. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . CHAPTER VITHE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND [1607-1635 ,] Tbat group of liberal Englisli statesmen who were charged withkeeping a school oi sedition in the courts of the Virginia Com-pany founded the two centres of liberal institutions in America. Theearl of Southampton, the Ferrars, Sir John Danvers, and above alland more than all, Sir Edwin Sandys, were the fathers of representa-tive government in New England by the charter
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . CHAPTER VITHE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND [1607-1635 ,] Tbat group of liberal Englisli statesmen who were charged withkeeping a school oi sedition in the courts of the Virginia Com-pany founded the two centres of liberal institutions in America. Theearl of Southampton, the Ferrars, Sir John Danvers, and above alland more than all, Sir Edwin Sandys, were the fathers of representa-tive government in New England by the charter of February 2nd,1620, as they had been of representative government in Virginia bythe charter of November 13th, 1618. When the Pilgrims found , upon landing, too far north to use their large patent fromthe Virginia Company, they organised a government on the lines laiddown in the general order of the company. Tlie government estab-lished by them in their famous compact was precisely the provisionalgovernment which the Virginia Company in the preceding Februaryhad given them liberty to found till a form of government be heresettled for them.—Edward Eggl
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