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 those parts, to be delivered at the said castle of Windsor, every year, on Tuesday in Easter week; and also of the gold and silver ore which shall happen from time to time to be found within the aforesaid limits, so much as shall be double the amount of the fifth part of all gold and silver ore discovered in our royal province of Virginia." Morton's proprietorship was of the soil, mines, forests, waters, and the fish in them.

Morton was to have in the province religious power, "as any Bishop of Durham within the bishopric or county palatine of Durham," which was certainly extensive enough.

Morton and his heirs and successors were given power to make laws with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen of the province or their delegates or deputies, and ordinances for cases of emergency, "so, nevertheless, that the laws and ordinances aforesaid be consonant to reason, and be not repugnant or contrary to, but (so far as conveniently may be) agreeable to the laws, statutes, customs, and rights of this our kingdom of England."

Owing to the dangers which might suddenly arise in so remote a province, from savages,