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Show 180 Ac'rs RELATING l'art U. Se&.VIl. TO THE (Browns. 181 by "no further cognifance," he means, ry. no cognifiince potterior to thefe refolutions, it feems rather difficult to find a commencement, for the habit ofaequiefcence which he infers from thence, and which he fupv the feeond time, and committed on the pofes to have been the ground of fome King's opinion about the matter. If, on the other hand, by " no further cognifance," he means no cognifanee pofierior to the refolution, whereby the Virginia petition was withdrawn ; then his notion muf't be, that the coming to f'trong refo- lutions, and even pafiing bills upon the nullity ofelaufes in charters granted to the Plantations, is taking no eognifanee of the Plantations. A propofition, which it feems rather diilieult to {ubfcribe to. Indeed, f0 far was the houfe from mean- ing to renounce its right of taking cog- It was brought in on the 14th *; read 28th of February T; reported and ordered to be erigrofled on the 4th 1; read a third, and pafl‘ed the houfe on the 7th of l‘xlarch §. The King refuted, it {hould feem, to give his content to this bill : and we find the committee of grievances elalling the re- ttraint of the Englifh fubjeels in their fithery on the eoafis of America among the lift of grievances H. At the very beginning of the next Parliament, this bill was again revived. It was read the tirft time on the 24th of March; read a feeond time, and commit- ted on the 17th of April; reported on the 22d, and reeommitted in order to give lord Baltimore time to be heard by his nifanee of the Plantations, that but one * See Journals, vol. i. p. 819. year afterwards, we find them re-allerting f See ib. p. 825. 1 See ib. p. 830. §See ib. p. 831. their jurifdié‘tion over them. In the year 1625 they revived the bill for a free tithery 3 52:? ib. p. 803. N 3 council |
