USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This charter issued by King Charles II of England proposed the formation of the Lords Proprietors and gave the lands of Carolina to the eight proprietors: the Earl of Clarendon, Duke of Albemarle, Lord Craven, Lord Berkeley, Lord Ashley, Sir George Carteret, William Berkeley and Sir John Colleton.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carolina was a Proprietary colony established by England’s King Charles II through the charter of 24 Mar.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Lords Proprietors were the eight Englishmen to whom King Charles II granted, by the Carolina charters of 1663 and 1665, the joint ownership of a tract of land in the New World called “Carolina.” All of these men either had remained loyal to the Crown or had aided Charles’s restoration to the English throne.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the eight original proprietors had remained staunch supporters of the Stuart monarchy after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, and others changed sides to become key figures in the restoration of his son in 1660.

Detailed explanation-5: -King Charles II, gave a group of eight noblemen a large tract of land to the south of Virginia colony in 1663. They called the new colony “Carolina", the Latin form of Charles. The proprietors of the settlement set up a system of government that was called “the Fundamental Constitution of the Carolinas".