390, 391.
Referring to this order, May 18, 1631--not a year after Mr.Winthrop's arrival--Mr.Hutchinson says: "None may now be a freeman of that Company unless he be a Church member among them.

None have voice in the election of Governor, or Deputy, or assistants--none are to be magistrates, officers, or jurymen, grand or petit, but freemen.

The ministers give their votes in all the elections of magistrates.

Now the most of the persons at New England are not admitted to their Church, and therefore are not freemen; and when they come to be tried there, be it for life or limb, name or estate, or whatsoever, they must be tried and judged too by those of the Church, who are, in a sort, their adversaries.

How equal that hath been or may be, some by experience do and others may judge."-- In a note, quoted from the lawyer Lichford, Vol.