[20] This law was reënacted in the same words in 1632 and 1642.
[21] This immunity is copied from that of members of the English Parliament for some centuries preceding.
[22] Travel was mainly by water. To "take a voyage" was equivalent to "make a journey."
[23] This finds its modern parallel in our custom that prevents the collection of gambling debts by legal process.
[VI. THE ASSEMBLY DURING THE COMMONWEALTH]
34. Virginia and the Parliamentary Commissioners, 1652
Hening's Statutes, I, 363 ff.
Cf. American History and Government, § 337, for the supremacy of the Assembly during the Commonwealth.
Articles agreed on and concluded at James Cittie in Virginia for the surrendering and settling of that plantation under the obedience and government of the Common Wealth of England, by the commissioners of the Councill of State, by authoritie of the Parliament of England, and by the Grand Assembly of the Governour, Councill, and Burgesses of that countrey.
First. It is agreed and consented that the plantation of Virginia, and all the inhabitants thereof, shall be and remaine in due obedience and subjection to the common wealth of England, according to the lawes there established. And that this submission and subscription bee acknowledged a voluntary act, not forced nor constrained by a conquest upon the countrey. And that they shall have and enjoy such freedomes and priviledges as belong to the free borne people of England, and that the former government by the commissioners and instructions be void and null.