In addition to the references Jon Kukla provided recently on this important subject, it would not do to neglect John R. Pagan, "Dutch Maritime and Commercial Activity in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 90 (1982): 485-501; Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004); and Warren M. Billings, Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virignia (2004), all of which contain valuable information on Virginia's trade with England and the Low Countries and about the imprtant disagreements about whether to confine the colony's trade to England. Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html