The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons, Volume 2J. Debrett, 1775 - Great Britain |
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adminiſtration aforesaid alſo America appointed aſſembly aſſiſtants aſſurances becauſe bill Britiſh buſineſs caſe cauſe confideration conſent conſequences conſtitution council court cuſtom defired Duke Engliſh eſtabliſh exerciſe expreſſed faid colony faid company faid corporation faid province faid William fame fingular firſt fiſh fiſhery fucceffors fuch give and grant heirs and affigns heirs and ſucceſſors hereafter hereby hereditaments Houſe inhabitants inſtance intereſt iſlands John John Endicott juſt lands laſt laws leſs letters patents liberty Lord Cam Lord Camden Lordſhip Matthew Craddock meaſures miniſters moſt muſt neceſſary noble Earl noble Lord obſerved occafion officers ordain Parliament paſſed perſons petition plantation pleaſure premiſes propoſed purpoſe queſtion reaſon reſpectively Richard ſaid ſame ſay ſea ſeem ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhips ſhould ſome ſpace ſpecial ſtand ſtate ſtatutes ſubjects ſuch ſupport ſuppoſed Theophilus Eaton thereof theſe preſents Thomas Thomas Goffe thoſe tion treaſurer unto the faid uſe whatsoever whoſe William Penn
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Page 15 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
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Page 64 - We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government...
Page 59 - ... and invite the natives of that country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind and the Christian faith, which, in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
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Page 15 - ... please your most excellent Majesty that it may be declared, and be it declared by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the...
Page 2 - Breadth; and in Length, and Longitude, of and within all the Breadth aforesaid, throughout the main Lands there, from the Atlantic and western Sea and Ocean on the East Part, to the South Sea on the West Part...