A commoner respected for his knowledge of law and politics, Pory was appointed, in 1618, secretary to the new governor of Virginia, and he became the first speaker of the first Legislative Assembly of America. His letters contain contemporary information on the Thirty Years War, social and political conditions in England, and his impressions of Virginia.
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