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his defect in the governing part must be supplied by 

 such assistants as shall be joined with him, or as he 

 shall very well approve of. 



4. As at their setting out they must have their 

 commission or letters patents from the king, that so 

 thay may acknowledge their dependency upon the 

 crown of England, and under his protection ; so they 

 must receive some general instructions, how to dis 

 pose of themselves when they come there, which 

 must be in nature of laws unto them. 



5. But the general law, by which they must be 

 guided and governed, must be the common law of 

 England ; and to that end, it will be fit that some 

 man reasonably studied in the law, and otherwise 

 qualified for such a purpose, be persuaded, if not 

 thereunto inclined of himself, which were the best, to 

 go thither as chancellor amongst them, at first ; and 

 when the plantation were more settled, then to have 

 courts of justice there as in England. 



6. At the first planting, or as soon after as they 

 can, they must make themselves defensible both 

 against the natives and against strangers ; and to 

 that purpose they must have the assistance of some 

 able military man, and convenient arms and ammu 

 nition for their defence. 



7. For the discipline of the Church in those 

 parts, it will be necessary, that it agree with that 

 which is settled in England, else it will make a 

 schism and a rent in Christ s coat which must be 

 seamless; and, to that purpose, it will be fit, that 

 by the king s supreme power in causes ecclesiastical, 



