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Show 172 ACTS RELATING PartII. York, the member for York would not withdraw, " for that it concerneth the " Common'wmlz/r." A very remarl~:ahle zir- gument; and which plainly inferred, the opinion of the members who alledged it, that Virginia was as much a part of the flair, and of the realm, as any county in England. The houfe acquiefeed in this rea‘fnn. It happened that ofEnee was taken at {om ething> that had been urged by the counfel for the petitioners. For this he was or- ESt:€t.Vll. TO THE Cotonrns. 173 " perliiaded that he came to offend with 21 " 113/2 hand." After returning thanks for the lenity of the houre, the reprimanded Cotinlel petitioned, " that to f)? up z/m " "Myriam of their grace, they would he " pleated to appoint a committee to eonli" tier of the Virginia hulinels "" On the tyth of April 1621, :1 bill was .read th‘ hrlt time for the free liberty of tithing on the eoalls of Newfoundland, Virginia, New England, and other coat 5, and parts of Amerieal. dered to be reprimandet , and to make his On the fame day a report was made hy fulmnillion at the bar, but was indulged Sir Edward Sands, from the {uh-commit- with the liberty of making it flung/1373. tee to the grand committee, concerning the \Vlmt the p rt ofhis argument it was that gave offence, does not particularly appear; unites of the decay of trade-One eaufe fome eortjeettire, however, nay be made tolJaeeo.-~1 he remedy propoled, me, the ofthe {cope ofit, from the realhns afligned for their indulgence. " Though he di- cultivation of tobaeeo in Virginia, and the " grefl‘ed," ohferved the fpealwr, " to mat- " ters of much weight, impertinentwtook alligned was, the importation of Spaniih Summer lflzinds. The motion was again taken into eon~ tiderzttion the next day. A debate en- " upon him to eenfnre tome things, 21rd * See Journa's, vol. i. p 489. " to advile,---yet the houle would not he f 5:: jeuma‘s, v-1. i, p. 578. " perfunded |