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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On his way home he called at St Christopher , and there his sailors incautiously spoke of their find to Warner's colonists . The sequel was a dispute that caused trouble for many years . Courteen at once took up the idea of planting ...
On his way home he called at St Christopher , and there his sailors incautiously spoke of their find to Warner's colonists . The sequel was a dispute that caused trouble for many years . Courteen at once took up the idea of planting ...
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But the colonists contested this view , and maintained that the corporate right to the whole area stretching 200 miles north and south of Point Comfort and an indefinite distance inland was vested in the resident community in Virginia ...
But the colonists contested this view , and maintained that the corporate right to the whole area stretching 200 miles north and south of Point Comfort and an indefinite distance inland was vested in the resident community in Virginia ...
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It could not interfere in any way with the laws of trade or discriminate in favour of the colonists at the expense of British merchants engaged in colonial trade . It could not pass private acts without a clause saving the rights of the ...
It could not interfere in any way with the laws of trade or discriminate in favour of the colonists at the expense of British merchants engaged in colonial trade . It could not pass private acts without a clause saving the rights of the ...
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2006 |
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