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... side , the Spaniards made no scruple of capturing , imprisoning , and even killing them , thinking thereby to do God service while striking a blow for their monarch . Even in 1549 an English ambassador was able to make out a long list ...
... side , the Spaniards made no scruple of capturing , imprisoning , and even killing them , thinking thereby to do God service while striking a blow for their monarch . Even in 1549 an English ambassador was able to make out a long list ...
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... side in a rack , indicating the arque- busiers and lancers of that day . The boats , too , are char- acteristic , if more symbolical than correct in details . Each is three - masted , with ratlines , and carries one cannon in front and ...
... side in a rack , indicating the arque- busiers and lancers of that day . The boats , too , are char- acteristic , if more symbolical than correct in details . Each is three - masted , with ratlines , and carries one cannon in front and ...
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... side of the Spanish conquests than is deserved . It is impossible to read the story of the fathers who accompanied the colonists and devoted their lives to the conversion of the natives , without a feeling of THE SPANISH settlement of ...
... side of the Spanish conquests than is deserved . It is impossible to read the story of the fathers who accompanied the colonists and devoted their lives to the conversion of the natives , without a feeling of THE SPANISH settlement of ...
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... side ; while Gaspard de Coligny , of the Châtillon family , was even more than the lukewarm Bourbons the leader of the Reformed . Both Guise and Coligny filled high offices of State . Coligny was not only in the army , but was made ...
... side ; while Gaspard de Coligny , of the Châtillon family , was even more than the lukewarm Bourbons the leader of the Reformed . Both Guise and Coligny filled high offices of State . Coligny was not only in the army , but was made ...
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... sides of France and held that country almost in a vice . Add now to this the fact that Philip II . was anxious to intervene in the religious dissensions and was ready to pour forty thousand tried troops into France to aid the Catholic side ...
... sides of France and held that country almost in a vice . Add now to this the fact that Philip II . was anxious to intervene in the religious dissensions and was ready to pour forty thousand tried troops into France to aid the Catholic side ...
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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.