. The letter does not bear any date, but must have been
written before the 16th March, 1609, as on that day the mayor issued
his precept to the several companies, enclosing a copy of the
letter, and asking them to "make some adventure" in so good and
honourable an undertaking.--Journal 27, fo. 346b.

M57 Contributions by the livery companies.

137 Brown's "Genesis of the United States," ii, 857, _seq._

138 See bill of adventure granted to the Merchant Taylors' Company, 4
May, 1609 (printed from the company's archives).--Brown, i, 308.

M58 The company's new charter, 23 May, 1609.

139 Brown, i, 208-237; ii, 890.

M59 Outbreak of yellow fever among the colonists.

140 Brown, i, 329.

M60 The company again re-constructed, 12 March, 1612.

141 Letter from the clerk of the company to Mr. Brown, 18 April,
1885.--"Genesis of the United States," i, 442.

142 Brown, i, 465-469.

143 Id., ii, 540-553.

M61 A public lottery in aid of the company.

144 Art. xvi.

145 Baker's Chron., p. 413; Howes's Chron. (ed. 1615), p. 913.

146 Vid. sup., vol. i, p. 507.

147 Extract from Grocers' records.--Brown, ii, 591.

148 Extract from Vestry Minutes.--_Id._, ii, 571-572.

149 Extract from Churchwardens' book.--_Id._, ii, 572.

150 Howes's Chron. (ed. 1615), p. 913.

M62 The public lottery of 1614.

151 Neither this letter nor anything else connected with this lottery
appears to be entered on the City's Records. The letter will be
found printed (whence taken we are not told) in Brown's "Genesis of
the United States," ii, 685. The letter is not entered in the Minute
Book of the Merchant Taylors' Company, as was the former letter.

152 For the mayor's letter on this occasion, see Brown, ii, 688.

153 Clode, "Early Hist. of the Merchant Taylors' Company," p. 325.

154 Brown, ii, 686-688.

M63 The Virginia Company and the House of Commons.

155 Journal House of Commons, i, 487-489; Chamberlain to Carleton, 19
May, 1614.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 234.

M64 Vagrant children sent to Virginia, 1618-1619.

156 Journal 30, fos. 374b, 396.

157 Chamberlain, writing to Carleton under date the 14th Oct., mentions
the fact of the City shipping to Virginia 100 boys and girls who
were starving in the streets.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p.
584.

158 Journ