Bell, James B.. Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786

Folger bibliographic ID: 348417
Folger call number: F229 .B44 2013
Folger holdings ID: 499162

"This book is a chronicle of England's contrasting imperial civil and ecclesiastical policies for its first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia. The settlement of Virginia contrasted sharply from England's experience in Ireland. It was not an undertaking of the state but a commercial enterprise delegated by James I to the merchant adventurers of the Virginia Company of London. The colony was launched without the familiar English civil, military, and ecclesiastical personnel and leadership applied in Ireland. It was the Company's obligation to recruit settlers for the colony, provide governance, administration, laws, and religious worship in accordance with the English Church. Ireland was not an imperial model for Virginia. The novelty of governing a sparsely settled colony thirty-seven-hundred miles distant from Whitehall in London proved financially difficult for the Virginia Company. After its charter was revoked in 1624 the province became a royal jurisdiction. Gradually over several decades the governor and legislature advocated and implemented statues for the conduct of civil, ecclesiastical, trade, and commercial affairs. Between 1680 and 1713 London officials applied new imperial policies for the governance of overseas affairs that became the formula for the administration of the province until the Declaration of Independence"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index

Contents

England's early imperial interests: Ireland and Virginia -- The Virginia Company of London and England's second colonial venture: Virginia, 1606-24 -- Virginia and royal jurisdiction: laws, governors, and church: 1624-60 -- Churches and worship -- A social profile of Virginia's minister, 1607-1700 -- Salaries and discipline of seventeenth-century ministers -- Divisions in the Virginia pulpits: Anglicans, Puritans, and Nonconformists -- The libraries of two seventeenth-century ministers -- An age of new imperial policies: church and state, 1660-1713 -- The peace disturbed: salaries and controversies, 1696-1777 -- Virginia's favoured Anglican Church faces an unknown future, 1776 -- The college of William and Mary faces an unknown future, 1776 -- Epilogue: A new age: breaks with the past -- Appendix I. Clergymen who arrived in Virginia between 1607 and 1699 -- Appendix II. Clergymen who arrived in Virginia by decade between 1607 and 1699 -- Appendix III. Universities and colleges attended by seventeenth-century Virginia clergymen -- Appendix IV. A list of Virginia parishes and their seventeenth-century ministers

Extended title: Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786 / by James B. Bell, Distinguished Fellow, Rothmere American Institute, University of Oxford

Virginia Virginia Company of London Great Britain HISTORY British colonies Management Politics and government America Politik Religion

author: Bell, James B., 1932-
subject: Virginia Company of London