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deemed necessary by the proprietaries to offer to em- 

 igrants to induce them to encounter the difficulties of 

 planting in a foreign land. 



In 1669 the proprietaries turned their attention to 

 the settlement of a fourth colony in the southern part 

 of the province. The limits of the province had been 

 enlarged by a second charter, granted June 13, 1665, 

 so as to embrace all the land lying between twenty- 

 nine degrees and thirty-six degrees thirty minutes, 

 north latitude — a territory extending seven and one- 

 half degrees from north to south, and more than forty 

 degrees from east to west — comprising the whole of 

 North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alaba- 

 ma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, much of Florida 

 and Missouri, nearly all of Texas, and a large portion 

 of Mexico ; to which immense domain were added, by 

 a third charter in 1667, the Bermuda Islands. 



More than six years had elapsed since the royal sig- 

 nature had been given to the charter, and it was now 

 deemed proper to establish a form of government com- 

 mensurate in its dignity with the vastness of the em- 

 pire which the germs of existing colonies encouraged 

 their imagination to anticipate in the future. It must 

 be agreeable to monarchy, free from too numerous a 

 democracy, and pleasing to Dissenters. The Earl of 

 Shaftesbury, who in the year 1662 was found battling 

 in the British Parliament in opposition to the Bill of 

 Uniformity, was deputed by his associates to frame a 

 system of laws suitable for the province. He sum- 

 moned to his aid, in this most difficult and delicate 

 work, the celebrated philosopher John Locke, whose 

 friendship he valued, and whose distinguished abili- 

 ties he held in profound admiration. 



Mr. Locke was a man of piety as well as of learning. 



