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IV.—On the Constitutional History of the Bermudas, the oldest remaining British Plantationa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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The Crown of England claimed in the sixteenth century, “by right of discovery and actual possession, taken on the part of Queen Elizabeth, by the deputies of Sir Walter Raleigh,” whatever lay to the north of the parallel of 32° on the American continent. The claim was limited in terms, perhaps, to the eastern or Atlantic shores: but the grants did not long stop there, for, so early as 1609, when the width of the continent was scarcely known, they were made to extend across it “from sea to sea,” and it was fiercely denied that Spain, which had never planted a colony in that region, possessed prior or any rights there.
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page 68 note a When the tenure of lands in England was of the Sovereign immediately, they were said to be holden in capite, or in chief, and de honore when, as in this case, they were held of the King as proprietor of the Manor of East Greenwich.—See Stephens', Blackstone, i. 194Google Scholar.
page 68 note b 2 Chron. x. 15.
page 68 note c The term denizen properly applies to an alien made a British subject by letters patent, whose privileges were in many respects below those of a natural or born subject.
page 70 note a The respective dales of first settlement are: Virginia, 29th April, 1607, Bermuda, 11th July, 1612.
page 71 note a In 1877, 501 white, and 210 coloured voters returned 36 members.
page 73 note a In 1661, II. 155.
page 73 note b In 1662, II. 176.
page 75 note a See remark of Privy Council, II. 477.
page 76 note a This Council was dissolved, and its powers given to a Committee of Privy Council in 1676, II. 428.
page 77 note a Such is the mould, that the bless'd tenant feeds
On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds.—
Waller, Battle of the Summer Islands, canto I.
page 78 note a Bancroft's, History of the United States, ii. p. 406Google Scholar.
page 79 note a St. Vincent, Grenada, Tobago. See 39–40 Viet. c. 47, and Order in Council.