ook to proclaim it. I myself have frequently heard him boast that he
gave this money out of his own pocket, and only depended on the queen's
bounty to repay him: though the money is not paid by him to this day.

Sec. 147. Neither was he contented to spread abroad this untruth there; but
he also foisted it into a memorial of Col. Quarry's to the council of
trade, in which are these words:

"As soon as Governor Nicholson found the assembly of Virginia would not
see their own interest, nor comply with her majesty's orders, he went
immediately to New York; and out of his great zeal to the queen's
service, and the security of her province, he gave his own bills for
900 pounds to answer the quota of Virginia, wholly depending on her
majesty's favor to reimburse him out of the revenues in that province.

"Certainly his excellency and Colonel Quarry, by whose joint wisdom and
sincerity this memorial was composed, must believe that the council of
trade have very imperfect intelligence how matters pass in that part of
the world, or else they would not presume to impose such a banter upon
them."

But this is nothing, if compared with some other passages of that unjust
representation, wherein they took upon them to describe the people of
"Virginia to be both numerous and rich, of republican notions and
principles such as ought to be corrected and lowered in time; and that
then, or never, was the time to maintain the queen's prerogatives, and
put a stop to those wrong, pernicious notions which were improving
daily, not only in Virginia but in all her majesty's other governments.
A frown now from her majesty will do more than an army hereafter," &c.

With those inhuman, false imputations, did those gentlemen afterwards
introduce the necessity of a standing army.

Sec. 148. Thus did this gentleman continue to rule till August 1705, when
Edward Nott, esq., arrived governor, and gave ease to the country by a
mild rule. His commission was to be governor-general, but part of his
salary was paid my Lord Orkney as chief. Governor Nott had the general
commission given him, because it was suggested that that method, viz:
the supreme title, would give the greater awe, and the better put the
country to rights.

Sec. 149. Governor Nott called an assembly the fall after his arrival, who
passed the general revisal of the laws, which had been too long in hand.
But that part of it which related to the church and clergy Mr.
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