WHich 70 pound 8. shillings 6. pence, toge­ther with 30. pound added thereunto by [Page 6] an vnknowne person, for the furtherance of the said free Schoole, was paid vnto the Right honou­rable Henry Earle of Southhampton, for the ho­nourable Company of Virginia, at their great and generall Quarter Court, held the 21. of Nouem. 1621. And the said Court, for the better mainte­nance of the said Schoole, Schoolemaster, and V­sher intended there to be placed, granted 1000. acres of land to the said free Schoole, to bee at Charles Cittie, as the most commodious place for health, security, profit, and conueniency: And ap­pointed that with the said 100. pound 8. shillings 6. pence, there should be sent ouer presently an V­sher, for the instructing of the children there, in the principles of Religion, ciuility of life, and hu­mane learning: as also that fiue persons (besides an ouerseer of them) should be foorthwith sent in the condition of Apprentices, to manure and cul­tiuate some part of the said land, for the vse and benefit of the said Vsher, till God stirred vp the hearts of others to be further helpefull to the said Schoole.

Likewise the said honourable Virginia Court thought fit in honour of the said East-India Bene­factors, the said free Schoole should bee built, and the said 1000. acres set out in Charles Citie, to be called The East-India Schoole: And that the East-India Companies seruants, should haue prece­dence before any other, to preferre their children thither, to be brought vp in the rudiments of learning.

They thought fit also, that this (as a Collegiat [Page 7] or free Schoole) should haue dependance on Hen­rico Colledge in Virginia, which should be made capable to receiue Schollers from the Schoole, into such Schollerships and Fellowships as the said Colledge shall be endowed withall, for the aduancement of Schollers, as they shall rise by de­grees and desert in learning.

There was since by a person refusing to be na­med, sent into the great and generall Quarter Court held for Virginia, the 30. of Ianuary 1 [...]21. 25. pound tovvard the furtherance of this godly vvorke: So that novv there is in all 125. pound 8. shillings 6. pence.

For publike actions of vertue, besides that they are presently comfortable to the do­ers, are also exemplary to others; and as they are more beneficiall to others, so are they crowned in vs: our principall care should bee, that while our soules liue in glory in heauen, our good actions may liue vpon earth, and that they may be put into the banke and mul­tiply, while our bodies lie in the graue and pu­trifie.