visited, frequented or haunted, by any of the Subjects of Us, Our
Heirs or Successors, contrary to the true Meaning of these Presents,
and by Virtue of Our Prerogative Royal, which We will not have in that
Behalf argued or brought into Question; WE STREIGHTLY charge, command
and prohibit, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all the Subjects of Us,
Our Heirs and Successors, of what Degree or Quality soever they be,
that none of them directly or indirectly, do visit, haunt, frequent
or trade, traffic or adventure, by way of Merchandize, into, or from
any the said Territories, Limits or Places, hereby granted, or any,
or either of them, other than the said Governor and Company, and such
particular Persons as now be, or hereafter shall be, of that Company,
their Agents, Factors, and Assigns, unless it be by the Licence and
Agreement of the said Governor and Company in Writing first had and
obtained, under their Common Seal, to be granted, upon Pain that every
such Person or Persons that shall trade or traffick into or from any
of the Countries, Territories or Limits aforesaid, other than the said
Governor and Company, and their Successors, shall incur our Indignation,
and the Forfeiture, and the Loss of the Goods, Merchandizes, and other
Things whatsoever, which so shall be brought into this Realm of England,
or any the Dominions of the same, contrary to our said Prohibition,
or the Purport or true Meaning of these Presents, for which the said
Governor and Company shall find, take and seize, in other Places out
of our Dominions, where the said Company, their Agents, Factors or
Ministers, shall trade, traffick or inhabit, by Virtue of these Our
Letters Patent, as also the Ship and Ships, with the Furniture thereof,
wherein such Goods, Merchandizes, and other Things, shall be brought and
found, the one Half of all the said Forfeitures to be to Us, Our Heirs
and Successors, and the other Half thereof WE DO by these Presents
clearly and wholly for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, give and grant
unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors. AND FURTHER,