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Show [ 48 l l~ +9: 1 «Whh your EXCCllCnCy,S Leave, enquire W'hat 7003; only theiSoilrbut' the Dhminitm", theioftdf‘nifi arid {the Scufe of our Auceflors of this very Important ..Matter. 80- ercighty? of thofe Princcs‘;" WilhOth which Ptirohatle, "Pin thevSight of'God‘ and Men, the? had no Right or Title to what they pofl‘cfléd'. Thdt they hadrecoived' a Charter of Inec'wporatb tion- from‘the King," from ' whence arofe a' nevi? Kind of Subjeetion, namely, " a voluntary, civil Suhjeé‘tioof' and by‘t-h'is Compact " they were And as your Excellency has been pleafed to rtell us, you have not difcovcred that the Supreme .Authoeity of Parliament has been called in Qtefa rtion even by private and particular Perfons, un- . til within {even or eight Years pat} ,- except about the Time of the Anarchy and Confufion in {a Kt; gd-vemed" by Law: made it)! Idem/Elves}? England, which prececded theReflorati'on of King Thus ittarppcars' to have been the Sentimenm of [axiom Ferrous, though Fortune 537‘ whofe Semi; Charles the Second; we beg leave to remind ‘your' Excellency of tome Parts ofyour own Hilh mehts! the public‘ Cendhfi Was influenced, that their Remaval was a‘ juttifiiable Sépatatioh‘from ‘tory of Mailachulidtts-Bay. Therein we are informed of the Sentiments of " Perfons of Influence" after the Refloration, from which the HifStorian‘tells us, fome Parts oftheir Conduét, that the Mother State, upon which their Sulrjeétioh is of the General Afl'embly, " may be pretty well accounted for." By the Hitlory it appears to have been the Opinion of theft: Perfons of Influ- to that State determined and ceafed. The Su- preme Authority of Parliament; if it had then ever been afrerted, muff furely have been called in Que'fiion, by Men who had advanced {itch Principles as thefeL ‘ ence, " that the Subjects of any Prince or State *-'bad a natural Right to remove to any other State fitter to the Colonies, was after the Refltiratioti. wt to another Quarter of the World, unlefs the '.State was weakened or 'expol‘e'd by fuch Remove ; In the‘Reign of King Charles the Second, fevem‘l- fucltrAfls-pamd. ‘ And the fame Hi-tloryin- andeven inthat Cale if they were deprived of -ihe Right of all Mankind, Liberty of Confcience, them; and the Reafon of this Difficulty is eti- The firft an of Parlianaent made exprefiy'to form's his there was a Difficulty in conforming to it would juflify 3 Separation, and upon their .Re- plained in a Letter of the General Aflembly to moval t/Jeir Sud/£5250" delermined and (ea/Ed." their Agent, quoted in the following Words, ‘That " the Country to which they had removed, " They apprehended them to be an Invafion of was claimed and pofl'elTed by independent Princes, the Rights, Liberties and l'roperties‘ofthe Subjects of his‘Majefiy'in the Colony, they 1m" being rePre/Ented in Parliament, and according to the whofe Right to the Lordihip and Sovereignty thereof had been acknowledged by the Kings of England," an lnflance of which is quoted in the Margin ; "‘ That they themft‘lvcs had acquI‘my PWC‘MN for valuable" Confideration, Blot on y ufital Sayings of theLcarned in the Law, the Laws of England were hounded within the four 333‘; and did'not mtcb America : however as G. his |