and entered into his measures with such apparent sincerity, that he was restored to command. With her and a vessel of four guns under Captain Carver, Bland, now appointed Bacon’s lieutenant-general, sailed with 250 men for Accomac. On his passage he was joined by another vessel, commanded by Captain Barlow, one of Cromwell’s soldiers, and so appeared off Accomac with four sail. The governor had not a single vessel to defend himself, and was overwhelmed with despair. At this juncture he received a note from Laramore, offering, if he would send him some assistance, to deliver Bland with all his men into his hands. The governor at first suspected a trick, but being advised by his friend Colonel Ludwell, accepted Laramore’s offer as his only alternative, and Ludwell himself undertook the enterprise. Accompanied by twenty-six men he appeared alongside Laramore’s vessel, and not only boarded her without loss of a man, but took the other vessels also soon after. Bland, Carver and the other chiefs were sent to the governor, and the common men secured on board the vessel. “When Laramore waited on the governor, he clasped him in his arms, called him his deliverer, and gave him a large share of favour. In a few days the brave Carver and Barlow were hanged on the Accomac shore and Bland put in irons. Captain Gardiner, sailing from James River, now came to the governor’s relief with his own vessel, the Adam and Eve, and several sloops. Sir William Berkeley, by this unexpected turn of affairs, was suddenly raised from the abyss of despair to the pinnacle of hope.” Berkeley now took up his position in Jamestown, and was soon besieged by Bacon and his force, which having been dispersed, was considerably inferior in numbers to that of the governor. Jamestown was situated on a peninsula two miles long and about a mile broad, washed on the south by the river and encompassed on the north by a deep creek. The situation was insalubrious, the low ground being full of marshes and swamps of brackish waters, which created, especially in summer, a constant malaria. Bacon commenced intrenchments across the neck of the peninsula, and as a means of defence against the besieged, while engaged in this work, resorted to an extraordinary expedient, which we will give in the words of Mrs. Ann Cotton. “He was no sooner arrived at town, when, by several small parties of horse, he fetched into his little league all the prime men’s wives whose husbands were with the governor, as Colonel Bacon’s lady, Madam Bray, Madam Page, Madam Ballard and others, which the next morning he presents to the view of their husbands and friends in town upon the top of the small work he had cast up in the night, where he caused them to tarry till he had finished his defence against his enemies’ shot, it being the only place for those in the towns to make a sally at.