[66] Macdonald, _Select Charters_, 1899, p. 1: ‘The first draft of the charter … was probably drawn by Sir John Popham … but the final form was the work of Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and Sir John Dodderidge, solicitor general.’ [Sidenote: _First Assembly in Virginia._] [67] Doyle, _The English in America_, vol. I., p. 211: ‘On the 30th of July, 1619, the first Assembly met in the little church at Jamestown. A full report of its proceedings still exists in the English Record Office (_Colonial Papers_, July 30, 1619).’ An abstract is printed in _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial_, 1574-1660, p. 22. [Sidenote: _The tenure of Maryland._] [68] Charter of Maryland, 1632, Macdonald, _Select Charters_, p. 53. In 1620 the grant to the Council of New England (_Ibid._, p. 23) referred to the manor of East Greenwich and reserved by way of rent a fifth part of the ore of gold and silver. The grant of Carolina (_Ibid._, p. 121) reserved a rent of twenty marks and a fourth of the ore. The grant of New Netherlands to the duke of York (_Ibid._, p. 136) reserved a rent of forty beaver skins, if demanded. The grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn speaks of the Castle of Windsor and reserves two beaver skins and a fifth of the gold and silver ore (_Ibid._, p. 185). Georgia was holden as of the honour of Hampton Court in the county of Middlesex at a rent of four shillings for every hundred acres that should be settled (_Ibid._, p. 242). [Sidenote: _The tenure of Bombay._] [69] Charter of 1669 printed among _Charters granted to the East India Company_ (no date or publisher’s name): ‘to be holden of us, our heirs and successors as of the manor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent, in free and common soccage and not in capite nor by knight’s service, yielding and paying therefor to us, our heirs and successors at the Custom House, London, the rent or sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England in gold on the thirtieth day of September yearly for ever.’ [Sidenote: _The tenure of Prince Rupert’s land._] [70] Charter of 1670 incorporating the Hudson’s Bay Company, printed by Beckles Wilson, _The Great Company_, vol. II., pp. 318, 327: ‘yielding and paying yearly to us … two elks and two black beavers, whensoever and as often as we our heirs and successors shall happen to enter into the said countries, territories and regions hereby granted.’ [Sidenote: _Kent and Blackstone._]