Quit rents: paid to King, 31; tax on land, 115; proposed to quadruple, 115; Nicholson's rent roll, 135; Dinwiddie reports loss, 198 Randolph, Edmund: convention of 1776, 255 Randolph, Sir John: Tory, leaves Virginia, 242 Randolph, Peyton: takes Burgesses' protest, 198; ousted as Attorney General, 199; reinstated, 200; protests Stamp Act, 224; to submit, 226; moderator, 234; committee of correspondence, 237; Continental Congress, 240; prevents storming of Palace, 245 Ratcliffe, John: member of Council, 4 Rebellion: Secretary Ludwell fears, 80; Virginia "ripe for," 82; Berkeley fears, 83; outbreaks in 1674, 83, 84; Virginia ready for, 85; led by Bacon, 87-96; influence of Bacon's rebellion, 95, 96; causes of, 96; threatened in 1677, 100; in 1689, 120, 121 Richmond, Duke of: supports colonists, 241 Rights, Declaration of: committee to prepare, 256 Robinson, John: Speaker and Treasurer, 28; Fauquier wins support, 210; death, 221; illegal loans of, 221 Rolfe, John: cures tobacco, 15 Sandys, Sir Edwin: Puritan, 8; Treasurer of London Company, 8; gets new charters, 8; Virginia Magna Carta, 8; sent to Tower, 11; fights to save charter, 12; advises restoring Company, 13; champions English liberty, 15 Sandys, George: asks revival of Company, 17 Second Stuart Despotism: influence on colonies, 3, 106-121 Secretary of State: duties of, 33 Sheriffs: political use of by Berkeley, 78; Bacon's Laws, 91; Effingham uses, 118; Nicholson uses, 137, 138 Slavery: effect on aristocracy, 152; cheapens tobacco, 184; small planters buy, 184, 185; slave plots, 186; duty on slaves vetoed, 186, 187; Virginia resents vetoes, 187; Dunmore recruits slaves, 250 Smith, Capt. John: imprisoned, 4; hanging threatened, 5; sole Councillor, 5 Smith, Col. Joseph: accused by court, 178; Burgesses reprimand, 178; Drysdale removes, 179 Smith, Col. Lawrence: sued for quit rents, 135 Sons of Liberty: 229 Speaker: prestige, 28; Nicholson threatens, 139; made Treasurer, 210; Fauquier ordered to separate, 210 Spencer, Nicholas: fears mutiny in 1677, 100