XCIX. Sir Edwin Sandys. A Letter to Sir Robert Naunton
January 28, 1619/20
State Papers, Domestic, James I, Vol. 112, No. 26, Folio 49
Document in Public Record Office, London. Letter Signed and Sealed with Coat of
Arms
List of Records No. 160
Right Honorable:
Being vnable to give my personall attendance vpon the Lls, I have
presumed to addresse my Suite in theis few lines vnto yor Honor. The
Citie of London have by Act of their Common Counsell, appointed one
Hundred Children out of their superfluous multitude to be transported to
Virginia; there to be bound apprentices for certaine yeares, and afterward
wth verie beneficiall condic̃ons for the Children; and have granted more-
over a levie of five hundred pound among them selfs for the apparrelling
of those Children, and toward their charges of transportac̃on. Now it
falleth out that among those Children, sundry being ill disposed, and fitter
for any remote place then for this Citie, declare their vnwillingnes to goe
to Virginia: of whom the Citie is especially desirous to be disburdened;
and in Virginia vnder severe Masters they may be brought to goodnes.
But this Citie wanting authoritie to deliver, and the Virginia Company to
transport theis persons against their wills: the burden is layd vpon me, by
humble suite vnto the Lls to procure higher authoritie for the warranting
thereof. May it please yor Honor therefore, to vouchsafe vnto vs of the
Company here, and to the whole Plantation in Virginia that noble favour,
as to be a meanes vnto their Lps out of their accustomed goodnes, and by
their higher authority to discharge both the Citie and our Company of this
difficultie, as their Lps and your Honors in yor wisedomes shall find most
expedient For whose health and prosperity our Company will alwaies
pray. And so I take humble leave: and rest
yor Honors humbly at Com̄and
Edwin Sandys
London 28 January 1619
[Addressed:] To the Right Honorable Sr Robert Naunton Knight princi-
pall Secretary to his Matie
[Indorsed]
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28 Januarie 1619 L̃re from S
r Edwin Sands desireing war-
raunt for transporting certaine Youthes into Virginia.
