præmises

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.

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

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.

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

This they say tends to Brownism, and abhorred anarchy, and then say they upon such præmises, it must needs follow that every member of the body must be an officer; and then every one must preach and dispence […]

2006, Constance Polin, Raymond Polin, Foundations of American Political Thought: Readings And Commentary, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 89, →ISBN