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A Treatise Divided into Three Parts

Location: http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/tobacco.html

Description: Edward Bennett argues against the continued importation of Spanish tobacco.

1.			Why is Bennett opposed to the importation of Spanish tobacco? What does his treatise suggest about the popularity of tobacco in England? Was he opposed to importing tobacco from Virginia? Why or why not?

Virginia Act of General Assembly, Jan. 6, 1639-40

Location: http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/virginiaact1639arms.html

Description: General Assembly act regulating the price of tobacco.

2.			What did the Virginia Act of General Assembly indicate about the importance of tobacco to the early-seventeenth-century Virginia economy?