I. The KING'S Title to this Country before he granted it.
It is the Jus Gentium, or Law of Nations, that what ever Waste, or uncul∣ted Country, is the Discovery of any Prince, it is the right of that Prince that was at the Charge of the Discovery: Now this Province is a Member of that part of America, which the King of Englands Ancestors have been at the Charge of Discovering, and which they and he have taken great care to preserve and Improve.