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and states, that if, hereafter, any one, or any, from the said colonies, in 

 the province of New Scotland aforesaid, or any other persons under their 

 license and command, exercising piracy ; at any future time, by land or by 

 sea, shall carry away the goods of any person, or in a hostile manner do 

 any injustice or wrong to any of our subjects, or those of our heirs or suc- 

 cessors, or of other kings, princes, governors or states in alliance with us, 

 then, upon such injury offered, or just complaint thereupon, by any king, 

 prince, governor, state or their subjects, we, our heirs and successors will see 

 that public proclamations are made, in any part of our said Kingdom of 

 Scotland, just and suitable for this purpose, and that the said pirate or 

 pirates, who shall commit such violence, at a stated time, to be determined 

 by the aforesaid proclamation, shall fully restore all goods so carried away ; 

 and for the said injuries shall make full satisfaction, so that the said prinoes 

 and others thus complaining shall deem themselves satisfied. And, if the 

 authors of such crimes shall neither make worthy satisfaction, nor be careful 

 that it be made within the limited time, then he, or those who have com- 

 mitted such plunder, neither are nor hereafter shall be under our govern- 

 ment and protection ; but it shall be permitted and lawful to all princes 

 and others whatsoever, to proceed against such offenders, or any of them, 

 and with all hostility to invade them. 



And though it is appointed that no nobleman and gentleman may depart 

 from this country without our consent, yet we will that this our present 

 charter be a sufficient permission and assurance to all engaging in the said 

 voyage, save those who may be accused of treason or retained by any 

 special order ; and according to our present charter, we declare and decree 

 that no person may leave this country and go to the said region of New 

 Scotland unless they have previously taken the oath of allegiance to us ; 

 for which purpose, we, by our present charter, give and grant the said 

 Sir William and his aforesaids, or their conservators and deputies, full 

 power and a,uthority to exact the said oath from and administer it to all 

 persons proceeding into the said lands in that colony. Moreover, we for 

 ourselves and our successors, with the advice and consent aforesaid, declare, 

 decree and ordain that all our subjects, going to the said New Scotland, 

 or living in it, and all their children and posterity born there, and all 

 adventuring there, shall have and enjoy all the liberties, rights and privi- 

 leges of free and native subjects of our Kingdo:m of Scotland, or of our 

 other dominions, as if they had been born there. 



Also, we for ourselves, and our sucoessors, give and granit to the said 

 Sir William and his aforesaids the free power of regulating and coining 

 money for the freer commerce of those inhabiting the said province, of any 

 metal, in what manner and of what form they shall choose and direct for 

 the same. 



And if any questions or dioubts shall arise on the meaning and con- 

 struction of any clause in our present charter, all these shall Se taken and 

 explained in their amplest form, and in favour of the said Sir William and 

 his aforesaids. Besides we, of our certain knowledge, proper motive, regal 

 authority and kingly power, have made, united, annexed, erected, created 

 and incorporated, and, by the tenor of our present charter, do make, unite, 

 annex, erect, create and incorporate, the whole and undivided, the said 

 province and lands of New Scotland, with all the seas and limits of the 

 same, and minerals of gold and silver, lead, copper, steel, tin, brass, iron 

 and any other mines, pearls, precious stones, quarries, forests, thickets, 

 mosses, marshes, lakes, waters, fisheries as well in fresh waters as in salt, 

 as well of royal fishes as of others, cities, free ports, free villages, towns, 

 baronial villages, seaports, roadsteads, machines, mills, offices and jurisdic- 

 tions, and all other things generally and particularly mentioned above, in 



