Willing also that the said Master VVardens and Assistants or any of them by any of the Justices Officers and Ministers aforesaid in or for the due use claim or abuse of any Liberties Franchises or Jurisdictions before the making of these presents be not molested or hindred or compelled to answer to them or any of them And moreover The Lord Mayor of London and all other Officers commanded to Assist and forbid to molest the Corporation in any thing contained in this Grant our Will and Pleasure is that the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in our County of Kent and the Master Wardens and Assistants of the same their Successors Deputies and Officers and every of them for and concerning all or any our former Grants in these Our Letters Patents contained and the due Execution of them or any of them shall as well by the Lord Mayor Sheriffs Justices Officers and Ministers of our City of London as by the Sheriffs Justices of Peace and more particularly the Commissioners and other Officers of our Customes in every Port of this our Realm as also all other Officers and Ministers of all and every other County City and Place of this our Realm of England from time to time be aided and Assisted and helped Forbidding that the same Our Leige People and Subjects or their Successors or the afore recited Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors or their Officer or Officers for the time being which shall be Elected Ordained and appointed in manner and form aforesaid or any of them be by Us our Heirs and Successors or any the Justices Mayors Escheators Sheriffs Coroners Bayliffs or any other Officer or Minister whatsoever of Us Our Heirs or Successors bearing any Office or Offices whatsoever in any of our said Cities or Counties or in any other Place or Places whatsoever by any means from henceforth at any time or times hereafter for the Premisses or any Article of them Molested Impeached Vexed Troubled Disquieted or Grieved in any thing In Witness whereof We have Caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Eight day of July in the First Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal PIGOTT A List of the First Thirty one Elder Brethren appointed by this Charter Master SAMUEL PEPYS Esq Wardens Cap. John Nicholls Cap. Henry Mudd Cap. Nicholas Kerington Cap. William Green Assistants Henry Duke of Grafton William Earl of Craven George Earl of Berkely George Lord Dartmouth Sir Thomas Allen Kt. and Baronet Cap. Simon Nicholls Cap. Isaac Woodgreen Cap. Thomas Browne Elder Brethren Sr. Richard Haddock Kt. Sr. John Berry Kt. Sr. John Narbrough Kt. Sr. Matthew Andrews Kt. Sr. Anthony Dean Kt. Cap. Henry Sheere Cap. Hugh Till Cap. Samuel Chamblet Cap. Thomas Collier Cap. Anthony Young Cap. John Hill Cap Francis Wilshaw Cap. Robert Fisher Cap. James Bonnell Cap. Ralph Sanderson Cap. Thomas Wilshaw Cap. Samuel Rutter Cap. Richard Goodlad The Several OATHS Enjoyned by this CHARTER To be taken by the OFFICERS and MEMBERS OF THIS CORPORATION According to the Table subjoyned 1. The Oath of Supremacy I Do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience The 1st of Eliz. cap. 1st that the KING's Highness is the only Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other His Highnesses Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or Causes as Temporal And that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Foreign Iurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the KING's Highness his Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the KING's Highness his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book 2. The Oath of Allegiance I Do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess The 3d. Jacobâ—s cap. 4th testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World that our Soveraign Lord King JAMES is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other His Majesties Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King or to dispose any of His Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any Foreign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to His Majesty or to give License or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to His Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within His Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King His Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear that I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in my conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath Power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledg by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true
purpose shall and may demand levy and receive all Impositions Fines Forfeitures and Payments imposed or to be imposed by the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors or payable or demandable by and from any Person or Persons by Vertue of these Presents at all times hereafter for ever In consideration of the growing Poverty of Seamen they have power of purchaseing in Mortmain to 500 l. per Annum And for as much as the Poverty of Mariners and Seamen belonging to the said Corporation is now much more encreased then hath been in former time and not able to be relieved from the Revenues of the Lands and Possessions of the said Corporation which now they have or were enabled to have purchased being so small in yearly value Therefore to the end that the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors may be from henceforth the better enabled from time to time to bear and sustain their Charges and Expences drawn and occasioned by reason of their Corporation We of our Especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion have given and granted and by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do give and grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent and their Successors full free especial and lawful License Power and Authority not only to retain possess and enjoy to their own proper use and behoof without any Accompt to be rendred made or given to Us Without account our Heirs or Successors in that behalf all and singular such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels as they have heretofore obtained purchas'd or had and do at present possess and enjoy by force and vertue of any other Letters Patents or Grant had and made to them by the name of any former Corporation by or from the said late Kings and Queens and according to the purport and true meaning thereof or otherwise howsoever But also to have receive and Purchase further to them and their Successors for ever of Us our Heirs and Successors or of any other Person or Persons whatsoever Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tithes Rents Reversions and Services or any of them or any part or parcel of them or any of them and any other Possessions and Hereditaments whatsoever without License or Writ of ad quod dampnum so always as the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Rectories Rents Reversions Services Possessions and Hereditaments or such parts or parcels of them or any of them by the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors so to be purchased obtained or had so as aforesaid do not exceed the clear yearly value of five hundred pounds by the year above all Charges Deductions and Reprises the Statute of not puting Lands and Tenements into Mortmaine or any other Statute Act Ordinance Provision or Restraint thereof heretofore had made ordained and provided or any other Cause thing or matter whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And we do further by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors With Power to others to be benefactors to them in Mortmain to that Value give and Grant to all and every our Subject and Subjects whatsoever full Power License and Authority that they and every of them may at their Wills and and Pleasures give grant bargain set alien convey and assure unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes Rents Reversions and Services or any parts or parcels of them or any of them and any other possessions and Hereditaments whatsoever so always as the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes Rents Reversions Services Possessions and Hereditaments or any of them do not exceed the clear yearly Value of five hundred pounds above all Charges Deductions and Reprizes the said Statute of not putting Lands and Tenements in Mortmain or any other Act Statute Ordinace Provision or restraint to the contrary notwithstanding And further of our more especial Grace Certain Knowledge A Confirmation of all former Grants of Liberties Estates c. and meer Motion We have granted and confirmed and by these presents do for Us our Heirs and Successors grant and confirm unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors all and all manner of Liberties Franchises Immunities Exemptions and Jurisdictions which the said Master Wardens and Assistants or any of them by what name or names so ever by Vertue of what Incorporation soever heretofore have had held used or enjoyed or ought to have had used and enioyed to them and their Successors for ever of an Estate of Inheritance by vertue or force of any Charters or Letters Patents by any of our Predecessors Kings or Queens of England or any other Person or Persons whatsoever by any manner of means heretofore made confirmed or granted or by any other means Right Custom Use Prescription or Title heretofore used had and accustomed to have and to hold to the said Master VVardens and Assistants and their Successors for ever to be held of Us our Heirs and Successors by such the same and the like Rents Services and Sums of Money as the same were formerly holden by and not otherwise Wherefore We will and do strictly Charge and Command for Us our Heirs With an Exemption from all Accounts for any thing claimed or done by them before the Date hereof and Successors that the said Master Wardens Assistants and their Successors shall and may have hold and enjoy for ever all the aforesaid Lands Tenements Liberties Authorities Jurisdictions and Franchises aforesaid according to the Tenor and Effect of these our Letters Patents without let or hindrance of Us our Heirs and Successors or of any Justices Sheriffs or other Bayliffs or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whatsoever willing that neither the said Master VVardens and Assistants nor any of them by reason of the Premisses or any of them by Us our Heirs and Successors the Justices Sheriffs Escheators or other Bayliffs or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whatsoever be thereof hindred molested vexed grieved or in any wise troubled Willing and by these presents charging and commanding as well our Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of our Exchequer at VVestminster and other the Justices of Us our Heirs and Successors as our Attorney and Sollicitor General for the time being and every of them and all other our Officers and Ministers whatsoever that neither they nor any of them do prosecute or continue or cause to be prosecuted or continued any Writ or Summons of Quo VVarranto or other Writ or Writs or Process whatsoever against the said Master VVardens and Assistants or any of them for any Cause Thing Matter Offence Claim or Usurpation or any of them claimed attempted used had or usurped before the making of these presents
and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid their Successors Deputies and Assigns and at their Own proper Costs and Charges do award make and deliver or cause to be awarded made and delivered unto him them or any of them all and every Writ and Writs Processes Judgments Executions and Proceedings in the Name of Us our Heirs and Successors as shall or may be necessary for the more speedy recovery of the said Contributions Fines and other Sum and Sums of Mony that shall be so behind and unpaid as aforesaid and as are agreeable unto and may stand and consist with the Ancient Course and practice of Our said Court of Exchecquer heretofore used for recovering of debts and that they and every of them be from time to time aiding and Assisting to the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid and their Successors and Assigns To pay the King One third part of all the said Fines upon Oath in the premises as it becometh in their several Places respectively And the said Master Wardens and Assistants for themselves and their Successors do Covenant promise Grant and agree to and with Vs Our Heirs and Successors by these presents to render an Accompt upon Oath and pay unto Us Our Heirs and Successors into Our Exchequer at Westminster at the said Feasts of St. Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary one full and whole Third part in three parts to be divided of all the clear profit of all and every the aforesaid Contributions Fines and Forfeitures aforesaid which shall be or may be by them or their Successors obtained recovered and received as aforesaid over above and besides the aforesaid yearly Rent of one Thousand Marks before in and by these presents reserved and Covenanted to be paid to the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns aâ— aforesaid And to the End the said Service herein may the better be performed and that neither the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid and their Successors Deputies Servants or Assigns or any of them may be hindred or Letted in the managing of the said work of Ballasting of Ships and cleansing of the said River aforesaid Trinity-House with its servants workmen c. exempted from all Offices Civil and Military Our further Will and Pleasure is And We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors strictly charge will require and command all and every Our Officers and Ministers whomsoever and all others to whom it shall or may appertain that they and every of them do forbear to arrest press Their Boats and Lighters also not to be press'd or take for the Service of Vs Our Heirs or Successors or personally to serve in any Office or Place military or Civil any person or persons being members of the said Corporation or any the Officers Factors Workmen or Servants or any the Boats Lighters or other Vessels of the said Master Wardens and Assistants or their Successors Deputies or Assigns or any of them imployed or to be imployed in and about the said ballasting of Ships and the said work of cleansing the said River as aforesaid Except We Our Heirs Except by order of Council and Successors or the Lords and others of our or their Privy Council for the time being shall be first acquainted therewith and his and their License shall be had and obtained in that behalf And We do further by these presents for Us Acquits them from all Claims of any Lord Admiral for the time to come Our Heirs and Successors Covenant promise and grant to and with the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House aforesaid and their Successors that We Our Heirs and Successors shall and will from time to time and at all and every time and times hereafter free acquit discharge exonerate and save harmless the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors off and from all Claims Interests and demands whatsoever which any Lord Admiral or Admirals shall or may make or pretend to have in and to the Ballasting of any Ships Barks or other Vessels within the said River before in and by these presents given and granted or any part or parcel thereof Provided always Provision for due payment of Carlos's Rent And Our Will and Pleasure is And the said Master Wardens and Assistants for themselves and their Successors do by these presents Covenant promise and agree not only to and with Us Our Heirs and Successors but also to and with the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them that if it shall happen the said Yearly Rent of One Thousand Marks herein before reserved and payable to and for the use of the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns to be behind or unpaid in part or in all by the space of one month next and immediately insuing the said forty days of either of the said Feasts To pay him five pound for every Month after the rent is due in which the same ought to be paid as aforesaid that the said Master VVardens and Assistans of Trinity House aforesaid shall and will forfeit and pay or cause to be forfeited and paid unto the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns for every month after the said forty days wherein the same ought to be paid as aforesaid the sums of five pounds in the Name of a Pain to and for the further Vse and benefit of the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns And that the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns may the better recover the said yearly rent of One Thousand Marks and the said Sum of five pounds nominae penae reserved and payable as aforesaid Our Will and Pleasure is and of Our especial Grace certain knowledge Carlos may sue for Non-Payment and meer motion We have given and Granted and by these presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do give and Grant unto the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns full Power License and Authority by all lawful ways and means to sue implead and prosecute or cause be sued impleaded and prosecuted in our Court of Exchecquer in the Name of Us Our Heirs and Successors or in his own Name or the Name of his Executors Administrators or Assigns but at his and their own proper costs and charges the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House aforesaid and their Successors as well for the said yearly rent of One Thousand Marks as also for the said sume of five pounds so reserved and payable as aforesaid and every part and parcel thereof And Our further will and Pleasure is The Treasurer and all other the Officers of the Exchecquer commanded to assist him therein and We do hereby authorize and require our Treasurer Chancellour Vnder Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of Our Exchecquer for the time being and also our Attorny General for the time being