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CCLXXXIV. Governor of Virginia. Order or Warrant
February 14, 1622/3

By the Governor and Capt generall of Virginia.

Whereas we haue receiued Com̃and from the Right Honoble͠ the Earle of
Southampton for the sending home of three score thousand waight of
Sasafras. These are therefore to charge and Com̃and you mr Vtie that
for every fifteene you leavy on thousand waight of good Sasafras (viz) for
every man 66ld waight a peece, wch must be brought aboard the Abigaile,
before the first day of March next, on paine of every hundreth waight so
wanting, to forfeit ten poundℯ of Tobacco: the size of the Sasafras must
not exceed the bignes of a mans arme.

Given at James Cittie this 14th of February: Anno D̴ni 1622.