Book/Printed Material Charters of the old English colonies in America.
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Image 7 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTERS THE OLD ENGLISH COLONIES IN AMERICA. AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, SAMUEL LUCAS, Esq., M.A. LATE OF QUEEN S COLLEGE, OXFORD; BARRISTER AT LAW. PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE REFORM OF...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 8 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. Transfer- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 9 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. 1/ Canterbury Papers. These Papers are published occasionally, in order to circulate informa- tion concerning the principles, objects, plans, and proceedings of the Founders of the Settlement of Canterbury, in New Zealand....- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 11 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. z z CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction vii /^Virginia Charters No. I 1 No. II 10 No. Ill 20 The New England States 30 Charters of the New England States Massachusetts 32 y Connecticut...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 13 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTRODUCTION. THE present volume comprises ten of the Charters which were granted to our early American Colo- nies. The same Charters were originally collected by a bookseller, named Almon, at the close...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 14 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTRODUCTION. tions which England, or, indeed, any other nation, ancient or modern, has ever accomplished. It is obviously not so much a perfect design, as a pressing want, which was here contemplated,...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 15 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTKODUCTION. IX especially to remember it was conferred and received in the light of a boon. 4 In regard to the legislative power, says Story, 4 there was a still more extensive...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 16 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. r X INTRODUCTION. iiecticut are specimens of the Municipal, Maryland of the Proprietary, and Virginia of the Provincial class. Both in the Proprietary and Municipal Charters, the right of the people to...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 17 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTRODUCTION. XI upon the then reluctant proprietors of Virginia. In Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Ehode Island, the same course was pursued and Mr. Hutchinson has observed, that all the Colonies, before...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 18 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. Xll INTRODUCTION. champion of imperial authority. Speaking of the earliest state of Virginia, he observes, It was impos- sible in those days, and it is more so in the present, for the...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 19 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTRODUCTION. jamais les notions de la vraie liberty n avaient moins preoccupe les esprits, et c est alors que ces memes prineipes, inconnus aux nations Europeennes, ou meprises par elles, etaient proclames...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 20 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. XIV INTRODUCTION. municipal rights. Their early Charters, faulty in many respects, were especially so in this particular, that they left a wide and debateable ground between the local and imperial functions. Upon...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 21 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTKODUCTION. XV Revolution, Somers, Holt, Treby, Ward, c, they thus remarked its defects that being originally granted to a great company resident in England, it was wholly inapplicable to the circumstances of...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 22 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. XVI INTRODUCTION. New England and a Commissioner for the King of France. The worst was, that acts of a similar nature induced proceedings to forfeit their Charters, and the Crown, for its...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 23 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTRODUCTION. XV11 clearness. I should premise that the book I am about to quote was the production of one Thomas Pownal, who was Governor and Commander-in-chief of Massachusetts, South Carolina, and New...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 24 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. XV1U INTRODUCTION. made with their consent; that they must ever retain with them the right of not being taxed without their own consent or that of their representatives and therefore, as it...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 25 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. INTRODUCTION. my observations to point. That which is needed to preserve our Colonies is a broad demarcation of their rights from ours, a clear exemption from all control in the matters which...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 26 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. XX INTRODUCTION. mortification and weariness, we insist upon occupying an entire province, in which we have not the slightest business, in which our presence occasions to them un- certainty, vexatious delay, and...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 27 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. VIRGINIA CHARTERS. The first of these Charters was granted by James, in the year 1606. Eleven years before, in 1585, an attempt had been made by Sir Richard Grenville, under the auspices...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 28 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. 2 VIRGINIA CHARTERS. to divide themselves into two several colonies and companies the one consisting of certain knights, gentlemen, merchants, and other adventurers, of our city of London and elsewhere, which are,...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 29 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTER NO. I. O directly into the main land by the space of one hundred like English miles and shall and may inhabit and remain there and shall and may also build...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 30 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. VIRGINIA CHARTERS. Each of these colo- nics shall be governed by a council of IS persons appointed by the king these coun- cils shall have seals. A superior council of 13 persons...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 31 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTER NO. I. 5 from time to time, without any interruption of us, our heirs g° ld and si or successors, give and take order, to dig, mine, and search for colonies,^...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 32 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. b VIRGINIA CHARTERS. per cent. Maria WlngfieM, and tlieir associates of the said first colony, and oocis hu- imto the s id Tllomas Hanham, Ralegh Gilbert, William Parker, ported and George Popham,...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 33 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTER NO. I. 7 XVI. Moreover, our gracious will and pleasure is, and we do, Persons by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, declare and set p re °ence of...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 34 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. 8 VIRGINIA CHARTERS. Promise to XVIII. And finally, We do, for us, our heirs and successors, fandsthat g ran t an d agree, to and with the said Sir Thomas Gates, Sir...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 35 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTER NO. I. V The foregoing Charter, then, was a provincial Charter, by which, overlooking the less important clauses, the provision for political government was this: Each colony was to be governed...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 36 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. 10 VIRGINIA CHARTERS. and disappointed men. But his administration, he adds, was un- acceptable to the Company in England, for the same reasons that rendered it beneficial to the settlers. The patentees...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 37 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTER NO. II. 11 II. Now, forasmuch as divers and sundry of our loving subjects, as well adventurers, as planters, of the said first colony, which have already engaged themselves in furthering...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 38 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. 12 VIRGINIA CHARTERS. the said tions, and declarations, hereafter expressed, all those lands, coun- [ind^om- tries, and territories, situate, lying, and being, in that part of puny. America called Virginia, from the...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 39 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. CHARTER NO. II. 13 blessing of God, and the support of our royal authority, upon the council to provident and good direction of the whole enterprise, by a careful London and and...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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Image 40 of Charters of the old English colonies in America. 14 VIRGINIA CHARTERS. city of London, as shall be allowed by the said council, or the greater part of them, assembled, so as he cannot attend the affairs of that company, in...- Contributor: Lucas, Samuel
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