ng, or taking in two much Brandy.
But I am informed by those who are Persons of undoubted Reputation,
and had the happiness to see the same Letter which gave his Majesty an
account of his death, that there was no such thing therein mentioned:
he was certainly a Person indued with great natural parts, which
notwithstanding his juvenile extravagances he had adorned with many
elaborate acquisitions, and by the help of learning and study knew how
to manage them to a Miracle, it being the general vogue of all that
knew him, that he usually spoke as much sense in as few words, and
delivered that sense as opportunely as any they ever kept company
withal: Wherefore as I am my self a Lover of Ingenuity, though an
abhorrer of disturbance or Rebellion, I think fit since Providence was
pleased to let him dye a Natural death in his Bed, not to asperse him
with saying he kill'd himself with drinking.

[1] This account was written a year after the events described by
an author whose name is unknown. Internal evidence points to his
intimate personal knowledge of what took place. Writing after the
failure of the rebellion; moreover, after Bacon himself was dead,
and the strong popular movement led by him had consequently much
disintegrated, the writer's view is naturally somewhat out of
sympathy with Bacon. Printed in Hart's "American History Told by
Contemporaries."

John Easton Cooke, in his "History of Virginia," declares that
Bacon was "the soul of the rebellion" and his rising "not a
hair-brained project, but the result of deliberate calculation." As
a representative of the Virginia people Bacon "protested strongly
against public grievances, compelling redress." He anticipated that
the country would profit from his uprising, "and his anticipation
was justified." The result as against Berkeley, "compelled the
dissolution of the Royal Assembly, which had remained unchanged
since 1680, and resulted in 'Bacon's assembly,' which began by
raising the public revenue, extending suffrage to freemen, and was
so defiant that Berkeley dissolved it."

KING PHILIP'S WAR

(1676)

BY WILLIAM HUBBARD[1]

The Occasion of Philips so sudden taking up Arms the last Year, was
this: There was one John Sausaman, a very cunning and plausible
Indian, well skilled in the English Language, and bred up in the
Profession of Christian Religion, employed as a Schoolmaster