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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
om regard for Virginia liberties, as to recover a prerogative for the crown. Lord Howard of Effingham was Culpepper's success- Aug sor. Like so many before and after him, he solicited office in AV.} are yet obscured and perverted by men's interests and habits. In Virginia, the avarice of Effingham was the public scorn; in England, it met with no severe reprobation. The accession of Jamesaws, 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 inte 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. XIV.} The councilloras imprisoned and loaded with irons for treasonable expressions. The servile counsel imitated Effingham and King James; they pledged to the king their lives and fortunes, but the 1687. April 4. peo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
English; and the deputies from the Mohawks and the three offending tribes, 1684 July 13. soon joined by the Senecas, met the governors of New York and Virginia at Albany. To the complaints and the pacific proposals of Lord Colden Howard of Effingham, Cadianne, the Mohawk orator, July 14 replied:— Sachem of Virginia, and you, Corlaer, sachem of New York, give ear, for we will not conceal the evil that has been done. The orator then rebuked the Oneidas, Onondagas, and Cayugas, for their want of faith, and gave them a belt of wampum, to quicken their memory. Then, turning to Effingham, he continued:— Great sachem of Virginia, these three beaver-skins are a token of our gladness that your heart is softened; these two of our joy, that the axe is to be buried. We are glad that you will bury in the pit what is past. Let the earth be trod hard over it; let a strong stream run under the pit, to wash the evil away out of our sight and remembrance, so that it never may be dig