CHARTER
AND
SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER
OF THE
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY




THE
ROYAL CHARTER
FOR INCORPORATING
THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
A.D. 1670.

CHARLES THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To ALL to whom these
Presents shall come, greeting: WHEREAS Our dear and entirely beloved
Cousin, Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria and
Cumberland, &c. Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, William, Earl of Craven,
Henry, Lord Arlington, Anthony, Lord Ashley, Sir John Robinson, and
Sir Robert Vyner, Knights and Baronets, Sir Peter Colleton, Baronet,
Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight of the Bath, Sir Paul Neele, Knight,
Sir John Griffith and Sir Philip Carteret, Knights, James Hayes, John
Kirke, Francis Millington, William Prettyman, John Fenn, Esquires,
and John Portman, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, have, at their
own great Cost and Charges, undertaken an Expedition for Hudson's Bay
in the North-west Part of America, for the Discovery of a new Passage
into the South Sea, and for the finding some Trade for Furs, Minerals,
and other considerable Commodities, and by such their Undertaking, have