etc.
Captain Francis West, | John Pott,
Sir George Yeardley, | Captain Roger Smith,
George Sandys, Treasurer, | Captain Ralph Hamor,
And John Pountis, _of the Council_.
BURGESSES. | BURGESSES.
William Tucker, | Nathaniel Bass,
Jabez Whitakers, | John Willcox,
William Peeine, | Nicolas Marten,
Raleigh Crashaw, | Clement Dilke,
Richard Kingsmell, | Isaac Chaplin,
Edward Blany, | John Chew,
Luke Boyse, | John Utie,
John Pollington, | John Southerne,
Nathaniel Causey, | Richard Bigge,
Robert Adams, | Henry Watkins,
Thomas Harris, | Gabriel Holland,
Richard Stephens, | Thomas Morlatt,
R. Hickman, _Clerk_.
FOOTNOTES:
[170:A] Stith, 243, 268.
[170:B] Court and Times of James the First, ii. 389.
[170:C] Stith calls him Spilman; Burk, Spiller. (See _Belknap_, art.
WYAT.)
[171:A] His father, of the same name, a London merchant, was one of the
leading stockholders in the Virginia Company. Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir
John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Edwin Sandys, and the like, were
frequent guests at his table.
[171:B] Belknap, art. WYAT, in note; Foster's Miscellanies, 368.
[171:C] Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, i. 69.
[171:D] Charles the First.
[172:A] Stith, 297.
[172:B] Writings of Jefferson, i. 1.
[173:A] Hening, i. 120.
[173:B] Stith, 315.
[174:A] Hist. Mag., ii. 34.
[174:B] It has been said that these folios were sent back to England by
John Randolph of Roanoke, (_Belknap_, art. WYAT;) but it appears that
they came into possession of Congress as part of Mr. Jefferson's
library, and are now in the Law Library at Washington. There is to be
found there also a volume of papers and records of the Virginia Company,
from 1621 to 1625. (See article by J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., of Boston,
in Hist. Mag., ii. 33, recommending that these documents should be
published by Congress.) There are also valuable MS. historical materials
in Richmond which ought to be published. The recent destruction of the
library of William and Mary College shows the precarious tenure by which
the collections of the Virginia Historical Society, and the records
preserved in the State Capito
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