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LIV. Sir William Throckmorton and Others. A Letter to Sir
George Yeardley
February 18, 1618/19

To our honorable frend Sr George Yardley knight governour of Virginia
geve this.

Sr we hold it fit to let you knowe, That since your dep̱ture from England,
we have procured our patent for plantac̃on in Virginia (a copy whereof
we herewth send vnto you written by the virginian boy of mee George
Thorpe) wherin accordinge to your agreement with mee George Thorpe,
your name is vsed for five shares, done by the advise of Sr Edwine Sands,
but if you please to cast more of your shares amongst vs (wch we also wish)
we shall willingly assent theirvnto.

We had also sent our men and ship at this tyme, but that it hath pleased
god to keep her wind bound in Ireland since before your dep̱ture to this
p̢sent, where yet shee remayneth: By wch onely accident we have lost this
season, but doe entend (god willinge) that shee shall leave the coast of
England, by the first of August next wth fifty men furnished for that
cuntry. And doe earnestly desire before that tyme (if possible) to vnder-
stand from you what proportion of victuall and munition will bee fit to
send wth them.

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Of wch ship and company we hereby offer you a full fift p̱te if it soe please
you to accept thereof, And doe entreat your effectuall furtherance in choyce
of the place where wee shall sit downe, and all other favors whereof you
will bee pleased to make vs your frends p̱takers, wch we in England shall
be most willinge to requite.

If of this our offer you accept Then are you to send by the returne of this
ship soe much good marchantable comodyties as doth amount to a fifth
p̱te, An accompt of the charge whereof we will send you by the ship.

Even soe wth our frendly respects we rest