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Edward Randolph (colonial administrator)

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in whichever colony he was posted to, often against significant local popular and political resistance. His actions were a significant contribution to the development of Great Britain's colonial administrative infrastructure, but he remained unpopular in the dominion. During the
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Randolph served as secretary of the dominion. While in that position, he argued for tighter Crown control over proprietary and charter colonies whose administrations lacked such oversight, and he was often given the difficult task of enforcing England's
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In 1691, Randolph was appointed surveyor general of the customs, on the American mainland as well as in some of the island colonies, and a year later received an additional appointment as deputy auditor of Maryland. Randolph urged
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Osgood, Herbert Levi. (1958). The American colonies in the eighteenth century. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith reprint, permission of Columbia University Press. V.1, pp. 162-163.
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The fate of Edward Randolph—and the bitter feelings he engendered among the populace—is dealt with in "Edward Randolph's Portrait," one of the stories that make up
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which set the operational balance between jury freedom and judicial administration in that place. Having visited all the colonies north of the
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Andrew A. Hanham. "BLATHWAYT, William (1649-1717), of Little Wallingford House, Great Street, Westminster and Dyrham Park, Glos.". published in
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to pass legislation to prevent colonial misconduct related to trade in 1696. In 1696, Randolph appealed a Maryland Navigation Act case,
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In 1702 Randolph seized a vessel, questioning its seaworthiness, but the authorities of Maryland put it back in the trade.
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In 1676 Randolph was the bearer of a royal letter to the governor and council of Massachusetts to resolve claims of
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Nelson, William E. “The Law of Colonial Maryland: Virginia Without Its Grandeur.”
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Ed. William A Shaw. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1933. 290-301.
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Johnson, Richard R. "Randolph, Edward (bap. 1632, d. 1703)".
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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715
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in 1684, and he was a leading figure in the unpopular
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a quartet of tales that first appeared in 1838–1839.
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England's
North American colonies
Canterbury
Bernard Randolph
Gray's Inn
Queens' College, Cambridge
called to the bar
Robert Tufton Mason
John Mason
Ferdinando Gorges
Board of Trade
King Charles II
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dominion of New England
Navigation Acts
1689 Boston revolt
Edmund Andros
William Blathwayt
Bahamas
York County, Virginia
Virginia
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Legends of the Province House
British History Online website


Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/23117
UK public library membership

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