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Show [ 67 ] ed by her Subjeéts and then to grant the fame Country to bnglilh Subjcéts in her publiek Ca. acity as Queen of England, {lill by this (2mm ihe annexed it to the Crown. 'l hus by not diftinguilhing between the Crown of England and the Kings and (lgeens of England in their perfonal or natural Capacities, you have been led into a fundamental Error which mufl prove fatal to your Syflem. It is not material whether Virginia reverted to the Crown by Sir Walter's A‘- {HINDU and Vtion Soil and Statute: of England. From this Corpora~ your Predecefl‘ors obtained a Grant of the ofthepolony of l‘a'lallbchulets-Bay, in 16,27, in [628, they Obllllllt'tt a Charter from King Charles the Firll making them a diltinft Corporation, alfo within the Realm, and giving them full Powers within the Limits of their Pa- tent, very like to thofe of the Council of Pli~ mouth thmughout their more extenfichertitory. We will nowcanfider what mufl have been tainder or whether he never took any Benefit the Senfc of the King oFthe Nation aim of the from his Grant, though the latter is mofl probable fceing he ceaied from all Attempts to take Patentees at the Time of granting thele Patents. Pofl'ellion oftha Country after a few Years Trial. of NewaEnglaud had been frequented by Ting~ lifh Subjeflcs for catching and drring Cod-F411. When an exclttlive Right to the Filhery was There were, undoubtedly. divers Grants made by King James the Firt'l of" the (eminent of America in the Beginning of the t7tthntury and fitnilar to the Grant of (luecn Elizabeth in this Relpec'l, that they were dependant on theCrown. The Charter to the Council at Plimouth in Devon dated November 3d, [(920 more immedi- ately relpeéls us, and of that we have the moll authentiek Remains. By this Charter, upon the Petition of Sir Farr dinando Gorges a Corporation was conllituted to be and continue by Succeflion forever in the Town of Plimouth aforefaid, to which Corprsra' tion that Part of the American Continent which lies between the 40° and 48" Degrees of l.ati~ tudc was granted to [r [SC/rt] Q/ll'c' King Isis Hair! and Sucre/[5H a5 0/ 1/13 JVI "or of 1712/} Greeneuic/J with Powers to confiitute fub-wrtlinate Governments in America and to make Laws for fuch Governments, not repugnant to 1.661407": Ch") From the Year I60 2- the Banks and bea Coalls claimed, by Virtue of the Patent of 162:), illt‘. Houfc of Commons was alarmed and a Bill was brought in for allowing a free Fifhery, and it was upon this Occalion that one of the Secreta- ries of State declared perhaps as his ownOpinion, that the Plantations were not annexed to the Crown and f0 were not within the urilili-f'tion ot‘ Parliament. Sir Edwin Sandys, who was one of theVirttinia Company and an eminent Lawyer, declared that he ltnewVirginia had been annexed and war belt! of the Crown [1! of flu- fife/202‘ of Edfl Greenwich and he believed Newoh‘ngland‘ was {0 all?) ; and {o it molt certainly was {his Declaration, made by one of the King's Servants, you fay {hewed the Scnl‘e ol the Crown and, being not recretly but openly declared in l'arlia»~ ment you would make it the St tu-li: ol' the Nav (ion alfu, notwithllanding your own Allbrtion I 2 that |