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Show [40'] [41] dfree Liberty of Fifliing on the Coall ofAmerica, , he refnled his Royal Allent, declaring as a Rea. fan, that " the Colonies were wit/mu: 11:: Rea/m and 7hrifl1i5i‘iwz ofParliament. " with any Legillative Body in making a Law to .Tax the People there, other than the Lords and Commons of England. Having taken a View of the léve‘ral Charters In like Manner, his Predecellor James the Firll, of the firll Colony in America, if we look into had before declared upon a limilar ()ccalion, that America um not minaret/10 1/38 Rea/w, and it was the old Charter of this Colony, we {hall find it to be grounded on the lame Principle : That the Right of difpofing the Territory granted therein was yelled in the Crown, as being that Chrilliatt. Sovereign who firl‘t difcovered it, when in the not fitting that Parliament lhonld malte Laws for thole Ceuntries." This Realon was, not {beret- ly, but openly declared in Parliament. It then the Colonies were not anne ed to the Realm, at 'the Time when their Charters were granted, they never Could be afterwards, without their own fpeeial Conlent, which has never linee been had, 'or even allied. If they are not now annexed to the Realm. they are not a Part of the Kingdom, and conleqnentlv not l'uijeét to the Legillative Authority ol'the Kingdom. For no Conntry, by Pollellion of Heathen ; and that it was confidered as being not within the Realm, but only within the‘Fce and Seignory ofthe King. As therefore it was without the Realm of England, mul't not the King, if he had deligned that the Parliament [hould have had any Authority over it, have made a fpecial Referva-tion for thatPurpofe ? which was not done. the Common Law was fnbjee‘t to the Laws or to the Parliament, but the Realm of England. Your Excellency lays, it apppears from the Charter itlelf, to have been the Sénle of our We would if your Excellency pleales, fithjoin ban Inflance of Conduct in King Charles the SCCon‘d, fingular imlecd. but important to our PurptSle; who, in 1679, Framed an Act for a perma‘nent ReVenne for the Support 01" Virginia, and .not been laleafed to point out to us how this up pears from the Charter, unlels it be in the Oblbt‘a lent it there by Lord Colpeppcr, the Governor vfition you make on the above~mcntioned Chute. of ‘hat Colony ; u'hieh was afterwards palled into viz. Predeceflors who lir'fl took PollEllion of this Plantation or Colony, that they were to remain litb- jeét to the Anthority ol" Parliament. You have " That a Favourable Conllruelion has been a 5.1%: and "Etméfettl 17y f/JE King'r 7220/} cure/Mil put upon this Clanfc, when it has been allowed to Il'lafr/ly. (fry and will) [/28 Con/Eirt 0/1/18 General intend fuch Laws of" England only as are exprefly 4/?ny a/‘PV/rgim'rz." if the King had judged nor, W" «"13 l he conlillently with Magma Char~ made to refiuec‘t us, " which you lay "is by Charter a Relbrve Ol‘POWC‘t‘ and Authority to Pat} ltamcnt to bind us by Rich Laws at leall as are m, 7313‘": placed ‘lzimlafat the Heael of, antljoined made exprefly to refer to us, and confequerttly is that Colony to he a Part ofthc Realm, he would with F a |