1032 MISCELLANEOUS. 



Eight and Twenty Assistants or Councillors to be advising and 

 assisting to the Governour of Our said Province or Territory for the 

 time being as by these presents is hereafter directed and appointed 

 which said Councillors or Assistants are to be Constituted Elected 

 and Chosen in such forme and manner as hereafter in these presents 

 is expressed And for the better Execucon of Our Royall Pleasure 

 and Grant in this behalfe Wee doe by these presents for Vs Our 

 Heires and Successors Nominate Ordeyne make and Constitute Our 

 Trusty and Welbeloved Simon Broadstreet John Richards Nathaniel 

 Saltenstall Wait Winthrop John Phillipps James Russell Samuell 

 Sewall Samuel Appleton Barthilomew Gedney John Hawthorn 

 Elisha Hutchinson Robert Pike Jonathan Curwin John Jolliffe 

 Adam Winthrop Richard Middlecot John Foster Peter Serjeant 

 Joseph Lynd Samuell Hayman Stephen Mason Thomas Hinckley 

 William Bradford John Walley Barnabas Lothrop Job Alcott 

 Samuell Daniell and Silvanus Davis Esquiers the first and present 

 Councillors or Assistants of Our said Province to continue in their 

 said respective Offices or Trusts of Councillors or Assistants vntill 

 the last Wednesday in May which shall be in the yeare of Our Lord 

 One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Three and vntill other 

 Councillors or Assistants shall be chosen and appointed in their stead 

 in such manner as in those presents is expressed And Wee doe further 

 by these presents Constitute and appoint Our Trusty and wel- 

 beloved Isaac Addington Esquier to be Our first and present Secre- 

 tary of Our said Province during Our Pleasure And Our Will and 

 Pleasure is that the Governour of Our said Province from the time 

 being shall have authority from time to time at his discretion to 

 assemble and call together the Councillors or Assistants of Our said 

 Province for the time being and that the said Governour with the 

 said Assistants or Councillors, or Seaven of them at the least shall 

 and may from time to time hold and keep a Councill for the ordering 

 and directing the Affaires of Our said Province And further Wee 

 Will and by these presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors doe 

 ordeyne and Grant that there shall and may be convened held and 

 kept by the Governour for the time being vpon every last Wednesday 

 in the Moneth of May every yeare for ever and at all such other 

 times as the Governour of Our said Province shall think fitt and 

 appoint a great and Generall Court of Assembly Which said Great 

 and Generall Court of Assembly shall consist of the Governour and 

 Councill or Assistants for the time being and of such Freeholders of 

 Our said Province or Territory as shall be from time to time elected 

 or deputed by the Major parte of the Freeholders and other Inhab- 

 itants of the respective Townes or Places who shall be present at such 

 Eleccons Each of the said Townes and Places being hereby impow- 

 ered to Elect and Depute Two Persons and noe more to serve for 

 and represent them respectively in the said Great and Generall Court 

 or Assembly To which Great and Generall Court or Assembly to be 

 held as aforesaid Wee doe hereby for Vs Our Heires and Successors 

 give and grant full power and authority from time to time to direct 

 appoint and declare what Number each County Towne and Place 

 shall Elect and Depute to serve for and represent them respectively 

 in the said Great and Generall Court or Assembly Provided alwayes 

 that noe Freeholder or other Person shall have a Vote in the Eleccon 

 of Members to serve in any Greate and Generall Court or Assembly 



