Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Volume 1

John Fiske

Houghton Mifflin, 1897 - Maryland

Contents

• THE SEA KINGS: 1
• John Hawkins and the African slave trade 15: 15
• Growing hostility to Spain in England: 21
• Drake is knighted by the Queen: 27
• The deathblow at Cadiz: 28
• Who concludes that Chesapeake Bay would be better than: 33
• Significance of the defeat of the Armada 39: 39
• English trade with the Netherlands: 45
• Beginnings of jointstock companies: 51
• Extracts from this comedy 5759: 57
• Supposed Sea of Verrazano covering the larger part of: 61
• The three zones in American history: 63
• Expedition of the Plymouth Company and disastrous failure: 70
• Colonists must not send home any discouraging news: 76
• Early life of John Smith: 82
• A cheering item of therapeutics: 88
• The Powhatan tribe confederacy and head warchief: 94
• Execution of a member of the council for mutiny: 100
• Reason why the Pocahontas incident was omitted in: 106
• The rescue of Smith by Pocahontas was an event of real his: 111
• Anas Todkills complaint: 117
• The Company is disappointed at not making more money: 124
• What Smith dreaded: 130
• Suspicions of treachery: 136
• A wily orator: 137
• Smith declares He that will not work shall not eat: 143
• How the good ship Sea Venture was wrecked upon the Ber: 149
• But the timely arrival of Lord Delaware in Hampton Roads: 155
• With much nobility of nature: 157
• Sir Thomas Dale comes to govern Virginia in the capacity: 163
• Her marriage with John Rolfe: 169
• Dialogue between Silenus and Kawasha: 175
• himself and has to apologize: 181
• How this legislative assembly like those afterwards consti: 187
• A SEMINARY OF SEDITION: 193
• The kings base treachery: 199
• His monastic home at Little Gidding: 205
• Spanish methods of colonization contrasted with English: 211
• Object of the charges: 211
• Vain attempts to corrupt Ferrar 215: 215
• Aim of Columbus was to acquire the means for driving: 221
• Houses slaves indentured servants and Indians: 229
• Puritans and liberal churchmen: 235
• How Charles I came to recognize the assembly of Vir: 241
• And against extravagance in dress: 246
• How the convivial governor Dr Pott was tried for stealing: 253
• The bishopric of Durham 259: 259
• How a part of Virginia was granted to him and received: 265
• Religious toleration in Maryland: 272
• Deepest significance of the discovery of America it opened: 274
• Prosperity of the settlement: 275
• Similarities between Durham and Maryland the governor: 281
• After the Cabot voyages England paid little attention: 286
• Kent Island occupied by Claiborne: 287
• Reprisals and skirmishes: 293
• How King Charles sent him back to Virginia: 298
• The new Act of Uniformity 1643: 304
• Migration of Puritans from Virginia to Maryland: 312
• Lord Baltimore is sustained by Cromwell and peace reigns: 318

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Volume 1; Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, John Fiske
• Author: John Fiske
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1897
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 15, 2006