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SIR THOMAS DALE (d. 1619)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:DALE (d. 1619)  , See also:British See also:naval See also:commander and colonial See also:deputy-See also:governor of See also:Virginia . From about 1588 to 1609 he was in the service of the See also:Low Countries with the See also:English See also:army originally under See also:Robert See also:Dudley, See also:earl of See also:Leicester; in 16o6, while visiting in See also:England, he was knighted by See also:King See also:James; from 1611 to 1616 he was actually though not always nominally in See also:chief See also:control of the See also:province of Virginia either as deputy-governor or as " high See also:marshall," and he is best remembered for the See also:energy and the extreme rigour of his See also:administration there, which established See also:order and in various ways seems to have benefited the See also:colony; he himself declared that he See also:left it " in See also:great prosperity and See also:peace." Under him began the first real expansion of the colony with the See also:establishment of the See also:settlement of Henrico on and about what was later known as See also:Farrar's See also:Island; it was he who, about 1614, took the first step toward abolishing the communal See also:system by the introduction of private holdings, and it was during his administration that the first See also:code of See also:laws of Virginia, nominally in force from 1610 to 1619, was effectively tested . This code, entitled " Articles, See also:Lawes, and Orders—Divine, Politique, and Martiall," but popularly known as See also:Dale's Code, was notable for its pitiless severity, and seems to have been prepared in large See also:part by Dale himself . He left Virginia in 1616 with the intention probably of returning to the service of the Low Countries, but instead was given command of an English See also:fleet sent against the Dutch, defeated the enemy near See also:Batavia in the See also:East Indies See also:late in the See also:year 1618, arrived at See also:Masulipatam in See also:July 1619, and died there on the 9th of the following See also:month . An See also:account of Dale's career in Virginia is given in See also:Alexander See also:Brown's The First See also:Republic in See also:America (See also:Boston, 1898) ; a scholarly discussion of " Dale's Code " by See also:Walter F . See also:Prince may be found in vol. i. of the See also:Annual See also:Report of the See also:American See also:Historical Association for 1899 (See also:Washington, D.C., 1900), and the code itself is reprinted in See also:Peter Force's Historical Tracts, vol. iii., No . 11 .

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