Your Lordshipps very humble Servants,
Francis Wyatt.
Francis West.
Raphe Hamor.
Roger Smith.
Abraham Persey.
William Claybourne.
James Cittie the 6th. of Aprill, 1626.
(2) The Same to the Same, May 17, 1626.
Virginia Magazine of History, II, 50-55. An abstract is printed in the Colonial State Papers.
But the groundwork of all is, that their bee a sufficient publique stock to goe through with soe greate a worke, which wee cannot compute to bee lesse then £20,000 a yeare, certaine for some yeares; for by itt must be mainetained the governer and counsell and other officers here, the forrest wonne and stockt with cattle, fortifications raysed, a running armye mainetayned, discoveries made by Sea and land, and all other things requisitt in soe mainefould a business. And because [of the difficulty of administering such sums wisely from England], wee humbly desire that a good proporcion thereof may bee whollie att the disposall of the governer, Counsell, and generall Assembly in Virginia....
32. Royal Restoration of the Virginia Assembly, 1629
a. Harvey's Propositions Touching Virginia (without date; 1629)
Virginia Magazine of History, VII, 369.
For explanation, see American History and Government, § 34. Sir John Harvey had been appointed governor a few months before, with a commission which made no mention of an Assembly. The extract is No. 2 of the seven "propositions" submitted by him to King Charles.