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appear in
England to answer for their crimes. Meanwhile, to rebuke the dangerous
precedent set in Virginia, he thought it necessary to restore Harvey
to his government.[45]
Harvey did not enjoy his second lease of power long, for the king, in
the vicissitudes of English politics, found it wise to turn once more
a favorable ear to the friends of the old company, and in January,
1639, Sir Francis Wyatt, who had governed Virginia so acceptably once
before, was commissioned to succeed Harvey. The former councillors in
Virginia were restored to power, and in the king's instructions to
Wyatt the name of Captain West was inserted as "Muster-Master-General"
in Charles's own handwriting.[46]
[Footnote 1: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, II., 543-554;
_First Republic_, 165-167.]
[Footnote 2: Brown, _English Politics in Early Virginia History_,
24-33.]
[Footnote 3: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, II., 775-779,
797-799.]
[Footnote 4: Ibid., 967.]
[Footnote 5: Virginia Company, _Proceedings_ (Va. Hist. Soc.,
_Collections_, new series, VII., VIII.), I., 65, II., 198.]
[Footnote 6: _Discourse of the Old Company_, in _Va. Magazine_, I.,
157.]
[Footnote 7: Instructions to Yardley, 1618, ibid., II., 154-165.]
[Footnote 8: _Assembly Journal_, 1619, in Va. State Senate
_Documents_, 1874.]
[Footnote 9: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 541.]
[Footnote 10: Virginia Company, _Proceedings_ (Va. Hist. Soc.,
_Collections_, new series, VII.), I., 67.]
[Footnote 11: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, II., 1014;
Bradford, _Plymouth_, 47.]
[Footnote 12: Virginia Company, _Proceedings_ (Va. Hist. Soc.,
_Collections_, new series, VII.), I., 78.]
[Footnote 13: Peckard, _Ferrar_, 115.]
[Footnote 14: _Discourse of the Old Company_, in _Va. Magazine_, I.,
161.]
[Footnote 15: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 562.]
[Footnote 16: _Breife Declaration_; Neill, _Virginia Company_,
395-406.]
[Footnote 17: Neill, _Virginia Company_, 334.]
[Footnote 18: Brown, _First Republic_, 464, 467.]
[Footnote 19: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 539.]
[Footnote 20: _William and Mary Quarterly_, IX., 203-214; Neill,
_Virginia Company_, 293, 307-321; Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.),
572-594.]
[Footnote 21: Neill, _Virginia Company_, 364, 366.]
[Footnote 22: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 263.]
[Footnote 23: _Discourse of the Old Company_, in _Va. Magazine_, I.,
291-293.]
[Footnote 24: Neill, _Virginia Company_,
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