IV.--AND do therefore, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, GRANT and
agree, that the said Sir _Thomas Gates_, Sir _George Somers_, _Richard
Hackluit_, and _Edward-Maria Wingfield_, Adventurers of and for our
City of _London_, and all such others, as are, or shall be, joined unto
them of that Colony, shall be called the _first Colony_; And they shall
and may begin their said first Plantation and Habitation, at any Place
upon the said Coast of _Virginia_ or _America_, where they shall think
fit and convenient between the said four-and-thirty and one-and-forty
Degrees of the said Latitude; And that they shall have all the Lands,
Woods, Soil, Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Marshes,
Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, whatsoever, from the
said first Seat of their Plantation and Habitation by the Space of
fifty Miles of _English_ Statute Measure, all along the said Coast of
_Virginia_ and _America_, towards the _West_ and _Southwest_, as the
Coast lyeth, with all the Islands within one hundred Miles directly
over against the same Sea Coast; And also all the Lands, Soil, Grounds,
[etc.] ... from the said Place of their first Plantation and Habitation
for the space of fifty like _English_ Miles, ... towards the _East_ and
_Northeast_, or towards the _North_, as the Coast lyeth, together with
all the Islands within one hundred Miles, directly over against the
said Sea Coast; And also all the Lands, Woods, Soil, Grounds,
[etc.] ... from the same fifty Miles every way on the Sea Coast,
directly into the main Land by the Space of one hundred like _English_
Miles; And shall and may inhabit and remain there; and shall and may
also build and fortify within any the same, for their better Safeguard
and Defence, according to their best Discretion, and the Discretion of
the Council of that Colony....
V.--AND we do likewise, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, by these
Presents, GRANT and agree, that the said _Thomas Hanham_, and _Ralegh
Gilbert_, _William Parker_, and _George Popham_, and all others of
the Town of _Plimouth_ in the County of _Devon_, or elsewhere, which
are, or shall be, joined unto them of that Colony, shall be called
the _second Colony_; And that they shall and may begin their said
Plantation and Seat of their first Abode and Habitation, at any Place
upon the said Coast of _Virginia_ and _America_, where they shall
think fit and convenient, between eight and thirty Degrees of the said
Latitude, and five and forty Degrees of the same Latitude; And that
they shall have all the Lands [Here follows a passage duplicating the
corresponding part of section IV for the other subcompany.]
VI.--PROVIDED always ... that the Plantation and Habitation of such of
the said Colonies as shall last plant themselves, as aforesaid, shall
not be made within one hundred like English miles of the other of them
that first began to make their Plantation, as aforesaid.
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