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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
little direct commerce between Albemarle and England; the new officers embarked for Carolina by way of the West Indies, where Eastchurch remained for a season; while Miller proceeded to the province, in which he was now to hold the triple office 1677. July of president or governor, secretary, and collector. The government had for about a year been left in Chap XIII.} 1677 what royalists called ill order and worse hands; Proprietaries, in Williamson, i. 262. that is, it had been a governNew England; and the mariners of Boston, guiding their vessels through the narrow entrances of the bay, brought to the doors of the scattered planters the few foreign articles which the exchange of their produce could purchase. And Chap. XIII.} 1677. yet this inconsiderable traffic, so little alluring, but so convenient to the colonists, was envied by the English merchant; the law of 1672 was now to be enforced; the traders of Boston were to be crowded from the market by an unreasonable duty;
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
rds, that such things have been done in Virginia. Bonds, &c. from 1677 to 1682, p. 106, in office of General Court at Richmond, where I copHening, ii. 460, his death is called infamous and exemplary; and, in 1677, Hening, ii. 374, it is called just, and most exemplary. In Hening, True Account, in Burk, ii. 254. You are very welcome, cried the 1677 Jan. 20. exulting Berkeley, with a low bow, on meeting William Drummat though commissioners arrived with a royal proclama- Chap. XIV.} 1677. Jan. 29. tion, promising pardon to all but Bacon? Hening, ii. 42 Hening, ii. 385, 386. Is it strange that posterity was Chap. XIV.} 1677. for more than a hundred years defrauded of the truth? Every accurareasons. You shall take care, said the king, that the Chap. XIV.} 1677. Feb. members of assembly be elected only by freeholders. In confor 1675 July 8. appointment as governor of Virginia for life, and was 1677 Aug. 25. proclaimed soon after Berkeley's departure. Hening, ii.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
ans and as men, that they may not be brought into bondage, but by their own consent; for we put the power in the people. And on the third day of March, 1677, the 1677. Mar. 3. charter, or fundamental laws, of West New Jersey were perfected and published. They are written with almost as much method as our present constitutions, he principle of democratic equality as unconditionally and universally as the Quaker society itself. No man, nor number of men, hath power over con- Chap XVI.} 1677 Smith, 528-539 science. No person shall at any time, in any ways, or on any pretence, be called in question, or in the least punished or hurt for opinion in religadminister affairs, till a popular government could be instituted. When the vessel, freighted with the men of peace, arrived in America, Andros, the Chap. XVI.} 1677. governor of New York, claimed jurisdiction over their territory. The claim, which, on the feudal system, was perhaps a just one, was compromised as a present que
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
over the intellectual. He floated between the sensuality of indulgence and the sensuality of superstition, hazarding heaven for an ugly mistress, and, to the great delight of abbots and nuns, winning it back again by pricking his flesh with sharp points of iron, and eating no meat on Saturdays. Of the two Life of James II 586. brothers, the duke of Buckingham said well, that Charles would not, and James could not see. James Burnet. put his whole character into his reply to Andros, which 1677. Jan. 1. is as follows:— I cannot but suspect assemblies would be of dangerous consequence; nothing being more known than the aptness of such bodies to assume to themselves many privileges, which prove destructive to, or very often disturb, the peace of government, when they are allowed. Neither do I see any use for them. Things that need redress may be sure of finding it at the quarter sessions, or by the legal and ordinary ways, or, lastly, by appeals to myself. However, I shall be re