THE
AMERICAN HISTORICAL
REVIEW
BOARD OF EDITORS
GEORGE B. ADAMS J. FRANKLIN JAMESON GEORGE L. BURR ANDREW C. McLAUGHLIN ALBERT BUSHNELL HART WILLIAM M. SLOANE H. MORSE STEPHENS
MANAGING EDITOR
J. FRANKLIN JAMESON
VOLUME XII
OCTOBER 1906 TO JULY 1907
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
1907
Copyright 1907
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Press of
The New Era Printing Company,
Lancaster, Pa.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII
Number 1. October, 1906.
ARTICLES
James F. Baldwin The Privy Council of the Time of Richard II. 1
W. B. MUNRO The Office of Inlendant in New France. . 15
J. Holland Rose Canning and the Spanish Patriots in 1S08 . 39
Frederic L. Paxson The Territory of Colorado • • • • 53
Walter F. McCaleb The Organization of the Post-Office Department of the Confederacy. .... 66
DOCUMENTS— Letters of Jefferson to Marbois, 17S1, 1783; Journal of John Mair, 1791 ; Project of Latin- American Confederation, 1856; Letter of Stephen R. Mallory, 1861 ; Letter of Grant to his Father, on the Capture of Vicksburg, 1863 75
REVIEWS OF BOOKS 110
COMMUNICATIONS 183
NOTES AND NEWS 186
Number 2. January, 1907.
ARTICLES
Simeon E. Baldwin Religion Still the Key to History 219
Paul Mantoux French Reports of British Parliamentary Debates in the Eighteenth Century 244
Henry Vignaud Proof that Columbus was Born in 145 1 ; A New Document 270
Henry L. Janes The Black Warrior Affair 280
A British Officer The Literature of the South African War, 1899-1902 299
DOCUMENTS—Letters of Thomas Newe from South Carolina, 1682 ; Narrative of a Voyage to Maryland, 1705-1706; Intercepted Letters of Virginian Tories, 1775; Letter of John Marshall to James Wilkinson, 1787; Gilman v. McClary: A New Hampshire Case of 1791. 322
REVIEWS OF BOOKS 351
NOTES AND NEWS 441 Number 3. April, 1907.
ARTICLES
The Meeting of the American Historical Association at Providence. 483
Edward P. Cheyney Some English Conditions surrounding the Settlement of Virginia .... 507
Claude H. Van Tyne Sovereignty in the American Revolution: an Historical Study . . . . 529
W. H. Isely The Sharps Rifle Episode in Kansas History. 546
James Albert Woodburn The Attitude of Thaddeus Stevens Toward the Conduct of the Civil War . . . 567
DOCUMENTS — The Catholic Mission in Maryland, 1641 ; Edmund Randolph on the British Treaty, 1795 ; Virgil Maxcy on Calhoun's Political Opinions and Prospects, 1823 584
REVIEWS OF BOOKS 602
NOTES AND NEWS 703
NUMBER 4. July, 1907.
ARTICLES
Charles Gross Mortmain in Medieval Boroughs . . . 733
Roland G. Usher Nicholas Fuller: A Forgotten Exponent of English Liberty 743
Frank P. Goodwin The Rise of Manufactures in the Miami Country ....... 7^^
William E. Dodd Chief Justice Marshall and Virginia . . 776
Eugene C. Barker President Jackson and the Texas Revolution 788
DOCUMENT — Directorium ad Faciendum Passagium Transmarinum. 810
REVIEWS OF BOOKS 858
NOTES AND NEWS 937
INDEX . . . . . . . . 971