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CCIII. Governor and Councill in Virginia. Proclamation
warning Persons going aboard Ships
November 30, 1621

Manuscript Records Virginia Company, III, Part ii, Page 45a
Document in Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
List of Records No. 280

By the Governor and Counsell

Forasmuch as notwthstandinge the manifold advise and warninge hereto-
fore given to the peopell of this Cuntrie, they do yett still continue theire
disorderly goeing abaord of Shippℯ vnto the great abuse of themselues
and scandall of their neighbors, These are therefore in his Maties name
straightly to charge and Com̃and, all maner of p̱sons inhabiting or being
in this Cuntrie from and after the publication hereof, that they nor any
of them, do not p̢sume to go aboard any Shipp now ridinge in this River;
or hereafter to ariue, wthout License first obteined in writing from the
Governor, or some one of his Matℯ Counsell in Virginia.

James Cittie, November the 30th 1621