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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
he instructions Ibid. 131—133. given him, far from granting franchises to the Virginians, imposed most severe and unwarrantable restrictions on the liberty of trade; and, by the prerogative, England claimed that monopoly of colonial commerce, which was ultimately enforced by the navigation act of Charles II., and which never ceased to be a subject of dispute till the war of independence. The nature of those instructions will presently be explained. It was in February, 1642, that Sir William Berke- 1642. icy, arriving in the colony, assumed the government. His arrival must have been nearly simultaneous with the adjournment of the general assembly, which was held in the preceding January. The acts of that session are most, but are referred to in Hening, i. 267—269, in the acts 49, 50, 51, 52. The statutes, of course, call the year 1641, as the year then began in March. He found the American planters in possession of a large share of the legislative authority; and he confir