g54 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



No. 21660, January 26th: Star Chamber Rules of Charles I and 

 additions by Charles II. 



Charles the Second by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, 

 France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. and to all to whom 

 these presents shall come, Greeting : 



Whereas our late Royal father of blessed memory by his Letters 

 Patent under his Great Seal of England bearing date at West- 

 minister the tenth day of February in the ninth year of his reign 

 hereby reciting that the region or country called Newfoundland had 

 been acquired to the Dominion of his progenitors which he held and 

 his people had many years resorted to those parts where and in the 

 coasts adjoining they employed themselves in fishing, whereby a 

 great number or his people had been set on work and the navigation 

 and mariners of his Realm had been much increased and his sub- 

 jects resorting thither one by the other and the natives of those parts 

 were orderly and gently intreated until then of late some of his 

 subjects of the Realm, of England planting themselves in that coun- 

 try and there residing and inhabiting upon conceipt that for wrongs 

 or injuries done there either on the shore or in the sea adjoining 



they could not be here impeached and the rather for that 

 513 he or his progenitors had not thentofore given laws to the 



inhabitants there and by that example his subjects resorting 

 thither injured one another and used all manner of excess to the 

 great hindrance of the voyage and common damage of this Realm, 

 for preventing of such inconveniences for the future he did thereby 

 declare in what manner his people in Newfoundland and upon the sea 

 adjoining and the bays, creeks or fresh rivers there should be guided 

 and governed and did make and ordain and we do by these presents 

 renew, ratify and confirm the laws following in the things after speci- 

 fied commanding that the same be obeyed and put in execution. First 

 if any man on the land there shall kill another or if any shall se- 

 cretly or forceably steal the goods of any other to the value of forty 

 shillings, he shall be forthwith apprehended and arrested, detained 

 and brought prisoner to England, and the crime committed by him 

 shall be made known to the Earl Marshall of England for the time 

 being to whom the delinquent shall be delivered as prisoner. And 

 the said Earl Marshall shall take cognizance of the cause and if he 

 shall find by the testimony of two witnesses or more that the party 

 had there killed a man not being at that time first assaulted by the 

 party slain, or that the killing were by misadventure or had stolen 

 such goods, the delinquent shall suffer pain of death and all the 

 company shall endeavour to apprehend such malefactor. Secondly 

 that no ballast prestones, or any thing else hurtful to the harbours 

 be thrown out to the prejudice of the said harbours, but that it be 

 carried ashore and laid where it may not do annoyance. Thirdly 

 that no person whatsoever either fisherman or inhabitant do destroy 

 deface or any way work any spoil or detriment to any stage, cook- 

 room, flakes, spikes, nails or any thing else that belongeth to any the 

 stages whatsoever either at the end of the voyage when he hath done 

 and is to depart the country, or to any such stages as he shall fall 

 withal at his coming into the country, but that he or they content 

 themselves with such stage or stages only as shall be needful for them 



