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Inquiries
to bee sent to Sr. William Berkeley Knight, Capt General and
Governor in chief of His Ma[jes]ties Colony of Virginia
- 1.
What Councils, Assemblies, and Courts of Judicature
are within
Your Government, and of what nature and kind.
- 2.
What Courts of Judicature relating to the
Admiralty.
- 3.
Where the Legislative and Executive Powers of
Your Government
are seated.
- 4.
What Statutes, Lawes and Ordinances are now
made and in force.
- 5.
What number of Horse and Foote are within
Yo[ur] Government, whether
they bee Trained Bands or standing Forces, how they are armed,
divided and Executed.
- 6.
What Castles and Forts are within yo[ur] Government
and how seituated,
as alsoe what stores and provisions they are furnished withall.
- 7.
What numer of Privateers or Pyrats doe frequent
your coast, what
their Burthens are, the number of their men and Guns, and the
Names of y[our] Commanders.
- 8.
What is the strength of your bordering Neighbours
whether Indians,
or of any other Nation, by sea and Land, what is the State and
condition of their Trade and Comerce.
- 9.
What Correspondence doe you keepe with your
Neighbors.
- 10. What Armes, Ammunition, and Stores did you
find upon
the Place, or have beene sent unto you since, upon his Ma[jes]ties
accompt, when received, how imployed, and what part of them is
remaining.
- 11.
What Moneyes have been paid, or appointed to bee
paid by his Ma[jes]tie
or levyed within your Government for and towards the buying of
Armes, or making, or mainteining of any Fortifictions and Castles,
or for any other public uses; and how have the Moneyes beene
Expended.
- 12.
What are the Boundaries, Longitude, Latitude and
Contents of the
Land within your Government; what number of Acres Pantented, setled
or unsetled, and how much is manurable Land.
- 13.
What are the Principal Townes and Places of
Trade, and what manner
of Buildings are most used in Your Colony, as to the strength
and largenesse of them.
- 14.
How many Parishes, Precincts, or Divisions
are within your Government.
- 15.
What Rivers, Harbors, & Roads are within your
Government, and
of what Depths and Soundings they are.
- 16.
What Commodities are there of the production,
growth and Manufacture
of yo[ur] Plantation, and of what value yearely, either Exported,
or consumed upon the Place, and particularly what is the present
State of the Silke Trade, what advantages or impediments doe
attend it. And what Materials are there already growing, or may
be provided for Shipping, As alsoe what are y[our] Commodities
imported and of what yearely value.
- 17. Whether Salt Peter is, or may bee produced within
your
Plantation, and if soe, in what quantity, and at what rates it
may be deliver'd in England.
- 18.
What number of Merchants and Planters, English
or Forreiners,
Servants and Slaves, and how many of them are Men able to beare
Armes.
- 19.
What number of English, Scotch, Irish, or Forreiner
have, for
these Seaven yeares last past, or any other space of time, come
yearly to plant and inhabit within your Government. And alsoe
what Blacks, or Slaves have beene brought in within the said time,
and at what rates.
- 20.
What number of Whites, Blacks or Mulatto's have
beene borne and
Christned for these Seaven yeares last past, or any other space
of time.
- 21.
What number of Marriages for Seaven yeares
last past or any other
tyme.
- 22.
What number of People have yearly Dyed
within your Government
for Seaven yeares past, or any other space of tyme.
- 23.
What estimat can you make touching the Estates
of the severall
degrees of Merchants and Planters within your Government; And
how you may compute the wealth of the Colony in generall.
- 24.
What number of Shipps, Sloops, or other Vessells
doe Trade yearly
to and from your Plantation, and of what Built and Burthen, and
whether there be any belonging to the Country.
- 25.
What Obstructions doe you find to y[our] Improvement of Trade
and Navigation of the Plantations of yo[ur] Government.
- 26.
What advantages or improvements doe you observe
that may be gained
to Your Trade and Navigation.
- 27.
What Rates and Duties are charged and payable
upon any Goods Exported
out of your Plantation whether of your owne growth and manufacture
or otherwise, as also upon Goods imported: and to what public
ends or uses are the same applyed.
- 28.
What Revenue doth or may arise to His Ma[jes]tie
within Yo[ur]
Government, and of what Nature is it, by whome is the same collected,
and how answered and Accompted to his Ma[jes]tie.
- 29.
What Perswasion in Religious matters is most
prevalent; and among
the Varieties which you are to Expresse, what proportion in numbers
and qualitie of People the one holds to the other.
- 30.
What course is taken for the instructing of
the People in the
Christian Religion, how many Churces and Ministers are there within
your Government, and how many are yet wanting for the accomodation
of your Colony. What provision is there made for the maintenance
of them, as also for relieving poore, decayed and impotent persons.
And whether you have any Beggers or Idle Vagabonds.
A
True Copie, Robert Southwell
Vera Copia Sa. Wiseman
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