For Gentlemen, and others vndertakers: what I
_shall bee obliged to performe vnto them_.
Item, for the helpes, and furtherances of so generous, and well-disposed
vndertakers as shall willinglie vnder-goe the hazard, and imbrace the
enterpryse: I shall performe the particulars in everie point vnto them,
as followeth,
1. For their passages: everie vnder-taker shall bee transported,
himselfe, his wife, children, & servants, his whole houshold
stuffe, and their provision of victualles for their
intertainment, such as meale, malt, beefe, &c. and such as they
shall please to provide to sustaine them for a whole yeere:
Together with as much cornes, as they shall bee able to sowe
vpon their Lands, the first yeere: and that all, and together
passage free, into mine Shippes, from _Scotland_ vnto the said
countrie of _New Galloway_.
2. Beeing thither by _GODS_ mercifull assistance, and providence
transported, to bee established and placed in the Land: each man
according to his qualitie, as followeth: The landed Gentleman
vndertaker, shall haue his Landes granted vnto him in fee, and
heritage to himselfe, and his successours for ever, to bee
holden of mee, my heires, and successoures in _New Galloway_, in
manner as they holde their Lands in _Scotland_ of our Soveraigne
Lord, the King his Majestie, either by feaw, wairde, or blansh,
and shall grant the same vnto them in quantitie, according to
everie one of their qualities and meanes. And for tennants, and
farmorers, their landes shall bee granted vnto them in Lace,
everie one of them to have three Life-rents, and a nyneteene
yeere Tacke thereafter, conforme to their power, and meanes, and
performance of the conditions of the rent after mentioned.
3. And further more that their helpes, and furtherances maye haue a
competent time to establishe them-selves in their estates, and
that their meanes may the better increase: each vndertaker of
the plantation of _New Galloway_ shall bee free from the payment
of any duetie for his Landes, for all and whole the space of the
first three yeeres.
4. For their assurance of a securitie, and peaceable quietnesse in
the possession of their Landes in _New Galloway_, whereof they
bee vndertakers: I shall finde sufficient caution, and suretie
vnto each one of them within the Shyre where hee dwelleth in
_Scotland_, that whatsoever his goods or geare thither
transported, and placed vpon the ground of the saids Landes,
shall bee taken from him by violence, of the natives, or
forraine Nations, that the double thereof shall bee payed and
refounded againe vnto him in _Scotland_, or to his heires,
executours, or assignayes.
5. And for artisanes and craftes-men, such as Taylors, Shoe-makers,
Smyths, Wrights, Websters, Wakers, Millers, &c. their passages
shall bee made free vnto them without the payment of anie
fraught; and likewise the rents of their lands shall bee free
vnto them, induring their owne lifetimes: and for their
successours, they shall bee kept in the case, and estate of
tenants and farmorers, and shall haue their Laces of their Lands
granted vnto them, as is set downe in the Article for Tennants.