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Excerpt from Two Centuries' Growth of American Law, 1701-1901 There were also two missionary societies chartered in Eng land for operations in America, which were much before the public eye. One was the President and Society for Props gating the Gospel iu New England and Parts adjacent incorporated in 1659 under the Commonwealth, and rechar tored soon after the Restoration. This was in the hands of the dissenters.' The other, the Society for the propagation, of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was chartered in 1701, in the interest of the Church of England, by the procurement of an American clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray, Commissary of the Bishop of London for Maryland.' This soon sent its missionaries over all the colonies. Grants of land were occasionally made to it, and it not infrequently stood behind the parish clergy, when they were setting up the claims of the church to property which had been devoted to pious uses.' It has been already said that the large business enterprises of the earlier colonists had been managed through the form of voluntary association in a joint-stock company. Such organizations were good at common law, and when the Act of Parliament by which they were prohibited in the colonies after 1741 fell with the Revolution, the old practice was naturally resumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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