there shall bee one Gover- nour, one Deputy
Governour
and Twelve Assistants to bee .
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
.
.
: When 2 statutes conflicted Coke said the older should be preferred.
90. caveat emptor: L, "Let the buyer beware. "
91. HORSFAIRE . . . no toll: A pastiche of details from a statute meant to help prevent fraud, especially in the sale of horses. The buyer should be allowed to ride the horse as at present a car? buyer is allowed to drive the car. "Phil" and "Mar" identify the statute: "2 & 3 Phil and Mac [sicJ Cap 7. " Fines are set as are other payments: "And for the bookkeeper only one penny, without toll, for every contract" [DG, Pai, 4-2 & 3, 294-295J.
92. long Ching: Yung Cheng [60:73J.
93. responsabili . . . ewe: NF, "responsibili? ty for the increasing of the [water] flowing"
94. reparando: NF, "repairing. "
95. Stat. . . . Eliz. : In an effort to prevent overcrowding and the growth of slums, this statute, entitled "Concerning Inmates," at? tempted to regulate open space around each dwelling [Institutes, 736J.
96. Angliae amor: [Cf. 75 aboveJ.
62. ou . . . de fee: NF, not in fee [inheritedJ. "
"where
shrivality
is
71. King onely . . . : Coke said that it "pertains to the king onely to put a value on the coine," a rhyme with "Gold was under the Pontifex" [89:23lJ.
72. 12 grains . . . : The English denar was defined as weighing the same as "twelve grains of wheat in mid spike" [ibid. , 291J.
73. frumenta . . . : NF, Source has, "pan- derabit 12 grana frumenti in media spicae" ("will weigh 12 grains of wheat in mid spike") [ibid. J.
63. In those . . . sufficient": Source: "They shall put in those inquests and juries such as be next neighbours, most sufficient, and least suspicious" [Institutes, 561J .
64. et malveyes procurers: NF, Hand the packing of juries. " [ibid. , 562J .
65. De lum . . . lauter: NF, "of the civil bench and criminal. " Justices of both benches-Common Pleas and the King's Bench-are in this chapter directed to give justice quickly in any kind of conspiracy
[DG Pai, 4-2 & 3, 290J .
74. Magnalia . . .
"inter
5
noted
. . .
70. Auxy
the sign of the leopard. "
: NF,
"Must be
: ML,
Magnalia et regalia coronae" ("among the important and regal rights of the king").
Concerns regulation of coinage [ibid. J.
75. ELIZABETH: Queen E. the First. Al- though she did much to deserve the love of the English ("Angliae amor"), her greatest deed was to restore the coinage of the realm, which had been badly debased.
Source has,
81. alienigenae . . . : ML,
Coke says that such aliens "had a third part of the possessions of the realm" [Institutes, 584J.
82. brocars: ME, "brokers. "
83. caitifes: NF, "wretches. " Thus does education decay in the hands of the church.
84. Rot . . . 3: Coke's marginal note that tells when these bad customs were intro? duced in Rome.
85. grosbois . . . hornbeam: Coke's exposi? tion upon tithes says that the timber trees listed here cannot be tithed because they take years to develop; but acorns can be? cause they are renewable yearly. A rhyme with the grasslands of the Sienese bank, as well as a central thesis of Pound's econom?
"alien superiors. "
? 710
109/771
109/771-773
711
CANTO CIX Sources
Sir Edward Coke, Second Institutes o f the Laws o f England, 1797 [Institutes] ; Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne, Little, Brown, Boston, 1956 [Bowen, Lion]; Dante, Par. X, 42, 136; Virgil, Aeneid I, 412; Servii Commentarii, Vol. I, Lipsiae, 1881; Edward Coke, The First Institute of the Laws ofEngland, London, 1897 [First]. Sophocles, The Women of Trachis [WT];
The Charter of Connecticut; Dante, Par. II, 1.
Background
EP, SR, 62, 101; EH, Approaches, 173, 192; Bryce Lyon, A Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England, Harpers, N. Y . , 1960; William Stubbs, The Constitutional History o f En- gland, Vol. II, Oxford, 1887; William Sharp McKechnie, Magna Carta, rev. , Burt Franklin, N. Y. , 1958; J. M. Rigg, Select Pleas, Starrs, and Other Records from the Rolls o f the Excheques o f the Jews; M de R, Discretions, 58; W. Keith Kavenagh, ed. Founda- tions of Colonial America, Chelsea House, N. Y. , 1973 [WK, Colonial].
Exegeses
DD, Sculptor, 239? 240; DG, Pai, 4? 2 & 3, 223? 299;DD,Pai, 6-1, 101? 107; HK, Era, 336; CFT, Pai, 5-1, 69-76; Materer, Pai, 4, 2 & 3, 323; Moody, Pai, 4? 1,55-69; MB, Trace, 444? 447; EH, Pai, 5? 2, 354.
9. vocabula artis: NF, "vocables of art. " Coke said of "law French" that it "has grown to be vocables of art-vocabula artis, so apt and significant to express the sense of laws . . . " and "neither ought legal terms to be changed ["Proeme"].
10. Bracton: [107:70].
11. nemo omnia novit: L, "no one renews all. " But prob. in NF, or what Coke called "law French," it means "without knowing all the details. "
12. The Confessor's: Edward the Confessor, king 1042? 1066. Coke's discovery of the phrase ~'excused jury service" implied that trial by jury must have existed before the Norman conquest.
13. Ambracia: City of ancient Greece on an inlet of the Ionian Sea, founded 7th century B. C.
14. veigne en Court: NF, "Vigne for short. "
thing is not known then knowledge of things perishes / No man is born an artist. "
23. Ten families . . . : Early English commu- nity organization was arranged in units of ten under a leader who pledged allegiance to his leader: Modeled upon Roman pre- cedents.
24. a city remaineth: Although Henry VIII expropriated the property of the church, London still went on.
25. Tuan: [85:33].
26. et consuetudo: L, "also custom. "
27. Wadsworth: Joseph W. , "who stole the Connecticut Charter and hid it in Charter Oak" [PD, 6]. He was publicly rewarded in 1715.
. . .
29. Brewen, Canfield: Among 19 persons listed in the Charter of Conn. to whose peti- tion the king was responding in granting the charter: Henry Woolicott, John Talcott, Obedias Brewen, Mathew Camfeild, etc. The charter says: "Wee have thought fitt, and att the humble Peti,on of the Persons aforesaid, and are graciously pleased to create and make them a Body Pollitique . . . " [WK, Co- lonial,1I1-112].
30. meere . . . : The charter says: "And accordingly Our Will and pleasure is, and of our especial1 grace, certeine knowledge and meere mayan, wee have Ordeyned, Consti? tuted and Declared, And by theis presents, for vs, our heires and Successors, Doe Or? deine, Constitute and Declare that they, the said. . . . " Here the 19 names are repeated and are followed by many phrases and con- ditions, including those in the canto lines, such as: "And further, that the said Gover- nour and Company, and their Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have a Comon Seale. . . .
there shall bee one Gover- nour, one Deputy Governour and Twelve Assistants to bee . . . Elected. . . . " In the
1. Pro Veritate: L, "for truthfulness"
Glossary
those before and after) indicate parallel con?
16. Ie Concord del fine: NF, "a fine which brings harmony because it [cannot omit] anything [ascum chose]. "
17. avJl~odv",: [87:59]. Pound gives the whole phrase from WT as: "Splendour it all coheres! " [WT, 50].
18. solonques . . . dit): NF, "so long as the purpose holds, CHARTER said to be cer? tain. I in which the earth lives I (the book says). " These phrases do not occur in Coke in any such form, but some parts occur in a variety of places.
19. "de ses vicines": NF [? ], "of these neighborhoods [? ]. "
20. tempora non regum: ML, "times not of kings. "
21. arundinetum: Source has this word fol- lowed by "where seeds grow" [Coke, First, 86a, 4b, 5b; DG,Pai 4? 2 & 3, 296].
22. Si . . . nascitur: ML, "If the name of a
2. curtilagia teneant: ML, "[those] living in cottages. " The statute prescribes the ideal and goes on to allow exceptions to some who cannot afford "4 acres" [108:95] or would otherwise be harmed.
3. Idlenesse: But the statute was against "unlawful houses," which Coke describes as "being nests to hatch idleness, the mother of pickings" [Institutes, 740].
4. EPARXON: Reference to The Book of the Eparch [96:271]
cems in ancient laws such as The Eparch's Book and a number of statutes throughout the legal history of England.
6. Donaison, denizen: NF, "Merchant strangers. "
7. (Littleton's): Coke's First Institute was in large part a commentary upon the legal work of Littleton.
8. No wight . . . : In his comment on Little- ton, Coke quoted Chaucer's description of the "Sergeant of the Lawe": "Ther koude no wight pynche at his writyng. "
5. Do sell . . . changed:
These 10 lines (with
15. Sellaio: painter.
[20: 17;
93 :68],
Florentine
'62: From the
preamble to
28. Charles
the Charter of Connecticut, dated April 23, 1662: "Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of England. . . . "
? ? 712
109/773-774
109/774
713
meantime, the king appointed such officers and said they were "to contynue in the said severall Offices respectively, untill the sec- ond Thursday which shall bee in the Moneth of October now next comeing" [ibid, 112- 113].
31. Oathes: "All other Officers to be ap- pointed . . . shall . . . take their severall and respective Corporall Oathes . . . " [ibid. , 114]. The next two pages of text are de- voted to the ritual of oaths.
. . .
jects. . . . " etc. [ibid. , 115].
33. Under . . . seal: "That all such Lawes . . . as shall bee soe made by the Gov- ernor . . . and Assistants . . . and published in writeing under their Cornon Seale, shall care-
nes whereof, wee have caused these our Let- ters to bee made Patent: Witnes our Selfe, att Westminster, the three and Twentieth day of Aprill. . . By Writ! of Privy Seale. [Signed] Howard" [ibid. , 118].
39. Wing . . . Azaleas: The 4 lines pick up the flora and fauna of the Na-khi, looking to the opening of Canto 110.
40. Monro: A foreign correspondent for Beaverbrook's Evening Standard stationed in Rome in the mid and late 30s. Pound ap- pears to believe that Edward VIII, who ac- ceded to the throne in 1936, was forced to abdicate by Baldwin not because of his mar- riage to Wallis Simpson but because he wouldn't have Signed the papers of mobiliza- tion. Said Pound: "And that Eddie may have felt it was comin,' at any rate he hadn't the backbone to stick it [out]. And the traitors were afraid that he might balk at the last moment and refuse to sign on the dotted line, for mobilization" [EP, Speaking, 172- 173]. Pound was still convinced at St. Eliza- beths. Says Mullins: "There was one last-
minute obstacle-'Eddie' refused to sign. . . . He had been through the veterans' hospitals just after the First World War, and . . . could not bring himself to send men into that kind of hell again" [EM, Difficult, 195] .
41. Jury trial: [87:40].
49. Phyllotaxis: The arrangement of leaves around the stern of a plant or a tree is designed in such a way that the maximum amount of sunlight and energy is absorbed. To Pound this design is one more evidence of a divinity shaping all things in process. Also, the circular pattern of the stems around the main stern is one of the struc- tural models for the poem [DG, Pai, 4-2 & 3, 299; 104:87].
in the stone," in contrast to the "internal horrors (mosaic)" of st. Peter's [93/623].
57. Sta Maria: Prob. the oldest church in Rome, supposedly consecrated in 222. A facade was added in the 12th century. The mosaics on the facade, dating from the 13th century, are only excelled by those within.
58. Trastevere: I, "Across the Tiber" [74:24]. The most colorful district of
Rome, a sort of Soho or Left Bank scene.
59. Cosmedin: The- name of a square in Constantinople. The church, Sta. Maria in Cosmedin, originally belonged to a Greek brotherhood which gave it this name.
60. Le chapeau . . . St Pierre: F, "The melon hat of St. Peter. " Description of the dome of St. Peter's, which was built when the age of usury was far advanced and is thus not great architecture and design, as are the other churches built before usury had an effect.
61. piccioletta: I, "little boat" [Par. II, I; 7:38; 93:155].
fully and duely bee 116].
observed
. . . "
[ibid. ,
: "And to
32. Ship
son . . . full power . . . to take, Ship, Trans- port and Carry away, for and towards the Planta,on . . . such of our loveing sub-
. . .
35. Narrowgancett . , . : "And by theis presents . . . Doe give . . . unto the said GOY- ernor and Company . . . All that parte of our Dominions in Newe England . . . bounded on the East by Norrogancett. . . and on the South by the Sea . . . " [ibid. ].
90. caveat emptor: L, "Let the buyer beware. "
91. HORSFAIRE . . . no toll: A pastiche of details from a statute meant to help prevent fraud, especially in the sale of horses. The buyer should be allowed to ride the horse as at present a car? buyer is allowed to drive the car. "Phil" and "Mar" identify the statute: "2 & 3 Phil and Mac [sicJ Cap 7. " Fines are set as are other payments: "And for the bookkeeper only one penny, without toll, for every contract" [DG, Pai, 4-2 & 3, 294-295J.
92. long Ching: Yung Cheng [60:73J.
93. responsabili . . . ewe: NF, "responsibili? ty for the increasing of the [water] flowing"
94. reparando: NF, "repairing. "
95. Stat. . . . Eliz. : In an effort to prevent overcrowding and the growth of slums, this statute, entitled "Concerning Inmates," at? tempted to regulate open space around each dwelling [Institutes, 736J.
96. Angliae amor: [Cf. 75 aboveJ.
62. ou . . . de fee: NF, not in fee [inheritedJ. "
"where
shrivality
is
71. King onely . . . : Coke said that it "pertains to the king onely to put a value on the coine," a rhyme with "Gold was under the Pontifex" [89:23lJ.
72. 12 grains . . . : The English denar was defined as weighing the same as "twelve grains of wheat in mid spike" [ibid. , 291J.
73. frumenta . . . : NF, Source has, "pan- derabit 12 grana frumenti in media spicae" ("will weigh 12 grains of wheat in mid spike") [ibid. J.
63. In those . . . sufficient": Source: "They shall put in those inquests and juries such as be next neighbours, most sufficient, and least suspicious" [Institutes, 561J .
64. et malveyes procurers: NF, Hand the packing of juries. " [ibid. , 562J .
65. De lum . . . lauter: NF, "of the civil bench and criminal. " Justices of both benches-Common Pleas and the King's Bench-are in this chapter directed to give justice quickly in any kind of conspiracy
[DG Pai, 4-2 & 3, 290J .
74. Magnalia . . .
"inter
5
noted
. . .
70. Auxy
the sign of the leopard. "
: NF,
"Must be
: ML,
Magnalia et regalia coronae" ("among the important and regal rights of the king").
Concerns regulation of coinage [ibid. J.
75. ELIZABETH: Queen E. the First. Al- though she did much to deserve the love of the English ("Angliae amor"), her greatest deed was to restore the coinage of the realm, which had been badly debased.
Source has,
81. alienigenae . . . : ML,
Coke says that such aliens "had a third part of the possessions of the realm" [Institutes, 584J.
82. brocars: ME, "brokers. "
83. caitifes: NF, "wretches. " Thus does education decay in the hands of the church.
84. Rot . . . 3: Coke's marginal note that tells when these bad customs were intro? duced in Rome.
85. grosbois . . . hornbeam: Coke's exposi? tion upon tithes says that the timber trees listed here cannot be tithed because they take years to develop; but acorns can be? cause they are renewable yearly. A rhyme with the grasslands of the Sienese bank, as well as a central thesis of Pound's econom?
"alien superiors. "
? 710
109/771
109/771-773
711
CANTO CIX Sources
Sir Edward Coke, Second Institutes o f the Laws o f England, 1797 [Institutes] ; Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne, Little, Brown, Boston, 1956 [Bowen, Lion]; Dante, Par. X, 42, 136; Virgil, Aeneid I, 412; Servii Commentarii, Vol. I, Lipsiae, 1881; Edward Coke, The First Institute of the Laws ofEngland, London, 1897 [First]. Sophocles, The Women of Trachis [WT];
The Charter of Connecticut; Dante, Par. II, 1.
Background
EP, SR, 62, 101; EH, Approaches, 173, 192; Bryce Lyon, A Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England, Harpers, N. Y . , 1960; William Stubbs, The Constitutional History o f En- gland, Vol. II, Oxford, 1887; William Sharp McKechnie, Magna Carta, rev. , Burt Franklin, N. Y. , 1958; J. M. Rigg, Select Pleas, Starrs, and Other Records from the Rolls o f the Excheques o f the Jews; M de R, Discretions, 58; W. Keith Kavenagh, ed. Founda- tions of Colonial America, Chelsea House, N. Y. , 1973 [WK, Colonial].
Exegeses
DD, Sculptor, 239? 240; DG, Pai, 4? 2 & 3, 223? 299;DD,Pai, 6-1, 101? 107; HK, Era, 336; CFT, Pai, 5-1, 69-76; Materer, Pai, 4, 2 & 3, 323; Moody, Pai, 4? 1,55-69; MB, Trace, 444? 447; EH, Pai, 5? 2, 354.
9. vocabula artis: NF, "vocables of art. " Coke said of "law French" that it "has grown to be vocables of art-vocabula artis, so apt and significant to express the sense of laws . . . " and "neither ought legal terms to be changed ["Proeme"].
10. Bracton: [107:70].
11. nemo omnia novit: L, "no one renews all. " But prob. in NF, or what Coke called "law French," it means "without knowing all the details. "
12. The Confessor's: Edward the Confessor, king 1042? 1066. Coke's discovery of the phrase ~'excused jury service" implied that trial by jury must have existed before the Norman conquest.
13. Ambracia: City of ancient Greece on an inlet of the Ionian Sea, founded 7th century B. C.
14. veigne en Court: NF, "Vigne for short. "
thing is not known then knowledge of things perishes / No man is born an artist. "
23. Ten families . . . : Early English commu- nity organization was arranged in units of ten under a leader who pledged allegiance to his leader: Modeled upon Roman pre- cedents.
24. a city remaineth: Although Henry VIII expropriated the property of the church, London still went on.
25. Tuan: [85:33].
26. et consuetudo: L, "also custom. "
27. Wadsworth: Joseph W. , "who stole the Connecticut Charter and hid it in Charter Oak" [PD, 6]. He was publicly rewarded in 1715.
. . .
29. Brewen, Canfield: Among 19 persons listed in the Charter of Conn. to whose peti- tion the king was responding in granting the charter: Henry Woolicott, John Talcott, Obedias Brewen, Mathew Camfeild, etc. The charter says: "Wee have thought fitt, and att the humble Peti,on of the Persons aforesaid, and are graciously pleased to create and make them a Body Pollitique . . . " [WK, Co- lonial,1I1-112].
30. meere . . . : The charter says: "And accordingly Our Will and pleasure is, and of our especial1 grace, certeine knowledge and meere mayan, wee have Ordeyned, Consti? tuted and Declared, And by theis presents, for vs, our heires and Successors, Doe Or? deine, Constitute and Declare that they, the said. . . . " Here the 19 names are repeated and are followed by many phrases and con- ditions, including those in the canto lines, such as: "And further, that the said Gover- nour and Company, and their Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have a Comon Seale. . . .
there shall bee one Gover- nour, one Deputy Governour and Twelve Assistants to bee . . . Elected. . . . " In the
1. Pro Veritate: L, "for truthfulness"
Glossary
those before and after) indicate parallel con?
16. Ie Concord del fine: NF, "a fine which brings harmony because it [cannot omit] anything [ascum chose]. "
17. avJl~odv",: [87:59]. Pound gives the whole phrase from WT as: "Splendour it all coheres! " [WT, 50].
18. solonques . . . dit): NF, "so long as the purpose holds, CHARTER said to be cer? tain. I in which the earth lives I (the book says). " These phrases do not occur in Coke in any such form, but some parts occur in a variety of places.
19. "de ses vicines": NF [? ], "of these neighborhoods [? ]. "
20. tempora non regum: ML, "times not of kings. "
21. arundinetum: Source has this word fol- lowed by "where seeds grow" [Coke, First, 86a, 4b, 5b; DG,Pai 4? 2 & 3, 296].
22. Si . . . nascitur: ML, "If the name of a
2. curtilagia teneant: ML, "[those] living in cottages. " The statute prescribes the ideal and goes on to allow exceptions to some who cannot afford "4 acres" [108:95] or would otherwise be harmed.
3. Idlenesse: But the statute was against "unlawful houses," which Coke describes as "being nests to hatch idleness, the mother of pickings" [Institutes, 740].
4. EPARXON: Reference to The Book of the Eparch [96:271]
cems in ancient laws such as The Eparch's Book and a number of statutes throughout the legal history of England.
6. Donaison, denizen: NF, "Merchant strangers. "
7. (Littleton's): Coke's First Institute was in large part a commentary upon the legal work of Littleton.
8. No wight . . . : In his comment on Little- ton, Coke quoted Chaucer's description of the "Sergeant of the Lawe": "Ther koude no wight pynche at his writyng. "
5. Do sell . . . changed:
These 10 lines (with
15. Sellaio: painter.
[20: 17;
93 :68],
Florentine
'62: From the
preamble to
28. Charles
the Charter of Connecticut, dated April 23, 1662: "Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of England. . . . "
? ? 712
109/773-774
109/774
713
meantime, the king appointed such officers and said they were "to contynue in the said severall Offices respectively, untill the sec- ond Thursday which shall bee in the Moneth of October now next comeing" [ibid, 112- 113].
31. Oathes: "All other Officers to be ap- pointed . . . shall . . . take their severall and respective Corporall Oathes . . . " [ibid. , 114]. The next two pages of text are de- voted to the ritual of oaths.
. . .
jects. . . . " etc. [ibid. , 115].
33. Under . . . seal: "That all such Lawes . . . as shall bee soe made by the Gov- ernor . . . and Assistants . . . and published in writeing under their Cornon Seale, shall care-
nes whereof, wee have caused these our Let- ters to bee made Patent: Witnes our Selfe, att Westminster, the three and Twentieth day of Aprill. . . By Writ! of Privy Seale. [Signed] Howard" [ibid. , 118].
39. Wing . . . Azaleas: The 4 lines pick up the flora and fauna of the Na-khi, looking to the opening of Canto 110.
40. Monro: A foreign correspondent for Beaverbrook's Evening Standard stationed in Rome in the mid and late 30s. Pound ap- pears to believe that Edward VIII, who ac- ceded to the throne in 1936, was forced to abdicate by Baldwin not because of his mar- riage to Wallis Simpson but because he wouldn't have Signed the papers of mobiliza- tion. Said Pound: "And that Eddie may have felt it was comin,' at any rate he hadn't the backbone to stick it [out]. And the traitors were afraid that he might balk at the last moment and refuse to sign on the dotted line, for mobilization" [EP, Speaking, 172- 173]. Pound was still convinced at St. Eliza- beths. Says Mullins: "There was one last-
minute obstacle-'Eddie' refused to sign. . . . He had been through the veterans' hospitals just after the First World War, and . . . could not bring himself to send men into that kind of hell again" [EM, Difficult, 195] .
41. Jury trial: [87:40].
49. Phyllotaxis: The arrangement of leaves around the stern of a plant or a tree is designed in such a way that the maximum amount of sunlight and energy is absorbed. To Pound this design is one more evidence of a divinity shaping all things in process. Also, the circular pattern of the stems around the main stern is one of the struc- tural models for the poem [DG, Pai, 4-2 & 3, 299; 104:87].
in the stone," in contrast to the "internal horrors (mosaic)" of st. Peter's [93/623].
57. Sta Maria: Prob. the oldest church in Rome, supposedly consecrated in 222. A facade was added in the 12th century. The mosaics on the facade, dating from the 13th century, are only excelled by those within.
58. Trastevere: I, "Across the Tiber" [74:24]. The most colorful district of
Rome, a sort of Soho or Left Bank scene.
59. Cosmedin: The- name of a square in Constantinople. The church, Sta. Maria in Cosmedin, originally belonged to a Greek brotherhood which gave it this name.
60. Le chapeau . . . St Pierre: F, "The melon hat of St. Peter. " Description of the dome of St. Peter's, which was built when the age of usury was far advanced and is thus not great architecture and design, as are the other churches built before usury had an effect.
61. piccioletta: I, "little boat" [Par. II, I; 7:38; 93:155].
fully and duely bee 116].
observed
. . . "
[ibid. ,
: "And to
32. Ship
son . . . full power . . . to take, Ship, Trans- port and Carry away, for and towards the Planta,on . . . such of our loveing sub-
. . .
35. Narrowgancett . , . : "And by theis presents . . . Doe give . . . unto the said GOY- ernor and Company . . . All that parte of our Dominions in Newe England . . . bounded on the East by Norrogancett. . . and on the South by the Sea . . . " [ibid. ].
