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content in the point of planting tobacco 

 there for the present, (their necessity 

 considered) is not disallowed : but we 

 trust in God, other means will be found 

 to employ their time more comfortable 

 and profitable also in the end : and we 

 cannot but generally approve and com- 

 mend their good resolution to desist 

 from the planting thereof, when as they 

 shall discern how to employ their labors 

 otherwise : which we hope they will 

 be speedily induced unto, by such pre- 

 cepts and examples as we shall give 

 them." 



Again during the same year, in the 

 Company's first general letter of instruc- 

 tions to Kndicott and his Council, the 

 following words are found. " And as 

 touching the old planters, their earnest 

 desire for the present to continue the 

 planting of tobacco, (a trade by this 

 whole Company generally disavowed, 

 and utterly disclaimed by some of the 

 greatest adventurests amongst us, who 

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