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mouth, or Plymouth Adventurers to have vot^s in proportion to their 

 ftock paid in on the refpedive voyages L500 llock to have one vote ; 

 and any fuch freemen as have paid in lefs than L500 might join toge- 

 ther, and make up L500, or one vote, jointly. The company to have 

 and enjoy all plantations, forts, factories, &c. in Eall: India ; may ered 

 new fortifications there, or at St. Helena, immediately under their com- 

 mand ; to have time for the payment of the king's cuftoms, half in fix 

 months, and the other half fix months after. And if any goods, which 

 fhall have paid cuftom, are lofi:, the cuftom to be i-eturned to the lofers ; 

 may appoint governors, judges, &c. thereof, and may judge all perfons 

 living under them, both in civil and criminal caufes ; may make war 

 and peace with any prince or people that are not chrifi;ians, (within 

 their limits) as fliall be moft for the benefit of their trade, and may re- 

 compenfe themfelves on the goods, efiates, or people there, who ftiall 

 injure them ; may build, plant, and fortify at St. Helena, and elfewhere 

 within their limits ; may tranfport fuch numbers of men as they fhall 

 tiiink fit, being willing thereunto, and govern them there, in fuch legal 

 manner as the company fliall think fit, and may inflidl punifliment, fines, 

 8<;c. for mifdemeanours ; may feize the perfons of all Englifii fubjeds, 

 failing in any Indian or Englifii vefi^el, or inhabiting there without the 

 company's leave firft obtained, and may fend them to England. Per- 

 fons in the company's fervice, appealing from the fentence of the go- 

 vernors, &c. in India, to be fent home to receive fentence of the com- 

 pany, agreeable to the laws of the land. Governors, &c. in India, may 

 examine, upon oath, all fadors, mafters, ptirfers, &c. for difcovery of 

 injuries. 



Firfi: provifo, that this company may not trade to any place within 

 their limits, already poflefled by any chrifi:ian prince or fi:ate in amity 

 with his m.ajefty, without the confent of fuch prince or ftate. 



Second provifo, that in cafe the continuance of this charter, or of 

 any part thereof, fiiall hereafter appear to the king or his fuccelTors not 

 to be profitable to the crown or kingdom, then, after three years warn- 

 ing given to this company by the crown, this prefent charter ihall be 

 void to all intents and purpofes. The refi; is only a repetition of the 

 claufes in Queen Elizabeth's charter of the year 1600, to which there-* 

 for, for brevity's fake, we refer. 



Thus the very fame perJons and capital ftock, re-incorporated by 

 Cromwell in the year 1657, were now again efl:ablifiied and confirmed 

 by this charter ; in which, however, there were fome powers relating to 

 punifiiments of delinquents, &c. that were afterwards deemed illegal and 

 arbitrary. 



By this charter it appears that this company had not (in the manner 

 of our modern Eaft-India company) one fole transferable joint-fiock, 

 but that every one, who was free of this company, paid in a certain fuiii>' 



