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CCXCII. Governor in Virginia. Order to Keep the 22d of March
Holy
March 4, 1622/3

By the Governor and Capt generall of Virginia

In consideration of Gods most mercifull deliu9ance of so many in this
Cuntrie of Virginia from the treachery of the Indianℯ on the 22th day of
March last: The Gouernor wth the advice of the Counsell of State hath
thought it very fitt, that the 22th day of March both this p̢sent yeare and
for euer hereafter (in memory of that great p̢servation) be in this Cuntrie
celebrated Holy: And therefore doth straightly charg and Comand,
Capt Will͠m Tuckar, that he, and all other that are any way vndr his
charge, do keep that day holy, spending the same in prayer thanksgiveing
to God, and other holy exercises; not suffering any of them to worke, as
he will answer the contrary at his perill. Given at James Cittie the 4th
day of March 1622.

The like (mutatis mutandis) to the Comander of each Plantation.