The Charter of New England (1620)
| dc.coverage.spatial | New England [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T03:31:17Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:04:54Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:08:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1620 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Granted subjects all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens. Also granted subjects the right to take, load, carry, transport armour, weapons, ordinances, muniiton, poweder, shott, victuals,and "all other things" necessary for the use and defense of the people. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | And Wee do further of our especiall Grace, certaine Knowledge and meere Motion, for Us, and our Heires, and Successors, give and grant to the said Councell, and their Successors for ever by these Presents, that it shall be lawfull and free for them and their Assignes, att all and every time and times hereafter, out of our Realmes or Dominions whatsoever, to take, load, carry, and transport in, and into their Voyages, and for, and towards the said Plantation in New-England, all such and so many of our loveing Subjects, or any other Strangers that will become our loving Subjects, and live under our Allegiance, as shall willingly accompany them in the said Voyages and Plantation, with Shipping, Armour, Weapons, Ordinances, Munition, Shott, Victuals, and all Manner of Cloathing, Implements, Furniture, Beasts, Cattle, Horses, Mares, and all other Things necessary for the said Plantation, and for their Use and Defence, and for Trade with the People there, and in passing and returning to and fro, without paving or yielding, any Custom or Subsidie either inwards or outwards, to Us, our Heires, or Successors, for the same, for the Space of seven Years, from the Day of the Date of these Presents, provided, that none of the said Persons be such as shall be hereafter by special Name restrained by Us, our Heire, or Successors. | |
| dc.description.summary | Granted subjects all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens. Also granted subjects the right to transport armor, weapons, ordinances, munitions, powder, shot, and "all other things" necessary for the use and defense of the people. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4536 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass01.asp | |
| dc.subject | GUARANTEED RIGHT | |
| dc.title | The Charter of New England (1620) |