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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
IX.} ambitious writer of turgid rhyming tragedies, a man of influence with King James, and already filled with the desire of engaging in colonial adventure, seconded a design, which promised to establish his personal dignity and interest; and he obtained, without difficulty, a patent for all the territory east of the River 1621. Sept. 10. St. Croix, and south of the St. Lawrence. The patent is in Hazard, v. i. p. 134—145; in Purchas, v. IV. p. 1871. See, also, Gorges' Narration, c. XXIV; Laing's Scotland, in 477. The whole region, which had already been included in the French provinces of Acadia and New France, was designated in English geography by the name of Nova Scotia. Thus were the seeds of future wars scattered broadcast by the unreasonable pretensions of England; for James now gave away lands, which, already and with a better title on the ground of dis- 1603. covery, had been granted by Henry IV. of France, and which had been immediately occupied by his subjects; nor co