... a great many people in all these provinces and colonies, especially in those under proprietaries, and the two others under Connecticut and Rhode Island, think that no law of England ought  to be in force and binding upon them without their consent; for they foolishly say, they have not representatives sent from themselves to the parliament of England; and they look upon all laws made in England that put any restraint upon them, as great hardships.
 
 

Chalmers, p 442 from p. 522, Scharf's History of Maryland, vol. I.