Commissioners were willing to grant. He
retired to a private station, to wait with patience for favourable
events. Virginia changed the various rulers which the revolutions of the
age imposed on England, with the reluctance that acknowledged usurpation
generally incites. But with the distractions that succeeded the death of
Cromwell, she seized the opportunity to free herself from the dominion
of her hated masters by recalling Berkley from his obscurity, and
proclaiming the exiled king; and she by this means acquired the
unrivalled honour of being the last dominion of the State which
submitted to that unjust exercise of government, and the first which
overturned it."--Chalmers' History of the Revolt of the American
Colonies, Vol. I., pp. 74, 75 (Boston Collection).]

[Footnote 110: It was proved on Hugh Peters' trial, twenty years
afterwards, that he had said his work, out of New England, was, "to
promote the interest of the Reformation, _by stirring up the war and
driving it on_." He was Cromwell's favourite chaplain, and preached
before the Court that tried King Charles I., urging the condemnation and
execution of the King.]

[Footnote 111: Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I.,
Appendix viii., pp. 517, 518.

"The 'other English Colonies' with which Massachusetts, by her
attachment to the new Government, had been brought into unfriendly
relations, were 'Barbadoes, Virginia, Bermudas, and Antigua.' Their
persistent loyalty had been punished by an ordinance of Parliament
forbidding Englishmen to trade with them--a measure which the General
Court of Massachusetts seconded by a similar prohibition addressed to
masters of vessels belonging to that jurisdiction. The rule was to
remain in force 'until the compliance of the aforesaid places with the
Commonwealth of England, or the further order of this Court;' and the
penalty of disobedience was to be a confiscation of ship and cargo. In
respect to Virginia, it may be presumed that this step was not the less
willingly taken, on account of a grudge of some years' standing. At an
early period of the civil war, that colony had banished nonconformist
ministers who had gone thither from Massachusetts [1643]; and the
offence had been repeated five years afterwards."--Palfrey's History of
New England, Vol. II., pp. 402, 403.

But Mr. Palfrey omits to remark that the Act of the Virginia
Legislature, in forbidding the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts
Bay fr