Berkeley, Sir William: limits franchise, 27; appointed Governor, 54; early life, 54; arrives, 55; popular, 55, 56; favors jury trial, 56; gift of houses to, 57; salary, 57; fights for King, 57; defeats Indians, 58; expels Puritan preachers, 61; prosecutes Puritans, 62; proclaims Charles II, 62; defies Parliament, 63; to resist Parliamentary forces, 65, 66; surrenders, 66; under Commonwealth, 68; elected Governor, 73; reappointed by Charles II, 75; dictatorial, 76; greed, 76; marriage, 75; distrusts self-government, 76; use of patronage, 77; corrupts Assembly, 77; the Long Assembly, 77, 78; accused by Charles City, 77, 78; grants of land, 78, 79; people hate, 78; favorites of, 79; asks free trade, 80; denounces Navigation Acts, 80, 81; makes Bacon Councillor, 84; despotism of, 84; sends force against Indians, 86; Indian policy, 86; people in arms, 87; calls an election, 88; captures Bacon, 88; forces Bacon's submission, 88, 89; overawes Burgesses, 89; submits to Bacon, 90, 91; starts civil war, 92; flees to Eastern Shore, 92; executes patriots, 95, 96, 99; illegal seizures, 98; quarrels with Jeffreys, 98, 99; ordered to England, 99; picks Burgesses, 99, 100; sails, 101; death, 101 Berry, Sir John: committee on Bacon's Rebellion, 92 Beverley, Peter: court of oyer and terminer, 170 Beverley, Robert: Green Spring faction, 101, 102; Assembly minutes seized from, 103; testifies against Nicholson, 148 Bill of Ports: Burgesses reject, 128; Spotswood secures, 162-165; patronage from, 163, 164; Gooch secures, 191, 192 Blair, Archibald: hates Spotswood, 172, 173 Blair, Rev. James: defends Harrison, 22; founds college, 31; Commissary, 130; church reform plans, 130, 131; Quarrel with Andros, 131; Andros ousts from Council, 131; restored, 131; ousts Andros, 132; for Nicholson, 133; Nicholson angers, 136; accuses Nicholson, 147, 148; called King maker, 149; called hypocrite, 171; visits England, 175; to be "Prime Minister," 175, 176 Blair, John: meets Dinwiddie, 194; calls Assembly, 209; prepares expedition, 209, 210 Bland, Gyles: executed, 99 Bland, Col. Richard: defends Two-penny Act, 214; for self-government, 216; to submit to Stamp Act, 226; General Committee of Safety, 249; convention of 1776, 255 Botetourt, Lord: Governor General, 232; welcomed, 232; popular, 232; warns British government, 233; promises repeal of Townshend Acts, 234, 235; death, 235 Braddock, General: defeat of, 203 Braxton, Carter: predicts independence, 255 Buck, Rev.: Minister at Jamestown, 5 Buckner, John: sets up press, 117
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