Note 1 — 1631, January 6.

A communication from the Privy Council to the Governor of Virginia, inclosing the proclamation and directing the observance of its regulations, is preserved among the records in the Public Record Office. An order from the Council to the farmers and officers of customs, issued at the same time, directs that Spanish tobacco will pay a duty of 2s. per pound, St. Christopher's, Barbadoes, and the adjacent islands 12d. per pound, and Virginia and the Somers Islands 9d. per pound. (Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1574-1660, p. 125). For the various restrictions upon the growth of tobacco in the plantations, see Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, i, 304-309.