| Item Description: | "In May, 1671, Governor Winthrop ... and others were appointed to prepare the new revision for the press ... and in October, 1672, it was ordered that the Laws shall be printed ... In this first printed revision the arrangement of Ludlow's Code of 1650 was generally respected. About seventy new titles were inserted ... the organization, powers and duties of the several Courts were more fully and precisely specified, a preface signed, and probably written, by John Allyn, the secretary, was prefixed, and, by a special order of the General court, the seal of the Colony was impressed upon the title page."--Prefatory note, by George Brinley. - "This edition of the Laws of Connecticut as revised in 1672, consists of one hundred and fifty copies, and is reprinted (page for page and line for line) from a copy of the original edition in the possession of Mr. Geo. Brinley. - Reproduction of the original from the Massachusetts State Historical Society. - With reproduction of original title-page: The Book of The General Laws for the People within the Jurisdiction of Connecticut; Collected out of the Records of the General Court, Lately Revised, and with some Emendations and Additions Established and Published by the Authority of the General Court of Connecticut, holden at Hartford in October, 1672. [Seal, and text from Rom. 13; 1,2] Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green, 1673 |
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