e disposed of in the following way: eighty tenants for
the governor's land, one hundred and thirty for the company's land, one
hundred for the college, fifty for the glebe, ninety young women of good
character for wives, fifty servants, fifty whose labors were to support
thirty Indian children; the rest were distributed among private
plantations.

[146:B] The following is a copy of the letter addressed by the king on
this occasion to the archbishops, authorizing them to invite the members
of the church throughout the kingdom to assist in the establishment of
the college, and such works of piety. The exact date of the letter has
not been ascertained; but it was about the year 1620. It has never been
published until recently, and is the first document of the kind ever
issued in England for the benefit of the colonies. It is as follows:--

"Most reverend father in God, right, trusty, and well-beloved
counsellor, we greet you well. You have heard ere this time of
the attempt of divers worthy men, our subjects, to plant in
Virginia, (under the warrant of our letters patents,) people
of this kingdom as well as for the enlarging of our dominions,
as for the propagation of the gospel amongst infidels: wherein
there is good progress made and hope of further increase; so
as the undertakers of that plantation are now in hand with the
erecting of some churches and schools for the education of the
children of those barbarians, which cannot but be to them a
very great charge and above the expense which, for the civil
plantation, doth come to them. In which we doubt not but that
you and all others who wish well to the increase of Christian
religion, will be willing to give all assistance and
furtherance, you may, and therein to make experience of the
zeal and devotion of our well-minded subjects, especially
those of the clergy. Wherefore we do require you, and hereby
authorize you to write your letters to the several bishops of
the dioceses in your province, that they do give order to the
ministers and other zealous men of their dioceses, both by
their own example in contribution and by exhortation to others
to move our people within their several charges to contribute
to so good a work, in as liberal a manner as they may; for the
better advancing whereof our pleasure is, that those
collections be made in all