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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
obacco; desiring, at the same time, that an assembly might be convened to consider his proposal. Burk, II. 19,20. Hening, i. 129. This is the first recognition, on the part of a Stuart, of a representative assembly in America Hitherto, the king had, fortunately for the colony, Chap. VI.} found no time to take order for its government. His zeal for an exclusive contract led him to observe and to sanction the existence of an elective legislature. The assembly, in its answer, acquiesced 1628. Mar. 26. in the royal monopoly, but protested against its being farmed out to individuals. The independent reply of the assembly was signed by the governor, by five members of the council, and by thirty-one burgesses. The Virginians, happier than the people of England, enjoyed a faithful representative government, and, through the resident planters who composed the council, they repeatedly elected their own governor. When West designed to embark for Europe, his place was supplied by elect
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
shing stations, they do not seem to have prospered. When the country on Massachusetts Bay was 1628. granted to a company, of which the zeal and success were soon to overshadow all the efforts of plities were no where successfully attempted, except in America. Port Royal fell easily into the 1628. hands of the English; the conquest was no more than the acquisition of a small trading station. severities of the English hierarchy. The business came afresh to agitation in Lon- Chap. IX.} 1628. don; the project of planting by the help of fishing voyages was given up; and from London, Lincod's worship, as prescribed by English statutes; a man of dauntless courage, and that Chap. IX.} 1628. cheerfulness which accompanies courage benevolent, though austere; firm, though choleric; of a rany, counselled by White, an eminent lawyer, and supported by the time-serving cour- Chap. IX.} 1628. tier, Lord Dorchester, better known as Sir Dudley Carleton, who, in December, became Secretary o