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GIVE, GRANT, and CONFIRM, to our loved Subjects, Robert, Earl of Salisbury ; AND to such, and so many, as they do, or mit to be joined with them, in Form hereafter expressed, whether they go in their Persons, to n the said Plantation, or whether they go not, r Monies, Goods, or Chattels; THAT they shall ɔmmonalty perpetual, and shall have perpetual e common Seal, to serve for the said Body or I that they, and their Successors, shall be KNOWN, RPORATED by the Name of, The Treasurer and nturers and Planters of the City of London for n Virginia: * › also . * * anted, unto suck , or others, as w any (upon a Con and returned for and allowed; Wh e had, as well of t ial Service, Hazar recompenced, adva AND forasmuch, as Plantation cannot b God, and the Sup at and good Direc derstanding Cou he Adventurers shall shall be requisit e about the Affairs the and confirm, that ther dent, according to th GIVE, GRANT and CONFIRM, unto the | Company, and their Successors, under the Reserns, and Declarations, hereafter expressed, all ntries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being, nerica called VIRGINIA, from the Point of Land, Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast, to the undred Miles, and from the said Point of Cape the Sea Coast, to the Southward two hundred t Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea cinct aforesaid, up into the Land, throughout West, and Northwest; And also all the Islands, hundred Miles, along the Coast of both Seas of resaid. . . ... rtheless, our Will and Pleasure is, and we do, * * AND further... we Sent Time, as hereaft and Ministers, which reafter shall be by the ⇒, charge, command, warrant, and authorise,ed, for the Governm The list rs of this charter were 56 city companies of London and AND also to make, or Laws, Directions, Inst emment and Magistracy the Government of the ements, and Hereditaments, by these Presents, into such cur loving Subjects, naturally born, ers, as well Adventurers as Planters, as by the on a Commission of Survey and Distribution, rned for that Purpose), shall be nominated, wed; Wherein our Will and Pleasure is, that s well of the Proportion of the Adventurer, as ice, Hazard, Exploit, or Merit of any Person, nced, advanced, or rewarded. smuch, as the good and prosperous Success of n cannot but chiefly depend, next under the nd the Support of our Royal Authority, upon good Direction of the whole Enterprize, by a tanding Council, and that it is not convenient, turers shall be so often drawn to meet and be requisite for them to have Meetings and he Affairs thereof; Therefore we DO ORDAIN, rm, that there shall be perpetually one COUNCIL ording to the Tenour of our former Letters her. . . we do . . . GIVE and GRANT full ity to our said Council, here resident, as well ne, as hereafter from time to time, to nominate, ordain, and confirm, by such Name or Names, › them shall seem good, And likewise to revoke, and alter, as well all and singular Governors, isters, which already have been made, as also all be by them thought fit and needful to be the Government of the said Colony and Plan to make, ordain, and establish all Manner of rections, Instructions, Forms, and Ceremonies id Magistracy, fit and necessary, for and con do further . . . ORDAIN and establish, that and Council here resident, and their Successors, m, being assembled (the Treasurer being one) time, have full Power and Authority, to admit cher Person into their Company, Corporation, d further, in a General Assembly of the AdConsent of the greater Part, upon good Cause, put out any Person or Persons, out of the said we do * Yeasure, and Profit, great Pain and Per id Treasurer and Co of their Offices an tall, from time to tin its and Territories o readings, to and with the said Treasurer and Company, ors, and every of them, their Factors, and and every of them, shall be free of all Subs in Virginia, for the Space of one and twenty ll Taxes and Impositions, for ever, upon any dises, at any time or times hereafter, either thither, or Exportation from thence, into our or into any other of our Realms or Dominions, rer and Company, and their Successors, their or Assigns, or any of them: EXCEPT only the ent. due for Custom, upon all such Goods and hall be brought or imported into our Realm of ther of these our Dominions, according to the erchants; WHICH FIVE POUNDS per Cent. ONLY l be thenceforth lawful and free for the said ame Goods and Merchandises to export, and id Dominions, into foreign Parts, without any other Duty, to be paid to us . . . or to any as near as co Statutes, Governme AND we do further. or Deputies: PROVIDED, that the said Goods by Force of their Co be shipped out, within thirteen Months, after within any Part of these Dominions. * * * * * * * IX AND lastly, because or expect of this Action, People in those Parts u th other, whereby every one may, with more and Profit, enjoy that, whereunto they shall ain and Peril; WE . . . do GIVE and GRANT surer and Company, and their Successors, and Officers, and Ministers, as shall be, by our tuted and appointed, according to the Natures ir Offices and Places respectively, that they m time to time for ever hereafter, within the irginia, or in the way by Sea thither and from nd absolute Power and Authority, to correct, Overn, and rule, all such the Subjects of Us n time to time, adventure themselves in any that shall, at any time hereafter, inhabit in Territories of the said Colony, as aforesaid, Orders, Ordinances, Constitutions, Directions, as by our said Council, as aforesaid, shall be n Defect thereof, in case of Necessity, accordDiscretions of the said Governor and Officers, 11 in Cases capital and criminal as civil, both So always, as the said Statutes, Ordinances, as near as conveniently may be, be agreeable tes, Government, and Policy of this our Realm do further GRANT, DECLARE, and ORDAIN, 1 Governor, as, from time to time, shall duly thorised and appointed, in Manner and Form eretofore expressed, shall have full Power and nd exercise Martial Law, in Cases of Rebellion arge and ample Manner, as our Lieutenants in in this our Realm of England, have, or ought of their Commissions of Lieutenancy. Christian Religion, in which Respect we should be loath, that any Person should be permitted to pass, that we suspected to affect the superstitions of the Church of Rome; We do hereby DECLARE, that it is our Will and Pleasure, that none be permitted to pass in any Voyage, from time to time to be made into the said Country, but such, as first shall have taken the Oath of Supremacy; For which Purpose, we do, by these Presents, give full Power and Authority, to the Treasurer for the time being, and any three of the Council, to tender and exhibit the said Oath, to all such Persons, as shall at any time, be sent and employed in the said Voyage. No. 3. Third Charter of Virginia March 12/22, 1611/12 THE immediate reason for the third charter of Virginia was the desire to include within the limits of the Company the Bermudas, or Somers Islands, respecting whose beauty, fertility, and wealth glowing reports had been received; but the failure of many subscribers to pay their subscriptions, and the consequent low state of the treasury, emphasized the need of stronger powers of control. The petition was probably granted before November, 1610; but the names of subscribers were obtained with difficulty, and it was March, 1612, before the charter passed the seals. The rights in the Bermudas were subsequently sold by the Company to some of its own members, who, in 1614, obtained a charter as the Somers Islands Company. The Virginia charter of 1612 was annulled by writ of quo warranto in 1624. REFERENCES. - Text in Stith's History of Virginia (Sabin's ed., 1865), Appendix III. Hening's Statutes at Large, I., gives the early laws of the colony. The royal proclamation of 1625 is in Hazard's Historical Collections, I., 203-205. See also Brown's First Republic in America, 165–648. [The charter begins with a recital of the grant of 1609, and continues:] III. Now, forasmuch as we are given to understand, that in those Seas, adjoining to the said Coasts of Virginia, and without the Compass of those two hundred Miles and yet not far distant from the said Colony in Virginia, there are, or may be, divers Islands, lying desolate and uninhabited, some of which are already made known and discovered, by the Industry, Travel, and Expences of the said Company, and others also are supposed to be |