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Royal charter   /rˈɔɪəl tʃˈɑrtər/   Listen
Royal charter

noun
1.
A charter granted by the sovereign (especially in Great Britain).





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"Royal charter" Quotes from Famous Books



... year a German named Wintzer, or Winsor, appeared as the promotor of a scheme for obtaining a royal charter with extensive privileges, and applied for powers to form a joint-stock company to light part of London and Westminster with gas. Winsor claimed for his method of gas manufacture that it was more efficacious and profitable than any then known or practised. ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles
... A royal charter was solicited, and March 4, 1629, one of liberal powers passed the seals, chiefly through the influence of the earl of Warwick.[10] It created a corporation by the name of the "Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England," and confirmed to them all the territory given by the ...
— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler
... in 1625, and for three years was called Naumkeag. In 1628, John Endicott came from England with one hundred settlers, as Governor for the Massachusetts Colony, extending from the Charles to the Merrimac river. A royal charter was procured for the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England, and one thousand colonists, led by John Winthrop, settled Boston, 1630. These colonists were Puritans, who wished to escape political and religious persecution. They brought over their own charter and ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee


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