Old Virginia and her neighbours

heated harangues.BACON'S REBELLION. 53In particular one Roger Delkedid say, " we will burne all before one shall Suffer,"and when brought before the magistrates, "y*s*^ Delke Acknowledged he said y® same words, &being asked why they meet at y® church he said byreason theire taxes were soe unjust, & they wouldnot pay it."^ The ringleaders in this affair werefined, but Governor Berkeley remitted the fines,provided " they acknowledged their faults and paythe court charges."Another cause of trouble was the king's recklessnessin rewarding public services or gratifyingfavourites by extensive grants of wild land inAmerica.It was an easy way to pay debts, for itcost the king nothing, and aU. the labour ^1,^ Ariingandexpense of making the grant valu- pepe^"grant,able fell upon the grantee. To many of ^^''^'these grants there could, of course, be no objection.Those that founded the Carolinas and Pennsylvaniaand the Hudson Bay Company were allproper enough. The trouble began when territoryalready granted and occupied by Englishmen wasgiven away again. There were some complicatedand obscure instances of this in New England,but a flagrant and exasperating caseoccurred inVirginia in 1673, when Charles made a grant ofthe whole country to the Earl of Arlington andLord Culpeper, to hold for thirty-one years at ayearly rent of 40 shillings to be paid at Michaelmas.The practical effect of this gTant was to convert^ Papers from the Records of Surry County, William andMary College Quarterly, iii. 123-125.