To Have & To Hold by Mary Johnson Chapter 9 Page 24

He who at his first coming, beside a great deal of worth in his person, brought only his sword hath grown to be as very a Sir Oracle among us as ever I saw. It’s ‘Sir George says this,’ and ‘Sir George says that,’ and so there’s an end on’t. It’s all because of that leave to cut your own throats in your own way that he brought you last year. Sir George and Sir Edwyn! Zooks! you had better dub them St. George and St. Edwyn at once, and be done with it. Well, on this occasion Sir George stands up and says roundly, with a good round oath to boot: ‘The King’s commands have always come to us through the Company. The Company obeys the King; we obey the Company. His Majesty’s demand (with reverence I speak it) is out of all order. Let the Company, through the treasurer, command us to send