FOOTNOTES:
[5] See explanation of this form on page 44.
[6] Observe that this important section of the charter is sandwiched in between two sections which ought not to have been separated.
[7] Here follow the names of 659 persons and 56 gilds. The lists would fill some ten pages. It includes 21 of the greatest lords in England, 96 knights and some 90 other country gentlemen, 53 "captains," and a number of "sadlers," "drapers," "grocers," etc., with some professional men and others not classified. Fifty of the incorporators were members of the existing parliament, and fifty more were members of Parliament at one time or another. Among the 659 incorporators were Robert Cecil (the minister of Elizabeth and of James), the Earl of Southampton (Shakspere's friend), Sir Oliver Cromwell (uncle to the great Oliver), Francis Bacon, Richard Hakluyt, George Calvert (afterward Lord Baltimore), and Sir Edwin Sandys, soon to be the great Puritan leader in Parliament.
[8] Hannis Taylor (in his English Constitution, I, 21), in a passage abounding in blunders, regards this Council as made up of Virginians and exercising local self-government. Unhappily there are other instances of the same error in standard works.
[9] England in the seventeenth century still used the "Old Style" dates, instead of the "New" or Gregorian Style. The year began March 25, instead of January 1, and all dates between these two (from January 1 to March 25) were then given in the year previous to the one in which our "New Style" puts them. Moreover, the New Style moved all dates forward ten days. Therefore March 12, 1611, as the charter was dated at the time, means to us March 22, 1612.
[10] A long report upon the state of Virginia, its geography and resources, by an Irishman in Spanish pay, is given in Brown's Genesis, I, 393-399.
[11] For more such exhortation and warning from Digby, see Brown's Genesis, 539, 588, 592-3, 787.