[179:A] Chalmers' Introduction, i. 22. Beverley, B. i. 47, says expressly that an assembly was allowed. Burk, ii. 15, asserts that "assemblies convened and deliberated in the usual form, unchecked and uninterrupted by royal interference, from the dissolution of the proprietary government to the period when a regular constitution was sent over with Sir W. Berkeley in 1639." For authority reference is made to a document in the Appendix, which document, however, is not to be found there. The opinions of Chalmers--who, as clerk of the privy council, had access to the archives in England--and Hening, confirmed by a corresponding hiatus in the records, appear conclusive against the unsupported statements of Beverley and Burk. [180:A] Belknap, art. WYAT, errs in making Sir John Harvey the successor. [181:A] The number of cattle amounted to several thousand head; the stock of goats was large, and their increase rapid; the forests abounded with wild hogs, which were killed and eaten by the savages. [183:A] 1625. [184:A] Burk, ii. 25; Hen., i. 73, 97. [184:B] 1 Hen., 552. [184:C] Belknap, iii. 206; Allen's Biog. Dic., art. CALVERT. [185:A] 1 Hening, 149. [186:A] 1 Hening, 155, 175. CHAPTER XX. 1632-1635. Charles the First appoints Council of Superintendence for Virginia--Acts of Assembly--William Clayborne authorized by the Crown to make Discoveries and Trade--George Lord Baltimore dies--The Patent of Territory granted is confirmed to his Son Cecilius, Lord Baltimore--Virginia remonstrates against the grant to Baltimore--Lord Baltimore employs his Brother, Leonard Calvert, to found the Colony of Maryland--St. Mary's Settled--Harvey visits Calvert--Clayborne's Opposition to the New Colony--Character of Baltimore's Patent--Contest between Clayborne and the Marylanders--He is convicted of High Crimes--Escapes to Virginia--Goes to England for trial of the Case. IN the year 1632 King Charles issued a commission appointing a Council of Superintendence over Virginia, empowering them to ascertain the state and condition of the colony. The commissioners were Edward, Earl of Dorset, Henry, Earl of Derby, Dudley, Viscount Dorchester, Sir John Coke, Sir John Davers, Sir Robert Killegrew, Sir Thomas Rowe, Sir Robert Heath, Sir Kineage Tench, Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir John Holstenholm, Sir Francis Wyat, Sir John Brooks, Sir Kenelm Digby, Sir John Tench, John Banks, Esq., Thomas Gibbs, Esq., Samuel Rott, Esq., George Sands, Esq., John Wolstenholm, Esq., Nicholas Ferrar, Esq., Gabriel Barber, and John Ferrar, Esquires.[187:A]