Definition of "consecution"

Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progress

a. 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677

there shall be generated such a consecution of colours, whose order, from the thin end towards the thick, shall be yellow, red, purple, blue, green, and these so often repeated

1664, Isaac Newton, edited by David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton‎, volume 1, published 1855, page 159