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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
nd men without a profession, and all banished men, were doomed to lend him aid. A lucrative monopoly was added to the honors of territorial jurisdiction. Wealth and glory were alike expected. An expedition was prepared without delay, and left 1604. Mar. 7. the shores of France, not to return till a permanent French settlement should be made in America. All New France was now contained in two ships, which followed the well-known path to Nova Scotia. The summer glided away, while the emigra Poutrincourt, a leader in the enterprise, that he sued for a grant of it from De Monts, and, naming it Port Royal, determined to reside there with his family. The company of De Monts made their first attempt at a settlement on the island of St. 1604. Croix, at the mouth of the river of the same name The remains of their fortifications were still visible, 1798. when our eastern boundary was ascertained. Yet the island was so ill suited to their purposes, that, in the following spring, they r
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
he enlargement of the company, the intercourse with for- 1609 signers was still permitted; nor were any limits assigned to the commerce in which they might engage. s. 21, Hening, i. 94, 95. The last charter was equally free from unreasonable 1612 restrictions on trade; and, by a confirmation of all former privileges, it permitted to foreign nations the traffic, which it did not expressly sanction. Third Charter, s. 21, ib. 109. At an early period of his reign, before Virginia had 1604 Oct. 17. been planted, King James found in his hostility to the use of tobacco a convenient argument for the excessive tax which a royal ordinance imposed on its consumption. Hazard, i. 49, 50. When the weed had evidently become the staple of Virginia, the Stuarts cared for nothing in the colony so much as for a revenue to be derived from an impost on its produce. Whatever false display of zeal might be made for religion, the conversion of the heathen, the organization of the government,
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
him to appoint a conference at Hampton Court. The conference, held in January, 1604, was dis- 1604. tinguished on the part of the king by a strenuous vindication of the church of England. Refusin subscription, concluding that if any would not be quiet and show their obedience, Chap. VIII.} 1604. they were worthy to be hanged. He advocated the high commission and inquisitorial oaths, despotd his death, six weeks after the close of the conference. In the parliament which assembled in 1604, the party opposed to the church asserted their liberties with such tenacity and vigor that King ver such a people as the pack of Puritans are, that overrule the lower house. The Chap. VIII.} 1604. will of man or angel cannot devise a pleasing answer to their propositions, except I should pullonsiderable exaggeration, yet by those who had opportunities of judging rightly, that in the year 1604 alone, three hundred Puritan ministers were silenced, imprisoned or exiled. But 1605. the oppre