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Show [70] [713‘ making Laws repugnant to. the Laws of England, that it was the Senl'e of our Predecefl‘ors at the Time when the Charter was granted that they HIHI'I theAUthority of Parliament; and to prove that a few Years after it could not be the Senfe of the. refi,I need only to refer you to your own were to remain fubjeét to the Supreme Authority of Parliament. Records for the Year 1642 where you will find Belides this Claul'e, which l {hall have Ceca-‘fion Further to remark upon before I finilh, you an Order of' the Houle of Commons, conceived in finch Terms as difcover a plain Reference to this Part of the Charter, after fourteen Years of will find that, by the Charter a Grant was made the Twenty-one were expired. of Exemption from all 'l‘axe's and Impofitions uponany Goods imported into New-England, or exported from thence into England for the and Merchandize exported to New-England or‘ imported From thence {hall be free from allTaXa Space of twenty-one Years, except the Cuflom es and lmpofitions both in the Kingdom and in By this Order. the Houfe of Commons declare that all Goods of five per Cent upon fuch Goods as, after the New-England until theHoufe {hall take further Expiration of {even Years, fhould be brought into England. Nothing can be more plain than that Order therein to the contrary. Therzenfe which our Predecefl‘ors had of the Benefit which they took from this Order evidently appears from the the Charter, as well as the Parent to the Council of Plimouth,con{titutes a Corporation in England with Powers to create a filbordinate Government Vote of the General Court, acknowledging their humble Thankfulnefs, and preferving a grateful or Governments within the Plantation, {b that there would always be Subjetfts of Taxes and Remembrance of the Honorable Refpeét from that high Court,and refolvingthat the Order fent‘ Intpolitions both in the Kingdom and in thePian- unto them under the Hand of the Clerk of the tatton. An Exemption for twenty-one Years imo Honorable Houfe of Commons {hall be entered plies a Right of lmpofition after the (expiration among their PublickRecords to remain there unto of the Term, and there is no Diflinc‘tion between Poflerit‘y: And, in an Addrefs to Parliament, NineY‘ears after, they acknowledge. among other the Kingdom and the Plantation. By what Au- thority,the1‘, in the Underl'tandinq ol‘ 'hel'arties, were there Impolitiom to be laid .9 If an", to undeferved Favours that of taking WIAeCzr/Zom from Idem. fupport a Syltem, lhould fay by the Tiiwp miter than to acknowledge the Authority of Parliament. yet this rould not he the Senfe of' one of our principal Paten'w ;- Mr. Samuel vim}: who at that inl‘tan , r ' ", the Date of lltc Charter, Was fiimwing ,.o% of‘his Guy" ratl'er than {ubmit to an Impofition laid by the King vvltlitmt ‘ the I am at a Lol‘s to know what your Ideas could be when you fay that if the {"lantations are not Part of the Realm, they are not Part of the Kingdov), {being the two Words can properly convey but one Idea and they have one and. the fWM? Signification in the diflcrentLanguagcs from whence they are derived. I do not charge yo: Wll. |