[754]. Macdonald, Select Charters, pp. 106 ff., 110 ff., 133 ff.
[755]. Tobacco was raised in eighteen English counties, to be trampled down annually by royal troops of horse, so strongly had both the plant and the colonial theory, respectively, taken root in English soil and English minds. Cf. Beer, Origins, pp. 117 ff. Acts Privy Council, Colonial, 1613-1680, pp. xxii ff.
[756]. Interregnum, Acts and Ordinances, vol. I, p. 571.
[757]. Beer, Origins, pp. 397, 114.
[758]. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 373. Cf. The Groans of the Plantations (London, 1689), pp. 15 f., 23 f.
[759]. Acts Privy Council, Colonial, 1613-1680, p. xxix.
[760]. R. H. Schomburgk, History of Barbadoes (London, 1848), pp. 706 ff. Cf., for a similar spirit in Bermuda, Beer, Old Colonial System, vol. II, p. 99.
[761]. Cf. McIlwain, High Court of Parliament, pp. 364 ff.
[762]. Massachusetts Records, vol. IV, pt. i, pp. 84, 104. The right to coin money was occasionally granted in the early charters, but not in that of Massachusetts.
[763]. Cf. the form of oath in Massachusetts Records, vol. IV, pt. ii, p. 201. In 1665, under pressure from the Royal Commission, the General Court agreed that it would “order the taking of the oath of allegeance, according as the charter comands.” Ibid., p. 206.