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Show ACTS RELATING Part II. tween four and thirty, and five and forty degrees of northern latitude, (lid either already appertain * to the king, or at leztft were not in the polleflion of any 0- Gnomes. 89 tlzeir giant-Jinn in 15111:: convenient place fighti 22nd forty-five dc- Ii‘itllij' commends, and ther e/zrflz‘im prince : :Ir tiefires for the That thefe adventurers meant to divide thcmlielves into " two fevers] colonies and xvi; "which might tend i 79:2, in propa- " companies;" the one eoniifiing of cer- tain knights and others of the eitv of a London and ellewhere, who resent at" to itegin their plantation in tome convenient : And there- Grants to the chili; of adventurers of the My quaizdc-iz the title offlr/zz colony, place, tetween four and thirty and one with leave to begin their plantation at an)r and fury degrees; the other conlilling ofcertain knights and others of Plymouth and other places, who meant to begin place on the wall of America. between thirty-four and fi)rty~()nc degrees, and to :‘l‘ There is nothing more ridiculous than this alTertion , that thefc lands did alreadv annexhair: to 4 At inhabi and fortify, according to their belt the king, or that fueh as did mt appertézfn to hintl might yet be occupied hy his order, provided they did not belong to any t.«.';n_{,.?imz prince. This language was borrowed from the erufadcrs} and can bejut'tified only by the madnels of fanaticifm. lt is melancholy, but ufet‘ul, to oblerve how long the @1725}: of popular errors remain, even alter the er- rors thcnifelvcs are explodedt their take po eflion of all the lands, &c. within the precincts there defcribed, thereto a'ffl'rez‘507z, and the difcretion of the couneil of that colony. His majelly grants to the adventurers from t/it' "tori/21 q," Eng/and the title of the *6 To which purpot'e his majefly gives them leave to rob and plunder (2/1521! chriftian princes. ,_ flew/112', |