Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . , and blew up the great Cabbin; some weretaken up in the Sea, living in miserable torments, eighteene;were lost with this fatall blast, the Ship also sunke, withsixtie Barrells of Meale sent for Virginia, and her other:provisions lost. The Company have sent Captaine!Woodhouse in a Ship called the Tigre for that govern-:ment, a man much commended and hopefull. I havebeene told that there are three thousand persons of aliisorts living there, halfe of whic
Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . , and blew up the great Cabbin; some weretaken up in the Sea, living in miserable torments, eighteene;were lost with this fatall blast, the Ship also sunke, withsixtie Barrells of Meale sent for Virginia, and her other:provisions lost. The Company have sent Captaine!Woodhouse in a Ship called the Tigre for that govern-:ment, a man much commended and hopefull. I havebeene told that there are three thousand persons of aliisorts living there, halfe of which number is able to beareArmes, and exercised to that service. 206 INTELLIGENCE FROM VIRGINIA [624. Chap. XIX. Briefe intelligence from Virginia by Letters, asupplement of French-Virginian Occurrants,and their supplantation by Sir Samuel Argal,in right of the English Plantation. He late alteration of Virginia Govern-ment is unknowne to none; and mostknow of the frequent complaints, bothby private Letters, and by Petitions tohis Majesty. Now least any shouldhereupon thinke Virginia to be unworthyof such our care and cost; I have out. of one of the Planters private Letters transcribed a fewwords of grievances, and yet a magnifying of the Country,that the English may be more blamed for want ofProvidence, then the Region for defect of Natures bestgifts. Other things I could alleadge from others, butmy meaning is to amend things not to quarrell them,and to awaken the care of good men, rather then torecite the faults of the bad. In one Letter, dated: Dec. 22. last past, he hath these words: The intolerable rates we pay here for commodities,as ten pound sterling a hogshead of Meale, sixteenshillings a gallon of Alligant, three pound sterling aHenne and eight Chickens, &c. and so according to theserates for every thing else: lastly, the heavy taxationsthat are laid upon us free men, for building of Castles,paying of publique debts, for the not gathering ofSasafras, &c. so that it
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