Christopher: This is a most interesting quotation. Could we have a more complete citation to it's source, please? Peter Peter V. Bergstrom, PhD Independent historian, PC Services Consultant & Web Designer 336-286-8654 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Christopher Thompson Sent: 19 June 2007 3:13 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: The end of the Virginia Company in June, 1624 A previously unnoticed account of the end of the Virginia Company can be found in Sir Thomas Wentworth's letter of 17th June, 1624. He told Christopher Wandesford that "Yesterday [the] Virginia Patent was overthrown at the [Court of] King's Bench, so an end of that Plantation's Saving. Methinks the Quaternity have before this had a Meeting of Comfort and Consolation, stirring each other up to bear it couragiously, and Sir Edwin Sandes in the midst of them, sadly sighing forth, Oh the Burden of Virginia !" (Knowler, Volume 1, page 21) Christopher Thompson