ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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reasonable lawes, statutes, ordinances, decrees, constitu- 

 tions, and customes, as they shal thinke expedient in this 

 behalfe : which we command to be kept as ratified, con- 

 firmed, allowed, & approved, available, and established. 

 Provided alwaies, that they do not nor seeke any thing 

 prejudicial to this present power and authoritie given 

 and graunted by us to the saide governour, in any poynt 

 [I. 210.] or article heerein comprised, by any meanes or way 

 whatsoever : in which case if they shoulde doe any thing, 

 or ought should happen, we wil that it shal take no 

 place, force, vigour, strength, nor vertue : neither that it 

 shalbe of any effect, but it shalbe abolished, disanulled, 

 and utterly frustrate ; and as abolished, disanulled, and 

 utterly frustrated, from this time forward, wee holde 

 and take it, and will hereafter hold and take the same. 

 And so to doe, and put in execution in our name, we 

 have and doe give full and absolute power, & speciall 

 authority to our said servant William Obray, & to his 

 said lieutenants. And likewise, to the end that ye course 

 of marchandise may be kept in good estate, and that by 

 order of justice a firme and constant rule may be set 

 downe among those our said subjects and marchants, we 

 have ordained and do ordaine, have consented & doe 

 consent, and by these presents have given & do give ful 

 power & especiall authority to our said servant Will. 

 Obray governour aforesaid, that at al time and times 

 when he shal think good, he may ordaine, elect, chuse, 

 and appoint, in the countreis aforesaid, such ministers, 

 officers, and servitours as hereafter shalbe named, and 

 such others as he shal think necessary, and to discharge 

 them, and to change them, & set others in their roomes, 

 at his good will and pleasure, unto such a number as he 

 shall thinke good and reasonable for the time being to be 

 employed : as namely correctors or brokers as many as he 

 shal thinke good, to make and to witnes the bargaines 

 which are made or to be made, betweene our said subjects 

 and others with whom they shal have to do or to deale 

 in the foresaid countreis : and also as many alnagers to 



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