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An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies (v. 1)
An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies - v. 1 Author:George Chalmers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Maryland.— Sir George Calvert. — Grant to Cecil, Lord Baltimore.— Powers conferred on Lord Baltimore. — Exemption of the Colonists from Imposts. ... more »— Covenant inserted in the Charter respecting Subsidies. — The first Colony erected into a Province of the English Empire.— Settlement made.— Privileges and Enjoyments of the Settlers. — Claims of Virginia to Territory, set aside. — First Assembly. — Acts sent to the Proprietary, who transmits a Code to the Assembly. — Clayborne. — The Second Assembly rejects the Laws of the Proprietary.— Decision against Clayborne respecting the Isle of Kent. — Government established at the third Meeting of the Freemen. — Separation of the Houses of the Assembly. — Character of the Laws and of their Administrution. — Remarks on Charles the First, his Acts and his Administration. During an active age, when men's minds were turned to the projects of peace, because they were restrained by a pacific prince from the exploits of war, Sir George Calvert, the friend of Strafford, engaged in colonization. Having long acted as a zealous associate of the great companies, which had undertaken to plant America, he was induced by their unprofitable adventures to desire exclusive ownership. And he obtained from James the First, whose secretary he had been, a liberal grant of Avalon in Newfoundland, where he formed a settlement, and for some time acted as lawgiver. But, dissatisfied at length with the barrenness of soil and coldness of atmosphere, he was enabled by the munificence of Charles the First, who lent him a ship to prosecute discovery, to find in Virginia a happier climate and more fruitful glebe. Yet he lived not to taste the fruits of a plantation, which his enterprising genius had conceived ratherthan formed. And there was granted, in ...« less