[557] Remembrancia, II. 254.
[558] W. A. Bewes, Church Briefs, p. 96, 1617, quoting the Records of St Alphage, London Wall.
[559] Court Books of Bridewell, Feb. 24th, 1619. Sixteen vagrants are entered as "sent to Virginia," and entries of the same kind follow at the next meetings.
1622. Vagrants are again "kept for Virginia."
April 1635. It is ordered "that if Mr George Whitmore and the Treasurer shall think fit to send any vagrants beyond seas, what reasonable they shall consent unto shall be allowed." At the same meeting some parishioners agreed to pay for a certain inhabitant of their parish to go beyond seas.
At the meetings held later in the month on April 15th and 29th several people are destined for Virginia and others for the Barbadoes.
Other entries occur in 1639.
The names of all these vagrants are given, and the descendants of several of them occupy good positions in America. An enterprising American has endeavoured to enlighten his countrymen on the subject, but the publication of names is now forbidden as the descendants did not care to be enlightened.
[560] A declaration of the Lord of the Caribee Islands touching servants who had served their time and could not get land. King's Pamphlets, British Museum, 669 f. 11, f. 106.
[561] See above, pp. 85, 147 seq., p. 153.