The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... remained undisturbed in his governorship . To him is un- doubtedly due the chief credit for establishing the English possession of the Leeward Islands on a firm basis . The French had suffered much more than the English in the Spanish ...
... remained undisturbed in his governorship . To him is un- doubtedly due the chief credit for establishing the English possession of the Leeward Islands on a firm basis . The French had suffered much more than the English in the Spanish ...
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... remained under the jurisdiction of its chartered company , twice reorganised during the Interregnum . Newfoundland , under its royalist governor , Sir David Kirke , had been hostile to the Puritan party in the Civil War . In 1651 ...
... remained under the jurisdiction of its chartered company , twice reorganised during the Interregnum . Newfoundland , under its royalist governor , Sir David Kirke , had been hostile to the Puritan party in the Civil War . In 1651 ...
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... remained the same . The change came in the time of Cromwell's " Western Design ” , for it was only in imagination that this was a revival of the Protestant fervour of Elizabethan times . Many of the men who furthered it were London ...
... remained the same . The change came in the time of Cromwell's " Western Design ” , for it was only in imagination that this was a revival of the Protestant fervour of Elizabethan times . Many of the men who furthered it were London ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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