Button, Thomas, owner of _Button's Ridge_, 49. Byrd, William I, says rent rolls inaccurate, 52; 109; uses slaves, 130. Byrd, William II, gives reasons for emigration to _Carolina_, 146. Carter, John, 109. Carter, Robert, has 126 slaves, 153. Carleill, Capt. Christopher, urges trade with America, 11. Carolina, emigration to from Virginia, 99-100; 139-146. Cattle, plentiful in Virginia, 101. Chambers, William, servants and slaves of, 59. Chandler, John, landowning freedman, 74. Charles I, considers smoking harmful, 26; tries to limit tobacco planting in Virginia, 27; tries to limit English tobacco crop, 63; limits price of tobacco, 65; regulates tobacco trade, 67-69; 70; defied by _Assembly_, 110; 111. Charles II, 33; proclaimed in Virginia, 84; 111; 93; 96; not restored in Virginia before Restoration in England, 112; tyranny of, 114. Charles City, plantations small, 53; 54; farms and tithables of, 58; 79; 81. Chastellux, describes poor whites of Virginia, 152; notes indolence of poor whites, 155. Chew, Larkin, dealer in _Spotsylvania_ land, 154. Claiborne, William, deals in servants, 48. Clayton, Thomas, 80. Clergy, many plant tobacco, 28. Clothing, want of felt in Virginia, 103. Cloyse, Pettyplace, landowning freedman, 74. Cole, Edward, patents land in _James City_, 77. Colonial expansion, sought as remedy for British economic dependence, 10; urged by economists, 11; 12; 13. Colonial system, 68; imperfectly enforced prior to 1660, 67-69; 85-86; embodied in _Navigation Acts_, 85; colonies to supplement England, 86; workings of at end of 17th century, 120; British conception of, 136. Commerce, of England with Baltic, 8; principles of long known, 11; of England with Europe and East, 12; of England with France declines, 13; affords key to history, 22; in reëxported tobacco, 70; in tobacco revives after 1683, 114-115; in reëxported tobacco, 116-120; importance of in tobacco for England, 119, 122. Commonwealth, tobacco high under, 66; Virginians trade abroad under, 69; 98; attitude of Virginia under, 110-11. Constable, John, trades illegally, 69. Cooke, John, landowning freedman, 74. Cornell, Samuel, servants and slaves of, 59. Council, 65; complains of high freight rates, 72; 90; describes poverty in Virginia, 91; says Virginia ready to revolt to Dutch, 96; 109; 110; members of hold land illegally, 143; gives reasons for immigration out of Virginia, 145; describes misery in Virginia, 150; declining influence of, 159. Creighton, Henry, sells 100 acres, 50. Criminals, few sent to Virginia, 32, 33; make no imprint on social fabric, 33. Crocker, Wm., servants and slaves of, 59.