Culpeper and Effingham play the Governor merely for what they can get for themselves out of Virginia.* The price of tobacco goes down, down.

The crops are too large; the old poor remedies of letting much acreage go unplanted, or destroying and burning where the measure of production is exceeded, and of petitions to the King, are all resorted to, but they procure little relief.

Virginia cannot be called prosperous.

England hears that the people are still disaffected and unquiet and England stolidly wonders why.
* In 1684 the Crown purchased from Culpeper all his rights except in the Northern Neck.
During the reign of the second Charles, Maryland had suffered from political unrest somewhat less than Virginia.

The autocracy of Maryland was more benevolent and more temperate than that of her southern neighbor.