CDXLVI. Council in Virginia. A Letter to the Earl of South-
ampton and the Council and Company of Virginia
April 17, 1624
Manuscript Records Virginia Company, III, pt. i, p. 8a
Document in Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
List of Records No. 660
Right Honor̃ble &.
Since our last Letters, we haue mett in our generall Assemblie, wherin we
haue Considered of those thinges, wch may most conduce to the good of the
Plantation, and haue sent the p̱ticulars of our p̳ceedingℯ by Mr. John
Pountis, ellected by the Generall Assembly to Solicyte our Comon trust
cause wth the Kingℯ most excellnt Ma
tie and the Lords of his most Honor̃ble
Privie Counsell, wherin we doupt nott but you will express your noble
and Accustomed Zeale to this worthie Acc̃on, in yo
r countenance advise and
furtherance of ou
r affayres,
The many misinformations and wronge Conceptions of those, whose
Knowledg must depende vppon vncertaine relationes, hath induced us
and the Countrey in generall to present Virginia wth her severall Estates and
Condicions, the grounde of her evills and ways of her restauratione, Which
we hope shall vindicatte her Excellency, your Zeale, and our endevors
from malice and factione,
Wee haue little more to informe you of at this tyme, then what these
relationes and our last Letters Comprehend, only the Colony is at this
tyme in very good health god be praysed, and furnished wth store of
provisione, And a greate impyetie it was in those, whose slaunders haue
kept back such supplies of People as intended to come over,
Our Contynuall troubles haue Exhausted that Powder and shott wherwith
wee were p̳vided the last yeere by your Care, we desire a large and sudden
Supplie.
We humblie take our leaves and rest devoted to your service
Maye the 12th 1624
Aperill the 17th 1624
Francis Wyatt
George Yardley
George Sandis
John Pott
Roger Smithe
Raphe Hamer
To the right Honorbl Henry Earle of Suthampton with the Lords and others
of the Counsell of and Company of Virginia
