Old Virginia and her neighbours

John Fiske

Printed at the Riverside Press, 1902

Contents

• A cheering item of therapeutics: 5
• Deepest significance of the discovery of America: 12
• Earliest English references to America 15: 15
• The sea kings were not buccaneers: 28
• Amadis and Barlow visit Pamlico Sound: 37
• The deathblow at Cadiz: 44
• Strange adventures of a manuscript 5051: 50
• Growth of pauperism during the Tudor period 5657: 56
• Beginnings of jointstock companies: 60
• Northern and southern limits of Virginia: 73
• How factions began to be developed within the Lon: 82
• Precautions against a surprise by the Spaniards: 86
• III: 94
• For which Prince Sigismund granted him a coatof: 100
• How he was sold into slavery beyond the Sea of Azov: 103
• How danger may lurk in long grass: 112
• Reason why the Pocahontas incident was omitted: 125
• There is no incongruity between the True Rela: 126
• The Powhatan afterward proclaimed Smith a tribal: 130
• Accuracy of Smiths descriptions: 136
• IV: 140
• Smiths attempts to make glass and soap: 144
• And while peculation and intrigue are rife and we: 150
• His parley with The Powhatan 156: 156
• Pocahontas reveals the plot: 162
• Arrival of young Samuel Argall with news from Lon: 168
• Second Charter of the London Company 1609 169: 169
• How this incident was used by Shakespeare in: 176
• Dismantling of Jamestown and departure of the colony: 182
• To the first English settlers in America a supply: 184
• And but for him the colony would probably have per: 187
• A Draconian code of laws: 194
• How Captain Argall extinguished the Jesuit settlement: 200
• How the English in Virginia began to cultivate: 205
• How this new remodelling of the Company made: 211
• Sudden death of Lord Delaware: 216
• How cargoes of spinsters were sent out by the Company: 222
• Bitter hostility of Spain to the enterprise: 228
• The kings base treachery: 234
• Withdrawal of Sandys and election of Southamp: 238
• His monastic home at Little Gidding: 241
• As to wetting ones feet: 247
• The Virginia assembly makes A Tragical Declara: 255
• The history of a manuscript 260: 260
• THE KINGDOM OF VIRGINIA: 262
• Houses slaves indentured servants and Indians: 269
• Puritans and liberal churchmen: 276
• The virus of liberty: 282
• The case of Captain John Martin: 288
• And against extravagance in dress: 289
• How the convivial governor Dr Pott was tried: 295
• Origin of palatinates 301: 301
• His letter to the king 307308: 307
• How a part of Virginia was granted to him and: 311
• Character of the first Lord Baltimore: 313
• Religious toleration in Maryland: 319
• The ancient halmote and the seneschal: 325
• nor: 329
• LEAH AND RACHEL: 335
• The Virginia council supports Claiborne 34: 341
• Arrest of the principal speakers: 347
• Puritans in Virginia 353354: 353
• Invasion of Maryland by Claiborne and Ingle 359: 359
• Reluctant submission of Virginia to Cromwell: 368

Bibliographic information

• Title: Old Virginia and her neighbours; Volume 4 of The Writings of John Fiske, John Fiske
• Author: John Fiske
• Publisher: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1902
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: Jun 20, 2009