fees want a
better regulation in the payments; for though the allowance
be sufficient, yet differences often and illwill arise about
these fees, whether they are to be paid in money or tobacco,
and when; whereas by a small alteration and addition of a
few laws in these and the like respects, the clergy might
live more happy, peaceable, and better beloved; and the
people would be more easy, and pay never the more dues.

"Some parts of the country make but mean and poor tobacco so
that Clergymen don't care to live in such parishes; but
there the payment might be made in money, or in the produce
of those places, which might be equivalent to the tobacco
payments; better for the minister, and as pleasing to the
people."

We find further complaints from the London Company of the poor quality
of the tobacco "sent home," in a letter addressed to the Governor,
bearing date 10th June, 1622:--

"The tobacco sent home by the George for the company proved
very meane and is yett unsold although it hath been offered
at 3s. the pound. This we thought fitt to advise you
concerning the quantity and the manner how it is raised, in
both wich being done contrarie to their directors and
extreamly to theire prejudice, the Companie is very ill
sattisfied, will write by the next, more largely."

In the year 1620 the difficulties seem first to have been publicly
avowed, (though perhaps before felt,) arising from attaching men as
permanent settlers to the colony without an adequate supply of women,
to furnish the comforts of domestic life; and to overcome the
difficulty "a hundred young women" of agreeable persons and
respectable characters, were selected in England and sent out, at the
expense of the Company, as wives for the settlers. They were very
speedily appropriated by the young men of the colony, who paid for the
privilege of choice considerable sums as purchase money, which went to
replenish the treasury of the Company, from whence the cost of their
outfit and passage had been defrayed.

This speculation proved so advantageous to that body, in a pecuniary
sense, that it was soon followed up by sending out sixty more, for
whom larger prices were paid than for the first consignment; the
amount paid on the average for the first one hundred being 120 pounds
of tobacco apiece for each, then valued at 3s. per lb., and for the
second supp