[Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookPioneers of the Old South CHAPTER X 4/23
More would be brought in and yet more.
And now above a million pounds of tobacco were going annually to England. The century was predominantly one of inner and outer religious conflict. What went on at home in England reechoed in Virginia.
The new Governor was a dyed-in-the-wool Cavalier, utterly stubborn for King and Church. The Assemblies likewise leaned that way, as presumably did the mass of the people.
It was ordered in 1631: "That there bee a uniformitie throughout this colony both in substance and circumstance to the cannons and constitutions of the church of England as neere as may bee, and that every person yeald readie obedience unto them uppon penaltie of the paynes and forfeitures in that case appoynted." And, indeed, the pains and forfeitures threatened were savage enough. Official Virginia, loyal to the Established Church, was jealous and fearful of Papistry and looked askance at Puritanism.
It frowned upon these and upon agnosticisms, atheisms, pantheisms, religious doubts, and alterations in judgment--upon anything, in short, that seemed to push a finger against Church and Kingdom.
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