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____ Virginia: more especially the south part thereof, richly and truly
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____ Virginia's discovery of silke-wormes with their benefit. And the
implanting of mulberry trees. Also the dressing and keeping of
vines, for the rich trade of making wines there. Together with the
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=Articles agreed on= & concluded at James Cittie in Virginia for the
surrendering and settling of that plantation under the obedience
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=Copy of a petition= from the governor and company of the Summer
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passages from the original to the dissolution of the Virginia
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=Somers Islands company.= Copy of a petition from the governor and
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large description of Virginia, with the several commodities
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amongst men. A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie
means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full
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=Withington, Lothrop.= Surrender of Virginia to the parliamentary
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all material objections, touching his rights, jurisdiction, and
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[=Hartlib, Samuel=] The reformed Virginian silk-worm, or, A rare and
new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a
young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May,
anno 1652. London, 1655. 40 p.
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=Virginia and Maryland.= Or, The Lord Baltamore's printed case, uncased
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=Attacks by the= Dutch on the Virginia fleet in Hampton Roads in 1667.
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=Strange news from= Virginia, being a true relation of a great tempest
in Virginia, by which many people lost their lives, great numbers
of cattle destroyed, houses, and in many places whole plantations
overturned, and whole woods torn up by the roots. London, 1667. 7
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the late rebellion in Virginia. In: Force tracts, v. 1, no. 10. 4
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rebellion in Virginia in the years 1675 and 1676. In: Force
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=More news from= Virginia; a further account of Bacon's rebellion
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1675 and 1676. In: Force tracts, v. 1, no. 11. 47 p.
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murders comitted by the Indians there, and of the ... outrages of
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and death of Nathanael Bacon Esquire, who was the only cause and
original of all the late troubles in that country. With a full
relation of all the accidents which have happened in the late war
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1680-1689
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admission into the church: for a persuasive to the instructing and
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1680, including several letters written by him while a captain in
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=The vain prodigal= life, and tragical penitent death of Thomas
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=Godwin, Morgan.= A supplement to the Negro's & Indians advocate: or,
Some further considerations and proposals for the effectual and
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of his Majesty's justices for New Kent county, in Virginia. 1687.
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giving an account of several observables in Virginia, and in
his voyage thither, more particularly concerning the air. Mr.
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