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Page 69 - ... are his Majesty's government of the uselessness and danger of any such interference, so objectionable does it appear to them in principle, as well as utterly impracticable in execution, that when the necessity arises, or (I would rather say) when the opportunity offers, I am to instruct your Grace at once frankly and peremptorily to declare, that to any such interference, come what may, his Majesty will not be a party.
Page 206 - Colonies, that every grant of money should be recommended by the Crown's Representative before it is voted; but every member of the Legislature proposes any vote which he considers to be advisable, nor is there any person responsible for preparing an estimate of the probable receipts and expenses of the Colony, and taking care that the latter shall be covered by the former.
Page 197 - Priviledges than have been granted to them either by Charter or some solemn Act under your Great Seal ; so having, from the first beginning of that Plantation been governed by such Instructions as were given by your Majesty unto your Governor, according to the Power your Majesty had originally over them, and which you have by no one Authentic Act ever yet parted with ; and having never had any other right to Assemblies than from the Permission of the Governors and that only Temporary and for Probation...
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Page 190 - Anne's reply. Egerton, HE The system of British colonial administration of the crown colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries compared with the system prevailing in the nineteenth century.
Page 159 - Fortescue, The Governance of England (ed. Plummer), 145-149 (and in Lodge and Thornton, 88-90). the simple men were to be paid a salary, but the noble men none. . . . The chancellor, treasurer, keeper of the privy seal and the chamberlains had long been the most assiduous members of the council, but Fortescue holds them all suspect; they may come to his ideal council if they like, he says, but he does not welcome them. . . . Fortescue is Lancastrian enough to call the lords at large consiliarii nati,...
Page 197 - Majesty originally had over them, and which you have by no one authentic Act ever yet parted with; and having never had any other right to Assemblies than from the permission of the Governors, and that only temporary and for probation, it is to be wondered how they should presume to provoke Your Majesty by pretending a right to that which hath been allowed them merely out of favour, and...
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Page 192 - ... to publish, such laws as he, the said Earl of Carlisle, or his heirs, with the consent, assent, and approbation of the free inhabitants of the said province, or the greater part of them, thereunto to be called, and in such form...
Page 192 - Carlisle, or his heirs, with the consent, assent, and approbation of the free inhabitants of the said province or the greater part of them, thereunto to be called, and in such form as he or they in his or their discretion shall think fit and best'.