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... four to forty - five degrees of latitude . The curious overlapping of the Plymouth and London sub- companies had no practical result , on account of the col- lapse of the former enterprise . The gradual carving of other colonies out of ...
... four to forty - five degrees of latitude . The curious overlapping of the Plymouth and London sub- companies had no practical result , on account of the col- lapse of the former enterprise . The gradual carving of other colonies out of ...
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... four companies to penetrate further , for with no means of retreat he must press forward to reach the fertile land of Cosa . They proceeded forty days through uninhabited land to Gran Rio , probably Alabama River , which they followed ...
... four companies to penetrate further , for with no means of retreat he must press forward to reach the fertile land of Cosa . They proceeded forty days through uninhabited land to Gran Rio , probably Alabama River , which they followed ...
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... four thousand ducats were ordered ; at another , Vera Cruz was to remit Menendez annually a certain sum . In this year the boundaries of Florida were extended westwardly to Panuco River , and among the last - recorded wishes of Menendez ...
... four thousand ducats were ordered ; at another , Vera Cruz was to remit Menendez annually a certain sum . In this year the boundaries of Florida were extended westwardly to Panuco River , and among the last - recorded wishes of Menendez ...
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... four or more bells in a detached belfry , and to the rear , not far from San Sebastian Creek , we see where live the Augustinians . There seems to be a palisade along the beach , and much of the land back of the buildings is taken up ...
... four or more bells in a detached belfry , and to the rear , not far from San Sebastian Creek , we see where live the Augustinians . There seems to be a palisade along the beach , and much of the land back of the buildings is taken up ...
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... four unhappy years . Villegagnon went home , but his successor was hardly better , and the Portuguese at last found means to destroy such of the French as had not returned . Meantime much had happened in France . In 1559 , Francis II ...
... four unhappy years . Villegagnon went home , but his successor was hardly better , and the Portuguese at last found means to destroy such of the French as had not returned . Meantime much had happened in France . In 1559 , Francis II ...
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Page 451 - For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper...
Page 452 - Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Page 59 - Also we do, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, Declare, by these Presents, that all and every the Persons, being our Subjects, which shall dwell and inhabit within every or any of the said several Colonies...
Page 59 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by King James the First, the colonists, aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties and immunities of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Page 125 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 58 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 452 - The members of this congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty, to his majesty's person and government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant succession, and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present and impending misfortunes of the British colonies on this continent ; having considered as maturely as time will permit, the circumstances of the said colonies...
Page 162 - III. [109] c. 22. that all laws, by-laws, usages, and customs, which shall be in practice in any of the plantations, repugnant to any law, made or to be made in this kingdom relative to the said plantations, shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 157 - Proprietary governments, granted out by the crown to individuals, in the nature of feudatory principalities, with all the inferior regalities, and subordinate powers of legislation, which formerly belonged to the owners of counties palatine...
Page 452 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives.