Note 5 — LA PAIX.
Reading edition
The act is in Hening, Statutes at Large of Virginia, III. 176-179, passed in May, 1699. It had been superseded by the act 11 and 12 Will. III. c. 7, passed in the session of Parliament just ended, that of Nov. 16, 1699-Apr. 11, 1700, but that fact would not yet be known in Virginia. On Apr. 28, 1699, the Virginia council had issued a proclamation against pirates, which is printed in the Virginia Magazine of History, VIII. 191.