law. See Galliers v. Rycroft [1901] A. C. 130, for a recent discussion before the Judicial Committee (on an appeal from Natal) of the import of a passage in the Digest. Are there many lands in which so much respect would be paid by a tribunal and for practical purposes to a response of Papinian's? I think not.
First Charter of Virginia.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.'
First Assembly in Virginia.67 Doyle, The English in America, vol. I., p. 211: First Assembly '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.
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
