onto any thing for the Plantations advancement, since as the whole world knowes the late Company have not only allwayes conceaved extreamly ill of them but in the yeare 1623 putt up publique accusations agaynst them, of very dangerous Consequence. As for the Colony yo' Lop" have formerly heard their like opinions. Nor cann the late Companie conceave Mr. Wrote a fitt Instrum to sett forward the business; whome they thought unworthy to bee of their Societie. Nor that those who out of pretence for New Englands good, have truly wronged Virginia should now runne right way for the behalfe thereof. Nor in sum that those who have little or no interest in the Plantation should be so sencible of it as were fitt. In wch number wee accompte S'r Nathaniell Rich; who to our knowledge hath not adventured any thinge for the good thereof but contrary wise hath been so perpetuall a hinderer and disturber of the Action, that the body of the Company, addressed a Peticon of Complainte, to the last Parliament, cravinge justice against him, for his injurious and most unworthy practices. Nor that they that meane not to adventure anythinge, will be able to persuade others to doe that weh themselves forbeare. Nor that ever they will do the adventurers of the late Companie, right, in matters of their Estates, that have so violently endeavoured to do them wrong in their Honors Reputacons, having intended as themselves wright, a Reformacon and correction of the Original court bookes of the late Companie then possessed by them, if they could have gott into their hands certayne copies of them weh Mr. Necholas Ferrar late Deputy at his owne charges caused to be transcribd.' But before there severe order came to him he had delivered his copys to the Earle of Southampton: who sent the comissioners word, that 'These copies are the identical volumes now possessed by the Library of Congress (having come to it from the library of President Jefferson) and recently put into print. he would as soone part wth the evidences of his Land, as wth the said Copies, being the evidence of his honour in that Service: So by this meanes have the Original Court bookes yet escaped purging: And wth all duety wee humbly beseech yo' Lop" that they may hereafter be protected from it: And that howsoever yo' Lop shall please for the future to dispose of the Companie, that the records of their past Actions may not be corrupted and falsified. As for their resolucions of orderinge the business, wee cannot say anythinge, because wee heare nothing, and we doubt they meane nothinge ffor all that wee heare tends only to nothing. They dislike the sending of nombers of men. They professe the reducinge of all trading to a Joynt stock or Magazine: wch courses in o' judgements tend directly to the subversion of the Plantation at least to the appropriatinge of it to themselves which to have bin the mayne end of some of them, the late Counsell and Companie for Virginia, have upon strong presumpcon bin long agoe induced to believe: and therefore have now thought themselves bound to declare it, that yo' Lop" in yo Noble wisedomes may make such due prevencon as shall be fitt: Humbly beseechinge, that this perticular examinacon of their Actions and persons, may not be interpreted to proceed from private spleene, but only from a sincere desire of the Plantations advancement. Wee doubt and feare, that we have wearied yo' Lop" wt the large relation of the proceedings of these men, wee meane the partie opposite to the late Companie and Colonie. Whereby as they have laid all kind of Disreputacion upon the Action, and made that in the estimacon of the world vilde and contemptible, wch before was held worthy, beneficiall, and honourable: so by their manifold and incessant practises, to wrong and oppress, to defame and disgrace, by unjust and unworthy aspirsions, and contumelies, (and that by word and writing over all the kingdome) the innocency of men zealous for the good of Virginia, for no other fault save only for their love of right and justice; they have bredd a great disheartninge and discouragemt of many the most forward and most constant adventurers whose industry also and labours bin of great use to the Plantation, All wch being wearied out wth their mallice and injuries and loath to spend more of their lives in so unthankfull a service, are humble suitors unto yo' Lops, that they may be spared from all farther employment in this Action. And that if these men will now at length apply themselves seriously to the busines of the Colonies both with their paynes and purses, Wch they have hitherto spared and undertake, (wch they owe to his Mate and the State) the repairinge those ruynes of the Plantation, whereof they have bin the chiefe cause and instruments: the Government thereof may, as it is, be continued in them, giving fitt securitie for so great a debt and duty. For wee protest unto yo Lops upon our truth and fidelitie that if his Maty may be served, the Colony secured and cherished, justice duly administred, mens rights and states preserved, innocent men not oppressed, and malefactors not protected and rewarded: wee shall be so farr from envying the glory of their Governement, that extinguishinge for ever the memory of all their former inguries, wee will be ready to doe them all fitt service that they shall require. INDEX at- England, 71 n.; censures Smith, 52; Argall's Gift, 338 n.; delegates from, Argall's Town, petition of the inhabit- ants of, 275-276; location, 275 n. Arrohateck Indians, 84. Arber, Edward, ed., Works of Captain Ascacap, Indian village, Smith visits, John Smith, 4, 75, 291. Archaeologia Americana, 4. Archer, Gabriel, 125, 191; wounded 41. Atlamuspincke, Indian village, 41. Atquanachuke Indians, 89, 150. Azores, Argall sails for, 211, 231; Lord | Birds, abundance of, 9, 37; kinds, 15 Delaware at, 331. Baggly, Anthony, 162, 163. Bagnall, Anthony, 147. Baldwin, rescues his wife, 360. Ballagh, History of Slavery in Virginia, Baltimore, Lord, boundary of Mary- Bargrave, Captain George, 335-336; Black River, 84 n. Blany, Edward, 426. Blount, Captain, member of the Blount Point, 412. Bohun, Laurence, physician to Dela- Booth, John, 140, 324; contribution Bargrave, Thomas, gift to the college, Bourchier, Sir Henry, 405. 351; death, 351 n. Barnes, Joseph, 76, 119. Barnes, Robert, 140. Barret, Thomas, 337. Bourchier, Sir John, 451. Bourne, James, 140, 141, 147, 162. Bartas, Guillaume du, La Création, Boys, Cheney, 378 n. 371, 371 n. Basse, Nathaniel, Indian attack upon, 361, 361 n. Boys, John, 256; elected a burgess, 250. Bathori, Sigismund, rewards Smith, Boys, Sarah, a captive among the 27. Bayley, William, 140. Beast, Benjamin, 21. Becam, see Vieques. Beckwith, William, 140. Bedle, Gabriell, 159. 170, 172, 173. Indians, 378, 378 n., 385, 385 n. Bradley, Thomas, 160. Brandon, delegates from, 250. Bread, Indian manner of making, 18. Beheathland, Robert, 126, 134, 162, Brereton, Briefe and True Relation, Belfield, Richard, 140. Bell, Henry, 160. Bentley, William, 140, 162, 188. Berkeley Hundred, first colony for, 338 n. 21 n. Brewster, William, 125; death, 20; trouble with Argall, 334, 334 n. Brookes, Edward, 126; death, 8. Berkeley, John, murdered by the Brookes, Sir John, 125; approves Indians, 363 n. Berkeley, Richard, 338 n. Bermuda City, 306 n. Smith's proposals, 375. Brown, Alexander, First Republic, 304 n., 340 n., 362 n.; Genesis of the Bermuda Hundred, 34 n., 312, 333. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, Bigge, Richard, 426. Brumfield, James, 126. |