Vice-Admiralty, 166, 186 [300], 188, 
515; see also Menzies, John 
criminal appeals, 243 
dependence on crown, 559 
ecclesiastical establishment, 571 
enforcement of Navigation Acts in, 138-39, 
349 [502] 
enforcement of Orders in Council in, 330- 
35 
extension of acts of Parliament to, 474 
gavelkind tenure in, 565 
General Laws and Libertyes of 1648, 567 
[239] 
General Court, 45, 46, 48, 55, 56-58, 162, 
163, 164, 376, 445 [165], 447 [187], 
567 [239], 644 
Governor, 280 [62], 531 [29], 545 [102]; 
see also Belcher, Jonathan; Bellingham, 
Richard; Burnet, William; Dudley, Joseph; 
Dummer, Jeremiah; Hutchinson, Thomas; 
Pownall, Thomas; Shirley, William; Winthrop, 
John 
governor's instructions, 230 [77], 233 [89], 
346, 448-49, 606, 644 
House of Representatives, 563 [220, 222] 
interference of Laud, 44 
intracolonial appeals, practice, 373, 375-77 
intracolonial appeals regulations 
colonial acts, no [224], 373 
instructions, 233 [89] 
judicial practice 
evidence reduced to writing, 163, 373 
procedure on Orders in Council, 330 
[368], 334 
Kennebec Proprietors, 163, 365, 455 [233] 
legislative divorces, validity of, 582-83, 584- 
85, 592 
legislative power, opinion of DeGrey and 
Willes, 633 [563] 
missions of Randolph to, 59-62 
proceedings against, 49 [309], 62, 329 [360], 
525 
revised laws of 1660 & 1672, 567 [239] 
right of appeal 
defeated, 163, 292-93 
denied, 45-51, 54-58, 60-62, 74, 75, 139, 
147, 148 [86], 158, 329 
in real actions, denied, 162, 163, 164, 376, 
414, 563 [216], 659 
opinion of Bowdoin, 164-65 
opinion of Lechford, 45 [290] 
opinion of Pownall, 163 
opinion of Pratt, 165 
opinion of Sawyer, 5, 49 [309], 60-61, 87 
royal commission of 1664, 55-58 
royal hostility to, 52, 58, 556 
sheriffs, 334 
Stamp Act riots, 631 
Statute of Limitations in, 333 
Tea Riots, 638 [578] 
vice-admiralty appeals, 166, 266 
vice-admiralty jurisdiction, conflict with 
common law courts, 514 
wood cutting, 165-66, 188, 329, 332 
York County, see York County 
see also Chartered colonies; New England 
Masson, Clement, 29 [181] 
Masters in Chancery, 313 [270], 378-79 
Master of Requests, see Bacon, Nathaniel; 
Caesar, Sir Julius; Sadler, John 
Master of the Rolls, 323, 324; see also Jekyll, 
Sir Joseph; Sewell, Sir Thomas 
Mathew, William, Governor of Leeward Islands, 
184, 346 [466] 
instructions, 232 [88] 
Matson, Smithel, 272 [2] 
Mauduit, Jasper, Massachusetts agent, 632 
[560 a] 
Maury, Rev. James, 620 
Maverick, Samuel, 45 [291], 54, 55, 123 
Maycock, Thomas, Barbados judge, 203-4, 347 
Mead, William, 182 [281], 202 
Menzies, John, vice-admiralty judge for New 
England, 199, 266 [292] 
Mercantilism, 132, 514, 552 [145], 656 
Mercer, Richard, 390 [182] 
Mercer, Robert, 390 [182] 
Mew, Richard, 199 
Michie, James, Chief Justice of South Carolina 
on extension of English law to colonies, 588- 
89 
on legal status of colonies, 591 
on meaning of "repugnancy to the laws of 
England," 529 [30], 589-91 
on power of judicial review, 591 
Miller, Peter, 480 [49] 
Mills, James, 390 [182] 
Mills, Samuel, 196 
Mingham, Captain Francis, 102 [166], 103 
Minimum amounts appealable, see Appeals 
regulations, amounts appealable 
Minorca 
acquired by Great Britain, 267 
appeals regulations, 267-68 
appellate jurisdiction, 4, 138, 171, 174, 267 
Courts, 267 
criminal appeals, 268, 318 
governor's instructions, 267-68 
Lieutenant Governor, 318 
Spanish law applied, 295 
vice-admiralty appeals, 192 
Miranda, Isaac, 187 [307] 
Misdemeanor, see Criminal appeals 
Modyford, Sir Thomas, Governor of Jamaica, 92