Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

“ And in case any of the said Patentees, their Associates, Heires and Succesosrs shall onely improve their Stock in grasing or breeding of Cattle, then the Party so doing shall at the end of the aforesaid ten yeares, Pay, or cause to be paid, to an Officer there unto deputed as aforesaid, such reasonable satisfaction in Butter or Cheese, as hee and the said Officer shall Agree unto, with the advice of the Magistrate or Magistrates of ye said place for the time being ”

“ These matters being duly considered, and all things being duly weighed, with the advice of the Eight Men chosen by the Commonalty, no better nor more suitable means can be found in the premises, than to impose some Duties on those articles from which the good inhabitants will experience least inconvenience, as the scarcity of money is sufficiently general. ”

“ Likewise to Examine upon Oath, or by way of Interrogatories, all witnesses, concerning matters depending before them, and to give the first Sentence for the deprivacōn of Life, Limbe, Stigmatizing or Burne marking of any Malefactor, if they, in their Consciences, shall adjudge them worthy, and to cause the Execution of the said sentence, if the party so condemned maketh not their Appeale to the Chiefe Court, most commonly holden weekly in the ffort Amsterdam ”

“ Giving and Graunting, And by Vertue of these Prsents, wee do give and graunt unto the said Patentees and their Associates, with their Heires and Successors full Power and Authority, upon the said Land to Build a Towne or Townes with snch necessary ffortifications as to them shall seem expedient, with Temple or Temples, and to use & Exercize the reformed Religion, which they professe, with the Ecclesiasticall Discipline there unto belonging ”