[13] Water was the only means of travel and trade. To steal a boat was equivalent to horse-stealing in a cow-boy country today. "Felony" was punishable by death.
[14] Wood was the fuel then used to smelt iron ore.
[15] This part of the appendix to the Declaration is taken from Sir Edwin Sandys' report in May, and his wording is followed here (Records, I, 353, 354). It is plain that such gifts were made because the Company had the character of a foreign missionary society.
[16] This person in his letter to the Company signs himself "Dust and Ashes," and, in a later communication, "D. & A."
[17] The entry in the Records of the Company (I, 335) speaks of this gift "for some good uses in Virginia."
In 1622, "a person not willinge as yet to be knowne" sent £25 "to helpe forward the 'East India' Schoole." I count up twelve entries of such gifts in three years' Records. In 1623 the Company reported that in the past four years there had been contributed "towards the forwardinge of this glorious Worke, ... presents to the value of fifteen hundred pounds, by zealous and devoute Persons, most of them refusing to be named."
[18] Such a promise in the preceding "great charter" is plainly referred to in the "last humble suite" of the Assembly of 1619; see p. 63 above.
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