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I'm John Bachelor Professor Claire Jackson of Cambridge University. He's written a chock full of stories that you can't make up called

James I's biography. And here it comes, America. This is the part they skip when they talk about

the 18th century, you know, the founders, George Washington and Ben Franklin. They come from

someplace named England, but we don't get much attention to it. James Town and the Plymouth Colony.

James I was in a position to grant charters in land that may very well have been either Spanish or Portuguese.

They are winging this. The Spanish have been very brutal towards the French who tried to take a piece of Florida.

There's no reason to believe they won't do it again.

And at one point, I think he writes a charter for all the land between Philadelphia and Newfoundland.

Is that correct, Professor?

Yes.

There are different charters given to different groups of financiers that I describe

as a chapter about this in the book. What's cunning is that in England, these are nominally,

these settlements are nominally being undertaken by chartered companies. So this gives James an

element of plausible deniability. And this really

infuriates the Spanish because right from the 1600s and 1620s, Spanish ambassadors keep saying,

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