An out-country governed by a De])uty or Lieutenant; and2dly,Tlie circuit of an Archbishop's jurisdiction. When the British settlements in America are spoken of in general, they arc called the Colonies or Plantations. If it is a Government on the Continent [in contradistinction to the West India Islands] where the King api)oints the Governor it is usually called a Province, as the Province of Quebec ; but a Plantation in which the Governor was elected by the iiihab-

* Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, Ih and 26. 5 Ibid. 29 ; Cowpor's Bcp. 208.

"Hall V. Camiibell, Cowper's Keport«, 208, 211. Calvin's Case 4 Coke's Keii. 1.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

itants, (under a charter of incorporation from the King) was usually called a Colony, as the Colony of Connecticut." ' Thus the very name was expressive of the character of the King's power by virtue of which he erected and established in New York Manors, Parishes, Churches and a General Assembly. Sir William IJlackstone in speaking of the American Provinces, says, " In the Provincial Establishments (commonly called King's Governments) their constitution dei)ended on the respective commissions issued by the Crown to the Governors, and the Instructions which usually accompanied these commissions ; under the authority of which Provincial Assemblies were constituted with the power of nuiking local ordinances, not repugnant to the laws of England." ^ It is clear, and beyond question, that the very authority by which New York was granted the right to possess and elect a representative Assembly of its own people, a privilege granted to it by William and Mary in IG'Jl, which continued from that time without interrui)tionas long as it remained a British Province, sprang from precisely the same source, as the establishment of the Church of England within its limits -- the Commission and Kiini's Iitifl ructions to his Governors ; To say nothing of the lirst granting of the right to elect and hold Assemblies by James II. himself as Duke of York to Governor Dongan in 1(583, eleven years be- Ibre ; which assemblies sat for three years, and the laws which thuy passed in those years, still in existence, are the earliest English statutes of New York ; and which assemblies were called and held solely by virtue of James's "Commission " and " Instructions " to Governor Dongan.