præmises

Noun

 * 1) * 1622–1675, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1908 by Charles McLean Andrews in British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622–1675 (Johns Hopkins Press), page 123:
 * Lastly you are to follow such other Instructions concerning the Præmises, as shall be sent to you from time to time by us under our Signe Manuall.
 * 1) * 1663, Newhavens case stated, section 21, subsection 2, reprinted in 1858 in the Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the Union, page 529:
 * Toward the king, that yow honor him by lookeing at vs as a distinct colonie wthin ourselves, as yow see by the præmises his majty doth, & by restorin[g] vs to our former intire state, & or members to vs in obedience to his majty who hath comanded vs, as a distinct colonie, to serue him in weighty affaires, & wherein if yow hinder vs, (as yow will if yow still wthhould our members from vs, as much as in yow lieth,) yow will incurr his majties just & high displeasure, who hath not giuen yow in yor pattent the least appearance of a just ground for yor layeing any claime to vs.
 * Toward the king, that yow honor him by lookeing at vs as a distinct colonie wthin ourselves, as yow see by the præmises his majty doth, & by restorin[g] vs to our former intire state, & or members to vs in obedience to his majty who hath comanded vs, as a distinct colonie, to serue him in weighty affaires, & wherein if yow hinder vs, (as yow will if yow still wthhould our members from vs, as much as in yow lieth,) yow will incurr his majties just & high displeasure, who hath not giuen yow in yor pattent the least appearance of a just ground for yor layeing any claime to vs.