-->>Hallo Forumsgemeinde und Geschichtskundige,
>
>hab' da mal zwei Fragen zu Carolina in der Zeit zwischen 1663 und 1729:
>Der König Karl II. schenkte acht Siedlern/Höflingen 1663 das Land Carolina aus Dankbarkeit für deren Hilfe bei seiner Rückkehr auf den Thron und gab damit alle Souveränitätsrechte auf. Wirklich alle? Heute erfuhr ich dies:
>>Einzige Bedingung: Ein von den Siedlern gewähltes Parlament mußte allen
>>Gesetzen zustimmen(1663).
>Weiß darüber jemand mehr? Und:
>>Die Siedler (gemeint sind hier diejenigen, welche von den ersten acht Land
>>kauften; Z.) mußten den Grundherren eine Feudalabgabe leisten, die sog.
>>quitrent.
>Wie hoch und in was war der quitrent?
>
Google meint folgendes:
In 1662-1663, Charles II made a proprietary grant of Carolina to eight court favorites, including Lord Clarendon, and established a province by the name of Carolina. The grant was to be holden as of the manor of East Greenwich in Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite, or by knight service, subject immediately to the crown, as a dependency, forever. However, similar to the Maryland charter, the grantees were created"absolute Lords Proprietaries," (subject to the faith, allegiance, and supreme dominion of the crown,) and invested with as ample rights and jurisdictions, as the Bishop of Durham possessed in his palatine diocese.
The charter authorized the proprietaries to enact laws with the assent of the freemen of the colony, or their delegates; to erect courts of judicature; to appoint civil officers; to grant titles of honour; to erect forts; to make war, and in cases of necessity to exercise martial law; to build harbours; to make ports; to erect manors; and to enjoy customs and subsidies imposed with the consent of the freemen, subject only to the restriction that all laws should"be consonant to reason, and as near as may be conveniently, agreeable to the laws and customs of this our kingdom of England."
In 1663 a set of"Declarations and Proposals" were issued by the proprietors that reserved to them halfpenny per acre quitrents and the choice of governor and councillors from a list of thirteen nominees to be prepared by the colonists. After three years, the freeholders would nominate these officers. Legislation could be made by a representative Assembly but they required the consent of the governor and councillors and the proprietors retained the powers of legislative veto.
"Headrights" at a quitrent of half penny an acre during the first five years were offered at 100 acres for every freeman, 50 acres for each man servant and 30 acres for every woman servant brought to the colony. At the end of indenture, man servants would receive ten acres and women servants six acres of their own.
In 1665, the proprietaries obtained from Charles II a second charter, with an enlargement of boundaries in a direct line as far as the"South seas" and was essentially a confirmation of the existing royalties, jurisdictions and privileges of proprietorship. In addition, it provided, that the inhabitants and their children should be"denizens and lieges of the kingdom of England, and reputed and held as the liege people born within the kingdom; and might inherit and purchase lands, and sell and bequeath the same; and should possess all the privileges and immunities of natural born subjects within the realm." (Story - Commentaries.)
Quelle
Ebenfalls ganz interessant über das frühamerikanische Feudalsystem und seinen Abgaben fand ich die folgende Seite:
<a href ="http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/rabushka.html">http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/rabushka.html</a>
Gruß,
Sorrento
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