The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia

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Notes Abbreviations and Short Titles DVB John T. Kneebone et al., eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond, 1988–) JSH Journal of Southern History LVA Library of Virginia PRO Public Record Office Series, National Archives of Great Britain PRO CO Public Record Office, Colonial Office series, National Archives of Great Britain RG Record Group Statutes at William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection Large of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 . . . (Richmond, etc., 1809–23) UVA University of Virginia VHS Virginia Historical Society VMHB Virginia Magazine of History and Biography WMQ William and Mary Quarterly Prologue 1. Thomas Yong to Worthy Sir, 13 July 1634, LVA, quotations on unnumbered pp. 4, 5, 8; also printed in Plowden Charles Jennett Weston, ed., Documents Connected with the History of South Carolina (London, 1856), 29–44, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th ser., 9 (1871): 81–115, and in part in Clayton Colman Hall, ed., Original Narratives of Early American History: Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633– 1684 (New York, 1910), 53–61. 2. J. Mills Thornton III, “The Thrusting Out of Governor Harvey: A SeventeenthCentury Rebellion,” VMHB 76 (1968): 11–26. 3. George Donne, “Virginia Reviewed” (n.d., ca. 1638), quotation on fol. 13, Harleian MSS, 7021, British Library; also printed in part in T. H. Breen, ed., “George Donne’s ‘Virginia Reviewed’: A 1638 Plan to Reform Colonial Society,” WMQ, 3d ser., 30 (1973): 449–66. 4. L.G. [Lionel Gatford], Publick Good Without Private Interest. Or, a Compendious Remonstrance of the Present Sad State and Condition of the English Colonie in Virginea. With a Modest Declaration of the Several Causes Why it Hath not Prospered Better 398 notes to pages 5–16 Hitherto; as also, a Submissive Suggestion to the Most Prudentiall Probable Wayes, and Means, Both Divine and Civill for its Happyer Improvement (London, 1657), 10, 11, 16. 5. Morgan Godwyn, The Negro’s & Indians Advocate, Suing for Their Admission into the Church: or, A Persuasive to the Instructing and Baptizing of the Negro’s and Indians in our Plantations. Shewing That as the Compliance Therewith Can Prejudice no Mans Just Interest; So the Wilful Neglecting and Opposing of it, is no Less than a Manifest Apostacy from the Christian Faith. To Which is Added, A Brief Account of Religion in Virginia (London, 1680), 76 (quotation), 167–74. 6. Gilbert Chinard, trans. and ed., A Huguenot Exile in Virginia: or Voyages of a Frenchman Exiled for His Religion with a Description of Virginia and Maryland (New York, 1934), 142, translating Durand Dauphiné, Voyages d’un Francois, Exilé pour la Religion, avec Une Description de la Virgine & Marilan dans L’Amerique (The Hague, 1687), 96, “arrivant chez lui, jecreus d’aborder dans un aflez grand Bourg, & je sceus ensuite que rout lui apartenoit.” 7. Hunter Dickinson Farish, ed., Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773–1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion (Williamsburg, 1943), 211. 8. Anthony S. Parent Jr., Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660– 1740 (Chapel Hill, 2003). 9. John Hammond, Leah and Rachel: Or, The Two Fruitfull Sisters Virginia and Maryland : Their Present Condition, Impartially Stated and Related (London, 1656). 1 For the Glory of God and the Good of the Plantation 1. Jon Kukla, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1619–1776 (Richmond , 1981), 3–10, 31–34; Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (Richmond, 2004), 5–10. 2. Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, and the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of June, 1614. Together, with a Relation of the Severall English Townes and Forts, the Assured Hopes of That Countrie and the Peace Concluded with the Indians. The Christening of Powhatans Daughter and her Mariage with an English-man. Written by Raphe Hamor the yonger, Late Secretarie in that Colony (London , 1615), 33. 3. Quotations from the Book of Common Prayer taken from an 1844 London facsimile of Richard Grafton’s 1559 London first edition. 4. Quotations from the Bible taken from a 1969 University of Wisconsin Press facsimile of Roland Hall’s 1560 Geneva first edition. 5. DVB 2:377–78. 6. William J. Van Schreeven and George H. Reese, eds., Proceedings of the General Assembly of Virginia, July 30–August 4, 1619 (Jamestown, 1969) (including on evennumbered pages a facsimile of the original in...