ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1462. 



please the said governor or his deputies, they may in 

 some convenient and honest place within the said coun- 

 treis make or cause to be made, somon, and hold in our 

 name jurisdictions, courts, and assemblies : and in our 

 said name take administration and knowledge of causes, 

 as it is aforesaide, and to hold and keepe pleas, for and in 

 our behalfe, and to make agreements, mediatours, and 

 umpires, to judge, to make decrees, and to minister 

 justice, to ordaine, appoint, censure, and constraine our 

 saide subjects to sweare and take all kind of oathes, 

 which order of justice and custome require and affoorde, 

 and to enjoy our authoritie, and to use, execute and 

 accomplish, by way of equitie and justice, and to doe, or 

 cause to be done all execution and exercise of law and 

 justice; and to ordain, appoint, & establish sixe ser- 

 geants or under, to doe the executions & arrests of our 

 said court, by the commandement of the said governour 

 or of his deputies, or at the request of the partie or 

 otherwise, according as the case shall require by their 

 advise, and to discharge and displace the said sergeants, 

 as shall seeme good unto him, as often and whensoever 

 as it shall please him, and change them, and appoint and 

 set others in their roomes, and to require returne and 

 answere of the court, whensoever need shal be, of all 

 causes, quarels, and businesses in regard of the said 

 office belonging unto us and to our said subjects the 

 common marchants and mariners at all times, and as 

 often as the case shall permit and require : and gene- 

 rally and specially to doe as much for us and in our stead, 

 in the cases before mentioned, and which hereafter shalbe 

 declared, as we could doe or cause to be done, could say 

 or require, if we were there present in our owne person. 

 Moreover wee will, and by the tenour of these presents 

 wee give and graunt unto the saide governour, and to 

 our saide subjects the common marchants and mariners, 

 that as oft and whensoever it please them, they may 

 meet and assemble in some honest and convenient place, 

 and by the consent of the saide governour to choose and 



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