Concession and Agreement (1664)
“ If any such person holding any land shall fail by himself his agents, executors or assigns, or some other way to provide such number of persons, unless the General Assembly shall without respect to poverty, judge it was impossible for the party so failing, to keep or procure his or her member of servants to be provided as aforesaid; in such case we the Lords to have power of disposing of so much of such land as shall not he planted with its due number of persons as aforesaid, to some others that will plant the same. ”
