as also to transport and carry over such Number of Men being willing
thereunto, or not prohibited, as they shall think fit, and also to
govern them in such legal and reasonable Manner as the said Governor and
Company shall think best, and to inflict Punishment for Misdemeanors,
or impose such Fines upon them for Breach of their Orders, as in these
Presents are formerly expressed. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant
unto the said Governor and Company, and to their Successors, full Power
and lawful Authority to seize upon the Persons of all such English,
or any other Our Subjects, which shall sail into Hudson's Bay, or
inhabit in any of the Countries, Islands or Territories hereby granted
to the said Governor and Company, without their Leave and License in
that Behalf first had and obtained, or that shall contemn or disobey
their Orders, and send them to England; and that all and every Person
or Persons, being Our Subjects, any ways employed by the said Governor
and Company, within any of the Parts, Places, and Limits aforesaid,
shall be liable unto and suffer such Punishment for any Offences by
them committed in the Parts aforesaid, as the President and Council
for the said Governor and Company there shall think fit, and the Merit
of the Offence shall require, as aforesaid; and in case any Person
or Persons being convicted and sentenced by the President and Council
of the said Governor and Company, in the Countries, Lands, or Limits
aforesaid, their Factors or Agents there, for any Offence by them done,
shall appeal from the same; that then and in such Case, it shall and
may be lawful to and for the said President and Council, Factors,
or Agents, to seize upon him or them, and to carry him or them home
Prisoners into England, to the said Governor and Company, there to
receive such condign Punishment as his Cause shall require, and
the Law of this Nation allow of: and for the better Discovery of
Abuses and Injuries to be done unto the said Governor and Company,