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... , OXFORD ; BARRISTER AT LAW . PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE REFORM OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT . Checked LONDON : STOR LIBRARY NEW - YORK JOHN W. PARKER , WEST STRAND . MDCCCL . May 1913 INTRODUCTION . VIRGINIA CHARTERS- No. I. No. II . .
... , OXFORD ; BARRISTER AT LAW . PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE REFORM OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT . Checked LONDON : STOR LIBRARY NEW - YORK JOHN W. PARKER , WEST STRAND . MDCCCL . May 1913 INTRODUCTION . VIRGINIA CHARTERS- No. I. No. II . .
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... law of England , with all its inferential rights and obligations ; and though this incident is necessarily implied in the later and truer theory of state , which concludes that these Colonies were a part of the Empire , at that time ...
... law of England , with all its inferential rights and obligations ; and though this incident is necessarily implied in the later and truer theory of state , which concludes that these Colonies were a part of the Empire , at that time ...
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... laws of England , the assemblies actually exercised the authority to abrogate every part of the common law , except that which united the Colonies to the parent state by the general ties of allegiance and dependency ; and every part of ...
... laws of England , the assemblies actually exercised the authority to abrogate every part of the common law , except that which united the Colonies to the parent state by the general ties of allegiance and dependency ; and every part of ...
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... laws established by a local legislature , in which they were represented was not only sanctioned , but its exercise provided for But in the one case , it was exercised , subject to the veto of the Proprietary , whose position resembled ...
... laws established by a local legislature , in which they were represented was not only sanctioned , but its exercise provided for But in the one case , it was exercised , subject to the veto of the Proprietary , whose position resembled ...
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... laws , and in assenting to burthens to be imposed upon themselves . Story adds , that after the Restoration , there was no instance of a Colony without a representation of the people , nor any attempt to deprive the Colonies of this ...
... laws , and in assenting to burthens to be imposed upon themselves . Story adds , that after the Restoration , there was no instance of a Colony without a representation of the people , nor any attempt to deprive the Colonies of this ...
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adventurers America assistants cessors Charter coast colonies and plantations colonists colony in Virginia common council common seal common soccage constitute corporation declare deputy governor dominions elected enjoy erect fish former letters patents freemen further George Popham give and grant governor and company grant unto heirs and assigns heirs and suc heirs and successors heirs or successors hereafter hereby hereditaments hereditaments whatsoever inhabitants islands John John Endecott King kingdom of England lands and hereditaments laws letters patents liberties licence Lord Baltimore loving subjects manner Massachusetts Matthew Craddock merchandizes New-England oaths offices and places ordain pany parcel thereof person and persons person or persons plantation pleasure ports power and authority precincts premises presents privileges Proprietary Provided province of Georgia province of Maryland province or territory Ralegh Gilbert realm of England respectively river singular Sir Henry Rosewell statutes thereunto things tion treasurer and company tyme vince William Penn
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Page 57 - ... freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Page 78 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 118 - And we do further, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, grant...
Page 19 - Contrary in any wise notwithstanding although express mention of the true yearly value or certainty of the premises or any of them or of any other gifts or grants by Us or by any of Our progenitors or predecessors heretofore made to the said James Duke of York in these presents is not made or any statute, act, ordinance...
Page 81 - ... to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances...
Page 52 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 12 - ... all those lands, countries, and territories, situate, lying, and being, in that part of America called Virginia, from the point of land called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the sea coast, to the northward two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 57 - ... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America ; and that, by the same name, they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession...
Page 83 - Commonwealth, to assemble in martial array, and put in warlike posture, the inhabitants thereof, and to lead and conduct them, and with them to encounter, repel, resist, expel and pursue, by force of arms...
Page 68 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...