964 GENERAL CONTENTS. 



Book I. Chap. St<5l. Page, 



Appendix. The Frame of Conftitutlon, origi- 

 nally introduced into this Ifland, examined ; 

 more particularly refpefting the Powers exer- 

 c 1 fed by the Pr/'uy C(S««r/7 . . . — — i- 156 



Right of the firft Englifh Settlers, to an RngUp 



Form of Government ..... -r— . — 2. 1160 



Introduflion of a Leg'/Ianire— The firfl Affembly 

 fummoned here — Appointment of a Privy- 

 Council . . . • • •— — 3* ^^3 

 Claims of the Council to the prifvileges of Peerage; 



and tyrannical behaviour . . . — — 4. 169 



Tlieir Powers de.fined---Scnflures on the Court of 



Errors . • • . • • — — 5. 174 



Compared with the Privy- Council of Great- 

 Britain , • • . — — 6. 176 

 Their extraordinary Pretenfions difcufTed — — 7. 181 

 The inconfiftency, illegality, and bad confcquences 



of their exercifing a Lf^//?i7/a'^ Pow^/' . — — 8. 185 



A Plan propofed for afBmilating the frame of Le- 

 giflature in this Colony, nearer to that of Great- 

 Britain ; chiefly with a view to the peace and 

 profperity of the lHand, and to the eafe of Ad- 

 miniftration . ... . — — 9- '9^ 



A (hort detail of Proceedings between the Earl of 



C^r///7f and the Aflembly .. . . — — — 194 



Abftrads of Affembly Minutes in the years 1 678 



and 1679, relative to the fame . . — — — 206 



CromiveFs Proclamatioti for encouraging tlie fettle- 



ment of the Ifland, Jmo 1655 . . — — — 213 



His Inftru6lions to the Commiffioners . — — — 214 



Form of an Order for Land, iflucd by General 



D'Oyley in 1661 . . . . — — — 217 



Proclamation by Charles II. in the fame Year — — — Id. 



Remarks on the origin of the Revenue Lazv, and 

 the invefliture of this Colony with the benefi- 

 cial Statutes of England, cnaftcd fincc its firfl: 

 fcttlcmcnt with Engllfli fubjci^'ls . . — — — 219 



Origin 



