At the time of granting of its charter, Eindhoven had approximately 170 houses enclosed by a rampart.

Huge Glasgow School murals decorate the walls, depicting the granting of the city's charter, its history and culture, and the four main Scottish rivers.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

In 1891 the Portuguese shifted the administration of much of the country to a large private company, under a charter granting sovereign rights for 50 years to the Mozambique Company, which, though it had its headquarters at Beira, was controlled and financed mostly by the British.

The Government of Nova Scotia granted CCB a charter for granting university degrees in 1982 which saw the institution rename itself as the University College of Cape Breton ( UCCB ).

A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 1364, and a simultaneous document was issued by the City Council granting privileges to the Studium Generale.

By 1940, collège classique programs were gone and Loyola became a four-year university, although it never obtained its own charter, granting its degrees through Laval or, after 1920, the Université de Montréal.

Lisbon had already ( 1179 ) received a charter from Afonso I. Sancho also endeavoured to foster immigration and agriculture, by granting estates to the military orders and municipalities on condition that the occupiers should cultivate or colonize their lands.

The granting of the charter included the charge that the town " at all perpetual future times ... be and remain a town and borough of Peace and Quiet, to the example and terror of the wicked and reward of the good ".

King Æthelred, preoccupied with the threat of a Danish invasion, did not attend in person, but he issued a charter to the Shaftesbury nuns late in 1001 granting them lands at Bradford on Avon, which is thought to be related.

He was thought to make the charter in 1001 granting land to Shaftesbury at the elevation of Edward's relics, and some accounts suggest that Æthelred legislated the observation of Edward's feast days across England in a law code of 1008.

In 1721, Lutheran minister Hans Egede and his Bergen Greenland Company received a royal charter from King Frederick IV granting them broad authority over Greenland and commissioning them to seek out the old Norse colony and spread the Reformation among its inhabitants, who were presumed to still be Catholic or to have reverted to paganism.

By May 1809 Boulton and Watt faced little competition in any gas market due to their success in lobbying Parliament to block the granting of a charter for the National Heat and Light Company, their only real competitor in this field.

Over a century later, it was decided in the case of Penn v. Lord Baltimore that because the Dutch had colonized Zwaanendael in 1631, that portion of Maryland's charter granting Delaware to Maryland was void.

In addition, a charter of King Ine of Wessex, dating from 706 and witnessed by nine Bishops including the Archbishop of Canterbury, records the granting of the area in which Shepton Mallet is now situated to Abbot Berwald of Glastonbury Abbey.

The request was not granted, partly because it would draw attention to the lack of any charter granting the title to existing cities.

On Palm Sunday 1115, Louis was present in Amiens to support the bishop and inhabitants of the city in their conflict with Enguerrand I of Coucy, one of his vassals, who refused to recognise the granting of a charter of communal privileges.

Three of Æthelbald's predecessors — Æthelred, Coenred, and Ceolred — had each confirmed an East Saxon charter granting Twickenham to Waldhere, the bishop of London.

From Kentish charters it is known that Æthelbald was in control of London, and from Æthelbald's time on, the transition to Mercian control appears to be complete ; an early charter of Offa's, granting land near Harrow, does not even include the king of Essex on the witness list.

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.

The refoundation is what lies behind an exceptionally elaborate charter for Pershore, dated 972, in which King Edgar is presented as granting new lands and privileges as well as confirming old ones, such as the one granted by Coenwulf.

While this is not the granting of a town charter per se, the wording evidences that indeed there already existed a body of incorporated municipal leadership and raises the possibility of an even earlier charter.

Initial from the charter granting Gaveston the Earl of Cornwall | earldom of Cornwall, showing the Coat of arms of England | arms of England at top, and Gaveston's coat of arms Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaled with those of de Clare below.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

: WHEREAS by the great charter many times confirmed in parliament, it is enacted, That no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed, and that the King will not pass upon him, or condemn him ; but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land …

Written mostly in Latin but using an Old English boundary clause, the charter records a grant of land near the city of Rochester to Justus ' church.

* 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

The 1215 charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties and accept that his will was not arbitrary, for example by explicitly accepting that no " freeman " ( in the sense of non-serf ) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today.

* May 19 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

* March 14 – Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

Very few contemporary documents survive, but a royal charter of his transferred land to Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester, and he made several grants to Ramsey Abbey.

" Magna Carta itself immediately became part of the " law of the land ", and Clause 61 of that charter authorized an elected body of twenty-five barons to determine by majority vote what redress the King must provide when the King offends " in any respect against any man.

Both Æthelbald and Offa granted land in Middlesex and London as they wished ; in 767 a charter of Offa's disposed of land in Harrow without a local ruler as witness.

He is known to have revoked a charter of Egbert's on the grounds that " it was wrong that his thegn should have presumed to give land allotted to him by his lord into the power of another without his witness ", but the date of Egbert's original grant is unknown, as is the date of Offa's revocation of it.

There is another charter, that is thought to be genuine, that records a series of transactions of a piece of land near modern day Burpham in the Arun Valley.

Despite the royal charter, Penn bought the land from the local Lenape to be on good terms with the Native Americans and ensure peace for his colony.

New York State began to purchase land from developers, under the charter of the Niagara Reservation State Park.

The king, however, could free land from these charges by charter, which was a frequent way of rewarding those who deserved well of the state.

Some international charter flights also land at Ovda International Airport and Eilat.

Maryland's charter granted the land north of the entire length of the Potomac River up to the 40th parallel.

There is, however, no charter evidence showing Æthelbald's consent to Kentish land grants ; and charters of Aethelberht and Eadberht, both kings of Kent, survive in which they grant land without Æthelbald's consent.

For the South Saxons, there is very little charter evidence, but as with Kent, what there is does not show any requirement for Æthelbald's consent to land grants.

It was named for John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, who as heir to one of the eight original Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, claimed one eighth of the land granted in the charter of 1665.