The Commonwealth of England Targets Virginia, Part 1

Today's episode starts a new series on the colonies during the English Commonwealth.  Today we focus on Virginia in 1649 and how the Commonwealth began getting hostile towards the pro-Royalist colony.   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalCP Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.historical.context/ Read “Voyage to Virginia” by Col. Norwood: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha/J1025 Read Bullock’s “Virginia, Impartially Examined…”: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha/J1073 Read a Description of Virginia in 1649 by an unknown author: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha/J1080 Read Ed Williams Description of Virginia to the English Parliament here: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha/J1076 Read “Virginia 1641-1649”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242958.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A304188fe97a5088268d0d5f9655acead Read “Virginia in 1650”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242973.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad491e4cfeb6653ded1f0d508c756a23a Read William Berkeley’s speech: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A27467.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Read the House of Burgesses and Council of Virginia response to Parliament: https://archive.org/details/journalsofhousb1619virg/page/76/mode/2up?view=theater More on the Surrender of Virginia: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242571.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A58a6f4b38591efd4782f68894960a95f Read the articles of surrender: https://archive.org/details/journalsofhousb1619virg/page/78/mode/2up?view=theater  Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/