assemble themselves in such convenient Place as is or shall be usual
and accustomed for the Election of the Governor of the said Company,
or where else the Governor of the said Company for the Time being,
or his Deputy, shall appoint. And that the said Governor and Company,
or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being,
or his Deputy, to be one, being then and there present, shall, and may,
then and there, before their Departure from the said Place, elect and
nominate one or more of the said Company, to be of the Committee of the
said Company in the Place and Stead of him or them that so died, or were
or was so removed, which Person or Persons so nominated and elected to
the Office of Committee of the said Company, shall have and exercise
the said Office, for and during the Residue of the said Year, taking
first a corporal Oath as is aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof,
and this to be done from time to time, so often as the Case shall
require. And to the End the said Governor and Company of Adventurers of
England trading into Hudson's Bay, may be encouraged to undertake,
and effectually to prosecute the said design, of Our more especial
Grace, certain Knowledge, the mere Motion, WE HAVE given, granted and
confirmed, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, DO
give, grant, and confirm, unto the said Governor and Company, and their
Successors, the sole Trade and Commerce of all those Seas, Streights,
Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, and Sounds, in whatsoever Latitude they
shall be, that lie within the Entrance of the Streights commonly called
Hudson's Streights, together with all the Lands and Territories upon
the Countries, Coasts and Confines of the Seas, Bays, Lakes, Kivers,
Creeks, and Sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed
by or granted to any of our Subjects or possessed by the Subjects of
any other Christian Prince or State, with the Fishing of all Sorts of
Fish, Whales, Sturgeons, and all other Royal Fishes, in the Seas, Bays,
Inlets, and Rivers within the Premisses, and the Fish therein taken,