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the governors and managers here, it had as yet produced few or none. 

 That the faid plantations are of great importance ; and would, as they 

 hoped, remain a lafting monument of our moft gracious and happy go- 

 vernment to all pofterity, if the fame were profecuted to thofe ends for 

 which they were firft undertaken. Whereupon we, entering into ma- 

 ture confideration of the premifes, did, by advice of our privy-council, 

 refolve to alter the charters of the faid company as to points of go- 

 vernment : but the faid trealurer and company not fubmitting thereto, 

 the faid charters are now avoided by a quo warranto. Wherefor, we 

 dired you to confider the ftate of the faid colony, and what points arc 

 fitting to be inferted in the intended new charter, and to report to us. 

 And, in the mean time, to take care to fupply the planters there with 

 neceffaries, and to do all other ads needful for maintaining the colony. 

 The king foon after appointed Sir Francis Wyatt governor of Virginia, 

 with eleven counfellors, refiding in the colony. {Fcedera, V. xvii, pp. 609, 

 616.] 



King James once more difplayed his averfion to tobacco, by the fol- 

 lowing proclamation, viz. 



' Whereas our commons, in their lafl feffion of parliament, became 

 ' humble petitioners unto us, that, for many weighty reafons, much 

 ' concerning the interefl: of our kingdom, and the trade thereof, we 

 ' would, by our royal power, utterly prohibit the ufe of all foreign to- 

 ' bacco, which is not of the growth of our own dominions : and 

 ' whereas we have upon all occafions made known our diflike we have 

 ' ever had of the ufe of tobacco in general, as tending to the corrup- 



* tion both of the health and manners of our people : neverthelefs,- 

 *' becaufewe have been often and earneflly importuned by many of our 



* loving fubjects, planters and adventurers in Virginia and the Somes*- 

 '■ ides, that as thofe colonies are yet but in their infancy, and cannot be ■ 



* brought to maturity, unlefs we will be pleafed for a time to tolerate 

 ' the planting and vending the tobacco of their growth, we have con- 



* defcended to their defires : and do therefor hereby flridly prohibit 



* the importation of any tobacco from beyond fea, or from Scotland,. 

 ' into England or Ireland, other than from our colonies before named .': 

 ' Moreover, we llridly prohibit the planting of any tobacco either in 

 *" England or Ireland.' The reft of this proclamation relates to fearch- 

 ing for and burning foreign tobacco, and marking and fealing the legal- 

 tobacco of our colonies. On the 2d of March 1624-5 he ii^ued another 

 proclamation to the fame effed. {Ycxdera, V. xvii, pp. 621, 668.] 



1625 In February 1624-5, King James ilTued a frefh proclamation 



againft eating flefh in lent, &c. \F(xdera, V. w\\,p. 661.] 



In that fame month he ifTued his warrant to the duke of Bucking- 

 ham, as high-admiral, that whereas many of his fubjeds had fuftered 

 great wrongs and damages, as well at fea as otherwife ; not only by the- 



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