between the first and last day of November, to assemble and meet together
in some convenient Place, from time to time to be appointed by the
said Governor of the said Company, or in his Absence by his Deputy; and
that they being so assembled, it shall and may be lawful to and for
the said Governor or his Deputy, and the Company for the Time being,
or the greater Part of them, which then shall happen to be present,
whereof the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time
being to be one, to elect and nominate Seven of the said Company,
which shall be a Committee of the said Company, for one whole Year
from then next ensuing, which Persons being so elected and nominated
to be a Committee of the said Company as aforesaid, before they be
admitted to the Execution of their Office, shall take a corporal Oath,
before the Governor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the said
Committee of the said Company, being their last Predecessors, that
they, and every of them, shall well and faithfully perform their
said Office of Committees in all Things concerning the same, and that
immediately after the said Oath so taken, they shall and may execute
and use their said Office of Committees of the said Company, for one
whole Year from thence next following. AND MOREOVER, 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 their Successors,
that when, and as often as it shall happen, the Governor or Deputy
Governor of the said Company for the Time being, at any Time within one
Year after that he shall be nominated, elected, and sworn to the Office
of the Governor of the said Company, as is aforesaid, to die or to be
removed from the said Office, which Governor or Deputy Governor not
demeaning himself well in his said Office, WE WILL to be removeable
at the Pleasure of the rest of the said Company, or the greater Part
of them which shall be present at their publick Assemblies, commonly
called, Their General Courts holden for the said Company, that then,