her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent, soe as they be not unfaithfull to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civill Government established or to bee established in this Province under him or his heires._ And that all and every person and persons that shall presume Contrary to this Act and the true intent and meaning thereof directly or indirectly either in person or estate wilfully to wrong disturbe trouble or molest any person whatsoever within this Province professing to beleive in Jesus Christ for or in respect of his or her religion, or the free exercise thereof, within this Province ... that such person or persons soe offending shall be compelled to pay trebble damages to the party soe wronged ... and for every such offence shall also forfeit 20 s. sterling ... [or, in default of payment, shall make satisfaction by public whipping, and imprisonment during the pleasure of the Governor].... FOOTNOTES: [26] This word "with" should properly be "and"; it begins a new grant--the _feudal_ powers of the proprietor. [27] Indeed, until the grant of "New York" to James, Duke of York, in 1664, every subsequent royal patent to an _individual_ proprietor contains such provision, whether or not it be an exact and formal copy of the Avalon document. New York was a conquered province settled by Dutch,--which may explain the omission there. B. NEW ENGLAND TO 1660 VIII. AN EARLY EXPLORATION IN MAINE 41. Weymouth's Voyage, 1605 From _A True Relation of Captain George Waymouth, His Voyage_ (1605), reprinted in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Vol. VIII. Weymouth's voyage was a precursor of the attempt at settlement on the Kennebec in 1607 by one branch of the Virginia Company. Upon Tuesday, _the 5th day of March_, about ten o'clock before noon, we set sail from Ratcliffe, and came to an anchor that tide about two o'clock before Gravesend.... Friday, _the 17th of May_, about six o'clock at night, we descried the land. ... It appeared a mean high land, as we after found it, being an island of some six miles in compass, but I hope the most fortunate ever yet discovered.... This island is woody grown with fir, birch, oak and beech, as far as we saw along the shore; and so likely to be within. On the verge grow gooseberries, strawberries, wild pease, and wild rose bushes. The water issued forth down the rocky cliffe in many places: and much fowl of divers kinds breed upon the shore and rocks.