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LXXV. Sir William Throckmorton, Richard Berkeley, et al.
"Ordinances direcc̃ons and Instructions to Captaine John
Woodlefe"
September 4, 1619

Smyth of Nibley Papers, Smyth, 10, also 3 (6), pp. 61—63
Document in the New York Public Library
List of Records No. 126

Ordinances direcc̃ons and Instructions to Captaine John Woodleefe for
the gouerment of or men and servantℯ in the Towne and hundered of
Bearkley in Virginia giuen by vs Sr Wilɫm Throkm9ton knight and bar-
ronet Richard Bearkley Esq̢ George Thorpe esq̢ and John Smyth gent
wherevnto our comission of the date hereof made to the said captaine
Woodleefe hath reference, the fourth day of September 1619 Anno xvijo
Jac̃. regis Anglĩ &c

    1

  • Impr̃ wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place assigned
    for plantac̃on in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perputualy keept
    holy as a day of thanksgiuing to Almighty god.


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    2

  • I wee doe ordaine that the lordℯ day be keept in holy and religious
    order and that all bodily labour and vaine sportℯ and scandolous recre-
    ations be refrained, and that morning and evening prayer (according to
    the english booke of common prayer) be Dayly read and attended vnto
    and such other divine exercisses of preaching and reading to be on the
    said day vsed, as it shall please god to enable the minister for the tyme
    there being to p̱forme. And that all such other festivalls and holidayes
    be observed and keept wch are authorised and appoynted by the lawes
    and statutes of this realme of England, And the rites and ceremonies
    authorized p̢scribed or apoynted by the ecclesiasticall lawes or channons
    of this realme of England and booke of com̄on prayer (established by
    authority) be in all things observed and keept, according as it is vsed in
    the church of England.

  • 3

  • I wee doe ordayne and direct, that you our gouernor and all our people
    and servants assemble togeather once a day to prayer, imediatly after the
    forenoone labour ended and before dinner. And that the p̱son then absent
    (you our gouernor and yor assistants hereafter named exepted) shalbe
    punished with the losse of his supp9 the same evening vnles the minister
    or yor selfe allowe of his excuse or cause of his absence

  • 4

  • I wee will and require that vpon yor arrivall in the kings river in Vir-
    ginia or in any branch thereof that you take es especiall care for choice of
    the place where you first sett downe and entend for yor settled habitac̃on,
    (be it one this side or beyond James [* * * * *] towne) that the same
    be healthy for ayre and accomodate wth fresh water and easy for accesse
    vnto wth shipe pinnace or barge rich alsoe in mould and [* *] soyle and
    of most likelyhoode to bring fourth the best commodities of that cuntry
    either already knowne or by vs hoped for, And iron oare silke grasse
    mulbery trees for norishing of silke wormes, apt for vines, english wheat,
    maize and other virginia corne and for rice, Aniseeds flax [oade] oyle seede
    and the like, rich alsoe in meadow and pasture for cattell and in timber
    for shiping and other vses, and alsoe convenient and vsefull for fowle fish
    and the like, And that you reso[* *]lue not on the place wthout the
    advice of yor assistants hereafter named and the assent of the greater
    number of them, Wherein allsoe wee will you to p̳ceede wth the advice of
    Sr George Yardley gouernor of that kingdome, deliuering our ɫers written


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    vnto him in that behalfe, provided that you settle not but where the
    natiues, (if any be or clayme) are first avoyded by composic̃on

  • 5

  • I wee doe ordayne and direct that imediatly after the place of habi-
    tac̃on is agreed vppon in manner aforesaid, that you cause forthwth to be
    erected houses fit for the present shelter and succor of our people wch as
    wee suppose, may be for the better expedic̃on built homelike and to be
    couered wth bordes; of wch we commend to yor especiall care the framing
    of twoo, where of the one for the safe keeping of the tooles implementℯ
    of husbandry powder, shott, Armor, and victuall, wch wee wish may be
    be strongly planted on the inside: And the other for your assemblies at
    time of prayer and time of diet, and our further direction is, That if the
    ship shall disburden for lading before the said storehouses for receipt
    thereof cane be built, That then the same be vnladen into the com̄on
    warehouse in James Towne, or the Bermuday granary by the gouernors
    order and therevnto first obtayned.

  • 6

  • I wee doe ordaine that wth all convenient expedic̃on, you cause to be
    inclosed 400 acres (or more) wth a stronge pale of seaven foote and halfe
    highe whereby such corne grayne seedℯ vines Tobacco, and the like as
    shalbe sowen or planted and such cattle as shalbe transported by vs or
    provided in Virginia, will be more safely preserved.

  • 7

  • I wee doe nominate and com̄end vnto you as yor assistantℯ for yor
    better exection of the authority by vs on you conferred, fferdinando yeat,
    John Blanchard Richard Godfry Rowland Panter and Thomas Coppy, of
    whose seu9all integrities and discretions wee hauing made sufficient triall
    doe therefore ordaine, that in all businesses of import of what kind soever,
    you take theire advise, and the assent of the greatest p̱te of them fiue:
    And that they diet wth and as yor selfe, at one and the same table togeather
    And that alsoe all the rest doe diet togeather, and to be equaly p̳vided
    for as nere as may be:

  • 8

  • I we doe ordaine, that there shalbe an ordinary Corps dewe gard each
    night in our towne of Bearkley, to consist at the first of fiue, to succeede
    in torne as the company will afford and afterwards as yor number shall
    encrease whereof one to be of the number of those seaven that shall be
    deputie and called, captaines of the watche.


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    9

  • I for the more decent and comley gouerment and ordering of our
    famyly wee substitute and appoynt, fferdinando yeat to be ancient, and
    Rowland Paynter Sergeant of the company, And John Blanchard to be
    steward of the houshold and clarke of the store of apparrell and beding
    And the said Rowland Paynter to be clarke of the kitchin, wth wth two or
    more (as Caters or cuntry Purvires) to be associated vnto him, And Henry
    Perce to be vsher of the hall and Thomas Partridg now abiding in Vir-
    ginia (if he ioyne vnto to be balyffe of our husbandries, if not, then
    whone you and yor assistantℯ shall thinke meete, and the said fferdinando
    yeat to take care of our Armor and of all our tooles of husbandry.

  • 10

  • I wee doe ordayne that if it shall soe please god that Mr Woodleefe
    dye before the Arivall of Mr Chester, That then the gouerment of our
    families and of our affayres shall remaine wth and vnder those Assistantℯ
    and the survivers of them that wee haue before associated vnto Mr Wood-
    leefe and if it shall please god that either Mr Woodleefe or Mr Chester
    shall die after both of them are arrived in Virginia, That then the gouer-
    ment of both famylies shall remaine wth and vnder the surviver of them
    ayded wth the assistantℯ of bothe families.

[Indorsed:] Copy of Instructions geven to Captayne Woodleefe. 4. Sept.
1619. 17. Jac.