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
AND MOREOVER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO GIVE
and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors,
free Liberty and Licence, in case they conceive it necessary, to send
either Ships of War, Men or Ammunition, unto any their Plantations,
Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade aforesaid, for the Security and
Defence of the same, and to choose Commanders and Officers over them,
and to give them Power and Authority, by Commission under their Common
Seal or otherwise, to continue or make Peace or War with any Prince
or People whatsoever, that are not Christians, in any Places where
the said Company shall have any Plantations, Forts or Factories, or
adjacent thereunto, as shall be most for the Advantage and Benefit of
the said Governor and Company, and of their Trade; and also to right
and recompense themselves upon the Goods, Estates or People of those
Parts, by whom the said Governor and Company shall sustain any Injury,
Loss, or Damage, or upon any other People whatsoever that shall any
Way, contrary to the Intent of these Presents, interrupt, wrong or
injure them in their said Trade, within the said Places, Territories,
and Limits, granted by this Charter. And that it shall and may be lawful
to and for the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, from
time to time, and at all Times from henceforth, to erect and build such
Castles, Fortifications, Forts, Garrisons, Colonies or Plantations,
Towns or Villages, in any Parts or Places within the Limits and Bounds
granted before in these Presents, unto the said Governor and Company,
as they in their Discretion shall think fit and requisite, and for
the Supply of such as shall be needful and convenient, to keep and be
in the same, to send out of this Kingdom, to the said Castles, Forts,
Fortifications, Garrisons, Colonies, Plantations, Towns or Villages, all
Kinds of Cloathing, Provision of Victuals, Ammunition, and Implements,
necessary for such Purpose, paying the Duties and Customs for the same,
as also to transport and carry over such Number of Men being willing
thereunto, or not prohibited, as they shall think fit, and also to
govern them in such legal and reasonable Manner as the said Governor and
Company shall think best, and to inflict Punishment for Misdemeanors,
or impose such Fines upon them for Breach of their Orders, as in these
Presents are formerly expressed. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant
unto the said Governor and Company, and to their Successors, full Power
and lawful Authority to seize upon the Persons of all such English,
or any other Our Subjects, which shall sail into Hudson's Bay, or
inhabit in any of the Countries, Islands or Territories hereby granted
to the said Governor and Company, without their Leave and License in
that Behalf first had and obtained, or that shall contemn or disobey
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