[CHAPTER IV.]

History of the government, from the dissolution of the company to the year 1707.

§53.King Charles First establishes the constitution of government, in the methods appointed by the first assembly,[45]
54.The ground of the ill settlement of Virginia,[45]
55.Lord Baltimore in Virginia,[46]
56.Lord Baltimore, proprietor of Maryland,[46]
Maryland named from the queen,[46]
57.Young Lord Baltimore seats Maryland,[46]
Misfortune to Virginia, by making Maryland a distinct government,[47]
58.Great grants and defalcations from Virginia,[47]
59.Governor Harvey sent prisoner to England, and by the king remanded back governor again,[47]
60.The last Indian massacre,[48]
61.A character and account of Oppechancanough, the Indian emperor,[48]
62.Sir William Berkeley made governor,[49]
63.He takes Oppechancanough prisoner,[49]
Oppechancanough's death,[50]
64.A new peace with the Indians, but the country disturbed by the troubles in England,[50]
65.Virginia subdued by the protector, Cromwell,[50]
66.He binds the plantations by an act of navigation,[51]
67.His jealousy and change of governors in Virginia,[51]
68.Upon the death of Matthews, the protector's governor, Sir William Berkeley is chosen by the people,[52]
69.He proclaims King Charles II before he was proclaimed in England,[52]
70.King Charles II renews Sir William Berkeley's commission,[52]
71.Sir William Berkeley makes Colonel Morrison deputy governor, and goes to England,[53]
The king renews the act concerning the plantation,[53]
72.The laws revised,[53]
The church of England established by law,[53]
73.Clergy provided for by law,[53]
74.The public charge of the government sustained by law,[53]
75.Encouragement of particular manufactures by law,[54]
76.The instruction for all ships to enter at Jamestown, used by law,[54]
77.Indian affairs settled by law,[54]
78.Jamestown encouraged by law,[54]
79.Restraints upon sectaries in religion,[55]
80.A plot to subvert the government,[55]
81.The defeat of the plot,[55]
82.An anniversary feast upon that occasion,[56]
83.The king commands the building a fort at Jamestown,[56]
84.A new restraint on the plantations by act of parliament,[56]
85.Endeavors for a stint in planting tobacco,[56]
86.Another endeavor at a stint defeated,[57]
87.The king sent instructions to build forts, and confine the trade to certain ports,[57]
88.The disappointment of those ports,[58]
89.Encouragement of manufactures enlarged,[58]
90.An attempt to discovery the country backward,[59]
Captain Batt's relation of that discovery,[59]
91.Sir William Berkeley intends to prosecute that discovery in person,[60]
92.The grounds of Bacon's rebellion,[60]
Four ingredients thereto,[61]
93.First, the low price of tobacco,[61]
Second, splitting the country into proprieties,[61]
The country send agents, to complain of the propriety grants,[61]
94.Third, new duties by act in England on the plantations,[62]
95.Fourth, disturbances on the land frontiers by the Indians,[62]
First, by the Indians on the head of the bay,[62]
Second, by the Indians on their own frontiers,[63]
96.The people rise against the Indians,[63]
They choose Nathan Bacon, Jr., for their leader,[63]
97.He heads them, and sends to the governor for a commission,[64]
98.He begins his march without a commission,[64]
The governor sends for him,[65]
99.Bacon goes down in a sloop with forty of his men to the governor,[65]
100.Goes away in a huff, is pursued and brought back by governor,[65]
101.Bacon steals privately out of town, and marches down to the assembly with six hundred of his volunteers,[65]
102.The governor, by advice of assembly, signs a commission to Mr. Bacon to be general,[66]
103.Bacon being marched away with his men is proclaimed rebel,[66]
104.Bacon returns with his forces to Jamestown,[66]
105.The governor flies to Accomac,[66]
The people there begin to make terms with him,[67]
106.Bacon holds a convention of gentlemen,[67]
They propose to take an oath to him,[67]
107.The forms of the oath,[67]
108.The governor makes head against him,[69]
General Bacon's death,[69]
109.Bacon's followers surrender upon articles,[69]
110.The agents compound with the proprietors,[69]
111.A new charter to Virginia,[70]
112.Soldiers arrive from England,[70]
113.The dissolution by Bacon's rebellion,[70]
114.Commissioners arrive in Virginia, and Sir William Berkeley returns to England,[71]
115.Herbert Jeffreys, esq., governor, concludes peace with Indians,[71]
116.Sir Henry Chicheley, deputy governor, builds forts against Indians,[71]
The assembly prohibited the importation of tobacco,[72]
117.Lord Colepepper, governor,[72]
118.Lord Colepepper's first assembly,[72]
He passes several obliging acts to the country,[72]
119.He doubles the governor's salary,[72]
120.He imposes the perquisite of ship money,[73]
121.He, by proclamation, raises the value of Spanish coins, and lowers it again,[73]
122.Sir Henry Chicheley, deputy governor,[74]
The plant cutting,[74]
123.Lord Colepepper's second assembly,[75]
He takes away appeals to the assembly,[75]
124.His advantage thereby in the propriety of the Northern Neck,[76]
125.He retrenches the new methods of court proceedings,[77]
126.He dismantled the forts on the heads of rivers, and appointed rangers in their stead,[77]
127.Secretary Spencer, president,[77]
128.Lord Effingham, governor,[77]
Some of his extraordinary methods of getting money,[77]
Complaints against him,[78]
129.Duty on liquors first raised,[78]
130.Court of Chancery by Lord Effingham,[78]
131.Colonel Bacon, president,[79]
The college designed,[79]
132.Francis Nicholson, lieutenant governor,[79]
He studies popularity,[79]
The college proposed to him,[79]
He refuses to call an assembly,[79]
133.He grants a brief to the college,[79]
134.The assembly address King William and Queen Mary for a college charter,[80]
The education intended by this college,[80]
The assembly present the lieutenant governor,[80]
His method of securing this present,[80]
135.Their majesties grant the charter,[80]
They grant liberally towards the building and endowing of it,[80]
136.The lieutenant governor encourages towns and manufactures,[80]
Gentlemen of the council complain of him and are misused,[81]
He falls off from the encouragement of the towns and trade,[81]
137.Edmund Andros, governor,[81]
The town law suspended,[81]
138.The project of a post office,[81]
139.The college charter arrived,[81]
The college further endowed, and the foundation laid,[82]
140.Sir Edmund Andros encourages manufactures, and regulates the secretary's office,[82]
141.A child born in the old age of the parents,[83]
142.Francis Nicholson, governor,[83]
His and Colonel Quarrey's memorials against plantations,[84]
143.His zeal for the church and college,[84]
144.He removes the general court from Jamestown,[84]
145.The taking of the pirate,[84]
146.The sham bills of nine hundred pounds for New York,[86]
147.Colonel Quarrey's unjust memorials,[87]
148.Governor Nott arrived,[88]
149.Revisal of the law finished,[88]
150.Ports and towns again set on foot,[88]
151.Slaves a real estate,[88]
152.A house built for the governor,[88]
Governor dies, and the college burnt,[88]
153.Edmond Jennings, esq., president,[89]
154.Alexander Spotswood, lieutenant governor,[89]

[BOOK II.]

Natural Productions and Conveniences of Virginia in its unimproved state, before the English went thither.

[CHAPTER I.]

Bounds and Coast of Virginia.

§1.Present bounds of Virginia,[90]
2.Chesapeake bay, and the sea coast of Virginia,[91]
3.What is meant by the word Virginia in this book,[91]

[CHAPTER II.]

Of the Waters.