"Stand firm for the old charter Governor!" shouted the crowd, seizing upon the idea.
James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion.
He had the king's charter in his keeping, and was appointed the first governor of Massachusetts.
He holds the charter in his hand, and a Bible is under his arm.} There was likewise a minister of the gospel whom the English bishops had forbidden to preach, but who knew that he should have liberty both to preach and pray in the forests of America.
His story seemed entirely probable, and I permitted him a seat in the special train I had
chartered for Harwich.
They were the productions of different minds and of adverse passions; one, ascending for the foundation of human government to the laws of nature and of God, written upon the heart of man; the other, resting upon the basis of human institutions, and prescriptive law, and colonial
charter. The cornerstone of the one was right, that of the other was power....
"A
charter!" Francis pulled himself together and looked curiously at the man who was still bending over him.
It is noon, and we and all the people have been waiting patient for many an hour, and the rumour has run round that slippery John has again escaped from the Barons' grasp, and has stolen away from Duncroft Hall with his mercenaries at his heels, and will soon be doing other work than signing
charters for his people's liberty.
In a day or two the answer came back that he had not a vacancy, and was very much opposed to the whole scheme; the profession was greatly overcrowded, and without capital or connections a man had small chance of becoming more than a managing clerk; he suggested, however, that Philip should become a
chartered accountant.
So I
CHARTERED the raft and the crew and took all the responsibilities on myself.
For taking away our
Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
During this passage, Felton related everything to Milady--how, instead of going to London, he had
chartered the little vessel; how he had returned; how he had scaled the wall by fastening cramps in the interstices of the stones, as he ascended, to give him foothold; and how, when he had reached the bars, he fastened his ladder.