Sir George Yeardley and His Voyage of 1609-1610 to Virginia in the Sea Adventure and Deliverance: Governor of Virginia 1619-1621, 1626-1627 : Notes of an Oral Address Before the Council of the Society, April 6th, 1914, Volumen35Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors, 1914 - 34 páginas |
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Página 11 - A Note of the Shipping, Men and Provisions sent to Virginia by The Treasurer and Company in the Yeare, 1619.
Página 34 - In might or swift prevention : but the sword Of Michael from the armoury of God Was given him tempered so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge...
Página 34 - That the planters might have a hande in the governing of themselves, yt was graunted that a generall assemblie shoulde be helde yearly once, whereat were to be present the governor and counsell with two burgesses from each plantation, freely to be elected by the inhabitantes thereof, this assemblie to have power to make and ordaine whatsoever lawes and orders should by them be thought good and profitable for their subsistence.
Página 34 - English colonists who first settled in America at Jamestown brought with them, by their charter, all the rights of Englishmen. But local self-government was not accorded to the Virginians at first. They suffered great hardships for twelve years under what resembled a military government, until the year 1619, when the colony was deemed sufficiently grown to warrant an assembly. In that year Sir George Yeardley arrived with the commission of governor-general from the London company, which had planted...
Página 9 - ... whether they should continue the war in Europe in order to force the King of Spain to recognise the right of these adventurers to trade within certain limits, or whether the war was from henceforth to be carried on in one hemisphere alone. If Spain insisted that there should be no peace beyond the line,3 it would be better to leave her to reap the fruits of a policy which before long would give birth to the buccaneers.
Página 20 - It was 8, 1610 no red man's canoe. It was a longboat. Yes, Heaven be praised ! the governor's own longboat with a message. His three wellstocked ships had passed Point Comfort, and he himself was with them ! Despair gave place to exultant hope, words of gratitude and congratulation were exchanged, and the prows were turned up-stream. On Sunday the three staunch captains stood with their followers drawn up in military array before the dismantled ruins of Jamestown, while Lord Delaware stepped from...
Página 26 - All the islands and firm lands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered from the said line toward the west and south, such as have not actually been heretofore possessed by any other Christian king or prince until the day of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus...
Página 29 - ... Cromwell's mind, with its Elizabethan outlook, doubtless exaggerated their effect. A warfare of reprisal limited in scope was still generally distinguished from a regularly declared conflict, and Cromwell's instructions to General Venables, the military commander, show that this was his purpose : " Either there was peace with the Spaniards in the West Indies, or there was not. If peace, they had violated it, and to seek reparation was just.
Página 26 - Apostolic power, do give, grant, and assign to you, your heirs and successors, all the firm lands and islands found or to be found, discovered or to be discovered toward the west and south...
Página 25 - ... piety and conscienceless avarice: they were the exponents of the controlling spirit of the nation at that period. Spain was now emerging from a position of inferiority among the nations, and the national mind was exalted with a sense of greatness that naturally predisposed to aggrandizement of empire. Previous to the conquest of Granada and the unification of Aragon and Castile in the persons of Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain had presented to the world little more than the spectacle of a group...