en him satisfaction.
Nowe,[434] the general assembly being doubtful whether they have any
power and authority to dischardge the said bondes, doe by these
presents[435] (at the Instance of the said Inhabitants[436] of
Paspaheighs, alias Martin's hundred people) become most humble sutours
to the Tresurer, Counsell and Company in England that they wilbe[437]
pleased to gett the said bondes for 600^G[438] to be cancelled;
forasmuche as in their great comission they have expressly and by name
appointed that place of Paspaheigh for parte of the Governo^r's[439]
lande. And wheras Captain[440] William Powell is payde[441] his 50^G
w^{ch} Captaine[442] Argall enjoined the saide Inhabitantes to presente
him with, as parte[443] of the bargaine, the general assembly, at their
intreaty, do become sutours on their behalfe, that Captaine Argall, by
the Counsell & Company in England, may be compelled either to restore
the said 50^G[444] from thence, or else that restitution therof be made
here out of the goods of the said Captaine Argall.

[430] 600^{Li}, McDonald; L60, Bancroft.

[431] 50^{li}, McDonald; L50, Bancroft.

[432] Argall's, McDonald.
[433] Capt., Bancroft.

[434] now, McDonald.

[435] presentes, McDonald, Bancroft.

[436] Inhabit^{ts}, Bancroft.

[437] will be, McDonald, Bancroft.

[438] 600^{li}, McDonald; L60, Bancroft.

[439] Governours, McDonald, Bancroft.

[440] Captaine, McDonald, Bancroft.

[441] paide, Bancroft.

[442] Capt., Bancroft.

[443] part, Bancroft.

[444] 50^{li}, McDonald; L50, Bancroft.

The last acte of the Generall Assembly was a contribution to gratifie
their officers, as followeth:[P]

[P] This paragraph is in the McDonald and Bancroft copies but not in De
Jarnette's.

AUG. 4^{th}, 1619.

It is fully agreed at this generall[445] Assembly that in regarde of the
great[446] paines and labour of the[447] Speaker of this Assembly (who
not onely[448] first formed the same Assembly and to their great ease &
expedition reduced all matters to be treatted of into a ready method,
but also his indisposition notw^{th}standing wrote or dictated all
orders and other expedients and is yet[449] to write severall bookes for
all the Generall[450] Incorporations and plantations both of the great
charter, and of all the lawes) and likewise in respecte of the
dilligence of the Clerke and sergeant, officers thereto belonging. That
every man and manservant of above 16 yeares of age shall pay into