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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 and forme above[112] sett downe doe most humbly offer up and present[113] to the honourable construction of the Treasurer, Counsell and Company in England.
[112] sette, Bancroft.
[113] presente, McDonald and Bancroft.
These petitions thus concluded on, those twoe Comitties broughte me[114] a reporte what they had observed in the two latter bookes, w^{ch} was nothing else but that the perfection of them was suche as that[115] they could finde nothing therein subject to exception, only the Governo^{rs}[116] particular opinion to my selfe in private hathe bene as touching a clause in the thirde booke, that in these doubtfull times between us and the Indians, it would beehoove[117] us not to make as[118] lardge distances between Plantation and Plantation as ten miles, but for our more strength ande security to drawe nearer together.
[114] In, McDonald, Bancroft.
[115] McDonald and Bancroft omit that.
[116] Govn^{rs}, McDonald; Gov^{rs}, Bancroft.
[117] Behoove, McDonald, Bancroft.
[118] So, McDonald, Bancroft.
At the same time, there remaining no[119] farther scruple in the mindes of the Assembly touching the said great Charter of lawes, orders and priviledges, the Speaker putt the same to the question, and so it had both the general assent and the applause of the whole assembly, who, as they professed themselves in the first place most submissively thankfull to almighty god, therefore so they commaunded the Speaker to returne (as nowe he doth) their due and humble thankes