uche after that.

[93] ancient, McDonald.

[94] Comiss^n, Bancroft.

[95] each, Bancroft.

The second petition of the General assembly framed by the Comitties[96]
out of the second book is. That the Treasurer[97] & Company in England
would be pleased w^{th} as muche convenient speed[98] as may be to sende
men hither to occupie their landes belonging to the fower
Incorporations, as well for their owne[99] behoofe and proffitt as for
the maintenance of the Counsel[100] of Estate, who are nowe[101] to
their extream hindrance often drawen far from their private busines and
likewise that they will have a care to sende[102] tenants to the
ministers of the fower Incorporations to manure their gleab, to the
intente that the allowance they have allotted them of 200 G.[103] a
yeare may the more easily be raised.

[96] Comittess, McDonald.

[97] Tresurer, McDonald.

[98] speede, McDonald.

[99] own, Bancroft.

[100] Counsell, McDonald and Bancroft.

[101] now, McDonald.

[102] send, McDonald.

[103] L200, Bancroft.

The thirde Petition humbly presented by this General Assembly to the
Treasurer, Counsell & Company is, that it may plainely be expressed in
the great Comission (as indeed it is not) that the antient Planters of
both sortes, viz., suche as before Sir Thomas Dales' depart[104] were
come hither upon their owne chardges,[105] and suche also as were
brought hither upon the Companie's coste, maye have their second, third
and more divisions successively in as lardge and free manner as any
other Planters. Also that they wilbe pleased to allowe to the male
children, of them and of all others begotten in Virginia, being the
onely hope of a posterity, a single share a piece, and shares for their
issues or[106] for themselves, because that in a newe plantation it is
not knowen whether man or woman be the more necessary.

[104] In the McDonaldcopy this was just written departure, then "ure"
crossed out with a pen, and the word made department. Bancroft has
departure.

[105] Charges, McDonald.

[106] McDonald and Bancroft both have "wives as," instead of "issues
or," the former being evidently the proper words.

Their fourth Petition is to beseech the Treasurer, Counsell & Company
that they would be pleased to appoint a Sub-Tresurer[107] here to
collecte their rents,[108] to the ende that[109] the Inhabitants of this
Colony be not tyed to an impossibility of paying the same yearly to the
Treasurer in England