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<HEAD>Articles and Orders, made and agreed upon the 9^t^h^. 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 <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. By the Company of ADVENTURERS for the PLANTATION of the I&s;lands of ELEUTHERIA, formerly called BUHAMA in AMERICA, and the adjacent <HI>I&s;lands</HI> to be ob&s;erved and performed by all and &s;ingular ADVENTURERS, to PLANTERS and dwellers upon, and all <HI>Re&s;iants</HI> at the &s;ame <HI>ISLANDS.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas experience hath &s;hewed us the great inconveniencies that have happened, both in this Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and other places, by a rigid im|po&s;ing upon all an uniformity and conformity in matters of judgement and practice in the things of Religion, whereby divi&s;ions have been made, factions fomented, per&s;ecutions induced, and the publick peace endangered. And for that we well know, that in this &s;tate of darkne&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mperfection, we know but in part, That there are bothbabes and &s;trongmen in <HI>Christ:</HI> And that every Member who holds the head, and is of the body of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> hath not the &s;ame place and office, nor the &s;ame mea&s;ure of light, who yet de&s;ire and endeavour daily to increa&s;e in knowledge. And in the mean time walk according to what they have received, in all godline&s;s, ju&s;tice &amp; &s;obriety. And whereas experience hath al&s;o &s;hewed us, That the peace and happy pro|gre&s;s of all Plantations, doth much depend upon the good government thereof, the equal di&s;tribution of ju&s;tice, and re&s;pect to all per&s;ons, without faction or di&s;tinction, the certain knowledg and manife&s;tation of every ones right and proprieties, and carefull provi&s;ions for common defence and &s;afety.</P>
<P><HI>It is therefore ordered,</HI> That all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, who are &s;o as afore&s;aid qualified, &s;hall be received and accepted as Members of the &s;aid Company of <HI>Adven|turers,</HI> and into the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> notwith&s;tanding any other difference of judgement, under what&s;oever other names conveyed, walking with ju&s;tice and &s;obriety, in their particular conver&s;ations, and living peaceably and quietly as Members of the Re-publick.</P>
<P>That there &s;hall be no names of di&s;tinction or reproach, as <HI>Independent, Antinomian, Anabapti&s;t,</HI> or any other ca&s;t upon any &s;uch for their difference in judgement, neither yet &s;hall any per&s;on or per&s;ons, a&s;&s;ume or acknowledge any &s;uch di&s;tingui&s;hing names, under the penalty of being accompted (in both ca&s;es, either of impo&s;ing or accepting or a&s;&s;uming any &s;uch name or names) as enemies of the publick peace: nor &s;hall any man &s;peak reproachfully of any per&s;on for his opinion, or of the opi|nion it &s;elf, otherwi&s;e then in the <HI>Scripture</HI> Language.</P>
<P>That no Magi&s;tracie or Officers of the Republike, nor any power derived from them, &s;hall take notice of any man for his difference in judgement in matter of Re|ligion, or have cognizance of any cau&s;e what&s;oever of that nature: But that their jurisdiction &s;hall reach onely to men as men, and &s;hall take care that ju&s;tice, peace, and &s;obriety, may be maintained among them. And that the flouri&s;hing &s;tate of the re-publick may be by all ju&s;t meanes promoted.</P>
<P>That the pre&s;ent Adventurers, and all other per&s;ons, who within the &s;pace of one year now next en&s;uing, &s;hall bring into the publick &s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k, the &s;um of 100 <HI>l.</HI> &s;hall be admitted and reckoned into the number of the fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers,</HI> their number not exceeding one hundred per&s;ons.</P>
<P>That every one of the number of the fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers,</HI> &s;hall have three hundred Acres of Land, laid out for him and his Heires for ever, in the fir&s;t convenient place which &s;hall be cho&s;en, by tho&s;e per&s;ons of the number of fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers,</HI> who go to the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> in the pre&s;ent expedition and &s;hipping. And that the &s;aid quantity of three hundred Acres for each fir&s;t <HI>Adventurer;</HI> &s;hall at the end of the fir&s;t three yeares, or &s;ooner, if the major part of the &s;aid number or Com|pany of fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers</HI> &s;hall require the &s;ame, &s;hall be divided and &s;et out by lot, unto every particular per&s;on. And that in the mean time, all the &s;ame Land &s;hall be imployed and improved for the joynt advantage of the &s;aid Company. And that for the further and better encouragement of the &s;aid fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers,</HI> every one of the &s;aid Company of fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers</HI> &s;hall have two thou&s;and Acres more of Land, to be laid out for him and his Heires for ever, in &s;uch place or places as &s;hall be mo&s;t convenient and &s;atisfactory unto him, and lea&s;t prejudicial or di&s;advantagious to the publick. And that this &s;hall be effected with as much convenient &s;peed, as the occa&s;ions of the Plantation will permit. And that all the adjacent I&s;lands &s;hall be re&s;erved to, and laid out and had for the u&s;e of the &s;aid Company of fir&s;t Adventurers.</P>
<P>That as well every one of the <HI>Adventurers</HI> afore&s;aid, as al&s;o every other per&s;on, who &s;hall at any time or times, within three yeares tran&s;port, at his own charge, un|to the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> any per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;hall have and enjoy to him the &s;aid Tran&s;porter and his Heires for ever, the quantity of thirty five Acres of Land <HI>per</HI> per|&s;on, for every per&s;on which he &s;hall &s;o tran&s;port; the &s;ame Land to be &s;et out and appointed for him, by &s;uch as &s;hall be hereafter authorized for that purpo&s;e by the fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers</HI> upon the place. And that if any Servants or Children, or other per&s;ons who &s;hal be &s;hipped to be tran&s;ported to the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> &s;hall after their &s;hipping mi&s;carry, or die by the way: yet neverthele&s;s, the per&s;on at who&s;e charge any &s;uch mi&s;carrying or dying per&s;on, Child or Servant, was &s;hipped &s;hall have and enjoy to him and his Heires for ever in the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> and to be &s;et out and appointed as afore&s;aid, the quantity of thirty five Acres for or in re&s;pect of each one per&s;on &s;o dying or mi&s;carrying, in as ample manner, as if he had been &s;afely tran&s;ported, and come into the &s;aid <HI>Plantation.</HI> And that every other per&s;on and per&s;ons, that &s;hall adventure, after three yeares &s;hall have five and twenty Acres.</P>
<P>That every Servant being a <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> which &s;hall be tran&s;ported to the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> and &s;hall &s;erve out his time agreed upon, to the u&s;e of him who tran&s;ported <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im, or of his A&s;&s;ignes, &s;hall at the end of his &s;aid time of &s;ervice, have and injoy to him the &s;aid Servant and his Heires for ever, the quantity of twenty and five Acres of Land, to be allowed and &s;et out for him by &s;uch as &s;hall be authorized by the Governour and Councel. And for the better fortifying of the &s;aid <HI>Plantations,</HI> and for the encouragement of the fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers</HI> in a work of that hazard; and al&s;o for the exciting and awakeing the indu&s;try of all: It is further ordered and agreed;</P>
<P>That what&s;oever Ordinance can be recovered of any wraks, &s;hall be wholly imployed for the u&s;e of the publick, and &s;erve for the fortification of the <HI>Plantation.</HI></P>
<P>That all other wraks which &s;hall be recovered upon, or near the I&s;lands, or upon or near any the adjacent I&s;lands: And al&s;o all Mynes of Gold, Silver, Copper, Bra&s;&s;e or Lead, Ambergrei&s;e, &s;alt; and all rich woods, either for tincture or medicament, which &s;hal be had or found upon or neer the I&s;lands or territories afore&s;aid, in any Land not divided, or &s;et over to any particular proprietor, &s;hall be delivered into the Cu&s;tody of two &s;uch per&s;ons, Merchants or Agents for the &s;aid Company, as &s;hall be yearly cho&s;en by the &s;aid Company for that purpo&s;e, and the &s;ame Mines, Wracks, Ambergrei&s;e, Metalles, Salts, and Woods, &s;hall be by the &s;aid two Agents, made fit for &s;ale, and be by them withall convenient &s;peed, &s;old for the be&s;t price and advantage, and the whole price and value thereof (the Charges and wages for the procuring and fitting of them for &s;ale, being fir&s;t deducted and di&s;charged) &s;hall be divided into three equal parts and &s;hates; and the fir&s;t of the &s;ame three parts, &s;hall be unto him or them, who &s;hall be the undertaker or finder thereof: the &s;econd part &s;hall be paid and di&s;tributed unto, and among the fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers,</HI> their Heires, Execu|tors and a&s;&s;ignes, equally: and the other third part &s;hall be paid and delivered into the publick Trea&s;ury of the &s;aid <HI>Plantation,</HI> to be imployed and laid out for the u&s;e of the publick, by order and warrant from the Governor and Councel there, for the time being. But if the &s;ame &s;hall be found in any of the Lands appropriated, the fir&s;t third part &s;hall be to the owner or proprietor of the &s;ame Lands, and the other two thirds as afore&s;aid: That when the Plantation &s;hall &s;ufficiently be fortifyed, and all nece&s;&s;ary publick works fini&s;hed, and the generall Magazines &s;ufficiently &s;tored, then what &s;hall be &s;pared of the publick third in the wracks and Commodities afore&s;aid, &s;hall be imployed in works of mercy and charity, and for the tran&s;porting from <HI>England</HI> and other places &s;uch godly people as &s;hall be willing to go unto the &s;aid <HI>Plan|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ns,</HI> and are not able to beare the charge of their tran&s;portation and &s;etling there.</P>
<P>That no per&s;on &s;hall pretend unto, or claim any Wracks, Mynes, Ambergrei&s;e, Salt, or rich woods, as afore&s;aid; for, or by rea&s;on of their growing, or being in or upon his lot or &s;hare of ground, which &s;hall be appointed to him as above &s;aid; but all the &s;aid particulars &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed and imployed, as before is expre&s;&s;ed. That none of the &s;aid rich Woods growing upon Lands not appropri|ated, &s;hall be cut down by any per&s;on, but by warrant fir&s;t had and obtained from the <HI>Governor</HI> and <HI>Councel</HI> for that purpo&s;e; and if any &s;hall do otherwi&s;e, then he that &s;hall cut, or cau&s;e to be cut, any of the &s;aid Woods without &s;uch warrant, &s;hall loo&s;e and forfeit all that &s;hare which he might under any qualification what&s;oever, pretend unto in the &s;aid Woods; and the &s;ame forfeiture &s;hall be to the u&s;e of the &s;aid <HI>Colonie.</HI> That if any places &s;hall appear fit for making &s;alt, which yet makes it not naturally, then the &s;alt-works &s;hall be perfected at the publick charge, and the provenue thereof to come into the publick Trea&s;ury, and be imployed for ever for the publick &s;ervice, as afore&s;aid. That no Inhabitant of the&s;e <HI>Plantations,</HI> &s;hall in their conver&s;e with any of the <HI>Natives</HI> of a|ny of tho&s;e parts, offer them any wrong, violence, or incivility what&s;oever; but &s;hall deal with them with all ju&s;tice and &s;weetne&s;s, &s;o far as may &s;tand with their own &s;afety, thereby to work in them a good opinion of love, unto the wayes and knowledg of God, which every one &s;hall endeavour to hold forth, and communicate unto them in the be&s;t manner that they can. And whereas the Com|pany is informed, that there are &s;ome <HI>Indians</HI> have been taken and &s;old at &s;ome of the <HI>Caribe</HI> I&s;lands: It is therefore agreed and ordered, that the <HI>Indians</HI> &s;hall be &s;ought out and redeemed: And af|ter they have &s;ome time continued in tho&s;e <HI>Plantations,</HI> for their in&s;tructions, and make them &s;en&s;ible of the benefit. They &s;hall be then returned to the places from which they were taken, that eve|ry <HI>Planter</HI> &s;hall him&s;elf provide Arms and Ammunition &s;ufficient, for his own per&s;ons (going to the &s;aid <HI>Plantations</HI>) and for every Male that he &s;hall tran&s;port thither, who is or &s;hall be from time to time able to bear Arms, and that &s;uch adventurer &s;hall not have his &s;hare of Land &s;et out unto him for any Male per&s;on, unle&s;s he be as afore&s;aid, provided of &s;ufficient Arms and Ammunition for them. That all in the &s;aid <HI>Plantations</HI> from the age of &s;ixteen to &s;ixty years, &s;hall be ready to come to the &s;everal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">andevous appointed them, upon any Alarm, ready and armed for the ce&s;ence of the <HI>Plantations;</HI> That none &s;hall be compelled to take Arms, or go to war out of the <HI>Countrey</HI> unle&s;s it be for the nece&s;&s;ary defence thereof, and to expel or divert an eminent inva&s;ion, neither &s;hall any be &s;uffered to take any depredations or inva&s;ions upon any, either by Sea or Land, unle&s;s upon a War fir&s;t begun by them and open War by the &s;aid <HI>Plantations,</HI> fir&s;t denounced again&s;t them. That the Government of the &s;aid <HI>I&s;lands</HI> and <HI>Plantations,</HI> &s;hall be continued in a Senate of the number of one hundred per&s;ons; and that the Company of the fir&s;t Adventurers afore&s;aid, &s;hall at pre&s;ent be the &s;ame Senate. And when&s;oever any of them &s;hall die or &s;ell away his Intere&s;t in the &s;aid <HI>Plantations;</HI> then there &s;hall be another elected in his roome from time to time, by the Major part of the &s;aid Senate, out of the other <HI>Adventurers</HI> and <HI>Planters</HI> Re&s;iant in the &s;aid I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ands. And the &s;ame election &s;hall be made in this manner, <HI>(viz.)</HI> Fir&s;t, 20. fit per&s;ons &s;hall be nominated. Then tho&s;e 20. reduced to the number of 4. by &s;crutiny, and out of tho&s;e 4. one to be cho&s;en by Ballotines. And &s;o from time to time, as often as any Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ber of the &s;aid Senate, &s;hall decea&s;e or &s;hall allien or di&s;continue his intere&s;t in the &s;aid <HI>Plantations,</HI> or &s;hall be amoved by the &s;aid Senate, upon ju&s;t cau&s;e or complaint. And that the &s;ame Senate &s;hall from time to time make election o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all Of|ficers, for doing of ju&s;tice, and di&s;tribution and &s;etting out of Lands, and for the care and over-&s;ight of all publick works, and &s;hall have the ordering and di&s;po&s;ing of all publick monies. That after the fir&s;t three yeares expired, there &s;hall be yearely a <HI>Governor</HI> and 12. <HI>Councellers</HI> cho&s;en out of the &s;aid number, of 100. Senators, who &s;hall take the daily care of all things nece&s;&s;ary for the pro&s;pe|rity of the <HI>Plantation;</HI> and that it in nothing &s;uffer detriment or decay. And that the publick peace be maintained between man and man, and &s;peedy ju&s;tice done unto every man that &s;hall &s;eek it at their hands. And that the &s;aid <HI>Governor</HI> and <HI>Councel,</HI> &s;hall have power to call together upon any emergency, to the &s;aid Senate or &s;o many of them, as &s;hall then be upon the &s;aid I&s;lands, and to act and execute what &s;hall be by the &s;aid convention of Senators, ordered and referred, or committed unto them. That the fir&s;t Governor and Councel &s;hall be elected by the fir&s;t <HI>Adventurers</HI> in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> when the number of <HI>Adventurers</HI> who will tran&s;port them&s;elves is once known. And that the &s;ame fir&s;t <HI>Governor</HI> and <HI>Councel</HI> &s;hall continue in their Office three whole yeares from the fir&s;t day of their arrival at the &s;aid I&s;lands or Plantation. That all &s;ucceeding <HI>Governors</HI> and <HI>Councel</HI> &s;hall after the aforementioned term expired, be yearly cho&s;en on the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> in <HI>December,</HI> for one whole year to come, beginning the fir&s;t day of <HI>January</HI> following, by all the free-men of the &s;aid <HI>Plantations,</HI> by way of &s;crutiny and <HI>Ballotines,</HI> in &s;uch manner as is before expre&s;&s;ed. That every per&s;on that &s;hall tran&s;port him&s;elf to the &s;aid <HI>Plantations,</HI> or de&s;ire to become a Member of the &s;ame <HI>Plantation,</HI> &s;hall before his admittance thereunto, acknowledge his allowance, and con&s;ent unto all and every one of the&s;e <HI>Articles;</HI> and by &s;ub&s;cribing the &s;ame, bind him&s;elf to conformity thereunto for the future. And this to be done before he be admitted into the &s;aid Company, and before he hath any &s;hare or proportion of Land &s;et out and a&s;&s;igned to him according to the&s;e <HI>Articles.</HI></P>
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