MISCELLANEOUS. 1039 



of Our said Province for the time being might or could by vertue of 

 these Our Letter Patents lawfully doe or execute if he were personally 

 present vntill the returne of the Governour soe absent or Arivall or 

 Constitucon of such other Governour as shall or may be appointed 

 by Vs Our Heires or Successors in his stead and that when and as 

 often as the Governour and Leivtenant or Deputy Governour of Our 

 said Province or Territory for the time being shall happen to dye or 

 be displaced by Vs Our Heires or Successors or be absent from Our 

 said Province and that there shall be no person within the said Prov- 

 ince Comissionated by Vs Our Heires or Successors to be Governour 

 within the same Then and in every of the said cases the Councill 

 or Assistants of Our said Province shall have full power and Author- 

 ity and Wee doe hereby give and grant vnto the said Councill or 

 Assistants of Our said Province for the time being or the Major 

 parte of them full power and Authority to doe and execute all and 

 every such Acts matters and things which the said Governour or 

 Leivtenant or Deputy Governour of Our said Province or Territory 

 for the time being might or could lawfully doe or exercise if they or 

 either of them were personally present vntill the returne of the Gov- 

 ernour Leivtenant or Deputy Governour soe absent or Arrivall or 

 Constitucon of such other Governour or Leivtenant or Deputy Gov- 

 ernour as shall or may be appointed by Vs Our Heires or Successors 

 from time to time Provided alwaies and it is hereby declared that 

 nothing herein shall extend or be taken to Eerect or grant or allow 

 the Exercise of any Admirall Court Jurisdicon Power or Authority 

 but that the same shall be and is hereby reserved to Vs and Our Suc- 

 cessors and shall from time to time be Erected Granted and exercised 

 by vertue of Comissions to be yssued vnder the Great Scale of Eng- 

 land or vnder the Seale of the High Admirall or the Comissioners 

 for executing the Office of High Admirall of England And further 

 Our expresse Will and Pleasure is and Wee doe by these presents 

 for Vs Our Heires and Successors Ordaine and appoint that these 

 Our Letters Patents shall not in any manner Enure or be taken to 

 abridge bar or hinder any of Our loveing Subjects whatsoever to vse 

 and exercise the Trade of Fishing vpon the Coasts of New England 

 but that they and every of them shall have full and free power and 

 Libertie to continue and vse their said Trade of Fishing vpon the 

 said Coasts in any of the seas therevnto adjoyning or any Arms of 

 the said Seas or Salt Water Rivers where they have been wont to 

 fish and to build and set vpon the Lands within Our said Province 

 or Collony lying wast and not then possesst by perticuler Proprietors 

 such Wharfes Stages and Workhouses as shall be necessary for the 

 salting drying keeping and packing of their Fish to be taken or 

 gotten vpon that Coast And to Cutt down and take such Trees and 

 other Naterialls there growing or being or growing vpon any parts 

 or places lying wast and not then in possession of particuler pro- 

 prietors as shall be needf nil for that purpose and for all other neces- 

 sary easments helps and advantages concerning the Trade of Fishing 

 there in such manner and forme as they have been heretofore at any 

 time accustomed to doe without makeing any Wilfull Wast or Spoile 

 any thing in these presents conteyned to the contrary notwithstand- 

 ing And lastly for the better provideing and furnishing of Masts for 

 Our Royall Navy Wee doe hereby reserve to Vs Our Heires and Suc- 

 cessors all Trees of the Diameter of Twenty Four Inches and vpwards 



