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[80] McDonald has breath.
SATTURDAY, July 31.
The nexte daye, therefore, out of the opinions of the said Comitties,[81]
it was agreed, these[82] Petitions ensuing should be framed, to be
presented to the Treasurer, Counsel & Company in England. Upon the
Comitties'[83] perusall of the first booke,[84] the General[85]
Assembly doe become most humble suitours to their lo^{ps} and to the
rest of that hon^{ble} Counsell and renowned Company, that albeit
they have bene pleased[86] to allotte unto the Governo^r[87] to
themselves, together w^{th} the Counsell of Estate here, and[88] to the
officers of Incorporations, certain lande[89] portions of lande to be
layde out w^{th}in the limites of the same, yet that[90] they woulde
vouchsafe also,[91] that[92] groundes as heretofore had bene granted
by patent to the antient[93] Planters by former Governours that had
from the Company received comission[94] so to doe, might not nowe
after so muche labour and coste, and so many yeares habitation be
taken from them. And to the ende that no man might doe or suffer any

wrong in this kinde, that they woulde favour us so muche (if they
meane to graunte this our petition) as to sende us notice, what
comission or authority for graunting of landes they have given to
eache[95] particular Governour in times paste.
[81] Comittees, McDonald.
[82] those, McDonald.
[83] Comittees, McDonald.
[84] book, McDonald.
[85] Generall, McDonald.
[86] pleas'd, McDonald.
[87] Govern^r, McDonald; Gov^r, Bancroft.
[88] &, McDonald.
[89] large, McDonald.
[90] Bancroft omits "that."
[91] alsoe, Bancroft.
[92] McDonald has such and Bancroft suche after that.
[93] ancient, McDonald.
[94] Comiss^n, Bancroft.
[95] each, Bancroft.
The second petition of the General assembly framed by the
Comitties[96] out of the second book is. That the Treasurer[97] &
Company in England would be pleased w^{th} as muche convenient
speed[98] as may be to sende men hither to occupie their landes

belonging to the fower Incorporations, as well for their owne[99]
behoofe and proffitt as for the maintenance of the Counsel[100] of
Estate, who are nowe[101] to their extream hindrance often drawen far
from their private busines and likewise that they will have a care to
sende[102] tenants to the ministers of the fower Incorporations to
manure their gleab, to the intente that the allowance they have allotted
them of 200 G.[103] a yeare may the more easily be raised.
[96] Comittess, McDonald.
[97] Tresurer, McDonald.
[98] speede, McDonald.
[99] own, Bancroft.
[100] Counsell, McDonald and Bancroft.
[101] now, McDonald.
[102] send, McDonald.
[103] £200, Bancroft.
The thirde Petition humbly presented by this General Assembly to the
Treasurer, Counsell & Company is, that it may plainely be expressed in
the great Comission (as indeed it is not) that the antient Planters of both
sortes, viz., suche as before Sir Thomas Dales' depart[104] were come
hither upon their owne chardges,[105] and suche also as were brought
hither upon the Companie's coste, maye have their second, third and
more divisions successively in as lardge and free manner as any other
Planters. Also that they wilbe pleased to allowe to the male children, of
them and of all others begotten in Virginia, being the onely hope of a
posterity, a single share a piece, and shares for their issues or[106] for
themselves, because that in a newe plantation it is not knowen whether
man or woman be the more necessary.
[104] In the McDonaldcopy this was just written departure, then "ure"

crossed out with a pen, and the word made department. Bancroft has
departure.
[105] Charges, McDonald.
[106] McDonald and Bancroft both have "wives as," instead of "issues
or," the former being evidently the proper words.
Their fourth Petition is to beseech the Treasurer, Counsell & Company
that they would be pleased to appoint a Sub-Tresurer[107] here to
collecte their rents,[108] to the ende that[109] the Inhabitants of this
Colony be not tyed to an impossibility of paying the same yearly to the
Treasurer in England, and that they would enjoine the said
Sub-Treasurer not precisely according to the letter of the Charter to
exacte mony of us (whereof we have none at all, as we have no minte),
but the true value of the rente in comodity.
[107] Treasurer, McDonald. [108] rentes, McDonald, Bancroft.
[109] McDonald and Bancroft both omit that.
The fifte Petition is to beseeche the Treasurer, Counsell & Company
that, towards the erecting of the University and Colledge, they will
sende, when they shall thinke[110] it most convenient, workmen of all
sortes, fitt for that purpose.
[110] McDonald and Bancroft omit it.
The sixte and laste is, they wilbe[111] pleased to change the savage
name of Kiccowtan, and to give that Incorporation a newe name.
[111] will be, McDonald.
These are the general Petitions drawen by the Comitties out of the two
former bookes w^{ch} the whole general assembly in maner