12, 13.) In a note Dr.Dexter says: "I might illustrate by the Hudson Bay Company, which existed into our time with its original Charter--strongly resembling that of the Massachusetts Company--and which has always been rather a corporation for trade charterers in England than a colony of England on American soil." (_Ib._, p.

12.) It is evident from the Charter that the original design of it was to constitute _a corporation in England_ like that of the East India and other great Companies, with powers to settle plantations within the limits of the territory, under such forms of government and magistracy as should be fit and necessary.

The first step in sending out Mr.
Endicot, and appointing him a Council, and giving him commission, instructions, etc., was agreeable to this constitution of the Charter.
(Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol.

I., pp.

12, 13.)] [Footnote 64: History of the United States, Vol.