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one Body-Politick and Corporate was thereby appointed and ordain'd in Plymouth, 

 confifting of thefaid Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, to the number of forty 

 Perfons, by the Name of The Council e/lablifi'd at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for 

 the Planting, Piling, Ordering, and Governing of New England im America. 



The Mifcarriages and Mifdemeanors of the aforefaid Corporation for the firft "» *-** 

 Colony of Firginta, were fo many and fo great, that His laid Majefty was forc'd, £&E 

 in or about October 1623. to direct a Quo Warranto, for the calling in of that former 

 Patent, which in Trinity Term following was legally Evinc'd, Condemn'd, and 

 made Void, by Judgment in the Court of the then IQngs-'Bench , as alfo all other 

 Patents, by which the faid Corporation claim'd any Intereft in Virginia. Thus this 

 Corporation of the firft Colony of Virginia was diflolv'd, and that Plantation 

 hath been fince Govern 'd and Difpos'd of by Perfons Conftituted and Impower'd 

 for that purpofe from time to time, by immediate Commiffions from the Kin<*s of 

 England. 



In the Year of our Lord 1031. the Right Honorable George Lord <Baltemore ob. n=P*,„« 

 tain'd a Grant of King Charles the Firft of Great Britain, <rc. of part of that Land to £5' f 

 the Northward, which is now call'd Maryland . but this Patent of Mary-land was £*££ 

 not perfected till 1632. as you may underftand more fully by the precedent Dif- 

 courfe of Mary-land, which byexprcfs words in the faid Patent is feparated from, 

 and thereby declar'd not to be reputed for the future, any part of Virginia. 



And in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second of Great Sri. t* Pa**, 

 tain, <rc. on March 24. 16^3. Edward Earl of Clarendon, then High-Chancellor of £&*» 

 England, George Duke of Albemarle, Wtttiam, now Earl of Craven, John Lord Berkley, Sft*£ 

 Anthony Lord Jfhley, Sir George Carterett Knight and Baronet, Sir Wtlliam Berkley 

 Knight, and Sit John Colleton Knight and Baronet, obtain'd a Patent from His Ma- 

 jefty, of the Province of Carolina, which lies to the Southward of Virginia, in which 

 is included fome part of that Land which formerly belong'd to the faid diflolv'd 

 Company of Virginia. So that Virginia at prefent extendeth it felf onely , and is fitu. 

 ated between thirty fix and thirty feven Degrees and fifty Minutes, or thereabouts, 

 of Northern Latitude, and is bounded on the North, by Maryland; on the South, 

 by Qarolina., on the Eaft, by the Ocean ; and on the Weft, by the South-Seas. 



The Entrance by Sea into this Countrey is the fame with that of Mary. land, be. 

 tween Cape Henry and Cafe Charles, plac'd on each fide of the Mouth of the Bay of 

 Chef apeak ; on the Weft fide whereof you firft meet with a pleafant and commodi- Ri«r, «f 

 ous River call'd James-<t(iver, about three Miles wide at its Entrance, and Naviga- '"'""* 

 ble a hundred and fifty. 



Fourteen Miles from this River Northward lies York-G^ver, which is Navigable 

 fixty or feventy Miles, but with Ketches and fmall Barques thirty or forty Miles 

 farther. 



Pafling hence to the North you difcover a third ftately River, call'd <3{appahanock, 

 which is Navigable about a hundred and thirty Miles - from whence following 

 the Shore to the North you enter into <Patomeck-<i\iver, which is already defcrib'd in 

 the precedent Difcourfe of Maryland, to which Province this River belongs, whofe 

 Southerly Bank gives Bounds to that part of Virginia and Maryiand. 



To thefe Rivers many other Inland Branches and Rivulets are redue'd, the chief 

 of which are hereafter fpecifi'd. 



The Countrey is generally even, the Soil fruitful, the Climate healthful, and Na. u « u f 

 agreeable with English Conftitutions, efpecially fince the increafe of Inhabitants, * ""^ 

 and accommodation of good Diet and Lodging, which the firft Planters found 

 great want of heretofore. For nyany years, till of late, moil Newcomers had the 



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