[224:A] Gloucester and Lancaster Counties are now named for the first time; when or how they were formed, does not appear. Sir William Berkley was of Gloucestershire, England. The name of Warrasqueake was changed to Isle of Wight in 1637, and first represented in 1642. In that year Charles River was changed to York, and Warwick River to Warwick. The boundaries of Upper and Lower Norfolk were fixed in 1642; and Upper Norfolk was changed to Nansimum (afterwards Nansemond) in 1646. Northumberland is first mentioned in 1645; Westmoreland in 1653; Surry, Gloucester, and Lancaster in 1652. New Kent was first represented in 1654, being taken from the upper part of York County. (_McSherry's Hist. of Maryland._) [224:B] Force's Hist. Tracts, iii. [225:A] Burk, ii. 97 [225:B] Virginia's Cure, p. 19, in Force's Hist. Tracts, iii. [226:A] Called Moratuck or Moratoc above the falls, and Roanoke below. Roanoke signifies "shell:" Roanoke and Wampumpeake were terms for Indian shell-money. [228:A] Anderson's Hist. of Col. Church, ii. 506. The letter is preserved in Thurloe's State Papers, xi. 273. [229:A] "Virginia and Maryland," Force's Hist. Tracts, ii. [229:B] "Leah and Rachel," Force's Hist. Tracts, iii.; Chalmer's Annals, 222. [230:A] White's Relation, 44, in Force's Hist. Tracts, iv. [230:B] Milton's Prose Works, ii. 346. [231:A] Carlyle's Cromwell, ii. 182. CHAPTER XXV. 1655-1658. Digges elected Governor--Bennet goes to England the Colony's Agent--Colonel Edward Hill defeated by the Ricahecrians-- Totopotomoi, with many Warriors, slain--Miscellaneous matters--Matthews Elected Governor--Letter to the Protector-- Acts of Assembly--Magna Charta recognized as in force-- Governor and Council excluded from Assembly--Matthews declares a Dissolution--The House resists--Dispute referred to the Protector--Declaration of Sovereignty--Matthews re-elected-- Council newly reorganized--Edward Hill elected Speaker--Rules of the House. IN March, 1655, Edward Digges was elected by the assembly governor of the colony of Virginia. He was of an ancient and distinguished family, and had been made a member of the council in November, 1654, "he having given a signal testimony of his fidelity to this colony and Commonwealth of England." He succeeded Bennet, who had held the office since April, 1652, and who was now appointed the colony's agent at London. In the year 1656, six or seven hundred Ricahecrian Indians having come down from the mountains, and seated themselves near the falls of the James River, Colonel Edward Hill, the elder, was put in command of a body of men, and ordered to dislodge them. He was reinforced by Totopotomoi, chief of Pamunkey, with one hundred of his tribe. A creek enclosing a peninsula in Hanover County, retains the name of Totopotomoy; and Butler, in Hudibras, alludes to this chief:--