Successors, so far as they concern them, and to
be inviolably observed under the Penalties therein
expressed, or to be expressed. So NEVERTHELESS,
that the Laws aforesaid be Consonant to Reason,
and be not repugnant or contrary, but (so far as
conveniently may be) agreeable to the Laws,
Statutes, Customs and rights of this Our King-
dom of England.
VIII. AND FORASMUCH as, in the Government of
so great a PROVINCE, sudden Accidents may fre-
quently happen, to which it will be necessary to
apply a Remedy, before the Freeholders of the
said PROVINCE, their Delegates, or Deputies, can
be called together for the framing of Laws; nei-
ther will it be fit that so great a number of Peo-
ple should immediately, on such emergent Occa-
sion, be called together, WE THEREFORE, for the
better Government of so great a PROVINCE, do
Will and Ordain, and by these Presents, for US,
our Heirs and Successors, do grant unto the said
now Baron of BALTIMORE, and 10 his Heirs,
that the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE,
and his Heirs, by themselves, or by their
Magistrates and Officers, thereunto duly to be
constituted as aforesaid, may, and can make and
constitute fit and wholesom Ordinances from
Time to Time, to be kept and observed within the
PROVINCE aforesaid, as well for the Conservation
of the Peace, as for the Better Government of the
People inhabiting therein, and publickly to notify
the same to all Persons whom the same in any-
wise do or may affect. Which Ordinances WE
will to be inviolably observed within the said
PROVINCE, under the Pains to be expressed in the
same. So that the said Ordinances be Consonant
to Reason, and be not repugnant nor contrary,
but (so far as conveniently may be done) agree-
able to the Laws, Statutes, or Rights of our
Kingdom of England: and so that the same
Ordinances do not, in any Sort, extend to oblige,
bind, charge, or take away the Right or Interest
of any Person or Persons, of, or in Member, Life,
Freehold, Goods or Chattels.
IX. FURTHERMORE, that the New Colony may
more happily increase by a Multitude of People
resorting thither, and at the same Time may be
more firmly secured from the Incursions of
Savages, or of other Enemies, Pirates, and
Ravagers: WE therefore, for US, our Heirs and
Successors, do by these Presents give and grant
Power, Licence and Liberty, to all the Liege-Men
and Subjects, present and future, of US, our
Heirs and Successors, except such to whom it
shall be expressly forbidden, to transport them-
selves and their Families to the said PROVINCE
with fitting Vessels, and suitable provisions, and
therein to settle, dwell, and inhabit; and to build

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and fortify Castles, Forts, and other Places of
Strength, at the Appointment of the aforesaid
now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his Heirs, for
the Public and their own Defense; the Statute of
Fugitives, or any other whatsoever to the con-
trary of the Premisses in any wise notwithstand-
ing.
X. WE will also, out of our more abundant
Grace, for US, our Heirs and Successors, do firm-
ly charge, constitute, ordain, and commend, that
the said PROVINCE be of our Allegiance; and that
all and singular the Subjects and Liege-men of
US, our Heirs and Successors, transplanted, or
hereafter to be transplanted into the PROVINCE
aforesaid, and the children of them, and of others
their Descendants, whether already born there, or
hereafter to be born, be and shall he natives and
Liege-Men of US, our Heirs and Successors, of
our Kingdom of England and Ireland; and in all
Things shall be held, treated, reputed, and
esteemed as the faithful Liege-Men of US, and
our Heirs and Successors, born within our King-
dom of England; also Lands, Tenements,
Revenues, Services, and other Hereditaments
whatsoever, within our Kingdom of England, and
other our Dominions, to inherit, or otherwise
purchase, receive, take, have, hold, buy, and pos-
sess, and the same to use and enjoy, and the
same to give, sell, alien and bequeath; and like-
wise all Privileges, Franchises and Liberties of
this our Kingdom of England, freely, quietly, and
peaceably to have and possess, and the same may
use and enjoy in the same Manner as our Liege-
Men born, or to be born within our same King-
dom of England, without Impediment, Molesta-
tion, Vexation, Impeachment, or Grievance of
US, or any of our Heirs or Successors; any Stat-
ute, Act, Ordinance, or Provisions to the contrary
thereof, notwithstanding.
XI. FURTHERMORE, That our Subjects may be in-
cited to undertake this Expedition with a ready
and chearful Mind: KNOW YE, that WE, of our
especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Mo-
tion, do, by the Tenor of these Presents, give and
grant, as well to the aforesaid Baron of
BALTIMORE, and to his Heirs, as to all other
Persons who shall from Time to Time repair to
the said Province, either for the sake of Inhabit-
ing, or of Trading with the Inhabitants of the
Province aforesaid, full License to Ship and Lade
in any the Ports of US, our Heirs and Successors,
all and singular their Goods, as well moveable as
immoveable. Wares and Merchandise, likewise
Grain of what Sort soever, and other Things
whatsoever necessary for Food and Clothing, by
the Laws and Statutes of our Kingdoms and
Dominions, not prohibited to be transported out