New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added.

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New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added.

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New-Haven Colony.

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London :: Printed by M.S. for Livewell Chapman, at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley,

1656.

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Contents

• title page
• NEW-HAVEN'S Settling in New-England. And some Lawes for Government, &c.
• ARTICLES OF Confederation betwixt the Plantations un∣der the Government of the Massachusets, the Plantations under the Government of Pli∣mouth, the Plantations under the Government of Connectecut, and the Government of New Haven, with the Plantations in Combination therewith.
  • When the Plantations within this Colony first treated to be one Jurisdiction, and to settle themselves under one Govern∣ment, these following particulars were solemnly and una∣nimously approved and concluded as a fundamentall Agree∣ment, upon which the Combination was framed.
  • Certaine Lawes, Liberties, and Orders, made, granted, and esta∣blished, at severall times, by the Generall Court of New-haven Colony, for and to the Inhabitants of that Jurisdiction, now Collected, and further Published, for the use of such as are con∣cerned in them, wherein they have made use of the Lawes pub∣lished by the Honourable Colony of the Massachusets.
  • ACTIONS.
  • Age.
  • Appeales.
  • Appearance. Non-appearance.
  • Attachments. See further in the Title Distresse.
  • BAKERS.
  • Ballast.
  • Barratry.
  • Bills and Specialties.
  • Burglary, and Theft.
  • Capitall Lawes.
  • Caske and Cooper.
  • Cattell, Corn, Fields, Fences.
  • Charges publick.
  • Childrens Education.
  • Conveyances fraudulent.
  • Courts for Strangers.
  • Damages pretended, and Vexatious Suites.
  • Distresse.
  • Disturbers of the publick Peace.
  • Divorce or a Marriage declared a Nullity Desertion, &c.
  • Dowryes.
  • Ecclesiasticall Provisions.
  • Escheates.
  • Fire.
  • Forgery or Falsifying.
  • Fornication.
  • Gaming.
  • Heresie.
  • Horses.
  • Impost upon Wines, and strong Liquors.
  • Imprisonment.
  • Incest.
  • Indians.
  • Indictments.
  • Inkeepers, Tipling, Drunkenness.
  • Laws without penalty.
  • Leather, and Shoo-makers.
  • Lying.
  • Magistrates, or other Judges in relation.
  • Manslaughter.
  • Marriage.
  • Marshall.
  • Masters, and Servants, &c.
  • Mayning, wounding, &c
  • Military affairs.
  • Oppression.
  • Plantations.
  • Pound, Pound breach.
  • Prophanation of the Lords Day.
  • Prophane swearing, or cursing.
  • Rates, Fines &c.
  • Records.
  • Replevin.
  • Seamen, &c.
  • Sentences of Judgement.
  • Single persons.
  • Strayes.
  • . Strangers complaining.
  • Strangers, Sojourners, and Servants.
  • Stripes.
  • Trespass.
  • Weights and Measures.
  • Wills, Inventories, and the Estates of such as dye intestate.
  • Witnesses.
  • Wolves.
  • part