or more Councellors or Assistants or such other Person or Persons as shall be appointed thereunto by the Governour for the time being To whom We do therefore by these Presents give full Power and Authority from time to time to give and administer the same respectively according to our true meaning herein before declared without any Commission or further Warrant to be had and obtained from Us our Heirs and Successors in that behalf And our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby Require and Command That all and every Person and Persons hereafter by Us our Heirs and Successors Nominated and Appointed to the respective Offices of Governour or Lieutenant The King reserves to himself Power to appoint the Governour Deputy Governour and Secretary or Deputy Governour and Secretary of our said Province or Territory which said Governour or Lieutenant or Deputy Governour and Secretary of our said Province or Territory for the time being We do hereby Reserve full Power and Authority to Us our Heirs and Successors to Nominate and Appoint accordingly shall before he or they be admitted to the Execution of their respective Offices take as well the Oath for the due and faithful Performance of the said Offices respectively as also the Oaths appointed by the said Act of Parliament made in the said first Year of our Reign to be taken instead of the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and shall also make repeat and subscribe the Declaration appointed by the said Act in such Manner and before such Persons as aforesaid And further Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors grant establish and ordain that all and every of rhe Subjects of Us our Heirs and Successors which shall go to and inhabit within our said Province and Territory Persons born in New-England to have the Priviledges of Natural Subjects of England and every of their Children which shall happen to be born there or on the Seas in going thither or returning from thence shall have and enjoy all Liberties and Immunities of Free and Natural Subjects within any of the Dominions of Us our Heirs and Successors to all intents constructions and purposes whatsoever as if they and every of them were born within this our Realm of England And for the greater Ease and Encouragement of our loving Subjects inhabiting our said Province or Territory of the Massachusetts-Bay and of such as shall come to inhabit there We do by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors grant establ sh and ordain Liberty of Conscience to be granted to all Christians except Papists that for ever hereafter there shall be a Liberty of Conscience allow'd in the Worship of God to all Christians Except Papists inhabiting or which shall inhabit or be resident within our said Province or Territory And we do hereby Grant and Ordain That the Governour or Lieutenant or Deputy Governour of our said Province or Territory for the time being or either of them or any two or more of the Council or Assistants for the time being as shall be thereunto appointed by the said Governour shall and may at all times and from time to time hereafter have full Power and Authority to administer and give the Oaths appointed by the said Act of Parliament made in the first Year of Our Reign to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to all and every Person and Persons which are now inhabiting or residing within our said Province or Territory or which shall at any time or times hereafter go or pass thither And We do of our further Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion Grant Establish and Ordain for Us our Heirs and Successors that the Great and General Court or Assembly of our said Province or Territory for the time being Conven'd as aforesaid shall for ever have full Power and Authority to Erect and Constitute Judicatories and Courts of Record The general Court has Power to Erect Judicatories to hear determine concerning all manner of Crimes capital or not capital and Pleas whether real personal or mixt or other Courts to be held in the Name of Us our Heirs and Successors for the Hearing Trying and Determining of all manner of Crimes Offences Pleas Processes Plaints Actions Matters Causes and things whatsoever arising or happening within our said Province or Territory or between persons inhabiting or residing there whether the same be Criminal or Civil and whether the said Crimes be Capital or not Capital and whether the said Pleas be real personal or mixt and for the awarding and making out of Execution thereupon To which Courts and Judicatories We do hereby for Us our Heirs and Successors give and grant full Power and Authority from time to time to administer Oaths for the better discovery of Truth in any matter in Controversie or depending before them And We do for Us our Heirs and Successors Grant Establish and Ordain that the Governour of our said Province or Territory for the time being with the Council or Assistants may do execute