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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
nt avows the motive for a restraining law, in the conviction that colonial industry would inevitably sink the value of lands in England. The public mind of the mother country could esteem the present interest of its landholders paramount to natural justice. The clause, which I am about to cite, is a memorial of Chap. XIX.} a delusion which once pervaded all Western Europe, § 19. and which has already so passed away, that men grow incredulous of its former existence:—After the first day of December, 1699, no wool, or manufacture made or mixed with wool, being the produce or manufacture of any of the English plantations in America, shall be loaden in any ship or vessel, upon any pretence whatsoever,—nor loaden upon any horse, cart, or other carriage,—to be carried out of the English plantations to any other of the said plantations, or to any other place whatsoever. Thus the fabrics of Connecticut might not seek a market in Massachusetts, or be carried to Albany to traffic with the