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Show 18 THE RIGHTS OF 11.111) CLAIMS 011 AMERICA. BRITAIN dutiful 1'11'11111er, to the i.<;,I;i1'i.1‘1_1re,i (.111 pa cei Vt: genet, whole heirefs carried the f1me rights and 111:) 1131.11.111 why their requeit ilmultl b: reiufl'tl. privileges to John of (flaunt, that Kings fou rth But though the SUBORDLton, and his polteriw. NATE Sov Ettmct s ofthe e Counties could pardon treairvns, murders and felonies; though they ap- Hil ihy, like the C unty and Ciiy of Chei'mr, pointed aii judgeg1m11inated all Juiiices of the and GRIEVI..DVl:1] 261.5 mi 1b.:.1tes 11"31 Li": 1 ithin th: l..i1..t Court, Ller'.1,,;.1t<1.y to their unit 21.111cientjuriliiitl'ions, lii,)Cf;l"S 2111;".;.11.'Ev.l1f;;es,;11d11.1.11 .. judlicial to ill- :ir Litiifiilziié, .;.ij .1nt'i peace; this poflcfltd exclufively the whole intern'gtl Government of their l'everal Coun- ties 5 their 5111;111:013 (if the exprefiion may be; uiui) were " 8l\ 211:5bound by the Acts and Sta- f " tutcs" ((1)015 an 1‘1ii'e111bly, in which they had no Retrrcfentadves. They were 3110 "liable to all payments, rates, and firbiidies, granted by the Thoi'e Ccun. ies (1' t 1.111‘1 be confefl'ed), like the Americans, (onfidered their being excluded from having Reprei'entat' ves in an Alietnhly by which they we:e ta:<ed,aagrievance. According}y, the Town anti County of Chefler, as far betk as the thirty- fifth cf Henry Vlll. petitioned the Legiflature for the 111ivilu-e offending Members to Parliament; and their 1<:quei't was granted by an ex- prefsSt.1.tute(cj . The county and City ofDurham made a Emill'drupplieazion, and with the fame i'uc- eels, in tl1ec'tucnt)-lit1l1 ( f( harltsll.{djil11dthe Ame.icans, inth-ad of flying to arms, t'uhmittcd the j a Sat utesat lnrge, 34 antl350f1len1Vlll. ['1 lhid. 25 OIL:1'11163 ll. C. (/1. 34 and 3: '11i"(i1iy"_."l c r3, r1' :5 of Clutirl'es lt. . 1/. Etf;11'clt:1lttd, that " hr lick oft'rgKiirh.s and Baryeti}. to rentelent 11113111 in th eklign Court of Pari‘.:.r'11ie<1t, they h1d been oiiei'.tinies Tut} (31111.1) Country would, {am periu.:dezi, i11": 110 ow'jeiiion to their being renrelent d11.1 31:1: i".:-rli:1..:;1.111. But the Calonies, tltcmgh tan: Circunyignce only infinunted in th: D;;l.11;1;i<.11, "1111': (1113111111113; :1fi'1r111e.,tth.1t11'.1'.1ntin1r 1h: 1'.;'1>1-;111.1y o. Paths.» Path?qment oi linOlttnd (/2). l" the fame ihppofwi grievance, in a peneeabie and which W15 erefized firii into an Earldom, and then into a Duked11111,in the per11011 of Henry Plantan Peace, anti, in 111011, 1;(pt m 1110;; 19 .13. 111: nt lhould e1:':e11l overtth''1'11110 ole l7.1llpi1:3, yet th 31 they themfeiws h we a ri from faxes either by the 1:11.15 :. t..11;11ex:;71p11011 13113 .12 1 11:.l evil- la;u:e, or by charter: 1.0m incompatible with 1'e21h'111, ling), itl11.131111. ' 11111 the C1.)- lonies thouid have internel 3.;13'1'. .11" their own, puiieilinfvthe autl'ioritV nit :1'1‘:it.1.1, :111.itl1.1t, 11 ;twitziti;1.1. (ii:111, the13:: 11-711 i .11 ii.;_'.113.111 ts in its power of layinr i151 .1‘iif. ' theie ailertions is not 17111.1..r3rl 3:1 1111.2. Charters give no exemption from 'f' the 0..tr;1y, [01111:or.11t.11..1:....1ly 'COloCnies to the {1111-0111: l.:.1.illtf:1.1;.: t). Guat. 1311» tain, and had the Charters 111:.1111111ed an exempti» on, the levill,lature by virtue of its 1.11411-1111:, univerl'al, andditcretionlry poi/11', (.111 113121} 3111/1i1'1ht5 they have conlerred, when the mud of the attic renders |