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Show [68] [69] that the Lords and Commons pallet] a Bill that :(htwed their Senle to be. oiteélly the contrary. had been granted to the faid Sir Ferdinando and For :f there had been full f‘vdence of exprefs Declaratmns ma e by Kin": ‘ames tin: Virfl, and King Charles due Fult. t W; were Declarations contrary to their own Gran-'1 which declare this divers other noble Perfons For eflablifhing a Colony in New-England, that this was deemed a Grievance of the Common-wealth contrary 1.? tlwe Lazar, and to the Privileges of the Subject, Ctmfi'y to He held of thr- Crown and confe- that it was a Monopoly, &c. and he required the Delivery of. the Patent into the Houle. Sit qr? w," i: "aux: have been annexed to it, And 111:" not :ti'fu .Dtc-auttions ht aeennnted for by other "lions ct. thoie Princes who when they thority of the Houf‘e but fitbmitted to their Difpofal of the Patent as in their \l'itdom they Ferdinando Gorges made no Doubt of the Au- we e tollicinng the Parliament to grant the Duties of Tonnage and Poundage with other Aids and were, in thisWay, acknowledging the Rights thought good " not knowing, under Favour, how o. Parliament, at the fame Time were requiring the Payment of thofe Dmies with Ship Money, Advancement of Religion, Ilse En/mgeweut of 85¢. by Virtue of their Prerogative ? however, to {ubmit the whole to their honorable But to remove all doubt of the Seufe of the Nation mid of the Patentees of this Patent or Charter in' 1620 1 need only refer you to the Account publilhed by Sir Fetdinanc‘e Gorges hintfelf of the Proceedings in Parliament upon any Action of that Kind could be a Grievance to the Pnbliek feeing it was undertaken for the 1/56 Ban/nit 6f our .Nations gee. He was willing, Cenfitres." After divers Attendances he imagined he had fatisfied the Home that the planting a Colony was of much more Confequence than a {imple diforderly Courfe of Filhing. He was, notwithtlanding, dilhppointed and, when thePublick Grievances of the Ki gdom were pretented :'~‘~s he Was the moll aftire Mem- .by the two Houfes, that of the Patent for New- ber of the Council of Plimouth and as he re- England was the firll. Idon't ltnow tow the Parliament Could have 096th more fully the Settle they then had 01‘ their Authority over this new acquired 'I‘erritory, nor Can we expect bet- this Oecafion. lates what came within his own Knowledge and (ilwfizrvation his Narrative, which has all the 1'\ ppearanee of'fI‘rnth and Sineerity, niufl carry Conviéhon with it. He lays that {non after the Patent nut: paged and whi it it lay in the Crown- ter Evidence of the Senle which the l'arrntees {7lhzi:e he was ltunmo'n'd to rttncar in Farliamcnz which no have lef; Reafon to'doubt. had sof‘it, forI know or" no hittmical hail of to wider what was to he o‘gc'letl *nainll it, and the Houliz being in ‘a ComnV'tet: Elle Sir Fdwrtl And now Gentlemen I will thew you how it Col-{3 that great Grade I t" the Law in the Chain Serpents from our Charter lilt'll', which you if?" he was called to the Bar and 1 have not yet been pleated to p'OltttaMt to you except from that Claufe which telirafi'ns us trout Was [chi by Si" Edward that the Houfe underflood that a Puma making |