328 A. D. 1624. 



The king renewed his prohibition of the manufadure of gold and 

 filver thread, gold and filver foliate (leaf), purtes, oes fpangles, &c. as 

 tending to the confumption of the coin and bullion of this king- 

 do-'. And having granted a charter of incorporation to the governors, 

 alliflants, and commonalty of gold-wire drawers of London, he had 

 hoped, by reducing thofe trades under order and government, to avoid 

 the unnecellltry wafle of coin and bullion. But having now fully un- 

 derftood, as well by the complaint of his commons in the late feffion of 

 parliament, as upon examination by the lords of the council, that not 

 only the faid corporation (which was thereupon revoked and declared 

 to be void), but alfo the faid manufadures, are unfit to be continued, 

 &c. [Foedera, V. xvii, p. 605.] 



King James, by proclamation, once more confirmed all his former 

 injundions againfl; ereding buildings on new foundations in London 

 and its fuburbs. \Yo£dera, F! xvii, />. 608.] 



We have a pretty diftind: view of the condition of the colony of 

 Virginia, in a commiflion from King James to many lords and gentle- 

 men, as follows, viz. we having, by letters-patent, of the fourth year 

 of our reign, granted power to divers knights, gentlemen, and others, 

 for the more fpeedy accomplifliment of the plantation of Virginia, that 

 they fliould divide themfelves into two colonies : the one to confifl of 

 Londoners, called the firfl colony ; and the other of thofe of Brifi:ol, 

 Exeter, and Plymouth, called the fecond colony. And we did, by fe- 

 veral letters under our privy-feal, prefcribe orders and conftitutions for 

 direding the affairs of the faid colony. 



And whereas, afterward, upon the petition of divers adventurers and 

 planters of the London colony, we, by letters-patent, in the 7th year 

 of our reign, incorporated divers noblemen, knights, &c. by the name 

 of the treafurer and company of adventurers and planters of the city 

 of London, for the firfl colony in Virginia; granting them divers lands, 

 territories, &c. to be conveyed by them to the adventurers and plant- 

 ers ; with power to have a council there refident for the affairs of the 

 colony ; and alfo to place and difplace officers. 



And afterward, in the pih year of our reign, we, by letters-patent, 

 did farther mention to give that company divers ifles on that coafl. 



And whereas, we, finding the couries taken for fettling the colony 

 have not taken the good effcd we intended, did, by a late commiffion 

 to fundry perfons of quality and trull, cauie the ftate of it to be ex- 

 amined into ; who, after much pains taken, reported, that mofl: of our 

 people fent thither had died by licknefs and famine, and by maffacres 

 by the natives ; and that fuch as are fiill living were in lamentable ne- 

 ceility and want ; though they (the commiffioners) conceived the coun- 

 try to be both fiuitful and healthful, and that, if induftry were ufed, 

 it would produce many good flaple commodities. But, by negled of 



