_There have beene given to the Collonie this yeere, by Devoute Persons, these guifts ensuinge._
_Two Persons_, unknowne, have given faire Plate and other rich Ornaments for two Communion Tables; whereof one for the Colledge, and the other for the Church of Mistress Mary Robinson's foundinge: who in the former yeere by her Will gave 200. pounds towards the foundinge of a Church in _Virginia_.
Another unknowne person[16] (together with a goodly letter) hath lately sent to the Treasurer 550. pounds in gold, for the bringing up of Children of the _Infidels_: first in the Knowledge of God and true Religion; and next, in fitt Trades whereby honestly to live.
Master _Nicolas Ferrar_ deceased, hath by his Will given 300. pounds to the College in _Virginia_, to be paid, when there shall be ten of the _Infidels_ children placed in it. And in the meane time foure and twenty pounds by yeere, to be distributed unto three discreet and Godlie men in the Colony, which shall honestly bring up three of the _Infidels_ children in Christian Religion, and some good course to live by.
_An unnamed person_ sent to the _Treasurer_ the summe of ten pounds, for advancing the _Plantation_.[17]
Stith's _History of Virginia_, App. IV; Hening's _Statutes_, I, 110 ff.
The _Records_ of the Virginia Assembly of 1619 (see No. 25 above) show that the London Company had given to the settlers a "great charter." No copy of it exists; but apparently its political features were repeated in this document, issued by the Company July 24/Aug. 3, 1621, on the appointment of a new governor. This great Ordinance has sometimes been called, mistakenly, The First Charter to the Virginian Colonists. It is the _second_ such charter. Cf. _American History and Government_, # 30.
_An Ordinance and Constitution of the Treasurer, Council, and Company in_ England, _for a Council of State and General Assembly._
I.--To all People, to whom these Presents shall come, be seen, or heard, The Treasurer, Council, and Company of Adventurers and Planters for the city of _London_ for the first Colony of _Virginia_ send Greeting. KNOW YE, that we, the said Treasurer, Council, and Company, taking into our Consideration the present State of the said Colony of Virginia, and intending, by the Divine Assistance, to settle such a Form of Government there, as may be to the greatest Benefit and Comfort of the People, and whereby all Injustice, Grievances, and Oppression may be prevented and kept off as much as possible from the said Colony, have thought fit to make our Entrance, by ordering and establishing such Supreme Councils as may not only be assisting to the Governor for the time being, in the Administration of Justice, and the Executing of other Duties to this Office belonging, but also, by their vigilant Care and and Prudence, may provide as well for a Remedy of all Inconveniences, growing from time to time, as also for the advancing of Increase, Strength, Stability, and Prosperity of the said Colony: