Description
This work, a verbatim transcription of the 3 successful charters defining the scope and authority of the Virginia Company and listing its stockholders in England and Virginia, is a very powerful companion work to Professor Craven’s booklet above. The text of the 3 charters is taken from a latest copy came upon a number of the Chancery Rolls of the Public Record Workplace in London in a while before this work’s original publication. The accompanying documents serve to illustrate one of the crucial practical issues pertaining to the administration of the colony, and, taken in combination, this collection could also be construed as the Virginia “constitution” for the colony’s first fifteen years of existence.