The Compact with the Charter and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth 115 (William Brigham ed., 1836)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Massachusetts | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T01:55:23Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T13:54:21Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:21:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1658 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Required that one quarter of each militia to be armed during Sunday church services. Each militia member required to have a firearm, sword, three charges of powder and bullets. Violators fined two shillies and six pence for each day's neglect. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | It is enacted by the Court and the authoritie thereof that a fourth part of each Milletary Companie in this Jurisdiction shall every Lords day carry theire armes to the publicke meeting in the Township where they dwell viz: some serviceable peece and sword and three charges of powder and bullets on paine of the forfeiture of 2 shillings and six pence for each daies neglect; and this to bee observed from the first of March to the last of November yearly: these defects to bee gathered by the Milletary Clarke and the Cunstable to the use of the Companie. | |
| dc.description.summary | The law required one-fourth of each militia company to bring a serviceable firearm, sword, and ammunition to Sunday public meetings from March through November, with a fine of two shillings and six pence for each failure to comply. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4168 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Compact_with_the_Charter_and_Laws_of/fKUrAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA115&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | MILITIAS | |
| dc.title | The Compact with the Charter and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth 115 (William Brigham ed., 1836) |