Virginia {Continued) 
extension of English law to, 473-74, 490-92, 
493 
Fairfax grant, 455 [233] 
Governor, see Argall, Capt. Samuel; Culpeper, 
Thomas; Fauquier, Francis; Gooch, 
William; Loudoun, Earl of; Spotswood, 
Alexander 
governor's commission, 611 
governor's instructions, 78, 79, 80, 219 [23], 
2 33 [89, 92], 259-61, 371, 606, 609, 614- 
15, 617 
House of Burgesses, 611 [457], 615, 616 
intracolonial appeals regulations 
appeals to assembly, 80 
colonial acts, 260-61, 415 
instructions, 78, 79, 80, 219 [23], 233 
[89, 92], 259-60, 261 
instructions to regulate by colonial act, 
79, 259-60 
sui generis, 259 
judges, see Blair, John; Dawson, William; 
Nelson, Thomas; Nelson, William 
judicial practice, special verdicts employed, 
415 
judicial system, early conciliar control of, 41 
legal status of, 470, 548 [119] 
legislative power in, 613, 618-19, 622-23 
Parsons' Cause, 328, 597, 605, 607-26, 657 
precedential effect of conciliar determinations 
in, 506 
problem of entails in, 511-12 
proposed restoration of company, 44 
slaves, treated as real property, 504-6 
tobacco chief commodity of, 607 
Twopenny Acts, see Virginia, acts of 1755 & 
1758 for regulating ministers' salaries 
vice-admiralty appeals, 188 
see also Proprietary colonies; Royal colonies 
Virginia Company, 42, 43, 467 [6] 
Waddel, Robert, 391, 392 [191], 393, 394 
[204], 410-11 
Wade, Richard, 639 [581] 
Wadleigh, Thomas, 106 [197], 118 [273], 
119 
Wadsworth, James, 429, 430 [76] 
Wake, John, 196-97 
Waldron, Richard, 117, 118 [279], 152, 155, 
156, 157 [154] 
Wales, 10, 47 [307], 75 [24], 88, 245, 420-21, 
469, 473 
Walker, Fowler, counsel, 438 [131] 
Walker, Timothy, 234 [95] 
Walker, Dr. Walter, 63 [412] 
Walker, William, bankrupt, 336 
Walker, William, extortioner, 205 [396, 397] 
Walley, Abiel, 539 [69], 540, 541 
Walmesley, Thomas, Justice of Common Pleas, 
467 [4] 
Walpole, Horace, 324, 634 [568] 
Walpole, Robert, Clerk of the Privy Council, 
381 [144], 498, 624 
Walpole, Sir Robert, 546 [109] 
Walters, Robert, New York Vice-Admiralty 
Judge, 196 
Wandall, Audrey, 159 [164] 
Wandall, Thomas, 159 [162] 
Wanton, John, Governor of Rhode Island, 453 
[223] 
Ward, Edward, Judge of Court of Admiralty 
on vice-admiralty appellate forum, 91-92 
Warner, John, Jamaica Vice-Admiralty Court 
Judge, 194 
Warner, Thomas, Attorney General of Antigua, 
488 
Warrington, Rev. Thomas, 620, 624-25 
Warton, John, 193 
Warwick (Rhode Island) 
boundary dispute, 122-26 
Warwick, Earl of, 47 
Watkins, Thomas, 487-89 
Watson, Sir Francis, acting Governor of Jamaica, 
94 
Watson, Joseph, 168 [213] 
Wawequa, Mohegan Indian, 423 
Way, John, solicitor, 322 [321] 
Weare, Nathaniel, 118 [279], 119, 120 [286] 
Wearg, Clement, Solicitor General 
on extension of acts of Parliament to Jamaica, 
483 [68] 
on extension of common law to colonies, 548 
[119] 
on Isle of Man appeals, 227 [67] 
on settlement of boundary disputes, 420 
[8] 
Weaver, Thomas, collector of port of New 
York, 196-97 
Weaver, Thomas, Solicitor General of New 
York, 299-300, 304 
Wedderburn, Alexander, Attorney General 
employed as counsel, 294, 438 [131], 623 
[524] 
on nullification of Va. act of 1758, 613 
Wells, Samuel, counsel, 451 
Wells, William, 292 [133] 
Wenham, Thomas, 298, 299 [178] 
Wentworth, Benning, Governor of New 
Hampshire, 321 [312], 607 [434 L 626 
[535 L 637 
Wentworth, George, 638 [578] 
West, Richard, counsel to Board of Trade 
on Barbados act requiring special verdicts, 
361-62