55
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82.
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An anniversary feast upon that occasion,
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56
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83.
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The king commands the building a fort at Jamestown,
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56
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84.
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A new restraint on the plantations by act of parliament,
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56
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85.
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Endeavors for a stint in planting tobacco,
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56
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86.
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Another endeavor at a stint defeated,
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57
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87.
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The king sent instructions to build forts, and confine the trade to certain ports,
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57
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88.
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The disappointment of those ports,
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58
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89.
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Encouragement of manufactures enlarged,
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58
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90.
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An attempt to discovery the country backward,
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59
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Captain Batt's relation of that discovery,
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59
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91.
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Sir William Berkeley intends to prosecute that discovery in person,
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60
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92.
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The grounds of Bacon's rebellion,
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60
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Four ingredients thereto,
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61
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93.
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First, the low price of tobacco,
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61
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Second, splitting the country into proprieties,
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61
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The country send agents, to complain of the propriety grants,
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61
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94.
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Third, new duties by act in England on the plantations,
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62
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95.
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Fourth, disturbances on the land frontiers by the Indians,
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62
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First, by the Indians on the head of the bay,
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62
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Second, by the Indians on their own frontiers,
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63
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96.
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The people rise against the Indians,
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63
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They choose Nathan Bacon, Jr., for their leader,
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63
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97.
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He heads them, and sends to the governor for a commission,
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64
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98.
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He begins his march without a commission,
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64
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The governor sends for him,
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65
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99.
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Bacon goes down in a sloop with forty of his men to the governor,
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65
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100.
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Goes away in a huff, is pursued and brought back by governor,
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65
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101.
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Bacon steals privately out of town, and marches down to the assembly with six hundred of his volunteers,
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65
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102.
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The governor, by advice of assembly, signs a commission to Mr. Bacon to be general,
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66
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103.
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Bacon being marched away with his men is proclaimed rebel,
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66
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104.
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Bacon returns with his forces to Jamestown,
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66
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105.
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The governor flies to Accomac,
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