n and rule, shall be out of our allegeance and protection, and free for all Princes and others to pursue with hostilitie, as being not our subjects, nor by us any way to be avouched, maintained, or defended, nor to be holden as any of ours, nor to our protection, or dominion, or allegeance any. way belonging: for that expresse mention of the cleere yeerely value of the certaintie of the premisses, or any part thereof, or of any other gift, or grant by us, or any our progenitors, or predecessors to the said Walter Ralegh, before this time made in these presents bee not expressed, or any other grant, ordinance, provision, proclamation, or restraint to the contrary thereof, before this time, given, ordained, or provided, or any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever, in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse whereof, wee have caused these our letters to be made Patents.
Witnesse our selves, at Westminster the five and twentie day of March, in the sixe and twentith yeere of our Raigns.
ew Castle......1668
Konigsmarke, better known as the Long Finn, instigating rebellion against the Duke of York in Delaware, is arrested and imprisoned in New York; afterwards transported to the Barbadoes......Dec. 20, 1669
George Fox, the Friend, holds a large meeting in New Castle......1672
New Castle incorporated and a constable's court erected......May, 1672
Anthony Clove appointed governor of Delaware under the Dutch, who retake New York......Aug. 12, 1673
By treaty of Westminster, Delaware reverts to the English, and Sir Edmund Andros reappoints magistrates who had been removed by the Dutch......1674
William Penn arrives at New Castle with deed from Duke of York for a circle of 12 miles around New Castle, and lands between this tract and the sea......Oct. 28, 1682
Act of union and naturalization passed at the first Assembly in Upland (now Chester, Pa.), annexing to Pennsylvania the three lower counties on the Delaware, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex......Dec.
hed at Annapolis......1845
Rev. Charles Turner Torrey dies in State-prison under sentence for enticing slaves from the State......May 9, 1846
State resumes the payment of interest on her debt at the Chesapeake Bank, Baltimore......Jan. 1, 1848
Democratic National Convention at Baltimore nominates Gen. Lewis Cass, United States Senator from Michigan, for President......May 22, 1848
Edgar Allan Poe, born Jan. 26, 1809, dies in Washington University Hospital, Baltimore; buried in Westminster graveyard......Oct. 7, 1849
Election riots between Democrats and Know-nothings......Nov. 4, 1849
Convention to frame a new constitution meets at Annapolis, Nov. 4, 1850, completes its labors May 13, 1851; the constitution ratified by the people......June 4, 1851
Whig National Convention at Baltimore nominates Gen. Winfield Scott for President......June 16, 1852
Whig National Convention at Baltimore adopts the nominees of the American party, Fillmore and Donelson, for President
his residence on Tinicum Island, a few miles below Philadelphia, and builds a fort for defence......1643
[First European settlement in Pennsylvania.]
Swedes settle Upland (now Chester), first town settled in Pennsylvania......1643
Dutch from New York capture the Swedish forts on the Delaware, and take possession of the country......Sept. 25, 1655
This territory surrendered to the English......September, 1664
Dutch recover possession for a few months, 1673, but the peace of Westminster restores it to the English......Feb. 19, 1674
William Penn receives from Charles II., in payment of £ 16,000 due his father from the English government, a charter for lands north of Maryland and west of the Delaware......March 4, 1681
Penn issues an address to his subjects in Pennsylvania concerning the grant......April 8, 1681
Penn appoints William Markham deputy governor, who sails in May, and arrives in Pennsylvania......June, 1681
Penn contracts to sell an association, Co
French settle at Chimney Point, Addison township, Vt......1730
Township Number One, now Westminster, laid out between the great falls and the land grant of 1716, by the General Court of Massachew York......Jan. 30, 1775
People, to resist the holding of court under royal authority at Westminster appointed for March 14, 1775, assemble at the court-house, March 13.
A guard left during theegates from thirty-three towns, to form a separate State......Sept. 25, 1776
Convention at Westminster declares Vermont a separate, free, and independent jurisdiction or State, as New Connecticut,781
First newspaper in Vermont, the Vermont Gazette, or Green Mountain Postboy, printed at Westminster by Judah Paddock Spooner and Timothy Green......1781
Congress resolves that an indispensabwenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping, Sept. 10; these leaders are tried at Westminster and banished from the State......Sept. 11, 1782
First school law; towns are empowered to f
ing article was written by the Venerable F. W. Farrar, D. D., Archdeacon of Westminster (now Dean of Canterbury):
Westminster Abbey is most frequently entered
In the stained glass are the effigies of the two poets.
Both of them were Westminster boys, and the most beautiful representatives of all that is holy in two veryIt has been sometimes supposed that this was done in old days by mischievous Westminster boys, with no loftier object than to find something conveniently round with mained seriously offended with Lamb for years.
I do not believe myself that Westminster boys could ever have been such Philistines as to deface the beautiful works orial of whose greatness Queen Emma of Hawaii asked in vain when she visited Westminster—is the work of an American artist and the gift of an American citizen; and tat the annual play of Terence, performed by the Westminster boys.
He was at Westminster under the plagosus Orbilius of the school, the celebrated Dr. Busby, and he
Westminster Assembly,
An assembly of divines called at Westminster by the British Parliament in 1641.
Urgent letters were sent to Messrs. Cotton, of Boston, Hooker, of Hartford, and Davenport, of New Haven, to represent the New England churches in that assembly.
They declined the invitation, for they had word concerning a breach between Parliament and the King, and letters from England advised them to wait.
It was at the beginning of the civil war in England.
Besides, Mr. Hooker was th Cotton, of Boston, Hooker, of Hartford, and Davenport, of New Haven, to represent the New England churches in that assembly.
They declined the invitation, for they had word concerning a breach between Parliament and the King, and letters from England advised them to wait.
It was at the beginning of the civil war in England.
Besides, Mr. Hooker was then framing a system of church government for the Congregational churches of New England, let the determination of Westminster be what it might.
Westminster, treaty of
A treaty between England and Holland, concluded March 6, 1674.
By this treaty, proclaimed simultaneously at London and The Hague, New Netherland was surrendered to the English.
Information of this surrender was first made known to the Dutch governor, Clove, by two men from Connecticut.
The inhabitants of New Orange (as New York had been renamed) were so exasperated that the bearers of the evil news were arrested and punished.
They gathered in excited groups in the streets, and cursed the States-General for giving up the fairest colony belonging to the Dutch.
They declared that no authority of States or Prince could compel them to yield the country to the English again; and that they would fight to defend it so long as they could stand with one leg and fight with one hand.
They had tasted of English liberty and found it bitter; but they quietly submitted.
rly the next morning, and, with his left at Westminster, occupy the railroad terminating at that pl Mills, on the road between Littlestown and Westminster.
The Sixth Corps was ordered to move to Ma Stuart, with a large cavalry force, was in Westminster last night, and moved towards Gettysburg—su and Baltimore.
Hence it marched direct on Westminster, reaching that place at 5 P. M. on June 29, remained strung out between that place and Westminster.
Early on June 30 the cavalry was off agrains, except ambulances and ammunition, to Westminster and south of the railroad, as ordered.
I ring sent the Third Brigade (Huey's) back to Westminster, to assist in guarding the wagon trains of ct the trains of the army and guard them to Westminster, where he could refit.
Without replacing Bington, I shall fall back to my supplies at Westminster.
I will endeavor to advise you as often asry and Quartermaster depots and supplies at Westminster will be transferred to Frederick.
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