"An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Barbado's, Virginia, Bermuda's, and Antego

Identifier: Lowe IV
Title: "An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Barbado's, Virginia, Bermuda's, and Antego
Description: This source is an act of parliament that prohibited trade with Barbados, Virginia, Bermuda, and Antego. The Act was passed in 1650 during the height of the English Civil War between the Parliamentary forces and the Crown's royalist forces. Many planters and colonists saw their loyalties to the Crown as superseding their loyalties to Parliament and therefore sided with the Crown in the conflict. This stance is the source of Virginia's nickname who dubbed themselves the "Old Dominion" in support of Charles II while puritans in New England saw their loyalties tied to the predominately puritan parliament. Royal support was so strong in Barbados that after the Parliamentary victory over Charles II in 1651, Parliament sent an invasion force to Barbados to reassert state control over the colony. It represented the beginning of a new level of state power. -Henry
Creator: Edward Husband & John Field
Date Created: 1650
Publisher: Parliament of England
Bibliographic Citation: An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Barbada’s, Virginia, Bermuda’s and Antego. London: printed by Edward Husband and John Field, printers to the Parliament of England, 1650.