INSTRUCTIONS TO EDWARD FENTON a.d. 



1582. 

 treason, mutlnie, or any other discord attempted as afore- 

 said, the same shalbe punished by you, or your Lieue- 

 tenant, according to the qualitie and enormitie of the 

 fact. Provided alwayes, and it shall not bee lawfull neither 

 for you, nor for your Lieuetenant to proceede to the 

 punishment of any person by losse of life or lim, unlesse 

 the partie shall be judged to have deserved it by 

 the rest of your Assistants, as is before expressed, or 

 at the least by foure of them. And that which shall 

 concerne life to be by the verdict of twelve men of the 

 company employed m this voyage, to be impanelled for 

 that purpose, with the observation of the forme of our 

 countrey lawes in that behalfe, as neere as you may. 

 Provided, if it shall not appeare, that the forbearing of the 

 execution by death, shall minister cause to increase the 

 facte of the offender, then it were better to convince the 

 partie of his facte, by the othes of 1 2 indifferent persons, 

 and to commit him to hard imprisonment, untill the 

 returne. And aswell of the factes committed by any, 

 as also of the proofe thereof, and of the opinions of you, 

 and your Assistants, and the maner of the punishment, the 

 Register shall make a particular and true note, in the 

 booke of your consultation, as is before appointed. 



6 Item, you shall not remoove Captaine William Haw- [m. 755.] 



kins your lieutenant, master Captaine Luke Ward your 



viceadmiral, or captaine of the Edward Bonaventure, nor 



captaine Carlile from his charge by land, whom we will M. Carlile 



not to refuse any such service as shall be appointed to him ^P°^ occasion ^ 



by the Generall and the councill, nor any captaine of other ^^^ ^ottnt u 



ir' 1-1 1 ^ . ^ ,, voyage. 



vessels from their charges, but upon just cause duely 



prooved, and by consent of your Assistants, or of foure 



of them at the least. 



7 Item, for the succession of the Generall, governour 

 of this whole voyage, if it should please God to take him 

 away, it is thought meete that there should bee the names 

 of such Gentlemen secretly set downe to succeede in his 

 place one after the other, which are severally written 

 in parchment, included in bals of waxe, sealed with her 



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