the particular parishes, four
several times within these two years next coming; and that the
several accounts of each parish, together with the moneys
collected, be returned from time to time to the bishops of the
dioceses, and by them be transmitted half yearly to you; and
so to be delivered to the treasurer of that plantation to be
employed for the godly purposes intended, and no other."
(_Anderson's Hist. of Col. Church_, i. 315; _Stith's Hist. of
Va._, 159.)

[147:A] Mr. Jefferson appears to have fallen into a mistake as to the
period of time when malefactors were first shipped over to this country
from England, for he says: "It was at a late period of their history
that the practice began." (_Writings of Jefferson_, i. 405.)

[147:B] Chalmers' Introduc., i. 15. The following letter accompanied a
shipment of marriageable females sent out from England to Virginia:--

"LONDON, _August 21, 1621_.

"We send you a shipment, one widow and eleven maids, for wives
of the people of Virginia: there hath been especial care had
in the choice of them, for there hath not one of them been
received but upon good commendations.

"In case they cannot be presently married, we desire that they
may be put with several householders that have wives, until
they can be provided with husbands. There are nearly fifty
more that are shortly to come, and are sent by our honorable
lord and treasurer, the Earl of Southampton, and certain
worthy gentlemen, who, taking into consideration that the
plantation can never flourish till families be planted, and
the respect of wives and children for their people on the
soil, therefore having given this fair beginning; reimbursing
of whose charges it is ordered that every man that marries
them, give one hundred and twenty pounds of best leaf tobacco
for each of them.

"We desire that the marriage be free according to nature, and
we would not have those maids deceived and married to
servants, but only to such freemen or tenants as have means to
maintain them. We pray you, therefore, to be fathers of them
in this business, not enforcing them to marry against their
wills." (_Hubbard's note in Belknap_, art. ARGALL.)

CHAPTER XIII.

Proceedings in London of Virginia Company--Lord Southampton
elected