INDEX OF REFERENCES TO THE GENERAL LAWS AND LIBERTIES
This index shows all titles of the General Laws and Liberties to which specific reference is made in the records here reprinted and in the documents and annotations. Some attempt has also been made to identify and include references of an indefinite nature to the Laws without mention of any particular title, but many such indefinite references have been omitted, especially those which evidently refer to the title Burglary and Theft and the title In-keepers, etc. The titles are taken from The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, Reprinted from the edition of 1672, with the Supplements through 1686, William H. Whitmore, Ed. The page reference before each title is to the pages of that book of laws,
1. Preamble, 67, 71, 179, 297, 304, 365, 366, 387, 406, 502, 591, 615, 696, 714, 789, 840, 893, 1105, 1116
2–3. Actions, 178–179, 286
3–4. Appeal, 303, 358, 390, 459, 461, 576, 615, 799, 1103–1104
6–7. Arrests, 67, 502, 714–715
7–8. Attachments, Summons, 458–459, 467, 473, 566–567, 784, 906, 1004–1005, 1056, 1146
9. Barratry, 54 and n., 95
10. Bounds of Towns and Persons, 181–182
12–14. Burglary and Theft, 82, 387, 1155, 1156
14. Capital Laws — Blasphemy, 114
20–22. Causes, Small Causes, 13–14
22–26. Charges Publick, 671
32–33. Conveyances, Deeds and Writings, 373, 374, 380, 381, 384, 502, 534, 567, 579–583, 862
34–39. Courts, 153
42. Dowries, 373, 374, 375, 376, 381, 382
43–46. Ecclesiastical, 917
54. Forgery, 302
58–63. Heresie Error, 228–231
64–65. Highwayes, 401
79–85. In-keepers, Ordinaries. Tipling, Drunkenness, 28, 29, 121, 122, 259, 263, 268, 445–451, 516, 606, 698–702, 813, 835, 842, 850–851, 918–922, 938–939, 960, 1019–1023
86–88. Jurors, Juries, 390, 536, 822
88–90. Leather, 117
90–91. Liberties Common, 592
93–100. Maritime Affaires, 162–163, 284, 285, 407, 408, 830
102–104. Marshal, 502, 503
104–105. Masters, Servants, Labourers, 714
120–121. Payments, 502
122. Pipe-staves, 311
123–124. Possession, 652–655, 862
124–125. Pound, Pound-breach, 308–310
132–134. Sabbath, 398
142–143. Strayes, 630, 782–783, 847–848, 916
144. Sureties and Goods Attached, 502, 802–803, 1082
147. Tolling of Cattle, 763–764
152. Tryals, 180, 503, 539, 540
153. Usury, 1147–1148
157–158. Wills, 373, 374, 375, 380, 381, 382, 383, 593, 833, 848, 1105
158–159. Witnesses, 297, 309, 535, 892–893, 1147
Supplementary Laws
May, 1672
201–202. Juries Verdict, 180–181, 590–591, 769
202. Sureties, 502
206. Resolution of questions — Possession according to Law gives title, 654–655
October, 1672
207. Strangers Liberties to Sue in County Courts, 153, 178–180
208. Baudery, 83–84
January, 1673/4
213. Admiralty. Cases to be tryed at the Court of Assistants, 368.
May, 1675
220. Directions to Marshals, etc., about Executions, 714–715
October, 1675
232–237. Provoking Evils —
233. Excess in Apparrel, 698, 751
234. Quakers, 753
236. Oppression by excessive prices, 632
May, 1677
250–251. Administrations, 798–799
September, 1684
319–320. Addition to the Law of Attaints, 180–181