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A short collection of the most remarkable passages from the originall to the dissolution of the Virgina company
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Woodnoth, Arthur, 1590?-1650?
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1651
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Wing W3243; ESTC R8866
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and other American Plantations in expectation to be added therâuntoâ from the ampliâude of a lââeâ Patânâ fâr comprâhending a âumbâr of othâr Islands as well as the Bermudas within the limitation of the Virginia Plantation And now it was advertised from the E. of Somerset the then Favourite and Favourâr of the Englâsh râghts that he understood by confident intelligence that the Spaniards hâd a design about a certain time of thaâ yeer to attâmpt the seizing of that ââland because it was wholly unprovidâd of powder and ammunition apprâhended as at this time wiâhout viâible possibility of present suppliesâ But it plâasâd God through the neâlective way of Sir Tho. Smith the goveânmânt of the Island was disposed into the hands of one Mâre who upon sight of two Spanish Vessells of good burden approaching towaâds the chiâf Castle at the entrance of the Port got powder and shot for the charging only of two peeces of Artillery which levelled and discharged neer at once upon those ships The Commander thinking himself betrayâd because he was assured hee should find no manner of ammunition weighs anchor and seâs sail away from thenceâ as the first return of shipping ârom the âârmudas made clâer unto the Company c. This happy escape aggravating the omission or corruption of Sir Tho. Smith seemed to revive and give a new vigour âo the Partners in this Plantation and there being nothing of more speâdy advantage on the place for return to the owners and adventurers then the planting and transporting of Tobacco whilst it might be imported as from Virginia for 5 percentâ for their custome great store thereof was made and preparing when upon some tender of a large rânt for the sole sale of Tobacco an order of the Councell Bord did impose paymânt of the highest custome as to thirty or forty in the hundred upon the Bermudas Tobacco proportionably with all other notwithstanding the ââemption within their Paâânt which with other things much intrânching upon the âightâ and priviledges of the Adventurers gave occasion of a through consultation of the Earls Lords Gentlâmen and âârâhantâ concerned and in conclusion caused an addresse of themsâlveâ personally desiring audience of K. Iames which being attained and prosecutâd by the society oâ the Earlâs of Pembrooke Southamptân and othârs the Lord Cavendish being appointed to expresse the nature of complaint and appeale to the King his Lordship had no sooner eââred into the matter but that his Majâsty began to shew much discontent and with much adoe was drawn to any patience which gave much disâouragemânt in the case and prevented the declaring of the most just cause of importunity appointed to my Lord Cavendish when Sir Iohn Danâers fell on his knee and besought the King to hear him as the first time hee ever had the honour to speak unto his Majesty in a serious businesse and having leave he stoutly inculcated that point of justice which could not be denyed at which the King flang away in greater passion insomuch that the Prince who is now King drew Sir I. Danvers aside as in favor to him desiring he would urge the King no furâher and undertâok to speak with Sir I. Danvers and accordingly to move the King at some other time which was unperformed though more then once desired by Sir I. Danvers According to which course or vogue of State some Lords and others though Members of the same Company tâok up speciouâly the corrupt interest of those that had been formerly âonstituted and imployed in places aâfairs oâ trust belonging to these Plantaâions as some of the former Governours sent in time of Sir Thomas Smiths Government either to Virginia or the Bermudas c. who bâing concurrently obnoxious in point of Account were as firmly supported by him and his friends with the Spanniolized âaction of the Councell Bord and the Kingâ Bed-chamber Which proceedings excited the better and more consâant faithfull party to the more carefull and laborious peâseverance when the prospering of the undertaking towards so great an addition of Dominion was from time to timâ interrupted as about this time by Quaeres to the number oâ two or three and thirty from the Councell Bord by the Kings speciall appointmentâ pretending great care that such numbers oâ his subjectâ gone to the Plantations might bee circumstantially providâd âor in their laws freedomes c. These Quaeres sent on the Saâuâday were to bee satisâied the Tuesday followingâ at sitting of the Councell in the afternoon The Loâd Caâeâdâshâ Sir âdwin Sandysâ Sir Iâhn Danvers and Mr. Niâhâlaâ Farrar meeâing by appointment of the Company with power to cânâider and present what they should âind pertinent therein âound a hard âaâke to answer so many particulars in so sââât time Yet âinding that the truths câuchâd or exemâliââed in the âeiger-books of the Company would sâtiâââe the Qâaeres and objâctiâns thereupon Mr. Farrar desired the buâineâââând sâârch might be divided into 4 partsâ wherein hee would take that of greatest labour which waâ concluded bâ the other thrâe and accordingly brought togeâher the Tueâdây morningâ and presented to the Counââll Bord in the âfternoon and gave the Lordâ a most unexpected satisfaction as was confessed When by way of congratulation it was proposed that now there was so great numbers and Trade like to follow in that Plantation some care might be taken for their safety by special fortifications an account thereof made to the King Whereupon it was ordered at the Bord that William Earl of Pembrooke Southampton and other Lords of the Councell and Company for Virginia should make enquiry and acquaint his Majesty of what was and would be done in that point for preservation of the lives of his subjects against enemies either Natives of Virginia or others since hee had vowed that if he had not satisfaction therein he would think himself bound to take the whole government and the appointing of Governours into his own hands Which occasioned the calling together of a Councell for Virginia of all that were neer who as they cleerly saw the desperate malignity of the Secret-Court-Spanish party so often appearing in persecution of this Plantation so had they a great apprehension the King could not be easily satisfied since the Companies treasure was exhausted and there was little hopes of more contribution or Adventurers whilst they lay under such discouragement Sir Iohn Danvers remembring some notion of hope and looking over the books of Letters from Virginia hee observed that throughout the year past there was never lesse then 17 saile of shipping in Iames River the heart of the Plantation inferring that if the Kings fairer complyance should keep the Company in the same encouragement the strength of so many floting Forts in that flat scituation would be equivalent to if not exceeding any possible speedy fortification which the E. of Pembrooke c. conceived fully sufficient to satisfie the King if he had not an inveterate