...Governor Berkeley had previously thanked God "there are no free schools nor printing [in Virginia] ... for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy,...sects into the world, and printing has divulged them. . . . God keep us from both!"2 Even though Parks was to be hauled before the General Court on occasion...

...thank God there are no free schools [in Virginia], nor printing, and I hope we shall not have [them] these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience...printing has divulged them and libels against the best of government. God keep us from both.3 He was a planter himself, with two sizeable plantations. On...