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Show [ the Secretaries of State declared that the Plantations were not annexed to the Crown, and to We are happy to hear your Excellency (Say, were not within the jurifdiction of Parliament." that "our Remarks upon and CoMtruéhon of If we {hould concede to what your Excellent: the \Vords not repugnant to (belle-w: q/‘En‘g/rmd, fuppofis might pollihly or "perhaps" be the are much the fame with thofe of theCouiiCil." h ferves to conlirm us in our Opinion, in what we Cale, that the Secretary made this Declaration " as his own Opinion" the Event lhowed that it was the Opinion ofthe King too; for it is not to be accounted for upon any other Principle, that he would have denied his Royal Allent to a take to be the molt importantMattcr of Liflersnce between your Excellency and the two Houles.‘ Alter Paying, that the Statute of 7th and 8th of Bill formed for no other Poi-pole, but to grant his Subjects in England the Privilege of Filhing of William and Mary favors the Conflruftion 115 nd Engla the Words as intending {itch Laws of tis,~you are made more immediately to refpeét on the Sea Coafls in America. The Account tell us, that " the Province Agent Mr. Dummer publillted by Sir Ferdinando Gorges hiinlelf‘, of that than a iti his much applauded Defence, lays the Proceedings of Parliament on 1121‘; Oren/ion, your Excellency thinks will remove all Douht of the Score of the Nation and of the Patentees of this Parent or Charter in 1620. " 'l‘hisNar- rative, you lay, has all theAppearance of Truth and Sincerity," which we do not deny : And to us it carries this Conviction with it, that " what was ohjcéied" in Parliament was, the exclulive Claim of Filhing only. His imagining that he had latisfied the Houlne alter divers Attentlances, that the Planting a Colony was of much more Conlequence than 'a fin/[tale difin/cr/y Gear/'6 0f fit/51.1153, is fitll'icicnt for our Conviction. We know thatthe Nation was at that rTim alarmed with Apprehenlions of h'lonopolics -, and il the Patent of NCVJ‘lZHSlJHLl was prelented hy the two Houlcs as a Grievance, it did not lhow. as your Eatccllency flippofes, " the Seiifi: they then had 0i their Authority over this new-acquired Tet- ritory," but only their Scnle of the Grievantcnf a Monopoly of the Sea. Law of the Plantations may be laid to be repugit when to a Law made in Great-Britain, nant made there flatly Contradic‘ts it fo liar as the Law mentions and relates to the Plantations. in that excellent will read a Page or two l'uither mentions this a: Deli nee, you will fee that he from an Act 0 the Senfe ofthe Phrale, as taken Scnfe he would l'arliame it, rather than as the anl he exprcl y cltul'e himfelf to put upon it; Charter: the deliqns to lhcw, in Vindication of was scale of the Words, there never [hatiin that nant {01116 a Law made in the l'lai'itations repug er Conanoth gives Laws of Great-Britain. He fien‘; truedn the firuftion much more likely to he latentt‘ztSClm: of the \Vol‘tls; namely, " that the ' arGrtjq; partieu their Dot tart-fume undcholonr of ters to make any laws ii/roufli'h'fif 7W") .m relic/‘ a " , }. l')' 4 ‘ l) r. .1J" C/mr/er. and other . Law! of Lug' /mu Properties q/L'ngl/hl the Lima" Lil/whet, (rm! .it 1 9) l, .V '1 his thereis plain and obvious to Common Senie,3md Excellency fore cannot be denied. But ll‘ your A mm are fet‘arc... I u This is the Scale in out |