[Footnote 26: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 401-415.] [Footnote 27: Ibid., 407.] [Footnote 28: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 400-415; Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, IV., 1734-1756; _True Declaration_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. i.).] [Footnote 29: _True Declaration_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. i.).] [Footnote 30: Spelman, in Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 483-488.] [Footnote 31: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, IV., 1756.] [Footnote 32: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 490.] [Footnote 33: _Breife Declaration_.] [Footnote 34: Hamor, _True Discourse_, 29-31; Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 501-508.] [Footnote 35: _The Tragical Relation_, in Neill, _Virginia Company_, 407-411.] [Footnote 36: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 508.] [Footnote 37: Hamor, _True Discourse_, 11.] [Footnote 38: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 709-725.] [Footnote 39: _A Description of the Province of New Albion_ (1648) (Force, _Tracts_, II., No. vii.).] [Footnote 40: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 438.] [Footnote 41: Hamor, _True Discourse_, 17; _Breife Declaration_.] [Footnote 42: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, II., 739, 740.] [Footnote 43: Ibid., 657.] [Footnote 44: Ibid., 760, 761.] [Footnote 45: John Rolfe, _Relation_, in _Va. Historical Register_, I., 110.] [Footnote 46: Virginia Company, _Proceedings_ (Va. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, new series, VII.), I., 65.] [Footnote 47: Neill, _Virginia Company_, 98.] [Footnote 48: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 533.] [Footnote 49: Rolfe, _Relation_, in _Va. Historical Register_, I., 108.] [Footnote 50: _Breife Declaration_.] [Illustration: CHART OF VIRGINIA SHOWING INDIAN AND EARLY ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS IN 1632] CHAPTER V TRANSITION OF VIRGINIA (1617-1640) During the period of Dale's administration the constitution of the London Company underwent a change, because the stockholders grew restless under the powers of the treasurer and council and applied for a third charter, limiting all important business to a quarterly meeting of the whole body.