7. Power of punishment to extend to "life and members," with authority to exercise martial law.
8. Right to settle restricted to those having a license from the Company.
9. Rights of Englishmen guaranteed to settlers and their posterity.
10. Company to coin money (not gold or silver).
11. Repetition of the usual privileges granted in earlier charters, and a "blanket clause" promising the Company "all such Prerogatives," etc., as have ever been granted to any colonizing Company in England.
56. The Massachusetts Company's Agreement with Mr. Higginson
Alexander Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts (1846), 209 ff. Young modernized the spelling. On March 19, at a meeting of the Company, it had been decided to try to secure Higginson for the coming voyage.
A true note of the allowance that the New-England [Massachusetts Bay] Company have, by common consent and order of their Court and Council, granted unto Mr. Francis Higginson, Minister, for his maintenance in New-England, April 8, 1629.
1.—Imprimis, that 30 pounds in money shall be forthwith paid him by the Company's treasurer towards the charges of fitting himself with apparel and other necessaries for his voyage.