New: Viginia document 1606

-Author
I believe that the authors of this document were King James, as well as (I assume) a council of advisers.
-Audience
The people who the council of merchants, who were receiving this charter, chose to go to the new world in search of riches.
-Tone
Legal, business-like, commanding.
--Vocabulary
Large words abound, seemingly for the purpose of making the document look more commanding. Much of the language used is old fashioned and very difficult to understand this day and age.
-Purpose and Content
The purpose of this charter is to grant permission for the exploration and colonization of the Americas. As to its content, it consisted of several ground rules and laws, as well as a few taxes on the expected gold and silver deposits.
--Main Idea/Thesis
To provide a legal excuse for taking “unclaimed” land in the New World of America.
-Persuasion
-Ethos (emotions)
As this is a legal document, there is little emotion. It does however attempt to stir up greed, allowing the people who settle in the new land to keep 80% of all valuable minerals (gold and silver) found in the New World, and granting them the right to print their own money.
-Pathos (character)
The people of England were at this time living in very crowded conditions, so this New World, with all its wide open virgin land must have seemed a utopia to the people.
-Logos (logic)
The logic of this document is that the land is populated on by “Naturals”, who can easily be manipulated to allow for the English colonists to take the land for their own.