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one Fifth parte of all the Gold and Silver Oar above menconed in 

 the whole and no more should be answered reserved and payable vnto 

 Our said Royall Grandfather his Heires and Successors by colour or 

 vertue of the said last menconed Letters Patents the double reserva- 

 cons or recitalls aforesaid or any thing therein conteyned notwith- 

 standing And to the end that the affaires and businesse which from 

 time to time should happen and arise concerning the said Lands and 

 the Plantacons of the same might be the better managed and ordered 

 and for the good Government thereof Our said Royall Grandfather 

 King Charles the First did by his said Letters Patents Create and 

 make the said Sir Henry Roswell Sir John Young Sir Richard 

 Saltenstall Thomas Southcott John Humphreys John Endicott 

 Symond Whetcomb Isaac Johnson Samuell Aldersey John Ven 

 Mathew Caddock George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry 

 Richard Bellingham Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall and The- 

 ophilus Eaton Thomas Golfe Thomas Adams John Browne Samuell 

 Browne Thomas Hutchins William Vassal William Pincheon and 

 George Foxcroft and all such others as should thereafter be admitted 

 and made free of the Company and Society therein after menconed 

 one Body Politique and Corporate in fact and name by the Name 

 of the Governour and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New 

 England and did grant vnto them and their Successors divers powers 

 Liberties and Priviledges as in and by the said Letters Patents may 

 more fully and at large appeare And whereas the said Governour 

 and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England by vertue 

 of the said Letters Patents did settle a Collony of the English in the 

 said parts of America and divers good Subjects of this Kingdome 

 incouraged and invited by the said Letters Patents did Transport 

 themselves and their Effects into the same whereby the said Plantacon 

 did become very populous and divers Counties Townes and Places 

 were created erected made setforth or designed within the said parts 

 of America by the said Governour and Company for the time being 

 And UV/ryvv/.s' in the Terme of the holy Trinity in the Thirty Sixth 

 yea re of the Reigne of Our dearest Vncle King Charles the Second 

 a Judgment was given in Our Court of Chancery then sitting at West- 

 minster vpon a Writt of Scire Facias brought and prosecuted in the 

 said Court against the Governour and Company of the Massachusetts 

 Bay in New England that the said Letters Patents of Our said Royall 

 Grandfather King Charles the First bearing date at Westminster 

 the Fourth day of March in the Fourth yeare of his Reigne made 

 and granted to the said Governour and Company of the Massa- 

 chusetts Bay in New England and the Enrollment of the same 

 should be cancelled vacated and annihilated and should be brought 

 into the said Court to be cancelled (as in and by the said Judgment 

 remaining vpon Record in the said Court doth more at large appeare) 

 And whereas severall persons employed as Agents in behalfe of Our 

 said Collony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England have made 

 their humble application vnto Vs that Wee would be graciously 

 pleased by Our Royall Charter to Incorporate Our Subjects in Our 

 said Collony and to grant and confirme vnto them such powers 

 priviledges and Franchises as [in] Our Royall Wisdome should be 

 thought most conduceing to Our Interest and Service and to the 

 Welfare and happy State of Our Subjects in New England and Wee 

 being graciously pleased to gratifie Our said Subjects And alsoe to 

 the end Our good Subjects within Our Collony of New Plymouth 



