Itt beinge moved that there might be some presentaccon of the Companies humble thankfullnes unto his Majestie in respect of the graceous Message formerly delivered, after some deliberaccon had thereuppon, the Court conceaved it fitt to be sett downe in these words (vizt) That the Lord Cavendish the Lord Padgett, the Lord Haughton are humbly requested by the Court to present their most humble thanks to his Majestie for his graceous remembrance and good wishes to their affaires out of which he was graceously pleased to recommend certaine persons for Treasuror and Deputy if they so thought fitt, but without any infringement of their liberty of free eleccon; and they were further humbly requested to signify and testifie unto his Majestie the great respect and reverence wherewith his message was receaved and howe in conformity thereunto, although they had formerly accordinge to their custome in their Praeparative Court nominated the Earle of Southampton for Treasuror, yet out of the persons recommended by his Majestie they choose fower who had most voices and put them in eleccon with two nominated by the Company,--upon whom the places were conferred by an unanimous consent of the Company, havinge founde the Plantation to prosper every of these three last yeares more then in ten before, and [more] found to have bin donn with Ten thousand pounds, then formerly with fower score thousand.... [The language of the _Records_, of course, is decorous and courtly; but the student ought to be able to see a certain grim humor along with the steadfast determination not to permit royal usurpation. The Ferrars' Papers report that, when this last communication was delivered to the King, he "flung away in a furious passion,"--not unnaturally. Some of the other episodes in this connection told in those papers are given in _American History and Government_.] FOOTNOTES: [12] This means _for_, not _in_; cf. Rule CI. [13] Water was the only means of travel and trade. To steal a boat was equivalent to horse-stealing in a cow-boy country today. "Felony" was punishable by death. [14] Wood was the fuel then used to smelt iron ore. [15] This part of the appendix to the Declaration is taken from Sir Edwin Sandys' report in May, and his wording is followed here (_Records_, I, 353, 354). It is plain that such gifts were made because the Company had the character of a foreign missionary society. [16] This person in his letter to the Company signs himself "Dust and Ashes," and, in a _later_ communication, "D. & A." [17] The entry in the _Records_ of the Company (I, 335) speaks of this gift "for some good uses in Virginia."