Respecting Bacon’s rebellion, the fullest of the contemporary accounts is that of T. M. on “The beginning, progress, and conclusion of Bacon’s Rebellion,” which is printed in Force’s _Tracts_, vol. i. no. 8.[319] Equally important is a MS. “Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia,” now somewhat defective, which was found among the papers of Captain Nathaniel Burwell, and lent to the Massachusetts Historical Society and printed carelessly in their _Collections_ in 1814, vol. xi., and copied thence by Force in his _Tracts_, vol. i. no. 11, in 1836. The MS. was again collated in 1866, and reprinted accurately in the Society’s _Proceedings_, ix. 299, when the original was surrendered to the Virginia Historical Society (_Proceedings_, ix. 244, 298; x. 135). Tyler, _American Literature_, i. 80, assigns its authorship to one Cotton, of Aquia Creek, whose wife is said to be the writer of “An Account of our late troubles in Virginia,” which was first printed in the _Richmond Enquirer_, Sept. 12, 1804, and again in Force’s _Tracts_, vol. i. no. 9. The popular spreading of the news in England of the downfall of the rebellion was helped by a little tract, _Strange news from Virginia_, of which there is a copy in Harvard College Library. There is in the British Museum Sir William Berkeley’s list of those executed under that governor’s retaliatory measures, which has been printed in Force’s _Tracts_, vol. i. no. 10. Other original documents may be found in Hening’s _Statutes at Large_, vol. ii.; in the appendix of Burk’s _Virginia_; and in the _Aspinwall Papers_, i. 162, 189, published in the _Mass. Hist. Coll._ _An Historical Account of some Memorable Actions, particularly in Virginia, etc._, by “Sir Thomas Grantham, Knight” (London, 1716), was reprinted in fac-simile with an Introduction by the present writer (Carlton McCarthy & Co., Richmond, 1882).[320] The fragment of the records of the General Court of Virginia, cited as being in the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society, contains details of the trial of the participants in the “rebellion” not included in Hening, and the abstracts from the English State-Paper Office, furnished by Mr. Sainsbury to the State Library of Virginia, give unpublished details. Extracts from the same source are in the library of the present writer. There are various papers in the early volumes of the _Hist. Mag._; see April, 1867, for a contemporary letter. Massachusetts Bay proclaimed the insurgents rebels.[321] * * * * *