1. You shall with the fist convenience embarque your selves upon Our good Ship the Bristoll. (and with what speede you can wind and weather permitting) Transport yourselves to said Our Colony of Virginia.

2. Being arrived there, You shall in the first place take all the convenient wayes you can of informing yourselves truly and thoroughly of the State of Affaires in that Our Colony; And as often as you shall judge it necessary, make use of those Powers allowed you in Our Commission given you.

3. You shall bee assistant to Our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in chiefe there with your counsell and advise whensoever he shall demand it; and particularly in that affaire of renewing a Peace with the Neighbour Indians, in which Wee doe particularly Order him to demand your assistance.

4. You shall have delivered to you a Copy of the Instruccons given to Sir William Berkley Our then Governor of that our Colony at Our first coming to the exercise of Our Royall authority in England, and you shall informe yourselves how those Instruccons have beene pusued, and wherein there hath beene any failer; and upon what grounds, and by whose neglect and wilfull fault.

5. You shall informe yourselves of all grievances in generall, but particularly of that which the people seeme soe much concerned in the great Salary paid to the Members of the Assembly: and you shall bee, assistant with your advice to Our Lieutenant Governor in causing an immediate redresse of it.

6. You shall take all the opportunityes you can to possesse Our Subjects of that Colony, That as Wee are and ever wilbe severe in punishing such as shall wilfully violate Our Lawes and Royall Authority, and shall presume to Encourage or abett Tumults and Rebellions, Soe shall Wee be noe lesse indulgent to the just Complaints of Our opressed people, and assoone as informed of their Grievances direct proportionable redresse for them, and take such resentment upon the authors and continuers of them, as the quality of the Offence shall require; And this you may lett them know was the chiefe cause of Our sending you thither.

7. You shall make particular acquaitance with those of Our Councill there and that not onely in generall as a Councill but seperately and in their particular persons, both in order to a cleerer and more impartiall informacon of yourselves of Affaires in Generall, and likewise to render Yourselves more capable of informing Us of the Capacity & dispositions of those that compose the Councill; and how farr fitted and qualified for such a trust.

8. You shall likewise make a particular Enquiry into the Militia of that Countrey; the quality, disposition and capacity of the Officers, soe that at your returne (or sooner) Wee may have from You a thorough Informacon of the Strength, and alsoe of the defects of that Government.

9. The like Enquiry You shall make into the Lawes of that place, of which You are to return us a Copie to be inspected here, together with your remarks upon them and which and why you think inconvient and fitt to be altered, or abrogated.

10. You shall upon all occasions give unto Us, or to one of Our Principall Secretaryes of State, an Account of all Your Proceedings, and of the Condicon of Affaires there. Given att Our Court att Whitehall the 9th day of November 1676 in the 28th yeare of Our Raigne.

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