This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...plea for the present system. Finally, it sought to enlist the self-interest of the king, by reminding him of the loss of future emoluments which he would undergo by making over the quit-rents of Virginia to the Company. In spite of these arguments a charter seems actually to have been drafted and accepted by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...plea for the present system. Finally, it sought to enlist the self-interest of the king, by reminding him of the loss of future emoluments which he would undergo by making over the quit-rents of Virginia to the Company. In spite of these arguments a charter seems actually to have been drafted and accepted by the members of the old Company, and an instruction was given to the Attorney-General that in all grants of territory he should respect their rights.3 Here, however, the matter seems to have abruptly ended, and for seven years no further step was taken towards calling the Company into existence. In 1639, however, the colonists became again apprehensive of such an attempt. To meet it they sent an agent to England with instructions to oppose the threatened change. Their choice fell on George Sandys, a brother of that Sir Edwin Sandys whose Sandys's courageous and self-sacrificing efforts on behalf of the ftseconsed colony have been already recorded. The choice seems a quences.' strange, and proved an unhappy one. Sandys, as might be supposed, was an ally and friend of Ferrar, and all his interests were naturally identified with those of the old Company. We may suppose that he was a man of somewhat elastic sympathies, since in 1631 we find him petitioning the king to appoint him secretary to a committee of the Privy Council who were to settle the affairs of Virginia.2 It seems somewhat strange that the Assembly should have chosen for its representative a man whose earliest associations connected him with that very corporation which it was now their object to withstand, and whose latter conduct showed, to say the least of it, a somewhat supple and courtier-like spirit. Possibly, it was that very fact which led them to select him as likely to be acceptable to...
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