The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
The Sunday Ti1nes-D Dispatch:

y her great grief for her departed husband to become
gagged e two gentlemen at the same ss Rsv Siren,
the right of her hand and she apparently unwilling to arb
tratc between the two the taken before the council
discretion the affair referred to the
pany London. Which Of the nsistent gentlemen finally
succeeded the place of the aented Jordan iii the widows
heart and home by strange oversight history does not
seem to record One 81 the two representatives. IRON Lower
d ons n e delegates o@
Hundred Walter Shelley probably relative Of the poet died
suddenly Sunday August 1s in the midst OF the Assem-
bly, o.,
On the day appointed for the meeting Of the Assembly M,
the Governor went in state to the church selected as the Paee
ernors livery He was attended by the councillors and fol-
lowed BY the twenty-five newly elected delegates .,..,
Of the church buildings that had been erected in the colony
during the administration Of Captain Samuel A1gall It is
interesting here that from 1919 to 1893 the years
during which the Assembly Jamestown there were
four different State houses in which the meetings 81 the body
the interim between disasters the body met in various
and sundy places, sometimes in the church sometimes in
convenient tavers and in the Governors house.
sembly is said to have been we'll lighted Within and well
adaped to Of the Assembly and the order Ct the
Governor made passing sweet and trimmed with divers
flowers The meeting described as follows by the Speaker
i'll his report to the London Company:
The mostc convenient place could lind TO slit IN was
the Qure the Church where Sir George Ycadey the Cow
et downe in his accustomed place those Of the coun-
Secretary then appointed Speaker who safe before him.
John Irvine, cerkc OF the General Assembly being placed
the barre be ready for any service the Assembly should
command him. But for much mems aarcs doe little
prosper where Gods service is neglected. all the Buresscs
tooke their places in the Qure until prayer said by
Mr. Buckle, the Minister that it shall please God guide and
sancie all proceedings His glory and to the good
Of this plantation Prayer being ended, to the nene that
had begun at God Almighty might proceed with
awful and due respece toward the Lieutenant most
ous and dreaded Soveraigne, all the Burgesses in
treated to Yctyrc themselves into the body Of the Church
which being DONE before they fully admitted they
called order and by and every (nonc stag
gering at it tooke the Oatic of Supremacy
Mr. Buckle the minister who conducted the religious devo-
tons Of this first Assembly, the minister charge at
Jamestown, and for whose special the building in which
the Assembly had been erected He repued to be
Of good culture and fine character
For long time the proceedings Of this first Assembly
were lost and matter OF pride Americans that it
Mr. Bancroft who discovered them the British Record Of
that had been reported to the London Company by John Po
The manuscript contains thrttwo folio pages
printed in the Senate Documents OF Virginia by the Legis-
laturc OF 1874, and is volume very rare.
According Porys the first formal action Of the
Assembly after it organized the reading Instructions
under which Governor Ycardley acting Next
number Of petitions that be the General Coun
mandei that the patent Captain Martin be withdrawn
contrary to all usages far as Virginia
cerned Che had been made lord Of his mano) the petition
insisting that should be allowed rights which
pended for him the operation Of Virginia laws The insist
equality OF all men before the law and the supre.
Sitting the Of Captain Martins patent
denied the right to participate in the OF the Assembly
Another petition to the London Company asked the
lands already granted by patent should be taken from
the settlers in the allotment OF land to the Governor They
pctitoned further that the company should tenants
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