Note 790 — Chapter XIII · THE REASSERTION OF IMPERIAL CONTROL

For the theory that these exceptionally liberal charters were granted as part of a policy to alienate the southern colonies from Massachusetts, vide Kaye, Colonial Administration under Clarendon, pp. 75 ff. His arguments for placing the important paper, 706, in Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68 under date 1666-67, instead of 1664, seem conclusive.