ordered that in all Indentures of Grant of Lands to old Aduenturors being for fewer then fiftie shares of the old aduenture the immunitie of not paying Rent for the shares obtained by transporting of persons as aforesaid shall not be generall but restrained to the proportion of foure persons to euery share of the old aduenture transported before Midsomer day 1625. CXX ALL Grants of Land shall be made with equall fauours and Grants of like Liberties and Immunities as neere as may be except the differences of Rent aboue set downe to the end that all complaint of partialitie or vnindifferency may be preuented Trade CXXI IT shall be free for all his Maiesties Subiects after the determination of the present Ioynt Stocke for the Magazine to trade into Virginia with the Colonie paying the duties set down in his Maiesties Letters Patents CXXII IF any ioynt Stocke for a Magazine being requested by the Court refuse or forbeare to send Corne Cattle or Munition for the necessary reliefe and supply of the Colonie in Virginia it shall be lawfull from that day forward for any person freely to trade to and with the Colonie in Virginia carrying thither onely Cattle Corne and Munition without paying any duties to the Companie for seuen yeares next coming any former restraint to the contrarie notwithstanding CXXIII IF either in the present ioynt Stocke for the Magazine or any other hereafter to be erected the generall Companie out of their common Cash beare part as an Aduenturor they shall ratably partake like profit and vndergoe like losse with other Aduenturors And any Order made to the contrary shall be voide CXXIV DVring the time that the common Cash beareth part as an Aduenturor in any Ioynt Stocke for the Magazine the meetings of the Aduenturors shall be in the same place and on the same dayes that the Generall Courts are kept and either before the beginning or after the ending of the Court vnlesse the Court vpon extraordinary cause appoint some other time College CXXV THe Quarter Court in euery Trinitie Term shall appoint a choise Comittie of fiue or seuen to continue for that yeare to take into their care and charge the matter of the College to be erected in Virginia for the conuersion of Infidels which Comittie shall take a course for the recouering of the mony that hath beene collected for that worke And shall likewise consult how the same may be best imployed for the beginning pursuing and perfecting of the same worke And shall from time to time acquaint the generall Courts with their doings from thence to receiue approbation and direction CXXVI THe Treasuror shall keepe a seuerall Cash and account of this money to be presented to the Auditors and from them to the Court. And he shall not issue any money out of this Cash otherwise then by warrant vnder the greater part of these Comitties hands CXXVII THe Auditors shall forthwith pervse the account of this Cash and if any money haue beene issued out thereof by order of Court otherwise then for the proper end to which it was intended it shall be restord out of the common Cash of the Companie Accounts CXXVIII NO Auditors extraordinary shall presume to intermedle with the auditing of any Account wherein the body of the Companie is interressed but being appointed in the face and with the approbation of the Court. CXXIX ALL Accountants whatsoeuer and Auditors extraordinary if the Court so require shall haue an Oath ministred vnto them in the face of the Court the one for true accounting the other for true auditing CXXX NO Account shall be held cleered nor Accountants discharged till the Account being approued vnder the Auditors hands be presented to the Court And there lye openly in Court two Court dayes to be viewed by any that are so disposed CXXXI IF exception be taken to any Account whatsoeuer the Court shall proceede to a review as in like case of the Treasuror If no exception be taken in the two Court dayes or vpon the reuiew returned and the Account approued the Treasuror then or Deputie in his absence shall signe the Account in open Court wherby the Accountants shall be clearely discharged CXXXII IF any Officer or other Accountants be slowe in bringing in their Accounts to the Auditors ordinary or extraordinary Or within one moneth after their Account is perfected doe not pay to the Cash the due summe remaining vnlesse the Court see cause to giue longer time the Auditors or Treasuror shall impart the same to the Court that order be thence giuen for redresse thereof THese Orders hauing beene first framed and digested by a select Comittie and then presented to the Counseil and by them approued were afterwards publiquâ—â—y read in the Preparatory Court held on Munday the 7. of Iune 1619. And lastly were againe read distinctly and deliberately in a great and generall Quarter Court held on Wednesday the 9. of Iune 1619. where with a full general consent by erection of hands they were ratified and ordained to be the perpetuall standing Orders of the Companie of Virginia Some few additions and small alterations haue since beene made in the Quarter Courts in Easter Term and Trinitie Term 1620. FINIS
Thomas Stacey 25. Â VVilliam Sandbatch 10. Â T Sir VVilliam Twisden 37. 10 Sir VVilliam Throckmorton 50. Â Sir Nicholas Tufton 80. Â Sir Iohn Treuer 70. Â Sir Thomas Traey 37. 10 George Thorpe Esquire 25. Â Doctor William Turner 12. 10 The Trinity house 150. Â Richard Turner 37. 10 Iohn Tauerner 37. 10 Daniel Tucker 31. 5 Charles Towler 12. 10 William Tayler 12. 10 Leonard Townson 25. Â Richard Tomlins 25. Â Francis Tate Esquire 25. Â Andrew Troughton 25. Â George Tucker 12. 10 Henry Timberlake 37. 10 William Tucker 25. Â Lewis Tite 25. Â Robert Thornton 25. Â V Sir Horatio Vere 121. Â Henry Vincent 37. 10 Richard Venne 12. 10 Christopher Vertue 12. 10 Iohn Vassell 25. Â Arthur Venne 12. 10 W Henry Bishop of Worcester 13. 6.8 Francis West Esquire 25. Â Sir Raph Winwood 75. Â Sir Iohn Wentworth 12. 10 Sir William Waad 144. 10 Sir Robert Wroth 50. Â Sir Perciuall Willoby 50. Â Sir Charles Wilmott 27. 10 Sir Iohn Watts 162. 10 Sir Hugh Worrell 25. Â Sir Edward Waterhouse 25. Â Sir Thomas Wilsford 50. Â Sir Richard Williamson 25. Â Sir Iohn Wolstenholm 137. 10 Sir Thomas Watson 62. 10 Sir Thomas Wilson 37. 10 Sir Iohn Weld 37. 10 Mistris Kath. West now Lady Conway 25. Â Iohn Wroth Esquire 87. 10 Captaine Maria Winckfield Esquire 88. Â Thomas Webb 12. 10 Rice Webb 62. 10 Edward Webb 100. Â Sands Webb 12. 10 Felix Wilson 25. Â Thomas White 62. 10 Richard Wiffen 12. 10 William Williamson 50. Â Humfrey Westwood 62. 10 Hugh Willeston 12. 10 Thomas Wheatley 87. 10 William Wattey 25. Â William Webster 37. 10 Iames White 25. Â Edmund Winne 62. 10 Iohn West 50. Â Iohn Wright 25. Â Edward Wooller 50. Â Iohn Wooller 25. Â Thomas Walker 25. Â Iohn Westrow 37. 10 Edward Welch 25. Â Nathaniel Waad 25. Â Richard Wydowes 25. Â Dauid Waterhouse Esquire 37. 10 Captaine Owen Winne 50. Â Randall Wetwood 25. Â George Wilmer Esquire 25. Â Edward Wilkes 25. Â Leonard White 25. Â Andrew Willmer 25. Â Clement Willmer 25. Â George Walker 25. Â William Welby 87. 10 Francis Whistler 25. Â Thomas Welles 25. Â Captaine Thomas Winne 25. Â Iohn Whittingham 12. 10 Thomas Wheeler 12. 10 William Willet 12. 10 Deuereux Woogam 50. Â Iohn Walker 37. 10 Thomas Wood 25. Â Iohn VVillet 37. 10 Nicholas Wheeler 12. 10 Thomas Wale 75. Â William Wilston 12. 10 Iohn Waller 5. Â VVilliam VVard 37. 10 VVilliam VVilleston 25. Â Iohn VVater 12. 10 Thomas Warr Esquire 25. Â Dauid VViffen 12. 10 Garret VVeston 12. 10 Y Sir George Yeardley now Gouernour of Virginia 25. Â VVilliam Yong 12. 10 Simon Yeomons 12. 10 Z Edward Lord Zouch 60. Names of the Aduenturers with the Sums paid by order to Sir Baptist Hicks Knight A Â li. s. Sir Anthony Ashley 25. Â B Sir Iohn Benet 12. 10 Sir Edmund Bowyer 25. Â Sir Henry Beddingfield 37. 10 Edward Barnes 12. 10 Humfrey Basse 12. 10 C Sir Henry Cary 75. Â Sir Lyonell Cranfield 25. Â Sir Walter Cope 50. Â Sir Edward Carr 25. Â Sir George Coppin 20. Â Sir Iohn Cuts 75. Â Edward Carn Esquire 37. 10 Thomas Cannon Esquire 12. 10 D Â li. s. Sir Thomas Dennis 75. Â Sir Thomas Denton 37. 10 E Sir Robert Edolph 37. 10 F Richard Fishborne 12. 10 G Sir Thomas Grantham 37. 10 Sir William Garaway 16. 13.4 Thomas Gouge 25. Â H Sir Iohn Hollis now L. Houghton 25. Â Sir Perciuall Hart 37. 10 Sir Warwick Heale 25. Â Sir Baptist Hicks 50. Â Sir Iohn Hanham 25. Â Sir William Herick 12. 10 Sir George Huntley 25. Â Nicholas Hooker 12. 10 I Sir Arthur Ingram 50. L Sir Iohn Lewson 25. Â Sir Richard Louelace 25. Â Sir Samuel Leonard 25. Â Sir William Litton 37. 10 M Philip Earle of Mountgomery 120. Sir William Maynard 25. Sir George More 75. Sir Caueliero Maycott 50. P Robert Parkhurst 25. S Sir Iohn Stradling 12. 10 Sir William Smith of Hill Hall 25. Â Sir William Smith of London 25. Â Sir Nicholas Salter 12. 10 Augustine Steward Esquire 12. 10 Abraham Speckard 12. 10 T Sir William Throkmorton 25. Â Richard Tomlins 12. 10 V Sir Walter Vaughan 37. 10 W Sir Thomas Walsingham 37. 10 Sir Charles Wilmot 25. Â Sir Thomas Watson 50. Â The Names of the Aduenturers with the Sums paid to Sir Edwin Sandys Knight Treasurer of the Company for Virginia from the 28. of Aprill 1619. to the 27. of Iune 1620. Â li. s. WIlliam Lord Cauendish 50. Â Iohn Zouch Esquire 25. Â Thomas Bond Esquire 37. 10 Dauid Benet Esquire 37. 10 Iohn Cage Esquire 12. 10 Elias Roberts 12. 10 Matthew Cauell 12. 10 ORDERS AND CONSTITVTIONS Partly collected out of his Maiesties Letters Patents and partly ordained vpon mature deliberation by the TREASVROR COVNSEIL and COMPANIE of VIRGINIA for the better gouerning of the Actions and affaires of the said COMPANIE here in England residing Anno 1619. and 1620. Courts I. THERE are foure great generall Courts commonly called Quarter Courts appointed to be held by the Treasuror Counseil and Companie of Virginia vpon the foure last Wednesdayes saue one of euery Tearme which onely haue and shall haue power to choose Counseilours and Officers as well for the Companie here as also for the Colonie and Planters in Virginia to make Lawes and ordinances to distribute and dispose of the Lands in Virginia and to settle matter of Trade for the behoofe of the Companie and Colonie II. EVery Munday before a Quarter-Court shall be held a Court to prepare all kinde of businesse reserued to the power of the Quarter Court to determine III. EVery Wednesday fortnight reckoning from the great Courts shall also be held an ordinary Court for this Company for dispatch of ordinary and extraordinary businesse And it is not to be counted a perfect Court vnlesse there be fiue of the Counseil there the Treasuror or Deputie being one and fifteene of the Generality IV. IT shall be in the power of the Treasuror or the Deputie in his absence vpon extraordinary cause to call an extraordinary Court V. IT shall not be in the power of any other then a Quarter Court to make any contract whereby to binde the Company for any continuance of yeares In which case it shall be proposed also in the Preparatiue Court next preceding VI. PVblique businesse shall haue the precedence in the Courts before priuate vnlesse there be extraordinary important cause to the contrary VII IF any thing ordered in an ordinary or lesser Court be afterward reuersed in one of the great and generall Courts It shall be from thence forward as though it had neuer beene so ordered VIII ALL Courts shall begin at two of the clocke in the afternoone and dissolue at the rising of the Treasuror
or Debts that which is signed by three of the Auditors whereof one to be of the Quorum And vnderneth or vpon the backes of euery Warrant an Acquittance shall be taken for the receipt vnder the parties hand XXXVIII THe Treasuror is also to yeelde vp a true and perfect account of the generall Cash at the end of his yeare And to bring it in a fortnight before to the Auditors to be examined And at all times being requested by the Auditors to shew in what case the Cash doth stand XXXIX IF any complaint or suspition growe concerning the Account there shall be a reuiew made by twelue chosen by the Court. And the account being accepted and approued by the Court the Treasuror shall haue his Quietus est vnder the Companies Seale at the Quarter Court in Trinuie Term then next ensuing XL. THe standing wages of the Cashier shall be suspended and his reward such as that Quarter Court in Easter Term shall appoint Deputie XLI FOR matter of the Courts in the Treasurors absence the Deputie shall performe his Office and in his presence be assisting to him XLII HEe shall ouersee the Secretary for entring the Orders of Courts And shall giue instructions for the writing of Letters as he shall be directed and haue care that accordingly they be written XLIII THe Deputie shall also keepe the Courts of Comitties vpon all occasions requisite And in them shall haue a casting voyce XLIV HE shall suffer no Warrants to be made and signed for issuing out of money but in the open Court of Comitties after due examination of the cause vnto all which Warrants his owne hand shall be first set and after it other foure hands or more of the Comitties And the Deputie and Comitties shall not intermedle with disbursments for any other charges then such as arise within the compasse of their owne yeare XLV VVHere a Warrant is directed to the Treasuror to pay any grosse Summe to the Deputie to be issued out by him and the Committies for the vse of the Companie In that case it shall not be requisite that the Deputies hand be to the warrant so it be to the receipt XLVI GEnerally he shall ouersee all inferiour Officers that they performe their dueties Counseil XLVII THe names of his Maiesties Counseil for Virginia shall be publiquely read in euery Quarter-Court in Michelmas Term They requested by the Treasuror to attend the seruice and warned to take their Oathes XLVIII IF there be defect in the number or attendance of the Counseil then addition shall be made And that but onely of men of especiall worth and qualitie and such as are likely to giue attendance to that seruice They are to continue Counseilors during life vnlesse they be displaced by a great and generall Court XLIX IN regard of the present great number of the Counseil and to preserue vnto them that reputation which is fit for their place and employment None hereafter vnder the degree of a Lord or principall Magistrate shall be chosen to be of his Maiesties Counseil for Virginia but such as by diligent attendance at the Courts and seruice of Virginia for one yeare at least before haue approued their sufficiency and worth to the Companie L. SEuen of the Counseil being assembled by order without practize or purpose to exclude the rest shall be counted the Counseil LI. THe Counseil are to assemble vpon all important occasions being requested by the Treasuror or the Deputie in his absence and in defect of bothe being desired by the Court And without fauour or displeasure priuate or sinister respect to giue their faithfull aduise in all matters tending to the aduancement or benefit of the Plantation and especially touching the making of Lawes and Constitutions for the better gouerning as well of the Companie here as also of the Colonie planted in Virginia Wherein the policie and forme of England is to be followed as neere as may be LII THe Counseil shall haue an especiall regard by pious constitutions and by other good politique Lawes and Orders to hold the people there in the true religion and seruice of God and in assured allegeance to his Maiestie and the Crowne of England In due respect also to his Maiesties Counseil here and to this Company of Virginia And in Iustice Peace vniformitie and amitie amongst themselues LIII THey shall also according to the first institution and profession of this Companie aduise and deuise to the vtmost of their powers the best meanes for the reclaiming of the Barbarous Natiues and bringing them to the true worship of God ciuilitie of life and vertue LIV. ALL Instructions to the Gouernour and Counseil and all other principall Officers in Virginia shall proceede from the Counseil and vnder their hands and Seale which Seale shall be in the custodie of the Treasuror LV. IF any principall Officer of the Companie here or Magistrate great Officer or Counseilor in Virginia shall by the fame of his misdeserts or particular accusation merit to be called in question of being remoued from his place or otherwise reformed or censured He shall be first conuented and examined by the Counseil before his cause be produced in publique Court And in case of his absence the like course shall be held for his businesse Auditors LVI THe Auditors shall be seauen whereof two at the least of the Counseil and three of them of the Quorum LVII THe Auditors shall haue care of the generall accounts to examine the receipts and disbursments according to the Orders of the Companie and in all cases of difficultie or of breach of those Orders they shall acquaint the Treasuror and the generall Court therewith and from thence receiue resolution and direction LVIII THey shall also cause to be reduced into a seuerall Booke the whole receipts and disbursements of that yeare and the same vnder foure of their hands at the least whereof two to be of the Quorum shall be presented by the Treasuror at the Quarter Court in Easter Term at the giuing vp of his and their Office LIX THey shall signe no warrants for the issuing of money but onely for olde charges or debts that is to say due before that yeare of their Office And that not otherwise then after due examination of the matter had in their appointed meetings vnto which warrant shall be first set the hand of one at the least of the Quorum and then two other or more of the rest of the Auditors LX. THe Auditors shall also employ their best industry and care for the recouery of the olde debts due to the Company And their receipts shall transmit to the generall Cash LXI ANd touching the olde accounts now depending in Audite that is to say from the beginning of the Plantation till the 30. day of Nouember 1616. the Auditors shall proceede in the examining and reducing them to order and to the finall auditing of them with what expedition they well can And shall from time to time