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stered upon the basis of martial law. The code, written in blood, and printed and sent to Virginia by the treasurer, Sir Thomas Smith, on his own authority, and without the order or assent of the company, was chiefly a trans- Chap IV.} 161 lation fnt citadel, more than as citizens and freemen. The charter of the London company See the charter, sec. XXIV. Compare Smith, II. 10,11; Stith, 122, 123, and 293; Purchas, IV. 1767. had invested the governor with full authority, in cases of rebelct; and now the fields, the gardens, the public squares, and even the streets of Jamestown, were planted with tobacco; Smith, II. 33. and the colonists dispersed, unmindful of security in their eagerness for gain. Tobacco, as it gave animation tents and fruitless suits. Virginia, for twelve years after its settlement, had languished under the government of Sir Thomas Smith, treasurer of the Virginia company in England. The colony was ruled during that period by laws written in blood; an