358 A. D. 1629. 



An attempt feems to have been now made to produce filk in Eng- 

 land ; as may be inferred from a grant to Walter lord Afton, &c. 

 of the cuftody of the garden, mulberry-trees, and filk-worms near St. 

 James's, in the county of Middlefex. Or, poilibly, this was only the 

 continuation of King James's projedl in 1608. There is a place a little 

 way without the fouth-wefl gate of St. James's park, towards ( ;heiiea, 

 whch flill bears the name of the Mulberry garden, and anfwers to the 

 defcription of the above. 



1 his year the king gave exclufive grants of fourteen years for the fol- 

 lowmg inventions, viz. 



' i) For an engine for the more eafy cutting of timber, under the 



* yearly rent of 40/ to be paid into the exchequer. 



' 2) For engines for draining marfli lands. 



* 3) For a medicine for picferving {heep from the rot. 



' 4) An engine for the Jate tranfportation of hories and other cattle 



* from Ireland into England, and from Eiigland into IrelauU.' [Fce- 

 dera. V. xix, p. 40.] 



By an ad: of parliament [3 Car. I, c. 4] corn was permitted to be ex- 

 ported to the king's allies, when at the following (which muft therefor 

 have been then efleemed moderate) prices, viz. wheat per quarter 32/) 

 rye loj, beans 16/^ and barley or malt at 16/, per quarter. 



King Charles, in the fourth year of his reign, incorporated the popu- 

 lous province of New-England, called MafTachulTet's-bay, of which Bof- 

 ton is the capital. King Charles II, in the year 1684, having, for his 

 arbitrary ends, compelled the city of London, by a quo ■warranto, to fur- 

 render their charters, this province likewife was obliged to fubmit to it, 

 as was alfo the colony of New-Plymouth and the province of Main ; but 

 that province was, in the year 1691, again incorporated by King Wil- 

 liam and Queen Mary, by its old name ; but the crown thereby relerv- 

 ed the appomting ot us governor, deputy-governor, iLcretary, and judge- 

 admiral : the other officers, civil and military, are in the nomination of 

 their houfe of reprefentatives, who alio eled: the council. This pro- 

 vince, together wiih Connedicut, Rhode-lfland, and Providence plant- 

 ation, conftitute what is commonly called New-England. New-fJamp- 

 fliire, alfo generally eflee ed a part of New-England, was made a fe- 

 parate province, immediately dejiending on the crown, as is now alfo 

 Georgia and Nova-Scotia ; all whole governors, councils, and niagiflrates, 

 are in the king's appomtment. Thus Maryland and Penfyh ania are a 

 kind ot monarchical tributary govcrnmciits ; Connedicut and Rhode- 

 ifland may be called tributary popular governments ; and Malfachufet's- 

 bay is a mixture of regal and popular conitiiutions. In our days the two 

 Carolinas and New-J> rfey are become re^^al government. , as Virginia 

 and New- York were long before ; as are alio all our illand-. in ihe Ame- 

 rican feas, but Barbuaa. Hitherto thele diffcreuL forms oi: government 



