These charters gave the Company power to make peace and war; to conclude treaties; to appoint governors and judges; to coin money; to carry on exclusive trade betwee'n the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan; and to seize interlopers: in short, all the functions of sovereignty; the sovereignty itself being alone reserved.

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