Download or read book Some English Conditions Surrounding the Settlement of Virginia (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Potts Cheyney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some English Conditions Surrounding the Settlement of Virginia Some lesser analogies between the settlement of Ireland and of Virginia are noticeable. The statute quid emptores was suspended for the settlers in Ulster, and new manors and subtenancies could be created, as was true for Virginia and the other American colonies;5 there were much the same privileges of export and import for a certain period of years free of duty;6 the local division called a precinct, not apparently in use in England, but rather widely spread in the southern colonies of America, was used in a similar technical sense in the north of Ireland. There is the same complaint of the low character of many of the colonists. A Presbyterian min ister who came to Ulster at the beginning of the settlement savs: From Scotland came many, and from England not a few; yet all of them, generally the scum of both nations, who for debt, and breaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.