_c._ The Massachusetts Bay Company was made up of two bodies of men, one from the east, one from the west of England. This fact, together with the experience of the Plymouth Council, probably made them unwilling to have a place of meeting fixed in their charter. _d._ The Providence Isle charter carries this development, as suggested above, to its logical conclusion, permitting the Company itself to fix the places for its meetings. But this last Company certainly never expected to leave England. So the old argument from the omission of a specific place in the charter of the Massachusetts Company falls to the ground. 4. _Law making._--In the General Courts the Company is empowered "to ordaine frames of Government, _with all things thereto incident_; and to make reasonable lawes ... not being contrarie to the Lawes of this our Realme of England ... for the Government of the Company ... and of all Collonyes which shall be planted ... in the said Islands ... and to appoint, by such title as they ... shall thinke good, such ... offices and officers ... for such Times and with such powers, as they shall thinke good, both for the Company here within our Realme of England and for the Collonies in the said Islands ... and the said Offices and Officers ... to alter ... and displace, and in their places, to appoint others ... and the said Lawes ... to put into execution."... 5. Admiralty jurisdiction conferred. 6. Local Government. Power to divide the territory into "Provinces, Counties ... Hundreds, Mannors," or other units, and to erect and fortify villages, etc., and _to grant letters of incorporation_ to towns and burroughs, "with all Liberties and things unto Corporations requisite and usual within this our Realme of England"; and to set up markets; and to constitute and appoint magistrates and all manner of officers for all local units, with fit legislation for them. 7. Power of punishment to extend to "life and members," with authority to exercise martial law. 8. Right to settle restricted to those having a license from the Company. 9. Rights of Englishmen guaranteed to settlers and their posterity. 10. Company to coin money (not gold or silver). 11. Repetition of the usual privileges granted in earlier charters, and a "blanket clause" promising the Company "all such Prerogatives," etc., as have ever been granted to any colonizing Company in England. 56. The Massachusetts Company's Agreement with Mr. Higginson Alexander Young's _Chronicles of Massachusetts_ (1846), 209 ff. Young modernized the spelling. On March 19, at a meeting of the Company, it had been decided to try to secure Higginson for the coming voyage.