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
received and to be received to the use of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master Wardens and Assistants their Successors and Deputies to hold possess and enjoy for ever to the Use aforesaid without any Accompt or other thing therefore to Us Our Heirs and Successors to be yielded paid rendred made or done in that behalf and without any Molestation or trouble through any invented Colour or Device by any Person or Persons either of the said Trinity House of Deptford Strond or of any other Place or Places to be practised attempted or put in Ure against the said Master Wardens and Assistants Successors and Deputies or any of them by any means whatsoever for and Concerning the same All and singular which Laws Constitutions Orders and Ordinances as aforesaid to be made We will to be duely observed and kept under the pains and penalties therein to be contained so always as the said Laws Constitutions Their Laws Fines c. To be binding upon a Condition Orders and Ordinances Imprisonments Fines and Amerciaments be reasonable and not contrary or repugnant to the Laws Statutes or Customes of this our Realm nor Derogatory to the Jurisdiction or preheminence of the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being or to the high Court of Admiralty of England for the time being or to the Judge Register or Marshal of that Court for the time being or any of them Provided always that if any Master Six Months absence saving for sickness to be punished by Dismission Warden Assistant or Elder Brother shall upon any pretence whatsoever except sickness whereof good proof by Oath is to be made fail to give his Attendance at any of the Courts summoned or other usual meetings of the Corporation for the space of Six Months together he shall be displaced and dismissed by the Corporation or Major part of them from being an Elder Brother and the Master Wardens Assistants and Elder Brethren of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood aforesaid or the Major part of them as aforesaid shall proceed to the Election of some other fit Person or Persons in the Room of him or them so removed The Oaths and subscription enjoyn'd the Master And further we will and by these presents do hereby charge and Command that the Master by these presents herein before named and constituted before he be admitted unto his said Office shall take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath prescribed and mentioned in the Act for the well Governing and regulating of Corporations made in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of his Late Majesty King Charles the Second and also shall Subscribe the Declaration prescribed and mentioned in the said Act and also the Oath for the due Execution of the said Office of Master before the said Wardens in these presents before named and constituted or any two of them whom we do hereby authorize to give and require the same accordingly And further We do hereby Charge and Command the VVardens Assistants Oaths generally enjoyned upon the Wardens Assistants Elder Brethren and Clerk Elder Brethren and Clerk herein before named and constituted that before they or any of them be admitted unto their said respective Offices they and every of them respectively shall take the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and make the Declaration and Subscription aforesaid and also take the Oaths for the due Execution of their said Offices respectively before the said Samuel Pepys herein before mentioned Master of the said Fraternity or Brotherhood whom we do hereby give full Power and Authority to require and administer the same accordingly Power to the Master of adminstring them without any further Warrant or Authority from Us to be had or obtained in that behalf Power reserved to the King of displacing any Master Warden Elder Brother or Clerk and how Provided always and We by these Presents reserve full Power and Authority to and for Vs Our Heirs and Successors from time to time and at all times hereafter to remove and displace by order of our or their Privy Council any Master Warden Assistant Elder Brother or Clerk of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood and thereupon the Office or Place Offices or Places of such Person and Persons so removed or declared to be removed shall be ipso facto void to all intents and purposes and other fit Person or Persons shall be Elected Chosen and Sworn into the Place or Places of him or them so removed according to the Provisions in that behalf herein before expressed and this as often as the Case shall so happen any thing to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The Master Wardens and Assistants c. to be always at the Kings call And for as much as the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Deputies being often times in themselves their Servants Apprentices and Ships to be charged and imployed at one hours warning in Our Service at the Sea in and for the good and necessary defence of Our Realms and Kingdoms cannot give their due attendance therein with such diligence as their Duty was and is to do by reason that they be many times compelled to bear Armour or to contribute to the charge thereof for Land Service as also to serve upon Inquests and Juries at Assizes Sessions Courts Leet Courts Baron before the Coroner and in all other Courts Commissions and places of Jurisdictions to the great vexation and burthen of the said Corporation and to the Peril of the said Service at the Sea by reason that they cannot conveniently attend both the one and the other And therefore to be exempted from all Land Service and contributions thereto Therefore We of our more abundant Grace certain Knowledg and meer Motion do Will and Grant by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors that they and every of them and all and every other Brother and Ministers of the same being Mariners and Sea faring men and their and every of their Servants and Apprentices that now be or at any time or times hereafter shall be their Successors and the Successors of every of them from time to time and at all times from henceforth shall be discharged and exempted of and from the bearing or finding of any Armour to or for any Land Service at or upon any General Muster or other veiw to be taken of Armour in any of the Counties or Places where they or any of them shall make their aboad or dwelling at the time of the said Musters or View taken and from being and contributing to the setting forth of any Souldiers to be employed or set forth to or for Land Service other then as Mariners and Seamen in Sea Services as also that they and every of them shall be in like manner discharged and exempted from being summoned and put in Assizes And from all Assizes Juries c. Juries
Inquests Inquisitions Attaints and other Recognizances taken or summoned within the said Counties or Places or any of them unless that they the said Master VVardens and Assistants and other Seamen and Mariners aforesaid Saving in case of Tenures or Admiralty Sessions be thereunto compelled or compellable by reason of their Tenures or unless it be for our Service at every Admiral Sessions which they and every of them shall be always tied and bound to attend upon their Perils being thereunto lawfully Summoned as heretofore and moreover that they and every of them shall be likewise exempted and discharged from being otherwise taxed to for or with any manner of Land Service whatsoever other then is aforesaid or to be contributary to the same And that if at any time or times hereafter the said Master VVardens and Assistants or any of them or any other Brother Officer Minister or Member of the said Corporation for the time being by any ways or means be appointed for bearing or finding of Armour or Taxed to or with any manner of Land Service other then as is aforesaid or to be Contributary to the same or Summoned or put in Assizes Juries Inquests Inquisitions or other Recognizances other then as aforesaid taken or summoned within the said Counties Jurisdictions or Places where they or any of them shall remain or abide other then as in regard of their said Tenures or for our Services at or in the Admiral Assizes or Sessions as aforesaid that then the said Appointment or Summons and also the said Taxation to be utterly void and of none effect any Order Custome Law or Usage to the contrary before this time had or used in any of the said Counties Jurisdictions or Places notwithstanding This exemption nevertheless revocable by an order of Council Provided alwayes that if the Lords and others of the Privy Council of Us Our Heirs and Successors or any six or more of them whereof the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being to be always one by any VVarrant or Warrants signed with the hands of them or any six or more of them whereof the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being to be one shall at any time or times Will and Command the said Master Wardens and Assistants to perform execute or do any Land Service or to be Contributary to the Charge of any Armour Munition or any other thing appertaining to such Land Service that then and so often the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors shall upon and after the receipt of any such Warrant perform and execute all and every such thing as shall be commanded and enjoyned unto them or any of them in and by the same anything before in these presents to the contrary thereof notwithstanding And further by these presents We do for Us our Heirs and Successors Power to stop all unlicensed Masters and Pilots and to licence thereto such as are sufficient admitting them into the Brotherhood and certifying their particular abilities give and grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and to their Successors for ever that from henceforth for ever hereafter it shall and may be lawful to and for them and the rest of the Elder Brethren of the said Society or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies as aforesaid whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one to forbid stay and keep back all and every Seaman and Mariner coming into or going forth of the River of Thames or any the Greeks or Harbours of the same to begin to take charge upon him or them as Master Pilot Loadsman or Guide of any Ship or other Vessel to go forth of the said River of Thames or Creeks or Harbors of the same outwards into the Sea or from the Sea Homewards into the said River or Creeks or Harbours of the same other then such as shall be first allowed of by them or the more part of them as aforesaid and if upon Examination and Trial had of any they shall find the same sufficient being naturally born our Subjects within our obeysance the same and every such they shall receive into the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood and give him them and every of them a Writing under the Seal of their Corporation signifying thereby the Countries Coasts and Places for which he and every of them is and shall be sufficient to take Charge whereby men to whom he or they shall be unknown when they shall have occasion to hire him them or any of them may be truely certified and satisfied for what places he or they is or are sit and sufficient and this Order We do expressly Command to be observed to the intent thereby to avoid both ignorant Pylots and the placing and preferring of unskilful men to take Charge hereafter which some men heretofore have done and procured for affection to the person only without regard had to his or their sufficiency in Knowledg and Aptness thereunto And whosoever doth or shall at any time or times hereafter Power to imprison or fine unlicensed Masters or Pilots at discretion presume to take upon him Charge as Master or Pilot forth of the said River of Thames or Creeks or Harbors of the same Outwards into the Seas or from the Seas Homewards into the said River or Creeks or Harbours of the same before he or they be examined and allowed as aforesaid it shall may be lawful to and for the said Master Wardens Assistants and the rest of the Elder Brethren and their Successors or the greater part of them by themselves or their Deputies whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one to punish such Offender or Offenders by Imprisonment or Fine or by both according to their discretions Our Channels Sands c. to be kept secret And to the end the Channels Sands Flats and Rocks arising growing or lying in or near any the Seas or Sea Coasts within any our Dominions should for the more strength and safety of our Realms and Kingdoms be kept secret within our Selves and altogether unknown to Aliens and Strangers of other Nations We do furthermore by these presents give and grant for Us our Heirs and Successors unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors full Power and Authority of and by themselves or their Deputies as aforesaid or the greater part of them whereof the Master or Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one to forbid or restrain And therefore no Alien to be suffered to sail in any English Ships unless allowed by this Corporation that none do take any Alien or Stranger Born to Sail or Serve in any Ship or other Vessel belonging unto any of our Subjects coming into or going forth of the said River of Thames except such Person or Persons for urgent Causes or other good Considerations shall be thought meet to be allowed and
TRINITAS IN VNITATE THE ROYAL CHARTER OF CONFIRMATION Granted by His most Excellent MAJESTY King JAMES II. TO THE TRINITY-HOUSE OF DEPTFORD-STROND For the Government and Encrease of the Navigation of England and the Relief of poor Mariners their Widdows and Orphans c. LONDON Printed Anno 1685. THE Royal Charter OF CONFIRMATION Granted by His most Excellent Majesty King JAMES II. TO THE TRINITY-HOUSE OF DEPTFORD-STROND JAMES the Second By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Foundation of this Charter Whereas our well beloved Leiges and Subjects Shipmen and Mariners of this our Realm of England consisting of Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish Church of Deptford Strond in our County of Kent are and have been of long time a Corporation and have enjoyed sundry Grants Liberties Priviledges and Immunities by force of divers Charters Former Charters and Letters Patents heretofore made unto them by several Kings and Queens of this Realm And Whereas the said Master Wardens and Assistants have humbly besought Us to Renew and Confirm their said Charters and to Grant unto them such further Authorities and Priviledges The Ends thereof as well for the good government and increase of the Navigation of this Kingdom as for the better ordering and establishing of the said Corporation and the releif of the poor Mariners their Widdows and Orphans as We in our Princely care should think meet Know ye therefore that We taking the premisses into our Royal consideration and well weighing how highly it imports the good state and welfare of this our Realm and of our good Subjects thereof and the encrease of Navigation that all disorders in the said Corporation should be redressed And out of an earnest desire that such good and decent orders may be established and practised in the said Corporation as may most tend to those ends for which the said Corporation was first instituted and to the promoting of the general good Have of our Especial Grace certain Knowledg and meer Motion Given Granted The Corporation confirmed and Confirmed and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Give Grant and Confirm unto our said trusty and well beloved Subjects the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish Church of Deptford Strond in the said County of Kent That they from henceforth be and shall be called and accompted one body Corporate and Politick indeed and in name by the name of the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent Their Name And them by the same name of the 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 We for Us our Heirs and Successors do erect make ordain constitute declare and confirm by these Presents one body Corporate and Politick indeed and in name And that by the said name of 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 they shall from henceforth have perpetual Succession Their Succession perpetual and that they and their Successors by the same name be and shall be at all times hereafter a body Corporate and Politick and Persons able and capable in Deed and in Law not only to have hold occupy possess enjoy and retain all and singular the Usuages Customs Liberties Old Rights continued Priviledges Jurisdictions Franchises Preheminences Benefits and Commodities whatsoever which they or their Predecessors by the same or any other name or names of like Corporation have heretofore had and enjoyed or at this present do hold and enjoy But also to have hold occupy purchase receive possess New allowed enjoy and retain any other Liberties Priviledges Jurisdictions Franchises Preheminences Benefits and Commodities of what kind nature or quality soever they shall be to them and their Successors for ever And also by the same name to have hold purchase receive take possess To hold Lands c. and enjoy And also to give grant demise alien assign and dispose Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and Goods and Chattels or any of them and to do and execute all and singular other thing and things whatsoever To plead and be impleaded And that they and their Successors by the same name may plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended in all or any whatsoever Court or Courts Place or Places Jurisdiction or Jurisdictions and before whatsoever Judge Judges and Justices and other Persons and Officers in all and singular Actions and Plaints Pleas Suits Quarrels Causes and Demands whatsoever of whatsoever kind nature quality or sort in such manner and form and by all those ways and means and to such end and purpose as any other our Leige people of this our Realm of England being persons able and capable in Deed or Law may or can have hold purchase receive possess enjoy retain give grant demise alien assign and dispose plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended or do permit and execute And that the said Master Wardens To have break and alter their common Seal and Assistants and their Successors or the greater part of them whereof the said Master for the time being to be always one may make or cause to be made and have for themselves a Common Seal to serve for all the Causes Business and Occasions of them and their Successors in that Corporation And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Masters Wardens and Assistants and their Successors the same Seal to break again and from time to time at their will and pleasure to alter change and make new when and as often as to them or the greater part of them whereof the Master or the Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one shall seem convenient And further We will To have a Master and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Ordain That there shall be from henceforth for ever One of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood to be elected and appointed in such form as hereafter in these presents touching the same is expressed which shall be called the Master of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for the time being Four Wardens And that there shall be also from henceforth for ever Four of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood to be elected and
to the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House of Deptford Strond aforesaid and their Successors for ever by themselves their Substitute or Substitutes Deputy or Deputies Assign or Assigns to use exercise execute and enjoy for ever and all and every the said Premises to hold of her said Majesty her Heirs and Successors as of her Manor of East Greenwich in the said County of Kent in free and common Soccage and not in Capite nor by Knights service as in and by the said Letters Patents more at large may appear The Reason for granting the Ballastage to Collonel Carlos And whereas upon information given unto Us by Our trusty and well beloved Subject and Servant Colonel William Carlos of Brewed in the County of Stafford Esq That if we should grant the said Soil and Gravel of our said River of Thames for Ballasting of Ships that such our grant would not entrench upon or be prejudicial to the said Grant made to the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House as aforesaid We did by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Seventh day of February in the twelfth year of Our Reign grant The Grant thereof to Colonel Carlos recited demise and to farm let unto the said Colonel William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns the Ballasting of all Ships and other Vessels whatsoever riding or being or then after to ride or be in the River of Thames in as large and ample manner to all intents constructions and purposes as we or any our Royal Progenitours or Predecessors Kings or Queens of this Realm or any Our or their Lord Admiral or Admirals of England for the time being or any others theretofore had granted or enjoyed the same or might should or ought to have had or enjoyed the same and also the Gravel Sand and Soil of the said River of Thames and every part and parcel thereof and the cleansing of the said River from Shelves and other annoyances And further We did by the said Indenture of Demise give and grant unto the said Colonel William Carlos his Executors Administrrtors and Assigns full power priviledge license and authority that he the said Collonel William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them by himself or by his or their Deputy or Deputies Agents Factors Workmen and Servants or any of them from time to time and at all times during the term in our said Indenture of Demise mentioned in all and every place and places whatsoever within the said River being to the damage and annoyance of the same at his their and every of their wills and pleasures should and might dig take up draw forth and raise for the better furnishing of Ships with Ballast the said Gravel and Sand and soil out of the said River by all such wayes and means as he they or any of them should think fit and the said Gravel and Soil so by him them or any of them raised and taken up to land and lay on Shore upon any of Our wast ground in all and every convenient place and places and to take off the same as his or their or any of their occasions should require and upon any Wharfs agreeing first with the Owners of the same and he the said Collonel William Carlos his Executors Administrators Deputies and Assigns solely and only to convert utter dispose and sell the said Gravel Sand and Soil to and for the Ballasting of all or any Ship or Ships Vessels and Boats whatsoever which should have occasion to take or use Ballast within the said River he the said Colonel Carlos his Executors Administrators Deputies and Assigns affording and selling the same at such reasonable and moderate rates and prizes as the River Ballast was then and had formerly been usually sold for ballasting of Ships And we did likewise by our said Indenture of Demise strictly will require and command all other person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate whatsoever during the Term thereby granted to forbear to sell vend give or utter any Gravel Sand or Soil of the said River to or for the ballasting of any Ship or Ships or other Vessels within the said River without license first had and obtained in writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Colonel William Carlos his Executors Administrators or Assigns or his or their Deputy or Deputies or some of them upon pain of our High displeasure and such further pains penalties and punishments as by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm or otherwise should or might be inflicted on them for their contempt of Our Royal Pleasure and Commandment in the premises To have hold take and enjoy the said Ballasting of Ships and other Vessels the said Gravel and Soil of the said River and the cleansing thereof in as large and ample manner and form to all intent constructions and purposes whatsoever as We or any Our Royal Progenitours or Predecessors Kings or Queens of this Realm or any Our or their Lord Admiral or Admirals of England or any others had thentofore had granted or enjoyed the same or might should or ought to have had and enjoyed the same together with all and every the Licenses Powers Priviledges Authorities Profits Commodities and Advantages whatsoever for the cleansing of the said River as aforesaid and other the Premises unto him the said Colonel William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns from the date of our said Letters Patents of Demise for and during the Term and unto the ful end and term of Thirty and one years from thence next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended Yielding and paying therefore yearly and the said William Carlos for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns did covenant promise and grant and agree to and with Us our Heirs and Successors by the said recited Indenture of Demise to pay unto Us our Heirs and Successors for and during the said Term of One and Thirty years the yearly rent or Sum of One thousand Marks of lawful Mony of England into the Receipt of Our Exchecquer at Westminster at the Feasts of St. John the Baptist and the Birth of our Lord God or within forty days next after the same Feast by even and equal Portions as in and by the said Indenture of Demise relation being thereunto had more at large appears And further reciting that whereas divers Suits by reason of Our said Indenture of Demise The Title to the Ballastage disputed between Trinity-House and Collonel Carlos decided by the King granted to the said Colonel William Carlos as aforesaid did after arise and were prosecuted in Our Name between the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House aforesaid and the said Collonel William Carlos touching the Right and Title to the Ballasting of Ships in the River of Thames and interest of the Sand Soil And Gravel of Our said River of Thames for the aforesaid use of
ballasting of Ships as aforesaid which Suits and Differences by Our mediation and interposition We had then finally composed and that whereas the said William Carlos in pursuance of Our said final composition and agreement Carlos thereupon surrenders to the King by his Deed under his Hand and Seal bearing date the two and twentieth day of May in in the Fifteenth year of our Reign and inrolled in Our High Court of Chancery granted Surrendred and yeilded up unto us all that the said Ballasting of Ships and other Vessels the said Gravel and Soil of the said River of Thames and the cleansing thereof with all and every Licenses Powers Priviledges Authorities Profits Commodities and Advantages whatsoever for the cleansing of the said River as aforesaid and other the premises which in and by the said recited Indenture of Demise were granted and demised or mentioned to be granted or demised unto the said Col. William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns and all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever of him the said Col. William Carlos of and unto the same and every part and parcel thereof together with the same Indenture of Demise to be cancelled or made void as in and by the said Deed inrolled in our High Court of Chancery as aforesaid more at large may appear Which surrender we did then accept And whereas We by our Letters Patents The Grant of the Ballaststage 15 Car. 2. to the Trinity-House recited bearing date the eighteenth day of August in the Fifteenth year of our Reign did for the consideration therein expressed give and grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish Church of Deptford Strond in Our said County of Kent and to their Successors for ever to and for the uses intents and purposes in the said Letters Patents mentioned the Lastage Ballastage and ballasting or loading of Sand Gravel Earth Chalk Rubbish Clay Flints Lime Soap-ashes Brick Tyles or any other things Merchandizes or Commodities whatsoever taken from any Wharf Creek Coasts or Shoar upon or adjoyning to Our said River of Thames for Lastage Ballastage or Loading or used instead of such Lastage Ballastage or Loading as aforesaid together with the Office of Lastage and Ballastage and Ballasting of all and all manner of Ships Hoyes Barks Boats or other Vessels whatsoever coming or being or which at any time then after should be coming floating lying or remaining issuing passing sailing or going in upon to or out of the River of Thames or elsewhere betwixt the Bridge of the City of London and the main Sea or any Wharfe Bank Creek Coast Shoar or any part of the same or near or adjoyning thereto betwixt the Bridge of London aforesaid toward the West part and the said Main Sea towards the East part of what Burthen soever such Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels were or should be and by what other Name or Names soever and in what kind or kinds soever the said Ballastage and Lastage and ballasting was or might be called reputed or known Exercised or used And further we did by the same Letters Patents give and Grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Trinity-House of Deptford Strond in our said County of Kent and their Successors for ever to and for the Uses intents and purposes aforesaid the Gravel Sand and Soil of the said River of Thames or any part and parcel thereof for the ballasting of Ships or other Vessels and for any other Use or Uses whatsoever And all our Wast Grounds to the said River belonging All the wast Grounds c. belonging to the River of Thames granted also to the Trinity-House with all Purprestures Incroachments Improvements Advantages and Profits in or upon the same which should or might appertain or any way of right belong to Us Our Heirs or Successors from the Bridge of Staines to the Water of Medway And further We did give and Grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity-House aforesaid and their Successors for ever full Power Priviledg and Authority That they and their Successors by themselves or by their Deputy or Deputies Agents Factors Workmen and Servants or any of them from time to time and at all times for ever thenafter in all and every Place and Places whatsoever within the said River being to the Damage and annoyance of the same at their and every of their Wills and Pleasures should and might dig take up draw forth and raise for the better furnishing of Ships with ballast the said Gravel Sand or Soil out of the said River by all such ways and means as they or any of them should think fit so as the said River might not be annoyed and made Dangerous to Ships Lighters Boats and other Vessels therein passing and the said Gravel and Soil so by them or any of them raised and taken up for the Uses aforesaid to Land and lay on Shoar upon any of our wast ground in all and every convenient Place and Places and to take off the same as their or any of their occasions should require and upon any Wharfe or Wharfes built encroached or gained or which at any time then after should be built encroached or gained from or upon our River of Thames for the better supply of Dry Ballast for all such Ships and other Vessels as should carry Cloath and other like dry Goods And they the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors Deputies and Assigns solely and only to convert utter dispose and sell the said Gravel Sand and Soil of Our River aforesaid To have hold take and enjoy the said Ballastage and Lastage and Office of Ballastage and Lastage the said Gravel Sand and Soil of the said River and the said wast grounds thereunto belonging and all and ever other the premises thentofore in and by the said Letters Patents given and granted or mentioned to be given and granted with all and every Fees Advantagcs Sallaries Profits Emoluments Commodities and Rights Incidents and Appurtenances whatsoever to for out of or by reason of all or any of the premises any way due payable accustomed appertaining or belonging unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity-House of Deptford-Strond aforesaid and their Successors for ever by themselves their Substitute or Substitutes Deputy or Deputies Assign or Assigns to Use Exercise Execute and enjoy for ever for the use and benefit of the Poor aforesaid and to no other use intent or purpose whatsoever And all and every the said premises to hold of Us Our Heirs and Successors as of our Mannour of East Greenwich in our said County of Kent in Free and Common Soccage and not in Capite nor by Knights Service under the Yearly Rent or Sum of One Thousand Marks of lawful Mony of England payable unto the said William Carlos his Executors Administrators and Assigns
for and during the full End and Term of One and Thirty years to Commence from the Feast of the Annuncion of the Blessed Virgin Mary last past before the date of our said Letters Patents and from thenceforth fully to be compleat and ended as in and by Our said Letters Patents amongst other things therein contained relation being thereunto had more plainly and at large it doth and may appear The first Grant surrendred by the Trinity-House by reason of some doubts arising thereupon And whereas certain Controversies doubts and questions have arisen concerning our said Grant to the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Trinity-House of Deptford Strond whereupon the said Master Wardens and Assistants by their Deed under their common Seal bearing date the ninth day of December last past before the date of these presents and inrolled in our high Court of Chancery have granted surrendred and yielded up unto us the said Lastage and Ballastage and Office of Lastage and Ballastage and Ballasting of all and all manner of Ships and other Vessels aforesaid and all the Wasts Wast-Grounds Gravel Sand and Soil aforesaid and all and singular the Fees Advantages Sallaries Profits Liberties Priviledges Emoluments Commodities and Rights Incidents and Appurtenances whatsoever to for out of or by reason of all or any the premises any way due payable accustomed appertaining or belonging in or by Our Letters Patents granted or mentioned to be granted And also all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever of them the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House of Deptford-Strond aforesaid of in and unto the said Lastage and Ballastage and Office of Lastage and Ballastage or Ballasting aforesaid and of in or unto the said Wasts Wast-ground Gravel Sand and Soil or any part thereof and of in and to all and singular other the Fees advantages sallaries profits Liberties priviledges emoluments commodities and all other things whatsoever thereunto or any part thereof belonging or appertaining or there withall by our Letters Patents aforesaid Granted or mentioned or intended to be Granted together with our Letters Patents aforesaid to be Cancelled and made void which said Surrender we have accepted of and by these presents do accept The Ballastage regranted to the Trinity-House for the relief of poor Seamen their Wives c. Now whereas many decayed Seamen their Wives Widdows and Orphans have from time to time received good relief by the hands of the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Trinity House of Deptford Strond out of the Lastage and Ballastage raised and taken forth of our said River of Thames for Ballasting of Ships and other Vessels Know ye that we as well for the considerations aforesaid as for the consideration of the said Surrender and for divers other good causes and considerations Us hereunto especially moving 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 said Guild or Fraternity of the most Glorious and individable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish Church of Deptford Strond in our said County of Kent and to their Successors for ever to and for the uses intents and purposes aforesaid the Lastage Ballastage and Ballasting or loading of Sand Gravel Soil Stones What to be accounâ—ed Ballast Earth Chalk Rubbish Clay Flints Lime Soape Ashes Bricks Tyles or any other things Merchandizes or Commodities whatsoever taken from any Wharfe Creek Coast Bank or Shoar upon or adjoyning to our said River of Thames for Lastage Ballastage and Ballasting or Loading or used instead of such Lastage Ballasting or Loading as aforesaid The Ballast of all Vessels passing between the Bridge of London and the main Sea Together with the Office of Lastage and Ballastage and ballasting of all and all manner of Ships Hoyes Boats Barks and all other Vessels whatsoever coming or being or which hereafter at any time shall be coming floating lying or remaining issuing passing sailing or going in upon to or out of the River Thames or elsewhere betwixt the Bridge of the City of London and the Main Sea or any Wharfe Bank Greek Coast shoar or any part of the same or near or adjoyning thereunto betwixt the Bridge of London aforesaid towards the West part and the said Main Sea towards the East part of what Burthen soever such Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels be or shall be and by what other Name or Names soever and in what kind or kinds soever the said Ballastage or Lastage is or may be called reputed known exercised or used Grant also of the Gravel Sand and Soil of the River to the Trinity-House And further We do by these presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors Give and Grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Trinity-House of Deptford Strond in Our said County of Kent and their Successors for ever to and for the uses intents and purposes aforesaid the Gravel Sand and Soil of the said River of Thames and every part and parcel thereof for the Ballasting of Ships and other Vessels And further We have given and Granted and by these presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do give and Grant to the said Master Wardens and Asstants of Trinity House aforesaid and their Successors for ever full power priviledge and authority that they and their Successors by themselves or by their Deputy or Deputies Agents Factors Workmen and Servants or any of them from time to time and at all times for ever hereafter in all and every place and places whatsoever To dig and take up the said Gravel c. as they shall think fit so it annoy not the River within the said River being to the damage and annoyance of the same at their and every of their Wills and pleasures shall and may dig take up draw-forth and raise for the better furnishing of Ships with ballast the said Gravel Sand and Soil out of the said River by all such ways and means as they or any of them shall think fit so as the said River may not be annoyed and made dangerous to Ships Lighters Boats and other Vessels therein passing and the said Geavel Sand and Soil so by them or any of them raised and taken up for the use aforesaid to Land and lay on shore on any of our Wast grounds other then To lay the same ashore on any Wast-ground not granted to others and except on such wast grounds or Wharfes as are already granted or shall be granted by Us our Heirs and Successors to our trusty and well beloved Servants Sir Robert Killigrew Knight and Edward Progers Esq one of the Grooms of our Bed Chamber and every convenient Place or Places and to take off the same as their or any of their occasions shall require And upon any Wharfe or Wharfes built And upon any