Beverley Robert

The History of Virginia, in Four Parts


Скачать книгу

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