Nobody Remembers the London Company And Savages
Nobody Remembers
I was reading today that the richest man in congress is Darrel Issa. Issa reportedly has a net worth of $355.38 million. How did he get so rich? Wall Street. But I happen to like Darrel. And I bet if he had lived back in 19th century England, he might have been one of the investors who put their money in the London Company, which founded the first permanent English colony in America: Jamestown.
In 1609, a few very rich men in London, just got together, formed a company, and simply——gave themselves some land!
“Our license to make habitation, plantation, and to deduce a colony of sundry of Our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia, and other parts and territories in America, either appertaining unto US, or which are not now actually possessed by an Christian price of people, lying and being all along the seacoast between 34 degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, and 45 degrees of the same latitude and in the mainland between the same and the islands thereunto adjacent or within 100 miles of the coast thereof.”
Evidently, they felt free to claim land to be theirs, because there were no Christians living on it. And they also had good intentions:
“We, greatly commending and graciously accepting of, their desires for the furtherance of so noble a work, which may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and my in time bring the infidels and savages living in those parts to human civility and to a settled and quiet government. “
Tell me? Doesn’t this sound like the same doctrine that the Muslims practice now? The Muslims have always gobbled up lands with the very same reasoning’s: Everyone who is not a Muslim is an infidel. They made the churches into Mosques in every town they “took” over.
And yes, the English “took over” America.
It’s always nice to use religion as an excuse to take land isn’t it? Once “god” gave them the idea in the old testament, no man on earth could refuse to use it as a logical reason to steal.
(Boy, I could really get into THIS stuff couldn’t I? LOL!)
The very rich lords of the London company didn’t stop there: they GAVE rights to everybody to just about everything:
“all the lands, soils, grounds, havens, ports, rivers, mines, minerals, woods, waters, marshes, fishing’s, commodities, and …..”
Lawyers have not changed, have they? And the lawyers said that each colony should have a counsel of 13, who would answer to a colony of 13 in London. And everybody could have a merry old time, mining and fishing, as long as they paid their…tax..or due. The rich men expected their “investment” to send profits:
“Yielding therefore to Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, the fifth part only of all the same gold and silver, and the fifteenth part of all the same copper so to be gotten or had, as is aforesaid, without any other manner of profit or account to be given or yielded to Us.”
Wow…only a fifth? We pay half our paycheck to taxes. But these rich guys added one more very important thing to the Charter, probably the most important.
“Our subjects, which shall dwell and inhabit within every or any of the said several colonies and plantations, and every of their children which shall happen to be born within any of the limits and precincts of the said several colonies and plantations, shall have and enjoy all liberties, franchises, and immunities, within any of our other dominions, to all intent and purposes as if they had been abiding and born, within this Our Realm of England , or any of Our said dominions.
So it was in the First Charter of Virginia, in a town named after the King of England, that the citizens were granted the very same rights of the mother country.
This was in 1606. By 1776, we were fighting with the mother country for the same rights promised in the first Charter of Virginia. Somewhere the “we just want a fifth” became, “we want to tax paper, tea, and you can’t own land, or do anything on that land…”
The rich men of London company were pretty nice guys, and they started a great migration by investing their own money.
So, that brings us back to the rich men in our Congress…
Where do THEIR investments go? And why do they not give us, their ‘subjects’ the same liberties as we had in the First Charter of Virginia?
And shouldn’t it be about time they start investing in colonies on the Moon?
What? You say there are no savages there? What? No fun?
Nobody Remembers: He Ate His Wife
Nobody Remembers
It didn’t make the sports page, but some ‘scientists’ were all surprised to find out that John Smith’s words were actually true: In 1609, the few people left in Jamestown, the first colony of Virginia, were so hungry they dug up people and started eating them. They have found the remains of a 14- year old girl, whose bones were thrown in with the other animal bones, and cuts to prove she was carved up like the rest.
I’m not sure how Queen Elizabeth feels about this discovery.
From the News:
Despite this and other textual references to cannibalism, though, there had never been hard physical evidence that it had occurred—until now. Kelso’s team discovered the girl’s remains during the summer of 2012. “We found a deposit of refuse that contained butchered horse and dog bones. That was only done in times of extreme hunger. As we excavated, we found human teeth and then a partial human skull,” says Kelso.
You have to ask yourself, why question this now? Here’s John’s actual words recorded for history:
“We were at sea five months, where we both spent our victual and lost the opportunity of the time and season to plant, by the unskillful presumption of our ignorant transporters, that understood not at all what they undertook…
(Translation: They were use to buying food at the market, nobody knew a twit about feeding themselves.)
As for our hogs, hens, goats, sheep, horses, or what lived, our commanders, officers and savages daily consumed them, some small proportions sometimes we waited till all was devoured. Then swords, arms, pieces, or anything we traded with the savages, whose cruel fingers were so oft imbrued in our blood, that what by their cruelly. our governor’s indiscretion, and the loss of our ships of 500 within six months after Captain Smith’s departure there remained not past 60 men women and children, most miserable and poor creatures. And those were preserved for the most part by roots, herbs, acorns, walnuts, berries, now and then a little fish. They that had starch in these extremities made no small use of it: yea event the very skins of our horses.
Nay, so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him. and so did diverse one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs. And one among the rest did kill his wife, powdered her, and had eaten part of her before it was known, for which he was executed as he well deserved. Now whether she was better roasted, boiled, or carbonadoed (broiled ) I now not: but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard.
And so we see a bit of British humor showing through at this accounting of cannibalism, and who no doubt left out a few more savages that might have been consumed.
Don’t feel too bad for the Indians, they did a lot of ‘human’ eating too.
Not exactly a great beginning, but the moral of Jamestown, which we could apple to Katrina, or the United States of America..when the going gets tough, the top of the totem pole will survive. Best to have a plan B. 
The rich get the good stuff, and it will always happen that way in history. When the solar event finally comes, Sir Richard Branson will load up his deepest friends in his private space ship and be off to the moon.
Even back in 1609, the officers and commanders of the ship got all the meat and food. If they had rationed the food with the rest of the people, they might have all survived.
The poor guy gets the crumbs, and who ends up eating his poor wife?
She must have cooked him a bad squirrel.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
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