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was taken off his head for him at the Gov that the statute of frauds and perjuries does ernor's order. This elicited from the Society not extend to this province, though made of Friends a somewhat massive petition ex before Mr. Penn's charter: the Governor of plaining their dogma concerning hats. Sir New York having exercised a jurisdiction William said : " On consideration of the hum here, before the making that statute, by ble address presented ... it is ordered . . . virtue of the word territories, in the grant that any practitioner of the law . . . profess to the Duke of York, of New York and ing himself to be one of the people called New Jersey." Quakers, may . . . speak . . . unto the said

This patent was granted to "his Royall Court without being Highness James Duke obliged to observe the of Yorke and Albany; usual ceremony of un Bearing Date the 12th covering their heads. Day of March in the Sixteenth year of the . . ." Such is the law Raigne of our Sovin Philadelphia to this hour; although some eraigne Lord Kinge years ago, an honora Charles the Second," ble Judge whose ap — that is, in the year preciation of the dig 1664. On May 5 a nity of the bench was commission was issued more profound than to Col. Richard Xicolls his historical acquire and others, — or on April 25, Old Style,— ments, learned it one under which the Duke day for the first time of York's laws were when he ordered a established at a meet Friend to unbonnet. ing on Long Island. Upon that whimsical But owing to a va occasion an old Qua riety of obstacles, the ker not the mild vic Dutch among others, tim, puffing with these laws were not es rage at this slight to tablished in Pennsyl the Society's vene vania until Governor rable privilege, ex BENJAMIN CHEW. Andross on Sept. 15 claimed, " If he 'd (Old Style), 1676, gave t-told me to t-take instructions respecting the Delaware River: off my hat, I-I 'd have swelled my head." William Allen was Chief-Justice from 1751 " 1st. That the books of laws established by until 1774. Whether he was a member of his royal highness, and practised in New the bar or not, he is the first Chief-Justice York and Long Island, be likewise in force whose name appears in the Pennsylvania and practice in this river and precincts." Reports. In the meagre collection of cases Now, the Statute of Frauds was also passed before the Revolution that was able to be in 1676; and were it not for the provision gleaned by Mr. Dallas (there are just it contains putting it in force "from and thirty-seven in all that survive in print to after the four-and-twentieth Day of June represent ninety-two years of litigation"), which shall be in the Year of our Lord William Allen begins the list, presiding over 1677," the ground of this first decision would the first case. Anonymous. 1 Dallas 1. be very narrow indeed. As it stands, the Decided in 1754. "Adjudged by the Court, real reason for excluding the statute from