able to the Indians, who had never before
been under any regulation. They thought, that if all former usages were
not restored, the peace was not perfect; and therefore did not much rely
upon it, which made those new restrictions useless.

Governor Jeffreys his time was very short there, he being taken off by
death the year following.

Sec. 116. After him Sir Henry Chicheley was made deputy governor, in the
latter end of the year 1678. In his time the assembly, for the greater
terror of the Indians, built magazines at the heads of the four great
rivers, and furnished them with arms, ammunition and men in constant
service.

This assembly also prohibited the importation of tobacco, which
Carolina, and sometimes Maryland, were wont to send thither, in order to
its being shipped off for England. But in that, I think, Virginia
mistook her interest. For, had they permitted this custom to become
habitual, and thus engrossed the shipping, as would soon have happened,
they could easily have regulated the trade of tobacco at any time,
without the concurrence of those other colonies, and without submitting
to their perverse humors as formerly.

Sec. 117. The spring following, Thomas Lord Colepepper arrived there
governor, and carried with him some laws, which had been drawn up in
England, to be enacted in their assembly. And coming with the advantage
of restoring peace to a troubled nation, it was not difficult for him to
obtain whatever he pleased from the people. His influence too was the
greater by the power he had of pardoning those who had a hand in the
disorders committed in the late rebellion.

Sec. 118. In his first assembly he passed several acts very obliging to the
country, viz., First, an act of naturalization, whereby the power of
naturalizing foreigners was placed in the governor. Secondly, an act for
cohabitation and encouragement of trade and manufactures; whereby a
certain place in each county was appointed for a town, in which all
goods imported and exported were to be landed and shipped off, bought
and sold. Which act was kindly brought to nothing by the opposition of
the tobacco merchants of England. Thirdly, an act of general pardon and
oblivion, whereby all the transgressions and outrages committed in the
time of the late rebellion were entirely remitted; and reparation
allowed to people that should be evil spoken of on that account.

Sec. 119. By passing some laws that obliged the country, the Lord
Co