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  The oath of allegiance I A.B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testifie, and declare in may conscience before God and the world, that our Sovereign Lord King Charles is lawful and rightful King of the realm of England ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). and Massachusetts.
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  Signed: That this is a true copie compared with the original sent in His Majesties letter and is printed and published by order of the General Court setting in Boston in New-England the second of October, Edward Rawson ...
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  At a General Court held at Boston the 3d of May 1676. For defraying the charges already expended upon the warre and other charges arising in the further prosecution thereof ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Assessing rates to defray the cost of the war. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Bristol gives Samuel Green in Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  The governour and Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England. At a General Court held at Boston, by adjournment from the 28th of January to the 18th of March, 1684 [1685 New Style].
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  An addition to the law on conveyances. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr't. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  An act to incorporate and establish a society for the cultivation and promotion of arts and sciences.
  Date of publication:
  1780
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Incorporating the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. "This act passed May 4, 1780"--p. [2]. Imprint from colophon.
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  At a General Court held at Boston, in the year [blank] It is ordered by this Court and the authority thereof, that the following order shall be directed and sent ...
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Order to dispose of single persons, stubborn children, and servants to houses of correction. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secret. Imprint supplied by Cushing. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  [Blank] judge of the probate of wills and for granting letters of administration on the estates of persons deceased ... I do by these presents commit unto you full power to administer all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of [blank] said deceased ... In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court of Probate. Dated at [blank] aforesaid, the [blank] day of [blank] anno Domi. 1700.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Place of publication supplied by Bristol.
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  At the convention of the governour and Council, and representatives of the Massachusets colony. It is declared, that all the laws ... that were in force on the twelfth day of May, one thousand six hundred eighty six ... are the laws of this colony, and continue in force ...
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Signed: By order of the convention, Isaac Addington sect. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing.
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  Severall lavvs and orders made at the General Court held at Boston, the 23d of May, 1666. And on the 11th of October following. Printed and published by order of the General Court, the said 11th of October, 1666. By Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1666
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans.
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  Several lavvs and orders made at the General Courts in May 3. August 1. & October 11. 1665. Printed and published by order of the General Court held at Boston the 11th of October, 1665. By Edward Rawson secr'.
  Date of publication:
  1665
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans.
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  The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets colony: revised & re-printed, by order of the General Court holden at Boston. May 15th. 1672. Edward Rawson secr. : [Two lines from Romans]
  Date of publication:
  1672
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Cushing notes two states of the title page, and includes a detailed checklist for identification. Some copies match neither description. Error in paging: p. 16 misnumbered 14. Colonial seal (Reilly 929) on leaf preceding ...
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  Several laws and orders made at the General Court, holden at Boston the 15th. of May 1672. And printed by their order. Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1672
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans.
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  Several laws and orders made at the General Court, the 8th. of October 1672. As also several laws and orders made at the General Courts, holden at Boston the 7th. of May and 15th. of October, 1673. And printed by their order. Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1673
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. ; Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693. and Massachusetts. Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1673).
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Pagination continues the laws and orders printed by Samuel Green in 1672 (Evans 169).
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  Orders, made at a General Court held at Boston, January the 6th. 1673 [1674 New Style]. And printed by their order. Edward Rawson secret.
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Title preceded by subject headlines. Signed: Edward Rawson secret. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  At a General Court held at Boston the 3d. of May 1676. This court taking into consideration the great disappointment the countrey hath suffred by reason of non-appearance of souldiers impressed for several expeditions ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Imposing a penalty on militia men who fail to appear for duty. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Evans gives Samuel Green in Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial ...
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  At a Council held at Boston April the 4th. 1676. Whereas divers inhabitants are retired from out towns into the nearer towns ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Ordering selectmen to inform themselves concerning persons and families coming into their towns. Signed: By the Council Edward Rawson secr. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Evans gives Samuel Green in ...
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  At a General Court held at Boston May the 3d, 1676. For the preventing of injustice, and inequality in the discharge, and payment of disbursement ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Appointing committees to examine county rates. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Several laws & orders made at the General Court, held at Boston for election the 3d. of May 1676 and printed by their order, Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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  At the second sessions of the General Court held at Boston in New-England. Whereas it hath pleased his Most Excellant Majesty our gratious King, by his letter bearing date the twenty seventh of April, 1678. to signifie his royal pleasure, that the authority of this his colony of Massachusets in New-England, do give forth orders that the oath of allegiance as it is by law established within his kingdome of England, be administred and taken by all his subjects within this colony, who are of years to take an oath ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II).
  Description:
  Signed: Printed and published by order of the General Court. Edward Rawson secr. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian ...
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  Several laws and orders made at the second sessions of the General Court held at Boston, October 2d. 1678. And published by their order. Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Imprint supplied by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Several lavvs and orders made at the second sessions of the General Court held at Boston, Octob. 13. 1680. And published by their order. Edward Rawson secr'.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Several laws and orders made at the first sessions of the General Court for elections held at Boston, May 19th, 1680. And published by their order; Edward Rawson secr'.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title. Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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  At a special General Court held at Boston Novemb. 7. 1683. This Court being sensible of the great ruines in Boston by fire ...
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Order regulating building in Boston. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  At a General Court held at Boston May. 16. 1683. This Court considering that cattle are rated in the countrey at a greater value than they will yield ...
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
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  Order to rate all neat cattle. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr't. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Several laws and orders made by the governour and Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England. At the General Court held at Boston, May 27th 1685. : As also at a General Court held at Boston on the 14th of October, 1685. : And printed by order, Edward Rawson secretary.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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  By the governour and Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England at a General Court held at Boston, on adjournment, Feb. 16th 1685. As an explanation of and addition to the law title Wills ...
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title. Subject headline at head of title. Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secretary. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). ...
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  A copy of the Kings Majesties charter, for incorporating the Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England in America. Granted in the fourth year of His Highness reign of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, anno Dom. 1628.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).
  Description:
  Title vignette: colonial seal (Reilly 930).
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  Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England. Begun at Boston, the thirtieth day of May, 1694. And continued by adjournment unto Wednesday the fifth day of September following: being the second sessions. Anno regni Guilielmi, et Mariae, regis et reginae, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae, sexto.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Pagination continues the session laws published from 1693 (Evans 649). Title vignette: royal arms.
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  Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England. Begun at Boston, the thirtieth day of May, 1694. And continued by adjournments unto Tuesday the sixteenth day of October following: being the third sessions. Anno regni Guilielmi, et Mariae, regis et reginae, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae, sexto.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Pagination continues the session laws published from 1693 (Evans 649). Title vignette: royal arms.
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  At a Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties province of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, begun and held at Boston upon Wednesday the twenty-ninth of May, 1700.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  "An act for granting unto His Majesty, a tax upon polls and estates." Passed July 13, 1700. Caption title. At head of title: Anno regni Regis Gulielmi III. Duodecimo. Imprint from colophon. Royal arms at head of title.
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  The book of the general lauues and libertyes concerning the inhabitants of the Massachusets collected out of the records of the General Court for the several years wherin they were made and established, and now revised by the same Court and disposed into an alphabetical order and published by the same authoritie in the General Court held at Boston the fourteenth of the first month anno 1647. : [Two lines from the Epistle to the Romans]
  Date of publication:
  1648
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  The first compilation of the laws of Massachusetts. Ascribed to the press of Matthew Day in Kimber, S.A. Cambridge press title-pages, 1954.
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  Boston in New England. August 9th. 1667. The governour, deputy governour and sundry of the magistrates, being assembled, do judge meet to commend to their beloved brethren and neighbors the inhabitants of this colony this following proposal.
  Date of publication:
  1667
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
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  Appointing a committee to raise supplies for the relief of the fleet. Signed: This act of the magistrates is forthwith to be printed and sent accordingly to the several towns. Boston, August 9th. 1667. Richard Bellingham ...
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  Several lavvs and orders made at the General Court of Election. Held at Boston in New-England the 29th. of April 1668. : Printed and published by their order. Edward Rawson. secr.
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. ; Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693. and Massachusetts. General Court. At a General Court held at Boston, April 29. 1668.
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  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans. "At a General Court held at Boston, April 29. 1668."--p. [1], 8-9, [1]. Printed on facing pages of a folded sheet, and possibly ...
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  Several lavvs and orders made at the General Court, held at Boston in New-England, October 14. 1668. Printed and published by their order. Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans. Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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  Several laws and orders made at the Generall Court of election held at Boston, May 19th 1669. And printed and published by their order, June 4. 1669. Edwd Rawson secret'.
  Date of publication:
  1669
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1668 (Evans 124).
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  Several lavvs and orders made at the sessions of the General Court held at Boston the 13th of October 1675. As also at the sessions of Court held at Boston, the 3d. of Novemb. 1675. And printed by their order, Edward Rawson secr.
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  "Most copies lack title page"--Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). "Laws & ordinances of warre, pas'd by the General Court of the Massachusets, for the better regulating their ...
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  At a Council held in Boston August the thirtieth 1675. The Council judging it of absolute necessity ...
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
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  Order confining friendly Indians to plantations during hostilities with the French. Signed: By the Council Edward Rawson secrt. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Several lauus & orders made at the General Court held at Boston the 21st. of February, 1675 [i.e., 1676 n.s.]. And printed by their order, Edward Rawson, secr't.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by colonial seal (Reilly 929) and subject headline. Pagination continues the laws and orders printed by Samuel Green from 1672 (Evans 169).
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  Several laws & orders made at the General Court holden at Boston the twelfth of May 1675. And printed by their order, Edward Rawson. secrt.
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. and Rawson, Edward, 1615-1693.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Pagination continues the laws and orders printed by Samuel Green from 1672 (Evans 169). In some copies p. 19 is misnumbered 17. Cushing 41 records a variant setting.
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  At a Council held at Boston, March 28. 1678. Whereas many complaints have been made, that several persons have been killed ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  An order against shooting guns in towns. Signed: By the Council, Edward Rawson secr'. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Evans gives Samuel Green in Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Sundry laws made by the General Court wherein the duty of tything men is expressed, viz.
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson, secr. Imprint supplied by Cushing. Evans gives Samuel Green of Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial seal at head of title.
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