; of
which wound he died.

He continued brave to the last moment of his life, and showed not the
least dejection at his captivity. He heard one day a great noise of the
treading of people about him; upon which he caused his eyelids to be
lifted up, and finding that a crowd of people were let in to see him, he
called in high indignation for the governor, who being come,
Oppechancanough scornfully told him, that had it been his fortune to
take Sir William Berkeley prisoner, he should not meanly have exposed
him as a show to the people.

Sec. 64. After this, Sir William Berkeley made a new peace with the
Indians, which continued for a long time unviolated, insomuch that all
the thoughts of future injury from them were laid aside. But he himself
did not long enjoy the benefit of this profound peace; for the unhappy
troubles of king Charles the first increasing in England, proved a great
disturbance to him and to all the people. They, to prevent the infection
from reaching that country, made severe laws against the Puritans,
though there were as yet none among them. But all correspondence with
England was interrupted, supplies lessened, and trade obstructed. In a
word, all people were impatient to know what would be the event of so
much confusion.

Sec. 65. At last the king was traitorously beheaded in England, and Oliver
installed Protector. However his authority was not acknowledged in
Virginia for several years after, till they were forced to it by the
last necessity. For in the year 1651, by Cromwell's command, Captain
Dennis, with a squadron of men of war, arrived there from the Caribbee
islands, where they had been subduing Bardoes. The country at first held
out vigorously against him, and Sir William Berkeley, by the assistance
of such Dutch vessels as were then there, made a brave resistance. But
at last Dennis contrived a stratagem, which betrayed the country. He had
got a considerable parcel of goods aboard, which belonged to two of the
Council, and found a method of informing them of it. By this means they
were reduced to the dilemma, either of submitting or losing their goods.
This occasioned factions among them; so that at last, after the
surrender of all the other English plantations, Sir Wm. was forced to
submit to the usurper on the terms of a general pardon. However, it
ought to be remembered, to his praise, and to the immortal honor of that
colony, that it was the last of all the king's dominions that su