Greenland Trade Act 1692

II. The said Persons made a Corporation by the Name of the Greenland Company.

To have a Common Seal, and capable to purchase Lands, &c. not exceeding £100 per Annum.

And for the better regaining managing and carrying on the said Trade for the public good of this Kingdome Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Sir William Scawen Henrie Bertie Robert Hookes John Skinner George Boddington Francis Gosfright Edmond Prideaux Edmond Harrison John Jurin Edward Buckley Benjamine Steele Mordecai Abbott Robert Michell John Gunston John Knapp Thomas Skinner William Broughton Robert Bristow Robert Hackshaw John Bridges James Boddington Peter Percivall Thomas Phipps Charles Michell Samuel Howard Samuel Nash Benjamine Smith Nicholas Cutler Thomas Chambers Peter Gray James Ball Thomas Kett Humphrey Simpson Richard Munford John Plumbe Richard Cook Peter Godfrey Ambrose Bray Augustine Munford Josiah Ordway Joseph Paice and Thomas Gunston and all and every other person and persons being natural borne Subjects of this Realme or persons naturalized or endenizend who shall have any share or interest in the said Joynt Stock shall be one Body Corporate and Politick in deed and in name by the name of the Company of Merchants of London tradeing to Greenland And that by the same name of the Company of Merchants of London tradeing to Greenland they shall have succession and a Common Seal and that they and their Successors by the name aforesaid shall be able and capable in Law and shall have perfect power and ability in Law to have purchase receive possesse and enjoy retaine to them and their Successors Lands Rents Tenements and Hereditaments of what kind nature or quality soever so as the same exceed not the yearely value of One hundred pounds And also to sell grant demise alien or dispose of the same and by the same name to sue and implead to be sued and impleaded answer and be answered in any Courts of Record or other places whatsoever and to do and execute all and singuler other matters and things by the name aforesaid that to them shall or may appertain to do and all other things whatsoever which any other Body Corporate or Politicke can or may lawfully doe or execute.