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Show [79] [78] People, and the Aé‘ts of Trade were but little regarded, nor did the Governor take the Oath required of Governors by the Aft of the tzth of King Charles the Second, until the Time which 1 have mentioned. Upon the Revolution the Force of an Aft of Parliament was evident in :1 Cali: of as great Importance as any which could happen to the Colony. King William and (been Mary were proclaimed in the Colony, King and Queen of England,France and Ireland, atzdt/chDominiom [beret/mo belongingjn theRoom {If {HUN has Power even to change the Sueeellion to the Crown, are you in no Danger of denying the Authority of our tnofl gracious Sovereign, which I am litre none of you can have in your Thoughts 3 I think I have before {hewn you, Gentlemen; what mull have been the Senfe of our PredecelL fors at the Time of the firlt Charter, let us now, whillt we are upon the Afts and Doings of the Alle-mbly, confider what it mull have been at the Time of the fecond Charter. Upon the firll of King James, and this not by Virtue of an Aft of the Colony, for no fueh Aft ever paflhl, but by Force of an Aft of Parliament which altered Advice of the Revolution in England, the Au- thority which allitmed the Government inflrufled their Agents to petition tlte Parliament to reflore the Suceellion to the Crown, and for which the People waited leveral Weeks with anxious Con- the firl't Charter, and a Bill for that Pttrpofe pal; fed the Honfe of Commons, but went no farther. Was not this owning tbeflutborit} ofPar/iamentt' cern. By Force of another Aft of Parliament, and that only, {itch Officers of the Colony as had taken the Oaths of Allegiance to King James deemed themfelves at Liberty to take, and ac- cordingly did take the Oaths to King William and By an Aft of Parliament, pail-ed in the firll Year of King William and Queen Mary, :1 Formef Oaths was ellablilhed to be taken by thofe Princes and by all fueeeeding Kings and (lUCCDS‘Of And that I may mention other of England at their Coronation, the firlt of which A‘f‘ts Of; the like Nature together, it is by Force is. that they will govern the People of the lungdom and Ike War/t‘iniom [hereunto ée/ongzng, ac- (been Mary. of‘an Aft of Parliament that the Illullriousl'loule ol' Hanover fiteceeded to the Throne of Britain and its ‘Dominiom, and by f‘everal other A88, the Forms of the Oaths have from Time to Time, been altered, and by a late Afr that Form was ef'tablilhed which every one of us has complied cording to [be Statute; in Parliament agreed" on, and the Laws and Ctr/lam of (lag fitme. When the Colony direfted their Agents to make their humble Ap alication to King William to grant the fecondCharter, they could have no other Pretcnce with as the Charter in exprefs Words requires lhan as they were Inhabitants of Part afz/Je ‘Do- and makes our Duty. Shall we now dil'pnte whether Afls of Parliament have been fitbmincd minianr ofEng/tt'm', and they alfo knew the Oath theKing had taken to govern them arrardzngto'zbe to when we find them {ubmitted to in Points which are of‘ the very Elle-nee of our Conllitu- Shift/fer in Parliament; litrely then, at the Time of this Chm ter altro, it was the Senfe of our Prede- t on? Ifyou lhould difown that A uthotity which cellbrs, as well as of the King and of the Natr‘tt‘; t ta lift? |