iS 4 HISTORY Gi< TI1L [HOOK: n. 



inherent in, and unalienable from, the person of a 

 subject of England, and ot which, so long as he pre- 

 serves his allegiance, emigration for the benefit of 

 the state cannot, and surely ought not, to divest him. 

 Pursuant to, and in the spirit of the proclamation, the 

 governor was instructed to call an assembly, to be in- 



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differently chosen by the people at large, that they 

 might pass laws for their own internal regulation and 

 government; a privilege, which being enjoyed by such 

 of their fellow subjects as remained within the realm, 

 it is presumed they had an undoubted right to exer- 

 cise, with this limitation only, that the laws which 

 they should pass, were not subversive of their de- 

 pendance on the parent state.* 



To these several testimonies of royal justice and 

 favour towards the new colonists, may be added the 

 additional security obtained for them by the Ameri- 



* . 



can treaty, concluded and signed at Madrid in the 

 month of June 1670. For after the restoration, 

 doubts were raised by the partizans ot royalty, whe- 

 ther, as the elevation of Cromwell was adjudged an 

 usurpation, the conquests which had been made under 

 the sanction of his authority, could be rightfully main- 

 tained by a kingly government ? Although nothing 

 could well be more futile than these suggestions, it 



* His Majesty was likewise pleased to favour the island with a broad 

 seal with the following arms, viz. a cross guies charged with five pine 

 apples in a field argent j supporters, two Indians plurrTd and condaled j 

 crest, an alligator vivant. The inscription in the orb, 



Ecce alium Ramos porrexit in orbem 



Nee sterilisestcrux, 



