[The patent recites the grant of 1620 to the Council for New England, and continues:] NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, That the said President and Council. . . do give, grant . . . and confirm unto the said Captain John Mason, his Heires and Assigns, all that Part of the main Land in New-England, lying upon the Sea Coast, beginning from the middle Part of Merrimack River, and from thence to proceed northwards along the Sea Coast to Piscataqua River, and so forwards up within the said River, and to the furthest Head thereof, and from thence northwestwards, until three Score Miles be finished from the first Entrance of Piscataqua River, and also from Merrimack through the said River, and to the furthest Head thereof, and so forwards up into the Lands westwards until three Score Miles be finished; and from thence to cross over Land to the three Score Miles, and accompted from Piscataqua River, together with all Islands and Islets within Five Leagues Distance of the Premisses, and abutting upon the same or any Part or Parcel thereof; which said Portions of Lands with the Appurtenances, the said Captain John Mason, with the Consent of the President and Council, intends to name New-Hampshire: ... No. 11. Plymouth Patent January 13/23, 1629/30 It was the original intention of the Separatists in Holland to settle near the Hudson River, within the limits of the Virginia Company; and a patent was accordingly obtained from the Company, June 9/19, 1619. The establishment of the colony at Plymouth, outside the territory of the Virginia Company, made the patent useless; and a grant was next obtained, June 1/11, 1621, from the Council for New England, being the first grant made by the Council. The patent was temporarily superseded by a grant of April 20/30, 1622, in the name and for the benefit of John Pierce; this was later assigned to the Merchant Adventurers of London for £500. The patent of Jan. 13/23, 1629/30, was granted to Bradford and others, through the agency of Allerton. In March, 1640/41, this patent was assigned to the freemen of New Plymouth. Neither of the Plymouth patents was confirmed by the Crown, and the colony never obtained a royal charter. Only so much of the patent of 1629/30 is here given as defines the limits of the grant. REFERENCES. Text in Brigham's Laws of New Plymouth, 21-26. The patent of 1621, with notes by Deane, is in Mass. Hist. Coll., Fourth Series, II., 156-163. The act of surrender, 1640, is in Hazard's Historical Collections, I., 468, 469. For general references, see under No. 5. [The patent recites the grant of 1620 to the Council for New England, and continues:] Now knowe yee that the said councell by virtue and authority of his said late Majesty's letters pattents and for and in consideration that William Bradford and his associatts have for these nine yeares lived in New Englande aforesaid and have there inhabited and planted a towne called by the name of New Plimouth att their own proper costs and charges: And now seeinge that by the speciall providence of god, and their extraordinary care and industry they have increased their plantation to neere three hundred people, and are uppon all occasions able to relieve any new planters or others his Majesty's subjects whoe may fall uppon that coaste; . . . doe . . . graunt . . . unto the said William Bradford, his heires, associatts and assignes all that part of NewEnglande in America aforesaid and tracte and tractes of lande that lye within or betweene a certaine rivolet or rundlett there commonly called Coahassett alias Conahasset towards the north, and the river commonly called Naragansets river towards the south; and the great westerne ocean towards the east, and betweene and within a straight line directly extendinge upp into the maine land towards the west from the mouth of the said river called Naragansetts river to the utmost limitts and bounds of a cuntry or place in New Englande called Pokenacutt alias Sowamsett westward, and another like straight line extendinge itself directly from the mouth of the said river called Coahassett alias Conahassett towards the west so farr up into the maine lande westwardes as the utmost limitts of the said place or cuntry commonly called Pokencutt alias Sowamsett doe extend, togeather with one half of the said river called Naragansetts and the said rivolett or rundlett called Coahassett alias Conahassett. . . And for as much as they have noe conveniente place either of tradinge or ffishinge within their own precints whereby (after soe longe travell and great paines,) so hopefull a plantation may subsiste, as alsoe that they may bee incouraged the better to proceed in soe pious a worke which may especially tend to the propagation of religion and the great increase of trade to his Majesty's realmes, and advancemente of the publique plantation, the said councell . . . further. . . graunte . . . unto the said William Bradford . . . all that tracte of lande or parte of New England ... which lyeth within or betweene and extendeth itself from the utmost limitts of Cobbiseconte alias Comasee-Conte which adjoineth to the river of Kenebeke alias Kenebekike towards the westerne ocean and a place called the falls at Mequamkike..., and the space of fifteene Englishe miles on each side of the said river commonly called Kenebek river, and all the said river called Kenebek that lies within the said limitts and bounds eastward westward northward or southward laste above mentioned. . . . No. 12. Charter of Maryland June 20/30, 1632 GEORGE CALVERT, first Lord Baltimore, had been a member of the Virginia Company, and, as one of the two principal secretaries of state, was a member of the Committee of the Council for Plantation Affairs. In 1620 he purchased a tract of land in Newfoundland, for which, under the name of Avalon, he obtained from James I., in 1623, a patent as proprietor. He visited his province in 1627, with the intention of remaining; but the advantages of the region had been exaggerated, and the climate was such as to discourage colonization. In 1629 he went to Virginia, but was obliged to leave on his refusal, as a Catholic, to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. Returning to England, he obtained from Charles I. a grant of land north of the Potomac. Baltimore died shortly before the patent passed the seals, and the charter was issued to his son, Cecil, second Lord Baltimore, June 20/30, 1632. The region granted to Baltimore had been included in the Virginia grant of 1609; but the revocation of the third charter in 1624 had left Virginia a royal province, with its unsettled portions subject to allotment at the pleasure of the king. Former members of the Virginia Company protested against the grant; but the protest was ineffectual, and Virginia was directed to befriend the new colony. The charter of Maryland, modelled on that of Avalon, "conferred on the grantee probably the most extensive political privileges ever enjoyed by an English subject, since the great houses had bowed before the successive oppression of Yorkist and Tudor rule" (Doyle). REFERENCES. - Text, Latin and English, in Bacon's Laws of Maryland. The early legislation of the colony may be followed in Bacon, and in Maryland Archives, I. See also Scharf's History of Maryland, I.; Bozman's History of Maryland, II.; McMahon's Hist. View of the Government of Maryland, I.; Sainsbury's Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, I.; Browne's Georgius and Cecilius Calvert; Winsor's Narr. and Crit. Hist., III., chap. 13. CHARLES, by the grace of GOD, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To ALL to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING. II. WHEREAS Our well beloved and right trusty Subject CÆ CILIUS CALVERT, Baron of BALTIMORE, in our Kingdom of Ireland, Son and Heir of George Calvert, Knight, late Baron of BALTIMORE, in our said Kingdom of Ireland, treading in the Steps of his Father, being animated with a laudable, and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the Territories of our Empire, hath humbly besought Leave of Us, that he may transport, by his own Industry, and Expence, a numerous Colony of the English Nation, to a certain Region, herein after described, in a Country hitherto uncultivated, in the Parts of America, and partly occupied by Savages, having no Knowledge of the Divine Being, and that all that Region, with some certain Privileges, and Jurisdictions, appertaining unto the wholesome Government, and State of his Colony and Region aforesaid, may by our Royal Highness be given, granted, and confirmed unto him, and his Heirs. III. KNOW YE therefore, that WE, encouraging with our Royal Favour, the pious and noble Purpose of the aforesaid Barons of BALTIMORE, . . . by this our present CHARTER . . . do GIVE, GRANT, and CONFIRM, unto the aforesaid CACILIUS, now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs, and Assigns, all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East, and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head-Land, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the River of Wighco, on the West, unto the Main Ocean on the East; and between that Boundary on the South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lyeth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Aquinoctial, where New-England is terminated: And all the Tract of that Land within the Metes underwritten (that is to say) passing from the said Bay, called Delaware Bay, in a right Line, by the Degree aforesaid, unto the true Meridian of the first Fountain of the River of Pattowmack, thence verging towards the South, unto the further Bank of the said River, and following the same on the West and South, unto a certain Place called Cinquack, situate near the Mouth of the said River, where it disembogues into the aforesaid Bay of Chesapeake, and thence by the shortest Line unto the aforesaid Promontory, or Place, called Watkin's Point; so that the whole Tract of Land, divided by the Line aforesaid, between the Main Ocean, and Watkin's Point, unto the Promontory called CapeCharles, and every the Appendages thereof, may entirely remain excepted for ever to US, oùr Heirs, and Successors. ... IV. Also WE do GRANT, and likewise CONFIRM unto the said Baron of BALTIMORE, . . . all Islands and Islets within the Limits aforesaid, all and singular the Islands and Islets, from the Eastern Shore of the aforesaid Region, towards the East, which have been, or shall be formed in the Sea, situate within Ten marine Leagues from the said Shore; . . . And furthermore the PATRONAGES, and ADVOWSONS of all Churches which (with the increasing Worship and Religion of CHRIST) within the said Region . . ., hereafter shall happen to be built, together with Licence and Faculty of erecting and founding Churches, Chapels, and Places of Worship, in convenient and suitable Places, within the Premises, and of causing the same to be dedicated and consecrated according to the Ecclesiastical Laws of our Kingdom of England, with all, and singular such, and as ample Rights, Jurisdictions, Privileges, Prerogatives, Royalties, Liberties, Immunities, and royal Rights, and temporal Franchises whatsoever, as well by Sea as by Land, within the Region . . . aforesaid, to be had, exercised, used, and enjoyed, as any Bishop of Durham, within the Bishoprick or County Palatine of Durham, in our Kingdom of England, ever heretofore hath had, held, used, or】 enjoyed, or of Right could, or ought to have, hold, use, or enjoy.) V. And WE do by these Presents . . . MAKE, CREATE and CONSTITUTE HIM, the now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his Heirs, the TRUE and ABSOLUTE LORDS and PROPRIETARIES of the Region aforesaid, and of all other the Premises (except the before excepted) saving always the Faith and Allegiance and Sovereign Dominion due to US . . . ; TO HOLD of US... as of our Castle of Windsor, in our County of Berks, in free and common SOCCAGE, by Fealty only for all Services, and not in capite, nor by Knight's SERVICE, YIELDING therefore unto US. . . two INDIAN ARROWs of those Parts, to be delivered at the said Castle of Windsor, every Year, on Tuesday in Easter-Week: And also the fifth Part of all Gold and Silver Ore, which shall happen from Time to Time, to be found within the aforesaid limits. VI. Now, That the aforesaid Region, thus by us granted and described, may be eminently distinguished above all other Regions of that Territory, and decorated with more ample Titles, |