_a._ The Assembly's precautionary "bill of rights," with statement of the principle, "No taxation without representation" (three laws from the session of March, 1624); from Hening's _Statutes at Large_ 83 _b._ Requests from the colony for aid, and, indirectly, for an Assembly: 1. Letter from the Governor and Council to the Special Commission in England (April, 1626); from the Aspinwall Papers, in _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_ 84 2. Letter from the same to the same (May, 1626); from the _Virginia Magazine of History_ 85 32. Restoration of the Assembly by royal authority (1629): _a._ Captain Harvey's "Propositions" (after appointment as governor); _ib._ 86 _b._ The King's answer to the same; _ib._ 86 _c._ Royal instructions to Governor Berkeley (1641); _ib._ 87 33. Virginian legislation, financial and moral; from Hening's _Statutes at Large_ 87 VI. Virginia under the Commonwealth 34. Terms of settlement between Parliamentary Commissioners and the Assembly (1652); from Hening's _Statutes at Large_ 90 35. Legislation restricting the franchise, and restoring it to the old basis; _ib._ 92 VII. Maryland to 1660 36. Lord Baltimore's letter to Charles I (1629), describing the hardships of the Avalon colony and asking for a grant in "Virginia"; from Scharf's _History of Maryland_ 93 37. The Maryland charter of 1632; from Bacon's _Laws of Maryland_ 94 38. Extracts from the Avalon charter of 1623 (with comparison with the Maryland grant); from Scharf's _History of Maryland_ 99 39. Excursus: Extracts from the Plowden grant of New Albion of 1634, and the Gorges grant of Maine of 1639 (for comparison with the foregoing, in tracing the development of royal approval of representative institutions in the colonies); the documents from Hazard's _State Papers_ 100 40. The "Toleration Act" of 1649; from the _Maryland Archives_ 102 B. NEW ENGLAND TO 1660 VIII. An Early Exploration 41. Captain George Weymouth's "True Relation" of his voyage in 1605 to the coast of Maine; from the _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_ 106 IX. The First Source of New England Land Titles 42. The charter of 1620 for the Plymouth Council (sometimes called the Council for New England); from Hazard's _State Papers_ 109 X. Plymouth Colony