CDXXXIX. Richard Quaile. Petition to the Governor and
Council
March 11, 1623/4
Manuscript Records Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 61
Document in Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
List of Records No. 649
The Humble Petition of Richard Quaile to the honoble the Gouernor with
the right Worll and Worll the Assistant in Counsell
Honorable, right Worll etc
[24] May itt please you to vnderstand, yt yor & distressed suppliant
haueing fro' yor iust Censurℯ vndergone punishment for myne offence,
haue p̢sumed vppon yor wonted goodnes to p̢sent this my humble petition,
most humbly Craueing at yor handℯ, to bee pleased to Cast an Eye of pity
vpon my pouerty, & to vouch safe to lend mee on hand to raise me vp
againe, as you haue had an hand to humble me, I beseech you let my poore
Case plead my Cause, who haue made of this place a meere plantac̃on of
sorrowes & Cropp of troblℯ, haueing been plentifull in nothing but
want & wanting nothing but plenty, It is not vnknowne, how I haue
buried my good fortunes in my servants Deaths, in long sicknℯ of my
selfe & the death of my wife, so that the pillars of my raisings are
fallen, & I Cannot expect to stand long after, besides all wch (euen wch
Compleateth the number of my Calamities, I haue so little to trust to my
future releife, that I am more indebted to others, then I Can wthout my
great hurt, and damage discharge, I beseech you therfore, honorable and
right worll to pity my estate, & not to suffer me to sincke in the dreggℯ of
extremytie, but of yor owne Clemmency & my vnfained sorrowe vouch-
saffe to pitty me, & be pleased to ease me of that heauy burthen of my
fine Imposed on me, wch I am not able to vndergoe, Let pity pleade
my pardon & my misary second it, and in tyme to come (god assisting)
my fidelity to my King, my Cuntry & you, shall giue you Cause not to
repent of yor vnderserued fauors.
Yor Humble distressed suppliant
Richard Quaile
See examinations taken 9o. September. 1623 & his sentence giuen vpon
the 11o. March 1623
