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Show 16 ACTS RELATING hart L Q Sci. L TO THE COLONIES. " What is called the ftatute of \Vales (12 Edward I. A. D. 1 284.) fays Mr. Bar- Mansfield) " that he could make laws to " rington, is certainly no more than re~ " gulations made by the king in council " for the government of Wales *5." This a€t of the king appears to have been made upon the fullet't information. " afl‘ent of parliament." Some of the laws and eufioms, which pre- " bind any part oft/it: run/11, without the Berwicl: was a conquered diflriét.-Ed- ward the lirlt, in Whole reign it was conquered, by his own authority, confirmed to it the laws and ufages, by whien it had 1 (‘ been governed before it‘s reouetion.--This vailed in Wales before the conquefis of Eda Ward, are retained ; others altered 3 others entirely abolifhed. V The preamble to the ordinance {peaks of Wales as of a fief of the crown.--Edward charter was confirmed, or renewed, or ex- knew it was a conqueft-" And as con- Dutch. Charles H. granted it to the duke " queror (fays Mr. Barrington) had a right " to make ufe of his own words in the pro» of York, to hold of the crown. The form " amble to his own aé't."-Had it been a ment, was entirely changed, and a new fief, this ordinance would have been ille- gal.---" For he never pretended (lays lord one preferibed by the king‘s letters patent. {am-tried, at the time of the RCliOl'tliiOllg '* This diftine‘lion was lately quoted, and ap- hadlol‘rnllits Spanifhinhabitants.--Charle.= invited new fettlcrs by proclamation; he proved in the very maf'terly fpeech of Lord Mansfield; fmade on pronouncing judgment againft the promil‘ed them luvtefiion; he granted them L claim of the crown to the right of taxing the Gre- lands :--~he appointed the. eonl‘titt‘ition, and political (rovert'nuent of the illandz~flrft nadas. tended by (litl'ercnt kings, from Edward to the time of James, when Bermfiel; vas inn eorporated into the kingdom of England. New York. of its eonilitution, and political govern- A " Mansfield) was conquered from the \l C a god |