And always reserving to the said Earl and Commissioners, and their successors, power and authority for to dispose the general government of that, as it stands in relation to the rest of the Plantations in America, as they shall conceive from time to time most conducing to the general good of the said Plantations, the honour of his Majesty, and the service of the State."-- (Hazard, Vol.

I., pp.

529-531, where the Charter is printed at length.)] [Footnote 82: But Mr.Holmes makes explicit mention of the parliamentary ordinance of 1643 in the following terms:--"The English Parliament passed an ordinance appointing the Earl of Warwick Governor-in-Chief and Lord High Admiral of the American Colonies, with a Council of five Peers and twelve Commoners.

It empowered him, in conjunction with his associates, to examine the state of affairs; to send for papers and persons, to remove Governors and officers, and appoints other in their places; and to assign over to these such part of the powers that were now granted, as he should think proper." (Annals of America, Vol.

I., p.
273.)] [Footnote 83: History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol.