Excerpt from The Relations of Pennsylvania With the British Government: 1696-1765 Vision of colonial progress by the central government. The result was that the colonists, untrammeled by inter ference from home and exhibiting all the characteristics of a true pioneer and frontier people, fashioned their in stitutions as they saw fit and ordered their affairs accord ing to their own conceptions, all of which was done with little regard for the interests of the Empire. But as the economic theories of the earlier part of the seventeenth century with regard to colonization found formal and definite expression in law by the passage of the acts of trade and navigation of the Restoration period, then Eng lish statesmen came to a thorough realization of the de feets of the early charters. It became Obvious that the development of the colonies toward self-control must be checked.1 Their separatist and independent tendencies came clearly to light in the case of the New England colonies, especially Massachusetts.2 They were charged with passing laws contrary to the statutes of Parliament, with transgressions Of the laws of trade, with denying appeals to England, and with a general tendency toward independence. In the very year that Penn received his charter, that of Massachusetts was threatened with judicial proceedings grounded on such irregularities. With these facts fresh in mind, it is not hard to understand the rea sons which led to the insertion of provisions in Penn's charter looking to an intimate supervision of colonial concerns by the central government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.