or their Successors, by any Servant by them to be employed in the
said Voyages and Plantations, it shall and may be lawful to and for
the said Governor and Company, and their respective President, Chief
Agent or Governor in the Parts aforesaid, to examine upon Oath all
Factors, Masters, Pursers, Supercargoes, Commanders of Castles, Forts,
Fortifications, Plantations or Colonies, or other Persons, touching or
concerning any Matter or Thing, in which by Law or Usage an Oath may
be administered, so as the said Oath, and the Matter therein contained,
be not repugnant, but agreeable to the laws of this Realm. AND, WE DO
hereby streightly charge and command all and singular, our Admirals,
Vice-Admirals, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, and
all and singular other our Officers, Ministers, Liege Men and Subjects
whatsoever, to be aiding, favouring, helping and assisting, to the said
Governor and Company, and to their Successors, and to their Deputies,
Officers, Factors, Servants, Assigns and Ministers, and every of them,
in executing and enjoying the Premisses, as well on Land as on Sea,
from time to time, when any of you shall thereunto be required; ANY
STATUTE, Act, Ordinance, Proviso, Proclamation, or Restraint heretofore
had, made, set forth, ordained, or provided, or any other Matter,
Cause or Thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent;
WITNESS OURSELF at Westminster, the Second Day of May, in the Two and
Twentieth Year of Our Reign.

By Writ of Privy Seal,
PIGOTT.