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 CH. VIII.] and with some few alterations it subsisted down to 1686, when all the charters were prostrated by the authority of King James. Rhode Island made application to be admitted into this Union; but was refused upon the ground, that the territory was within the limits of Plymouth colony. It does not appear that subsequently the colony became a party to it.