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be the favorite resort of voluntary emigrants. Men were attracted to the New World by the spirit of enterprise and the love of freedom. In Virginia, industry was depressed and the royal authority severe. The presence of a frigate had sharpened the zeal of the royal officers in enforcing the acts of navigation. The new tax in England, on the consumption of tobacco, 685. was injurious to the producer. Culpepper and his council had arraigned a printer for publishing the laws, and 1683. Feb. 23. ordered him to print nothing till the king's pleasure was known. And Effingham was the bearer of the royal pleasure. The best proof which Charles ii. had given of his interest in Virginia, was the express instruction to allow no printing-press on any pretence whatever. Hening, ii. 518 Chalmers, 545. The rule was continued under James ii. The methods of despotism are monotonous To perfect the system, Effingham established a chancery court, in which he himself was chancellor. Chap.