7. 7 & 8 Will. 3, c. 22, ยง21 (1696). Quotation marks supplied. Italics are JA's.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/