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A LIST OF COPIES OF CHARTERS, FROM THE COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS, PRESENTED TO THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, IN PURSUANCE OF THEIR ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY, OF THE 25th OF APRIL ... The first collected edition of American colonial charters, all foundational documents for the respective states. Included are the charters of Maryland (in Latin), Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay, and Georgia. "Each charter is printed with its own signature-marks and pagination as if for separate publication" - De Renne."Although [the] charters allowed recipients considerable latitude in their operations, they also outlined the basic institutional structure of the colonial corporation, the constraints on its powers, and the obligations it had to meet to remain in the good graces of the crown....Within a few years of its founding, the Massachusetts Bay colony included a house composed of two deputies from every town. While Maryland's 1632 charter granted the proprietor 'absolute Power' to make laws, it also stated that this was to be done with 'the Advice, Assent, and Approbation of the Free-Men of the...Province.' The Charter of Liberties that William Penn issued in 1701 mandated an annual assembly composed of four representatives from every county" - Hrdlicka.Alexander Brodie, Lord Lyon, was a prominent Scottish politician from Moray. He sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1754, first as MP for Elginshire, and later for Caithness and Inverness Bur

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