Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 4: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past; July December, 1881 Every day's proceeding of this General Assembly is carefully entered in detail, Various petitions were presented and dis cussed - the instructions given by the Coun Oil in England to several Governors as might be converted into laws were debated. Laws against idleness, gaming, drunkenness, excess in apparel, and on a variety of other subjects, were enacted. Orders for the planting of corn, mulberry, silk, flax, hemp, and aniseed, were established, and resolu tions on other matters were passed. On Sunday, August 1, 1619, the entry is only one line, Mr. Shelley, one of the Burgesses, deceased. But the sultry days of August had arrived, the season was one of the hottest hitherto known in that southern climate, the Governor was not well, the heat had overcome many of the Members, and so, on Wednesday, August 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.