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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... George II Decline of the Entente The Spanish and Austrian Wars Austrian Recovery : Treaty of Worms . " The ' Forty - five " : Louisbourg and Peace PAGE 337 339 341 343 345 346 347 349 351 • 353 355 357 359 361 363 365 367 369 371 373 ...
... George II Decline of the Entente The Spanish and Austrian Wars Austrian Recovery : Treaty of Worms . " The ' Forty - five " : Louisbourg and Peace PAGE 337 339 341 343 345 346 347 349 351 • 353 355 357 359 361 363 365 367 369 371 373 ...
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... George III . In February 1651 Lord Willoughby , the royalist governor of Barbados , passed with the concurrence of his council and Assembly a declaration to the effect that the recent Act was pre- judicial to the freedom and safety of ...
... George III . In February 1651 Lord Willoughby , the royalist governor of Barbados , passed with the concurrence of his council and Assembly a declaration to the effect that the recent Act was pre- judicial to the freedom and safety of ...
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... George II , c . 3 ; 28 George II , c . 16 . 13-14 Charles II , c . 11 , § vi . 3 Acts of the Privy Council , Colonial , 1 , no . 1272 . 4 P.R.O. , Colonial Office , 388/15 , M. 179 . 5 20 George II , c . 45 , § ix . 6 Petyt , Britannia ...
... George II , c . 3 ; 28 George II , c . 16 . 13-14 Charles II , c . 11 , § vi . 3 Acts of the Privy Council , Colonial , 1 , no . 1272 . 4 P.R.O. , Colonial Office , 388/15 , M. 179 . 5 20 George II , c . 45 , § ix . 6 Petyt , Britannia ...
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... third - the staple was dealt with in 1663. The measure then passed was known as " An Act for the Encouragement ... George III , c . 37 ; Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations ( The World's Classics edition ) , II , 273 . 2 Board of Trade ...
... third - the staple was dealt with in 1663. The measure then passed was known as " An Act for the Encouragement ... George III , c . 37 ; Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations ( The World's Classics edition ) , II , 273 . 2 Board of Trade ...
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... III , 110 , 119 ; IV , 58 , 133-5 . Cal . St. Pap . Col. 1675-6 , no . 947 ; 1677-80 , no . 482 , I , p . 535 . $ Ibid . 1702 , pp . 82-3 , 84 , 701 ; 1708-9 , no . 39 . 7 St. Pap . Dom . , George II , CLVI , no . 198 . 9 6 North ...
... III , 110 , 119 ; IV , 58 , 133-5 . Cal . St. Pap . Col. 1675-6 , no . 947 ; 1677-80 , no . 482 , I , p . 535 . $ Ibid . 1702 , pp . 82-3 , 84 , 701 ; 1708-9 , no . 39 . 7 St. Pap . Dom . , George II , CLVI , no . 198 . 9 6 North ...
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Page 660 - let the sovereign authority of this country be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever—except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 97 - no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate, Letters should not be known, riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: • *•*•• • All things in common Nature should produce Without sweat or
Page 658 - and with the advice and consent of Parliament, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonys...
Page 190 - should be regulated as between themselves. The principle was that the discovery gave title to the Government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Page 777 - by a line drawn due north from its source to the highlands, "which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean". The
Page 329 - The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbados, the infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.. . . The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates..
Page 536 - with the consent of the natives to take possession of convenient situations in the country in the name of the King of Great Britain; or, if you find the country uninhabited, take possession for His Majesty by setting up proper marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and possessors".
Page 181 - For that their [the Spaniards'] having touched only here and there upon a coast, and given names to a few rivers or capes, were such insignificant things as could in no ways entitle them to a propriety further than in the parts where they actually settled and continued to inhabit.
Page 149 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America", which
Page 154 - In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and carriage in others; but they were soon quelled and overcome by the wisdom, patience and just and equal carriage of things by the governor and better part which clave faithfully together in the main.