"That the queen will protect and defend the said seigniories, at her own charge, for seven years to come. All commodities brought from England for the use of the same seigniories to be duty free for seven years." There was to be a complete English population established on these lands in this manner: "For any seigniory containing 12,000 acres, the gentleman was to have for his own domain 2100 acres; six farmers, 400 acres each; six freeholders, 100 acres each; and lands to be appropriated for mean tenures of 50, 25, and 10 acres, to the amount of 1500 acres; whereon thirty-six families, at least, must be established. The other seigniories to be laid out in like proportion. Each undertaker was to people his seigniory in seven years." These articles received the royal signature on the 27th of June, 1586. The following list of undertakers presents some curious particulars. In the first place, Sir Walter Raleigh and Arthur Robbins by some means managed at once to overleap the grand provision, that no undertaker should be permitted to have more than 12,000 acres: Sir Walter Raleigh getting 42,000, and poor Spenser, poet-like, only 3029! He is just tacked on at the end like an after-thought. Acres. Sir Walter Raleigh 42,000 Arthur Robbins, Esq. 18,000 Fane Beecher, Esq. 12,000 Hugh Worth, Esq. 12,000 Arthur Hyde, Esq. 11,766 Sir Thomas Norris 6,000 Sir Richard Beacon 6,000 Sir Warham St. Leger 6,000 Hugh Cuff, Esq. 6,000 Thomas Jay, Esq. 5,775 Sir Arthur Hyde 5,774 Edmund Spenser, Esq. 3,029