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By the House of Burgesses July 9th 1696
It is Represented to us by the messengers last sent that his
Excellency was pleased to Give caution to this House that the
Clause in the Act of Religion should be explained what was
meant by the Words Statutes and Laws of England and
requested that the House should explain themselves so as to
make the words answer the ends Intended for which they
humbly thank his Excellency and pray that to the former
Words in the Act these words may be annexed (in all mat-
ters and Cases where the Laws of this Province are silent)
with which words we pray the said Bill may pass
Signed p Order W Bladen Clk assembly
By his Excellency the Governor and Council July 9th 1696.
Ordered that the several Lawyers in Town return under
their hands unto his Excellency in Council (with all Imagin-
able Expedition) in writing whether in the new bill drawn up
relating to Religion &c a Clause therein incerted touching the
Liberty of the Subject does not thereby give right to any per-
son in case of meum and tuum to remove his cause to West-
minster and whether upon the Statute of Magna Charta a
man cannot demand to carry his cause to the court of common
Pleas at Westminster
Signed p Order Henry Denton Clk
To his Excellency the Governor
In Obedience to this Command I am humbly of Opinion
that the said Clause in the said Bill does not give right to any
Person to remove his Cause to Westminster Hall to the court
of common pleas there, by Reason of the saving in the said
Bill and the other Laws of this province direct how and where
Appeals shall be made Conformable to his Majestys Instruc-
tions therein which is humbly submitted to your Excellency
by Your Obedient Servants
Geo. Plater William Dent
Phill Clarke James Crauford
Wm Hemsley
I humbly conceive that as his Majesty hath full Power to
erect courts so to limit the Jurisdiction of the same to any
particular Persons or Places as he pleases and that he hath by
his Excellencys commission and the Laws of this Province
done the same here & ought not to be removed hence con-
trary to the same
Kenelm Cheseldyn Robert Smith
Edward Boothby
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