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Secondly, The liberties which you may be pleased 

 to confer upon them. When I speak of liberties, I 

 mean not liberties of jurisdiction ; as counties pala 

 tine, or the like, which it seemeth hath been the 

 error of the ancient donations and plantations in that 

 country, but I mean only liberties tending to com 

 modity ; as liberty to transport any of the commo 

 dities growing upon the countries new planted ; 

 liberty to import from hence all things appertaining 

 to their necessary use, custom-free ; liberty to take 

 timber or other materials in your majesty s woods 

 there, and the like. 



The third is, ease of charge ; that the whole mass 

 of charge doth not rest upon the private purse of the 

 undertakers. 



For the two former of these, I will pass them 

 over ; because in that project, which with good dili 

 gence and providence hath been presented to your 

 majesty by your ministers of that kingdom, they are 

 in my opinion well handled. 



For the third, I will never despair, but that the 

 parliament of England, if it may perceive, that this 

 action is not a flash, but a solid and settled pursuit, 

 will give aid to a work so religious, so politic, and so 

 profitable. And the distribution of charge, if it be 

 observed, falleth naturally into three kinds of charge, 

 and every of those charges respectively ought to 

 have his proper fountain and issue. For as there 

 proceedeth from your majesty s royal bounty and 

 munificence, the gift of the land, and the other 

 materials ; together with the endowment of liberties ; 



