THE
FIRST
PART
.
The
Company
.
1.
THe
Company
of
Summer-Ilands
consisteth
of
the
Free-holders
and
Owners
of
Land
there
.
Neuerthelesse
,
no
man
shall
be
admitted
into
this
Company
,
or
haue
voyce
in
any
election
,
or
other
businesse
,
in
quality
of
a
Free-holder
or
Owner
of
Land
,
that
is
not
Owner
of
one
entire
Share
,
at
the
least
,
of
the
foure
hundred
and
fiue
shares
,
into
which
the
eight
Tribes
of
the
said
Summer-Ilands
are
diuided
.
Prouided
alwayes
,
that
the
Owners
by
Ioynt-tenancy
,
Coparcinary
,
or
otherwise
,
as
Tenants
in
common
,
if
the
number
of
their
persons
exceed
not
the
number
of
their
Shares
so
held
,
may
be
admitted
into
the
said
Company
,
and
haue
each
their
seuerall
voyces
:
but
if
the
number
of
their
persons
exceed
,
they
shall
,
or
may
present
one
to
haue
voyce
for
them
all
.
2.
No
man
,
though
hauing
right
,
shall
presume
to
be
present
at
the
Assemblies
of
the
said
Company
,
before
he
be
solemnly
admitted
by
the
Gouernour
or
Deputie
of
the
said
Company
in
a
Generall
Court
:
which
admittance
shall
neither
bee
granted
,
where
it
is
not
due
;
nor
denyed
,
or
delayed
,
where
it
is
apparantly
due
.
3.
No
person
,
by
reason
of
minority
of
yeeres
,
(
hauing
otherwise
right
)
shall
bee
excluded
from
being
present
at
the
Generall
Assemblies
of
the
said
Company
:
but
yet
shall
not
be
admitted
to
haue
voyce
in
any
Election
,
or
other
businesse
whatsoeuer
,
till
he
haue
accomplished
the
full
age
of
eighteene
yeeres
.
Courts
.
4.
THere
are
foure
great
Generall
Courts
,
commonly
called
,
Quarter
Courts
,
appointed
to
be
held
by
the
Gouernour
,
Assistants
,
and
Company
for
the
Summer-Ilands
,
vpon
the
foure
last
Wednesdayes
of
euery
Terme
;
which
onely
haue
,
and
shall
haue
power
to
chuse
Officers
,
as
well
for
the
Company
here
,
as
also
for
the
Colony
and
Planters
in
the
Summer-Ilands
;
to
make
Lawes
and
Ordinances
;
to
distribute
and
dispose
of
the
Lands
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
as
well
for
the
publique
good
of
the
Company
and
Colony
,
as
also
agreeable
to
euery
mans
particular
right
.
And
lastly
,
to
settle
the
matter
of
Trade
,
for
behoofe
of
the
Company
and
Colony
.
5.
Euery
Friday
before
a
Quarter
Court
,
shall
bee
held
a
Court
to
prepare
all
kind
of
businesse
reserued
to
the
power
of
a
Quarter
Court
to
determine
.
6.
Euery
Wednesday
fortnight
,
reckoning
from
the
great
Courts
,
shall
also
bee
held
an
ordinary
Court
for
this
Company
,
for
dispatch
of
ordinary
and
extraordinary
businesse
.
And
it
is
not
to
bee
counted
a
perfect
Court
,
vnlesse
the
Gouernour
or
Deputy
be
there
,
and
seuen
of
the
Assistants
.
7.
It
shall
bee
in
the
power
of
the
Gouernour
or
Deputy
in
his
absence
,
vpon
extraordinary
cause
,
to
call
an
extraordinary
Court
.
8.
It
shall
not
be
in
the
power
of
any
other
then
a
Quarter
Court
to
make
any
contract
,
(
saue
for
the
setting
out
of
Ships
)
whereby
either
to
charge
the
Company
,
or
otherwise
to
binde
the
Company
for
any
continuance
of
time
.
In
which
case
it
shall
bee
proposed
also
in
the
Preparatiue
Court
next
preceding
.
9.
Publique
businesse
shall
haue
precedence
in
the
Courts
before
priuate
,
vnlesse
there
bee
extraordinary
important
cause
to
the
contrary
.
10.
If
any
thing
ordered
in
an
ordinary
or
lesser
Court
,
be
afterward
reuersed
in
one
of
the
foure
great
and
Generall
Courts
,
it
shall
be
from
thence
forward
,
as
though
it
had
neuer
been
so
ordered
.
11.
All
Courts
shall
begin
at
two
of
the
Clocke
in
the
afternoone
,
and
dissolue
at
the
rising
of
the
Gouernour
,
or
of
the
Deputy
in
his
absence
.
12.
Nothing
shall
be
put
to
the
question
after
sixe
of
the
clocke
in
the
afternoone
:
yet
by
order
of
the
same
Court
to
be
made
before
sixe
,
the
debating
and
concluding
of
any
particular
businesses
mentioned
in
the
said
Order
,
may
continue
on
longer
,
as
the
matters
then
in
handling
shall
require
.
13.
If
the
businesse
for
the
Quarter
Courts
grow
very
great
;
it
shall
be
in
the
power
of
the
Gouernour
or
Deputy
,
with
allowance
of
the
Preparatiue
Court
next
preceding
,
to
assemble
the
Quarter
Courts
both
in
the
forenoones
at
eight
of
the
clocke
,
and
in
the
afternoones
of
the
dayes
appoynted
for
them
.
Neuerthelesse
,
in
regard
the
meetings
in
the
afternoones
haue
beene
obserued
to
bee
alwayes
farre
greater
then
in
the
mornings
:
It
shall
be
in
the
power
of
the
same
Quarter
Court
,
in
the
afternoone
to
disauow
and
reuerse
any
thing
passed
in
the
morning
;
to
which
purpose
the
morning
Court
shall
be
first
read
.
14.
The
Company
shall
be
summoned
to
the
Quarter
Courts
,
and
Courts
extraordinary
by
the
Officer
,
but
of
the
ordinary
Courts
themselues
shall
take
notice
.
And
the
Secretary
shall
keepe
a
Booke
of
the
proceedings
of
the
Courts
,
who
with
the
husband
,
and
other
Officers
shall
at
all
Courts
giue
diligent
attendance
.
15.
It
shall
be
lawfull
at
a
Generall
Court
,
and
with
consent
thereof
,
to
dispence
with
all
meetings
in
long
vacations
,
or
in
such
part
of
them
as
may
bee
spared
,
vnlesse
some
extraordinary
matter
befall
.
In
which
case
may
be
called
extraordinary
Courts
.
16.
The
Gouernour
and
Company
being
a
Body
and
Communalty
perpetuall
,
shall
haue
one
faire
and
common
legall
Seale
,
to
be
kept
by
the
Gouernour
,
and
not
to
be
affixed
to
any
Grants
or
Instruments
whatsoeuer
,
otherwhere
then
in
publike
Courts
,
or
by
expresse
warrant
from
thence
.
Elections
.
17.
AT
the
Great
and
Generall
Court
,
commonly
called
the
Quarter
Court
in
Easter
Terme
,
all
Officers
of
this
Company
shall
be
voyd
;
and
the
Court
shall
proceed
to
Election
of
new
Officers
in
manner
following
.
18.
The
Gouernour
,
soone
after
the
beginning
of
the
Court
to
be
held
in
the
afternoone
of
that
day
,
at
the
giuing
vp
of
his
Office
,
shall
declare
by
word
or
writing
,
the
present
estate
of
the
Colony
and
Planters
in
the
Summer-Ilands
.
And
the
Treasurer
at
the
same
time
shall
deliuer
into
the
Court
a
Booke
of
his
Accounts
for
the
yeere
then
ended
,
examined
and
approued
vnder
the
Auditors
hands
:
declaring
withall
the
present
estate
of
the
Cash
:
which
booke
shall
lye
open
in
euery
Court
to
bee
viewed
by
all
men
till
the
next
Quarter
Court
;
and
shall
then
be
laid
vp
in
the
Chest
of
the
Companies
euidences
.
19.
This
done
,
the
Gouernour
shall
leaue
his
place
,
and
the
Court
without
intermixing
of
other
businesse
,
shall
proceed
to
Election
of
Officers
for
the
yeere
insuing
;
first
of
a
Gouernour
,
then
of
a
Deputy
;
afterward
of
the
Assistants
;
next
of
a
Treasurer
;
after
that
,
of
the
Auditors
:
and
lastly
of
the
Secretary
,
Book-keeper
,
Husband
,
and
Beadle
.
20.
At
the
choyce
of
each
Officer
,
the
persons
nominated
to
stand
in
Election
,
shall
withdraw
themselues
,
till
the
party
chosen
bee
publikely
so
pronounced
.
And
generally
,
no
man
shall
bee
present
in
the
Court
,
whilest
himselfe
or
his
matter
passeth
the
iudgement
of
the
Court.
21.
In
regard
of
the
waighty
businesse
of
this
Company
,
which
is
also
like
to
increase
:
no
man
shall
be
chosen
Gouernour
of
the
Company
of
the
Summer-Ilands
,
who
at
the
time
of
his
Election
is
Gouernour
of
any
other
Company
;
except
it
seeme
good
for
the
behoofe
of
both
Companies
,
that
the
same
man
haue
the
gouernment
both
of
this
Company
,
and
of
that
for
Virginia
.
22.
It
is
for
waighty
reasons
thought
very
expedient
,
and
so
ordered
,
that
no
man
continue
in
the
place
of
Gouernour
,
Deputy
,
or
Treasurer
of
this
Company
,
aboue
three
yeeres
at
once
.
23.
For
the
auoyding
of
diuers
inconueniences
;
It
is
thought
fit
and
so
ordered
,
that
all
elections
of
Principall
Officers
,
in
,
or
for
the
Summer-Ilands
,
as
also
of
the
Gouernour
and
Deputy
here
,
be
performed
by
a
ballating
box
,
as
in
some
other
Companies
.
24.
Euery
Officer
as
hee
is
chosen
,
shall
openly
in
Court
take
his
Oath
,
or
if
he
bee
absent
,
at
the
next
Court
he
commeth
to
.
25.
The
Gouernour
,
Deputy
and
Treasurer
,
hauing
no
certaine
allowance
for
their
cares
and
labours
:
the
rewarding
of
these
former
Officers
according
to
their
deserts
,
is
referred
to
the
pleasure
of
the
Court
,
wherein
new
Officers
are
chosen
.
Gouernour
.
26.
THe
Gouernours
duty
is
to
keepe
the
ordinary
Courts
of
the
Summer-Ilands
,
and
vpon
cause
extraordinary
,
to
call
Courts
extraordinary
:
And
in
all
Courts
and
other
meetings
,
hee
is
to
haue
a
casting
voyce
.
27.
He
is
to
moderate
the
Courts
in
quality
of
a
President
,
and
to
cause
grauity
,
decency
and
good
order
to
be
obserued
:
and
for
breach
thereof
,
after
a
graue
admonition
first
giuen
and
preuailing
,
to
proceed
to
reformation
by
the
iudgement
of
the
Court.
28.
He
is
to
propound
and
put
all
things
to
the
question
which
the
Court
requires
,
the
same
not
being
contrary
to
his
Maiesties
Letters
Patents
,
or
Instructions
,
nor
to
the
Standing
Lawes
and
Orders
of
the
Company
;
vnder
paine
of
being
immediately
put
from
his
office
,
if
he
refuse
:
in
which
case
,
the
Deputy
shall
doe
it
vnder
the
like
paine
.
And
if
hee
refuse
,
then
any
of
the
assistants
there
present
.
29.
The
Gouernour
is
to
haue
care
that
the
extraordinary
Committies
appoynted
by
the
Courts
to
seuerall
businesse
,
doe
prosecute
the
same
,
and
giue
seasonable
account
of
their
doings
to
the
Court
.
30.
He
is
also
to
haue
an
especial
care
,
that
no
Grant
or
Patent
doe
passe
from
the
Company
,
but
vpon
examination
thereof
by
a
select
Committy
;
who
are
exactly
to
obserue
the
Orders
made
concerning
them
.
And
to
this
end
,
with
diuers
others
,
hee
is
to
haue
a
vigilant
eye
on
the
Companies
Seale
,
which
is
to
be
committed
to
his
custody
,
that
they
be
not
wronged
by
abusing
thereof
.
31.
The
Gouernour
,
vpon
receit
of
publike
Letters
,
from
,
or
concerning
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
assemble
at
least
foure
of
the
principall
Assistants
to
impart
them
to
them
,
and
by
their
assent
shall
cause
them
to
bee
read
in
Court
,
vnlesse
there
bee
some
cause
of
secresie
;
in
which
case
hee
shall
communicate
them
with
the
Assistants
onely
.
In
like
sort
,
the
publike
Letters
and
instructions
to
bee
sent
to
the
Gouernour
and
people
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
or
otherwise
concerning
them
,
hee
shall
cause
to
bee
publikely
read
,
and
approued
by
the
Court
or
Assistants
as
the
case
shall
require
.
And
neither
hee
,
nor
any
other
,
shall
of
his
owne
head
or
authority
,
write
,
or
send
any
directions
swaruing
from
such
as
the
Court
or
Assistants
shall
giue
,
vpon
paine
to
be
suspended
from
the
Court
for
euer
.
32.
The
Gouernour
shall
assemble
the
Principall
Assistants
whom
the
Court
shall
particularly
assigne
to
assist
him
,
vpon
all
waighty
occasions
requiring
serious
deliberation
:
and
shall
haue
care
with
them
,
that
the
Lords
of
his
Maiesties
Priuie
Councell
be
acquainted
with
all
matters
of
extraordinary
and
greatest
importance
concerning
the
State
.
33.
He
is
to
doe
his
best
,
that
fit
men
bee
chosen
to
the
place
of
Assistants
,
and
being
chosen
,
is
to
haue
care
that
they
take
their
Oathes
.
34.
The
Gouernour
is
to
haue
care
also
that
the
generall
Assistants
keepe
their
Courts
with
the
Deputie
,
vpon
all
occasions
of
businesse
.
35.
The
Gouernour
at
his
pleasure
shall
sit
in
any
Assembly
,
either
of
the
Assistants
,
or
other
Committies
ordinary
,
or
extraordinary
;
vnlesse
the
matter
happen
to
concerne
himselfe
particularly
.
Deputy
.
36.
FOr
matter
of
the
Courts
,
in
the
Gouernours
absence
the
Deputy
shall
performe
his
Office
,
and
in
his
presence
be
assisting
to
him
.
37.
He
shall
ouersee
the
Secretary
for
entring
the
Orders
of
Court
,
and
shall
giue
instructions
for
the
writing
of
Letters
as
he
shall
be
directed
,
and
haue
care
that
accordingly
they
be
written
.
38.
The
Deputy
shall
also
keep
the
Courts
of
Assistants
vpon
all
occasions
requisite
,
and
at
his
pleasure
shall
also
sit
in
any
Assembly
of
Committies
ordinary
or
extraordinary
,
vnlesse
the
matter
concerne
himselfe
:
and
in
all
these
,
in
the
Gouernours
absence
,
he
shall
haue
a
casting
voyce
.
39.
He
shall
suffer
no
warrant
to
be
made
and
signed
for
issuing
out
of
money
,
but
in
the
open
Court
of
Assistants
,
after
due
examination
of
the
Cause
:
vnto
all
which
warrants
his
owne
hand
shall
bee
first
set
,
and
after
it
,
other
foure
hands
or
more
of
the
Assistants
.
And
the
Deputie
and
Assistants
shall
not
intermeddle
with
Disbursements
for
any
other
charges
,
then
such
as
arise
within
the
compasse
of
their
owne
yeere
.
40.
When
a
Warrant
is
directed
to
the
Treasurer
to
pay
any
grosse
Summe
to
the
Deputie
,
to
be
issued
out
by
him
and
the
Assistants
for
the
vse
of
the
Company
:
in
that
case
it
shall
not
be
requisite
,
that
the
Deputies
hand
be
to
the
Warrant
,
so
it
be
to
the
receit
.
41.
Generally
the
Deputy
shall
ouer-see
all
inferiour
Officers
,
that
they
performe
their
duties
.
Assistants
.
42.
THe
Assistants
being
to
bee
foure
and
twenty
,
and
to
be
yerely
chosen
;
there
shall
be
a
yeerly
alteration
made
of
one
fourth
part
at
the
least
;
to
the
end
many
be
trained
vp
in
the
busines
:
to
which
end
,
the
six
new
Assistants
shall
be
first
chosen
.
43.
The
Assistants
Office
is
,
together
with
the
Deputy
,
to
performe
the
orders
of
Courts
,
for
setting
out
Ships
,
and
buying
prouisions
for
the
Summer-Ilands
;
wherein
especiall
care
is
to
be
had
,
that
neither
the
husband
,
nor
any
one
man
alone
bee
intrusted
with
the
making
of
those
prouisions
:
but
two
at
the
least
,
to
be
appoynted
thereunto
by
the
Deputy
and
Assistants
in
their
Court
;
who
shall
also
bring
in
their
bils
and
accounts
,
to
bee
examined
and
approued
by
the
Assistants
.
The
like
care
shall
they
haue
at
the
returne
of
Ships
from
the
Summer-Ilands
,
of
the
Goods
belonging
to
the
Company
,
to
bee
safely
kept
and
sold
to
the
best
aduantage
,
either
in
Court
,
or
otherwise
by
the
Courts
direction
.
The
accounts
of
all
which
,
shall
be
transmitted
to
the
Auditors
;
and
the
money
remaining
,
returned
to
the
Cash
.
The
Deputy
and
Assistants
shall
also
haue
care
,
of
the
Invoyces
to
be
made
for
the
prouisions
sent
to
the
Summer-Ilands
:
and
of
the
Certificates
of
the
receit
to
be
thence
returned
:
as
likewise
of
the
Invoyces
of
the
Goods
sent
from
the
Summer-Ilands
.
All
which
shall
bee
registred
fairely
in
a
Booke
.
44.
The
Assistants
shall
diligently
keep
their
Courts
,
whensoeuer
occasion
of
businesse
shall
require
.
They
shall
bee
summoned
by
order
from
the
Gouernour
or
Deputy
:
and
it
shall
not
bee
counted
a
Court
of
Assistants
,
vnlesse
the
Gouernour
or
Deputy
with
sixe
Assistants
be
present
.
The
Secretary
of
the
Company
shall
keepe
a
Booke
also
of
their
proceedings
.
Principall
Assistants
.
45.
AFter
choice
of
the
foure
and
twenty
Assistants
,
sixe
of
them
shall
be
selected
by
the
Court
,
to
be
of
counsell
with
the
Gouernour
,
or
Deputy
in
his
absence
,
in
all
matters
of
importance
concerning
the
Summer-Ilands
:
and
they
shall
haue
the
name
of
Principall
Assistants
;
but
their
power
shall
be
onely
to
deliberate
and
aduise
;
but
not
to
conclude
,
without
the
rest
of
the
Assistants
,
or
the
generall
Court
,
as
the
case
shall
require
.
46.
The
Principall
Assistants
are
to
assemble
vpon
all
important
occasions
,
being
requested
by
the
Gouernour
or
the
Deputy
in
his
absence
.
And
in
defect
of
both
,
being
desired
by
the
Court
:
and
without
fauour
or
displeasure
,
priuate
or
sinister
respect
,
to
giue
their
faithfull
aduice
in
all
matters
tending
to
the
aduancement
and
benefit
of
the
Plantation
;
and
especially
touching
the
making
of
Orders
and
Constitutions
for
the
better
gouerning
,
as
well
of
the
Company
heere
,
as
also
of
the
Colony
planted
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
wherein
the
policy
and
forme
of
England
is
to
bee
followed
as
neere
as
may
be
.
47.
The
Principall
Assistants
,
together
with
the
Gouernour
and
Deputy
,
shall
haue
an
especiall
regard
,
by
pious
Constitutions
,
and
by
other
good
politique
Lawes
and
Orders
,
to
hold
the
people
there
in
the
true
Religion
and
seruice
of
God
;
and
in
assured
alleagiance
to
his
Maiesty
and
the
Crowne
of
England
;
in
due
respect
also
to
this
Company
for
the
Summer-Ilands
;
and
in
iustice
,
peace
,
vniformity
,
and
amity
,
amongst
themselues
.
48.
They
shall
also
haue
care
of
the
Instructions
to
be
deliuered
,
or
sent
from
time
to
time
to
the
Gouernour
,
or
other
Principall
Officers
in
the
Summer-Ilands
:
and
shall
haue
an
eye
vpon
the
due
obseruance
of
the
same
.
49.
If
any
Principall
Officer
of
the
Company
here
,
or
Magistrate
,
great
Officer
or
Councellor
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
by
the
fame
of
his
mis-deserts
,
or
particular
occasion
,
merit
to
bee
called
in
question
heere
of
being
remoued
from
his
place
,
or
otherwise
reformed
or
censured
:
he
shall
be
first
conuented
and
examined
by
the
Gouernour
,
Deputy
,
and
Principall
Assistants
,
before
his
cause
bee
produced
in
publike
Court
:
and
in
his
absence
the
like
course
shall
be
held
for
his
businesse
.
50.
The
Principall
Assistants
,
in
consideration
of
this
their
greater
imployment
,
shall
not
bee
tyed
to
attendance
at
the
Courts
of
the
generall
Assistants
,
other
then
at
their
owne
leisure
and
pleasure
.
Treasurer
.
51.
THe
Treasurer
shall
stand
charged
with
the
publike
Treasure
of
the
Company
,
and
is
to
haue
care
that
it
be
duely
got
in
,
and
not
issued
out
,
but
by
lawfull
warrant
,
and
to
the
Companies
vse
.
52.
A
lawfull
warrant
for
charges
of
the
present
yeere
,
is
that
which
is
signed
by
the
Deputy
and
foure
of
the
Assistants
,
vnlesse
the
money
be
to
bee
paid
to
the
Deputy
himselfe
;
in
which
case
the
warrant
shall
be
signed
by
sixe
of
the
Assistants
:
and
for
former
charges
and
debts
,
that
which
is
signed
by
three
of
the
Auditors
,
whereof
one
to
be
of
the
Quorum
;
and
vnderneath
,
or
vpon
the
backe
of
euery
Warrant
,
an
Acquittance
shall
bee
taken
for
the
Receit
vnder
the
parties
hand
.
53.
The
Treasurer
is
also
to
yeeld
vp
a
true
and
perfect
account
of
the
generall
Cash
at
the
end
of
his
yeere
,
and
to
bring
it
in
a
fortnight
before
,
to
the
Auditors
to
be
examined
;
and
at
all
times
,
being
requested
by
the
Auditors
or
Assistants
,
to
shew
in
what
case
the
Cash
doth
stand
.
54.
If
any
complaint
or
suspition
grow
concerning
the
account
,
a
reuiew
shall
be
made
by
twelue
chosen
by
the
Court
,
and
the
account
being
accepted
and
approoued
by
the
Court
,
the
Treasurer
shall
haue
his
Quietus
est
,
vnder
the
Companies
Seale
at
the
Quarter
Court
in
Trinity
Terme
then
next
insuing
.
Auditors
.
55.
THe
Auditors
shall
be
fiue
;
whereof
one
at
the
least
of
the
Principall
Assistants
,
and
two
of
the
Quorum
.
56.
The
Auditors
shall
haue
care
of
the
generall
accounts
,
to
examine
the
Receits
and
Disbursements
according
to
the
Orders
of
the
Company
:
and
in
all
cases
of
difficulty
,
or
of
breach
of
these
Orders
,
they
shall
acquaint
the
Gouernour
,
and
the
generall
Court
therewith
;
and
from
thence
receiue
resolution
,
and
direction
.
57.
They
shall
also
cause
to
be
reduced
into
a
seuerall
booke
,
the
whole
Receits
and
Disbursements
of
that
yeere
;
and
the
same
vnder
three
of
their
hands
at
the
least
,
(
whereof
one
to
be
of
the
Quorum
)
shall
bee
presented
by
the
Treasurer
at
the
Quarter
Court
in
Easter
Terme
,
at
the
giuing
vp
of
his
and
their
Office
.
58.
They
shall
signe
no
Warrants
for
the
issuing
of
money
,
but
onely
for
old
charges
or
debts
,
that
is
to
say
,
due
before
that
yeere
of
their
Office
;
and
that
not
otherwise
,
then
after
due
examination
of
the
matter
had
in
their
appoynted
meetings
.
Vnto
which
Warrant
shall
bee
first
set
the
hand
of
one
at
the
least
of
the
Quorum
,
and
then
of
two
other
or
more
of
the
rest
of
the
Auditors
.
59.
The
Auditors
shall
also
imploy
their
best
industry
and
care
,
for
the
recouery
of
the
old
Debts
due
to
the
Company
,
and
their
Receits
shall
transmit
to
the
generall
Cash
.
60.
And
touching
the
old
accounts
now
depending
in
Audit
,
that
is
to
say
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
Plantation
,
till
the
ninth
day
of
May
1621.
the
Auditors
shall
proceed
in
the
examining
and
reducing
them
to
order
,
and
to
the
finall
auditing
of
them
,
with
what
expedition
they
well
can
;
and
shall
from
time
to
time
acquaint
the
Gouernour
,
Deputy
and
Court
,
with
such
impediments
and
difficulties
as
shall
be
incident
.
61.
The
Auditors
shall
keep
their
meetings
once
at
the
least
in
a
week
in
Terme
time
,
or
oftener
,
if
need
require
;
and
once
euery
moneth
at
least
in
the
vacation
times
,
to
ouersee
the
accounts
,
and
to
dispatch
such
other
businesse
as
shall
be
committed
to
them
.
62.
They
shall
also
haue
the
authority
of
the
Court
,
to
call
before
them
such
persons
as
are
indebted
or
accountable
to
the
Company
.
To
which
end
the
Beadle
shall
attend
vpon
them
:
who
shall
be
rewarded
for
his
trauell
at
the
pleasure
of
the
Court.
Accounts
.
63.
NO
Auditors
extraordinary
,
shall
presume
to
intermeddle
with
the
auditing
of
any
account
,
wherein
the
Body
of
the
Company
is
interessed
;
but
being
appoynted
in
the
face
,
and
with
the
approbation
of
the
Court.
64.
All
Accountants
whatsoeuer
,
and
Auditors
extraordinary
,
if
the
Court
so
require
,
shall
haue
an
Oath
ministred
vnto
them
in
the
face
of
the
Court
;
the
one
for
true
accounting
,
the
other
for
true
auditing
.
65.
No
account
shall
bee
held
cleered
,
nor
Accountant
discharged
,
till
the
account
being
approued
vnder
the
Auditors
hands
,
bee
presented
to
the
Court
,
and
there
lye
openly
in
Court
two
Court
dayes
,
to
bee
viewed
by
any
that
are
so
disposed
.
66.
If
exception
bee
taken
to
any
account
whatsoeuer
,
the
Court
shall
proceed
to
reuiew
,
as
in
like
case
of
the
Treasurer
.
If
no
exception
bee
taken
in
the
two
Court
dayes
,
or
vpon
the
reuiew
returned
,
and
the
account
approued
;
the
Gouernour
then
,
or
Deputy
in
his
absence
,
shall
signe
the
account
in
open
Court
;
whereby
the
Accountant
shall
bee
cleerly
discharged
.
67.
If
any
Officer
,
or
other
Accountant
bee
slow
in
bringing
in
his
accounts
to
the
Auditors
ordinary
or
extraordinary
;
or
within
one
moneth
after
his
account
is
perfect
,
doe
not
pay
the
Cash
the
due
Summe
remaining
,
vnlesse
the
Court
see
cause
to
giue
longer
time
:
the
Auditors
or
Treasurer
shall
impart
the
same
to
the
Court
,
that
order
be
thence
giuen
for
redresse
thereof
.
68.
If
any
man
be
found
indebted
to
the
Company
by
any
meanes
whatsoeuer
,
and
being
required
,
shall
refuse
or
forbeare
to
pay
the
said
Debt
:
the
same
shall
be
leuied
vpon
such
profits
and
commodities
,
as
hee
either
hath
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
or
shall
be
returned
hither
from
thence
;
wherein
hee
shall
stand
to
the
iudgement
of
the
Court.
Secretary
.
69.
THe
Secretary
shall
attend
the
Gouernour
and
Deputy
,
in
such
seruice
of
the
Company
,
as
wherein
they
shall
haue
cause
to
vse
him
.
And
besides
the
generall
Courts
,
hee
shall
of
duty
attend
the
Courts
of
Assistants
,
and
keepe
seuerall
Bookes
of
their
proceedings
.
The
Principall
Assistants
,
Auditors
,
and
Committies
extraordinary
,
he
shall
then
also
attend
,
when
,
and
so
often
as
hee
shall
bee
thereunto
required
.
70.
He
shall
be
bound
by
oath
to
keepe
secret
all
matters
of
secresie
;
and
not
to
discouer
the
proceedings
of
the
Principall
Assistants
,
and
Committies
extraordinary
,
till
such
time
as
themselues
shall
publish
the
same
.
71.
The
Secretary
,
vpon
reference
of
any
businesse
from
the
Court
to
a
select
Committie
,
shall
giue
a
note
to
the
Officer
,
containing
the
businesse
,
time
,
and
place
.
72.
His
Office
is
also
to
be
a
Remembrancer
to
the
generall
Courts
,
and
to
the
Courts
of
Assistants
,
for
the
prosecuting
and
performing
of
matters
formerly
ordered
;
as
also
touching
Motions
formerly
made
,
and
referred
to
speciall
Committies
,
or
other
further
consideration
.
73.
If
at
any
time
a
generall
Court
shall
order
any
money
to
be
issued
out
of
the
Cash
,
the
Secretary
vnder
his
hand
shall
deliuer
a
Copy
thereof
to
the
Auditors
,
if
it
be
of
old
Debts
;
and
if
otherwise
,
then
to
the
Deputy
and
Assistants
,
who
respectiuely
shall
vnder
that
Order
,
make
their
warrant
for
payment
of
that
money
,
vnlesse
they
finde
the
Court
,
by
wrong
information
,
to
haue
been
abused
and
deceiued
in
that
order
;
whereof
at
the
next
Court
they
shall
giue
aduertizement
.
74.
The
Secretaries
Office
is
to
keepe
the
Bookes
of
the
Company
,
and
fairely
,
and
orderly
to
enter
in
them
the
particulars
heere-vnder
expressed
,
and
in
such
manner
as
hee
shall
bee
directed
by
the
Gouernour
,
Deputy
,
or
Auditors
.
First
,
a
Booke
containing
the
Copies
of
the
Kings
Letters
Patents
to
the
Company
:
Likewise
of
all
Grants
from
the
Company
for
Virginia
:
Also
of
all
Letters
,
Orders
,
Directions
,
and
other
Writings
from
his
Maiesty
,
the
Lords
of
the
Councell
,
and
other
great
Officers
,
concerning
the
Company
and
Affaires
of
the
Summer-Ilands
;
together
with
the
answeres
made
vnto
them
.
75.
A
second
Booke
shall
bee
kept
of
all
the
Lawes
and
Standing
Orders
established
henceforward
in
the
Quarter
Courts
,
and
beginning
with
this
day
;
as
well
such
as
concerne
the
Gouernment
of
the
Company
and
businesse
heere
,
as
also
the
Gouernment
of
the
Colony
and
Affaires
in
the
Summer-Ilands
.
76.
In
a
third
Booke
shall
bee
registred
all
the
Patents
,
Charters
,
and
Indentures
of
validity
,
heretofore
granted
,
or
that
hereafter
shall
bee
granted
by
the
Gouernour
and
Company
;
all
Instructions
;
all
publike
Letters
written
to
the
Summer-Ilands
,
or
from
thence
returned
.
77.
A
fourth
Booke
shall
bee
of
the
Acts
of
the
generall
Courts
,
beginning
with
a
new
Booke
at
the
Quarter
Court
in
Easter
Terme
last
.
In
which
Booke
,
vpon
any
cause
controuerted
and
debated
,
the
Secretary
shall
haue
care
to
set
downe
exactly
,
the
resolution
and
conclusion
of
the
Court
,
together
with
the
principall
reasons
inducing
thereunto
:
but
shall
not
set
downe
other
passages
of
speech
,
nor
the
parties
names
that
were
of
other
opinion
.
78.
A
fifth
Booke
shall
bee
of
the
Acts
of
the
Assistants
,
beginning
from
the
same
Court.
In
which
Booke
shall
be
registred
all
Invoyces
of
the
prouisions
sent
to
the
Summer-Ilands
,
and
the
Certificats
of
the
Receits
to
be
thence
returned
:
as
likewise
the
Invoyces
of
the
Goods
sent
from
the
Summer-Ilands
,
with
the
Husbands
Certificats
of
the
receit
or
defect
.
79.
In
the
sixth
Booke
shall
be
registred
the
names
of
all
the
Aduenturers
and
Owners
of
Land
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
together
with
the
number
of
Shares
to
each
person
belonging
,
according
to
the
seuerall
Tribes
wherein
they
are
placed
.
Here
shall
also
bee
entred
the
lawfull
transports
of
Shares
.
Both
which
shall
first
bee
published
and
allowed
in
a
generall
Court
,
and
not
registred
in
this
booke
,
but
by
direction
from
thence
.
80.
The
Secretary
shall
also
keepe
safe
in
the
Companies
Chest
of
Euidences
,
the
Originals
of
all
the
Letters
Patents
,
and
other
writings
afore
mentioned
:
all
the
bookes
also
aforesaid
:
all
the
Gouernours
and
Treasurers
bookes
of
their
yeerely
accounts
:
the
Husbands
bookes
of
accounts
of
euery
voyage
to
the
Summer-Ilands
:
and
all
other
accounts
perfected
and
approued
by
the
Auditors
.
In
the
same
Chest
shall
bee
kept
all
Charter-parties
,
as
well
cancelled
,
as
vncancelled
:
all
bonds
made
to
the
Company
,
or
for
their
vse
:
and
all
bonds
of
the
Companies
,
discharged
and
cancelled
:
and
all
other
writings
and
muniments
whatsoeuer
belonging
to
the
Company
:
and
the
Secretary
shall
deliuer
out
none
of
the
Companies
writings
,
but
by
direction
from
the
Gouernour
,
Deputy
,
or
Court
,
taking
a
note
of
the
parties
hand
for
the
true
restoring
of
them
:
and
in
conuenient
time
hee
shall
make
Calenders
of
all
the
foresaid
writings
.
The
said
Chest
of
Euidences
shall
haue
two
strong
lockes
to
it
:
the
key
of
the
one
shall
bee
kept
by
the
Gouernour
or
Deputy
;
and
the
key
of
the
other
by
the
Secretary
.
81.
The
Secretaries
Salary
shall
be
for
the
present
,
ten
pounds
per
annum
;
and
when
the
publike
Land
shall
be
thorowly
planted
,
then
twenty
pounds
;
and
of
his
paines
extraordinary
,
the
Court
shall
take
consideration
.
Booke-Keeper
.
82.
THe
Booke-keeper
,
at
such
time
as
hee
shall
bee
be
found
to
be
necessary
,
shall
be
directed
and
ordered
by
the
Treasurer
and
Auditors
;
and
shall
receiue
his
Salary
in
the
Quarter
Courts
,
as
the
Auditors
shall
report
of
his
paines
and
deserts
.
83.
The
Booke-keeper
,
vpon
conference
with
the
Secretary
and
the
Husband
,
and
they
two
in
his
defect
,
shall
in
euery
Quarter
Court
present
openly
to
the
Gouernour
,
a
true
note
of
the
Debts
,
both
owing
by
the
Company
,
and
ought
vnto
them
;
together
with
the
ground
from
whence
they
are
risen
;
that
the
Court
may
take
order
for
the
discharge
of
the
one
,
and
recouery
of
the
other
.
Husband
.
84.
THe
Husband
is
to
bee
ordered
by
the
Gouernour
,
Deputy
,
and
Assistants
;
and
to
keepe
his
accounts
in
exact
and
iustifiable
manner
:
and
to
bring
them
from
time
to
time
to
the
Deputy
and
Assistants
,
to
be
first
examined
there
,
and
approued
vnder
their
hands
,
and
then
to
bee
presented
to
the
Auditors
.
85.
He
shall
at
the
end
of
euery
voyage
set
out
by
the
Company
,
make
a
seuerall
booke
of
the
charges
of
that
voyage
,
to
be
presented
by
him
to
the
Auditors
,
and
by
them
to
the
Court
.
His
wages
for
the
present
shall
be
tenne
pounds
per
annum
;
and
twenty
pounds
,
when
the
publike
Lands
shall
bee
thorowly
planted
.
Beadle
.
86.
THe
Beadle
or
Messenger
is
to
bee
at
command
of
the
Gouernour
,
Deputy
,
and
Courts
:
He
is
to
warne
all
Quarter
Courts
,
and
Courts
extraordinary
;
all
meetings
of
the
Assistants
,
and
of
all
select
Committies
.
His
wages
tenne
pounds
per
annum
for
the
present
,
and
twenty
pounds
when
the
publike
Lands
shall
bee
thorowly
planted
.
Generality
.
87
THe
particular
Members
of
the
Company
,
shall
bee
subiect
to
the
generall
Courts
,
in
matters
concerning
the
Company
or
Plantation
.
If
any
man
find
himselfe
agreeued
by
a
lesser
or
ordinary
Court
,
hee
may
appeale
to
a
great
and
Quarter
Court
:
where
the
matter
shall
be
heard
and
finally
ordered
.
If
any
man
refuse
to
obey
both
the
Court
and
other
,
he
shall
be
suspended
from
the
Courts
for
three
yeeres
,
and
so
much
longer
till
hee
submit
himselfe
to
the
order
of
the
Court.
88
Euery
man
speaking
in
Court
,
shall
addresse
his
speech
to
the
Gouernour
,
or
Deputy
in
his
absence
,
as
representing
the
Court.
And
all
priuate
speech
,
or
directed
to
particular
persons
,
shall
bee
forborne
.
89
No
man
in
one
Court
shall
speake
aboue
thrice
to
one
matter
:
saue
the
Gouernour
,
and
the
Deputy
being
to
moderate
the
busines
.
90
No
man
with
his
speech
shall
interrupt
the
speech
of
another
,
before
he
haue
finished
:
except
the
Gouernour
,
or
in
his
absence
the
Deputy
,
(
with
approbation
of
the
Court
)
see
cause
to
put
any
to
silence
for
impertinency
,
or
other
vnseemely
speaking
.
91
If
any
man
be
found
by
sinister
course
,
to
practise
his
owne
aduantage
,
to
the
damnifying
of
the
publike
;
or
be
found
with
the
Companies
money
or
goods
in
his
hands
,
and
refuse
to
deliuer
the
same
being
lawfully
thereunto
required
:
If
being
summoned
to
the
Court
,
hee
refuse
to
appeare
:
or
appearing
,
performe
not
the
order
of
the
Court
;
hee
shall
be
both
suspended
from
the
Courts
,
and
farther
poceeded
against
,
as
an
vnworthy
member
and
wrong-doer
to
the
Company
.
92
If
any
man
out
of
euill
mind
,
practise
to
rayse
faction
or
dissention
in
the
Company
:
he
shall
for
the
first
time
be
admonished
by
the
Gouernour
and
the
Court
;
and
at
the
second
time
be
suspended
from
the
Courts
for
three
yeeres
.
93
Whosoeuer
shall
attempt
by
priuate
solicitation
to
packe
the
Court
to
any
vniust
or
vnlawfull
end
:
he
shall
vpon
complaint
be
conuented
before
the
Gouernour
and
Principall
Assistants
;
And
being
conuicted
thereof
by
iudgement
of
the
Court
,
hee
shall
bee
suspended
from
the
Courts
for
three
yeeres
.
94
If
any
man
be
found
through
corrupt
reward
,
to
make
a
motion
in
the
Court
,
tending
to
the
publike
hurt
,
or
to
the
priuate
wrong
of
another
:
hee
shall
bee
foorthwith
suspended
from
the
Courts
for
euer
.
95
No
man
shall
presume
to
intercept
letters
,
written
by
or
to
the
Gouernour
or
Company
,
or
to
spread
false
rumours
vpon
sinister
intent
,
to
the
wrong
of
the
Gouernour
,
Company
or
Colony
.
The
offender
shall
bee
suspended
from
the
Courts
for
euer
.
96
No
man
shall
traduce
any
member
of
this
Company
in
the
Court
of
any
other
Company
,
for
any
thing
done
or
spoken
in
this
Court
.
The
offender
for
the
first
time
shall
be
admonished
;
for
the
second
,
suspended
from
the
Court
for
one
yeere
;
and
the
third
time
,
for
more
yeeres
,
as
the
Court
shall
thinke
meete
.
97
To
auoid
the
drawing
of
the
Company
into
debt
henceforward
,
It
is
ordered
that
no
man
,
other
then
the
Gouernour
or
Deputie
,
by
the
aduice
and
assent
of
the
Principall
Assistants
,
make
or
propound
any
new
proiect
of
charge
to
the
Company
:
but
that
he
therewithall
offer
good
meanes
to
defray
that
charge
,
and
vphold
his
proiect
,
in
such
sort
that
the
Company
bee
neuer
drawne
againe
into
any
further
Debt
.
And
the
breakers
of
this
Order
,
shall
bee
excluded
from
the
generall
Courts
,
and
from
hauing
voice
or
bearing
Office
for
one
yeere
after
.
98
If
any
man
mooue
for
any
charge
to
the
Companie
by
way
of
gift
in
what
sort
soeuer
:
It
shall
be
first
referred
to
a
select
Committie
:
And
if
the
charge
doe
not
exceede
ten
pounds
,
it
may
be
ordered
by
the
next
Court
:
If
aboue
,
it
shall
be
reserued
to
the
Qarter
Court
ensuing
.
99
It
shall
not
be
lawfull
for
any
Owner
of
Land
,
to
sell
or
transport
his
Shares
to
another
,
otherwise
then
in
open
Court
:
And
not
before
it
do
appeare
vnder
three
of
the
Auditors
hands
,
that
the
partie
transporting
his
Shares
stand
cleere
,
and
bee
not
indebted
to
the
Company
;
or
the
partie
to
whom
they
are
passed
,
pay
the
said
debt
.
Lawes
.
100
NO
Lawes
or
standing
Orders
shall
be
made
by
the
Company
,
otherwise
then
in
this
manner
.
First
,
after
the
propounding
of
them
in
Court
,
they
shal
be
referred
to
the
discussing
of
a
Select
Cōmittie
:
the
Commities
shal
present
their
labours
to
the
view
of
the
Assistants
:
The
Court
of
Assistants
approuing
them
,
they
shall
bee
brought
to
the
Court
of
Preparation
next
before
the
Quarter
Court
,
and
there
openly
read
:
And
lastly
they
shall
passe
the
Iudgement
of
the
Quarter
Court
.
101
The
Lawes
and
Orders
thus
made
,
shall
bee
fairly
registred
by
the
Secretary
in
a
Parchment
book
:
which
he
shall
bring
in
euery
Court
,
and
lay
on
the
Table
,
that
all
men
may
peruse
them
that
are
so
disposed
.
102
In
the
Quarter
Court
in
Hillary
Terme
,
all
Lawes
and
Standing
Orders
concerning
the
Company
here
,
shall
bee
publikely
read
in
the
beginning
of
the
Court
,
till
such
time
as
it
shall
seem
fit
to
haue
them
printed
.
103
The
abrogating
of
a
Law
or
Order
,
shall
proceed
by
the
same
degrees
,
by
which
the
making
.
104
All
Orders
heretofore
made
repugnant
or
swaruing
from
these
,
shall
be
henceforth
void
.
Orders
and
Constitutions
for
the
Summer-Ilands
,
&c.
presented
to
the
Quarter
Court
held
the
6.
of
February
,
1621.
and
finally
enacted
and
established
in
the
Quarter
Court
held
the
29.
of
May
,
1622.
THE
SECOND
PART
.
Land
in
the
Summer-Ilands
.
105.
THe
Land
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
is
partly
publike
,
partly
priuate
.
The
priuate
Land
is
diuided
into
eight
Tribes
,
lying
from
the
common
Land
,
in
this
order
:
Namely
,
Harington
and
Hamiltons
Tribe
,
Smythes
Tribe
,
Deuonshire
Tribe
,
Pembroke
Tribe
,
Pagets
Tribe
,
Warwicke
Tribe
,
South-hampton
Tribe
,
and
Sandys
Tribe
.
Each
of
these
Tribes
is
subdiuided
into
fiftie
shares
belonging
to
particular
owners
:
saue
that
two
shares
in
Pembroke
Tribe
are
appropriated
for
euer
in
quality
of
Gleabe
land
to
the
Minister
.
To
Southhampton
Tribe
there
haue
beene
also
annexed
fiue
other
Shares
or
parts
out
of
an
ouer
plus
of
Land
that
fell
out
in
the
Diuision
,
three
whereof
haue
beene
giuen
by
the
Company
to
one
of
the
Gouernours
in
the
said
Summer-Ilands
:
And
the
other
two
are
appropriated
for
euer
in
qualitie
of
Gleabe
Land
to
the
Minister
.
106
The
little
Ilands
and
spots
of
Land
scattered
about
these
Tribes
,
and
not
appropriated
to
any
Tribe
at
the
admeasurement
of
the
Land
as
parcell
of
the
same
,
shall
lye
in
common
to
the
vse
of
al
the
eight
Tribes
:
But
the
spare
Land
lying
neere
the
fresh
water
in
euery
Tribe
,
shall
bee
diuided
in
proportion
to
euery
share
,
and
shall
be
orderly
layd
out
for
the
building
of
houses
,
and
for
gardens
and
other
easements
to
bee
adioyned
to
them
,
that
the
people
may
liue
more
comfortably
as
in
Townes
together
.
107
All
the
residue
of
the
Land
,
with
the
little
Ilands
and
spots
adioyning
,
is
and
shall
for
euer
continue
publike
Land
;
that
is
to
say
,
The
Land
of
the
Gouernour
and
Company
of
the
City
of
London
for
the
Summer-Ilands
:
and
shall
not
be
alienated
from
the
Bodie
of
the
said
Company
,
or
subdiuided
amongst
the
said
Company
or
any
part
thereof
:
Saue
that
two
hundred
Acres
of
the
Iland
,
called
Dauies
Iland
,
shall
bee
annexed
to
Harrington
and
Hamiltons
Tribe
,
to
make
recompence
for
the
alleaged
sterility
of
the
Land
in
that
Tribe
:
and
excepting
such
other
Lands
,
as
haue
been
already
lawfully
alienated
or
granted
by
former
Quarter
Courts
,
if
any
such
be
.
108
Neuerthelesse
,
the
publike
Land
shall
receiue
the
diuision
insuing
,
for
publike
vses
and
seruices
.
Fiftie
acres
next
to
Saint
Georges
Towne
,
shall
bee
appropriated
for
euer
in
quality
of
Glebe
Land
to
the
Minister
:
and
fifty
other
acres
next
to
Harington
and
Hamiltons
Tribe
,
in
like
sort
to
another
Minister
.
The
Gouernour
of
the
Summer-Ilands
there
residing
,
shall
haue
allotted
to
him
and
his
Successors
,
twelue
shares
of
Land
,
containing
three
hundred
acres
:
which
Land
shall
lye
together
in
Saint
Georges
Iland
,
and
shall
begin
at
the
poynt
next
Penistons
Iland
at
the
East
,
and
so
shall
take
all
the
Land
before
it
from
Sea
to
Sea
;
saue
that
the
fifty
acres
belonging
to
the
Minister
,
shall
lye
neere
to
the
Church
and
Parsonage
house
;
and
the
Gouernour
shall
take
charge
of
the
three
Forts
in
his
owne
Land
.
The
Sheriffe
shall
haue
also
allotted
to
him
and
his
Successors
there
residing
,
foure
shares
of
Land
,
containing
one
hundred
acres
,
next
adioyning
to
the
Gouernours
Land
.
And
the
Secretary
shall
haue
two
shares
,
containing
fifty
acres
.
There
shall
be
also
allotted
to
the
Captaines
of
the
other
Forts
,
eight
shares
of
Land
,
containing
in
the
whole
,
two
hundred
acres
,
viz.
to
the
Captaine
of
the
two
Forts
in
Penistons
Iland
,
two
shares
:
to
the
Captaine
of
the
Fort
toward
Saint
Dauids
Iland
,
two
shares
:
to
the
Captaine
of
the
Fort
on
Coopers
Iland
,
with
a
platforme
ouer
against
the
Forts
on
Gurnards
Head
,
two
shares
:
and
to
the
Captaine
of
the
Forts
at
the
Gurnards
Head
,
two
shares
:
which
shares
of
Land
shall
be
laid
out
of
good
Land
,
and
in
places
most
conuenient
for
the
Officers
aforesaid
:
all
the
residue
of
the
publike
Land
,
shall
be
occupied
for
the
vse
of
the
generall
Company
;
and
to
defray
the
publike
charges
for
the
safegard
of
the
said
Summer-Ilands
;
and
in
workes
for
the
generall
good
of
the
Inhabitants
thereof
,
according
as
the
said
Company
shall
appoynt
.
109.
The
Gouernours
Land
,
at
the
charge
of
the
Company
,
is
to
be
furnished
with
two
Tenants
to
euery
share
.
In
like
sort
the
Lands
of
the
Sheriffe
,
and
of
the
Secretary
,
and
the
Glebe
Lands
of
the
foure
Ministers
;
the
Lands
also
of
the
foure
Captaines
of
the
Forts
aboue
specified
.
And
it
shall
not
be
lawfull
for
the
said
Gouernour
,
Sheriffe
,
Ministers
,
Secretary
,
Captaines
,
or
any
of
them
,
to
let
out
his
or
their
Tenants
to
hire
,
or
to
imploy
them
elsewhere
,
or
otherwise
,
then
in
occupying
of
the
said
Lands
respectiuely
,
vnder
a
grieuous
penalty
to
be
inflicted
vpon
the
Offender
by
the
iudgement
of
a
Quarter
Court
.
And
the
Gouernour
,
Sheriffe
,
Ministers
,
Secretary
,
and
Captaines
aforesaid
,
and
their
Successors
for
euer
,
shall
at
the
yeelding
vp
,
or
leauing
of
their
places
,
be
it
by
death
,
or
otherwise
,
leaue
the
like
number
of
Tenants
to
their
Successors
,
as
shal
be
left
vnto
them
from
their
Predecessors
,
or
as
they
shall
haue
receiued
from
the
Company
.
110.
For
the
benefit
and
better
incouragement
of
all
Handicrafts
men
necessary
for
the
Summer-Ilands
;
it
is
granted
and
ordered
,
that
euery
Shipwright
,
Carpenter
,
Ioyner
,
Mason
,
Brick-maker
,
Brick-layer
Smith
,
Cooper
,
Sawyer
,
and
all
other
of
like
necessary
Handicrafts
,
that
shall
goe
to
the
Summer-Ilands
to
inhabit
vpon
the
publike
Land
,
and
there
to
exercise
their
Handicrafts
,
shall
haue
two
acres
of
the
said
publike
Land
set
out
vnto
each
for
an
House
and
Garden
,
paying
the
yeerely
rent
of
two
shillings
,
at
the
feast
of
Saint
Michael
the
Archangell
,
to
continue
in
like
sort
to
them
,
their
heires
and
assignes
;
vpon
condition
that
they
continue
also
the
exercise
of
some
Handicraft
occupation
,
and
wholly
forbeare
the
planting
of
Tobacco
vpon
the
same
Lands
,
and
not
otherwise
.
111.
If
any
Handicrafts
men
aforesaid
,
shall
desire
to
be
placed
in
any
of
the
Tribes
,
it
shall
bee
lawfull
for
any
Owner
in
euery
of
the
said
Tribes
,
to
demise
vnto
any
of
the
said
Handicrafts
men
,
two
acres
of
his
Land
,
or
a
lesse
quantity
,
but
not
aboue
,
for
such
yeerely
Rent
as
they
shall
agree
on
;
vpon
condition
that
the
said
Handicrafts
man
continue
the
exercise
of
his
said
Trade
,
and
wholly
forbeare
the
planting
of
Tobacco
vpon
the
same
Lands
,
and
not
otherwise
.
112.
All
the
Lands
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
as
well
publike
,
as
priuate
,
shall
bee
occupied
to
halfe
profits
,
betweene
the
Owners
,
and
the
Occupiers
;
except
the
Lands
granted
or
demised
to
the
said
Handy-crafts
men
,
and
such
Proprietors
as
themselues
shall
inhabit
vpon
their
owne
Lands
,
and
such
other
as
shall
be
here
vnder
excepted
:
And
all
other
Contracts
shall
be
voyd
.
113.
Yet
no
children
,
or
young
men
,
vnder
the
age
of
twenty
and
one
yeeres
,
shall
share
by
halues
,
in
the
profits
as
other
men
doe
;
nor
liue
vpon
shares
by
themselues
;
but
with
Masters
of
families
;
there
being
found
to
them
diet
,
lodging
,
and
apparell
conuenient
,
with
some
other
yeerely
allowance
of
profit
,
according
to
their
abilities
and
deserts
.
And
if
any
owner
of
Land
shall
contract
with
his
seruant
or
Apprentice
,
to
serue
him
at
any
other
rates
,
and
not
at
the
halfe
profits
,
till
the
said
seruant
or
Apprentice
shall
haue
accomplished
the
full
age
of
twenty
foure
yeeres
,
the
said
Contract
shall
stand
in
force
and
validity
.
114.
The
Gouernour
,
and
other
Officers
,
shall
take
care
for
the
preferuation
of
the
breed
of
Birds
,
by
reseruing
to
them
those
Ilands
whereunto
they
resort
.
Also
for
preseruation
of
the
young
Tortoyses
,
by
such
orders
,
and
vnder
such
penalties
,
as
by
the
generall
Assembly
hereafter
to
be
spoken
of
shall
be
set
downe
.
115.
They
shall
also
haue
especiall
care
of
the
preseruation
of
Timber
,
that
no
waste
be
made
thereof
.
And
in
particular
,
that
no
man
presume
without
the
Owners
consent
vnder
his
hand
and
seale
,
to
cut
downe
young
Cedar
trees
,
before
they
be
come
to
their
growth
,
vnder
a
grieuous
penalty
,
to
be
assessed
at
the
discretion
of
the
said
Gouernour
and
Councell
.
Neither
shall
they
suffer
any
Timber
,
Boords
,
or
Plankes
,
to
be
transported
out
of
the
said
Ilands
,
without
especiall
warrant
from
the
Gouernour
,
and
Company
heere
.
116.
Care
also
shall
bee
taken
,
that
all
sorts
of
Trees
,
which
defend
the
Ilands
from
winds
and
tempests
,
bee
preserued
and
maintained
:
and
where
decay
hath
been
,
that
young
Plants
be
there
set
and
cherished
.
117.
All
Grants
from
the
Company
,
of
mens
priuate
Lands
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
passe
vnder
the
common
Seale
of
the
Company
;
which
shall
bee
sufficient
Euidence
for
their
said
Land
:
prouided
,
that
both
the
Grantees
,
and
they
from
whom
they
deriue
their
estate
,
before
the
affixing
of
the
said
common
Seale
to
their
Grants
,
stand
cleere
from
being
any
way
indebted
to
the
Company
.
118.
No
man
may
be
Owner
of
more
then
ten
shares
of
Land
in
the
Summer-Ilands
;
except
it
shall
please
a
Quarter
Court
,
to
grant
liberty
vnto
any
man
for
fiue
shares
more
,
or
vnder
,
but
not
aboue
:
which
Grant
must
bee
confirmed
also
by
the
Quarter
Court
next
ensuing
.
The
Transgressor
of
this
Law
,
either
directly
or
indirectly
,
shall
forfait
his
shares
exceeding
the
lawfull
number
,
to
the
Company
.
But
if
they
accrew
vnto
any
man
by
discent
or
Legacy
;
in
those
cases
there
shall
bee
granted
vnto
him
the
liberty
of
twelue
moneths
,
to
alienate
the
shares
exceeding
the
lawfull
number
.
119.
All
Grants
of
Land
and
Liberties
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
be
passed
by
Indenture
;
the
counterpart
whereof
shall
be
sealed
by
the
Grantees
:
and
the
Secretary
shall
haue
the
ingrossing
of
all
such
Indentures
.
120.
No
Patents
,
or
Indentures
of
Grants
of
Lands
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
be
sealed
with
the
Companies
Seale
,
but
being
read
and
approued
in
a
Quarter
Court
:
the
same
hauing
been
also
first
examined
and
allowed
vnder
the
hands
of
a
select
Committy
for
that
purpose
.
121.
No
liberty
shall
be
granted
,
tending
to
the
exempting
of
any
man
from
the
authority
of
the
Gouernour
or
Sheriffe
of
the
Summer-Ilands
,
or
of
the
Councell
or
Courts
to
be
there
established
,
in
any
case
of
Treason
,
Rebellion
,
Sedition
,
Heresie
,
or
Schisme
;
or
vpon
any
duty
to
be
performed
for
the
necessary
defence
of
the
Countrey
,
or
for
the
preseruation
of
the
publike
peace
,
and
suppressing
tumults
within
the
Land
,
or
for
Trials
in
matters
of
Iustice
,
by
lawfull
orders
to
be
from
hence
deliuered
;
or
in
cases
consented
vnto
,
as
well
by
a
Generall
Assembly
of
the
Colony
there
,
as
by
the
Company
heere
in
a
Quarter
Court
.
And
all
Grants
swaruing
from
this
Order
,
shall
be
deemed
vnlawfull
and
surreptitious
.
122.
In
all
Grants
of
Lands
,
a
fifth
of
the
Royall
Mines
of
Gold
and
Siluer
shall
be
reserued
to
the
Company
,
as
another
fifth
is
already
reserued
to
the
Crowne
.
123.
There
is
also
,
and
shall
be
for
euer
reserued
to
the
Company
,
the
Moity
of
all
lawfull
wrecks
:
and
the
other
Moity
shall
be
to
the
Recouerers
.
But
if
the
wrecke
be
driuen
within
the
bounds
of
any
particular
mans
Land
;
the
Recouerers
shall
yeeld
to
the
Owner
of
the
said
Land
the
one
halfe
of
their
Moity
.
124.
There
is
likewise
,
and
shall
bee
for
euer
reserued
to
the
Company
,
a
fifth
part
of
all
the
Ambergreece
that
shall
be
found
;
and
the
rest
shall
be
diuided
equally
betweene
the
finder
,
and
the
Owner
of
the
Land
where
the
same
is
found
;
saue
that
three
shillings
foure
pence
vpon
euery
ounce
of
the
said
Ambergreece
,
shall
be
allowed
to
the
Gouernour
of
the
said
Ilands
.
And
whosoeuer
shall
not
discouer
to
the
said
Gouernour
and
Sheriffe
,
and
some
one
other
of
the
Councell
,
the
true
quantity
of
the
Ambergreece
so
found
,
within
fiue
dayes
after
the
finding
of
the
same
,
shall
forfeit
his
owne
intire
part
to
the
Company
,
and
be
subiect
to
such
other
punishment
as
the
generall
Court
shall
award
.
125.
In
all
Patents
or
Indentures
of
Grants
of
Lands
,
the
Grantees
shall
couenant
to
imploy
their
people
in
reasonable
sort
in
Staple
Commodities
,
and
not
wholly
or
chiefly
about
Tobacco
.
126.
All
Grants
of
Lands
shall
be
made
with
equall
fauours
,
and
Grants
of
like
liberties
and
immunities
as
neere
as
may
bee
;
to
the
end
that
all
complaint
of
partiality
or
vnindifferency
may
bee
preuented
.
Officers
in
the
Summer-Jlands
.
127.
ALL
Principall
Officers
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
and
namely
,
the
Gouernour
,
Sheriffe
and
Secretary
,
shall
bee
chosen
heere
by
Ballating
in
a
Quarter
Court
.
128.
The
Ministers
,
and
the
Councell
established
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
and
all
other
Officers
there
reserued
to
the
choyce
of
the
Company
heere
,
shall
bee
chosen
in
a
Quarter
Court
by
onely
erection
of
hands
;
vnlesse
the
Court
desire
to
haue
it
passe
by
Ballating
.
129.
The
Commissions
to
all
Officers
there
,
excepting
Ministers
,
shall
bee
onely
for
three
yeeres
in
certaine
,
and
afterward
during
the
Companies
pleasure
:
onely
the
Gouernour
shall
,
vpon
no
occasion
,
hold
that
place
aboue
sixe
yeeres
together
.
130.
The
Company
here
shall
not
bee
charged
with
the
maintenance
of
the
Officers
there
:
But
they
shall
be
maintained
there
,
out
of
the
publike
Lands
,
or
by
such
other
meanes
as
shall
bee
heereafter
set
downe
.
Gouernour
in
the
Summer-Ilands
.
131.
THe
Gouernour
to
be
sent
to
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
be
chosen
a
man
well-affected
in
Religion
,
and
zealous
of
the
seruice
of
God
;
a
Person
discreet
,
industrious
,
moderate
,
iust
,
and
valiant
.
His
Commission
is
to
bee
for
no
longer
time
then
three
yeeres
,
to
bee
counted
from
the
date
of
the
same
.
Neuerthelesse
,
his
said
Commission
is
not
to
take
effect
,
till
the
expiration
,
or
other
determination
of
the
Commission
to
a
former
Gouernour
,
or
till
the
deliuery
thereof
to
the
new
elected
Gouernour
;
either
here
in
England
,
or
in
the
said
Summer-Ilands
,
as
the
case
shall
require
.
Howbeit
it
is
,
and
shall
be
lawfull
,
by
a
new
and
solemne
Election
in
manner
before
set
downe
,
to
continue
the
said
Gouernour
in
his
place
of
Gouernment
for
longer
time
,
according
to
his
deserts
;
so
as
the
same
exceed
not
sixe
yeeres
in
the
whole
together
.
And
if
it
happen
that
the
Commission
to
any
such
Gouernour
,
expire
before
the
ariuall
of
his
lawfull
Successor
:
In
that
case
hee
shall
continue
still
in
his
place
of
Gouernment
,
till
such
time
as
his
said
Successor
shall
ariue
there
:
Immediatly
whereupon
he
shall
yeeld
vp
the
Gouernment
to
him
.
132.
The
Gouernours
duty
is
to
haue
a
vigilant
eye
vpon
the
strength
and
safegard
of
the
Ilands
,
both
from
forraine
Inuasion
,
and
intestine
Mutinies
.
In
which
case
hee
hath
authority
to
exercise
Martiall
Law
,
according
to
the
manner
and
forme
limited
by
his
Maiesties
Letters
Patents
.
133.
It
is
also
his
duty
to
haue
an
eye
vpon
the
Ministers
;
as
well
that
the
people
performe
their
duty
toward
them
,
and
vse
them
with
all
due
respect
and
reuerence
;
as
also
that
they
performe
the
duty
of
their
place
,
in
duly
obseruing
the
solemne
Diuine
seruice
,
and
training
vp
the
People
in
the
true
feare
of
God
,
and
obseruance
of
his
Commandements
;
In
assured
allegiance
also
and
duty
to
the
King
,
his
Heires
and
Successors
:
In
obedience
also
to
all
other
subordinate
Gouernours
and
Gouernment
,
placed
ouer
them
by
authority
deriued
from
his
Maiesty
:
And
lastly
,
in
a
fraternall
loue
and
vnity
among
themselues
.
In
all
which
,
the
example
of
the
Magistrates
and
Ministers
,
will
bee
of
more
force
then
any
other
perswasion
whatsoeuer
.
134
It
is
the
Gouernors
Office
,
to
haue
care
of
the
due
administration
of
Iustice
to
all
the
People
,
as
well
in
cases
Criminal
,
as
Ciuill
:
wherin
the
equity
of
the
Lawes
of
England
,
&
forme
of
administration
of
Iustice
here
vsed
,
is
to
bee
followed
as
much
as
may
be
:
Neuerthelesse
the
Gouernour
of
himselfe
alone
shall
not
make
any
order
in
Causes
litigious
,
without
both
parties
consent
:
but
shall
heare
and
determine
Causes
with
the
Councels
assistance
and
assent
,
in
such
manner
as
shall
bee
hereafter
set
downe
.
135.
In
all
Causes
ciuill
brought
to
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
at
the
first
instance
,
they
may
proceed
to
hearing
and
determining
therof
in
their
ordinary
sittings
.
But
if
it
be
brought
to
them
by
appeale
from
some
other
Inferiour
Officers
;
Or
if
appeale
be
made
from
themselues
;
the
Tryall
thereof
shall
bee
reserued
to
the
next
Generall
Sessions
.
136.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
proceed
as
of
himselfe
alone
,
to
the
Corporall
punishment
of
any
man
,
other
then
three
daies
imprisonment
.
If
the
crime
deserue
higher
punishment
,
hee
shall
proceede
by
the
aduice
and
assent
of
the
Counsell
.
Prouided
alwaies
,
that
matters
of
Treason
,
Murder
,
and
Felony
;
also
of
Forgery
,
Periury
,
Conspiracy
,
and
such
like
,
be
reserued
to
bee
tryed
at
the
next
Generall
Sessions
,
according
to
the
Lawes
and
formes
of
Triall
vsed
in
this
Realme
.
137.
The
Gouernour
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
hath
power
granted
by
his
Maiesty
,
to
minister
a
formall
Oath
to
any
person
there
whosoeuer
,
for
the
examination
,
testifying
and
cleering
of
the
truth
in
any
cause
whatsoeuer
,
as
well
concerning
the
Plantation
,
as
any
other
particular
businesse
there
arising
for
the
maintenance
of
Peace
and
Iustice
amongst
the
Inhabitants
.
Of
which
power
hee
shall
make
vse
there
,
in
all
such
causes
,
and
to
all
such
persons
,
as
the
like
is
done
by
the
Iudges
and
Iustices
of
this
Realme
.
138.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
suffer
any
man
to
depart
from
the
Summer-Ilands
,
against
whom
there
is
any
cause
or
suit
in
Law
depending
;
vnlesse
the
Defendant
shall
first
substitute
an
Atturney
sufficient
to
answere
and
vndergoe
the
Suit
in
his
place
;
and
also
enter
into
bond
with
two
sufficient
Sureties
,
to
performe
whatsoeuer
Sentence
shall
passe
against
him
.
And
if
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
see
probable
cause
to
conceiue
,
that
the
Suit
is
set
on
foot
vpon
malice
,
and
to
stop
the
Defendant
from
his
intended
iourney
:
in
that
case
the
Plaintiffe
shall
likewise
giue
good
security
to
pay
to
the
Defendant
double
costs
and
damages
,
if
the
Sentence
passe
not
against
him
.
139.
The
Gouernour
is
to
hold
two
generall
Sessions
in
euery
yeere
,
at
times
to
be
appoynted
by
the
generall
Assembly
hereafter
mentioned
:
whereunto
euery
Tribe
shall
send
sixe
men
chosen
by
themselues
to
serue
for
that
Tribe
,
and
the
common
Land
twelue
:
and
all
other
hauing
businesse
,
or
summoned
by
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
may
,
and
shall
repaire
thither
,
and
make
their
appearance
.
And
no
man
shall
depart
till
the
Sessions
be
ended
,
without
leaue
of
the
Gouernour
.
140.
The
Gouernour
shall
also
,
in
euery
second
yeere
once
,
hold
a
generall
Assembly
,
for
the
making
of
Lawes
and
Orders
for
the
particular
necessities
and
occasions
of
those
Ilands
,
and
the
Inhabitants
thereof
,
and
for
the
ordering
of
other
important
businesse
;
which
Lawes
and
Orders
shall
no
further
forth
be
of
force
and
validity
,
if
they
receiue
not
confirmation
afterward
in
a
Quarter
Court
heere
.
In
this
Assembly
,
the
Gouernour
shall
sit
as
President
,
to
moderate
the
Assembly
,
and
shall
haue
a
Negatiue
voyce
.
The
Councell
shall
sit
next
to
him
,
and
each
haue
his
seuerall
voyce
:
but
if
they
all
ioyne
in
one
opinion
,
that
also
shall
haue
the
force
of
another
Negatiue
.
And
lastly
,
each
Tribe
shall
by
Election
send
out
foure
able
persons
,
to
represent
that
Tribe
:
and
the
Occupiers
of
common
Land
,
eight
;
who
shall
haue
likewise
free
voyces
in
that
Assembly
;
where
all
things
shall
bee
established
by
plurality
of
voyces
,
the
foresaid
Negatiues
reserued
.
141.
Lastly
,
it
is
the
Gouernours
duty
,
to
ouersee
all
inferiour
Officers
that
they
performe
their
duties
.
To
which
end
he
shall
minister
a
formall
Oath
to
all
other
Officers
and
inferiour
Ministers
in
the
said
Ilands
whatsoeuer
,
for
the
iust
,
true
,
and
faithfull
discharge
of
their
seuerall
places
,
duties
and
seruices
.
142.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
impose
any
Fines
or
Amercements
for
his
owne
behoofe
:
But
all
Fines
,
Amercements
,
Forfaitures
,
and
Confiscations
shall
accrew
to
the
publike
seruice
of
the
Plantation
;
or
to
such
other
vses
as
are
before
,
or
shall
be
heereafter
particularly
expressed
;
to
be
leuied
and
kept
by
the
Sheriffe
,
and
to
be
expended
or
paid
ouer
by
direction
of
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
.
143.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
lay
any
Taxes
or
Impositions
vpon
the
Lands
in
the
Summer-Ilands
;
or
vpon
the
People
or
Commodities
,
otherwise
then
by
the
authority
of
the
generall
assembly
;
to
bee
leuied
and
imployed
as
the
said
Assembly
shall
appoynt
.
144.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
withdraw
the
Inhabitants
from
their
priuate
labours
,
to
any
seruice
of
his
owne
,
vpon
any
colour
whatsoeuer
.
And
in
case
the
publike
necessity
require
imployment
of
many
hands
,
before
the
holding
of
a
generall
Assembly
to
giue
order
for
the
same
:
In
that
case
,
the
leuying
of
men
shall
be
done
by
order
of
the
Gouernour
and
whole
Body
of
the
Councell
,
and
that
in
such
sort
,
as
to
be
least
burthensome
to
the
people
,
and
most
free
from
partiality
.
145.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
grant
leaue
to
,
nor
suffer
the
Tenant
or
seruant
of
any
man
to
returne
into
England
,
or
otherwise
to
depart
from
the
occupying
of
his
Landlords
or
Masters
Land
,
before
the
time
of
his
Couenant
be
fully
expired
;
except
the
Owner
of
the
Land
,
vnder
his
hand
and
Seale
giue
consent
thereto
.
146.
The
Gouernour
also
,
in
quality
of
Captaine
Generall
,
shall
haue
care
that
the
people
be
trained
vp
to
Military
seruice
:
and
shall
from
time
to
time
giue
seasonable
aduertizment
,
for
prouision
of
Shot
,
Powder
,
and
other
Ammunition
to
be
made
.
Hee
shall
also
haue
yeerely
a
generall
Muster
or
view
of
Armes
:
And
shall
yeerely
returne
to
the
Company
a
list
of
the
names
of
all
the
trained
Bands
,
together
with
a
Certificate
of
all
defects
whatsoeuer
.
147.
The
Gouernour
shall
not
forsake
his
charge
,
nor
depart
out
of
the
Summer-Ilands
,
during
the
time
of
his
Commission
,
without
especiall
Licence
of
a
Quarter
Court
heere
,
vnder
paine
of
being
disfranchised
for
euer
as
an
vnworthy
person
;
and
further
censured
and
proceeded
against
,
as
by
a
generall
Court
shall
be
thought
meet
.
148.
If
it
happen
the
Gouernour
of
the
Summer-Ilands
to
dye
,
before
the
expiration
of
his
Commission
,
or
arriuall
of
his
Successor
;
in
that
case
the
whole
body
of
the
Councell
shall
assemble
together
,
and
chuse
any
of
themselues
to
succeed
in
that
place
of
Gouernment
:
vnlesse
,
or
till
such
time
as
the
Company
take
other
order
.
The
like
course
shall
be
held
for
all
other
Principall
Officers
.
Sheriffe
.
149.
THe
Sheriffes
Office
shall
be
,
to
see
,
or
cause
the
Iudgements
of
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
especially
those
at
the
generall
Sessions
,
to
be
put
in
due
execution
.
At
which
Sessions
hee
shall
also
impannell
the
Iuries
with
all
indifferency
.
150.
He
shall
also
leuie
,
or
cause
to
be
leuied
,
all
Fines
,
Amercements
,
and
other
forfaitures
whatsoeuer
;
and
all
Taxes
and
Impositions
lawfully
assessed
.
And
the
same
in
quality
of
a
Treasurer
to
the
Colony
,
shall
keepe
or
conuert
to
the
most
profit
for
their
vse
,
and
shall
expend
the
same
for
no
other
then
publike
seruices
;
and
that
by
direction
from
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
;
and
shall
openly
at
euery
Sessions
deliuer
vp
in
writing
,
a
true
account
of
all
such
his
receits
and
disbursements
.
The
allowance
for
his
charges
,
as
well
in
executing
the
foresaid
Iudgements
,
as
also
in
leuying
the
said
Fines
,
Amercements
,
Forfaitures
,
Taxes
and
Impositions
shall
be
such
,
as
by
the
said
generall
Assembly
shall
be
set
downe
.
151.
Hee
shall
also
in
quality
of
a
Treasurer
to
the
Company
,
carefully
collect
and
leuie
all
such
profits
,
as
shall
any
way
belong
to
the
Company
,
by
reason
of
the
Royalties
and
other
Commodities
to
them
reserued
,
or
by
reason
of
any
forfaitures
due
to
the
Company
:
and
shall
cause
them
to
bee
yeerely
transmitted
to
the
Company
,
together
with
his
account
;
for
which
hee
shall
receiue
from
them
an
extraordinary
reward
.
The
like
shall
he
do
for
the
forfaitures
due
to
the
particular
Owners
of
Lands
.
152.
All
Shot
,
Powder
,
Armour
,
and
other
Ammunition
whatsoeuer
,
with
all
other
publike
prouisions
sent
from
the
Company
to
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
be
consigned
to
the
custody
and
charge
of
the
Sheriffe
;
who
shall
not
deliuer
out
the
same
,
or
any
part
thereof
,
but
by
order
,
either
from
the
Company
here
,
or
from
the
Gouernour
and
Councel
there
,
whereof
the
said
Sheriffe
shall
yeerely
giue
vp
a
true
and
perfect
Account
in
writing
,
as
well
to
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
there
,
as
also
to
the
Gouernour
and
Company
here
.
And
if
any
Officer
or
other
person
,
by
himselfe
,
his
Seruants
or
Agents
,
shall
sell
away
any
of
the
publike
prouision
of
Shot
,
Powder
,
Armes
,
or
other
Ammunition
,
to
the
wrong
of
the
Company
,
he
shall
make
restitution
to
the
double
;
and
being
an
Officer
,
make
forfait
also
of
his
place
.
153.
Lastly
,
the
Sheriffes
duty
is
once
at
least
euery
Quarter
,
and
oftener
if
there
bee
cause
,
to
visit
the
eight
Tribes
,
as
also
the
publike
Lands
,
and
all
the
seuerall
parts
both
of
the
one
and
other
;
and
by
diligent
enquiry
,
to
see
how
as
well
these
Orders
of
the
Company
,
and
all
other
instructions
,
as
also
the
contracts
and
agreements
betweene
the
seuerall
members
of
the
Company
,
and
their
Tenants
or
seruants
,
are
obserued
:
and
with
the
aduice
and
assistance
of
the
Ouerseers
of
the
Tribes
,
and
of
the
chiefe
Masters
of
Families
,
shall
proceed
to
the
reforming
and
rectifying
of
what
is
found
amisse
,
according
to
such
Orders
as
shall
be
established
.
And
if
any
man
be
found
intractable
or
incorrigible
by
the
Sheriffe
,
hee
shall
be
summoned
by
him
to
appeare
before
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
either
at
the
generall
Sessions
,
or
otherwise
,
as
the
cause
shall
require
.
Ministers
.
THe
Ministers
being
to
be
foure
,
shall
haue
their
Churches
and
Parishes
thus
placed
and
diuided
.
The
first
Church
shall
be
at
S.
Georges
Towne
:
and
that
Parish
shall
extend
ouer
all
the
publike
Land
,
saue
that
parcel
which
adioyneth
to
Harrington
and
Hamiltons
Tribe
on
the
Maine
.
The
second
Church
shall
be
on
the
said
publike
Land
fast
adioyning
to
Harrington
&
Hamiltons
Tribe
:
and
that
Parish
shall
extend
ouer
that
part
of
the
publike
Land
,
being
as
is
said
before
,
on
the
Maine
;
as
also
ouer
all
Harrington
and
Hamiltons
Tribe
,
and
Smiths
Tribe
.
The
third
Church
shall
bee
in
Pembrooke
Tribe
,
vpon
the
two
shares
there
bought
for
Glebe
Land
to
the
Parsonage
:
and
that
Parish
shal
extend
ouer
Pembroke
Tribe
,
Deuonshire
Tribe
,
and
Pagets
Tribe
.
The
fourth
Church
shall
be
on
the
Confines
of
Southampton
Tribe
,
and
Sandys
Tribe
:
And
this
Parish
shall
extend
ouer
Southampton
Tribe
,
Warwicke
Tribe
,
and
Sandys
Tribe
.
Neere
adioyning
to
these
Churches
shall
the
Parsonage
houses
be
buile
.
And
for
the
better
yeerely
maintenance
of
the
Ministers
,
ouer
and
aboue
their
houses
,
Glebes
,
and
Tenants
as
aforesaid
:
It
is
ordered
,
that
there
shall
bee
apportioned
to
them
out
of
the
fruits
of
the
earth
,
and
Cattell
,
growing
and
renewing
within
their
seuerall
Parishes
,
a
certaine
portion
by
way
of
charge
vpon
euery
Share
or
Farme
;
so
as
to
make
vp
each
Ministers
Intertainement
in
that
kind
,
to
the
value
of
one
hundred
pounds
a
yere
,
or
thereabout
.
Which
value
of
one
hundred
pounds
the
yeere
,
shall
commence
at
the
end
of
seuen
yeeres
after
the
making
hereof
.
And
in
the
meane
season
,
the
proportion
for
their
yeerely
maintenance
,
besides
the
said
Glebe
Lands
,
shall
bee
such
as
shall
bee
agreed
vpon
betweene
the
Company
and
the
seuerall
Ministers
.
155.
Whereas
the
Owners
and
Occupyers
of
the
Land
,
haue
of
their
owne
voluntary
gift
,
offered
the
hundreth
part
yeerely
of
all
their
Tobacco
,
towards
the
building
of
the
said
Churches
and
Parsonage
houses
:
it
is
ordered
that
the
Ouerseers
of
euery
Tribe
,
as
also
of
the
common
Land
,
shall
yeerely
collect
the
same
,
and
deliuer
it
vpon
account
to
the
Sheriffe
;
who
by
aduice
and
direction
from
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
shall
take
order
for
the
erecting
of
the
said
Churches
and
houses
;
and
faithfully
expend
that
which
shall
arise
by
the
said
Collections
vpon
the
vses
aforesaid
;
and
therof
deliuer
vp
a
yeerely
account
to
the
said
Gouernour
and
Councell
:
who
shall
transmit
the
same
,
or
a
copy
thereof
to
the
Gouernour
and
Company
here
.
The
works
being
finished
,
the
Gift
also
shall
cease
.
156.
The
Ministers
shall
diligently
apply
their
vocation
,
and
shew
themselues
Patternes
of
piety
and
vertue
to
the
people
.
They
shall
by
helpe
of
the
Ouerseers
of
the
Tribes
,
and
other
chiefe
men
in
their
Parishes
,
indeuour
to
reforme
all
disorderly
persons
.
If
any
appeare
incorrigible
,
he
shall
be
presented
to
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
;
who
shall
proceed
to
reformation
by
exemplary
punishment
,
according
to
the
quality
of
the
Offenders
misdeserts
.
157.
For
the
auoyding
of
Sects
and
Factions
in
Religion
,
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
shall
be
carefull
to
suppresse
by
course
of
authority
,
all
factious
and
seditious
Preaching
,
teaching
,
and
disputing
,
as
well
in
priuate
,
as
publike
.
Secretary
in
the
Summer-Jlands
.
158.
THe
Office
of
the
Secretary
,
is
to
keepe
or
cause
to
be
kept
a
Register-Booke
of
the
Decrees
and
Orders
of
the
Councell
there
;
and
to
deliuer
to
the
Sheriffe
,
and
other
Officers
to
whom
it
shall
appertaine
,
a
Copy
of
such
of
them
as
are
to
bee
published
,
or
to
be
put
in
execution
.
159.
It
is
also
the
Secretaries
Office
,
at
the
Generall
Sessions
,
to
performe
,
or
cause
to
be
performed
,
the
Office
of
Clarke
of
the
Peace
,
and
Clarke
of
the
Assises
:
and
to
haue
care
that
all
Trials
doe
passe
in
due
forme
of
Law
;
and
to
keepe
a
Register
Booke
of
all
the
verdicts
and
Iudgements
:
and
to
deliuer
to
the
Sheriffe
a
Copy
vnder
his
hand
,
of
such
of
them
as
are
to
be
put
in
execution
.
160.
The
Secretary
shall
also
in
all
the
generall
Assemblies
,
hold
the
place
of
Speaker
;
and
haue
care
that
all
things
proceed
and
passe
in
due
order
:
and
shall
keepe
a
Register
Booke
of
all
the
Acts
there
passed
,
being
first
signed
by
the
Gouernour
and
the
Councell
present
.
161.
It
is
also
ordered
for
the
present
time
,
till
a
more
conuenient
course
may
be
taken
,
that
the
probate
of
Wills
,
committing
of
Administrations
,
and
all
other
Acts
incident
to
Testamentary
causes
,
shall
be
annexed
to
the
Secretaries
Office
:
who
shall
likewise
keepe
an
exact
Register
of
them
.
The
Ministers
also
in
their
seuerall
Parishes
,
shall
deliuer
vnto
the
Secretary
at
euery
generall
Sessions
,
a
true
note
of
all
the
Christenings
,
Marriages
,
and
Burials
,
which
haue
been
in
their
Parishes
from
the
generall
Sessions
last
before
;
which
the
Secretary
shall
likewise
enter
in
a
Booke
,
and
shall
send
a
Copy
thereof
yeerely
to
the
Company
.
162.
The
Secretary
at
the
arriuall
of
euery
Ship
at
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
make
a
true
list
of
the
names
of
all
the
people
then
arriuing
with
intent
to
continue
and
inhabite
in
the
said
Summer-Ilands
,
of
what
sex
,
age
,
and
Trade
they
are
,
and
vpon
whose
account
they
are
sent
.
And
likewise
at
the
departure
of
euery
Ship
shall
make
a
like
list
of
the
names
of
all
the
Inhabitants
that
depart
therein
,
with
their
sex
,
age
,
and
Trade
,
and
whose
Tenants
or
seruants
they
haue
formerly
bin
,
together
with
the
cause
of
their
departure
.
Both
which
hee
shall
enter
in
a
Booke
there
to
be
kept
,
and
a
Copy
thereof
shall
transmit
to
the
Company
by
the
seuerall
Ships
returning
.
163.
Lastly
,
it
is
the
Secretaries
duty
,
to
bee
assisting
to
the
Gouernour
,
as
well
in
dispatch
of
all
Letters
and
other
writings
to
the
Company
;
as
also
in
publishing
all
Orders
,
Commissions
,
and
other
directions
whatsoeuer
,
which
the
Gouernour
there
shall
receiue
from
the
Gouernour
and
Company
heere
;
and
to
haue
care
with
the
Gouernour
,
that
the
said
Orders
,
Commissions
and
directions
be
duly
executed
;
and
that
thereof
a
seasonable
account
be
giuen
to
the
Gouernour
and
Company
heere
.
164.
The
Secretary
,
for
his
seruice
at
the
generall
Sessions
,
and
at
the
generall
Assemblies
,
and
for
Testamentary
causes
,
shall
haue
such
Fees
as
shall
bee
set
downe
by
the
generall
Assembly
.
Captaines
of
Forts
.
165.
THe
Captaines
of
the
Forts
ought
to
bee
men
discreet
,
and
commended
for
fidelity
.
They
are
also
to
bee
expert
Gunners
,
and
trained
vp
in
Military
seruice
.
Their
duty
is
to
haue
care
of
the
safety
â–ª
of
the
Forts
committed
to
their
seuerall
charges
,
and
that
they
bee
well
furnished
with
all
necessary
prouisions
.
There
shall
be
also
assigned
by
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
a
competent
number
of
the
publike
Tenants
to
the
seruice
of
euery
Fort
,
to
be
trained
vp
to
that
Seruice
,
and
to
be
alwaies
in
readinesse
when
occasion
shall
require
:
which
Tenants
,
in
consideration
of
that
attendance
and
seruice
,
shall
pay
to
the
Company
only
a
fourth
part
of
their
yeerely
profits
.
If
any
of
the
Captaines
of
the
Forts
die
there
,
his
place
shall
be
supplyed
by
appointment
of
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
there
,
till
such
time
as
the
Company
here
proceed
to
a
new
Election
.
Ouerseers
.
166.
OVt
of
the
sixe
persons
sent
yeerely
from
euery
Tribe
,
to
serue
for
that
Tribe
at
the
generall
Sessions
to
be
held
in
the
Spring
or
former
part
of
the
yeere
,
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
shall
chuse
out
two
,
to
haue
the
place
of
Ouerseers
of
that
Tribe
for
the
yeere
ensuing
.
And
the
Gouernour
shall
openly
in
the
said
generall
Sessions
,
minister
vnto
them
a
formall
Oath
for
the
due
execution
of
their
Office
.
Prouided
alwayes
,
that
at
the
humble
petition
of
any
Tribe
,
the
Gouernor
and
Councell
,
if
they
so
thinke
good
,
may
continue
either
one
,
or
both
of
the
Ouerseers
of
the
former
yeere
,
for
the
yeere
also
ensuing
.
Like
course
shall
be
held
for
the
Ouerseers
of
the
publike
Land
in
all
poynts
.
Prouided
alwayes
,
and
it
is
reserued
to
the
power
of
the
Company
here
,
to
place
such
Ouerseers
there
from
time
to
time
,
as
they
shall
please
to
elect
and
nominate
in
any
of
their
Quarter
Courts
.
167
The
dutie
of
these
Ouerseers
,
is
in
their
seuerall
charges
,
to
diuide
with
an
euen
and
iust
hand
between
the
owners
and
their
Tenants
,
all
the
Tobacco
and
other
Commodities
growing
within
their
charge
.
And
to
the
end
that
they
may
better
inform
themselues
what
Crop
is
like
to
bee
receiued
out
of
the
whole
Tribe
,
they
shall
,
about
14.
daies
before
the
vsuall
time
of
gathering
their
Commodities
,
generally
suruay
all
the
Ground
so
planted
throughout
,
and
diligently
obserue
what
quantity
each
Tenant
or
Seruant
hath
planted
;
and
the
same
register
in
a
booke
;
a
Coppie
whereof
,
as
likewise
of
the
Diuident
,
they
shall
send
vnder
their
hands
vnto
the
Company
here
.
When
the
diuision
is
made
betweene
the
Owner
of
the
Land
and
his
Tenants
or
Seruants
,
as
iustly
both
for
quantity
and
quality
as
they
can
:
They
shall
cast
Lots
vpon
the
Moities
,
and
take
that
part
for
the
Owner
which
shall
fall
vnto
him
by
Lot
.
Which
done
,
they
are
likewise
to
haue
faithfull
care
,
that
the
Owners
part
of
such
Goods
as
are
fit
,
or
shall
be
directed
to
bee
sent
,
bee
duely
packt
vp
sealed
and
conueied
to
the
Ship
,
(
vnlesse
the
Owner
vnder
his
hand
and
Seale
giue
other
direction
,
)
to
bee
sent
to
the
Company
here
,
or
as
the
Company
shall
direct
.
Other
Goods
vnfit
to
be
sent
by
Sea
,
they
shall
dispose
of
as
the
Owners
shall
appoint
.
Prouided
alwaies
,
that
the
Tobacco
to
bee
diuided
,
be
cured
and
made
vp
in
best
manner
,
before
the
said
Diuision
bee
made
.
And
concerning
the
Tobacco
and
other
Commodities
of
the
growth
of
the
Ouerseers
themselues
,
the
same
course
shall
be
held
,
as
well
for
diuision
thereof
betweene
them
and
their
Landlords
;
as
also
for
disposing
of
the
Landlords
Moity
in
maner
aforesaid
.
Saue
that
the
diuision
of
the
Tobacco
,
and
Commodities
of
the
one
Ouerseer
,
shal
be
performed
and
perfited
by
the
other
reciprocally
.
168.
These
Ouerseers
also
,
in
their
seuerall
charges
,
shall
diligently
enquire
what
Debts
are
owing
by
Tenants
or
Seruants
,
to
their
Landlords
.
To
which
end
the
Landlords
shall
acquaint
the
Ouerseers
,
with
the
seuerall
Contracts
betwixt
them
and
their
Tenants
or
Seruants
.
All
which
hereafter
,
for
the
auoiding
of
fraud
or
quarrell
,
shall
passe
by
Indenture
.
And
the
said
Ouerseers
,
after
the
diuision
once
made
,
shall
cause
satisfaction
of
the
Debts
appearing
to
be
due
,
to
be
made
to
the
Landlords
,
before
they
deliuer
the
Moity
due
to
the
Tenants
or
Seruants
:
Prouided
that
there
be
alwaies
meanes
left
of
liuelihood
and
subsistance
,
to
the
Occupiers
of
the
Land
.
169.
And
to
preuent
all
wrongs
on
either
side
,
betweene
Landlords
and
Tenants
or
Seruants
:
It
is
ordered
,
that
the
Gouernor
at
euery
Generall
Sessions
,
shall
charge
the
Grand
Iury
,
to
enquire
by
all
lawfull
meanes
of
such
defaults
:
and
especially
to
enquire
if
any
fraud
haue
beene
commited
by
the
Tenants
or
Seruants
,
in
concealing
or
secretly
conueighing
away
any
of
the
said
profits
to
be
diuided
,
before
diuision
of
the
same
be
made
.
And
after
presentment
made
,
and
tryall
therof
had
,
the
Gouernor
there
shall
cause
a
true
and
perfect
Certificate
thereof
to
be
made
vnto
this
Company
,
vnder
the
Iurors
hands
.
And
for
the
better
discouerie
of
all
such
misdemeanors
,
It
is
ordered
that
all
the
Ouerseers
in
euery
Parish
,
shall
once
euery
Quarter
meete
together
at
their
Parish
Church
,
and
warne
euery
Parishioner
to
be
there
:
thereby
to
learn
what
presentments
shal
be
made
of
the
said
misdemeanors
,
or
any
other
of
the
like
nature
;
the
better
to
prepare
that
generall
information
.
And
in
case
any
such
purloyning
,
imbezelling
,
deceit
or
fraud
shall
bee
proued
,
and
the
Tenant
or
Seruant
thereof
found
guilty
,
the
person
so
offending
,
either
presently
,
or
so
soone
as
he
hath
wherewith
to
doe
it
,
besides
restitution
,
shall
bee
compelled
to
pay
one
fourth
part
of
all
the
Tobacco
,
or
such
like
profits
which
he
hath
or
shal
haue
growing
the
same
yeere
;
to
be
seized
vpon
by
the
said
Ouerseers
in
their
seuerall
charges
:
which
fourth
part
being
subdiuided
into
three
parts
;
the
one
part
shall
be
to
the
Landlord
or
Master
of
the
said
Tenant
or
Seruant
,
another
part
to
the
said
Ouerseers
,
as
an
increase
of
their
Salarie
,
and
a
third
part
to
the
Informer
or
Informers
.
The
like
penaltie
shal
be
for
any
wrong
done
by
the
Landlord
or
Master
to
his
Tenant
or
Seruant
.
170.
It
is
the
dutie
also
of
the
Ouerseers
,
to
take
vp
all
pettie
controuersies
,
and
to
enforme
the
Gouernour
and
Sheriffe
of
all
matters
of
greater
importance
:
To
see
the
people
diligently
and
discreetely
to
apply
their
businesse
:
To
acquaint
the
Sheriffe
from
time
to
time
,
of
the
estate
of
each
Tribe
;
what
persons
there
are
on
each
Owners
Land
:
what
bee
their
names
,
and
what
their
indeuours
;
and
in
what
estate
their
Farmes
doe
lye
,
that
the
same
may
bee
yeerely
certified
by
the
Sheriffe
to
the
Company
.
They
shall
also
haue
care
,
that
the
seuerall
Lands
or
Farmes
be
wel
vsed
,
and
occupied
in
husbandly
manner
by
the
seuerall
Tenants
and
Seruants
:
That
the
houses
be
maintained
and
kept
in
repaire
:
And
that
the
Timber
be
preserued
,
according
to
the
Orders
concerning
it
.
171.
The
Ouerseers
,
in
regard
of
their
great
care
and
paines
,
if
they
performe
their
dutie
according
to
their
Oath
,
shall
haue
two
in
the
Hundred
waight
of
all
the
Tobacco
growing
within
their
precincts
,
to
be
taken
out
of
each
Moitie
at
the
diuision
made
as
aforesaid
.
Councell
.
172.
OVt
of
the
Officers
aforenamed
,
the
Gouernor
shall
haue
a
Councell
to
assist
him
,
which
shall
bee
ordinarily
these
:
The
Sheriffe
,
The
two
Ministers
planted
on
the
publike
Land
,
The
Secretary
,
Two
Captaines
of
the
chiefe
Forts
,
&
the
first
of
the
Ouerseers
of
the
publike
Land
.
Neuerthelesse
at
the
Generall
Sessions
,
and
vpon
other
especiall
and
extaordinary
occasion
,
there
shall
sit
with
the
Gouernour
,
as
being
of
the
Councell
,
the
other
two
Ministers
,
and
the
first
of
the
two
Ouerseers
of
euery
Tribe
.
There
shall
bee
also
of
the
Councell
,
all
such
as
haue
held
the
places
of
chiefe
Gouernours
or
Sheriffes
of
the
said
Summer-Ilands
,
and
haue
worthily
for
their
times
discharged
their
Offices
,
and
not
beene
censured
for
misdemeanors
,
either
by
the
Company
here
,
or
by
such
Commissioners
as
shall
bee
sent
from
hence
with
such
authority
.
Lastly
,
it
is
in
the
power
here
of
a
Quarter
Court
,
to
appoint
any
other
particular
person
to
be
of
the
Councell
there
,
whom
they
shall
please
to
choose
.
173.
It
shall
not
bee
counted
an
Assembly
of
the
Councell
,
vnlesse
that
foure
of
them
,
or
three
at
least
bee
present
,
beside
the
Gouernour
:
and
that
without
practice
or
purpose
to
exclude
the
rest
.
174.
It
is
the
dutie
of
the
Councel
there
,
to
be
assisting
to
the
Gouernour
with
their
faithfull
and
carefull
aduice
,
both
for
the
strength
and
safegard
of
the
said
Ilands
;
and
for
the
well
Gouernement
of
the
people
:
as
also
for
the
due
administration
of
Iustice
in
all
causes
brought
before
them
:
and
for
the
obseruance
of
all
the
Lawes
and
Orders
deliuered
vnto
them
by
authority
from
hence
,
and
such
other
particular
Instructions
as
from
time
to
time
they
shall
receiue
.
To
the
performing
of
which
dutie
,
the
Gouernour
shall
administer
to
euery
of
them
,
at
his
admittance
to
be
of
the
said
Councell
,
a
formall
Oath
.
And
in
all
meetings
of
the
said
Councell
,
Resolutions
and
Iudgements
shall
passe
by
plurality
of
voices
:
Onely
the
Gouernor
shall
haue
both
two
voices
,
and
all
so
a
casting
voice
in
the
said
meetings
.
175.
The
Gouernour
,
with
the
whole
Councell
,
shall
sit
as
Iudges
or
Iustices
in
the
Generall
Sessions
.
Wherein
by
agreement
amongst
themselues
,
they
shall
publish
to
the
people
what
times
they
will
hold
for
their
ordinary
hearing
of
causes
and
administration
of
Iustice
,
in
all
such
matters
as
shal
come
or
be
brought
before
them
:
which
times
they
shall
not
faile
duly
to
obserue
.
Neuerthelesse
,
it
shall
be
lawfull
for
the
party
grieued
,
to
appeale
from
any
sentence
giuen
by
the
said
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
to
a
more
solemne
triall
at
the
next
Generall
Sessions
:
Yet
so
,
that
hee
put
in
good
security
,
to
pay
double
costs
and
charges
to
the
party
at
variance
with
him
,
if
the
matter
passe
against
him
at
the
said
Generall
Sessions
,
be
it
either
by
the
verdit
of
Iury
,
or
by
the
iudgement
of
the
Gouernour
,
and
whole
body
of
the
Councell
,
as
in
cases
of
equity
,
and
not
tryable
by
Iury.
The
same
Law
shall
be
for
all
other
appeales
whatsoeuer
.
176.
The
pleading
of
all
causes
both
Ciuill
and
Criminall
,
shall
be
ore
tenus
,
and
plaine
.
The
parties
by
themselues
,
or
by
their
more
able
friends
declaring
and
alleaging
what
they
haue
to
say
each
for
themselues
:
And
the
Witnesses
shall
bee
present
,
and
heard
viua
voce
,
being
first
sworne
.
Onely
the
sentence
shall
be
fully
set
downe
in
writing
,
and
registred
in
a
Booke
to
be
kept
for
that
purpose
.
Jnferiour
Officers
.
177.
THe
Gouernor
and
Councell
shall
,
at
their
meeting
at
the
General
Sessions
,
chuse
&
appoint
al
other
Inferior
Officers
,
necessary
either
for
the
due
and
speedy
administration
of
Iustice
,
or
for
other
publike
seruice
in
the
said
Summer-Ilands
,
whose
sees
shal
be
such
&
no
other
,
as
shal
be
rated
&
set
downe
by
the
General
assembly
from
time
to
time
.
Which
Generall
Assembly
may
also
at
their
pleasure
,
alter
and
reforme
the
said
Officers
and
Offices
;
with
reference
alwaies
to
the
pleasure
of
the
Companie
here
,
as
is
before
expressed
.
178.
In
like
sort
the
Inhabitants
of
euery
particular
Tribe
,
as
also
of
the
publike
Land
,
being
assembled
by
the
Ouerseers
respectiuely
,
shall
haue
power
to
chuse
such
inferiour
Officers
,
for
the
behoofe
and
seruice
of
the
said
Tribes
and
publike
Lands
respectiuely
,
as
they
shall
finde
necessary
,
with
allowance
of
such
Fees
from
the
said
Inhabitants
,
as
they
shall
agree
on
:
Which
shall
be
subiect
to
the
Confirmation
or
reformation
of
the
said
Generall
Assembly
,
in
manner
before
deliuered
.
Commissioners
.
179.
THe
Gouernour
and
Company
here
,
by
Order
in
a
Quarter
Court
,
shall
once
in
three
yeeres
,
if
they
thinke
it
so
expedient
,
send
or
appoint
Commissioners
for
the
said
Summer-Ilands
;
Men
fearing
God
,
Men
of
grauity
,
wisedome
,
courage
and
integrity
vncontrouled
,
to
examine
the
actions
,
as
well
of
the
said
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
as
of
all
other
Officers
,
or
which
in
former
times
haue
borne
Office
within
the
said
Ilands
:
Who
shall
also
haue
power
,
according
to
the
tenour
of
their
Commission
,
to
proceed
to
the
censuring
and
reforming
of
all
Delinquents
:
and
the
said
Commissioners
,
during
the
time
of
their
Commission
,
shall
be
exempted
from
any
Iurisdiction
ouer
them
in
the
said
Ilands
:
and
of
all
their
proceedings
,
they
shal
from
thence
,
or
at
their
returne
,
make
due
Certificate
to
the
Gouernour
and
Company
here
.
Inhabitants
.
180.
THe
Inhabitants
of
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
duly
frequent
the
seruice
of
God
,
and
thereat
behaue
themselues
with
all
decency
and
reuerence
,
vnder
a
penalty
to
bee
set
downe
by
their
generall
Assembly
.
The
Masters
also
of
Families
,
shall
by
aid
and
direction
of
their
Minister
,
see
their
children
,
Seruants
,
and
other
Cohabitants
,
brought
vp
in
the
true
knowledge
and
feare
of
God
,
in
the
hatred
also
of
vice
,
and
exercise
of
piety
and
vertue
.
181.
They
shall
carry
themselues
loyally
both
in
deeds
and
words
towards
the
King
,
his
Heires
and
Successors
.
They
shall
also
behaue
themselues
reuerently
and
dutifully
,
as
well
toward
the
Gouernour
and
Company
here
,
as
also
toward
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
there
;
vnder
penalties
to
be
set
down
by
the
generall
Assembly
.
If
any
man
suppose
himselfe
to
haue
iust
cause
of
grieuance
,
he
shall
not
by
mutinous
speech
raise
discontent
also
in
other
man
;
but
exhibite
his
Petition
or
Complaint
to
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
;
who
shall
transmit
the
same
to
the
Gouernour
and
Company
here
,
from
whom
he
shall
receiue
right
and
iustice
without
delay
.
182.
The
Tenants
or
Seruants
shall
not
by
vnreuerent
speech
or
writing
abuse
their
Landlords
or
Masters
,
vnder
a
penalty
to
be
inflicted
vpon
them
by
a
great
and
generall
Court
heere
.
But
hee
that
hath
cause
of
complaint
,
shall
exhibite
his
Petition
in
manner
aforesaid
.
183.
If
any
of
the
Company
heere
,
by
any
sinister
meanes
seeke
to
oppresse
or
wrong
any
of
the
Inhabitants
there
;
after
complaint
made
and
prooued
,
either
before
the
Gouernour
and
Company
heere
,
or
the
Gouernour
or
Councell
there
,
and
certified
hither
,
as
the
case
shal
require
,
besides
the
forfeiture
aboue
mentioned
in
the
said
Summer-Ilands
,
wherof
one
third
part
shall
be
to
the
party
grieued
;
hee
shall
be
also
seuerely
proceeded
against
in
a
Quarter
Court
here
.
184.
If
any
man
be
a
Common
Swearer
,
or
profane
abuser
of
the
Name
of
God
,
if
after
lawfull
admonition
by
the
Magistrate
or
Minister
,
he
doe
not
reforme
himselfe
,
besides
other
due
punishment
,
hee
shall
be
declared
infamous
.
185.
If
any
man
of
vnquiet
and
contentious
spirit
,
be
a
common
raiser
of
quarrels
or
brabbles
amongst
neighbours
;
besides
other
penalties
to
be
inflicted
according
to
Law
,
he
shall
be
condemned
by
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
to
be
a
person
infamous
.
186.
A
person
by
lawfull
Sentence
condemned
and
declared
to
be
infamous
,
shall
,
during
the
time
hee
so
continueth
,
be
vncapable
of
any
Office
of
dignity
or
command
:
But
in
Offices
ministeriall
,
and
of
toyle
only
and
labour
,
he
may
,
and
shall
be
imployed
.
He
shall
not
sit
or
stand
in
the
Church
with
the
rest
of
the
Congregation
,
but
in
a
lower
place
apart
by
himselfe
:
and
in
all
other
Assemblies
,
he
shall
alwayes
sit
or
stand
in
the
meanest
place
.
His
testimony
shall
not
be
receiued
in
any
cause
or
businesse
.
If
he
commit
any
crime
,
or
breake
any
Law
or
Order
,
his
punishment
shall
be
double
to
that
of
another
man
in
the
like
case
.
If
he
presume
to
doe
any
thing
contrary
to
this
Order
,
hee
shall
indure
sixe
dayes
strait
imprisonment
for
the
same
.
And
euery
person
declared
to
be
infamous
,
shall
so
continue
,
till
hee
publikely
declare
his
repentance
and
reformation
at
a
generall
Sessions
;
and
thereupon
be
discharged
from
his
infamy
.
187.
If
any
man
being
of
an
idle
and
vaine
disposition
,
forsake
his
labour
,
or
other
businesse
,
and
thereby
giue
example
to
other
men
to
doe
the
like
:
he
shall
be
admonished
thereof
by
the
Sheriffe
,
or
Ouerseer
.
If
after
admonition
he
persist
in
his
idle
course
of
life
,
he
shall
be
declared
infamous
.
But
if
the
same
person
become
also
a
wanderer
or
vagrant
from
the
due
place
of
his
seruice
:
hee
shall
for
the
first
time
be
onely
admonished
;
but
for
euery
offence
after
,
he
shal
by
order
of
the
Sheriffe
or
Ouerseers
,
be
scourged
on
the
naked
backe
at
the
whipping
post
,
as
a
Rogue
;
and
the
entertainers
and
relieuers
of
euery
such
wandring
person
,
or
of
any
Fugitiue
from
the
businesse
of
his
lawfull
Landlord
or
Master
,
shall
for
euery
time
or
day
of
such
entertainment
,
forfeit
ten
pounds
of
Tobacco
,
or
to
the
valew
thereof
:
whereof
the
one
Moity
shall
be
to
the
vse
of
the
Landlord
or
Master
so
wronged
,
and
the
other
Moity
shall
be
to
the
vse
of
the
publike
workes
of
the
Plantation
.
188.
If
any
man
be
a
Drunkard
,
or
a
common
haunter
of
Tippling-houses
;
if
after
admonition
he
doe
not
reforme
himselfe
,
besides
other
due
penalties
,
he
shall
be
declared
infamous
.
And
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
shall
in
their
generall
Sessions
,
from
time
to
time
,
take
especiall
care
for
limiting
the
number
,
and
reforming
the
abuses
of
all
Hosteries
,
Tauernes
,
or
Drinking-houses
,
of
what
kind
soeuer
.
189.
If
any
man
be
a
common
spender
of
his
time
in
dicing
and
carding
,
or
other
vaine
or
vnlawfull
gaming
;
or
vse
the
same
〈◊〉
times
vnseasonable
;
hee
shall
be
declared
infamous
.
190.
Whosoeuer
shall
in
brauery
of
apparell
exceed
his
degree
;
if
after
admonition
he
doe
not
reforme
the
same
,
he
shall
in
all
publike
burthens
beare
the
double
to
any
other
.
191.
The
Sheriffe
and
Ouerseers
of
Tribes
,
shall
take
diligent
notice
also
of
such
persons
,
as
by
their
orderly
and
industrious
course
of
life
,
giue
good
example
vnto
those
amongst
whom
they
liue
:
whereof
,
and
of
their
other
good
parts
and
abilities
,
they
shall
giue
information
to
the
Gouernor
and
Councell
from
time
to
time
,
who
vpon
that
,
and
such
other
information
as
they
shall
take
,
shall
aduertize
in
like
sort
the
Gouernour
and
Company
heere
of
the
men
of
best
quality
,
good
carriage
and
sufficiency
in
the
said
Summer-Ilands
:
that
the
Company
may
accordingly
preferre
,
or
otherwise
reward
persons
of
good
sufficiency
and
well-deseruing
.
192.
No
Tenant
or
Seruant
,
set
out
and
furnished
by
any
Owner
of
Land
according
to
their
mutuall
agreement
,
shall
,
during
the
terme
contracted
for
betweene
them
,
shift
his
Master
or
Landlord
,
or
occupie
any
other
mans
Land
,
or
come
away
from
the
said
Ilands
,
without
his
Landlords
or
Masters
consent
in
writing
vnder
his
hand
and
seale
.
193.
Whosoeuer
shall
by
any
perswasion
whatsoeuer
,
intice
or
withdraw
the
Tenants
or
Seruants
of
any
Owner
of
Land
,
to
forsake
the
occupying
of
the
said
Owners
Land
,
shall
forfeit
the
one
Moity
of
all
his
part
of
Tobacco
,
or
other
profits
growing
in
that
yeere
;
whereof
two
third
parts
shall
be
to
the
Owner
of
the
said
Land
,
and
a
third
to
the
Informer
.
But
if
any
man
shall
seeke
to
draw
away
any
of
the
Tenants
of
the
publike
Lands
;
hee
shall
forfeit
the
double
of
the
foresaid
forfeiture
,
to
bee
leuied
part
in
that
yeere
,
part
in
the
yere
ensuing
.
Of
which
forfeitures
,
two
thirds
shall
bee
to
the
vse
of
the
Company
,
and
one
third
to
the
Informer
.
And
the
Tenant
or
Seruant
so
inticed
or
withdrawne
,
or
withdrawing
himselfe
,
shall
be
immediately
returned
to
the
said
Owners
or
publike
Land
,
as
the
case
shall
require
.
194.
No
Tenant
or
Seruant
shall
alienate
,
lend
,
or
let
to
hire
any
Apprentice
or
Seruant
,
prouided
,
sent
,
or
contracted
for
by
the
Landlord
,
or
Master
,
to
be
placed
and
imployed
vpon
his
owne
Land
,
without
leaue
first
obtained
from
the
Owner
of
the
said
Land
,
in
writing
vnder
his
hand
and
Seale
.
The
Offender
shal
forfeit
one
hundred
pound
of
Tobacco
,
and
in
want
of
Tobacco
,
other
goods
to
the
like
proportionable
valew
,
to
be
leuied
to
the
vse
of
the
said
Owner
or
Landlord
:
and
the
said
alienation
,
hiring
,
or
lending
out
,
shall
be
vtterly
voyd
:
and
the
said
Apprentice
or
Seruant
shall
bee
returned
to
his
first
place
,
imployment
,
and
seruice
.
195.
If
any
Tenant
or
Seruant
,
being
sent
ouer
to
the
Summer-Ilands
by
his
Landlord
or
Master
,
to
be
imployed
vpon
his
Land
there
,
shall
afterward
betake
himselfe
to
some
handicraft
trade
,
or
other
course
of
life
,
and
either
in
whole
,
or
in
great
part
neglect
the
occupying
of
his
said
Landlord
or
Masters
Land
:
he
shall
pay
vnto
his
said
Landlord
or
Master
,
during
the
time
of
the
Contract
with
him
,
the
Moity
as
well
of
all
the
profits
by
his
other
earnings
,
as
of
the
profits
of
the
said
Land
which
hee
shall
occupy
,
to
be
rated
,
assessed
,
and
leuied
by
such
waies
and
meanes
as
shall
be
set
downe
in
the
generall
Assembly
.
196.
If
any
man
marry
the
Maid-seruant
of
any
Owner
of
Land
,
or
the
Widow
of
any
of
his
Tenants
or
Seruants
sent
ouer
to
inhabite
vpon
his
Land
there
;
he
shall
by
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
pay
to
the
said
Owner
,
the
ratable
part
of
furnishing
out
,
and
transporting
the
said
Maid-seruant
or
Widow
,
consideration
being
had
to
the
time
that
shee
hath
serued
her
Master
,
or
the
owner
there
.
197.
It
shall
not
be
lawfull
for
Tenants
or
Seruants
to
abuse
the
Owners
Land
on
which
they
are
placed
:
but
they
shall
vse
it
in
an
orderly
&
husbandly
manner
,
according
to
the
Owners
directions
,
or
according
to
such
directions
as
they
shall
receiue
,
either
from
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
,
or
from
the
Sheriffe
and
Ouerseers
in
their
seuerall
charges
:
who
shall
take
the
well-vsing
of
the
Lands
in
the
Summer-Ilands
into
speciall
consideration
.
The
Transgressor
,
after
admonition
and
direction
,
shall
forfeit
the
one
Moity
of
his
profits
for
that
yere
,
to
the
vse
of
the
Owner
of
the
Land
abused
.
198.
The
making
and
repairing
of
the
Forts
,
also
of
Bridges
,
and
Highwayes
,
and
the
preseruing
of
the
bounds
of
euery
mans
Land
,
shall
be
performed
in
such
sort
,
and
by
such
meanes
as
the
generall
Assembly
shall
appoynt
.
199.
The
Gouernour
and
Councell
shall
take
into
consideration
the
building
of
houses
in
the
said
Ilands
,
and
giue
order
that
they
may
bee
strongly
and
durably
built
;
and
being
built
,
that
they
be
wel
maintained
and
kept
in
repaire
.
The
execution
of
which
order
,
and
Suruey
of
the
said
buildings
,
shall
be
committed
by
them
to
the
charge
of
the
Sheriffe
and
Ouerseers
,
or
such
other
as
they
shall
thinke
meet
to
appoynt
.
The
violater
of
this
Order
shall
be
censured
and
punished
at
the
discretion
of
the
Gouernour
and
Councel
,
at
their
next
general
Sessions
.
200.
No
kind
of
Timber-wood
growing
in
the
said
Ilands
,
shall
be
vsed
for
firewood
,
vnder
the
penalty
to
be
set
downe
in
the
generall
Assembly
,
ouer
and
aboue
the
double
valew
thereof
to
be
forfeited
to
the
Owner
of
that
Land
.
201.
No
Tenant
or
Seruant
shall
cut
down
any
Timber
trees
,
but
vpon
a
Suruey
and
setting
out
thereof
by
the
Ouerseers
respectiuely
:
which
Timber
so
cut
downe
,
shall
be
laid
vp
and
preserued
for
the
building
of
houses
,
and
other
necessary
vses
with
the
Owners
consent
.
The
transgressor
of
this
Order
shall
be
amerced
at
the
discretion
of
the
Gouernor
and
Councell
;
whereof
the
one
Moity
shall
bee
to
the
Owner
of
that
Land
,
and
the
other
to
the
publike
seruices
of
the
Plantation
.
202.
The
Timber
of
the
Land
of
one
Owner
,
shall
not
be
carryed
from
thence
to
the
Land
of
any
other
,
or
to
the
vse
of
any
other
person
,
without
the
Owners
consent
vnder
his
hand
and
Seale
,
vnder
paine
of
the
double
valew
,
to
be
forfeited
to
the
Owner
,
and
leuied
to
his
vse
.
But
if
necessity
require
,
that
the
Timber
growing
vpon
any
priuate
mans
Land
,
be
taken
for
publike
vse
of
the
Company
and
Colony
;
the
Owner
shall
be
paid
for
the
same
by
the
Company
or
Colony
,
according
to
a
true
estimate
by
an
indifferent
Iury.
203.
The
Inhabitants
shall
not
liue
too
much
scattered
or
single
one
from
another
,
but
draw
themselues
to
fiue
in
a
Family
at
the
least
,
where
it
may
conueniently
be
,
so
to
eate
,
and
worke
together
.
204.
Neither
shall
they
wholly
apply
themselues
to
the
planting
of
Tobacco
;
but
rather
to
other
more
stabile
and
solid
Commodities
,
as
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
by
directions
from
hence
,
or
as
the
generall
Assembly
shall
appoynt
.
205.
All
bad
,
rotten
,
and
otherwise
vnwholesome
or
vnmarchantable
Tobacco
,
being
tryed
by
order
inacted
in
their
generall
Assembly
,
shall
be
publikely
burnt
,
vnder
such
penalties
for
concealing
of
the
said
bad
Tobacco
,
or
neglecting
to
put
the
said
Order
in
due
execution
,
as
by
the
said
generall
Assembly
shall
be
set
downe
.
And
if
the
badnesse
of
the
said
Tobacco
,
haue
happened
meerly
by
the
negligence
or
other
default
of
the
maker
thereof
:
hee
shall
bee
bound
to
continew
in
occupying
of
the
Land
where
the
said
Tobacco
did
grow
,
one
whole
yeere
longer
then
his
contract
with
his
Landlord
;
and
so
toties
quoties
,
in
recompence
of
the
said
Landlords
losse
vndeseruedly
sustained
.
206.
It
is
ordered
that
euery
Tribe
,
at
the
common
charge
thereof
,
shall
build
a
sufficient
Storehouse
with
two
roomes
;
the
one
for
keeping
Corne
,
the
other
for
their
Armes
:
and
that
each
man
be
prouided
of
one
Sword
and
Peece
at
the
least
:
and
that
all
Peeces
be
of
two
sorts
,
Calliuers
,
and
Muskets
;
and
of
one
kind
of
bore
,
to
auoid
confusion
by
diuersity
of
moulds
and
bullets
.
And
the
Inhabitants
of
euery
Tribe
being
assembled
by
the
Ouerseers
,
shall
agree
amongst
themselues
for
the
safe
and
cleane
keeping
both
of
the
said
Corne
and
Armour
;
that
the
one
may
bee
sweet
,
and
the
other
bright
and
seruiceable
.
In
defect
whereof
,
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
shall
set
downe
a
certaine
Order
for
the
same
;
which
the
Sheriffe
shall
see
put
in
due
execution
.
207.
It
is
likewise
ordered
,
that
for
the
preuenting
of
dearth
,
each
Family
sowe
or
plant
a
conuenient
quantity
of
Corne
,
according
to
the
proportion
that
the
generall
Assembly
shall
set
downe
.
Of
which
Corne
,
a
certaine
quantity
(
to
be
rated
likewise
by
the
said
generall
Assembly
)
shall
at
euery
Haruest
,
being
well
conditioned
,
bee
brought
into
the
publike
Stores
before
mentioned
:
which
at
the
Haruest
of
the
next
yeere
shall
bee
faithfully
deliuered
out
to
the
true
Owners
therof
,
at
their
bringing
in
of
new
Corne
of
like
quantity
to
the
same
.
Prouided
alwayes
,
that
in
case
of
generall
scarcity
,
the
Corne
in
the
said
Store-houses
may
bee
deliuered
out
to
the
Deliuerers
in
thereof
,
before
the
time
of
Haruest
;
or
to
others
that
shall
bee
prest
with
greater
need
,
satisfying
the
Owners
according
to
the
true
valew
thereof
.
The
penalties
for
neglect
or
breach
of
this
order
,
are
likewise
referred
to
the
generall
Assembly
.
208.
Whereas
by
reason
of
diuers
vncertainties
and
difficulties
,
through
the
great
remotenesse
of
the
Summer-Ilands
,
the
particularities
of
sundry
matters
mentioned
in
these
Lawes
,
are
referred
to
such
further
Orders
,
prouisions
and
penalties
,
as
by
the
generall
assembly
to
be
held
in
the
said
Ilands
,
shall
be
thought
iust
and
expedient
:
It
is
therefore
ordered
,
that
the
Gouernour
of
the
Summer-Ilands
which
shall
bee
sent
thither
next
,
doe
within
one
halfe
yeere
after
his
arriuall
there
,
hold
a
generall
Assembly
:
and
that
therein
,
according
to
the
trust
reposed
in
him
and
them
,
they
doe
,
with
graue
and
mature
deliberation
proceed
to
the
setting
downe
of
the
orders
and
penalties
here
referred
to
them
:
and
thereof
,
together
with
the
rest
of
their
proceedings
,
make
a
full
and
authenticall
Certificate
to
the
Company
,
to
receiue
their
approbation
,
or
reformation
,
as
there
shall
cause
appeare
.
Trade
.
209.
IT
shall
be
free
for
all
the
members
of
this
Company
,
to
trade
into
the
Summer-Ilands
with
the
Colony
there
,
by
Commission
from
the
Gouernour
and
Company
here
;
which
shall
be
denyed
to
no
man
:
and
according
to
such
Orders
as
the
Company
shall
finde
expedient
for
behoofe
of
the
Colony
.
Prouided
notwithstanding
,
that
if
any
man
be
found
by
himselfe
,
his
Factors
or
Agents
,
to
vse
any
fraudulent
or
oppressiue
course
to
the
wrong
either
of
the
Inhabitants
there
,
or
of
the
Owners
of
the
Land
:
in
that
case
the
Company
shall
inhibite
the
party
so
offending
,
whether
by
himselfe
,
or
by
his
Factors
,
or
Agents
,
from
trading
to
the
said
Ilands
,
during
the
space
of
fiue
yeeres
then
next
ensuing
;
and
vnder
such
penalty
as
shall
be
set
downe
in
a
great
and
generall
Court
.
And
for
the
better
discouery
of
all
fraud
and
oppression
,
the
Cope-Marchant
or
Factor
for
euery
publike
ioynt-stocke
or
Magazine
,
shall
keepe
a
true
Booke
of
the
sale
of
all
the
Commodities
then
sent
and
transported
to
the
Summer-Ilands
;
expressing
both
to
what
persons
,
as
also
in
what
quantities
,
and
at
what
prices
they
shall
haue
bin
sold
:
which
Booke
shall
be
presented
to
the
view
and
consideration
of
a
generall
Court
.
210.
If
in
any
ioynt-stocke
for
a
Magazine
to
be
hereafter
erected
,
the
Generall
Company
,
out
of
their
common
Cash
beare
part
as
an
Aduenturer
:
they
shall
ratably
partake
like
profit
,
and
vndergoe
like
losse
,
with
other
Aduenturers
:
and
any
Order
to
the
contrary
shall
be
void
.
In
which
case
also
the
Court
shal
appoint
the
meetings
for
the
Magazine
!
211.
The
Gouernour
and
Company
heere
,
as
also
the
Gouernour
and
Councell
residing
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
shall
from
time
to
time
haue
especiall
care
,
that
as
well
the
Passengers
to
and
fro
,
as
also
the
Inhabitants
in
the
Summer-Ilands
maintaine
friendship
and
good
correspondence
with
all
other
Nations
being
in
league
or
amity
with
his
Maiesty
,
and
the
Crowne
of
England
;
and
that
they
forbeare
all
hostile
or
iniurious
acts
or
attempts
against
them
,
or
any
of
them
,
in
their
persons
,
Possessions
,
Lands
,
Goods
,
or
businesse
,
vpon
penalty
to
be
proceeded
against
as
Malefactors
in
the
highest
nature
,
and
disturbers
of
the
generall
peace
established
by
his
Maiesty
.
Land
in
Virginia
.
212.
WHereas
the
Company
for
Virginia
,
in
consideration
of
the
great
defect
of
the
quantity
of
Land
in
the
Summer-Ilands
,
conceiued
to
haue
been
at
the
time
of
the
sale
thereof
to
this
Company
,
and
to
make
recompence
for
the
same
,
haue
ordered
in
one
of
their
great
and
generall
Courts
,
that
there
shall
bee
granted
by
them
,
and
vnder
their
Legall
Seale
,
a
large
proportion
of
Land
in
Virginia
,
to
be
and
continue
to
the
Company
of
the
said
Summer-Ilands
,
and
the
members
thereof
for
euer
,
for
the
better
support
of
the
said
Company
,
and
of
the
Inhabitants
of
the
said
Ilands
:
It
is
therefore
ordered
,
that
a
select
Committie
bee
forthwith
appoynted
,
as
well
to
pursue
the
perfecting
of
the
said
Grant
;
as
also
to
take
into
carefull
consideration
,
how
the
planting
and
peopling
of
the
said
Land
in
Virginia
,
may
bee
proceeded
with
in
most
effectuall
sort
,
and
without
delay
,
and
as
may
be
most
for
the
support
of
the
said
Summer-Ilands
:
which
Committy
shall
from
time
to
time
reduce
into
writing
,
and
present
to
the
Courts
,
their
proceedings
therein
:
so
to
receiue
resolution
and
further
direction
.