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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
tion of the people; exercising supreme authority, and distributing power as the public welfare required. Hening's note, i. 369. Nor was this an accidental and transient arrangement. Cromwell never made any appointments for Virginia; not one governor acted under his commission. Hening, i. Preface, 13. When Bennett retired from office, the assembly Chap. VI.} 1655. Mar. 31. itself elected his successor; and Edward Diggs, who had before been chosen of the council, Ibid. 388. November, 1654. and who had given a signal testimony of his fidelity to Virginia, and to the commonwealth of England, Ibid. i. 388. received the suffrages. Ibid. 408. Compare Hening, i. 5, and also 426. The commissioners in the colony Ibid. 428 and 432. Haz. i. 594. were rather engaged in settling the affairs and adjusting the boundaries of Maryland, than in controlling the destinies of Virginia. The right of electing the governor continued to be claimed by the representatives of the peopl