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copy of this manuscript is in possession of the Virginia State Library. principles enunciated in the second in the light of experience. John Moore, Esquire Griffith Hinton borne within the limitts and precincts of the said severall Colonies and ought to have by force of their comissions of lieutenancy. of England, and of all things concerning the mannaging of the affaires Thomas Wood fifty acres of land for every such person paying a free rent of twelve Genesis. for that purpose [25b] that all grants of confusion; and so you shall prepare for ornament and safety at once, for Captaine Spark [Sparks] Sir Georg Coppin, Knight gravity of those lawes under which they were borne; at your discrecion acres, we therefore, the said Treasurer and Company, do hereby again You may well allowe them three howers in a somers day and John Waller, [Esquire] And that all persons which since the going away of the said Sir summarily and verbally without writing until it come to the judgment or Item: after corne, wee comend unto your care the matter of silke or the more part of them shall sett downe and direct; and our will and by twelve honest and indifferent persons sworne upon the Evangelists, to Sonne of Sir Edwin Sandes [Sandys] and plantacions and everie of theire children which shall happen to be Henrie, Earl of Lincoln our loving and welldisposed subjects otherwise well affected and declare to all Christian kinges, princes and estates, that if anie Sir Humfrey Welde, Lord Mayor of London theire associates of the saide Seconde Colonie and plantacion, that Fairfax County, Virginia another in the place of the party soe dying or removed, soo alwaies as Majesties Counsell for that plantacion, have consulted and advised uppon two in the winter, and shall call them together by ringinge of a bell said Colonie in Virginia, there to be proceeded against and punished as Assemblie, wherein as also in the said Counsell of State, all matters Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. George Bathe, fishmonger [Bache] determine all and every the offences aforesaid within the precinct of the two and fortithe. graunted maine and sondrie priviledges and liberties to each Collonie Robert Maunsell, Baptist Hicks, Christofer Brooke. oath for the execution of their place and office of Councel as by the The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606. howers in some publique place, beinge messed by sixe or five to a messe, habitacion by the space of fiftie like Englishe miles, as is aforesaide, burroughs; we will and ordain that the Governor for the time being and other entertainment from the said Company or having contracted and And further, wee doe by theis presents ratifie and confirme unto the Series, Vol. Item: that ther be espetiall care taken both of generall and entertainment of the particular magistrates and officers and of other provided alwaies, and it is ordained, that if the said adventurers or said Treasurer, Councel and Company from the chief officer or officers William Russell, marchaunt in that behalfe to be made, shall, by lettres patents under the Greate choose out of themselves one or more Companies, each Company consisting discoverie or other buisines and affaires concerning the same, have from adventurers by their monies paid into our treasury, shall either in The text of the three charters of the Virginia Company is taken from our grants or letters patents heretofore made they are warranted or particular plantations; we also will and ordain that the like proportion William Hodges the judicial proceedings aforesaid, that the same shall be made and done Thomas Stevens have given to his Lordship to peruse and looke into but leave it to his with all the proffitt by the Governors land or tenants, onlie supplying able management to enterprises of great moment. disadvauntage he shall seeke when he must discover and fight at once Sir John Racliffe, Knight [Ratcliffe] God, and that all just, kind and charitable courses shall be holden with and aucthoritie to the Tresorer for the time beinge, and anie three of buildinge your towns you shall as easily keepe decorous and order as The General Assembly which met at Jamestown in 1619 was the natural Thomas Wells, gentleman[14] under the sealle of your commaundement and but at the instant of their every of which said great and generall Courts soe assembled our will and 98-110. Nicholas Andrewes [Andrews] and the greater number of them, shall have power and authority by these around paragraph number [22] indicate the number was missing in the singuler [soils] landes, groundes, havens, ports, rivers, waters, Sir John Watts, Knight lettres patent to the said Tresorer and Companie, and their successors, knowledge and meere motion, for us, oure heires and successors, grannte Captaine Mason Raphe Kinge [King] Captaine Owen Gwinn deputed by the said governors in Virginia (over and above such subsedie Sir Henrie Peyton, Knight Sir James Parrett, Knight tending onlie to the disturbance of peace and unitie; and that such most towardlie boyes in will and graces of nature to bee brought up by and reclayminge of people barbarous to civilitie and humanitie, we have that an edict bee speedily published that no person residing in Virginia Richard Brooke you will use with all good respecte in their places and to whome wee Sir Dudley Diggs, Knight [Digges] come and retourne to their worke without any delay and have no cause to proclamacion to be made in their name by vertue of theise present, the Mathew Shipperd, grocer [Shepherd] every or any of them shall from time to [time] be increased, altered or The First Virginia Charter 1606 Introduction Virginia received three charters, one in 1606, another in 1609, and the third in 1612. Instructions, orders and constitucions by way nature as also in all matters of civill justice, you shall finde it Anthony Dyott resolution and with the advice, consent and assent of His Majesties Pocoughtuwonough infecteth him with a terrible warr. discrecions and the direction of the Counsell of that Colonie; and that if itt should now (as by former misaccident or negligence) fall to the theire firste plantacion and habitacion for the space of fiftie like William and Mary. therefore, the said Treasurer and Company, upon a solemn treaty and whereby you may have roome to discover about you and unshady ground to Item: whereas ther hath bin severall directions given to the alreadie engaged them selves in furtheringe the businesse of the said same several Colonies shal, by the major part of them, choose one of the the ancient adventurers associating themselves together (as the Society conclude, you may in your discrecion departe and dissent from them and government by majestracy and just laws for the happy guiding and else by a convenient fine, awarding damages, or other satisfaction to Alsoe wee doe, for us, our heires and successors, declare by theise and to the Counsell of State ther beareinge date the 18 of November, for the several ministers of the said particular plantations as have saie, rather uppon the right and equitie of the thinge in demaunde then John Smithe our experience that he loved not our neighbourhood and therefore you may meere motion, for us, oure heires and successors, grannt, by theis Humfrey May voyage and plantacion; with shipping, armour, weapons, ordinannce, Companie and their successors shall attempte to inhabite within the said For Powhaton and his Weroances it is clere even to reason beside owne; and that all orders given them from hence bee exactlie putt in Sir Maurice Berkeley [Barkeley] divers his associates have undertaken to plaint thirty thousand acres of ancient quarrells (now buried) might be revived; provided, nevertheles, . best and most convenient place of the territory of James town in Colonie as is afore said, to be houlden of us, our heires and successors other parcel thereof towards a creek there called Queens Creek on the John Weld little respect and reverence, either to the place or authoritie in which mature deliberacion doe hereby order & declare that from hence whole year, unlesse he shall in the mean time dye or be removed from and hereditamentes whatsoever, from the said first seate of theire divers and sundry persons allso which have bin sent and imployed in the Thomas Jedwin [Godwin] 25. keepe good watches in the fielde and suffer none of them to come nere after ther quarterlie meeting of the Counsell of State according to the the other respectively be made with equal favours, and grants of like changed and others put in their places att the [nomi]nation of us, our and forme as the same severall Counsells there shall limitt and grannt to the said Treasurer and Companie and their successors for ever, proceeding or thereunto belonging. said plantacion of the said First Colonie in Virginia, have afterwards Knight; Sir Morrice Berkeley, Knight; Sir Edward Michelbourne, Knight; Sir Edward Conwaie, Knight [Conway] yeild and graunte to and with the said Tresorer and Companie and their masters severally for the erecting of the said works, wherby wee hoped lawful for you, the said Governor and Councel, to alot and set out furnitures, catle, horses and mares, and all other thinges necessarie Hugh Hamersley Sir Stephen Powle [Poole] of His Majesties ragne of England, Fraunce & Ireland and Scotland for ever: Now for asmuchas we are given to undestande that in these seas Thomas Levers [Lever] other three thousand acres of land be set out in the fields and And to such and so manie as they doe or shall hereafter admitt to be adventuring in the said generall lotterie or lottaries, maie be in anie John Andrewes, the younger, of Cambridge [Andrews] William Cautrell, gentleman [Cantrel] the soiles, the seasons and true maner of cultivating of itt, being given or yeilded to us, our heires or successors, for or in respecte of valuable recompence be made him for his said charges. in as ample manner and sort as we or anie our noble progenitors have use such fourmes and ensignes of governement as by our lettres pattents Subsequent charters for Virginia in 1609 and 1612 established the office of the governor; by 1619, in accord with a document called the "Great Charter" of 1618, elections were held and the first representative legislature in American history met at Jamestown. Counsell, and that it is not convenient that all the adventurers shalbe lawful for the grantees of such grants to associate to any other unto your further advise and graver proceedinge, their principall officers lotterie or lotteries to continue and be further kept, during our will scituat; and which, by our lettres patents, we maie or cann grannt and Thomas Lawson, gentleman all the governors, officers and other His Majesties subjects, aswell And this Generall Assembly shall have free power to treat, pattents in that behalfe made; and that each of the same Councels of the Sir Richard Smith, Knight thence most trecherouslie either come back againe and retorned into our as planters or adventurers in the said plantacion, and their successors that under the goverment of you, Captain Yeardly, with the advice and a self-governing people in the Western World came into existence. William Norton and certaine Itallians, now by Thomas Foxall leave or licence of the governor of such place as you shal by accident of advise sett downe, declared, propounded and delivered to the Right least of the generality of the said Companie assembled together in such cattell in each particular burrough or plantation; and that you cause kept [25] the Companies Your Lordship is to take principall order and care for the true side: Pro Consilio Secunde Colonie Virginie. lettres patent the same shalbe taken and interpreted in most ample and successors, the fifte parte onelie of all the same goulde and silver and they shall with all diligence him or them soe offending cause to be further enlargement and explanacion of the said graunte, priviledge and profitt to the plantation may arise. shall in your discretion seeme aptest for your Lordship to exercise in England, and att such one, two or three other places or ports as the 1747), in sources based upon this, or in Alexander Brown's The Leonard Harwood, mercer grants, without express licence of us, the said Treasurer and Company, divers injuries and insolences done unto him in the governement of the Colony in Virginia, and to their heires and successors for ever, all and Sir Thomas Challoner William Millett discoveries, plantacions or traffique of, in, or into anie forraine be used or refused as you shall in your wisdome thinke fitt, neither is hartilie desire you to afford them all favor possible. (as the plantation of Christopher Lawne, Gentleman, and others now in Sir Robert Killigrewe Alexander Childe [Chiles] Mr. John Rolfe; Mr. Ralfe Hamer; Mr. John Pountus; Mr. Michael Lapworth; William, Lord Paget time and times hereafter have, take and leade in the saide voyage, and contrary hereof had, made, ordained, or provided, or any other thing, expect of this action is the conversion and reduccion of the people in naturallie borne of denizens, or others, aswell adventurers as planters, instructions followinge, vizt: 1. shipping after. commodity, of which you must be very solicitouse that our fleetes come pleasure in establishinge you the Governor of that countrey and masters and pilotts and men of the best experience what way is safest successors, give and grannte unto the saide Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George wee expect your assidious care. and administracion of the said plantacion besides the legall seale of havinge therefore by our Commission under our hands and seales with, to transcribe from; and altho' they both agree in writing this order that your catle be kept in heards waited and attended on by some may bee exactlie discoverid, but also the boundaries of the severall plantations may be conveniently divided and known the one from the taken to be and shalbe brethren and free members of the Companie and said occupying of our land one full fourth part of the profits thereof John Desmont, clothier [Beomont] for the inhibiting thereof. Richarde Hackluit and Edwarde Maria Winghfeilde, and all other of the The companie of carpenters custody," according to the Deputy Keeper, Mr. D. L. Evans. Governor. You shall take principall order and care for the true and reverent chosen by the inhabitants. something." execution of the said judgment without the consent of the said President And we do hereby Henrie Robinson degrees; this place, if you seeke by Indian guides from James forte to ordain that all such persons as sithence the coming away of the said Sir Research indicates that the copyright on this book of Estate; and that the inhabitants of the said city or burrough too respectively, aswell in cases capitall and criminall as civill, both Virginia; And whereas allsoe for the greater good and benefitt of the said creek called Mapscock up to the head of the said creek called Queens thereunto, firste had and obtained. Sir Franncis Wortley, Knight signe manuel and sealed with our Privy Seale of our realme of England, Sir Thomas Mansell, Knight to be impleaded before anie of oure judges or justices, in anie oure Sir William Godolphin 14. acres of land for each of their personal adventurers to be held by them, Thomas Jerrard [Gerrard] In provided allwaies that the said iselandes or anie the premisses herein The companie of armorers mencioned and by theis presents intended and meant to be grannted be not and of Scotland the two and fiftieth. and office of Marshall uppon Sir Thomas Dale, at this cominge thither, them left and more readily given for the said Colonies; that when very at the Companies charges, and of the lands formerly conquered or lands they impaled and partly of other land within the territory of the 3. 37. of land adjoining and held in fee simple to every said tradsman, his commodities and hereditamentes whatsoever, from the saide place of obedience, shall paie or agree to paie to the handes of the Tresorer of shalbe joined unto them which doe desire to begin theire plantacions and Instructions, orders and constitucions by way happned in part by the our chargeing the Governor with toe much of anie Christian prince or people within certaine bound and regions, Historians may trace in the Royal charters issued to the pleasure is and we doe, for us, our heires and successors forever, give Sir John Acland, Knight merchant or officer belonginge to the store or provision house that must Edward Sackvill, Esquier shall arive in Virginia and give notice unto the Collonie there resident Captaine John Smith easte and northeaste or towardes the northe, as the coaste liethe, and 38. better disposinge and proceedinge in the government thereof accordinge Sir John Scot, Knight; Sir Robert Mansfield, Knight; Sir Oliver Cromwel, vigilent care & prudence may provide as well for remedy of all plantation in Virginia, and likewise of all such wares, goods and discuss the business of the Company and participate in its management. John March Sir John Graie, Knight made; or any statute, act, ordinance, provisions, proclamation, or should happen in Virginia or any the territories of America aforesaid, hereafter inhabitinge bee kept in due obedience to His Majestie and that before set down touching the Companies lands in the territory of James mistaken. The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the stated purpose of propagating the Christian religion. John Westrowe [Westrow] Raph Freeman enployd in that plantacion which being sett out wee desier to be the said voyage, and for and towards the said plantacion, and to travell Treasurer and Company and our successors, at the feast of St Michael the misinformation and not in a general and quarter court to the contrary in being in the original; but the sense carried me so clearly to it, Humfrey Westwood Sir Walter Cope, Knight sources for the study of the Colony during the first fifteen years of successors that it shalbe lawfull for the said Tresorer and Companie and Stith adds: "Robert Milmay, grocer. Thomas Shipton Thomas Canon, gentleman [Cannon] which wee by oure lettres patents maie or cann graunte; and in as ample kept there in Virginia; yet directly forbiding that a charter of land Sir Henrie Sekeford, Knight [Seekford]
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