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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 16 2 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
ing reserved to the governor; but no law or ordinance would be valid, unless ratified by the company in England. It was further agreed, that, after the government of the colony shall have once been framed, no orders of the court in London shall bind the colony, unless they be in like manner ratified Chap. IV.} 1621. by the general assembly. The courts of justice were required to conform to the laws and manner of trial used in the realm of England. Such was the constitution which Sir Francis Wyatt, the successor of the mild but inefficient Yeardley, was commissioned to bear to the colony. The system of representative government and trial by jury thus became in the new hemisphere an acknowledged right. Henceforward the supreme power was held to reside in the hands of the colonial parliament, and of the king, as king of Virginia. On this ordinance Virginia erected the superstructure of her liberties. Its influences were wide and enduring, and can be traced through all her hist
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
discouraged its increase by a special tax upon female slaves. Hening, II. 84, Act LIV. March, 1662. The statute implies, that the rule already existed. If Wyatt, on his arrival in Virginia, found the evil 1621 of negro slavery engrafted on the social system, he brought with him the memorable ordinance, on which the fabricdelight in the lock and key, that he would lock and unlock the door a hundred times a day, and thought the device incomparable. Smith, II. 68. Stith, 211. When Wyatt arrived, the natives expressed a fear lest his intentions should be hostile: he assured them of his wish to preserve inviolable peace; and the emigrants had no useg Virginia. The fate of the London company found little sympathy; in the domestic government and franchises of the colony, it produced no immediate change. Sir Francis Wyatt, though he had been an ardent friend of the London company, was confirmed in office; and he and his Aug 26. council, far from being rendered absolute, were
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
onial 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 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, representativeable oppression. Hening, l. 231. At length he was superseded, and Sir Francis 1639. Nov. Wyatt Rymer, XX. 484. Hazard, i. 477. Savage on Winthrop, II. 160, 161. Hening, i. 224, and 4. ut Keith, and Beverly, and Chalmers, and Burk, and Marshall, were ignorant of such a governor as Wyatt, in 1639, and represent Berkeley as the immediate successor of Harvey. appointed in his stead. rians, who make an opposite statement, are wholly ignorant of the intermediate administration of Wyatt; a government so suited to the tastes and habits of the planters, that it passed silently away,