[170:B] Court and Times of James the First, ii. 389. [170:C] Stith calls him Spilman; Burk, Spiller. (See _Belknap_, art. WYAT.) [171:A] His father, of the same name, a London merchant, was one of the leading stockholders in the Virginia Company. Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Edwin Sandys, and the like, were frequent guests at his table. [171:B] Belknap, art. WYAT, in note; Foster's Miscellanies, 368. [171:C] Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, i. 69. [171:D] Charles the First. [172:A] Stith, 297. [172:B] Writings of Jefferson, i. 1. [173:A] Hening, i. 120. [173:B] Stith, 315. [174:A] Hist. Mag., ii. 34. [174:B] It has been said that these folios were sent back to England by John Randolph of Roanoke, (_Belknap_, art. WYAT;) but it appears that they came into possession of Congress as part of Mr. Jefferson's library, and are now in the Law Library at Washington. There is to be found there also a volume of papers and records of the Virginia Company, from 1621 to 1625. (See article by J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., of Boston, in Hist. Mag., ii. 33, recommending that these documents should be published by Congress.) There are also valuable MS. historical materials in Richmond which ought to be published. The recent destruction of the library of William and Mary College shows the precarious tenure by which the collections of the Virginia Historical Society, and the records preserved in the State Capitol, are held. [176:A] Peckard's Life of Ferrar--a work which throws much light on the early history of Virginia. [177:A] Belknap. [177:B] Hening's Statutes, i. 119, 129. CHAPTER XIX. 1624-1632. Charles the First commissions Sir Thomas Wyat, Governor-- Assemblies not allowed--Royal Government virtually established in Virginia--Other Colonies on Atlantic Coast--Wyat returns to Ireland--Succeeded by Yeardley--Yeardley succeeded by West-- Letter of Charles the First directing an Assembly to meet-- Assembly's Reply--John Pott, Governor--Condition of Colony-- Statistics--Diet--Pott superseded by Harvey--Dr. John Pott Convicted of Stealing Cattle--Sir John Harvey--Lord Baltimore visits Virginia--Refuses to take the Oaths tendered to him-- Procures from Charles the First a Grant of Territory--Acts relative to Ministers, Agriculture, Indians, etc.