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When news reached England of the adventures of Sea Venture's survivors, the royal charter of the Virginia Company was extended to include Bermuda on the 12th of March, 1612, at Westminster, with the archipelago granted by the Crown unto the Treasurer and Company of Aduenturers and Planters of the Cittie of London for the first colony in Virginia.
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent.Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but since the 14th century have only been used in place of private acts to grant a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.
The following schools were established by way of a royal charter. Pages in category "Schools with a royal charter" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of ...
Administration of the Somers Isles, alias Islands of Bermuda, was in fact transferred in 1615 to a spin-off of the Virginia Company of London titled the Company of the City of London for the Plantacion of The Somers Isles, which administered that colony until losing its royal charter in 1684. Bermuda remained strongly linked to Virginia (the ...
Also, within the private sector there are a number of home schools, which must be registered with the government and receive minimal government regulation. The only boys' school opened its doors to girls in the 1990s, and in 1996, one of the aided schools became a private school. Prior to 1950, the Bermuda school system was racially segregated ...
Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1742. A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution. Colonial charters were approved when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company.
The town received the title of "Royal Leamington Spa" in 1838 following a visit by Queen Victoria. [11] [13] Royal Leamington Spa was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1875, and on the borough's abolition in 1974 charter trustees were formed. [12] The charter trustees were themselves abolished when a town council was formed in 2002. [12]
Royal Grammar School High Wycombe: 1562 St Olave's Grammar School: 1562 King's Ely: The school's second Royal Charter 15 June 1563 Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College: 1565 Exeter College, Oxford: 1565 Highgate School: 1567 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn: 3 August 1568 Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers: 12 October 1568