Summary review of the founding of Virginia[191]-[194]
Bitter hostility of Spain to the enterprise[194]
Gondomar and the Spanish match[195]
Gondomar's advice to the king[196]
How Sir Walter Raleigh was kept twelve years in prison[197]
But was then released and sent on an expedition to Guiana[198]
The king's base treachery[199]
Judicial murder of Raleigh[200]
How the king attempted to interfere with the Company's
election of treasurer in 1620[201]
How the king's emissaries listened to the reading of the
charter[202]
Withdrawal of Sandys and election of Southampton[203]
Life and character of Nicholas Ferrar[203]-[205]
His monastic home at Little Gidding[205]
How disputes rose high in the Company's quarter sessions[206], [207]
How the House of Commons rebuked the king[207], [208]
How Nathaniel Butler was accused of robbery and screened
himself by writing a pamphlet abusing the Company[208]
Some of his charges and how they were answered by Virginia
settlers[209]
As to malaria[209]
As to wetting one's feet[210]
As to dying under hedges[211]
As to the houses and their situations[211], [212]
Object of the charges[212]
Virginia assembly denies the allegations[213]
The Lord Treasurer demands that Ferrar shall answer the
charges[214]
A cogent answer is returned[214], [215]
Vain attempts to corrupt Ferrar[215], [216]
How the wolf was set to investigate the dogs[216]
The Virginia assembly makes "A Tragical Declaration"[217]
On the attorney-general's advice a quo warranto
is served[217], [218]
How the Company appealed to Parliament, and the king refused
to allow the appeal[217], [218]
The attorney-general's irresistible logic[219]
Lord Strafford's glee[220]
How Nicholas Ferrar had the records copied[221], [222]
The history of a manuscript[221], [222]

CHAPTER VII.

THE KINGDOM OF VIRGINIA.

A retrospect[223]
Tidewater Virginia[224]
A receding frontier[224], [225]
The plantations[225]
Boroughs and burgesses[226]
Boroughs and hundreds[227], [228]
Houses, slaves, indentured servants, and Indians[229]
Virginia agriculture in the time of Charles I[230]
Increasing cultivation of tobacco[231]
Literature; how George Sandys entreated the Muses with
success[232]
Provisions for higher education[233]
Project for a university in the city of Henricus cut short by
the Indian massacre[234]
Puritans and liberal churchmen[235]
How the Company of Massachusetts Bay learned a lesson
from the fate of its predecessor, the London Company
for Virginia[236],[237]
Death of James I[238]
Effect upon Virginia of the downfall of the Company[238]-[240]
The virus of liberty[240]
How Charles I. came to recognize the assembly of Virginia[241]-[243]
Some account of the first American legislature[243], [244]
How Edward Sharpless had part of one ear cut off[245]
The case of Captain John Martin[245]
How the assembly provided for the education of Indians[246]
And for the punishment of drunkards[246]
And against extravagance in dress[246]
How flirting was threatened with the whipping-post[247]
And scandalous gossip with the pillory[247]
How the minister's salary was assured him[247]
How he was warned against too much drinking and card-playing[248]
Penalties for Sabbath-breaking[248]
Inn-keepers forbidden to adulterate liquors or to charge too
much per gallon or glass[249]
A statute against forestalling[249], [250]
How Charles I. called the new colony "Our kingdom of
Virginia"[251]
How the convivial governor Dr. Pott was tried for stealing
cattle, but pardoned for the sake of his medical services[253]
Growth of Virginia from 1624 to 1642[253], [254]

CHAPTER VIII.

THE MARYLAND PALATINATE.

The Irish village of Baltimore[255]
Early career of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore[255], [256]
How James I. granted him a palatinate in Newfoundland[256]
Origin of palatinates[256], [257]
Changes in English palatinates[258], [259]
The bishopric of Durham[259], [260]
Durham and Avalon[260]
How Lord Baltimore fared in his colony of Avalon in Newfoundland[261]
His letter to the king[262]
How he visited Virginia but was not cordially received[263], [264]
How a part of Virginia was granted to him and received the
name of Maryland[265]
Fate of the Avalon charter[266]
Character of the first Lord Baltimore[267]
Early career of Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore[268]
How the founding of Maryland introduced into America a
new type of colonial government[269], [270]
Ecclesiastical powers of the Lord Proprietor[271]
Religious toleration in Maryland[272]
The first settlement at St. Mary's[273]
Relations with the Indians[274]
Prosperity of the settlement[275]
Comparison of the palatinate government of Maryland with
that of the bishopric of Durham[275]-[285]
The constitution of Durham; the receiver-general[276]
Lord lieutenant and high sheriff[276]
Chancellor of temporalities[277]
The ancient halmote and the seneschal[277]
The bishop's council[278]
Durham not represented in the House of Commons until
after 1660[278]
Limitations upon Durham autonomy[279]
The palatinate type in America[280]
Similarities between Durham and Maryland; the governor[281]
Secretary; surveyor-general; muster master-general; sheriffs[282]
The courts[282], [283]
The primary assembly[283]
Question as to the initiative in legislation[284]
The representative assembly[284], [285]
Lord Baltimore's power more absolute than that of any king
of England save perhaps Henry VIII[285]

CHAPTER IX.

LEAH AND RACHEL.

William Claiborne and his projects[286]
Kent Island occupied by Claiborne[287]
Conflicting grants[288]
Star Chamber decision and Claiborne's resistance[289]
Lord Baltimore's instructions[290]
The Virginia council supports Claiborne[290], [291]
Complications with the Indians[291], [292]
Reprisals and skirmishes[293]
Affairs in Virginia; complaints against Governor Harvey[293], [294]
Rage of Virginia against Maryland[294], [295]
How Rev. Anthony Panton called Mr. Secretary Kemp a
jackanapes[295]
Indignation meeting at the house of William Warren[296]
Arrest of the principal speakers[296]
Scene in the council room[296], [297]
How Sir John Harvey was thrust out of the government[297]
How King Charles sent him back to Virginia[298]
Downfall of Harvey[299]
George Evelin sent to Kent Island[299]
Kent Island seized by Leonard Calvert[300]
The Lords of Trade decide against Claiborne[301]
Puritans in Virginia[301], [302]
The Act of Uniformity of 1631[303]
Puritan ministers sent from New England to Virginia[303]
The new Act of Uniformity, 1643[304]
Expulsion of the New England ministers[304]
Indian massacre of 1644[305]
Conflicting views of theodicy[306]
Invasion of Maryland by Claiborne and Ingle[306]-[308]
Expulsion of Claiborne and Ingle from Maryland[308]
Lord Baltimore appoints William Stone as governor[308]
Toleration Act of 1649[309]-[311]
Migration of Puritans from Virginia to Maryland[312]
Designs of the Puritans[313]
Reluctant submission of Virginia to Cromwell[314]
Claiborne and Bennett undertake to settle the affairs of
Maryland[315]
Renewal of the troubles[316]
The Puritan Assembly and its notion of a toleration act[316]
Civil war in Maryland; battle of the Severn, 1655[317]
Lord Baltimore is sustained by Cromwell and peace reigns
once more[318]