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al governments; The statements in this paragraph derive ample confirmation from the very copious Dutch Records at Albany, IV. 91; IX. 57—59; IV. 96. 122. 165. 198; particularly IV. 211, where the rumor of an intended prohibition of Dutch trade in Virginia is alluded to in a letter from the W. I. Co. to Stuyvesant. That was in 1656, precisely at the time referred to in the rambling complaint in Hazard, i. 600, and still more in the very rare little volume by L. G. Public Good without Private Interest, or a Compendious Remonstrance of the Present Sad State and Condition of the English Colonie in Virginea; 1657; p. 13, 14. The prohibition alluded to is not in the Navigation Act of St. John, nor did any such go into effect. See Albany Records, IV. 236. The very rare tract of L. G., I obtained through the kindness of John Brown, of Providence. and at last a special statute of 1660 Virginia extended to every Christian nation, in amity with England, a promise of liberty to trade and eq
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rop's Journal, II. 77, 78. 95, 96, and 164, 165. Hubbard's New England, 410 411. Johnson, b. III. c. XI. in II. Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 29. Hening, i. 275. Sir William Berkeley was a courtier, and very malignant towards the way of the churches are three contemporary guides: the statutes of the time, in Hening, i.; The Perfect Description of Virginia, in II. Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 115—117; and the Reports of the exiled Puritans, in Winthrop, II. 165. So little was apprehended, when the London, two from Bristol, twelve Hollanders, and seven from New England. New Description of Virginia, 15, in II. Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 118. The number of the colonists was already twenty thousand; and they, who had sustained no griefs, were not tvernor continued to be claimed by the representatives of the people, Hening, i. 431. and Samuel Matthews, II. Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 119. son of an old planter, was next 1658. honored with the office. But, from too exalted ideas of his statio
Churchill (search for this): chapter 10
able dwellings that were scattered along the rivers and among the wilds of Virginia, the Cavaliers, exiles like their monarch, met in frequent groups to recount their toils, to sigh over defeats, and to nourish loyalty and hope. Norwood, in Churchill, VI. 160—186. Hammond's Leah and Rachel, 16. The faithfulness of the Virginians Chap VI.} 1650 June. did not escape the attention of the royal exile; from his retreat in Breda he transmitted to Berkeley a new commission; Chalmers, 122. he At the restoration, Virginia enjoyed freedom of commerce with the whole world. Religious liberty advanced under the influence of independent domestic legislation. No churches had been erected except in the heart of the colony Norwood, in Churchill, VI. 186. and there were so few ministers, that a bounty was offered for their importation. Hening, i. 418. Conformity had, in the reign of Chap VI.} Charles, been enforced by measures of disfranchisement and exile. Ibid. i. 123. 144. 1
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ntry felt itself honored by those who were Virginians born; Thurloe, II. 274. and emigrants never again desired to live in England. Hammond, 8. Prosperity advanced with freedom; dreams of new staples and infinite wealth were indulged; E. Williams, Virginia, and Virginia's Discovery of Silk-worms, 1650. while the population of Virginia, at the epoch of the restoration, may have been about thirty thousand. Many of the recent emigrants had been royalists in England, good officers in the ation of all the Indians justified the belief, that, within ten days journey towards the setting of the sun, there was a country where gold might be washed from the sand, and where the natives themselves had learned the use of the crucible; E. Williams, Virginia, &c. 17. Comp. Silliman's Journal, on the mines of N. C. XXIII. 8, 9. but definite and accurate as were the accounts, inquiry was always baffled; and the regions of gold remained for two centuries an undiscovered land. Various we
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was already enjoyed. They gave the colony liberty to choose its own governor; but it had no dislike to berkeley; and though there was a party for the parliament, yet the king's authority was maintained. Winthrop, II. 159, 160, and the note of Savage. The sovereignty of Charles had ever been mildly exercised. The condition of contending parties in England had 1643 Mar. now given to Virginia an opportunity of legislation Chap. VI.} 1643. independent of European control; and the voluntary whom they should not be able to murder by surprise. On the eighteenth day of April, The reader is cautioned against the inaccuracies of Beverley, Oldmixon, and, on this subject, of Burk. See Winthrop's Journal, II. 165. Compare the note of Savage, whose sagacious conjecture is confirmed in Hening, i. 290, Act 4, session of February, 1645. the time appointed for the carnage, the unexpected onset was begun upon the frontier settlements. But hardly had the Indians steeped their hands in blo
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an be established. The instructions to Sir William Berkeley do not first order assemblies; but spea 1642, two months only after the accession of Berkeley, a public document declares the comparative hh a governor as Wyatt, in 1639, and represent Berkeley as the immediate successor of Harvey. appoint 484—486. was issued to Sir 1641. Aug. 9 William Berkeley. Historians, reasoning, from the revolut under their respective governments; and 1641 Berkeley is said to have restored the system of freedoy, except in its statutes. The commission of Berkeley was exactly analogous to those of his predeceanter a friend. The mansion and the purse of Berkeley were open to all; and at the hospitable dwell; from his retreat in Breda he transmitted to Berkeley a new commission; Chalmers, 122. he still ed, King Charles, on the appointment of Sir William Berkeley, devised the expedient which was destine, Dutch Records, at Albany, XXIV. 302, where Berkeley writes like an independent sovereign. Whatso[7 more...]
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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,
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elves had learned the use of the crucible; E. Williams, Virginia, &c. 17. Comp. Silliman's Journal, on the mines of N. C. XXIII. 8, 9. but definite and accurate as were the accounts, inquiry was always baffled; and the regions of gold remained for two centuries an undiscovered land. Various were the employments by which the calmness of life was relieved. George Sandys, an idle man, who had been a great traveller, and who did not remain in America, a poet, whose verse was tolerated by Dryden and praised by Izaak Walton, beguiled the ennui of his seclusion by translating the whole of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Rymer, XVIII. 676, 677. Walton's Hooker, 32. To the man of leisure, the chase furnished a perpetual resource. It was not long before the horse was multiplied in Virginia; and to improve that noble animal was early an object of pride, soon to be favored by legislation. Speed was especially valued; and the planter's pace became a proverb. Equally proverbial was the hospit
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ons, charters, and instructions, which emanated from the monarch. The prudent forecast of Henry VII. had considered the advantages which might be derived from a colonial monopoly; and while ample privileges were bestowed on the adventurers who sailed for the New World, he stipulated that the exclusive staple of its commerce should be made in England. Hazard, i. 10, and 13, 14. Biddle's Cabot, 309. A century of ill success had checked the extravagance of hope; and as the charters of Gilbert and of Raleigh had contained Chap VI.} little but concessions, suited to invite those eminent men to engage with earnestness in the career of western discoveries, so the first charter for Virginia ex- 1606 pressly admitted strangers to trade with the colony on payment of a small discriminating duty. Charter, s. 13, in Hen. i. 63. On the enlargement of the company, the intercourse with for- 1609 signers was still permitted; nor were any limits assigned to the commerce in which they mig
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the colonial legislature. The utmost harmony prevailed; the memory of factions was lost in a general amnesty of ancient griefs. The lapse of years had so far effaced the divisions which grew out of the dissolution of the company, that when George Sandys, an agent of the colony, and an opponent of the royal party in England, presented a petition to the commons, praying for the restoration of the ancient patents, Chalmers, 121. Hening, i. 230. the royalist assembly promptly disavowed the d C. XXIII. 8, 9. but definite and accurate as were the accounts, inquiry was always baffled; and the regions of gold remained for two centuries an undiscovered land. Various were the employments by which the calmness of life was relieved. George Sandys, an idle man, who had been a great traveller, and who did not remain in America, a poet, whose verse was tolerated by Dryden and praised by Izaak Walton, beguiled the ennui of his seclusion by translating the whole of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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