Records and all other publique Letters and Papers belonging to the Bermuda Company as well here as in the said Islands and to take copies of such things as he or they shall think fit for his Maties service, in order to the better prosecution of the Quo Warranto lately brought against the Charter of the sayd Company whereof the sayd Company and all their officers and all others who have any of the sayd Bookes, Publique Letters and other records in their custody are to take notice and permit the same accordingly.

FRANCIS GWYN.

I do appoint Mr. Mathew Morris and Mr. Thomas Smith to inspect the Companies Bookes, Records, &c. above said remaining here in England and Mr. Samuel Trott, Mr. John Stow, Mr. William Peniston, Mr. William Righton, and Mr. John Stone or any two of them to inspect the Bookes, Records, &c. of the said Company remaining in the said Islands according to the direction of His Maties. order in Council above written.

R. SAWYER.

APPENDIX H.

WILLIAM AND MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendr of the ffaith &c To our trusty and well-beloved Isaack Richier Esq. Greeting Wee reposing especiall trust and confidence in your prudence courage and loyalty of our especiall Grace certain knowledge and mere motion have thought fit to constitute and appoint and by these presents doe constitute and appoint you the said Isaack Richier to be our Lieut. Governor and Commandr in Chiefe in and over our Islands and Plantations in America commonly called the Bermudas or Summer Islands with all the right members and appurtenances thereunto belonging And for your better guidance and direction Wee doe hereby require and command you to doe and execute all things in due manner that shall belong unto your command and the trust wee have reposed in you according to the several powers instructions and authorities mentioned in these presents or such further powers instructions and authorities as you shall now receive or wch shall at any time hereafter be granted or appointed unto you under our signe

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hand signe manuall or by our order in Our Privy Councill and according to such reasonable Laws and Statutes as are now in force or shall be made or agreed upon in such manner and forme as is hereafter expressed

And our will and pleasure is that you the said Isaack Richier having (after the publication of these our Letters Pattents) first taken the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Test together with the oath of duly executing the office of our Lieut. Governor and Commandr in Cheife of our said Islands wch our council in the said Islands or any three of them are hereby required and impowered to give and administer unto you you shall administr unto each of the member of the said council as well the said oathes appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Test as the oath for the due executing of their places and trusts

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And we do hereby give and grant unto you power and authority to suspend any of the members of our councill from sitting voteing and assisting therein as you shall find just cause for soe doeing.

And if it shall any time happen that by the death departure out of our said Islands or suspension of any of councillrs or otherwise there shall be a vacancy in our said councill (any five whereof we doe appoint to be a Quorum) our will and pleasure is that you signify the same unto us by the first opportunity that wee may under our signett and signe manuall constitute and appoint others in their stead But that our

affaires at that distance may not suffer for want of a due number of councillrs if ever it shall happen there shall be less than seaven of them residing within our said Islands wee doe hereby give and grant unto you full power and and authority to choose as many persons out of the principall inhabitants thereof as will make up the full number of our councill to be seaven and noe more wch persons soe chosen and appointed by you shall by virtue of such choice remain councillrs in our Islands untill they are either confirmed by us or that by our nomination of other councillrs in their stead under our signe manuall and signett the said councill shall have above seaven persons in it

Wee doe hereby give and grant unto you full power and authority with the advice and consent of our councill from time to time as meet shall require to summon and call generall assemblies of the freeholders and planters within your goverment according to the usage of our other plantacons in America

And our will and pleasure is that the persons thereupon duly elected by the major part of the Freeholders and Planters of their respective divisions and soe returned (and having before their sitting taken the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Test wch you shall commissionate fit persons under our seale of our said Islands to administer unto them and without taking which none shall be capable of sitting tho elected) shall be called and held the assembly of those our Islands

And that you the said Isaack Richier by and with

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the advice and consent of our said councill and assembly or the major part of them respectively have full power and authority to make constitute and ordain laws statutes and ordinances for the public peace welfare and good government of our said Islands and of people and inhabitants thereof and of such others as shall resort thereto and for the benefit of us our heires and successrs wch said laws statutes and ordinances are to be as neare as may be agreeable unto the laws and statutes of our Kingdom of England provided that all such laws statutes and ordinances of what nature and duration soever be within three months or sooner after the making of the same transmitted unto us under our seale of those Islands for our approbation or disallowance of them as alsoe duplicates thereof by the next conveyance and in case all or any of them (be not before confirmed by us) shall at any time be disallowed and disapproved and soe signified by us our heires and successrs under our or their signe manual and signett or by order of our or their privy councill unto you the said Isaack Richier or to the commandr in chiefe of our said Islands for the time being then such and soe many of them as shall be disallowed and disapproved shall from thenceforth cease and determine and be utterly voyd and of none effect anything to the contrary thereof anywise notwithstanding

And to the end nothing may be passed or done by our said councill or assembly to the prejudice of us our heires and successrs wee will and ordaine that you the said Isaack Richier shall have and enjoy a negative voice in the makeing and passing all laws statutes