XXVII.--[Confirms all privileges granted in the first charter and not
herein altered or revoked.]
XXVIII.--[Provides that anyone who will adventure the necessary money
shall be received in full equality as a member of the Company.]
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 affect 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, to the Treasurer for the time being, and any three of
the Council, to tender and exhibit the said Oath to all such Persons as
shall at any time be sent and employed in the said Voyage....
[It is a profitable exercise to read some of the sections in a
more logical order. Thus the political provisions are seen better
if arranged in the following sequence: XIV, XIII, XV, XXIII, XXIV,
XXII. Certainly, too, XXVIII should follow, or be combined with,
XVI. The utterly meaningless arrangement of many of these great
documents, together with the unpardonable carelessness of the
copiers, account partly for their needless length and largely for
their obscurity.
Nova Britannia (No. 6 above) contains also an explanation of the
method of "industry in common" and of the proposed method of
sharing profits,--all of which was continued ten years more under
this charter:--
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