at there should be "liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of
God to all Christians (except Papists) inhabiting, or which shall
inhabit or be resident within our said province or territory."

3. That "all our subjects should have liberty to appeal to us, our heirs
and successors, in case either party shall not rest satisfied with the
judgment or sentence of any judicatories or courts within our said
province or territory, in any personal action wherein the matter of
difference doth exceed the value of three hundred pounds sterling,
provided such appeals be made within fourteen days after the sentence or
judgment given."

4. That the Governor and General Assembly should have "full power and
authority, from time to time, to make, ordain and establish all manner
of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes or ordinances,
directions, and instructions, either with penalties or without (so as
the same be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of this our realm of
England), as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of our said
province or territory."

5. That in the framing and passing of all orders, laws, etc., the
Governor should have "a negative voice, subject also to the approbation
or disallowance of the King within three years after the passing
thereof."

6. That "every freeholder or person holding land within the province or
territory, to the annual value of forty shillings, or other estate of
fifty pounds sterling, should have a vote in the election of members to
serve in the General Court or Assembly."

7. That "the King should appoint, from time to time, the Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, and Secretary of the Province; but that the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council or Assistants, from
time to time should nominate and appoint Judges, Commissioners of Oyer
and Terminer, Sheriffs, Provosts, Marshals, Justices of the Peace," etc.

8. The usual oath of allegiance and supremacy was required to be taken
by all persons appointed to office, free from the restrictions and
neutralising mutilations introduced into the oath of allegiance by the
ecclesiastico-political oligarchy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under
the first Charter.

9. The new Charter also incorporated "_Plymouth_ and _Maine, and a tract
further east_ in the province of Massachusetts." The Plymouth Colony of
the Pilgrim Fathers had existed from 1620 to 1690 as a separate Colonial
Government, first established by co