An American history . sh colonies along the Atlantic seaboard, with the excep-tion of Georgia, were settled under the Stuart kings, whose names will occurconstantly in the pages of this chapter, it will be convenient for the studentto review the main facts of the rule of the Stuart dynasty in Cheyneys ShortHistory of England, chaps, xiv-xvi, or more briefly in Robinsons History ofWestern Europe, chap. xxx. 27 28 The Establishment of the English 32. KingJames Icharteis theLondon andPlymouthcompanies,1606 King James Iin tlie year 1606gave permis-sion to certainloving subjectsto deduce and ?condu
An American history . sh colonies along the Atlantic seaboard, with the excep-tion of Georgia, were settled under the Stuart kings, whose names will occurconstantly in the pages of this chapter, it will be convenient for the studentto review the main facts of the rule of the Stuart dynasty in Cheyneys ShortHistory of England, chaps, xiv-xvi, or more briefly in Robinsons History ofWestern Europe, chap. xxx. 27 28 The Establishment of the English 32. KingJames Icharteis theLondon andPlymouthcompanies,1606 King James Iin tlie year 1606gave permis-sion to certainloving subjectsto deduce and ?conduct two sev-eral colonies orplantations ofsettlers to Amer-ica. The Stuartking had begunhis reign with apompous an-nouncement ofpeace with all hisEuropean neigh-bors; conse-quently, thoughEngland claimedall North Amer-ica by virtue ofCabots discov-ery of 1497,James limitedthe territory ofhis grant so asnot to encroacheither on theSpanish settle-ments of Floridaor the Frenchinterests aboutthe St. group of. Charter of 1609 Co. Ltllld 200 miles north and southof Point Comfort, Ijing front the seucoast up into the land fromflea to and northweal. 85 80 The Virginia Grants of 1606 and 1609 The English Colonies 29 loving subjects, called the London Company, was to haveexclusive right to settle between 34° and 38° of north latitude(see map); the other group, the Plymouth Company, was grantedthe equally broad region between 41° and 45°. The neutralbelt from 38° to 41° was left open to both companies, with the proviso that neither should make any settlement within onehundred miles of the other. The grants extended one hundredmiles inland. The powers of government bestowed on the newcompanies were as complicated as the grants of territory. Eachcompany was to have a council of thirteen in England, ap-pointed by the king and subject to his control. This Englishcouncil was to appoint another council of thirteen to reside inthe colony, and, under the dire
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