[442] Bruce, Inst. Hist., Vol. II, 566. [443] Hen., Vol. II, 357. [444] Va. Mag., Vol. II, p. 172. [445] Va. Mag., Vol. II, p. 389. [446] Va. Mag., Vol. III, p. 142. [447] Bruce, Inst. Hist., Vol. I, p. 67. [448] Bruce, Inst. Hist., Vol. I, p. 77; Hen. Vol. II, p. 356. [449] Va. Mag., Vol. II, pp. 172, 289, 388. [450] P. R. O., CO1-36-54. [451] P. R. O., CO1-36-54. [452] P. R. O., CO5-1371-315. [453] Hen., Vol. II, p. 172. [454] P. R. O., CO5-1371-316-19, 304-5. [455] Va. Mag., Vol. III, p. 142; P. R. O., CO1-37-41. [456] P. R. O., CO1-21. [457] P. R. O., CO5-1371-292, 7. [458] P. R. O., CO1-29-31. [459] Va. Mag., Vol. III, p. 142. [460] P. R. O., CO5-1371-292, 7; CO1-21. [461] Va. Mag., Vol. II, p. 387. [462] P. R. O., CO5-1371-330, 331. [463] P. R. O., CO1-20, 21. [464] P. R. O., CO1-30-71. [465] P. R. O., CO1-37-1. [466] P. R. O., CO1-40-54. [467] Mr. P. A. Bruce, in his Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, has shown that this statement is incorrect. [468] P. R. O., CO1-26-77. [469] P. R. O., CO1-36-37; CO1-36-54. [470] P. R. O., CO1-30-51. [471] P. R. O., CO1-30-78. CHAPTER VI BACON'S REBELLION For many years Virginia had been at peace with the neighboring Indians.[472] The long series of wars which had filled most of the first half of the seventeenth century had broken the spirit and power of the Pamunkeys, the Nansemonds and the Nottoways.[473] The remnants of these nations had become dependent upon the English, paying them tribute and looking to them for protection from their enemies.[474] In 1675, however, these friendly relations were disturbed by a southward movement of some of the northern Indians. Large bodies of the warlike Senecas, pressing upon the Susquehannocks at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, were driving them down into Maryland and Virginia. Here their indigence and their restlessness became a menace to the whites and an element of disturbance to their relations with the other tribes.[475]