History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations volume 2

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History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations volume 2
Samuel Greene Arnold
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C. Ii. 203-6.
- One or two examples of this may here be mentioned. For many years their numbers were few, and some of the requirements of the common law bore heavily upon them, especially that requiring twelve men to constitute a jury. Accordingly we find them altering that provision to conform, in the lanfTuage of the charter, " to the nature and constitution of the place, " in these Avords : " Wliereas the townsmen of Warwick having taken into con- sideration that it cannot stand with the con
...stitution of the place to continue 1C41.
SETTLEMENT OF NORTH KINGSTON. 195 The act of submission arrayed tlie Narragansets in chap. Hostility to the pretensions of Massachusetts, and virtu- ..^. , „^ ally annexed their country to the State of Rhode Island, 16 44. Of which, thereafter, it formed an important part. Three years prior to this Richard Smith had purchased land and erected a trading house, in what is now North Kingston, ' in the midst of the Indian country, which was the only settlement south of Warwick until after the charter went into operation, when Roger Williams set up a similar es- tablishment for a few years and sold out to Smith, upon his second appointment as agent to England.^ Both English and Indians were now the acknowledged ^ ^ * '^• subjects of Great Britain, and the haughty spirit of the twelve men for the tryal of causes, It is therefore ordered that there be estab- lished six jurors for the trial of causes, and to have six pence a man for each cause, and for counsellor's fees three shillings and four pence, and this to be of Ibrce notwithstanding any law formerly to the contrary.


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