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A78079 By the Company of the Royal Fishery of England Company of the Royal Fishery of England. 1681 (1681) Wing B6361A; ESTC R222579 6,942 12

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By the COMPANY Of the Royal Fishery of ENGLAND FOrasmuch as all Persons who may be desirous to Promote the Fishery Affairs under the Management of this Company may not have the conveniency of Resorting to the place in London where the Books for Subscription of the Stock proposed for carrying on the same shall be exposed and wherein for the Satisfaction and Encouragement of such as please to peruse the same is contained a fair Transcript of the Letters Patents Constitution or Frame of Government and Articles Terms or Conditions upon which All and Singular Persons may be Admitted into the said Company and be Traders and Adventurers with them And to the End the said Affair may become as General and National as may be The Company hath thought fit to cause the Premises to be Abbreviated Printed and Published in these Presents That such as shall be willing to be concerned therein may have the substance of the Contents before them for their Consideration viz. First The Abstract of the Letters Patents for their Incorporation which is as followeth viz. HIS late Majesty King Charles the Second by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing Date the 25th day of September 1677. was pleased to Constitute His Royal Highness James Duke of York Thomas Earl of Danby and several other Persons of Honour and others therein Named and such others as afterwards from time to time should be Admitted into their Company and Society to be Traders and Adventurers with them to be One Body Politick and Corporate in Deed and in Name By the Name of The Company of the Royal Fishery of ENGLAND To have perpetual Succession Investing them and their Successors with divers Powers and Priviledges in order to the better Government of the said Company and Management of their Affairs And more particularly amongst others I. To meet Yearly for the Electing and Appointing a Governour Sub-Governour Deputy-Governour and 12 Committees for a Court of Assistants who or any Three or more of them whereof the Governour Sub-Governour or Deputy-Governour to be always One are thereby Authorized to Act in all things according to such Rules Orders and Directions as should from time to time be made and given unto them by the General Court and for want of such Orders Rules and Directions to Manage Govern Direct and do what they should judge Necessary and Expedient to the well Ordering and Government of the said Company and the Improvement of their joynt Stock and Trade to all Intents and Purposes as if the same were done at and by a General Court of the said Company And that the said Court of Assistants or any Seven or more of them as aforesaid as often as they shall find occasion may Summon a General Court II. That no Assembly or Meeting of the said Company shall be deemed a General Court unless the Governour Sub-Governour or Deputy-Governour Six of the said Committees and Five other Members of the said Company at least be present III. That such General Court may admit other Persons to be Members and may Increase Contract or Divide their joynt Stock as they shall think fit And the Members thereof may Grant Transfer and Assign their respective Stocks IV. That such General Court may Make Ordain and Establish such and so many Good Necessary and Reasonable Laws Ordinances Orders and Constitutions as to them shall seem convenient for the good Government of the Company and their Affairs and may impose and set Mulcts and Amerciaments upon the breakers of such Laws or may Remit Pardon or Release the same upon the Parties Submission And upon Conviction of any Misdemeanor may remove Offenders and choose others V. That they may Fish in and upon all the Coasts Creeks In-lets Rivers Arms of the Sea belonging to His Majesty's Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland or any of them or any other His Majesty's Dominions whereof the Fishings are not already Granted Appropriated or belonging to some particular or private Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate and likewise in and upon the Main Sea or any part thereof And have free and full Liberty to Carry and Transport their Fish and Oyl made of Fish to all Ports Places and Markets both in England and beyond the Seas and to Sell the same for ready Moneys or Commodities VI. That they may Erect Store-Houses Granaries Ware-Houses Work-Houses and may build and make Wharfs and Docks in and upon any of His Majesty's Wastes Commons or Waste-Grounds without paying or rendring any Rent or Duty to His Majesty for the same And that neither their Masters Skippers Steers-men Ships-Crews Mariners Fisher-men nor others Employed by the Company in their Fishings whether Foreigners or Natives shall be Impannel'd Sworn or Compelled to Serve on any Juries or Inquests at Westminster the Assizes Sessions or elsewhere VII They have also granted to them 20 l. for each and every Dogger which they then had and which within 7 Years they should Build in England or any other His Majesty's Dominions the same to be paid Quarterly out of the Customs within the Port of London without further Warrant or Directions from His Majesty VIII They have also granted unto them All and Singular Priviledges in the City of London as fully and freely as any Company of Merchants Established by Letters Patents or Charters do or may have Use or Enjoy IX That all and singular Admirals Vice-Admirals General Commanmanders Captains Mayors Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Custom-House-Officers and all other Officers Ministers Liege-men and Subjects of His Majesty's whatsoever shall be in and by all things Aiding Helping and Assisting to the said Company and their Successors their Factors Agents and Servants in the Execution and Enjoyment of the Premises as well on Land as by Sea whensoever they shall be thereunto desired As they tender His Majesty's Good-will and Pleasure and will answer the Contrary at their Peril c. Secondly The Abstract of the Present Constitution or Frame of the Government as also some Rules and Laws necessary to be Observed by the Persons concerned in Managing and Improvement of the STOCK Sect. 1. THat the Chief Government of the Company shall be in and consist of a Governour Sub-Governour Deputy-Governour and 12 Committees whereof 4 to be called Directors and 8 Masters and also of 15 Assistants viz. to each of them one Also 8 Wardens and 25 Commissioners or Agents for Scotland and Ireland and as many of the other Members of the Company as shall from time to time be agreed to be admitted who or any 15 or more of them together with the Governour Sub-Governour Deputy-Governour and their respective Assistants or one of them to be present 5 or more of the Committees 5 or more of the Assistants and 5 or more of the other Members of the Company are to have the chief Power of making Laws and Ordering the whole Affairs of the Company in their General Courts Sect. 2. That the Court of Assistants consist of