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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
e colonial assemblies. For some months, the organization of the government was not changed; and when Wyatt retired, Sir George 1626. Yeardley was appointed his successor. This appointment was in itself a guaranty, that, as the former interests of Virginia were to be kept inviolate, Letter of the privy council, in Burk, II. 18 so the representative government, the chief political interest, would be maintained; for it was Yeardley who had had the glory of introducing the system. In the Mar. 4. commission now issued, Hazard, i. 230—234. the monarch expressed his desire to benefit, encourage and perfect the plantation; the same means, that were formerly thought fit for the maintenance of the colony, were continued; and the power of the governor and council was limited, as it had before been done in the commission of Wyatt, Chap. VI.} by a reference to the usages of the last five years. In that period, representative liberty had become the custom of Virginia. The words were in