5. Request for Liberty to Transport their Tobacco to any of his majesties Plantations without paying the Impost payable by Act of Parliament. [This request the commissioners declare "wholly mutinous."] (3) _Surry County_ 1. That the last Assembly continued many yeares.... 10. That it has been the custome of County Courts att the laying of the levy to withdraw into a private Roome,--by which meanes the poore people, not knowing for what they paid, did admire how their taxes could be so high. 12. That, contrary to the lawes of England and this Country, high sheriffs have usually continued two years, and under sheriffs 3 or 4 years together: wee humbly pray that for the future no person may continue sheriffe above one yeare. 14. That we have not had liberty to choose vestrymen: wee humbly desire that the wholle parish may have a free election. 15. That since his most gracious Majesty hath been most mercifully pleased to pardon our late disloyalty, wee most earnestly and humbly pray that this present grand assembly would make an Act of Oblivion,--that no person may be injured by the provoking names of Rebell, Traitor and Rogue. (4) _Northampton County_ 2. That we may have Liberty grannted us to choose a new vestery, and that every three years a new vestery may be chosen. 6. That it may be graunted us to make a free choyse of six housekeepers without Interposing of any Ruling Magistratre [to sit with the Justices of the County as a Board to assess taxes], to prevent oppressions ... as we humbly suspect ... to have Received heretofore. 15. That no Sheriff may officiate two years together. (5) _Isle of Wight_ 14. We desire wee may have libertie to chuse our Vestries once in three yeares, and that their may noe member of the Court [County Justices] be therein. 109. Abolition of Bacon's Reforms for Virginia _a. The King's Orders_ _Additional instructions [from King Charles II] for our trusty and well beloved_ Sir William Berkeley, Knt. _our governor of our colony of Virginia, November 13, 1676_ Hening's _Statutes_, II, 424 ff. * * * * * 2. You shall take care that the members of the assembly be elected only by _ffreeholders_, as being more agreeable to the custome of England, to which you are as nigh as conveniently you can to conforme yourselfe. * * * * * 6. You shall declare voyd and null all the proceedings of the late assembly ... ["Bacon's Assembly"]. _b. Repeal by the Assembly, February, 1676/1677_ Hening's _Statutes at Large_, II, 380. * * * * *