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Encouragements. For such as shall have intention to bee vnder-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway in America, by mee Lochinvar·
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Gordon, Robert, Sir, d. 1627?
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1625
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than this of ours where the taking of them-selves to their heeles was their best defence against them So seeing you maye perceive what the Countrie is and how situated the aire how temperate and wholesome the Soyle how fertile and what affluence it doeth yeelde of commoditie the natives how both so fewe and so harmelesse and the passage howe so easie and so frequentlie experimented I hope there remaineth no cause whereby the action should bee misliked Thus referring my relation to your favourable constructions the successe of the action to Him who is to bee acknowledged the Author and Governour not onlie of this but of all thinges else and these my subsequent Offers which I have freelie and willinglie granted as helpes and furtherances for your encouragement to so good a Worke yee maye pervse and onelie imbrace as you shall thinke your selves disposed DREAD GOD 1625 THE OFFERS to bee granted to the Adventurers in the new plantation of CAPE BRITON now called by the name of New Galloway in AMERICA BY LOCHINVAR ARTICLE 1. For Ministers THAT the blessing of GOD may accompanie vs in our indevoures without whose gracious and mercifull assistance wee can not have happie nor prosperous successe in our affaires For the Ministers of the Worde of God such as shall bee the factours of CHRIST for the gaine of Soules and to propagate his Trueth and enlighten those that are captivate in Ethnicke darknesse and for the vse and exercise of true Religion amongest our selves I doe willinglie and freelie graunt and offer as followeth 1. Their passage from Scotland vnto the said Land of New Galloway shall bee free vnto them without payment of any fraught either for themselves their wiues and children if they anie haue and their necessare houshold stuffe which all shall bee transported thither vnto them into mine owne Shippes and vpon mine owne charges 2. They shall haue their entertainment of mee their wiues and children as saide is in their whole passage on the waye thither 3. For their maintenance and their foresaids beeing there I shall giue them entertainment for the space of the first three yeeres in during the infancie of our Church there and howe soone it shall please GOD that our number bee increased that our Companies maye bee divided in Paroches that then a competent meanes shall be alloted vnto each Minister in his severall charge as shall bee found expedient for their places 4. For their assistance in such things as belongeth vnto them in their callings I shall haue a speciall care to see that such reverence and respect be had vnto them as appertaineth vnto their place and calling and shall see such goode order as by them shall bee sette downe for reformation of life and manners duelie obeyed and performed by causing the transgressours and contemners of the same bee severelie punished ARTICLE II. THAT everie one of such as shall bee vndertakers shall giue his oath of alledgeance and shall all conforme themselves in Religion according to his Majesties Lawes and manner professed within the Kingdome of Scotland ARTICLE III. For Gentlemen and others vndertakers what I shall bee obliged to performe vnto them ITEM for the helpes and furtherances of so generous and well-disposed vndertakers as shall willinglie vnder-goe the hazard and imbrace the enterpryse I shall performe the particulars in everie point vnto them as followeth 1. For their passages everie vnder-taker shall bee transported himselfe his wife children servants his whole houshold stuffe and their provision of victualles for their intertainment such as meale malt beefe c. and such as they shall please to provide to sustaine them for a whole yeere Together with as much cornes as they shall bee able to sowe vpon their Lands the first yeere and that all and together passage free into mine Shippes from Scotland vnto the said countrie of New Galloway 2. Beeing thither by GODS mercifull assistance and providence transported to bee established and placed in the Land each man according to his qualitie as followeth The landed Gentleman vndertaker shall haue his Landes granted vnto him in fee and heritage to himselfe and his successours for ever to bee holden of mee my heires and successoures in New Galloway in manner as they holde their Lands in Scotland of our Soveraigne Lord the King his Majestie either by feaw wairde or blansh and shall grant the same vnto them in quantitie according to everie one of their qualities and meanes And for tennants and farmorers their landes shall bee granted vnto them in Lace everie one of them to have three Life-rents and a nyneteene yeere Tacke thereafter conforme to their power and meanes and performance of the conditions of the rent after mentioned 3. And further more that their helpes and furtherances maye haue a competent time to establishe them-selves in their estates and that their meanes may the better increase each vndertaker of the plantation of New Galloway shall bee free from the payment of any duetie for his Landes for all and whole the space of the first three yeeres 4. For their assurance of a securitie and peaceable quietnesse in the possession of their Landes in New Galloway whereof they bee vndertakers I shall finde sufficient caution and suretie vnto each one of them within the Shyre where hee dwelleth in Scotland that whatsoever his goods or geare thither transported and placed vpon the ground of the saids Landes shall bee taken from him by violence of the natives or forraine Nations that the double thereof shall bee payed and refounded againe vnto him in Scotland or to his heires executours or assignayes 5. And for artisanes and craftes-men such as Taylors Shoe-makers Smyths Wrights Websters Wakers Millers c. their passages shall bee made free vnto them without the payment of anie fraught and likewise the rents of their lands shall bee free vnto them induring their owne life-times and for their successours they shall bee kept in the case and estate of tenants and farmorers and shall haue their Laces of their Lands granted vnto them as is set downe in the Article for Tennants ARTICLE IIII. What the Vnder-takers shall performe vnto mee FOR the whole duetie of my Landes charges and expensses to bestowed by mee in my shipping and other provision I shall bee contented to receive from everie one of the said vndertakers the thirteenth parte of that increase and commoditie which their Lands shall bee made worthie vnto them in the said plantation And that I shall not require to bee payed vnto mee in moneyes but only in such commodities as the Soyle shall affoord such as cornes fishes furres c. AND last I desire that all such as shall imbrace the foresaids offers may come vnto mee before the first day of December next and giue vp their names and a note of such things as they desire to bee carried with them whereby I may provide for them conforme to my preceeding offers and they received everie one and placed according to the order