as glowing and laid rude hands
upon him. We read: "An Assembly to be called to receive complaints
against Sr. John Harvey, on the petition of many inhabitants, to meet
7th of May." But, before that month was come, the Council, seizing
opportunity, acted for the whole. Immediately below the entry above
quoted appears: "On the 28th of April, 1635, Sr. John Harvey thrust out
of his government, and Capt. John West acts as Governor till the King's
pleasure known."*

* Hening's "Statutes" vol. I p. 223.

So Virginia began her course as rebel against political evils! It is
of interest to note that Nicholas Martian, one of the men found active
against the Governor, was an ancestor of George Washington.

Harvey, thrust out, took first ship for England, and there also sailed
commissioners from the Virginia Assembly with a declaration of wrongs
for the King's ear. But when they came to England, they found that the
King's ear was for the Governor whom he had given to the Virginians and
whom they, with audacious disobedience, had deposed. Back should go
Sir John Harvey, still governing Virginia; back without audience the
so-called commissioners, happy to escape a merited hanging! Again to
Jamestown sailed Harvey. In silence Virginia received him, and while he
remained Governor no Assembly sat.

But having asserted his authority, the King in a few years' time was
willing to recall his unwelcome representative. So in 1639 Governor
Harvey vanishes from the scene, and in comes the well-liked Sir Francis
Wyatt as Governor for the second time. For two years he remains, and is
then superseded by Sir William Berkeley, a notable figure in Virginia
for many years to come. The population was now perhaps ten thousand,
both English born and Virginians born of English parents. A few hundred
negroes moved in the tobacco fields. More would be brought in and yet
more. And now above a million pounds of tobacco were going annually to
England.

The century was predominantly one of inner and outer religious conflict.
What went on at home in England reechoed in Virginia. The new Governor
was a dyed-in-the-wool Cavalier, utterly stubborn for King and Church.
The Assemblies likewise leaned that way, as presumably did the mass
of the people. It was ordered in 1631: "That there bee a uniformitie
throughout this colony both in substance and circumstance to the cannons
and constitutions of the church of England as neere as may bee, and
that every pe