Three Historical Papers Read Before the New Haven Colony Historical SocietyThe Society, 1882 - Connecticut |
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Page 415 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 415 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 414 - An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 1780 - ... and every part and parcel thereof, and also all islands lying in America aforesaid in the said seas or either of them on the western or eastern coasts...
Page 385 - Bay, where the said river falleth into the sea; and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation; and on the south by the sea; and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts colony, running from east to west, that is to say, from the said Narraganset Bay on the east, to the south sea on the west part, with the islands thereunto adjoining...
Page 411 - ... win and incite the natives of [the] country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 1780 - Narraganset river, the space of forty leagues upon a straight line near the sea shore towards the southwest, west and by south, or west, as the coast lieth towards Virginia...
Page 407 - And being now met, according to the liberties and aids granted to us for the use aforesaid, do order and appoint, that there shall be, and hereby is erected and formed a Collegiate School, wherein shall be taught the liberal Arts and Languages, in such place or places, in Connecticut, as the said Trustees, with their associates and successors, do or shall, from time to time, see cause to order.
Page 434 - That his province be to instruct the students in the several parts of Theology by reading a System of Positive and a Course of Controversial Divinity, beginning always with a short prayer.
Page 424 - An ACT for the more full and complete Establishment of YALE COLLEGE in NEW HAVEN, and for enlarging the Powers and Privileges thereof.