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sake of Inhabiting, 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 Merchan-
dize, 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 of the said Kingdoms; and the same to
transport, by themselves, or their Servants or Assigns, into
the said PROVINCE without the Impediment or Molestation of
US, our Heirs or Successors, of any officers of US, our Heirs
or Successors (Saving unto US, our Heirs and Successors, the
Impositions, Subsidies, Customs, and other Dues payable for
the same Goods and Merchandizes), any Statute, Act, Ordi-
nance or other Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwith-
standing.
XII. BUT BECAUSE, that in so remote a Region, placed
among so many babarous Nations, the Incursions, as well of
the Barbarians themselves, as of other Enemies, Pirates and
Ravagers, probably will be feared, THEREFORE WE have
Given, and for US, our Heirs and Successors, do Give by
these Presents, as full and unrestrained Power as any Cap-
tain-General of an Army ever hath had, unto the aforesaid
now Baron of BALTIMORE, and to his Heirs and Assigns,
by themselves or by their Captains or other Officers, to sum-
mon to their Standards, or to array all Men, of whatsoever
Condition, or wheresoever born for the Time being, in the
said Province of MARYLAND, to wage War, and to pursue,
even beyond the Limits of their Province, the Enemies and
Ravagers aforesaid, infesting those Parts by Land and by
Sea, and (if GOD shall grant it) to vanquish and captivate
them, and the Captives to put to Death, or, according to their
Discretion, to save, and to do all other and singular the
Things which appertain, or have been accustomed to apper-
tain unto the Authority and Office of a Captain-General of an
Army.
XIII. We also WILL, and by this (our CHARTER, do Give
unto the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, and to his
Heirs and Assigns, Power, Liberty and Authority, that, in
Case of Rebellion, sudden Tumult or Sedition, if any (which
GOD forbid) should happen to arise, whether upon Land
within the PROVINCE aforesaid, or upon the High Sea in mak-
ing a Voyage to the said PROVINCE of MARYLAND, or in re-
turning thence, they may, by themselves, or by their Captains,
or other Officers, thereunto deputed under their Seals (to
whom WE, for US, our Heirs and Successors, by these Pres-
ents, do Give and Grant the fullest Power and Authority)
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