A Gen'll Accompt of Her Maj'ty's Revenue of Quitrents arising within the Colony of Virginia. ACRES. The Receiver Gen'll doth charge himself with the Receipt 4296 19 103 142450 The Quitrent of Glocester at 88. 4d. p. hundred of Tobo. 142 9 0 of the Said Revenue as follows. The balance of the last Accompt, 61300 The Qt. of York at the same rate, 173608 The Qt. of New Kent at the same rate, 98011 The Qt. of King William at the same rate, 161441 The Qt. of King and Queen at the same rate, 140924 The Qt. of Essex at the same rate, The Qt. of James City part at 8s. 4d. and part at 6s. pr. 108366 p. hundred, 131174 The Qt. of Nansemond at 6s. 2d. p. hundred, Several compositions for Land escheated to Her Maj'ty, The Receiver Gen'll doth likewise discharge himself by By pay'd Mr. Com'ry Blair one year's salary ended the 61 6 0 173 12 2 98 0 3 161 8 10 49 12 0 14018 6 29 19 0 105 7 129 4 5 43 6 98 09 2359 8016 2 97 1 3 92109 7318 2 59 36 122 50 61 5 7 1418 3 6155 8 3 100 0 0 By Salary to the Sheriffs at 10 per cent for collecting By Salary to the Receiver Gen'll at 71 pr. cent for receiv- 184 7 1 125 11 11 So that the whole Summ distributed amounts to 409 18 21 5745 10 11 6145 8 34 1703. A GENERAL ACCOMPT Of the Two Shillings pr. Hhd. &c. beginning the 24th of July 1688 and ending the 25th of October 1704. BY WILLIAM BYRD REC'R GEN'LL. A Gen'll Accompt of His Maj'ty's Revenne of 2s. p. hhd. Fifteen pence p. Ton and Six pence p. Poll arising within the colony of Virginia. The Rec'r Gen'll doth charge himself with the receipt of ye said Revenue as follows: For Colo. Math. Page's Accompt of the Upper District of James For Col. Wm. Cole's Accompt of the Lower District of James For Col. John Custis's Accompt of Accomac District, The Receiver Gen'll doth likewise discharge himself by ye payment of ye following sums. By pay'd to ye Ld. Effingham for Salary til ye 24th of June By pay'd to the same one year's Houserent, By pay'd to Wm. Blathwayt Esq. Aud'r Gen'll of ye Planta 608 0 74 527 0 6 137 11 458 4 3 74613 84 1153 18 4 3631 8 6 611 12 3 150 0 0 350 0 tions one year's Salary, 100 0 0 By pay'd to John Povey Esq. Solicitor of ye Virginia affairs one year's Salary, 100 0 0 By pay'd to Edmund Jenings Esq. Attorney Gen'll one year's 40 0 By pay'd Wm. Edwards Clerk of the Council one year's Salary 30 00 Salary, 15 0 0 By pay'd to Edw'd Cawlins Gunner of James Fort one year's Salary, 10 0 0 By pay'd to Gerrard Fitzgerrald Gunner of Rappahannock one year's Salary, By pay'd to the Several Ministers for preaching, 10 0 0 198 7 9 By Salary to ye Rec'r Gen'll at 71 p. cent for receiving £3268. 5. 9. 245 25 So that the whole Summ disburst amounts to 2233 5 2 1398 3 4 1689. 3631 863 A General Accompt of Her Maj'ty's Revenue of Two Shillings p. hhd., Ffteen pence p. Tun and Six pence p. Poll arising within the colony of Virginia. The Receiver Gen'll doth charge himself with the receipt of the said Revenue as follows: The Ballance of the last Accompt, The Accompt of the upper District of James River, 490 1 74 666 4 498 14 1297 11 6 The Accompt of the District of Rappahannock, So that ye whole Summ which ye said Receiver doth charge The Receiver Gen'll doth likewise discharge himself by the payment of the following summ: 754 2 4 442 11 9 350 4152 10 24 By half a year's Salary to the Governour ended ye 25th of October 1704, 1000 0 0 By half a year's Houserent to the same time, 75 0 By half a year's Satary to the Council, 175 0 000 By half a year's Salary to the Auditor Gen'll of the Plantations, 50 0 By half a year's Salary to the Solicitor of Virginia, 50 By half a year's Salary to the Attorney Gen'll, 20 By half a year's Salary to the Clerk of the Council, 25 0 By half a year's Salary ty the Gunner of James City, 710 By pay'd to Several Ministers for attending one Gen❜lí Court, 5 0 0 193 0 4 By Salary to the Naval Officers at 10 p. cent for collecting £3659. 3. 7, 365 18 4 By Salary to the Receiver Gen'll at 7p. cent for receiving £3296. 10. 3, 247 49 So that the whole summ disburst amounts to, And there is due to Her Maj'ty for so much more Revenue received than pay'd by the said Receiver Gen'll the summ of 1938 16 93 221313 5 4152 10 2 OCTOBER 25. 1704. LORD CULPEPER'S LETTERS. [We submit here the copies of Two Letters from Thomas, Lord Culpeper, sometime Governor of Virginia, written from this country to his sister in England, in the year 1680, which we mentioned in our last number as having been communicated by the Hon. Charles Wykeham Martin, of Leeds Castle, M. P to Conway Robinson, Esq., the Chairman of the Executive Committee of our Virginia Historical Society, who has obligingly handed them over to us for publication in our work. We are sure our readers will peruse them with some interest--especially from their association with the history of our State. It is true they are dated from Boston; to which place, it seems, the writer had repaired (rather strangely for the time,) on his way from Jamestown to London; and relate mainly to matters and things thereabouts, and the perils of his recent voyage which had like to have cost him his life; but they refer also—or the first of them does-to his late residence and administration in Virginia, and the last pays a compliment to our country, at that early period, in comparison with Old England, which we can all readily appropriate and enjoy.] Copy of a Letter from Lord Culpepper to his Sister. BOSTON IN NEW ENGLAND, 20th September, 1680. "Dear Sister :—I suppose it will not be unacceptable to you to heare from me and therefore I write this note only to let you know that I am here But that both myself and all with me are perfectly well, And that on the 10th day of August that I left Virginia every Individuall person that came over with me in the Oxford (Soldiers as well as Servants) were so too, except only Mr. Jones, who had been very sick of the Seasoning (though occasioned first by drinking) but was on the mending hand alsoe. Those with me are John Polyn, the Cooke, the Page, the great Footman and the little one that embroiders. I was received here with all the militia, viz: (Twelve companies) in armes and have been highly treated beyond my expectation or Desert. I am lodged to my wish, and find no difference between this place and Old England but onely want of company. I have not been sick one day since I saw you (which was more than I could say last Summer) nor once taken any kind of physick, but for prevention of Acute diseases have been twice Let Blood, and now and then fasted at night. The Last time of my bleeding was here on the 10th instant which I shall remember good while, for goeing out some time after though I was very well let blood, yet my arme being ill tyed, the orifice burst. out bleeding afresh which I did not soe soone perceive but that I lost at least 7 or 8 ounces of blood before I could have help to remedy it, but I verily believe It will prove to be better for me. Besides this small Accident, I have had nothing memorable during my whole voyage but the great danger I escaped on the 22nd of August (being Sunday) about 2 in the morning in coming hither that our Shippe ran aground in unknown shoales with a fresh gust of wind, and lay beating two or three houres in a night as Darke as pitch five miles from any land, and every minute or rather knock, expecting our last Doome, and that shee would bulge and break in pieces, but wee being on the Tayle of the sand and Deepe water to the Leeward of us, the strength of the wind made us beat it over, and when wee absolutely dispaired of any helpe but our long boat which could hardly have lived with six persons in that rough sea, when we were foure and Twenty, we found ourselves aflote again miraculously I think verily. The owner of the shippe was Mr. Jarvis (that married our Cousin Nat Bacon the Rebel's widow) and the name the Betty, being her Xtian name. He and John Polien were almost out of their wits, and I |