Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company — John Shaqi
Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay CompanyHudson's Bay Company
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Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company
Charters; Fur trade; Hudson's Bay Company
the said Places, Seas, Streights, Bays, Ports, Havens or Territories,
aforesaid, contrary to our express Commandment in that Behalf set
down and published. AND FURTHER, of Our more especial Grace, WE HAVE
condescended and granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and
Successors, DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their
Successors, that We, Our Heirs and Successors, will not grant Liberty,
Licence, or Power, to any Person or Persons whatsoever, contrary to
the Tenor of these Our Letters Patent, to trade, traffick or inhabit,
unto or upon any the Territories, Limits or Places, afore specified,
contrary to the true Meaning of these Presents, without the Consent
of the said Governor and Company, or the most part of them. AND, OF Our
more abundant Grace and Favour to the said Governor and Company, WE DO
hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That if it shall so happen,
that any of the Persons free, or to be free of the said Company of
Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, who shall, before the
going forth of any Ship or Ships appointed for a VOYAGE, or otherwise,
promise or agree by Writing under his or their Hands, to adventure
any Sum or Sums of Money, towards the furnishing any Provision, or
Maintenance of any Voyage or Voyages, set forth, or to be set forth, or
intended or meant to be set forth, by the said Governor and Company, or
the more Part of them present at any publick Assembly, commonly called
Their General Court, shall not within the Space of twenty Days next
after Warning given to him or them, by the said Governor or Company, or
their known Officer or Minister, bring in and deliver to the Treasurer or
Treasurers appointed for the Company, such Sums of Money as shall have
been expressed and set down in Writing, by the said Person or Persons,
subscribed with the Name of said Adventurer or Adventurers, that then,
and at all Times after, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said
Governor and Company, or the more Part of them present, whereof the
said Governor or his Deputy to be one, at any of their General Courts
or General Assemblies, to remove and disfranchise him or them, and
every such Person and Persons at their Wills and Pleasures, and he or
they so removed and disfranchised, not to be permitted to trade into
the Countries, Territories, and Limits aforesaid, or any Part thereof,
nor to have any Adventure or Stock going or remaining with or amongst
the said Company, without the special Licence of the said Governor and
Company, or the more Part of them present at any General Court, first had
and obtained in that Behalf, any Thing before in these Presents to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. AND OUR WILL AND PLEASURE
is, and hereby we do also ordain, That it shall and may be lawful,
to and for the said Governor and Company, or the greater Part of them,
whereof the Governor for the Time being, or his Deputy to be one, to
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