Скачать книгу

55 82. An anniversary feast upon that occasion, 56 83. The king commands the building a fort at Jamestown, 56 84. A new restraint on the plantations by act of parliament, 56 85. Endeavors for a stint in planting tobacco, 56 86. Another endeavor at a stint defeated, 57 87. The king sent instructions to build forts, and confine the trade to certain ports, 57 88. The disappointment of those ports, 58 89. Encouragement of manufactures enlarged, 58 90. An attempt to discovery the country backward, 59 Captain Batt's relation of that discovery, 59 91. Sir William Berkeley intends to prosecute that discovery in person, 60 92. The grounds of Bacon's rebellion, 60 Four ingredients thereto, 61 93. First, the low price of tobacco, 61 Second, splitting the country into proprieties, 61 The country send agents, to complain of the propriety grants, 61 94. Third, new duties by act in England on the plantations, 62 95. Fourth, disturbances on the land frontiers by the Indians, 62 First, by the Indians on the head of the bay, 62 Second, by the Indians on their own frontiers, 63 96. The people rise against the Indians, 63 They choose Nathan Bacon, Jr., for their leader, 63 97. He heads them, and sends to the governor for a commission, 64 98. He begins his march without a commission, 64 The governor sends for him, 65 99. Bacon goes down in a sloop with forty of his men to the governor, 65 100. Goes away in a huff, is pursued and brought back by governor, 65 101. Bacon steals privately out of town, and marches down to the assembly with six hundred of his volunteers, 65 102. The governor, by advice of assembly, signs a commission to Mr. Bacon to be general, 66 103. Bacon being marched away with his men is proclaimed rebel, 66 104. Bacon returns with his forces to Jamestown, 66 105. The governor flies to Accomac, 66

Скачать книгу