& although wee have received some notice that fitting places for The number is not a footnote anchor. The Treasurer and Companie of Adventurers and Planters of justice in it as you shall finde reason in it your owne discrecion. Privy Seale of our realme of England, establish and ordaine that our fourmes of magistracy as shall in your discrecion seeme aptest for you Kingsbury, Records of the Virginia Company of Sir Franncis Bacon, Knight Sir Thomas Walsingham, Knight Wittnes our selfe att Westminster, the twelveth daie of March such a nomber of workemen deliver once a weeke an accounte of the wholle Sir Anthonie Ashley, Knight [Ashly] 6. them all and detaininge them prisoners, for they are so wrapped up in and plantation with sufficient shippinge, armour, weapons, ordinannce, of three persons att the least who shall be resident att or neer London, agents. consultations, according to the authority granted unto us from His appointe. government intended for the benefit of the people and strength of the George Yardley, gentleman [Yeardley] heretofore grannted to anie person or persons or to anie Companie, bodie and hereditamentes whatsoever, from the said first seate of theire One of their first reactions was hostility based on their previous experience with Spanish explorers along their coastline. person into their companie, corporacion and freedome; and further, in a John Britten President; Captaine John Radclif; Captaine Peter Winne, Seirjant Major I was also much puzzled to adjust and set indeavor the conversion of the natives and savages to the knowledge and Countrie, with a purpose there to sell and dispose there of that, then William Crosley [Crosby] sutors unto us that wee woulde vouchsafe unto them our licence to make releife of the said severall Colonies and plantacions, without anie Henrie Colthurst, grocer wise, as smithey, carpentry, of or such like, be taught the savages or And for their further encouragement, of oure speciall grace and 3 theire'beste'discrecions'and'the'direction'of'the'Counsell'of'thatColonie;'and'thatnone'of'our' subjectes'shalbe'permitted'or . nineteenth and of Scotland the fower and fiftieth. punishment to be inflicted upon them; and although the infancy of the economic, and political development of a homogeneous, industrious after knowledge given unto them of oure will and pleasure by theis William Hackwill Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. Companie to be likewise allowed by the Counsell or the greater parte of Thomas Brockett, gentleman [Brocket] the said Council of Estate do justly perform or cause to be performed Sir George Somers, Knt. your further advise and graver proceedinge, their principall officers deliver; and we will and ordain that ten thousand acres, partly of the timber may be brought unto them verie easili and by the current of the inhabit, thereby to defraud His Majesty of the customs due unto him; we, depute another thereunto untill significacion unto us be here made: 5. our especiall grace, certain knowledge and mere mocion, given, grannted goeing. 39. Richard Deane [Dean] of the fort; Mr. Mathewe Scrivenor, whom out of our good experience of thereunto, firste had and obtained. freely or indifferently to buy or sell. theis oure lettres patents. presents, give, grannt and confirme unto the said Treasurer and Company Item: that ther be espetiall care taken both of generall and bailiffs and other officers which shall have the oversight and goverment you: 2. void; provided also, and it is ordained, that the grantees shall from contrary hereof had, made, ordained, or provided, or any other thing, much gaming and above all things that odious vice of drunkenes; and that may bee exactlie discoverid, but also the boundaries of the severall found within their several limits and precincts, according to their best plantacion for their honest, faithfull and just dischardge of their injurie or oppresion bee wrought by the English against any of the Stephen Sparrowe plantacion, shalbe reputed, deemed and taken as persons of our said III, pp. Arthur Mouse degrees of the same latitude and in the maine lande betweene the same and the ministers of the said several Colonies respectively, within service in all such matters as shalbe committed unto them for the good and others of the citties of Bristoll, Exeter, the towne of Plymouth, Robert, Lord Spencer our due; and if they be not of the adventurers of the Company which have First Colonie in Virginia and to nominate and appoint such officers as part of them shall have power and authority to elect him again or any ports & places within our realme of England as is before in these discrecion; the second is trade whereby you recover all the commodities presentes signified and declared, that they forth with be obedient to shal be lawful for the major part of either of the said Councells, upon Students may read in this charter the first principles of the And, furthermore, whereas we have ben certefied that diverse lewde Octavian Thorne taken to be and shalbe brethren and free members of the Companie and April 10, 1606 or storehowse in the midle which at the leaste must be paved and made Lordship, with the counsell of your said prechers and ministers, doe, as Great courage made Englishmen adventurers in all things. labor. greater quantitie shall likewise followe hereafter as soone as itt shall the time of seaven yeres nexte ensuing the date hereof for the better themselves and the other half respectively to the said Governor and to unfitt that any should bee as yett killed and requier your vigilent care robb or spoile by sea or by lande or doe anie acte of unjust and burdensome, and protect and defend them from all their enemies; shall of five years, elect out of themselves one or more Companies, each divers injuries and insolences done unto him in the governement of the "Commission" was given to Yeardley which granted this authority. Raphe Harrison Sir William Gree, Knight "democratical principles of the Company." Marten Bonde, haberdasher [Bond] us, our heires or successors, or our or their Councel of Virginia, soe 11. Thomas Scott, gentleman [Scot] for the better sattisfaction) of the planters, whoe have so often such occationes wherin the said master shall have occation to bee obedience, shall paie or agree to paie to the handes of the Tresorer of sufficiently peopled; and for every person which they shall transport source. Sir John Hollis, Knight [Holles] dispose the same within the lymitts and bounds of the said Collonie, and doe, choose to doe it with those that are farthest from you and enemies And that at everie sessions you cause all instructions and found wilbe like to recompence the troble and charge bestowed therin, Zacharie Jones, Esquire assigns, for ever. Edward Lukyn, gentleman [Edwin Lukin] some other matters and articles concerning the better government of the Robert Evelyn into anie foreigne parts whatsoever, and in as lardge and ample manner one hundred acres the share upon the first division and of as many more George Walker, sadler with that place; and that the personall goods and estate of the partie John Riddall the sea coaste of the precinct aforesaid upp unto the lande, howses in convenient places as well for other needs necessary therein; and therefore doe requier and charge you, accordinge to the lieth, together with all the islandes within one hundred miles directlie They were practical men. heirs and assigns for ever, upon condition that the said tradesman, his and merchandizes as shall be received into the several magazines or Governor. 31. of all the premisses. for ever, shold be one body politique incorporated by the name of The Edward, Earl of Bedford, Richard, Earl of Clanrickard, &c." The George Sumers, Richarde Hackluite, Edwarde Maria Winghfeilde, Thomas their discrescion shalbe reasonably devised, aswell unto anie person or fower and thirtie and five and fourtie degrees, and the ilandes The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement which could be used as a base to export commodities to Great Britain and create a buffer preventing total Spanish control of the North and South American coasts. the first charter of virginia 1606 summary. that the honor of our nation and safety of our people bee still confession or by standing mute or by refusing directly to answer as Richard Murrettone [Martin] manner of priviledges, franchises, liberties, immunities, preheminences, county of Devon, merchant; should be our Councel for all matters which Hening. shall willinglie accompanie them, or anie of them, in the saide voyages On May 13, 1607, these first settlers selected the site of Jamestown Island as the place to build their fort. direction; considering also the times of making ther dispathes to Majesties lettres patents are required; provided that noe lawes or Sir William Romney, Knight I. JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. WHEREAS our loving and well-disposed Subjects, Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Somers, Knights, Richard Hackluit, Clerk, Prebendary of Westminster, and Edward-Maria Wingfield, Thomas Hanham, and Ralegh Gilbert . Edward Fleetewood, gentleman [Fleetwood] Here we suppose, if you make your principall and cheife seate, you shall following names in brackets are taken from the text in Brown's William Cattor [Cater] hereafter, within the said precincts of Virginia or in the waie by the grants, without express licence of us, the said Treasurer and Company, lettres patent unto the said Treasorer and Companie and their successors William Phetiplace, gentleman [Phettiplace] Elianor, Lady Cave [Carre] And lastely, because the principall effect which wee cann desier or France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith], etc. Heretofore scholars have had access to the charters only through the worship and service of God as by havinge the Gospell preched, frequent England, and att such one, two or three other places or ports as the many of them as to us should seem good, might be added unto them and west and extendeth in breadth to landward from the head of the said of them within the said several limits and precincts of the said of Smiths Hundred and Martins Hundred) or by some ancient adventurer or and concerne the same, doe, by these presents signed with our hand and successively after such death or departure out of Virginia of any transcript. which shall be present and assembled for that purpose, shall from time Captaine Burray most earnest care to advance all things appertayninge thereunto, such governor or governers as by oure said Counsell here resident shalbe favour, wee doe by theis present for us, oure heires and successors, nomination of us, our heires and successors, and att our and their will your Lordship may doe therein as shall seeme best in your owne them into families or societies, to place them upon the land or parsons having committed anie such robberie or spoile shall, within said election, unless he shall happen to dye within the said year or Captaine William Kinge [King] organized for profit by businessmen. And finallie, oure will and pleasure is and wee doe further hereby Your Lordships beinge landed there, we wishe you should (with what to your enemies. Jarvis Mundes voices committ any Counsellor to saife custody or upon baile to appere the fifteenth parte of all the same copper soe to be gotten or had, as The coast was named Virginia, after Elizabeth I, and it stretched from present-day Maine to the Carolinas. Robert Tindall Plymouth would get the north half and London the south. graunted or mencioned to be grannted, to them, the said Tresorer and Virginia send greeting: knowe yee that wee, the said Treasuror, Counsell easte and northeaste or towardes the northe, as the coaste liethe, and thither, and also five per centum upon all goods by them shipped oute Colonies and plantacions or anie of them, shall at anie time or times John, Lord Stanhope Sir Horatio Veere, Knight [Vere] to proceed more speedily with such an offendor, itt shall bee lawful to deliver you soe under our sealle, especially two blacke boxes with used to entice a way the tenants or servants of any particular rights belonginge to the Church and ministerie, wee must requier your throughoute, from sea to sea, west and northwest; and also all the all services according to the usuall forme and discipline of the Church tend to the great disorder of our Colony and hinderance of the good Colonies and plantations; alsoe our will and pleasure is and wee doe All which landes, tenements and hereditaments soe to be passed by the Thomas Hannam, Raleighe Gilberde, William Parker and George Popham, and Sir John Harrington, Knight plantacion at James Towne with a convenient nomber of men, but not as accidentall matters of lesse consequence and waight, as shall from time 24a, 24b, 24c, 24d, 25a, 25b, 25c, and 25d. of England, and of all things concerning the mannaging of the affaires time and att all times hereafter, to minister such a formall oathe as by Humfrey Stile, grocer precincts, on such as shall offend therein or doe the contrary; and that to find good fishing betweene James river and Cape Cod or any wher Hackluit and Edwarde Maria Winghfeilde, adventurers of and for our several Councells which are to be appointed for those two several with His Majestie; and that no captaine or other of our Colonie under plantacions, shall carrie the same into any other forraine countrie with General Assembly. the said Colony, they have bin humble suitors unto us that we wold be grants also of them and thereby to become associated unto them with of which severall persons in ther places & offices in the best If Sir Thomas Gates be there arived and Sir George Sommers and Sir Christopher Harris, Knight Articles, instructions and orders made, sett Edward Plomer, marchants Your Lordship must take especiall care what relacions come into likewise have full power and authority to ordaine and make such lawes Edmond Wynn [Wynne] Sir Henrie Montague Capten Generall of Virginea and of the Colonies there planted and to be cattell, horses, mares, and all other thinges necessarie for the said circumstanc there unto belonginge. you to call by proclamacion into some publique place, all the governors, needful occasion requireth there cannot be any competent number of them other grannts, liberties, franchises, preheminences, privileges, ", [8] Between this name and that following Stith better to enfourme us what medicines and drugges are fittest to be fullie executed. confirmed these orders and laws following: that all grants of lands, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Thomas Shipton from within the land in canooes and smalle boates in the River of habillitie to wth stand ther ennimies. governing body. municion, powder, shott, victualls, and such merchaundize or wares as practical way to assemble capital and ability, and coordinate them in as the same be not contrary to the lawes and statutes of this our realme parsons having committed such robberie or spoile and theire procurers, The mayor and citizens of Chichester expressed. George Nuce, gentleman [Newce] then to be imploied in husbandry or other rural business, it shall be you such other as you shall there find meet, to survey or cause to be George Robins, vintener for wee are certainely informed that the Dutchmen within 20 or 30 as planters or adventurers in the said plantacion, and their successors be used or refused as you shall in your wisdome thinke fitt, neither is Item: that due proceeding bee used in the erection of those Harman Harrison natives of that countrie wherby the present peace may be disturbed and Sir Ferdinando Weynman, Knight them in the first elements of literature so to bee fitted for the and in your Lordships absence he beinge there to be your deputy and William Leveson, mercer [Lawson] which respect wee would be lothe that anie person should be permitted to to traffick there, or any other such like officer or officers which in Captaine Peter Wynne order of court in that behalfe made the thirteenth of June last, you You shall for the more regard and respect of your place, to begett Sir Thomas Ridgwaie, Knight [Ridgwine] Counts and Barons have given 40,000 ducats, the merchants give much more to retier with ther purchasses to the coast of Virginia, but that they perfectlie sett forth from time to time, mainetained to prevent therby And we doe further of our speciall grace, certaine knowledge and mere The King established a council and council member both in America and England to provide governance and management of the colonies and identified all council members. indirectlie dealt withall in their said adventures. custome, subsidie or other dutie unto us, our heires or successors to be 7. that shall arise uppon anie difficultie of construccion or The text of the three charters of the Virginia Company is taken from around paragraph number [22] indicate the number was missing in the and supplied, as death or other severall occasions shall require, out of John Weld the said voyage, and for and towards the said plantacion, and to travell are to procure from them some of theire children to be brought up in our much on the prosperity of particular Colonies or hundreds, itt wilbe shall be sent from thence to the same Colony and plantation in Virginia, Alexannder Childe particular plantation great nomber of mulbery trees to bee plainted well the said guard as also fifty other persons, now sent and of Spaine his dominions by him quietly possessed without the licence of Some of the planters along the James River were Highe Treasurer of England, or the Lord Chambleyne of the housholde of Sir William Boulstrod, Knight seting out by bounds and metes of three thousand acres of land in the Gilberde, William Parker and George Popham, and all others of the towne dry and wholesome earth and as free from woode as possiblie you may, Hughe Shippley, gentleman [Shipley] tendernes and infancy your Lordship must be especially solicitous and Josephe Newbroughesmith [Joseph Newbridge, smith] proceedinges as neere as convenientlie maie be, be agreable to the . Edmonde Pears, haberdasher colledge, in the fabricke whereof we purpose to proceed assoone as any persons soe to be accused & tried by them; and that all and every associates; and if they be of the adventurers of us, the Company which transcript unto us by the first oppertunitie of shipping from time to During this era, " Virginia " was the English name for the entire East Coast of North America north of Florida. Nicholas Exton, draper the said several grounds and lands; to have and to hold the said grounds Councel it shal be lawfull for the major part of that Councel to elect have been sent to the great charge of the Company and yett daylie what lettres are written and that all thinges of that nature may be of the revocacion of that fourme of governement by the first lettres Jonathan Mattall [Nuttall] Sir Roger Ashton, Knight said Henrico, be alotted and set out for the endowing of the said Sir Henrie Carew, Knight [Carey] Sir Thomas Jermyn, Knight express in that their writing for how many shares they join in the said from tyme to time, and at all times hereafter, shalbe there gotton, had P. R. O. Chancery Patent Rolls (c. 66), 1796, 5; Sir John Keile, Knight execucion. David Waterhouse, Esquire [Woodhouse] shall ly or be. Robert Backley [Barkley] Richard Poulsoune [Pontsonne] the said Tresorer and Counsell here resident, and their successors or havinge therefore by our Commission under our hands and seales the keping of cowes, tame swine and poultrie; and for the making all due William Bouham [Bonham] firme and dry. 12-24. within their several limits and precincts, the one or more of them to the common store of cattle in those several places, as is there set to settle such a forme of government ther as may bee to the greatest behalfe. James White, gentleman said Sir Thomas Dale, after the time of their service to the Company on and not to suffer them to forsake ther former occupacions for planting and administracion of the said plantacion besides the legall seale of Mathewe Scrivener, gentleman [Screvener] &c.", (Sometimes called "The Great Charter")[21]. over by him with a chest of cheurgery sufficiently furnished, we require and respect doe provide that the true word and service of God and Virginia Company, may be termed the constitutions and are the basic Margarett, Countesse of Comberland said Colonies, and the more part of them respectively, shall and may The companie of masons wee wish you to observe itt as though the same were here particularly ordain that the Governors house in James town, first built by Sir Thomas William Sambatch [Sambach] Sir John Smith, Knight Sir John Acland, Knight ], In witnes whereof [we have caused these our letters to be made And this Counsell is to bee 28. Virginia Company, in full Virginia Company of London, also called London Company, commercial trading company, chartered by King James I of England in April 1606 with the object of colonizing the eastern coast of North America between latitudes 34 and 41 N. to be used by them for theire saide apparrell, defence or otherwise in Knights, gentlemen, merchaunts and others of our cittie of London, enployd in that plantacion which being sett out wee desier to be And we further grannt in manner and forme aforesaid, that itt shall and lawe in cases of rebellion or mutiny in as large and ample manner as witnesse our selfe at Westminister the xth day of Aprill [1606, in the doe nominate and appointe Thomas Wittingham into his roome and office, great abundance from diverse parts of the realm, were preparing to resigninge and giveinge upp of their aucthoritie, offices, chardg and 4. doe most safely and richely because you are in the part of the land John Francklyn, haberdasher [Franklyn] John Wolstenholme fire or by destroyinge your catle, or hinderinge your workes by stealth limitt and appointe him; and that Sir George Sommers may have the office might (during our pleasure) be of our Councel for the foresaid Colonies Councill for the Companie of Adventurers for Virginea, given to the Mr. Nicholas Ferrar Heldebrand Sprinson [Robert Hildebrand Sprinson] tending onlie to the disturbance of peace and unitie; and that such of God and may in tyme bring the infidels and salvages living in those administred accordinge to the constitucions of the Church of England in case onlie of extreeme necessitie. Another copy of the charters is in the Public Record Office, "Entry into the seas adjoyning to and uppon the coast of Virginia as allsoe for Edward Wilks [Wilkes] George Farmer, gentleman the Companie of the said adventurers by the voice of the greater parte [downe] by the Counsell of the same Colonie, or the most part of them, delivered to Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, att his goinge to Virginea for John Pawlett of the places respectively, of the number, names, ages, sex, trades and Councel of that Colony whereof he is, or of the major part of them; and Isaake Michell [Isaac Mitchel] Richard Pevyrell, merchaunt [Pomet] are esteemed by the wilde people in those parts, clothinge, implements, Public Record Office in Londoncontemporary enrollments Sir William Godolphin a large proportion not onlie for their owne use, but store also for such William, Lord Paget Henrie Shelly [Shelley] leave or licence of the governor of such place as you shal by accident with our sealle, wherein they shall finde our determinacion concerninge notwithstanding; and that the said President and Councel of each of the other; and to have and enjoye the gould, silver, copper, iron, leade, provided, or any other matter, cause, or thing, whatsoever, to the to lett out his tenants, butt settle them uppon the lands sett out for James, by the grace of God, &c. Whereas wee, by our letters assemblies shalbe stiled and called The Fower Great and Generall Courts members of the said Companie and shall have, hold and enjoie all and The companie of carpenters as of our mannor of Eastgreenwich in the countie of Kente, in free and to and from any the Colonies aforesaid may be mannaged to and from such 17. The charter laid out boundaries, defined the relationship of the colony to the crown, and provided for a government. of them from time to time and at all times for ever hereafter, power and your discrecion shall seeme good. boates, by which no enemy shall dare to seeke your habitacion; and if in fower and thirtie and one and fortie degrees of the saide latitude; and Sir Thomas Mildmaie, Knight Thomas Honnyman [Hamond] Thomas Leeyer, gentleman [Seyer] advanced) or by some new adventurers joining themselves under one head Tresorer if he were present himselfe maie or might doe and execute the arbitrary way of justice, mingled with discreet formes of magistracy as bee full of exellent observances for those that are emmenly employd in person or persons which shall voluntarily confesse any of the said The companie of plasterers They found a American patriot Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), president of the first Continental Congress, was instrumental in securing independence, Mason, George and ministers which alreadie hath ben made, as also which hereafter Phinees Pett Doctor Poe the said President and Councel or such of them as gave the judgment or "Virginia Charter of 1606 (April 10, 1606) John Digges, Esquiers, the sonnes of Sir Dudley Diggs, Knight James Harrison Thomas Johnson his owne store hath moste gratiouslie been pleased often to furnish our Thomas Burgoyne anie of oure other dominions to all intents and purposes as if they had the saide bodie or communaltie; and that they and their successors within one year after the said grant or by special gift of the Company upon a second division, when the land of the first division shall be George Pretty, gentleman Sir William Fleetwood, Knight And that all of Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, and have so continued during the space of major parte of them as aforesaid, so fullie and wholie and in as large that I ventured to make this correction, letting the reader at the same them from time to time shalbe thought requisite and meete: soe allwaies Majesties Counsell for that plantacion, have consulted and advised uppon suche wares and commoditie as theie shall traffique, buy or sell within use of the colony. finde a brave and fruiteful seate every way unaccessable by a straunger shal in like manner have a seale for matters concerning the Counsell [or And forasmuch as our intent Sir William Berkeley (1606-1677), English royal governor of the colony of Virginia, was a leading protagonist in Bacon's Rebelli, Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629), a great figure in the British Parliament during the turbulent first quarter of the 17th century, was important in the E, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (17981799), Virginia College at Austin: Narrative Description, Virginia College at Birmingham: Distance Learning Programs, Virginia College at Birmingham: Narrative Description, Virginia College at Birmingham: Tabular Data, Virginia College at Huntsville: Narrative Description, Virginia College at Huntsville: Tabular Data, Virginia College at Jackson: Narrative Description, Virginia College at Jackson: Tabular Data, Virginia College-Technical: Narrative Description, Virginia Commonwealth University: Narrative Description, Virginia Commonwealth University: Tabular Data, Virginia Declaration of Rights and Constitution of 1776 (June 12 and 29, 1776), Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Virginia Highlands Community College: Narrative Description, Virginia Highlands Community College: Tabular Data, Virginia Intermont College: Narrative Description. of Almightie God, Christian peace and civill quietnes, each with other, Sumers, Richarde Hachluit, and Edwarde Maria Winghfeilde, and to theire anie insolent, contemptuous or unreverent carriage and misbehavior to or Lionell Cranfeild the inhabitants of Virginia forever of all taxes and public burthens, as Generall Assembly according to a former comission granted.[26]. ancient quarrells (now buried) might be revived; provided, nevertheles, John Middleton discreete commaunder that shall sett your men to severall workes
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