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ever lying within the said bounds and limitts aforesaid and every 

 part and parcell thereof and alsoe all Islands and Isletts lying within 

 tenn Leagues directly opposite to the Main Land within the said 

 bounds and all Mines and Mineralls aswell Royall Mines of Gold and 

 Silver as other Mines and Mineralls whatsoever in the said Lands 

 and premisses or any parte thereof To Have and to hold the said 

 Territories Tracts Countreys Lands Hereditaments and all and singu- 

 lar other the premisses with their and every of their Appurtences 

 to Our said Subjects the Inhabitants of Our said Province of the 

 Massachusetts Bay in New England and their Successors to their only 

 proper vse and behoofe for evermore To be holden of V s Our Heires 

 and Successors as of Our Mannor of East Greenwich in the County 

 of Kent by Fealty only in free and Comon Soccage y eliding and pay- 

 ing therefore yearly to Vs Our Heires and Successors the Fifth part 

 of all Gold and Silver Oar and pretious Stones which shall from 

 time to time and at all times hereafter happen to be found gotten 

 had and obteyned in any of the said Lands and premisses or within 

 any part thereof Provided neverthelesse and Wee doe for Vs Our 

 Heires and Successors Grant and ordeyne that all and every such 

 Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other estates which any 

 person or persons or Bodyes-Politique or Corporate Townes Villages 

 Colled ges or Schooles doe hold and enjoy or ought to hold and enjoy 

 within the bounds aforesaid by or vnder any Grant or estate duely 

 made or granted by any Generall Court formerly held or by vertue 

 of the Letters Patents herein before recited or by any other lawfull 

 Right or Title whatsoever shall be by such person and persons Bodyes 

 Politique and Corporate Townes Villages Colldeges or Schooles their 

 respective Heires Successors and Assignes for ever hereafter held and 

 enjoyed according to the purport and Intent of such respective Grant 

 vnder and Subject neverthelesse to the Rents and Services thereby 

 reserved or made payable any matter or thing whatsoever to the 

 contrary notwithstanding And Provided alsoe that nothing herein 

 conteyned shall extend or be vnderstood or taken to impeach or 

 prejudice any right title Interest or demand which Samuell Allen 

 of London Merchant claiming from and vnder John Mason Esqr 

 deceased or an}' other person or persons hath or have or claimeth 

 to have hold or enjoy of in to or out of any part or parts of the prem- 

 isses scituate within the limitts above menconed But that the said 

 Samuel Allen and all and every such person and persons may and 

 shall have hold and enjoy the same in such manner (and no other 

 then) as if these presents had not been had or made It being Our 

 further Will and Pleasure that no Grants or Conveyances of any 

 Lands Tenements or Hereditaments to any Townes Colledges Schooles 

 of Learning or to any private person or persons shall be judged or 

 taken to be avoided or prejudiced for or by reason of any want or 

 defect of Form but that the same stand and remaine in force and be 

 mainteyned adjudged and have effect in the same manner as the same 

 should or ought before the time of the said recited Judgment accord- 

 ing to the Laws and Rules then and there vsually practised and 

 allowed And Wee doe further for Vs Our Heires and Successors 

 Will Establish and ordeyne that from henceforth for ever there shall 

 be one Governour One Leivten 1 or Deputy Governour and One Secre- 

 tary of Our said Province or Territory to be from time to time 

 appointed and commissionated by Vs Our Heires and Successors and 



