Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudsons Bay Company | Page 2

and Company of Adventurers of England, trading
into Hudson's Bay, they shall have perpetual Succession, and that they

and their Successors, by the name of the Governor and Company of
Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, be, and at all
Times hereafter shall be, personable and capable in Law to have,
purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, Lands, Rents, Privileges,
Liberties, Jurisdictions, Franchises, and Hereditaments, of what Kind,
Nature or Quality soever they be, to them and their Successors; and
also to give, grant, demise, alien, assign and dispose Lands, Tenements
and Hereditaments, and to do and execute all and singular other Things
by the same Name that to them shall or may appertain to do. And that
they, and their Successors, by the Name of The Governor and Company
of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, may plead, and
be impleaded, answer, and be answered, defend, and be defended, in
whatsoever Courts and Places, before whatsoever Judges and Justices,
and other Persons and Officers, in all and singular Actions, Pleas, Suits,
Quarrels, Causes and Demands, whatsoever, of whatsoever Kind,
Nature or Sort, in such Manner and Form as any other. Our Liege
People of this Our Realm of England, being Persons able and capable
in Law, may, or can have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, retain, give,
grant, demise, alien, assign, dispose, plead, defend, and be defended, do,
permit, and execute. And that the said Governor and Company of
Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, and their
Successors, may have a Common Seal to serve for all the Causes and
Businesses of them and their Successors, and that it shall and may be
lawful to the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, the
same Seal, from time to time, at their Will and Pleasure, to break,
change, and to make anew, or alter, as to them shall seem expedient.
AND FURTHER WE WILL, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs
and Successors, WE DO ordain, that there shall be from henceforth one
of the same Company to be elected and appointed in such Form as
hereafter in these Presents is expressed, which shall be called The
Governor of the said Company. And that the said Governor and
Company shall or may elect Seven of their Number in such Form as
hereafter in these Presents is expressed, which shall be called The
Committee of the said Company, which Committee of Seven, or any
Three of them, together with the Governor or Deputy-Governor of the
said Company for the time being, shall have the Direction of the
Voyages of and for the said Company, and the Provision of the

Shipping and Merchandizes thereunto belonging, and also the Sale of
all Merchandizes, Goods, and other Things returned, in all or any the
Voyages or Ships of or for the said Company, and the managing and
handling of all other Business, Affairs and Things, belonging to the
said Company. AND WE WILL, ordain, and grant by these Presents
for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and
Company, and their Successors, that they the said Governor and
Company, and their Successors, shall from henceforth for ever be ruled,
ordered and governed, according to such Manner and Form as is
hereafter in these Presents expressed, and not otherwise: And that they
shall have, hold, retain, and enjoy the Grants, Liberties, Privileges,
Jurisdictions and Immunities, only hereafter in these Presents granted
and expressed, and no other. And for the better Execution of Our Will
and Grant in this Behalf, WE HAVE ASSIGNED, nominated,
constituted, and made, and by these Presents for Us, our Heirs and
Successors, WE DO ASSIGN, nominate, constitute and make, our said
Cousin, PRINCE RUPERT, to be the first and present Governor of the
said Company, and to continue in the said Office from the Date of these
Presents until the 10th November then next following, if he, the said
Prince Rupert, shall so long live, and so until a new Governor be
chosen by the said Company in Form hereafter expressed. AND ALSO
WE HAVE assigned, nominated and appointed, and by these Presents
for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO assign, nominate and
constitute, the said Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter
Colleton, James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, and John
Portman, to be the seven first and present Committees of the said
Company, from the Date of these Presents until the said 10th Day of
November then also next following, and so until new Committees shall
be chosen in Form hereafter expressed. AND FURTHER WE WILL
and grant by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the
said Governor and Company and their Successors, that it shall and may
be lawful to and for the said Governor and Company for the