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Title:  The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia: being an essay towards a general history of this colony. / By William Stith, A.M. Rector of Henrico Parish, and one of the governors of William and Mary College. ; [One line in Latin from Virgil]
Author: Stith, William, 1707-1755.
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sent, upon the same Foot, as Dr. Bohun; and was allowed his own, his Wife's, and two Servants Passages. Dr. Gul|stone was likewise desired, to buy a Chest of Physic of twen|ty Pounds Value, and ten Pounds of Books, proper for the Profession, which should always belong to the Place.CAPTAIN William Newce offered, to transport and set|tle a thousand Persons in Virginia, by Midsummer, 1625; and desired to be appointed their General, and to have a Patent, with that Proportion of Land, and such other Pri|vileges, as were usually granted on the like Occasion. A Patent was readily granted, in the largest and most ampl Manner. But as to the Title and Command of General, they refused to grant it him; because it was a Power, pro|perly belonging to the Governor only. Besides, it gave such an Independency, as was destructive of all Order and good Government; and had therefore been loudly cried ou against, in Captain Martin's extravagant Patent, and in a Grant, surreptitiously and illegally obtained by Captain Ar|gall, and therefore expresly stopped, by the Company's Or|ders to the Governor in Virginia. But Captain Newce far|ther requested, in order to enable him the better to go through the Charge of so great an Undertaking, to be ap|pointed Marshal of Virginia; for which Post he was emi|nently qualified, having ever been exercised in military Af|fairs and Arms, and of noted Experience and Skill in Martial Discipline; as appeared by his many Services in Ireland, and by the Testimony of divers honourable Persons, upon their own Knowledge. He was therefore constituted Marshal of Virginia; to take into his Charge, as well the Fortifica|tions, Arms, and Forces of the Colony, as to cause the People, to be duly trained up in Military Discipline, and to the Use and Exercise of Arms. And they annexed fifteen hundred Acres of Land and fifty Tenants to the Place, to be transported and furnished by himself, at eight Pound Charge to the Company a Man. And the King also, being highly pleased at the Nomination of this Gentleman, con|ferred the Honour of Knighthood upon him; calling him his Knight-Marshal of Virginia, and expressing great Hopes from the Management of a Person of his acknowledged Ca|pacity and Skill. However, he did not long survive his Ar|rival in Virginia; but died, two Days after the reading his Patent and Commission.THERE was, at this time, above a thousand Pounds, due in Virginia to the Company, for Rents and Duties; and they were likewise greatly scandalised and offended, to find their frequent and pressing Orders, for raising good and staple Commodities, entirely slighted and neglected. It was 0