Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786 / by James B. Bell, Distinguished Fellow, Rothmere American Institute, University of Oxford.
2013
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Title
Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786 / by James B. Bell, Distinguished Fellow, Rothmere American Institute, University of Oxford.
Created/published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description
xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Studies in modern history
Summary
"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 After its charter was revoked in 1624 the province became a royal jurisdiction.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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
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.
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.
Series
Studies in modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
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F229 .B44 2013