Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786
By: by James B. Bell, Distinguished Fellow, Rothmere American Institute, University of Oxford
Series: Studies in modern history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781137327918
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Church history; Colonies; Administration; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century; Virginia Company of London
Description: "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 After its charter was revoked in 1624 the province became a royal jurisdiction.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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of tables; title: Some Useful Dates; title: PART I; title: Prologue; title: 1. England's Early Imperial Interests: Ireland and Virginia; title: 2. The Virginia Company of London and America: Virginia, 1607-1624; title: 3. Virginia and Royal Jurisdiction: Laws, Governors, and Church: 1624-1660; title: PART II; title: 4. Churches and Worship; title: 5. A Social Profile of Virginia's Ministers, 1607-1700; title: 6. Salaries and Discipline of Seventeenth-Century Clergymen; title: 7. Divisions of the English Church in Virginia's Pulpits: Anglicans, Puritans and Nonconformists; title: 8. The Libraries of Two Century Seventeenth-Ministers: Anglican John Goodbourne and Nonconformist Thomas Teackle; title: PART III; title: 9. An Age of New Imperial Policies: Church and State, 1660-1713; title: 10. The Peace Disturbed: Salaries and Controversies, 1696-1777; title: 11. Virginia's Favoured Anglican Church: Faces an Unknown Future: 1776; title: 12. The College of William and Mary: Faces an Unknown Future, 1776; title: Epilogue: A New Age Breaks with the Past; title: Appendix I - Clergymen who Arrived in Virginia Between 1607 and 1699; title: Appendix II - Clergymen who Arrived in Virginia by Decades Between 1607 and 1699; title: Appendix III - Colleges and Universities Attended by Seventeenth-century Virginia Clergymen; title: Appendix IV - Virginia Parishes and their Ministers in the Seventeenth-century; title: Bibliography; title: Index.