Such are the sections relating to the tenure of land, nominal payments to king or proprietor, the right to make local laws and ordinances not repugnant to the laws of England, the right of waging offensive and defensive war, etc. These provisions, taking form, for the most part, in the three charters of Virginia, I have thought it unnecessary to repeat on their later recurrence, save in the case of some substantial change in the power granted.
I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to reprint, from William Wirt Henry's "Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Patrick Henry," the Virginia resolutions of 1773; and to the Hon. Josiah Quincy of Boston, and Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., for permission to use the text of the writ of assistance in Quincy's "Massachusetts Reports." Edward McCrady, Esq., of Charleston, S.C., kindly cleared up for me some points in connection with Locke's "Fundamental Constitutions." To Mr. William Coolidge Lane and Mr. Thomas J. Kiernan of the Harvard University Library, Mr. C. B. Tillinghast of the Massachusetts State Library, and Mr. George T. Little of the Bowdoin College Library, I am under obligations for special privileges in the use of the collections under their care.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE,
October, 1899.