Note 66 — Chapter II · STAKING OUT CLAIMS

Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. VIII, p. 20. Professor H. L. Osgood states that “by the realm was usually meant England, Wales, and Berwick on Tweed.” The American Colonies in the 17th Century (New York, 1907), vol. III, p. 6. In Gilbert's charter, the words “realmes of England and Ireland” are used. Scotland, of course, was a separate realm.