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| Name |
Richard Rich |
| Title |
Sir |
| Suffix |
1st Baron Rich |
| Birth |
~1496 |
Saint Lawrence Jewry, London, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
12 Jun 1567 |
Rochford, Essex, England [1] |
| Burial |
8 Jul 1567 |
Felsted, Essex, England [2] |
| Person ID |
I26782 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
13 Oct 2018 |
| Family |
Elizabeth Jenkes, b. 0___ 1510, London, Middlesex, England d. 16 Dec 1558, Saintbartholomew,London,England (Age ~ 48 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef May 1536 |
(London) England [1] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F9603 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Early possible Rich family to New World
Posted by: Albert NasonDate: February 11, 2000 at 18:07:08
of 1299
[this is info I sent to Donita, but which should interest other Riches,
since it concerns the earliest Riches possibly arriving in maryland,
virginia, and N. Carolina]
Here is the info I mentioned about the connection between the barons Rich
and the colony of Virginia. The Dictionary of National Biography, a sort
of historical who's who in England, has many entries under "Rich".
--Richard Rich, first baron Rich, was the unscrupulous lawyer of Henry
VIII, who supposedly forged evidence and gave tainted testimony that
condemned Sir thomas More to be beheaded. Maybe this is so, but we never
hear Rich's side. I have read that he was a devout Catholic himself, and
his almost photographic portrait by Hans Holbein the younger shows a
handsome sensitive face, rather sad. Holbein also did a portrait of Lady
Rich, who looks like a onetime glamourous woman who ran to fat early in
life. The first baron was father of the second baron, who was father of
the third baron, called "the rich Lord Rich"--the family had gained many
estates formerly monasteries.
--the 3rd baron Rich, the "rich Lord Rich" married the beautiful Penelope
Devereux, sister of the Earl of Essex, the aging Queen Elizabeth's
boyfriend, executed by her in 1601 (Lord Essex was beheaded, not
Penelope.). Penelope left Lord Rich, and 5 or 6 children by him and moved
in with Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy and they had 5 or 6 children. I
think both the large North Carolina families of Blount and Rich are
related to these people, though not perhaps Penelope's descendants. Her
illegitimate and legitimate children got along well enough but there were
so many I think some might have come to the new world, since they were not
ALL rich, or Riches.
However, another source was Sir Nathaniel Rich, born 1585?- d 1636,
merchant adventurer, apparently the bastard of the first Lord Rich (says
the Dict of Nat Bio, but I think he may be a grandson, since the first
Lord Rich died on June 12, 1587.) His mother was daughter of John Machell,
sheriff of London. He was given a legal education and became a member of
Parliament and was knighted in 1617 by James I (who gave out titles
lavishly, usually expecting a monetary gift). He was connected with the
Bermudas company in 1616 and bought shares in the Virginia Co in 1619. He
gave lavishly to the colony and died before 26 May 1636, supposedly when
Massachusetts colony sent him a poisoned "antimonial cup". He left his
manor of Stondon, Essex to a nephew Nathaniel, probably Nathaniel Rich who
died 1701.
--Nathaniel Rich d 1701 was son of Robert Rich, by Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Thomas Dutton. He obtained the manor of Stondon Essex, and so was
probably nephew to the above Nathaniel. He studied law and fought in the
English civil war on the parliamentarian side. he was in favor of the
widest religious toleration, but was opposed to extending the right to
vote, and feared extreme democracy. he was later imprisoned by king
Charles II after the Restoration, but managed to marry anyway, to Lady
Anne Kerr, daughter of Robert Kerr, first earl of Ancrum. By his first
wife, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden, he had two sons Nathaniel
and Robert. Robert in 1677 succeeded to the baronetcy of his distant
relative and father-in-law, Sir Charles Rich. [In other words, Robert
married his title; did his older brother Nathaniel , without a title of
his own, go to Va. to seek his fortune?]
--the first Lord Rich had four illegitimate children, of whom Richard was
father of Sir nathaniel Rich (not the one who died 1701, but his childless
uncle).
--Richard Rich, author of "Newes from Virginia" was possibly the same
Richard Rich, illegitmate son of first baron rich and father of Sir
Nathaniel Rich. he was a soldier and adventurer, who sailed in 1609 from
Plymouth england for Virginia, in the "Sea Venture", a ship soon
shipwrecked in Bermuda. Along with several future governors of Va, one of
the other shipwrecked passengers was John Rolfe, married to another wife
than Pocahontas at that time. Rich and the others eventually got to Va,
whence Rich returned to england in 1610 and wrote his "Newes of Va", which
some think inspired Shakespeare to write "The Tempest". he announced in
the book that he intended to return to Va, but his later life is obscure.
{was this the Va. ancestor of Timothy and the North Carolina Riches?]
That's all I have for now. We think of the english nobles as being
powerful and wealthy, as they later were in the 19th and early 20th
century, but in the 1500s and 1600s, most of them had very precarious
finances, especially younger sons and daughters who sometimes only got a
bare education and a commision in the army or navy, if that. It was not
unusual for even a duke to give his daughter to a wealthy merchant to
avoid a dowry. Many of these younger sons came to America. And the
situation was even worse for noble bastards. Some of the great Elizabethan
families that apparently sent out younger sons were the Blounts, the
Riches, the Culpepers, the Drakes, the Gilberts--all names found in Va and
NC
- From: "Frank Young"
To: "David Hennessee"
Subject: Re: Earl of Manchester
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:16 PM
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, David Hennessee wrote:
> Dear Frank - Thank you very much for the erudite response. Misread the deed
> abstract and now seek information on Sir Nathaniell RICH. This is a
> first-time effort searching English peerage. Will be grateful for any
> direction from you.
A knighthood, or a baronetcy, for that matter, is NOT a part of the peerage. Barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes (royal or not) constitute the peerage.
And speaking of peerage: Your Sir Nathaniel was the grandson of Richard Rich, 1st Lord Rich, one of the slimier men of the 16th century. I've included a small bit about him, below. Also below are a few odds and ends to get you started, including a two-item bibliography at the bottom, as well as some genealogical materials.
You really should email the fellow who made the presentation on him at the conference (cited below) -- he probably has a good chunk of material on his subject.
Let me know if you run into difficulties with any of this -- but it should be self explanatory. You can get any of the sources cited through interlibrary loan at your local public, college, or university library.
Regards, Frank Young
tipcat@wam.umd.edu 703-527-7684
Post Office Box 2793, Kensington, Maryland 20891
"Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate... Nunc cognosco ex parte"
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Robin Swales, History, presented the paper, "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
in the 1620s: Sir Nathaniel Rich in England and Ireland" to the
Pacific Northwest Conference on Renaissance Legacies at the University
of Saskatchewan on May 14. A longer version on the same subject was
presented to the Eighth International Conference on Seventeenth
Century Studies at Durham University, England, on July 27. While in
England he also attended the 68th Anglo-American Conference of
Historians at the Institute of Historical Research (Race and
Ethnicity) in London, the Luxury and Aesthetics Conference at Warwick
University, and the Donne Conference at Queen Mary College, London.
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference
Preliminary Programme
May 13-15
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon Saskatchewan
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For Registration Information Contact:
Ron Cooley
Dept. Of English,
University of Saskatchewan
9 Campus Dr.
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5
phone: (306) 966-5525
Fax: (306) 966-5951
e-mail: cooleyr@duke.usask.ca
3:45-5:15 Concurrent Sessions III
A) Historical Legacies: Social, Cultural and Intellectual
i. Richard Cunningham (Penn State), Inventing Experience: Inheriting
a Concept, Bequeathing the World
ii. Nat Hardy (University of Alberta), Inheriting Filth: Satirical
Disgust and the Anxiety of Effluents in Early Modern London
iii. Robin Swales (University of Regina), Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in
the 1620s: Sir Nathaniel Rich in England and Ireland
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In Ireland:
A. D. 1621
. Sir Dudley Digges, sir Thomas Crew, sir Nathaniel Rich, sir James
Perrot, &c. came over commissioners to inquire into the state of the
kingdom upon some complaints of the Irish.
They allow (by the king's order) the new lord deputy Falkland all the
profits abating only at the rate of 2,000 1. per ann. till he should
come and receive the sword.
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MUST READ:
The Charter of New England : 1620
The Charter of New England : 1620 JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of
England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. to
all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting, Whereas, upon the humble
Petition of divers of our well disposed Subjects, that intended to
make several Plantations in the Parts of America, between the Degrees
of thirty-ffoure and ffourty-five; We according to our princely
Inclination, favouring much their worthy Disposition, in Hope thereby
to advance the in Largement of Christian Religion, to the Glory of God
Almighty, as also by that Meanes to streatch out the Bounds of our
Dominions, and to replenish those Deserts with People governed by
Lawes and Magistrates, for the peaceable Commerce of all, that in time
to come shall have occasion to traffique into those Territoryes,
granted unto Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Knights, Thomas
Hanson, and Raleigh Gilbert, Esquires, and of their Associates, for
the more speedy Accomplishment thereof, by our Letters-Pattent,
bearing Date the Tenth Day of Aprill, in the Fourth Year of our Reign
of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the ffourtieth, free
Liberty to divide themselves into two several Collonyes; the one
called the first Collonye, to be undertaken and advanced by certain
Knights, Gentlemen, and Merchants, in and about our Cyty of London;
the other called the Second Collonye, to be undertaken and advanced by
certaine Knights, Gentlemen, and Merchants, and their associates, in
and about our Citties of Bristol, Exon, and our Towne of Plymouth, and
other Places, as in and by our said Letters-Pattents, amongst other
Things more att large it doth and may appears. And whereas, since that
Time, upon the humble Petition of the said Adventurers and Planters of
the said first Collonye, We have been graciously pleased to make them
one distinct and entire Body by themselves, giving unto them their
distinct Lymitts and Bounds, and have upon their like humble Request,
granted unto them divers Liberties, Priveliges, Enlargements, and
Immunityes, as in and by our severall Letters-Patents it doth and may
more at large appears. Now forasmuch as We have been in like Manner
humbly petitioned unto by our trusty and well beloved Servant, Sir
fferdinando Gorges, Knight, Captain of our ffort and Island by
Plymouth, and by certain the principal Knights and Gentlemen
Adventurers of the said Second Collonye, and by divers other Persons
of Quality, who now intend to be their Associates, divers of which
have been at great and extraordinary Charge, and sustained many Losses
in seeking and discovering a Place fitt and convenient to lay the
Foundation of a hopeful Plantation, and have divers Years past by
God's Assistance, and their own endeavours, taken actual Possession of
the Continent hereafter mentioned, in our Name and to our Use, as
Sovereign Lord thereof, and have settled already some of our People in
Places agreeable to their Desires in those Parts, and in Confidence of
prosperous Success therein, by the Continuance of God's Devine
Blessing, and our Royall Permission, have resolved in a more
plentifull and effectual Manner to prosecute the same, and to that
Purpose and Intent have desired of Us, for their better Encouragement
and Satisfaction herein, and that they may avoide all Confusion,
Questions, or Differences between themselves, and those of the said
first Collonye, We would likewise be graciously pleased to make
certaine Adventurers, intending to erect and. establish fishery,
Trade, and Plantacion, within the Territoryes, Precincts, and Lymitts
of the said second Colony, and their Successors, one several distinct
and entire Body, and to grant unto them, such Estate, Liberties,
Priveliges, Enlargements, and Immunityes there, as in these our
Letters-Pattents hereafter particularly expressed and declared. And
for asmuch as We have been certainly given to understand by divers of
our good Subjects, that have for these many Years past frequented
those Coasts and Territoryes, between the Degrees of Fourty and
Fourty-Eight, that there is noe other the Subjects of any Christian
King or State, by any Authority from their Soveraignes, Lords, or
Princes, actually in Possession of any of the said Lands or Precincts,
whereby any Right, Claim, Interest, or Title, may, might, or ought by
that Meanes accrue, belong, or appertaine unto them, or any of them.
And also for that We have been further given certainly to knowe, that
within these late Yeares there hath by God's Visitation reigned a
wonderfull Plague, together with many horrible Slaugthers, and
Murthers, committed amoungst the Sauages and brutish People there,
heertofore inhabiting, in a Manner to the utter Destruction,
Deuastacion, and Depopulacion of that whole Territorye, so that there
is not left for many Leagues together in a Manner, any that doe claime
or challenge any Kind of Interests therein, nor any other Superiour
Lord or Souveraigne to make Claime "hereunto, whereby We in our
Judgment are persuaded and satisfied that the appointed Time is come
in which Almighty God in his great Goodness and Bountie towards Us and
our People, hath thought fitt and determined, that those large and
goodly Territoryes, deserted as it were by their naturall Inhabitants,
should be possessed and enjoyed by such of our Subjects and People as
heertofore have and hereafter shall by his Mercie and Favour, and by
his Powerfull Arme, be directed and conducted thither. In
Contemplacion and serious Consideracion whereof, Wee have thougt it
fitt according to our Kingly Duty, soe much as in Us lyeth, to second
and followe God's sacred Will, rendering reverend Thanks to his Divine
Majestie for his gracious favour in laying open and revealing the same
unto us, before any other Christian Prince or State, by which Meanes
without Offence, and as We trust to his Glory, Wee may with Boldness
goe on to the settling of soe hopefull a Work, which tendeth to the
reducing and Conversion of such Sauages as remaine wandering in
Desolacion and Distress, to Civil Societie and Christian Religion, to
the Inlargement of our own Dominions, and the Aduancement of the
Fortunes of such of our good Subjects as shall willingly intresse
themselves in the said Imployment, to whom We cannot but give singular
Commendations for their soe worthy Intention and Enterprize; Wee
therefore, of our especiall Grace, mere Motion, and certaine
Knowledge, by the Aduice of the Lords and others of our Priuy Councell
have for Us, our Heyrs and Successors, graunted, ordained, and
established, and in and by these Presents, Do for Us, our Heirs and
Successors, grant, ordaine and establish, that all that Circuit,
Continent, Precincts, and Limitts in America, lying and being in
Breadth from Fourty Degrees of Northerly Latitude, from the
Equnoctiall Line, to Fourty-eight Degrees of the said Northerly
Latitude, and in length by all the Breadth aforesaid throughout the
Maine Land, from Sea to Sea, with all the Seas, Rivers, Islands,
Creekes, Inletts, Ports, and Havens, within the Degrees, Precincts and
Limitts of the said Latitude and Longitude, shall be the Limitts; and
Bounds, and Precints of the second Collony: And to the End that the
said Territoryes may forever hereafter be more particularly and
certainly known and distinguished, our Will and Pleasure is, that the
sa.ne shall from henceforth be nominated, termed, and called by the
Name of New-England, in America; and by that Name of New-England in
America, the said Circuit, Precinct, Limitt, Continent, Islands, and
Places in America, aforesaid, We do by these Presents, for Us, our
Heyrs and Successors, name, call, erect, found and establish, and by
that Name to have Continuance for ever. And for the better Plantacion,
ruling, and governing of the aforesaid New-England, in America, We
will, ordaine, constitute, assigne, limits and appoint, and for Us,
our Heyrs and Successors, Wee, by the Advice of the Lords and others
of the said priuie Councill, do by these Presents ordaine, constitute,
limett, and appoint, that from henceforth, there shall be for ever
hereafter, in our Towne of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, one Body
politicque and corporate, which shall have perpetuall Succession,
which shall consist of the Number of fourtie Persons, and no more,
which shall be, and shall be called and knowne by the Name the
Councill established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon for the
planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New-England, in America;
and for that Purpose Wee have, at and by the Nomination and Request of
the said Petitioners, granted, ordained, established, and confirmed;
and by these Presents, for Us, our Heyres and Successors, doe grant,
ordaine, establish, and confirme, our right trusty and right well
beloved Cosins and Councillors Lodovick, Duke of Lenox, Lord Steward
of our Houshold, George Lord Marquess Buckingham, our High Admiral of
England, James Marquess Hamilton, William Earle of Pembrocke, Lord
Chamberlaine of our Houshold, Thomas Earl of Arundel, and our right
trusty and right well beloved Cosin, William Earl of hathe, and right
trusty and right well beloved Cosin and Councellor, Henry Earle of
Southampton, and our right trusty and right well beloved Cousins,
William Earle of Salisbury, and Robert Earle of Warwick, and our right
trusty and right well beloved John Viscount Haddington, and our right
trusty and well beloved Councellor Edward Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of
our Cincque Ports, and our trusty and well beloved Edmond Lord
Sheffield, Edward Lord Gorges, and our well beloved Sir Edward
Seymour, Knight and Barronett, Sir Robert Manselle, Sir Edward Zouch,
our Knight Marshall, Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir fferdinando
Gorges, Sir Francis Popham, Sir John Brook, Sir Thomas Gates, Sir
Richard Hawkins, Sir Richard Edgcombe, Sir Allen Apsley, Sir Warwick
Hale, Sir Richard Catchmay, Sir John Bourchier, Sir Nathaniel Rich,
Sir Edward Giles, Sir Giles Mompesson, and Sir Thomas Wroth, Knights;
and our well beloved Matthew Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter, Robert Heath,
Esq; Recorder of our Cittie of London, Henry Bourchier, John Drake,
Rawleigh Gilbert, George Chudley, Thomas Hamon, and John Argall,
Esquires, to be and in and by these Presents; We do appoint them to be
the first modern and present Councill established at Plymouth, in the
County of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of
New-England, in America; and that they, and the Suruiuours of them,
and such as the Suruluours and Suruinor of them shall, from tyme to
tyme elect, and chuse, to make up the aforesaid Number of fourtie
Persons, when, and as often as any of them, or any of their Successors
shall happen to decease, or to be removed from being of the said
Councill, shall be in, and by these Presents, incorporated to have a
perpetual Succession for ever, in Deed, Fact, and Name, and shall be
one Bodye corporate and politicque; and that those, and such said
Persons, and their Successors, and such as shall be elected and chosen
to succeed them as aforesaid, shall be, and by these Presents are, and
be incorporated, named, and called by the Name of the Councill
established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting,
ruling, and governing of New-England, in America; and them the said
Duke of Lenox, Marquess Buckingham, Marquess Hamilton, Earle of
Pembroke, Earle of Arundell, Earle of hathe, Earle of Southampton,
Earle of Salisbury, Earle of Warwick, Viscount Haddington, Lord Zouch,
Lord Sheffleld, Lord Gorges, Sir Edward Seymour, Sir Robert Mansell,
Sir Edward Zouch, Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir fferdinando
Gorges, Sir ffrancis Popham, Sir John Brooks, Sir Thomas Gates, Sir
Richard Hawkins, Sir Richard Edgcombe, Sir Allen Apsley, Sir Warwick
Heale, Sir Richard Catchmay, Sir John Bourchier, Sir Nathaniell Rich,
Sir Edward Giles, Sir Giles Mompesson, Sir Thomas Wroth, Knights;
Matthew Suttcliffe, Robert Heath, Henry Bourchier, John Drake,
Rawleigh Gilbert, George Chudley, Thomas Haymon, and John Argall,
Esqrs. and their successors, one Body corporate and politick, in Deed
and Name, by the Name of the Councell established att Plymouth, in the
County of Devon for the planting, ruling, and governing of
New-England, in America. Wee do by these Presents, for Us, our Heyres
and Successors, really and fully incorporate, erect, ordaine. name,
constitute, and establish, and that by the same Name of the said
Councill, they and their Successors for ever hereafter be
incorporated, named, and called, and shall by the same Name have
perpetual Succession. And further, Wee do hereby for Us, our Heires
and Successors, grant unto the said Councill established aft Plymouth,
that they and their Successors, by the same Name, be and shall be, and
shall continue Persons able and capable in the Law, from time to time,
and shall by that Name, of Councill aforesaid, have full Power and
Authority, and lawful Capacity and Habilily, as well to purchase,
take, hold, receive, enjoy, and to have, and their Successors for
ever, any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Royalties, Privileges,
Immunities, Reversions, Annuities, Hereditaments, Goods, and Chattles
whatsoever, of or from Us, our Heirs, and Successors, and of or from
any other Person or Persons whatsoever, as well in and within this our
Realme, of England, as in and within any other Place or Places
whatsoever or wheresoever; and the same Manors, Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments, Goods or Chattles, or any of them, by the same Name to
alien and sell, or to do, execute, ordaine and performe all other
Matters and Things whatsoever to the said Incorporation and Plantation
concerning and-belonging. And further, our Will and Pleasure is, that
the said Councill, for the time being, and their Successors, shall
have full Power and lawful authority, by the Name aforesaid, to sue,
and be sued; implead, and to be impleaded; answer, and to be answered,
unto all Manner of Courts and Places that now are, or hereafter shall
be, within this our Realme and elsewhere, as well temporal as
spiritual, in all Manner of Suits and Matters whatsoever, and of what
Nature or Kinde soever such Suite or Action be or shall be. And our
Will and Pleasure is, that the said flourty Persons, or the greater
Number of them, shall and may, from time to time, and at any time
hereafter, at their owne Will and Pleasure, according to the Laws,
Ordinances, and Orders of or by them, or by the greater Part of them,
hereafter in Manner and forme in these Presents mentioned, to be
agreed upon, to elect and choose amongst themselves one of the said
dourty Persons for the Time being, to be President of the said
Councill, which President soe elected and chosen, Wee will, shall
continue and be President of the said Councill for so long a Time as
by the Orders of the said Councill, from time to time to be made, as
hereafter is mentioned, shall be thought fitt, and no longer; unto
which President, or in his Absence, to any such Person as by the Order
of the said Councill shall be thereunto appointed, Wee do give
Authority to give Order for the warning of the said Council, and
summoning the Company to their Meetings. And our Will and Pleasure is,
that from time to time, when and so often as any of the Councill shall
happen to decease, or to be removed from being of the said Councell,
that then, and so often, the Survivors of them the said Councill, and
no other, or the greater Number of them, who then shall be from time
to time left and remaininge, and who shall, or the greater Number of
which that shall be assembled at a public Court or Meeting to be held
for the said Company, shall elect and choose one or more other Person
or Persons to be of the said Councill, and which from time to time
shall be of the said Councill, so that the Number of Bounty Persons of
the said Councill may from time to time be supplied: Provided always
that as well the Persons herein named to be of the said Councill, as
every other Councellor hereafter to be elected, shall be prevented
Lord Chancellor of England, or to the Lord High Treasurer of England,
or to the Lord Chamberlaine of the Household of Us, our Heires and
Successors for the Time being, to take his and their Oath and Oathes
of a Councellor and Councellors to Us, our Heirs and Successors, for
the said Company and Collonye in New-England. And further, Wee will
and grant by these Presents, for Us, our Heires and Successors, unto
the said Councill and their Successors, that they and their Successors
shall have and enjoy for ever a Common Seale, to be engraver according
to their Discretions; and that it shall be lawfull for them to appoint
whatever Seale or Seales, they shall think most meete and necessary,
either for their Use, as they are one united Body incorporate here, or
for the publick of their Gouvernour and Ministers of New-England
aforesaid, whereby the Incorporation may or shall scale any Manner of
Instrument touching the same Corporation, and the Manors, Lands,
Tenements, Rents, Reversions, Annuities, Hereditaments, Goods,
Chattles, Affaires, and any other Things belonging unto, or in any
wise appertaininge, touching, or concerning the said Councill and
their Successors, or concerning the said Corporation and plantation in
and by these our Letters-Patents as aforesaid founded, erected, and
established. And Wee do further by these Presents, for Us, our Heires
and Successors, grant unto the said Councill and their Successors,
that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Councill, and
their Successors for the Time being, in their discretions, from time
to time to admits such and so many Person and Persons to be made free
and enabled to trade traffick unto, within, and in New-England
aforesaid, and unto every Part and Parcell thereof, or to have,
possess, or enjoy, any Lands or Hereditaments in New-England
aforesaid, as they shall think fitt, according to the Laws, Orders,
Constitutions, and Ordinances, by the said Councill and their
Successors from time to time to be made and established by Virtue of,
and according to the true Intent of these Presents, and under such
Conditions, Reservations, and agreements as the said Councill shall
set downe, order and direct, and not otherwise. And further, of our
especiall Grace, certaine Knowlege, and mere Motion, for Us, our
Heires and Successors, Wee do by these Presents give and grant full
Power and Authority to the said Councill and their Successors, that
the said Councill for the Time being, or the greater Part of them,
shall and may, from time to time, nominate, make, constitute, ordaine,
and confirms by such Name or Names, Style or Styles, as to them shall
seeme Good; and likewise to revoke, discharge, change, and alter, as
well all and singular, Governors, Officers, and Ministers, which
hereafter-shall be by them thought fill and needful to be made or
used, as well to attend the Business of the said Company here, as for
the Government of the said Collony and Plantation, and also to make,
ordaine, and establish all Manner of Orders, Laws, Directions,
Instructions, Forms, and Ceremonies of Government and Magistracy fitt
and necessary for and concerning the Government of the said Collony
and Plantation, so always as the same be not contrary to the Laws and
Statutes of this our Realme of England, and the same att all Times
hereafter to abrogate, revoke, or change, not only within the
Precincts of the said Collony, but also upon the Seas in going and
coming to and from the said Collony, as they in their good Discretions
shall thinke to be fittest for the good of the Adenturers and
Inhabitants there. And Wee do further of our especiall Grace, certaine
Knowledge, and mere Motion, grant, declare, and ordain, that such
principall Governor, as from time to time shall be authorized and
appointed in Manner and Forme in these Presents heretofore expressed,
shall haue full Power and Authority to use and exercise marshall Laws
in Cases of Rebellion, Insurrection and Mutiny in as large and ample
Manner as our Lieutenants in our Counties within our Realme of England
have or ought to have by Force of their Commission of Lieutenancy. And
for as much as it shall be necessary for all our lovinge Subjects as
shall inhabit within the said Precincts of New-England aforesaid, to
determine to live together in the Feare and true Worship of Allmighty
God, Christian Peace, and civil Quietness, each with other, whereby
every one may with more Safety, Pleasure, and Profist, enjoye that
whereunto they shall attaine with great Pain and Perill, Wee, for Us,
our Heires and Successors, are likewise pleased and contented, and by
these Presents do give and grant unto the said Council and their
Successors, and to such Governors, Officers, and Ministers, as shall
be by the said Councill constituted and appointed according to the
Natures and Limitts of their Offices and Places respectively, that
they shall and may, from time to time for ever heerafter, within the
said Precincts of New-England, or in the Way by the Seas thither, and
from thence have full and absolute Power and Authority to correct,
punish, pardon, governe, and rule all such the Subjects of Us, our
Heires and Successors, as shall from time to time adventure themselves
in any Voyage thither, or that shall aft any Time heerafter inhabit in
the Precincts or Territories of the said Collony as aforesaid,
according to such Laws, Orders, Ordinances, Directions, and
Instructions as by the said Councill aforesaid shall be established;
and in Defect thereof, in Cases of Necessity, according to the good
Discretions of the said Governors and Officers respectively, as well
in Cases capital and criminal, as civill, both marine and others, so
allways as the said Statutes, Ordinances, and Proceedings, as near as
conveniently may be, agreeable to the Laws, Statutes, Government and
Policie of this our Realme of England. And furthermore, if any Person
or Persons,-Adventurers or Planters of the said Collony, or any other,
aft any Time or Times heereafter, shall transport any Moneys, Goods,
or Merchandizes, out of any of our Kingdoms, with a Pretence or
Purpose to land, sell, or otherwise dispose of the same within the
Limitts and Bounds of the said Collony, and yet nevertheless being att
Sea, or after he hath landed within any Part of the said Collony shall
carry the same into any other fforaigne Country with a Purpose there
to sell and dispose thereof, that then all the Goods and Chattles of
the said Person or Persons so offending and transported, together with
the Ship or Vessell wherein such Transportation was made, shall be
forfeited to Us, our Heires and Successors. And Wee do further of our
especial Grace, certaine Knowledge, and meere Motion for Us, our Heirs
and Successors for and in Respect of the Considerations aforesaid, and
for divers other good Causes and Considerations, us thereunto
especially moving, and by the Advice of the Lords and Others of our
said Privy Councill have absolutely giuen, granted, and confirmed, and
do by these Presents absolutely give, grant, and confirm unto the said
Councill, called the Counceil established att Plymouth in the County
of Devon for the planting, ruling, and governing of New-England in
America, and unto their Successors for ever, all the aforesaid Lands
and Grounds, Continent, Precinct, Place, Places and Territoryes, viz,
the aforesaid Part of America, lying, and being in Breadth from
ffourty Degrees of Northerly Latitude from the Equinoctiall Line, to
ffourty-eight Degrees of the said Northerly Latitude inclusively, and
in Length of, and within all the Breadth aforesaid, throughout the
Maine Land from Sea to Sea, together also, with the Firme Lands,
Soyles, Grounds Havens, Ports, Rivers, Waters, Fishings, Mines, and
Mineralls, as well Royall Mines of Gold and Silver, as other Mine and
Mineralls, precious Stones, Quarries, and all, and singular other
Comodities, Jurisdictions, Royalties, Priveliges, Franchises, and
Preheminences, both within the same Tract of Land upon the Maine, and
also within the said Islands and Seas adjoining: Provided always, that
the said Islands, or any of the Premises herein before mentioned, and
by these Presents intended and meant to be granted, be not actually
possessed or inhabited by any other Christian Prince or Estate, nor he
within the Bounds, Limitts, or Territoryes, of that Southern Collony
Heretofore by us granted to be planted by diverse of our loving
Subjects in the South Parts, to have and to hold, possess and enjoy,
all, and singular, the aforesaid Continent, Lands, Territoryes,
Islands, Hereditaments and Precincts, Sea Waters, Fishings, with all,
and all Manner their Commodities, Royalties, Liberties, Preheminences
and Profitts, that shall arise from thence, with all and singular.
their Appertenances, and every Part and Parcell thereof, and of them,
to and unto the said Councell and their Successors and Assignes for
ever, to the sole only and proper Use, Benefit and Behooffe of them
the said Council and their Successors and Assignes for ever, to be
holden of Us, our Heires, and Successors, as of our Manor of
East-Greenwich, in our County of Kent, in free and common Soccage and
not in in Capite, nor by Knight's Service; yielding and paying
therefore to Us, our Heires, our Successors, the fifth Part, of the
Ores of Gold and Silver, which from time to time, and aft all times
hereafter, shall happen to be found, gotten, had, and obtained, in or
within any the said Lands, Limitts, Territoryes, and Precincts, or in
or within any Part or Parcell thereof, for, or in Respect of all, and
all Manner of Dutys, Demands, and Services whatsoever, to be done,
made, or paid to Us, our Heires, and Successors. And Wee do further of
our especiall Grace, certaine Knowledge and meere Motion, for Us, and
our Heires, and Successors, give and grant to the said Councell, and
their Successors for ever by these Presents, that it shall be lawfull
and free for them and their Assignes, att all and every time and times
hereafter, out of our Realmes or Dominions whatsoever, to take, load,
carry, and transport in, and into their Voyages, and for, and towards
the said Plantation in New-England, all such and so many of our
loveing Subjects, or any other Strangers that will become our loving
Subjects, and live under our Allegiance, as shall willingly accompany
them in the said Voyages and Plantation, with Shipping, Armour,
Weapons, Ordinances, Munition, Shott, Victuals, and all Manner of
Cloathing, Implements, Furniture, Beasts, Cattle, Horses, Mares, and
all other Things necessary for the said Plantation, and for their Use
and Defence, and for Trade with the People there, and in passing and
returning to and fro, without paving or yielding, any Custom or
Subsidie either inwards or outwards, to Us, our Heires, or Successors,
for the same, for the Space of seven Years, from the Day of the Date
of these Presents, provided, that none of the said Persons be such as
shall be hereafter by special Name restrained by Us, our Heire, or
Successors. And for their further Encouragement, of our especial Grace
and Favor, Wee do by these Presents for Us, our Heires, and
Successors, yield and grant, to and with the said Councill and their
Successors, and every of them, their Factors and Assignes, that they
and every of them, shall be free and quits from all Subsidies and
Customes in NewEngland for the Space of seven Years, and from all
Taxes and Impositions for the Space of twenty and one Yeares, upon all
Goods and Merchandizes aft any time or times hereafter, either upon
Importation thither, or Exportation from thence into our Realme of
England, or into any our Dominions by the said Councill and their
Successors their Deputies, Factors, and Assignes, or any of them,
except only the five Pounds per Cent. due for Custome upon all such
Goods and Merchandizes, as shall be brot and imported into our Realme
of England, or any other of our Dominions, according to the ancient
Trade of Marchants; which five Pounds per Cent. only being paid, it
shall be thenceforth lawful and free for the said Adventurers, the
same Goods and Merchandize to export and carry out of our said
Dominions into fforraigne Parts, without any Custom, Tax, or other
Duty to be paid to Us, our Heires, or Successors, or to any other
Officers or Ministers of Us, our Heires, or Successors; provided, that
the said Goods and Merchandizes be shipped out within thirteene Months
after theire first Landing within any Part of those Dominions. And
further our Will and Pleasure is, and Wee do by these Presents charge,
comand, warrant, and authorize the said Councill, and their
Successors, or the major Part of them, which shall be present and
assembled for that Purpose, shall from time to time under their comon
Seale, distribute, convey, assigne, and sett over, such particular
Portions of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, as are by these
Presents, formerly granted unto each our loveing Subjects, naturally
borne or Denisons, or others, as well Adventurers as Planters, as by
the said Company upon a Comission of Survey and. Distribution,
executed and returned for that Purpose, shall be named, appointed, and
allowed, wherein our Will and Pleasure is, that Respect be had as well
to the Proportion of the Adventurers, as to the special Service,
Hazard, Exploit, or Meritt of any Person so to be recompensed,
advanced, or rewarded, and wee do also, for Us, our Heires, and
Successors, grant to the said Councell and their Successors and to all
and every such Governours, other Officers, or Ministers, as by the
said Councill shall be appointed to have Power and Authority of
Government and Command in and over the said Collony and Plantation,
that they and every of them, shall, and lawfully may, from time to
time, and aft all Times hereafter for ever, for their severall Defence
and Safety, encounter, expulse, repel, and resist by Force of Arms, as
well by Sea as by Land, and all Ways and Meanes whatsoever, all such
Person and Persons, as without the speciall Licence of the said
Councell and their Successors, or the greater Part of them, shall
attempt to inhabitt within the said severall Precincts and Limitts of
the said Collony and Plantation. And also all, and every such Person
or Persons whatsoever, as shall enterprise or attempt att any time
hereafter Destruction, Invasion, Detriment, or Annovance to the said
Collony and Plantation; and that it shall be lawfull for the said
Councill, and their Successors, and every of them, from Time to Time,
and att all Times heereafter, and they shall have full Power and
Authority, to take and surprize by all Ways and Means whatsoever, all
and every such Person and Persons whatsoever, with their Ships, Goods,
and other Furniture, trafficking in any Harbour, Creeke, or Place,
within the Limitts and Precintes of the said Collony and Plantations,
and not being allowed by the said Councill to be adventurers or
Planters of the said Collony. And of our further Royall Favor, Wee
have granted, and for Us, our Heires, and Successors, Wee do grant
unto the said Councill and their Successors, that the said
Territoryes, Lands, Rivers, and Places aforesaid, or any of them,
shall not be visited, frequented, or traded unto, by any other of our
Subjects, or the Subjects of Us, our Heires, or Successors, either
from any the Ports and Havens belonging or appertayning, or which
shall belong or appertayne unto Us, our Heires, or Successors, or to
any forraigne State, Prince, or Pottentate whatsoever: And therefore,
Wee do hereby for Us, our Heires, and Successors, charge, command,
prohibit and forbid all the Subjects of Us, our Heires, and
Successors, of what Degree and Quality soever, they be, that none of
them, directly, or indirectly, presume to vissitt, frequent, trade, or
adventure to traffick into, or from the said Territoryes, Lands,
Rivers, and Places aforesaid, or any of them other than the said
Councill and their Successors, Factors, Deputys, and Assignes, unless
it be with the License and Consent of the said Councill and Company
first had and obtained in Writing, under the comon Seal, upon Pain of
our Indignation and Imprisonment of their Bodys during the Pleasure of
Us, our Heires or Successors, and the Forfeiture and Loss both of
theire Ships and Goods, wheresoever they shall be found either within
any of our Kingdomes or Dominions, or any other Place or Places out of
our Dominions. And for the better effecting of our said Pleasure
heerein Wee do heereby for Us, our Heires and Successors, give and
grant full Power and Authority unto the said Councill, and their
Successors for the time being, that they by themselves, their Factors,
Deputyes, or Assignes, shall and may from time to time, and at all
times heereafter, attach, arrest, take, and seize all and all Manner
of Ship and Ships, Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes whatsoever, which
shall be bro't from or carried to the Places before mentioned, or any
of them, contrary to our Will and Pleasure, before in these Presents
expressed. The Moyety or one halfe of all which Forfeitures Wee do
hereby for Us, our Heires and Successors, give and grant unto the said
Councill, and their Successors to their own proper Use without
Accompt, and the other Moyety, or halfe Part thereof, Wee will shall
be and remaine to the Use of Us, our Heires and Successors. And we
likewise have condiscended and granted, and by these Presents, for Us,
our Heires and Successors, do condiscend, and grant to and with the
said Councill and their Successors, that Wee, our Heires or
Successors, shall not or will not give and grant any Lybertye,
License, or Authority to any Person or Persons whatsoever, to saile,
trade, or trafficke unto the aforesaid parts of New-England, without
the good Will and Likinge of the said Councill, or the greater Part of
them for the Time Hinge, let any their Courts to be assembled. And Wee
do for us, our Heires and Successors, give and grant unto the said
Councill, and their Successors, that whensoever, or so often as any
Custome or Subsidie shall growe due or payable unto Us, our Heires or
Successors, according to the Limitation and Appointment aforesaid by
Reason of any Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, to be shipped out, or any
Returne to be made of any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes, unto or from
New-England, or any the Lands Territoryes aforesaid, that then so
often, and in such Case the ffarmers, Customers, and Officers of our
Customes of England and Ireland, and every of them, for the Time
being, upon Request made unto them by the said Councill, their
Successors, Factors, or Assignes, and upon convenient Security to be
given in that Behalfe, shall give and allowe unto the said Councill
and their Successors, and to all Person and Persons free of the said
Company as aforesaid, six Months Time for the Payment of the one halfe
of all such Custome and Subsidie, as shall be due, and payable unto
Us, our Heires and Successors for the same, for which these our
Letterspattent, or the Duplicate, or the Enrolrnent thereof, shall be
Onto our said Officers a sufficient Warrant and Discharge.
Nevertheless, our Will and Pleasure is, that if any of the said Goods,
Wares, and Merchandizes, which be, or shall be, aft any Time
heereafter, ended and exported out of any of our Realmes aforesaid,
and shall be shipped with a Purpose not to be carried to New-England
aforesaid, that then such Payment, Duty, Custome, Imposition, or
Forfieture, shall be paid and belong to Us, our Heires and Successors,
for the said Goods, Wares, and Merchandices, so fraudulently sought to
be transported, as if this our Grant had not been made nor granted:
And Wee do for Us, our Heires and Successors, give and grant unto the
said Councill and theire Successors for ever, by these Presents, that
the said President of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time
being, or any two others of the said Councill, for the said Collony in
New-England, for the Time beinge, shall and may, and aft all Times
heereafter, and from time to time, have full Power and Authority, to
minister and give the Oath and Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, or
either of them, to all and every Person and Persons, which shall aft
any Time and Times heereafter, goe or pass to the said Collony in
New-England. And further, that it shall be likewise-be lawful for the
said President, or his Deputy for the Time being, or any two others of
the said Councill for the said Collony of New-England for the Time
being, from time to time, and aft all Times heerafter, to minister
such a formal Oath, as by their Discretion shall be reasonably
devised, as well unto any Person and Persons imployed or to be
imployed in, for, or touching the said Plantation, for their honest,
faithfull, and just Discharge of their Service, in all such Matters as
shall be committed unto them for the Good and Benefist of the said
Company, Collony, and Plantation, as also unto such other Person or
Persons, as the said President or his Deputy, with two others of the
said Councill, shall thinke meete for the Examination or clearing of
the Truth in any Cause whatsoever, concerning the said Plantation, or
any Business from thence proceeding, or "hereunto belonging. And to
the End that now lewd or ill-disposed Persons, Saylors, Soldiers,
Artificers, Labourers, Husbandmen, or others, which shall receive
Wages, Apparel, or other Entertainment from the said Councill, or
contract and agree with the said Councill to goe, and to serve, and to
be imployed, in the said Plantation, in the Collony in NewEngland, do
afterwards withdraw, hide, and conceale themselves, or refuse to go
thither, after they have been so entertained and agreed withall; and
that no Persons which shall be sent and imployed in the said
Plantation, of the said Collony in New-England, upon the Charge of the
said Councill, doe misbehave themselves by mutinous Seditions, or
other notorious Misdemeanors, or which shall be imployed, or sent
abroad by the Governour of New England or his Deputy, with any Shipp
or Pinnace, for Provision for the said Collony, or for some Discovery,
or other Business or Affaires concerninge the same, doe from thence
either treacherously come back againe, or returne into the Realme of
Englande by Stealth, or without Licence of the Governour of the said
Collonv in New-England for the Time being, or be sent hither as
Misdoers or Oflendors; and that none of those Persons after theire
Returne from thence, being questioned by the said Councill heere, for
such their Misdemeanors and Offences, do, by insolent and contemptuous
Carriage in the Presence of the said Councill shew little Respect and
Reverence, either to the Place or Authority in which we have placed
and appointed them and others, for the clearing of their Lewdness and
Misdemeanors committed in New-England, divulge vile and scandalous
Reports of the Country of New-England, or of the Government or Estate
of the said Plantation and Collonv, to bring the said Voyages and
Plantation into Disgrace and Contempt, by Meanes whereof, not only the
Adventurers and Planters already engaged in the said Plantation may be
exceedingly abused and hindered, and a great number of our loveing and
well-disposed Subjects, otherways well affected and inclined to joine
and adventure in so noble a Christian and worthy Action may be
discouraged from the same, but also the Enterprize itself may be
overthrowne, which cannot miscarry without some Dishonour to Us and
our Kingdome: Wee, therefore, for preventing so great and enormous
Abuses and Misdemeanors, Do, by these Presents for Us, our Heires, and
Successors, give and grant unto the said President or his Deputy, or
such other Person or Persons, as by the Orders of the said Councill
shall be appointed by Warrant under his or their Hand or Hands, to
send for, or cause to-be apprehended, all and every such Person and
Persons, who shall be noted, or accused, or found at any time or times
hereafter to offend or misbehave themselves in any the Affaires before
mentioned and expressed; and upon the Examination of any such Offender
or Offenders, and just Proofe made by Oathe taken before the said
Councill, of any such notorious Misdemeanours by them comitted as
aforesaid, and also upon any insolent, contemptuous, or irreverent
Carriage or Misbehaviour, to or against the said Councill, to be
shewed or used by any such Person or Persons so called, convened, and
appearing before them as aforesaid, that in all such Cases, our said
Councill, or any two or more of them for the Time being, shall and may
have full Power and Authority, either heere to bind them over with
good Sureties for their good Behaviour, and further therein to
proceed, to all Intents and Purposes as it is used in other like Cases
within our Realme of England, or else at their Discretions to remand
and send back the said offenders, or any of them, to the said Collony
of New-England, there to be proceeded against and punished as the
Governour's Deputy or Councill there for the Time being, shall think
meete, or otherwise according to such Laws and Ordinances as are, and
shall be, in Use there, for the well ordering and good Government of
the said Collony. And our Will and Pleasure is, and Wee do hereby
declare to all Christian Kings, Princes, and States, that if any
Person or Persons which shall hereafter be of the said Collony or
Plantation, or any other by License or Appointment of the said
Councill, or their Successors, or otherwise, shall at any time or
times heereafter, rob or spoil, by Sea or by Land, or do any Hurt,
Violence, or unlawfull Hostillity to any of the Subjects of Us, our
Heires, or Successors, or any of the Subjects of any King, Prince,
Ruler, or Governour, or State, being then in League and Amity with Us,
our Heires and Successors, and that upon such Injury, or upon just
Complaint of such Prince, Ruler, Governour, or State, or their
Subjects, Wee, our Heires, or Successors shall make open Proclamation
within any of the Ports of our Realme of England commodious for that
Purpose, that the Person or Persons having committed any such Robbery
or Spoile, shall within the Term limited by such a Proclamation, make
full Restitution or Satisfaction of all such Injuries done, so as the
said Princes or other, so complaining, may hold themselves fully
satisfied and contented. And if that the said Person or Persons having
committed such Robery or Spoile, shall not make or cause to be made
Satisfaction accordingly within such Terme so to be limited, that then
it shall be lawful for Us, our Heires, and Successors, to put the said
Person or Persons our of our Allegiance and Protection; and that it
shall be lawful and free for all Princes to prosecute with Hostillity
the said Offenders and every of them, their, and every of their
Procurers, Aidors, Abettors, and Comforters in that Behalfe. Also, Wee
do for Us, our Heires, and Successors, declare by these Presents, that
all and every the Persons, beinge our Subjects, which shall goe and
inhabitt within the said Collony and Plantation, and every of their
Children and Posterity, which shall happen to be born within the
Limitts thereof, shall have and enjoy all Liberties, and ffranchizes,
and Immunities of free Denizens and naturall Subjects within any of
our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been
abidinge and born within this our Kingdome of England, or any other
our Dominions. And lastly, because the principall Effect which we can
desire or expect of this Action, is the Conversion and Reduction of
the People in those Parts unto the true Worship of God and Christian
Religion, in which Respect, Wee would be loath that any Person should
be permitted to pass that Wee suspected to affect the Superstition of
the Chh of Rome, Wee do hereby declare that it is our Will and
Pleasure that none be permitted to pass, in any Voyage from time to
time to be made into the said Country, but such as shall first have
taken the Oathe of Supremacy; for which Purpose, Wee do by these
Presents give full Power and Authority to the President of the said
Councill, to tender and exhibit the said Oath to all such Persons as
shall at any time be sent and imployed in the said Voyage. And Wee
also for us, our Heires and Successors, do covenant and grant to and
with the Councill, and their Successors, by these Presents, that if
the Councill for the time being, and their Successors, or any of them,
shall at any time or times heereafter, upon any Doubt which they shall
conceive concerning the Strength or Validity in Law of this our
present Grant, or be desirous to have the same renewed and confirmed
by Us, our Heires and Successors, with Amendment of such Imperfections
and Defects as shall appear fitt and necessary to the said Councill,
or their Successors, to be reformed and amended on the Behalfe of Us,
our Heires and Successors, and for the furthering of the Plantation
and Government, or the Increase, continuing, and flourishing thereof,
that then, upon the humble Petition of the said Councill for the time
being, and their Successors, to us, our Heires and Successors, Wee,
our Heires and Successors, shall and will forthwith make and pass
under the Great Seall of England, to the said Councill and theire
Successors, such further and better Assurance, of all and singular the
Lands, Grounds, Royalties, Privileges, and Premisses aforesaid
granted, or intended to be granted, according to our true Intent and
Meaneing in these our Letters-patents, signified, declared, or
mentioned, as by the learned Councill of Us, our Heires, and
Successors, and of the said Company and theire Successors shall, in
that Behalfe, be reasonably devised or advised. And further our Will
and Pleasure is, that in all Questions and Doubts, that shall arise
upon any Difficulty of Instruction or Interpretation of any Thing
contained in these our Letters-pattents, the same shall be taken and
Interpreted in most ample and beneficial Manner, for the said Council
and theire Successors, and every Member thereof. And Wee do further
for Us, our Heires and Successors, charge and comand all and singular
Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Generals, Commanders, Captaines, Justices of
Peace, Majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs Constables, Customers, Comptrollers,
Waiters, Searchers, and all the Officers of Us, our Heires and
Successors, whatsoever to be from time to time, and att all times
heereafter, in all Things aiding, helping, and assisting unto the said
Councill, and their Successors, and unto every of them, upon Request
and Requests by them to be made, in all Matters and Things, for the
furtherance and Accomplishment of all or any the Matters and Things by
Us, in and by these our Letters-pattents, given, granted, and
provided, or by Us meant or intended to be given, granted, and
provided, as they our said Officers, and the Officers of Us, our
Heires and Successors, do tender our Pleasure, and will avoid the
contrary att their Perills. And Wee also do by these Presents, ratifye
and confirm unto the said Councill and their Successors, all
Priveliges, Franchises, Liberties, Immunities granted in our said
former Letters-patents, and not in these our Letters-patents revoked,
altered, changed or abridged, altho' Expressed, Mentioned, &c.
In Witness, &c. Witnes our selfe at Westminster, the Third Day of
November, in the Eighteenth Yeare of our Reign over England, &c. Par
Breve de Privato Sigillo, &c.
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, vol. III
Kingsbury, S.M., 1933 [vol. 3], Washington, Government Printing
Office, "The records of the Virginia Company of London."
p. 183-187, "[Sir Nathaniel Rich.] Rough notes in Support of the
Proceding Charges of Mismanagement of the Virginia Company." May or
June 1623.
p. 211-214, "Sir Nathaniel Rich. Notes for the Commissioners [June
(?), 1623].
"...That each Aduenturer shall haue so many of the 400 voyces as he
hath shares: wch is wthin the equitie of the patent & will preuent
making ouer of shares to others so to increase the troup of
Aduenturers when indeed one 4th pte ar scarc true but only nomine
tenus Aduenturers. And so some 14 psons will sway the Gouermt for
each man can haue but 15 shares...."
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Amendment V
Document 3
Controversy over Petition of Right
3 How. St. Tr. 59, 222--34 1628
The Petition of Right.
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Sir Dudley Diggs. I am as much grieved as ever. Must we not proceed?
Let us sit in silence, we are miserable, we know not what to do.
Hereupon there was a silence in the house for a while, which was
broken by sir Nathaniel Rich, in these words:
Sir Nathaniel Rich. We must now speak or for ever hold our peace; for
us to be silent when king and kingdom are in this calamity, is not
fit. The question is, Whether we shall secure ourselves by silence,
yea or no? I know it is more for our own security, but it is not for
the security of those for whom we serve; let us think on them: some
instruments desire a change, we fear his majesty's safety, and the
safety of the kingdom, I do not say we now see it; and shall we now
sit still and do nothing, and so be scattered? Let us go together to
the lords, and shew our dangers, that we may then go to the king
together.
Others said, that the Speech lately spoken by sir John Elliot had
given offence (as they feared) to his majesty.
Whereupon the House declared, "That every member of the house is free
from any undutiful Speech, from the beginning of the parliament to
that day;" and ordered, "That the house be turned into a Committee to
consider what is fit to be done for the safety of the kingdom; and
that no man go out upon pain of going to the Tower." But before the
Speaker left the chair, he desired leave to go forth; and the house
ordered that he may go forth, if he please. And the house was hereupon
turned into a Grand Committee: Mr. Whitby in the chair.
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Series 8: Virginia Records, 1606-1737
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Records of the Virginia Company
Table of Contents for Volume IV
Document List of
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CCLXXXII 404 [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] Rough Notes touching the Affairs of
the Virginia and Somers Islands Companies, especially the Salary.
February (?), 1622/3. 19
CCLXXXVI 411 [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] A First Rough Draft of a
Proposition concerning Tobacco. [March], 1622/3. 26
CCLXXXVII 414 [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] Notes on the Tobacco Contract.
[March], 1622/3. 29
CCXCVI 411a Sir Nathaniel Rich. "A Proposicon for the Aduancement of
His Maties Proffitt and Good of the Plantacons of Virginia and the
Sumer Ilande by Setling the Trade of Tobacco--." March 20, 1622/3. 49
CCCXIII 442 [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] Beginning of Rough Draft of a
Certificate affirming the Truth of Statements of Captain Butler.
Between April and June, 1623. 92
CCCXXVII 465 Sir Nathaniel Rich. Draft of Instructions to the
Commissioners to investigate Virginia Affairs. April 14, 1623. 116
CCCXLIX 438 [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] Rough Notes in Support of the
Preceding Charges of Mismanagement of the Virginia Company. May or
June (after May 9), 1623. 183
CCCLVI 508 [Sir Nationiel Rich.] "Note Which I Presently Took of
Captain John Bargrave's Discourse to Me Concerning Sir Edwin Sandys."
May 16, 1623. 194
CCCLVII 485 [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] Heads of Two Letters to be written
to the Virginia Company by Mr. Secretary. May (shortly before May 18),
1623. 195
CCCLX 486a [Sir Nathaniel Rich.] An Answer to the Company's Petition.
May (soon after May 24), 1623. 201
CCCLXV 516 Sir Nathaniel Rich. Notes for the Commissioners. June (?),
1623. 211
CCCLXXIV 524 Sir Nathaniel Rich. Draft of a Proposition for Resettling
the Estate of Virginia. June 23, 1623. 241
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Name: Nathaniel Rich
Birth: before 1605
Father: Richard Rich b: 1547 in England
Mother: Jane Anne Machell b: ABT. 1550 in St. Mary Aldermar, London,
England
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1
1. Nathaniel Rich. He was the son of 2. Richard Rich and
3. Jane Anne Machell.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2
2. Richard Rich was born 1547 in England. He was the son of 4. Richard
Rich and 5. Elizabeth Jenkes.
3. Jane Anne Machell was born ABT. 1550 in St. Mary Aldermar, London,
England.
Children of Jane Anne Machell and Richard Rich are:
i. Jane Rich was born 1600 in Cripplegate, London, England. She
married Thomas Grimsditch ABT. 1620 in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London,
England, son of Thomas (?) Grimsditch and Elizabeth Newce. He was born
ABT. 1600 in Cripplegate, London, England.
ii. Robert Rich was born 1575.
iii. Margery Rich was born 1577.
1. iv. Nathaniel Rich was born 1605.
v. Ann Rich was born 1603.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 3
4. Richard Rich was born 1496 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England,
and died 12 Jun 1567 in Rochford, Essex, England. He was the son of 8.
Richard Rich and 9. Joan Dingley.
5. Elizabeth Jenkes was born 1510 in London, England, and died 16 Dec
1558 in St. Bartholomew, London, England.
Child of Elizabeth Jenkes and Richard Rich is:
2. i. Richard Rich was born 1547 in England. He married Jane Anne
Machell 13 Dec 1574 in St. Mary Aldermar, London, England. She was
born ABT. 1550 in St. Mary Aldermar, London, England.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 4
8. Richard Rich was born ABT. 1470 in London, England. He was the son
of 16. Thomas Rich and 17. Elizabeth Mayne (Maine).
9. Joan Dingley was born ABT. 1472 in London, England.
Children of Joan Dingley and Richard Rich are:
4. i. Richard Rich was born 1496 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London,
England, and died 12 Jun 1567 in Rochford, Essex, England. He married
Elizabeth Jenkes ABT. 1536. She was born 1510 in London, England, and
died 16 Dec 1558 in St. Bartholomew, London, England.
ii. Robert Rich was born 1498.
iii. Hugh Rich was born 1500.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 5
16. Thomas Rich was born ABT. 1432 in London, England. He was the son
of 32. Richard Rich and 33. Catherine.
17. Elizabeth Mayne (Maine) was born ABT. 1440 in London, England.
Child of Elizabeth Mayne (Maine) and Thomas Rich is:
8. i. Richard Rich was born ABT. 1470 in London, England. He married
Joan Dingley. She was born ABT. 1472 in London, England.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 6
32. Richard Rich was born ABT. 1400 in London, England, and died 1464
in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England. He was the son of 64. Richard
Rich.
33. Catherine was born ABT. 1407 in London, England.
Children of Catherine and Richard Rich are:
i. John Rich was born ABT. 1428, and died 29 Jul 1458 in Mercer's
Chapel, London, England.
ii. Margaret (Margery) Rich was born ABT. 1430.
16. iii. Thomas Rich was born ABT. 1432 in London, England. He
married Elizabeth Mayne (Maine) ABT. 1464 in London, England. She was
born ABT. 1440 in London, England.
iv. Ann Rich was born ABT. 1434.
v. Catherine Rich was born ABT. 1440.
Another version:
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1
1. Nathaniel RICH was born ABT 1605 in
Mary,Aldermanbury,London,England>. He was the son of 2. Richard RICH
and 3. Jane (Ann) MACHELL.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2
2. Richard RICH was born 1577 in ,,England. He was the son of 4.
Richard RICH and 5. Elizabeth JENKES.
3. Jane (Ann) MACHELL was born ABT 1550 in St Mary
Aldermar,London,England. She was the daughter of 6. John MACHELL.
Children of Jane (Ann) MACHELL and Richard RICH are:
i. Robert RICH was born ABT 1575 in
Mary,Aldermanbury,London,England>.
ii. Margery RICH was born ABT 1577 in
Mary,Aldermanbury,London,England>.
1. iii. Nathaniel RICH was born ABT 1605 in
Mary,Aldermanbury,London,England>.
iv. Miss RICH was born ABT 1603 in ,,England. She married Percey
BROWNE, son of William BROWNE and Mary SAVAGE. He was born ABT 1602 in
,,England.
v. Ann RICH was born ABT 1603 in
Mary,Aldermanbury,London,England>.
vi. Jane RICH was born 1600 in St Giles Crplega,London,England.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 3
4. Richard RICH was born 1496 in St Lawrence
Jewry,London,Middlesex,England, and died 12 JUN 1567 in
of,Rochford,Essex,England. He was buried 8 JUL 1567 in
of,Felsted,Essex,England. He was the son of 8. Richard RICH and 9.
Joan DINGLEY.
5. Elizabeth JENKES was born 1510 in of,London,Middlesex,England, and
died 16 DEC 1558 in Saintbartholomew,London,Middlesex,England. She was
buried 18 DEC 1558 in of,Rochford,Essex,England. She was the daughter
of 10. William (Gynkes) JENKES (GYNKES).
Children of Elizabeth JENKES and Richard RICH are:
i. Hugh RICH was born 1539 in England.
ii. Lady Mary (Marie) RICH was born 1547 in
of,Enfield,Middlesex,England. She married Thomas WROTH 1539/1540 in
Enfield,London,England, son of Robert WROTHE and Jane HAWTE. He was
born 1516 in Durrants,Enfield,Middlesex,England, and died 9 OCT 1573
in ,,England.
iii. Robert RICH was born 1537 in England, and died 27 FEB 1581 in
Felsted.
iv. Elizabeth RICH OR RICHARD was born ABT 1530 in
London,London,England, and died 17 OCT 1591 in
Isleham,Cambridgeshire,England.
2. v. Richard RICH was born 1577 in ,,England. He married Jane (Ann)
MACHELL 13 DEC 1574 in St Mary Aldermar,London,Middlesex,England,
daughter of John MACHELL. She was born ABT 1550 in S [4]
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- [S35895] Rich,Jane:Pedigree;abstracted by Frank Young,tipcat@wam.umd.edu,19 Jan 2001, p. 22.
- [S35895] Rich,Jane:Pedigree;abstracted by Frank Young,tipcat@wam.umd.edu,19 Jan 2001, p. 21.
- [S35895] Rich,Jane:Pedigree;abstracted by Frank Young,tipcat@wam.umd.edu,19 Jan 2001, p. 24.
- [S4422] From: "Frank Young" .
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