Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO assign, nominate and constitute,
the said Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter Colleton,
James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, and John Portman, to be
the seven first and present Committees of the said Company, from the
Date of these Presents until the said 10th Day of November then also
next following, and so until new Committees shall be chosen in Form
hereafter expressed. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents,
for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company and
their Successors, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said
Governor and Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them
present at any publick Assembly commonly called, The Court General to
be holden for the said Company, the Governor of the said Company being
always one, from time to time to elect, nominate and appoint one of the
said Company to be Deputy to the said Governor; which Deputy shall take
a corporal Oath, before the Governor and three or more of the Committee
of the said Company for the time being, well, truly, and faithfully to
execute his said Office of Deputy to the Governor of the said Company,
and after his Oath so taken, shall and may from time to time, in the
Absence of the said Governor, exercise and execute the Office of
Governor of the said Company, in such Sort as the said Governor ought
to do. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents, for Us, Our
Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company of Adventurers
of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, and their Successors, that they,
or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being,
or his Deputy, to be one, from time to time, and at all Times hereafter,
shall and may have Authority and Power, yearly and every Year, between
the first and last Day of November, to assemble and meet together
in some convenient Place, to be appointed from time to time by the
Governor, or in his Absence by the Deputy of the said Governor for
the Time being, and that they being so assembled, it shall and may be