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The history of New England from 1630 to 1649. With notes by J. Savage - Page 287
by John Winthrop - 1826
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1853 - 518 pages
...rights, as freeborn English, etc. Reply. To this it was replied, that they charge us with *289 Breach of our charter and of our oaths of allegiance, whereas...whereas they seem to admit of laws not repugnant, etc., if by repugnant they mean, as the word truly imports, and as by the charter must needs be intended,...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649: From His Original ..., Volume 2

John Winthrop - New England - 1853 - 520 pages
...natural rights, as freeborn English, etc. Reply. To this it was replied, that they charge us with breach of our charter and of our oaths of allegiance, whereas...whereas they seem to admit of laws not repugnant, etc., if by repugnant they mean, as the word truly imports, and as by the charter must needs be intended,...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1853 - 512 pages
...rights, as freeborn English, etc. Reply. To this it was replied, that they charge us with *2S9 Breach of our charter and of our oaths of allegiance, whereas...what the orders of state may, belongs not in us to deterrnine. And whereas they seem to admit of laws not repugnant, etc., if by repugnant they mean,...
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Plain Dealing: Or, News from New England

Thomas Lechford - Colonization - 1867 - 228 pages
...our general charter and oath of allegiance," (Winthrop, ii. 285, 288,) and they explicitly declared, "our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England...laws of the parliament of England reach no further," &c. — Ibid. 288. 88 The nine lines following (ending with "fufficient record") are not in the MHS...
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English Colonies in America ...: The Puritan colonies

John Andrew Doyle - United States - 1889 - 398 pages
...specially applied to foreign plantations. This doctrine was stated twice, each time in emphatic words : "Our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England...Parliament of England reach no further, nor do the King s writs under the great seal go any further." "There is a difference between subjection to the...
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A Short History of British Colonial Policy

Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 580 pages
...held that their allegiance did not bind them to the laws of England any longer than while they lived in England, " for the laws of the Parliament of England reach no further." But at the same time, we have seen that this claim was never for an instant allowed ; that on this...
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Edward Randolph: Including His Letters and Official Papers from ..., Volume 1

Edward Randolph - Great Britain - 1898 - 562 pages
...charter we are not bound to them [the laws of England], our fundamentals are framed according to them. Our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England any longer than while we live there, for, the laws of the parliament of England reach no further, nor do the King's writs under the...
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The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies ...

Herbert Levi Osgood - Great Britain - 1904 - 618 pages
...without corresponding duties. In a later conference with the petitioners the magistrates declared, "Our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England...nor do the king's writs under the great seal go any further."1 Corporations that were resident in England were bound by the laws of that kingdom, but those...
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The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies ...

Herbert Levi Osgood - Great Britain - 1904 - 618 pages
...without corresponding duties. In a later conference with the petitioners the magistrates declared, "Our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England...nor do the king's writs under the great seal go any further."1 Corporations that were resident in England were bound by the laws of that kingdom, but those...
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English Colonies in America ...: The Puritan colonies

John Andrew Doyle - United States - 1889 - 376 pages
...specially applied to foreign plantations. This doctrine was stated twice, each time in emphatic words : ' ' Our allegiance binds us not to the laws of England...King's writs under the great seal go any further." "There is a difference between subjection to the laws in general, as all in England are. and subjection...
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