...were seeking a new and separate patent of incorporation for New England, under the style and title of the council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England, in America, which, says Mr. Prince, is the great and civil...

...Westminster the third day of November, in the eighteenth year of his reign, did give and grant unto the council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New-England, in America, and to their successors and assigns, all that part...

...from King James, constituting forty noblemen, gentlemen, and merchants, a company, under the title of " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing New England, in America" The territory granted in this patent extended from...

...that King James the first in the 18th year of his Reign did Grant the land in Question with them unto the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting Ruling ordering and Governing of New England in America ; and to their Successors and assigns and That that...

...Established by James the First, November 3, 1620, while the Pilgrims were on their passage ; and styled " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ordering, and governing of New England in America." Hazard, i. 103—118. f This patent, which Judge...

...It was given to the Duke of Lennox, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and -others, forming an association under the name of " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Deron, for the planting, ordering, and governing of New England, in America." To this company was given...

...derived from America ; but after two years, a charter was obtained, which incorporated this Company as " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing New England in America." The territory granted by the charter, extended from...

...great seal of England, in the eighteenth yearof his reign, give and grant unto a certain honourable council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, and ordering, and governing of New-England in America, and to their successors and assigns, all that part...

...and successors, forty in all, were incorporated by the king, as " the council established CHAP. IIL at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ~~ ruling, and governing of New England in America." ^ ' The political powers granted to the new corporation were immense. Emigrants...

...James, in 1620, to the council at Plymouth, in England, (and which was by the patent incorporated by the name of " the Council established at Plymouth,...county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New-England in America,") recited, that the king's subjects had "taken actual possession of the...