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the six-million-acre area between the Rappahannock and the Potomac
rivers.  In 1675 Culpeper was promised the governorship and made feudal
lord of Virginia. As the joyous Berkeley returned to his post on the
James River, Charles Calvert, eldest son of the second Lord Baltimore
and Governor of Maryland, was already trying to cure the persistent
democracy of the Maryland palitinate.  Thus the democratic settlements
from the Hudson to the St. Johns rivers were to be feudalized and
fitted into the marvellous structure which Clarendon and his fellows
had organized.
 
 
But the Navigation Act policy had reduced the price of tobacco from
two-pence to a half-penny the pound.  This half-penny tobacco was
matched by a similar decline in the price of sugar all over the West
Indies, where twenty years of free trade had given all the mainland
colonists high-priced markets for their minor products, including
meats, lumber and barrel staves.  The Restoration, the repudiated debts
of the Cromwell regime and the drastic commercial controls produced a
terrible depression in