The Warwick Patent

The Warwick Patent, which served to support Connecticut’s constitutional legitimacy before 1662, is discussed best by Andrews and Jones, but see also two very good works:

Coleman, R. V. The Old Patent of Connecticut. Westport, Conn.; priv. print., 1936. This is a fifty-four page pamphlet published in the same year as Andrews’ vol. II. Lawrence Gipson, an Andrews’s student and no less an authority than his mentor, says that Coleman's work. "lays bare the maze of illegality out of which finally emerged the legally established Colony of Connecticut under its patent of 1662." R.V. Coleman. The Old Patent of Connecticut.  Coleman demonstrates that the "Warwick Patent' almost certainly never received final approval either from the Council for New England or the King.  Indeed, it probably never went beyond the draft stage.  And even the draft included only a small part of what the Charter of 1662 granted.  See also Coleman's work on Roger Ludlow in the biographies section below.

Hoadly, Charles J. The Warwick Patent. Hartford: Acorn Publication No. 7, 1902. A fifty-one-page monograph by the State Librarian, editor of the Public Records of the Colony and a much respected scholar.