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B20578 Articles and orders, made and agreed upon the 9th day of July, 1747 and in the three and twentieth year of the raign of our soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. / by the Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria, formerly called Buhama in America, and the adjacent islands to be observed and by all and singular adventurers, to planters and dwellers upon, and all resiants [sic] at the same islands. Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria. 1647 (1647) Wing C5583 5,238 1

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Articles and Orders made and agreed upon the 9 th Day of July 1647. and in the three and twentieth Year of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. By the Company of ADVENTURERS for the PLANTATION of the Islands of ELEUTHERIA formerly called BUHAMA in AMERICA and the adjacent Islands to be observed and performed by all and singular ADVENTURERS to PLANTERS and dwellers upon and all Resiants at the same ISLANDS WHereas experience hath shewed us the great inconveniencies that have happened both in this Kingdom of England and other places by a rigid imposing upon all an uniformity and conformity in matters of judgement and practice in the things of Religion whereby divisions have been made factions fomented persecutions induced and the publick peace endangered And for that we well know that in this state of darkness 〈◊〉 ●mperfection we know but in part That there are bothbabes and strongmen in Christ And that every Member who holds the head and is of the body of Jesus Christ hath not the same place and office nor the same measure of light who yet desire and endeavour daily to increase in knowledge And in the mean time walk according to what they have received in all godliness justice sobriety And whereas experience hath also shewed us That the peace and happy progress of all Plantations doth much depend upon the good government thereof the equal distribution of justice and respect to all persons without faction or distinction the certain knowledg and manifestation of every ones right and proprieties and carefull provisions for common defence and safety It is therefore ordered That all such person and persons who are so as aforesaid qualified shall be received and accepted as Members of the said Company of Adventurers and into the said Plantation notwithstanding any other difference of judgement under whatsoever other names conveyed walking with justice and sobriety in their particular conversations and living peaceably and quietly as Members of the Re-publick That there shall be no names of distinction or reproach as Independent Antinomian Anabaptist or any other cast upon any such for their difference in judgement neither yet shall any person or persons assume or acknowledge any such distinguishing names under the penalty of being accompted in both cases either of imposing or accepting or assuming any such name or names as enemies of the publick peace nor shall any man speak reproachfully of any person for his opinion or of the opinion it self otherwise then in the Scripture Language That no Magistracie or Officers of the Republike nor any power derived from them shall take notice of any man for his difference in judgement in matter of Religion or have cognizance of any cause whatsoever of that nature But that their jurisdiction shall reach onely to men as men and shall take care that justice peace and sobriety may be maintained among them And that the flourishing state of the re-publick may be by all just meanes promoted That the present Adventurers and all other persons who within the space of one year now next ensuing shall bring into the publick sto●k the sum of 100 l. shall be admitted and reckoned into the number of the first Adventurers their number not exceeding one hundred persons That every one of the number of the first Adventurers shall have three hundred Acres of Land laid out for him and his Heires for ever in the first convenient place which shall be chosen by those persons of the number of first Adventurers who go to the said Plantation in the present expedition and shipping And that the said quantity of three hundred Acres for each first Adventurer shall at the end of the first three yeares or sooner if the major part of the said number or Company of first Adventurers shall require the same shall be divided and set out by lot unto every particular person And that in the mean time all the same Land shall be imployed and improved for the joynt advantage of the said Company And that for the further and better encouragement of the said first Adventurers every one of the said Company of first Adventurers shall have two thousand Acres more of Land to be laid out for him and his Heires for ever in such place or places as shall be most convenient and satisfactory unto him and least prejudicial or disadvantagious to the publick And that this shall be effected with as much convenient speed as the occasions of the Plantation will permit And that all the adjacent Islands shall be reserved to and laid out and had for the use of the said Company of first Adventurers That as well every one of the Adventurers aforesaid as also every other person who shall at any time or times within three yeares transport at his own charge unto the said Plantation any person or persons shall have and enjoy to him the said Transporter and his Heires for ever the quantity of thirty five Acres of Land per person for every person which he shall so transport the same Land to be set out and appointed for him by such as shall be hereafter authorized for that purpose by the first Adventurers upon the place And that if any Servants or Children or other persons who shal be shipped to be transported to the said Plantation shall after their shipping miscarry or die by the way yet nevertheless the person at whose charge any such miscarrying or dying person Child or Servant was shipped shall have and enjoy to him and his Heires for ever in the said Plantation and to be set out and appointed as aforesaid the quantity of thirty five Acres for or in respect of each one person so dying or miscarrying in as ample manner as if he had been safely transported and come into the said Plantation And that every other person and persons that shall adventure after three yeares shall have five and twenty Acres That every Servant being a Christian which shall be transported to the said Plantation and shall serve out his time agreed upon to the use of him who transported ●im or of his Assignes shall at the end of his said time of service have and injoy to him the said Servant and his Heires for ever the quantity of twenty and five Acres of Land to be allowed and set out for him by such as shall be authorized by the Governour and Councel And for the better fortifying of the said Plantations and for the encouragement of the first Adventurers in a work of that hazard and also for the exciting and awakeing the industry of all It is further ordered and agreed That whatsoever Ordinance can be recovered of any wraks shall be wholly imployed for the use of the publick and serve for the fortification of the Plantation That all other wraks which shall be recovered upon or near the Islands or upon or near any the adjacent Islands And also