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  • Acilian Law on the Right to Recovery of Property Officially Extorted, 122 B.C.

  • The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty : June 7, 1635

  • Agrarian Law; 111 B.C.

  • Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire, August 4, 1639

  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  • Anglo-Saxon Law - Extracts From Early Laws of the English.

  • The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19 1643

  • Assize of Clarendon, 1166

  • The Athenian Constitution

  • Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money by Josiah Childs : 1668

  • The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. A.D. 1155

  • Capitulary of Charlemagne Issued in the Year 802

  • Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania : February 28, 1681

  • Charter of Acadia Granted by Henry IV of France to Pierre du Gast, Sieur de Monts; December 18, 1603

  • Charter of Carolina : March 24, 1663

  • Charter of Carolina : June 30, 1665

  • Charter of Connecticut - April 23, 1662

  • Charter of Maryland : June 20, 1632

  • Charter of Massachusetts Bay : March 4, 1629

  • Charter of Massachusetts Bay : October 7, 1691

  • Charter of New England : November 3, 1620

  • Charter of Privileges which Gustavus Adolphus Has Graciously Given by Letters Patent to the Newly Established Swedish South Company; June 14, 1626

  • Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - July 15, 1663

  • Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates : 1629

  • Charter of the Dutch West India Company : June 3, 1621

  • Charter of Urso, 44 B.C.

  • The Charter or Fundamental Laws, of West New Jersey, Agreed Upon - 1676

  • Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh : March 25, 1584

  • Chronology of American History

  • Code of Hammurabi

  • Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents

  • The Combinations of the Inhabitants Upon the Piscataqua River for Government, October 22, 1641

  • Commission of John Cutt, September 18, 1680

  • Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England. April 7, 1688

  • Commission to Sir Ferdinando Gorges as Governor of New England by Charles ; July 23, 1637

  • Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, 1665

  • The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There - February 10 1664

  • Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania - July 11, 1681

  • Confirmation of the Charters, 1297

  • Confirmation of the Grant from the Council for New England to Captain John Mason; 1635

  • Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164

  • Count Palatinate as Judge Over the Kings. Decree of the Nuremberg Diet, November 19, 1274

  • A Declaration and Proposals of the Lord Proprietor of Carolina, Aug. 25-Sept. 4, 1663

  • Declaration for Resignation of the Charter by the Council for New England; April 25, 1635

  • The Declaration of Arbroath; April 6, 1320

  • A Declaration of the True Intent and Meaning of us the Lords Proprietors, and Explanation of There Concessions Made to the Adventurers and Planters of New Caesarea or New Jersey - December 6, 1672

  • Decree of the Emperor Henry IV Concerning a Truce of God (1085 A.D.)

  • The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer. circa 1180

  • A Discourse Upon Coins by Bernardo Davanzati : 1588

  • Discourses Upon Trade by Dudley North : 1691

  • Duke of York's Confirmation to the 24 Proprietors: 14th of March 1682

  • The Duke of York's Release to John Ford Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, 24th of June, 1664

  • Duke of York's Second Grant to William Penn, Gawn Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge, Edmund Warner, and Edward Byllynge, for the Soil and Government of West New Jersey-August 6, 1680

  • Edicts of Augustus and Decree of the Senate on the Judicial Process in Cyrene, 64 B.C.

  • English Bill of Rights, 1689

  • An Essay on the East-India Trade by Charles D'Avenant : 1697

  • The Establishment of the Duchy of Austria; September 17, 1156

  • The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606

  • The Foundation of the University of Heidelberg AD. 1386

  • Frame of Government of Pennsylvania - May 5, 1682

  • Frame of Government of Pennsylvania - February 2, 1683

  • Frame of Government of Pennsylvania - November 1, 1696

  • Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven, June 4, 1639

  • The Fundamental Constitutions for the Province of East New Jersey in America, Anno Domini 1683

  • The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina : March 1, 1669

  • Fundamental Orders of January 14, 1639

  • Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money by John Locke

  • The Gelnhausen Charter; April 13, 1180 A.D.

  • General Charter for Those who Discover Any New Passages, Havens, Countries, or Places; March 27, 1614

  • The Golden Bull of the Emperor Charles IV 1356 A.D.

  • Government of New Haven Colony; October 27-November 6, 1643

  • Government of Rhode Island-March 16-19, 1641

  • Grant of Exclusive Trade to New Netherland by the States-General of the United Netherlands; October 11, 1614

  • Grant of His Interest in New Hampshire by Sir Ferdinando Gorges to Captain John Mason; September 17, 1635

  • Grant of Hampshire to Capt. John Mason, 7th of Novemr., 1629

  • Grant of Laconia to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason by the Council for New England; November 17, 1629

  • Grant of Land North of the Saco River to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England; February 12, 1629

  • A Grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, esq., 10th of August, 1622

  • Grant of the Province of Maine : April 3, 1639

  • Grant of the Province of Maine : March 12, 1664

  • Grant of the Province of Maine : June 29, 1674

  • Grant of the Province of New Hampshire From Mr. Wollaston to Mr. Mason, 11th June, 1635

  • Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to John Wollaston, Esq., AN. April 18, 1635

  • Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason, 22 April 1635, By the Name of Masonia

  • Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason, 22 Apr., 1635, By the Name of New Hampshire

  • His Royal Highness's Grant to the Lords Proprietors, Sir George Carteret, 29th July, 1674

  • History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles

  • Julian Law on Agrarian Matters, 58(?) B.C.

  • The King's Letter Recognizing the Proprietors' Right to the Soil and Government ; November 23, 1683

  • Law of Caesar on Municipalities, 44 B.C.

  • Laws of Richard I (Coeur de Lion) Concerning Crusaders Who Were to Go by Sea. 1189 A.D.

  • Laws of the Kings, 753 - 510 B.C.

  • Laws of William the Conqueror

  • The Letters Patents of King Henry the Seventh Granted unto Iohn Cabot and his Three Sonnes, Lewis, Sebastian and Sancius for the the Discouerie of New and Unknowen Lands; March 5, 1498

  • Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte June 11, 1578

  • Magna Carta, 1215

  • The Manner of Holding Parliament

  • Mayflower Compact; November 11, 1620

  • Notification of the Purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch; November 5, 1626

  • The Ordinance of Louis the Pius - Division of the Empire of the Year 817

  • Ordinance of William I, Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts.

  • Ordinances for Virginia; July 24-August 3, 1621

  • Patent for Providence Plantations - March 14, 1643

  • Peace of the Land Established by Frederick Barbarossa Between 1152 and 1157 A.D.

  • Penn's Charter of Libertie - April 25, 1682

  • Petition for a Charter of New England by the Northern Company of Adventurers; March 3, 1619/20

  • Plantation Agreement at Providence August 27 - September 6, 1640

  • Proclamation Against the Disorderly Transporting His Majesty's subjects to the Plantations Within the Parts of America; April 30, 1637

  • Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus : April 30, 1492

  • Province of West New-Jersey, in America, The 25th of the Ninth Month Called November. 1681

  • Quintipartite Deed of Revision, Between E. and W Jersey: July 1st, 1676

  • Resolutions of The Germantown Mennonites; February 18, 1688

  • Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations; April 28, 1634

  • The Salic Law

  • The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609

  • Short Observations on a Printed Paper, Entitled "For encouraging the coining Silver Money in England, and after for keeping it here." by John Locke

  • Sir Robert Heath's Patent 5 Charles 1st; October, 30 1629

  • Statute of Edward I Concerning the Buying and Selling of Land (Quai emptores); 1290

  • The Statute of Laborers; 1351

  • Statute of Mortmain; November 15, 1279

  • The Third Charter of Virginia; March 12, 1611

  • Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II A.D. 870.

  • Treaty Between Spain and Portugal, Concluded at Alcacovas, September 4, 1479

  • Treaty of Westphalia; October 24, 1648

  • The Twelve Tables; 450BC

  • Warrant for William Ussling to Establish a General Company for Trade to Asia, Africa, America and Magellanica; December 21, 1624

  • William Bradford, &c. Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freeman, March 2D, 1640

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