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the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c. by our Letters Patents, bearing Date the Twenty Fourth Day of March, in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign, We are graciouly pleaed to grant upon out right trutly and right well-beloved Couin and Counellor Edward Earl of Clarendon, our High Chancellor of England, our right truty and entirely beloved Couin and Counellor George Duke of Albemarle, Mater of our Hore; our right truty and well beloved Counellor John Lord Berkeley; our right truty and well-beloved Counellor Anthony Lord Ahley, Chancellor of our Exchequer; our right truty and well-beloved Counellor Sir George Carteret, Knight and Baronet, Vice-Chancellor of our Houhold; our right truty and well-beloved Sir John Colleton, Knight and Baronet; and Sir William Berkeley, Knight; all that Province, Territory, or Tract of Ground, called Carolina, ituate, lying and being within our Dominions of America; extending from the North End of the Iland called Luke-Iland, which lyeth in the Southern Virginia Seas, and within Thirty Six Degrees of North Lattitude; and to the Wet, as far as the South-Seas; and o repectively as far as the River of Matthias, which bordereth upon the Coat of Florida, and within Thirty One Degrees of Northern Lattitude; and o Weſt, in a direct Line, as far as the South-Seas aforeaid.

Know ye, That We, at the humble Requet of the aid Grantees, in the aforeaid Letters Patents named, and as a further Mark of our epecial Favour to them, we are graciouly pleaed to enlarge our aid Grant unto them, according to the Bounds and Limits hereafter pecified, and in Favour of the pious and noble Purpoe of the aid Edward Earl of Clarendon, George Duke of Albemarle, William Earl of