See a paper by L. W. Tazewell, on the “Limits of Virginia under the Charters,” in Maxwell’s _Virginia Historical Register_, i. 12. These bounds were relied on for Virginia’s claims at a later day to the Northwest Territory. Cf. H. B. Adams’s _Maryland’s Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth_, or Maryland Historical Society Publication Fund, no. 11. See also Lucas’s _Charters of the Old English Colonies_, London, 1850. Ridpath’s _United States_, p. 86, gives a convenient map of the grants by the English crown from 1606 to 1732. Mr. Deane has discussed the matter of forms used in issuing letters patent in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._ xi. 166. The earliest printed account of the settlement at Jamestown, covering the interval April 26, 1607-June 2, 1608, is entitled: _A True Relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne from thence. Written by Captaine Smith, Coronell of the said Collony, to a worshipfull friend of his in England_. Small quarto, black letter, London, 1608.[278] The second contemporary account appears in _Purchas His Pilgrimes_, iv. 1685-1690, published in 1625, and is entitled, “Obseruations gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantations of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English, 1606, written by that Honorable Gentleman Master George Percy.”[279] The narrative gives in minute detail the incidents of the first voyage and of the movements of the colonists after their arrival at Cape Henry until their landing, on the 14th of May, at Jamestown. It is to be regretted that a meagre abridgment only of so valuable a narrative should have been preserved by Purchas, who assigns as a reason for the omissions he made in it, that “the rest is more fully set down in Cap. Smith’s Relations.”