and winch could it now be effected, must not only prove highly injurious to the

Crown in respect to the right of Soil, its Quit Rents & Escheats, but be productive of the greatest disorder & confusion in that Country.

The Province of Massachusetts Bay ground their claim Westward to the South Sea on the Deed dated Remarks on 1 th March 162718 from the Council of Plimouth to Sir Henry Roswell &c. and their assolhe claim of

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Bay Westar

so u m sea

--As on the Charter or Letters Patent of Charles the First dated the 4 March --Tne Lands granted are the same in both, being in breadth about Sixty Miles, and also

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exten ding as described in these Instruments " From the Atlantic and Western Sea and Ocean

JSoSTaSr on the East P art t0 the South Sea on the West P art e P e But the Crown being divested of these Lands by the Grant to the Council of Plimouth in of ra s>ng >!ns 1620 coula not P ass tliem °y its Charter of 1628|9, which had no other operation than to "^should" -"

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form the Massachusetts Bay into a Province, and to invest the same with Powers as a Body _.

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the present

Line Estabtween thati rrovince and

It became necessary therefore for the Massachusetts Bay after they were incorporated, to

obtain a Convevance of the Lands granted to the Corporation to Roswell &c. and Associ™w« * ° " ates That tne y obtained such Conveyance has not been pretended. If they had, the '