...our loving Subjects, have been humble Suitors unto us, that We would vouchsafe unto them our Licence, to make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a Colony...that Part of America, commonly called VIRGINIA, and other Parts and Territories in America, either appertaining unto us, or which are not now actually...

...First Virginia Charter, under which a permanent plantation took place, was granted in 1606.2 The right to "make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a Colony...that Part of America, commonly called Virginia, and other Parts and Territories in America, either appertaining 1 See p. 32. * It is to be found conveniently...

...loving subjects, have been humble suitors unto us, that we would vouch safe unto them our licence, to make habitation, plantation, and to deduce a colony of sundry of our 'The two companies for planting colonies in South and North Virginia were both incorporated by this...

...our loving Subjects, have been humble Suitors unto us, that We would vouchsafe unto them our Licence, to make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a Colony...that Part of America, commonly called VIRGINIA, and other Parts and Territories in A merica, either appertaining unto us, or which are not now actually...

...have been humble Suitors unto us, that We would vouchsafe unto them our Licence, to make Habitatipn, Plantation, and to deduce a colony of sundry of our...that part of America commonly called VIRGINIA, and other parts and Territories in America, either appertaining unto us, or which are not now actimlly...

...known as the Virginia Company. The royal charter, issued on April 10, 1606, gave the company "licence to make habitation, plantation, and to deduce a colony...into that part of America, commonly called Virginia . . . not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or people."44 In chartering the enterprise,...

...the first of these, the 1606 charter granted by James I, the colonists to Virginia were authorized "to make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a Colony...into that part of America, commonly called Virginia." The Virginia Charter states — at the outset of colonization — the fundamental principle that the...

...island somewhere in the offing to the far, far West." 1 By the charter of James I granting authority "to deduce a colony of sundry of our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia " he gave its limits as "between four and thirty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial...

...have heen humhle suitors unto us that we would vouchsafe unto them our licence to make hahitation, plantation, and to deduce a colony of sundry of our...part of America commonly called Virginia . . . [and] are desirous in divide themselves into two several colonies and companies: the one consisting of certain...

...Compton, born about 1581, was one of eight patentees of the charter granted 10 April 1606 by King James I to "make habitation, plantation and to deduce a colony of sundry of our people in that part of America commonly called Virginia." This grant provided for two colonies, one to be...