their adventuring certain fums of money, liberty of trade to his new country, free from allcuftoms and taxes forfeven years, excepting the fifth part of the gold and filver ore to be obtained ; and ftipulated with them, and the other affiftants, then in Virginia, that he would confirm the deed of incorporation which he had given in 1587, with all the prerogatives, jurif- diftions, royalties and privileges granted to him by the Queen. Sir Walter, at different times, fent five other adventurers hither, the lafl of which was in 1602:
for in 1603 he was attainted, and put into clofe imprifonment, which put an end to his cares over his infant colony. What was the particular fate of the colonifls he had before fent and feated, has never been known: whether they were murdered, or incorporated with the favages.
Some gentlemen and merchants, fup- pofing that by the attainder of Sir Walter Raleigh the grant to him was forfeited, not enquiring over carefully whether the fentence of an Englifh court could afFeft lands not within the jurifdi6lion of that court, petitioned king James for a new grant of Virginia to them. He accord- ingly executed a grant to Sir Thomas Gates and others bearing date the 9th of March 1607, under which, in the fame year a fetclement was effedled at James- town and ever after maintained. Of this grant however no particular notice need be taken, as it was fuperceded by letters patent of the fame king, of May 23, 1609 to the Earl of Salilbury and others, incor- porating them, by the name of *'the Trea- furer and Company of adventurers and planters of the City of London for the firft colony in Virginia,'' granting to them and their fuccefTors all the lands in Virgi- nia from Point Comfort along the fea- coaft to the northward 200 miles, and from the fame point along the fea-coaft to the fouthward 200 miles, and all the fpace from this precinft on the fea coaft up into the land, weft and north-weft, from fea to fea, and the iflands within one hundred miles of it, with all the com- munities, jurifdiftions, royalties, privileges, franchifes and pre-eminencies within the fame, and thereto and thereabouts, by fea and