The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
this enterprise: we doe by these presents graunt, and declare, that all
such countreys so hereafter to bee possessed and inhabited as aforesayd,
from thencefoorth shall bee of the allegiance of vs, our heires and
successours. And wee doe gaunt to the sayd sir Humfrey, his heirs and
assignes, and to all and euery of them, and to all and euery other person
and persons, being of our allegiance, whose names shall be noted or entred
in some of our courts of Record, within this our Realme of England, and
that with the assent of the said sir Humfrey, his heires or assignes, shall
nowe in this iourney for discouerie, or in the second iourney for conquest
hereafter, trauel to such lands, countries and territories as aforesaid,
and to their and euery of their heires: that they and euery or any of them
being either borne within our sayd Realmes of England or Ireland, or within
any other place within our allegiance, and which hereafter shall be
inhabiting within any the lands, countreys and territories, with such
licence as aforesayd, shall, and may haue, and enioy all priuileges of free
denizens and persons natine of England, and within our allegiance: any law,
custome, or vsage to the contrary notwithstanding.
And forasmuch, as vpon the finding out, discouering and inhabiting of such
remote lands, countreys and territories, as aforesayd, it shall be
necessarie for the safetie of all men that shall aduenture themselues in
those iourneys or voiages, to determine to liue together in Christian peace
and ciuill quietnesse each with other, whereby euery one may with more
pleasure and profit, enioy that whereunto they shall attaine with great
paine and perill: wee for vs, our heires and successors are likewise
pleased and contented, and by these presents doe giue and graunt to the
sayd sir Humfrey and his heires and assignes for euer, that he and they,
and euery or any of them, shall and may from time to time for euer
hereafter within the sayd mentioned remote lands and countreys, and in the
way by the Seas thither, and from thence, haue full and meere power and
authoritie to correct, punish, pardon, gouerne and rule by their, and euery
or any of their good discretions and pollicies, as well in causes capitall
or criminall, as ciuill, both marine and other, all such our subiects and
others, as shall from time to time hereafter aduenture themselues in the
sayd iourneys or voyages habitatiue or possessiue, or that shall at any
time hereafter inhabite any such lands, countreys or territories as
aforesayd, or that shall abide within two hundred leagues of any the sayd
place or places, where the sayd sir Humrrey or his heires, or assignes, or
any of them, or any of his or their associats or companies, shall inhabite
within sixe yeeres next ensuing the date hereof, according to such
statutes, lawes and ordinances, as shall be by him the said sir Humfrey,
his heires and assignes, or euery, or any of them deuised or established
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