STATE.OF THE COLONY. 49 
“Now that your highness may with the more ease under- 
stand in what condition the colony standeth, I have briefly 
sett downe the manner of all men’s several imployments, the 
number of them, and the several places of their aboad, which 
places or seates are all our owne ground, not so much b 
conquest, which the Indians hold a just and lawfull title, but 
purchased of them freely, and they verie willingly selling it. 
The places which are now possessed and inhabited are sixe :— 
Henrico and the lymitts, Bermuda Nether hundred, West 
and Sherley hundred, James. Towne, Kequoughtan, and 
Dales-Gift. The generall mayne body of. the planters are 
divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors. 
“The officers have the charge and care as well over the 
farmors as laborers generallie—that they watch and ward for 
their preservacions; and that both the one and the other’s 
busines may be daily followed to the performance of those 
imployments, which from the one are required, and the other 
by covenant are bound unto. These officers are bound to 
maintayne themselves and families with food and rayment 
by their owne and their servant’s industrie. The laborers 
are of two sorts. Some employed onely in the generall 
works, who. are fedd and clothed out of the store—others, 
- specially artificers as smiths, carpenters, shoemakers, taylors, 
tanners, &c., doe worke in their. professions for the colony, 
and maintayne themselves with food ann apparrell, having 
time lymitted them to till and manure their ground. 
“ The farmors live at most ease—yet by their good endeav- 
ors bring yearlie much plentie to the plantation. They are 
bound by covenant, both for themselves and servants, to 
maintaine your Ma’ties right and title in that kingdom, 
against all foreigne and domestique enemies. To watch and 
ward in the townes where they are resident. To do thirty- 
one dayes service for the colony, when they shalbe called 
thereunto—yet not at all tymes, but when their owne busines | 
can best spare them. To maintayne themselves and families 
with food and rayment—and every farmor to pay yearlie 
into the magazine for himself and every man servant, two 
barrells and a halfe of English measure. 
“Thus briefly have I sett downe every man’s particular 
imployment and manner of living; albeit, lest the people— 
who generallie are bent to covett after gaine, especially hav- 
ing tasted of the sweete of their labors—should spend too 
much of their tyme and labor in planting tobacco, known to 
them to be verie vendible in England, and so neglect, their 
tillage of corne, and fall into want thereof, it is provided for 
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