This deposition of a royal governor was a bold proceeding and mightily surprised King Charles.  He declared it an act of “regal authority,” had the two daring burgesses arrested, and on the complaint of Lord Baltimore, who befriended Harvey, caused West, Utie, Menifie, Matthews, and others of the unfriendly councillors to appear in England to answer for their crimes.  Meanwhile, to rebuke the dangerous precedent set in Virginia, he thought it necessary to restore Harvey to his government.[45]

Harvey did not enjoy his second lease of power long, for the king, in the vicissitudes of English politics, found it wise to turn once more a favorable ear to the friends of the old company, and in January, 1639, Sir Francis Wyatt, who had governed Virginia so acceptably once before, was commissioned to succeed Harvey.  The former councillors in Virginia were restored to power, and in the king’s instructions to Wyatt the name of Captain West was inserted as “Muster-Master-General” in Charles’s own handwriting.[46]

[Footnote 1:  Brown, Genesis of the United States, II., 543-554; First Republic, 165-167.]

[Footnote 2:  Brown, English Politics in Early Virginia History, 24-33.]

[Footnote 3:  Brown, Genesis of the United States, II., 775-779, 797-799.]

[Footnote 4:  Ibid., 967.]

[Footnote 5:  Virginia Company, Proceedings (Va.  Hist.  Soc., Collections, new series, VII., VIII.), I., 65, II., 198.]

[Footnote 6:  Discourse of the Old Company, in Va.  Magazine, I., 157.]

[Footnote 7:  Instructions to Yardley, 1618, ibid., II., 154-165.]

[Footnote 8:  Assembly Journal, 1619, in Va.  State Senate Documents, 1874.]

[Footnote 9:  Smith, Works (Arber’s ed.), 541.]

[Footnote 10:  Virginia Company, Proceedings (Va.  Hist.  Soc., Collections, new series, VII.), I., 67.]

[Footnote 11:  Brown, Genesis of the United States, II., 1014; Bradford, Plymouth, 47.]

[Footnote 12:  Virginia Company, Proceedings (Va.  Hist.  Soc., Collections, new series, VII.), I., 78.]

[Footnote 13:  Peckard, Ferrar, 115.]

[Footnote 14:  Discourse of the Old Company, in Va.  Magazine, I., 161.]

[Footnote 15:  Smith, Works (Arber’s ed.), 562.]

[Footnote 16:  Breife Declaration; Neill, Virginia Company, 395-406.]

[Footnote 17:  Neill, Virginia Company, 334.]

[Footnote 18:  Brown, First Republic, 464, 467.]

[Footnote 19:  Smith, Works (Arber’s ed.), 539.]

[Footnote 20:  William and Mary Quarterly, IX., 203-214; Neill, Virginia Company, 293, 307-321; Smith, Works (Arber’s ed.), 572-594.]

[Footnote 21:  Neill, Virginia Company, 364, 366.]