AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



to take a view of the number and quantitie of such 

 Ordinance, powder, and munition as shall be caried in 

 the said ship, or shippes, and shall also at the returne 

 of the same ship, or shippes, suffer a view to be taken, 

 and upon request made, make an accompt to the saide 

 officers of our Ordinance, of the expenses, and wastes 

 of the said Ordinance, powder, and munition, so to bee 

 caried in the same ship, or shippes. 



Provided alwayes, that if any of the said trade or 

 Company, or their servants, factors, or sailers, in any ship 

 by them laden, shall commit any piracie or outrage upon 

 the seas, and that, if the said Company or societie shall 

 not, or do not, within reasonable time, after complaint 

 made, or notice given to the said Company, or to any 

 of them, either satisfie or recompense the parties that so 

 shall fortune to be robbed, or spoiled by any of the 

 said Company, or sailers, in the said ships, or els shall 

 not do their endevour to the uttermost of their reason- 

 able power, to have the parties so offending punished 

 for the same their offences, that then, and from thence- 

 foorth, these present letters patents shall be utterly voyd, 

 cease, and determine. 



Provided likewise, that if it shall hereafter appeare 

 unto us, our heires, or successors, that this grant, or 

 the continuance thereof in the whole, or in any part 

 thereof, shall not be profitable to us, our heires, our 

 successors, or to this our Realme, that then, and from 

 thencefoorth, upon, and after one full yeeres warning, 

 to be given unto the said Company, or to the Governour 

 thereof, by us, our heires, or successors, this present 

 grant shall cease, be voyd, and determine, to all intents, 

 constructions, and purposes. 



Provided also, that we, our heires and successors, from 

 time to time, during the said 7. yeeres, may lawfully 

 nominate, appoint, and authorise two persons, being fit 

 men, to be of the saide company, and for want or lacke 

 of them, two others to be adventurers in the said trade, 

 for such stocke and summe of money, as they shall put in, 



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