and that it is their right so to doe,[464] yet that it would please them
not to take it in ill parte if these lawes w^{ch} we have nowe brought
to light, do passe currant[465] & be of force till suche time as we[466]
may knowe their farther pleasure out of Englande: for otherwise this
people (who nowe at length have gotte[467] the raines[468] of former
servitude into their owne swindge) would in shorte time growe so
insolent, as they would shake off all government, and there would be no
living among them.

[461] beseeche, McDonald.

[462] Tresurer, McDonald.

[463] inacte, McDonald, Bancroft.

[464] righte soe to do, McDonald; right so to doe, Bancroft.

[465] current, Bancroft.

[466] wee, McDonald.

[467] gott, McDonald; got, Bancroft.

[468] reines, McDonald; raines, Bancroft.

Their last humble suite is,[469] that the said Counsell & Company would
be pleased, so soon as they shall finde[470] it convenient, to make
good their promise sett downe[471] at the conclusion of their comission
for establishing the Counsel[472] of Estate & the General[473] Assembly,
namely, that they will give us power to allowe or disallowe of their
orders of Courte, as his Ma^{ty}[474] hath given them power to allowe or
to reject[475] our lawes.

[469] suit, McDonald.

[470] find, McDonald.

[471] down, McDonald.

[472] Counsell, McDonald, Bancroft.

[473] Generall, McDonald.

[474] Majesty, McDonald; Ma^{ty}, Bancroft.

[475] rejecte, McDonald, Bancroft.

In sume Sir George Yeardley, the Governo^r[476] prorogued the said
General[477] Assembly till the firste of Marche, which is to fall out
this present yeare of 1619, and in the mean season dissolved the same.

[476] Gover^{nr}, McDonald; Governour, Bancroft.

[477] Generall, McDonald.

_FINIS._

I certify that the foregoing is a true and
authentic copy taken from the volume
above named.

JOHN McDONAGH,
Record Agent.
July 14th, 1871.

The McDonald copy has the following after Finis:

(in Dorso.)
1619.
The proceedings of the first Assembly of Virginia. July 1619.
True Copy,
AUGUSTUS AUSTEN BURT.

LISTS

OF THE

LIVINGE & THE DEAD IN VIRGINIA

February 16, 1623.

_EDITORS' NOTE._

The paper from which this document is printed is to be found in the
first volume of the McDonald papers. It is such a census of the
inhabitants of the colony as the historical student would like to see
made out at several other periods of our colonia