Company for the tyme being, then and there present, as is aforesaide.
[Vacancies caused by the death or removal of any officer of the Company
may be filled by new elections. All officers are required to take an
oath for the faithful performance of their duties. Permission, in
the usual terms, to transport to America English subjects who offer
themselves and who are not especially restrained by the King, with the
usual guarantee of the rights of Englishmen to such emigrants and their
descendants, and with the usual long clauses granting certain tariff
privileges to the Company.]
And that the Governor or Deputie Governor ... or either of them, and
any two or more of such of the saide Assistants as may be there unto
appointed ... shall and maie at all Tymes, and from Tyme to Tyme
hereafter, have full Power and Authority to minister and give the Oathe
and Oathes of Supremacie and Allegiance, or either of them, to all
and everie Person and Persons which shall at any Tyme ... pass to the
Landes ... hereby mencioned....
AND wee doe ... graunt ..., That it shall ... be lawfull to and for the
Governor or Deputie Governor and such of the Assistants and Freemen
of the said Company ... as shalbe assembled in any of their Generall
Courts aforesaide, or in any other Courtes to be specially summoned and
assembled for that purpose, or the greater parte of them, (whereof the
Governor or Deputie Governor and six of the Assistants, to be alwaies
seaven,) from tyme to tyme to make, ordeine, and establishe all manner
of wholesome and reasonable orders, lawes, statutes, and ordinances,
directions, and instructions not contrarie to the lawes of this our
realme of England, aswell for setling of the formes and ceremonies of
government and magistracy fitt and necessary for the said plantation
and the inhabitants there, and for nameing and stiling of all sortes of
officers, both superior and inferior, which they shall finde needefull
for that governement and plantation, and the distinguishing and setting
forth of the severall duties, powers, and lymytts of every such office
and place, and the formes of such oathes warrantable by the lawes
and statutes of this our realme of England as shalbe respectivelie
ministred unto them, for the execution of the said severall offices and
places, as also for the disposing and ordering of the elections of such
of the said officers as shalbe annuall, and of such others as shalbe to
suceede in case of death or removeall, and ministring the said oathes
to the newe elected officers, and for impositions of lawfull fynes,
mulcts, imprisonment, or other lawfull correction, according to the
course of other corporations in this our realme of England, and for
the directing, ruling, and disposeing of all other matters and things
whereby our said people, inhabitants there, maie be soe religiously,
peaceablie, and civilly governed, as their good life and orderlie
conversation maie wynn and incite the natives of [that] country to the
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