The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-12-20
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Upon uniformly interesting Iaoie Oh
| Contents We particularly note tue III
troductory paper. which Is conuiDu'eu
| by Dr. McIlwaine, Of the chair Oh MS
| tory, Hampton sidney. , III
| Ii IS the nrst Cf a series OF arucies-all
oil which Will be by DR.. Mcliwaine-on. nm, INC
! Virginia Constitutions. IL l5 entitled Ho
| Legal Documents by Which was Isl
| lished The Fist Colonial GoNerhmeh1 IL
In il the writer proposes to give an ac-
| count of the first charter OF virginia
and Of the supplementary orders lioAl INC
| king, that with the charter made up the
primary law according 10 Whlch tAe tvlu-
| ny al jamestown was FIRST governed. Ike
eardiug the criticisms bestowed upon 1t
I and the common error which assumes
| that James /. drew UP the document WIN
| his own hand, Dr. Mcllwdine writes as
| follows. 1T Is a little difficult 10 CONCEIVE
! how any historical writer. even ihou5n
| he should have no knowledge Whatever II
| the facts OF the case al present uluei
| consideration, could, on 5eHtld4 PlHl'i
Piles. fall into such an error, MS huONl-
edge OF the procedure OF the EnBilsh gov
crumcut Of that time in granting charters
ought &c save him. But TO convince inc
| takes, the following extract l5 coptu
from a school history recently sent 10
| the college for examination with view
to Introduction.
was as poorly adapted TO their surround
ings as were the settlers themselves.
Queen Elizabeth was dead, and the reign
Of James 1. had begun. King James was
called by wit Of the times. The most
learned fool in ChrstendOm,' and the
complicated form of government he de
visod for the first Nireinians seems to
justify the epithet. The History OF
our Country. by Cooper, Estili, ami
Now as TO the facts Tho steps to be
taken before full iedsed charter was Is
sued were several. First. those who
wished for the charter humbly petitiOncd
the King TO grant II, setting forth at
length their reasons for desiring the boon,
and generally, no doubt, presenting
draft of the provisions that they were
anxious for the charter 10 contain n
must be remembered that the word king
here does not mean one person SO much
as 10 means "A body Of persons; king. in
reality, means ministers. The petition for
"a charter was looked into rather by the
PriVy Council than hy the King i'm per-
son. When the King In council then.
decided that petition for "a charter
should be granted. the Secretary of State
issued warrant for the document. and
then the spoken Of II there was one. pass
ed into the hands of the draft Solicitor
couched In proper legal phraseolOgy.
After this the Lord Chancellor passed the
perfected document under the great seal
and the charter was legal fact.
The chief mover in making the petit
ton for the first charter Of Virginia was
Sir John POpham. and there D. great
probability that he drew the first draft OF
the instrument.
Since Sir John was Chief Justice of
England nj that time, and one Of the
greatest lawyers Of period productive
or many great lawyers. there is "a fur
they probability that this 1rst draft was
not much changed when passing through
the hauds Of the SOllcit0r-Goneral and
the Attorney General But If changed at
ah in was changed for the hottcr-an as
sortion that tho reader will boz inclined 10
think true when Informed that the Attor-
nev-Gcnoral WAS no Jess 20 porsonnro than
Sir Edward Coke Sir Edward. the great
political rival OF Lord Bacon and one CT
the highest authorities TO this very day
After reviewing or summarizing tho
charter. Dr. Mcllwaine concludes with
the following
The government as framed by the
two documents. was by no means free
from imperfectiOns. There were things
put into the Instruments that should
were things loft out that should
have been nut in II Is easy
enough 10 sec all this now. with tho carly
history Of the jamestown settlement he
mrTIf
Of the charter and its companion docu-
mcnt. the student must remember that
these papers were drawn n a time when
England was Just entering upon her ca
recr Of colonization lfo viii thus ho
prevented from expecting impossihilitios
Knowing that even men Of genius cannot
supply knowledge that comes only with
experience. he viii be prepared 10 APP
urcciate the excellence of the work done
by the men who devised The scheme %
government first established by the Eng
lish in America"
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Easter story. except inasmuch as sto-
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in season. This Is essentially a chii's
story. told with quaint purity of style. but
il would be stretching point C. say that
u was story Of natural childhood. IL
is a. pity that intent so pure as Miss Dur
yeas and 50 evident throughout tNe
unique little story. is morbid. and Kills
the little knight on the last page. as Doe
sings In the church choir The tone D.
high and beautiful, however.
T HE SENSE or BEAUTY. George
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