The council shall have power to change or governors city of London, as shall be allowed by the said council, or the greater part of them, assembled, so as he cannot attend the affairs of that company, in every such case, it shall and may be lawful for such treasurer for the time being, to assign, constitute, and appoint one of the council or company, to be likewise allowed by the council, or the greater part of them, assembled, to be the deputy treasurer of the said company; which deputy shall have power to do and execute all things, which belong to the said treasurer, during such time as such treasurer shall be either sick, or otherwise absent upon cause allowed of by the said council, or the major part of them, as aforesaid, so fully and wholly, and in as large and ample manner and form, to all intents and purposes, as the said treasurer, if he were present, himself might or could do and execute the same. XIII. And further, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs, and successors, we do, by these make or ap- presents, give and grant full power and authority to our said point and to council, here resident, as well at this present time, as hereafter displace all from time to time, to nominate, make, constitute, ordain, and confirm, by such name or names, stile or stiles, as to them shall seem good; and likewise to revoke, discharge, change, and alter, government as well all and singular governors, officers, and ministers, which of the said already have been made, as also which hereafter shall be by them thought fit and needful to be made or used, for the government of the said colony and plantation. and other officers of colonies. And to make laws colonies. XIV. And also to make, ordain, and establish all manner of for the good orders, laws, directions, instructions, forms, and ceremonies of government government and magistracy, fit and necessary, for and concerning of the said the government of the said colony and plantation; and the same, at all times hereafter, to abrogate, revoke, or change, not only within the precincts of the said colony, but also upon the seas in going and coming, to and from the said colony, as they, in their good discretion, shall think to be fittest for the good of the adventurers and inhabitants there. Upon the governor appointed XV. And we do also declare, that for divers reasons and considearrival of a rations us thereunto especially moving, our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby ordain, that immediately from and after such time, as any such governor or principal officer, so to be nominated and appointed, by our said council, for the government of the said the power of colony, as aforesaid, shall arrive in Viginia, and give notice unto by the said council in Virginia, the presi dent and council already established there and of all other officers of government shall in the colony there resident of our pleasure in this behalf, the government, power and authority of the president and council, heretofore by our former letters patents there established, and all laws and constitutions, by them formerly made, shall utterly cease and be determined, and all officers, governors and ministers, formerly constituted or appointed, shall be discharged, any thing, in our former letters patents concerning the said plantation contained, stantly cease in any wise to the contrary notwith straightly charging and be de- and commanding the president and o council, now resident in the said colony, upon their allegiance, after knowledge given unto them of our will and pleasure, by these presents signified and declared, that they forthwith be obedient to such governor or governors, as by our said council, here resident, shall be named and appointed, a termined. aforesaid, and to all directions, orders and commandments, which they shall receive from them, as well in the present resigning and giving up of their authority, offices, charge and places, as in all other attendance, as shall be by them, from time to time, required. of new XVI. And we do further, by these presents, ordain and es- Admission tablish, that the said treasurer and council here resident, and their members successors, or any four of them, being assembled (the treasurer into the being one) shall, from time to time, have full power and au- company. thority to admit and receive any other person into their company, corporation, and freedom; and further, in a general assembly Disfranof the adventurers, with the consent of the greater part, upon good cause, to disfranchise and put out any person or persons, out of the said freedom and company. chisement. work all XVII. And we do also grant and confirm, for us, our heirs and Power to successors, that it shall be lawful for the said treasurer and com- sorts of pany, and their successors, by direction of the governors there, mines. to dig and to search for all manner of mines of gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, and all sorts of minerals, as well within the precinct aforesaid, as within any part of the main land, not formerly granted to any other; and to have and enjoy the gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin, and all other minerals, to be gotten thereby, to the use and behoof of the said company of planters and adventurers yielding thereof, and paying yearly, unto us, our heirs and successors, as aforesaid. settle the said colony, necessary arms for merchan XVIII. And we do further, of our special grace, certain know- Power to ledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs, and successors, grant, carry out the king's subby these presents, to and with the said treasurer and company, jects or any and their successors, that it shall be lawful and free for them, strangers to and their assigns, at all and every time and times hereafter, out of our realm of England, and out of all other our dominions, to take together and lead into the said voyages, and for and towards the said plan- with all tation, and to travel thitherwards, and to abide and inhabit there in the said colony and plantation, all such and so many of our their deloving subjects, or any other strangers, that will become our loving fence, and subjects, and live under our obedience, as shall willingly accom- dises proper pany them in the said voyage and plantation; with sufficient for trading shipping, armour, weapons, ordinance, munition, powder, shot, with the people victuals, and such merchandises or wares, as are esteemed by the there; wild people in those parts, cloathing, implements, furniture, cattle, horses, and mares, and all other things, necessary for the said plantation, and for their use and defence, and trade with the people there; and in passing, and returning to and fro; without without yielding or paying subsidy, custom, imposition, or any other tax paying any or duty, to us, our heirs, or successors, for the space of seven other duty years from the date of these presents; provided, that none of the for them for said persons be such, as shall be hereafter, by special name, restrained by us, our heirs, and successors. custom or 7 years. shall be paid XIX. And for their further encouragement, of our special No customs grace and favour, we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and or subsidies successors, yield and grant, to and with the said treasurer and in Virginia company, and their successors, and every of them, their factors for 21 years; and assigns, that they and every of them, shall be free of all the and after subsidies and customs in Virginia, for the space of one-and- the said that time company and successors shall per cent. upon all twenty years, and from all taxes and impositions, for ever, upon any goods or merchandizes, at any time or times hereafter, either pay only a upon importation thither, or exportation from thence, into our duty of 5 realm of England, or into any other of our realms or dominions, by the said treasurer and company, and their successors, their goods ex- deputies, factors, or assigns, or any of them; except only the five ported from pounds per cent. due for custom, upon all such goods and merVirginia into England; chandizes, as shall be brought or imported into our realm of after which England, or any other of these our dominions, according to the antient trade of merchants; which five pounds per cent. only same into being paid, it shall be thenceforth lawful and free for the said foreign parts adventurers, the same goods and merchandizes to export, and carry out of our said dominions, into foreign parts, without any custom, tax, or other duty, to be paid to us, our heirs, or successors, or to any other our officers or deputies; provided, that the said goods and merchandizes be shipped out, within thirteen months, after their first landing within any part of those dominions. they may export the within the space of 18 months other duty. Power to resist and expell all intruders into the said colony. Power to raise 5 per cent. upon or exported XX. And we do also grant and confirm to the said treasurer and company, and their successors, as also to all and every such governor, or other officers and ministers, as by our said council shall be appointed to have power and authority of government and command, in or over the said colony or plantation; that they, and every of them, shall and lawfully may, from time to time, and at all times for ever hereafter, for their several defence and safety, encounter, expulse, repel, and resist, by force and arms, as well by sea as by land, and all ways and means whatsoever, all and every such person and persons whatsoever, as (without the special licence of the said treasurer and company, and their successors) shall attempt to inhabit, within the said several precincts and limits of the said colony and plantation; and also, all and every such person and persons whatsoever, as shall enterprize or attempt, at any time hereafter, destruction, invasion, hurt, detriment, or annoyance, to the said colony and plantation, as is likewise specified in the said former grant. XXI. And that it shall be lawful for the said treasurer and company, and their successors, and every of them, from time to all goods im- time, and at all times for ever hereafter, and they shall have full ported into power and authority, to take and surprise, by all ways and means said colony whatsoever, all and every person and persons whatsoever, with out of it by their ships, goods, and other furniture, trafficking in any harbour, the king's creek, or place, within the limits or precincts of the said colony members of and plantation, not being allowed by the said company to be adventurers or planters of the said colony, until such time as company; they, being of any realms and dominions under our obedience, subjects not the said upon shall pay, or agree to pay, to the hands of the treasurer or of some other officer, deputed by the said governor of Virginia (over and above such subsidy and custom, as the said company is, or hereafter shall be, to pay) five pounds per cent. all goods and merchandises so brought in thither, and also five per cent. and 10 per upon all goods by them shipped out from thence; and being cent. upon strangers, and not under our obedience, until they have paid (over and above such subsidy and custom, as the said treasurer thither or and company, or their successors, is, or hereafter shall be, to pay) all goods imported thence by obedience. ten pounds per cent. upon all such goods, likewise carried in and exported out, anything, in the said former letters patents, to the contrary strangers notwithstanding; and the same sums of money and benefit, as not under aforesaid, for and during the space of one-and-twenty years, shall the king's be wholly employed to the benefit, use, and behoof of the said colony and plantation; and after the said one-and-twenty years ended, the same shall be taken to the use of us, our heirs, and successors, by such officers and ministers, as by us, our heirs, or successors, shall be thereunto assigned and appointed, as is specified in the said former letters patents. nization of that colony. XXII. Also, we do, for us, our heirs, and successors, declare, General deby these presents, that all and every the persons, being our sub- all such perjects, which shall go and inhabit within the said colony and sons as shall plantation, and every of their children and posterity, which shall be born in happen to be born within any the limits thereof, shall have and enjoy all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens and natural subjects, within any of our other dominions, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within this our realm of England, or in any other of our dominions. the officers pointed for to govern as civil, as XXIII. And forasmuch, as it shall be necessary for all such Power to our loving subjects, as shall inhabit within the said precincts of of governVirginia, aforesaid, to determine to live together, in the fear and ment that true worship of Almighty God, christian peace, and civil quietness, shall be apeach with other, whereby every one may, with more safety, plea- that purpose sure, and profit, enjoy that, whereunto they shall attain with great by the counpain and peril; we, for us, our heirs, and successors, are likewise cil aforesaid, pleased and contented, and by these presents, do give and grant the people of unto the said treasurer and company, and their successors, and to the said cosuch governors, officers, and ministers, as shall be, by our said lony according to such council, constituted and appointed, according to the natures and laws, crimilimits of their offices and places respectively, that they shall and nal as well may, from time to time for ever hereafter, within the said precincts shall be of Virginia, or in the way by sea thither and from thence, have established full and absolute power and authority, to correct, punish, pardon, by the said govern, and rule, all such the subjects of us, our heirs, and successors, as shall, from time to time, adventure themselves in any voyage thither, or that shall, at any time hereafter, inhabit in the precincts and territories of the said colony, as aforesaid, according to such orders, ordinances, constitutions, directions, and instructions, as by our said council, as aforesaid, shall be established; and in defect thereof, in case of necessity, according to the good discretion of the said governor and officers, respectively, as well in cases capital and criminal as civil, both marine and other; so always, as the said statutes, ordinances, and proceedings, as near as conveniently may be, be agreeable to the laws, statutes, government, and policy of this our realm of England. XXIV. And we do further, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, grant, declare, and ordain, that such principal governor, as, from time to time, shall duly and lawfully be authorised and appointed, in manner and form in these presents heretofore expressed, shall have full power and authority, to use and exercise martial law, in cases of rebellion or mutiny, in as C council. Persons who under pre large and ample manner, as our lieutenants in our counties, within this our realm of England, have, or ought to have, by force of their commissions of lieutenancy. XXV. And furthermore, if any person or persons, adventurers tence of tra- or planters of the said colony, or any other, at any time or times ding to this hereafter, shall transport any monies, goods, or merchandizes, out colony, shall of any of our kingdoms, with a pretence or purpose, to land, sell, send goods into foreign or otherwise dispose of the same, within the limits or bounds countries, of the said colony, and yet nevertheless, being at sea, or after he hath landed within any part of the said colony, shall carry the same into any other foreign country, with a purpose there to sell and dispose thereof; that then, all the goods and chattels of the said person or persons, so offending and transported, together with the ship or vessel wherein such transportation was made, shall be forfeited to us, our heirs and successors. shall forfeit their ships and goods. Doubtful passages in XXVI. And further, our will and pleasure is, that in all these and questions and doubts that shall arise, upon any difficulty of former pa- construction or interpretation of any thing, contained either in this or in our said former letters patents, the same shall be beneficially taken and interpreted, in most ample and beneficial manner for to the gran- the said treasurer and company, and their successors, and every tents shall be construed tees. Confirma member thereof. tion of for- XXVII. And further, we do, by these presents, ratify and conmer patents firm unto the said treasurer and company, and their successors, all not revoked the privileges, franchises, liberties, and immunities, granted in our the present said former letters patents, and not in these our letters patents recharter. voked, altered, changed or abridged. or altered by of the privi future mem said com Extension XXVIII. And finally, our will and pleasure is, and we do furleges grant- ther, hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, grant and agree, to ed by this and with the said treasurer and company, and their successors, charter to all that all and singular person and persons, which shall, at any time or bers of the times hereafter, adventure any sum or sums of money, in and towards the said plantation of the said colony in Virginia, and pany duly shall be admitted, by the said council and company, as adventurers into it by of the said colony, in form aforesaid, and shall be enrolled in the council the book or records of the adventurers of the said company, shall the manner and may be accounted, accepted, taken, held, and reputed, adven above de- turers of the said colony, and shall and may enjoy all and singular admitted thereof, in scribed. No person shall go into the said country without having first taken the oath of supremacy. grants, privileges, liberties, benefits, profits, commodities, and immunities, advantages, and emoluments whatsoever, as fully, largely, amply, and absolutely, as if they, and every of them, had been precisely, plainly, singularly, and distinctly named and inserted in these our letters patents. XXIX. And lastly, because the principal effect which we can desire or expect of this action, is the conversion and reduction of the people in those parts unto the true worship of God and Christian religion, in which respect we should be loath, that any person should be permitted to pass, that we suspected to effect the superstitions of the church of Rome; we do hereby declare, that it is our will and pleasure, that none be permitted to pass, in any voyage, from time to time to be made into the said country, but such as first shall have taken the oath of supremacy; for which purpose we do, by these presents, give full power and authority |