CHAPTER X.CHURCH AND KINGDOM.
Virginia, all this time, with Maryland a thorn in her side, was wrestling with an autocratic governor, John Harvey.

This avaricious tyrant sowed the wind until in 1635 he was like to reap the whirlwind.
Though he was the King's Governor and in good odor in England, where rested the overpower to which Virginia must bow, yet in this year Virginia blew upon her courage until it was glowing and laid rude hands upon him.

We read: "An Assembly to be called to receive complaints against Sr.

John Harvey, on the petition of many inhabitants, to meet 7th of May." But, before that month was come, the Council, seizing opportunity, acted for the whole.

Immediately below the entry above quoted appears: "On the 28th of April, 1635, Sr.