The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the PeopleEggleston, Edward
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People
Eggleston, Edward
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
On his enemies in Virginia the younger Baltimore took ample vengeance.
He got one of the queen's household appointed treasurer of the colony,
and the Virginians found themselves obliged to pay the quitrents,
which had been neglected and apparently forgotten. Other officers of
the colony were nominated by Baltimore. Harvey, the governor, hoping
to collect money due him from the royal treasury by Baltimore's
assistance, was his obsequious tool, to the bitter indignation of the
Virginians, who hated Baltimore not only because he was a Romanist,
but also because he had divided the first colony and cut off the
northern Indian trade from Virginia. In consequence of the quarrel
between Harvey and the Virginians over Maryland there ensued a
revolution in Virginia; Harvey was shipped to England by the same bold
men who had sent the first Lord Baltimore packing. But Harvey was sent
back again by the king, and by this counter revolution the colonial
constitution of Virginia was modified for the worse. It was altogether
an exquisite revenge.
[Sidenote: Baltimore seeks to control Virginia.]
[Sidenote: Note 21.]
Cecilius meditated even a bolder stroke. He schemed through Windebank
to have himself made governor of Virginia, promising to wring out of
it eight thousand pounds more of revenue for the king from some
neglected sources. To achieve this, he proposed a scheme by which
Windebank was to impose on the king's credulity. Secretary Windebank
may have recoiled from the part he was to play; it is certain that
Charles was not persuaded to hand over Virginia bound hand and foot
into the power of the proprietary of the rival colony.
XVIII.
[Sidenote: Cautious policy of Baltimore.]
[Sidenote: Baltimore's instructions, 15 Nov., 1633, Calvert Papers.]
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