CHAPTER XVI. THIRD YEAR OF SOUTHAMPTON'S DIRECTORSHIP CONTINUED, SEPTEMBER 5, 1622 UNTIL JUNE 25, 1623. ALSO EXTRACTS FROM THE TRANSACTIONS UNTIL JUNE 1624. ELEANOR PHILLIPS TAKES A CONVICT TO VIRGINIA. 66 EPT. 5, 1622. "M' Deputy further acquainted the Court that he had receaued a warrant signed by sundry Lords of his Ma" Priuy Councell di rected to the Treasurer and Deputy of this Companie requiringe one Dan: Francke (a malefactor repreiued) be sent to Virginia (from whence he may not returne into any of his Ma" Dominions without speaciall license obtained under six of the Counsells hands) wch Francke had consented to serue in Virginia one Elianor Phillips that nowe goes over with him, in consideracon whereof the said Phillips offers to paye for his passage if the Companie please to permitt the said Franke to goe: Whereupon the Court ordered he should be sent to Virginia accordinge to the Lord's order, and should be put aboard the Southampton, and comitted to the charge of Mr James Chester, Captaine of the said Shippe bound for Virginia to deliuer him in Virginia, according to his direc cons. Company's Letter, Oct. 7, 1622, To Governor And Council Of Virginia. "After or very hartie Comendacons: Wee had not thought to haue written unto you till wee had been inuited by your letters unto us: but the necessitie of some thinge to be pformed by you hath made us think it necessarie to remember them in an extraordinarie maner, and to reinforce by Instruccons and charge of the Counsell, by the advise and desires of us ye Company "The late calamities that haue befalne do much grieue but no whit daunt us, for we see no danger but rather aduantage to be made thereby, nor any further daunger except it be in yor feares wch would nowe be as vitious as yor former securitie and as much betray you to desctruction: for as you may see the increase of our hopes and courage in the largenes of supplies now sent by priuate men, since the publique is not able unto the continuance whereof we see such a disposition in mens minds as we cannot but think that the seeding of this blood wil be the Seed of the Plantation, for the addicon of price hath much endeared the purchase Sharp Revenge Advised. you; "And now to all the rest, we conceaue it a Sinne against the dead to abandon the enterprize, till we haue fully settled the possession for wch so many of or Brethren haue lost their liues; this is the first thing due from us and and the next is a sharp reuenge uppon the bloody miscreants euen to the measure that they intended against us, the rooting them out for beinge longer a people uppon the face of the Earth; for the effecting whereof as you haue already receaued aduise from the Counsell (wch we desire you in all points to follow) so you shall now receaue a gratious supplie from his most excellent Matic of Armes and weapons fitt and prop, for such seruice: The disposinge of them to psons and places we leaue to yor iudgments, but PLANTATION HINDERED. 349 only for vse; the proprietie must remaine to the generall Collony as the begining of a Publique Armorie, and a perpetuall testimony of his Ma" royall bountie and fauor: from wch wee hope very speedily to obtaine the meanes of restoring the Publique, rewarding the good deserts of all, especially whose worke shal be shewed in these psent difficulties, and fully to furnish the number of Tennts, which in yo's the Governor and other officers places we und'stand are wanting not only to or griefe but wonder. But both for the future and that wch is past, rest assured we shall prouide and make sattisfaccon Planting of Corn urged. "And had ere this donn in a very aduantageable maner unto you insteed of Tennts, sending you seruants, had not yor last letters disclaymed them, without such supply of corne and vittual as was impossible for vs to prouide through or pouertie, and its high price: wherefore the hundred youths wch wth 500 we had procured from the Cittie, were constrained to giue unto the Sumer Ileands Company to theire benefitt and or damage, and all through want of corne : The abundant planting and prouision whereof haueing been for these last foure yeares so continually urged from us and yett as constantly neglected and contemned, giues iust cause to doubt (and the more through the two strang proposisions wch we heare of late haue beene made of ingrossinge all and leauing all :) that there hath been in some (in whom it ought least to haue beene) an intent to hinder the encrease of the Plantation further then it might be theire own gaine and greatnesse: a horrible Cryme and treason euen against God himself, to whom this great work in or intents is principally conse |