The First Folio of the Cambridge Press. Memoranda Concerning the Massachusetts Laws of 1648
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Josselyn, in his Chronological Observations of Amer- ica, published in 1674, refers twice to the Laws as hav- ing been published in 1648 ; and at a much later period, Thomas Hutchinson, who was unquestionably more fa- miliar than any other man ever has been with all the sources of Massachusetts history during the entire Colo- nial and Provincial period, assigns them to the same year. An order of the General Court, 27th October, 1648, fixed the price of the volume and authorized its distribu- ti...on, neither of which would be likely to be done except on the eve of actual publication. We know positively that the work was not only ready for the press more than six months before, but that the printing was begun and that the title Appeals had been already printed, before the 13th May, 1648, when the au- The Massachusetts Laws of 1648. 1 1 ditor general was directed to see a word entered in every book, in order to supply an omission. Due weight must also be given to the fact that not a single act passed after the May session of 1648 appears to have been included in the volume — so far as can be determined from the marginal references in the subse- quent editions, to that volume and its various supple- ments.
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