gets new charters,8;Virginia Magna Carta,8;sent to Tower,11;fights to save charter,12;advises restoring Company,13;champions English liberty,15Sandys, George: asks revival of Company,17Second Stuart Despotism: influence on colonies,3,106-121Secretary of State: duties of,33Sheriffs:political use of by Berkeley,78;Bacon's Laws,91;Effingham uses,118;Nicholson uses,137,138Slavery:effect on aristocracy,152;cheapens tobacco,184;small planters buy,184,185;slave plots,186;duty on slaves vetoed,186,187;Virginia resents vetoes,187;Dunmore recruits slaves,250Smith, Capt. John:imprisoned,4;hanging threatened,5;sole Councillor,5Smith, Col. Joseph:accused by court,178;Burgesses reprimand,178;Drysdale removes,179Smith, Col. Lawrence: sued for quit rents,135Sons of Liberty:229Speaker:prestige,28;Nicholson threatens,139;made Treasurer,210;Fauquier ordered to separate,210Spencer, Nicholas: fears mutiny in 1677,100Spotswood, Col. Alexander:able,18;on Burgesses salary,27,28;Lieutenant Governor,159;career,160;Orkney his patron,160;explores west,161;instructions,161;act for ports,162-165;jobs handed out,163,164;House angers,165;to limit franchise,166;Council balks,166;vetoes bills,167;denounces Burgesses,168;court of oyer and terminer,169-171;defends new court,170,171;foul play at elections,172;defeated,172;charges against,173;seeks flattering addresses,173;answers charges,174;Board of Trade upholds,174;to live in Virginia,174;Tubal Cain,175;reconciled to Council,175;administration of,176Stamp Act:dismay at,224;Barré denounces,225;ready to resist,227;Mercer distributor,227,228;stamps not landed,228;Norfolk protests,229;criticized in England,230;English merchants protest,230;repealed,230Statehouse:at Jamestown,24;burned, 1698,129Stegg, Thomas:aids Kemp escape,52;favors Parliament,58;commissioner for Parliament,64;lost on theJohn,65Stith, Rev. William: incites against pistole fee,196Susan Constant: sails for Virginia,1Susquehannocks:fortbesieged,85;torture victims,85Taxation:by first Assembly,10;Burgesses control,29-31,115;perpetual revenue to King,30,110-112;call fees taxes,115;protest pistole fee,197;in colonial history,225;role in self-government,225;Jefferson on,247Tea:tax on,236;resistance to tax,237,238;banned,238;Carter refuses,238Thompson, Rev. William:missionary to Virginia,60;driven out,61Thrale, John: defends Nicholson,148Tobacco:staple of Virginia,15;Dutch buy,59;cutting riots,113;Spotswood's bill of ports,162-165;prices rise,163;George I vetoes bill of ports,168;Gooch's bill of ports,180-181,191,192;slaves cheapen,184;Gooch argues for bill of ports,191;A Dialogue,191;poor standard of value,211Tobacco cutting riots:113.Tories: few in Virginia,242Townshend Acts:anger America,232;unconstitutional,234Treasurer:Burgesses name,128,129;usually also Speaker,210;separation ordered,210;illegal loans by,221Utie, John:opposes tobacco contract,44;arrests Harvey,46;King orders arrest,48;sent to England,49Vestries:govern parishes,32;Bacon's Laws,92;Nicholson attacks power of,136Virginia Company of London:charter of 1606,1,4;set up despotism,5;members consider going to Virginia,7;James I attacks,11;A True Answer,11;blamed by commission,11;rejects King's offer,12;appeals to Parliament,12;charter revoked,12;reasons for,13;restoring of opposed,17Wallace, Rev. James:sermon enrages Nicholson,141,142;testifies against Nicholson,148Washington, George:warns French on Ohio,201;expedition to Ohio,202;commands in Valley,205;Continental Congress,240;wears uniform to Congress,245;commander-in-chief,245;predicts independence,254,255West:expansion into,182;aidsdemocracy,184West, Capt. Francis: Governor,37West, John:acting Governor,47;sent to England,49William III: joint monarch,121,122Williamsburg:capitol at,146;Nicholson founds,146;celebrates Stamp Act repeal,230;day of prayer,239;powder seized,244;an armed camp,248;celebrates independence,256,257Wingfield, Edward:member of Council,4;ousted,5;accuses other Councillors,5Wormeley, Ralph: supports Dunmore,242Wyatt, Sir Francis:receives constitution,9;Governor,51Wythe, George:219;protests Stamp Act,224Yeardley, Capt. George:Governor,6;brings Magna Carta,9;calls first Assembly,10;reappointed,13;pleads for Assembly,14;death,36