Old Virginia and her neighbours

76 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.burgesses shook " a pacifick hanclkerclier " andThecalled down, "you shall have it." Allgovdated^as soou quiet again. The assembly drew^^^line'1G70.^p ^ memorial to the king, setting forththe grievances ofservices ;the colony and Bacon's valuableand it made out a commission for him asgeneral of an army to be sent against the Indians.Next day the governor was browbeaten into signingboth these papers ; but the same ship thatcarried thememorial to Charles II. carried also aprivate letter wherein Berkeley told his own storyin his own way. The assembly was then dissolved.Bacon was a commander who could moveBacon swiftly and strike hard. Within fours^quehan^ wccks the rcmuaut of the Susquehannocks.nocks had been pretty nearly wiped outof existence, when he heard that the governor hadproclaimed him and his followers rebels. It wasBerkeley^^^ ^ ^^1 ^^ despair from the old man,mac,'ai^°°**'wlio fclt his powcr and dignity goneBa°on'r^ while this young Cromwell rode over^^^^'him rough-shod. He tried to raise thepeople in Gloucester, reputed the most loyal of thecounties, but his efforts were vain. Ominousgroans and calls of " a Bacon ! a Bacon ! " greetedhim, until in anticipation of still worse difficultieshe fled across Chesapeake Bay to the Accomacpeninsula, launching the proclamation behind himlike a Parthian arrow. This was on July 29, andRichard Lawrence carried the news up-stream toBacon, who was probably somewhere about theNorth Anna River. The young leader was stungby what he felt to be cruel injustice. " It vexed