subjection.

This king in Smith's history is called brother to Powhatan, but by the
Indians he was not so esteemed. For they say he was a prince of a
foreign nation, and came to them a great way from the south west. And by
their accounts, we suppose him to have come from the Spanish Indians,
somewhere near Mexico, or the mines of Saint Barbe; but, be that matter
how it will, from that time till his captivity, there never was the
least truce between them and the English.

Sec. 62. Sir William Berkeley, upon his arrival, showed such an opposition
to the unjust grants made by Sir John Harvey, that very few of them took
effect; and such as did, were subjected to the settled conditions of the
other parts of the government, and made liable to the payment of the
full quit-rents. He encouraged the country in several essays of potash,
soap, salt, flax, hemp, silk and cotton. But the Indian war, ensuing
upon this last massacre, was a great obstruction to these good designs,
by requiring all the spare men to be employed in defence of the country.

Sec. 63. Oppechancanough, by his great age, and the fatigues of war, (in
which Sir William Berkeley followed him close) was now grown so
decrepid, that he was not able to walk alone, but was carried about by
his men wherever he had a mind to move. His flesh was all macerated, his
sinews slackened, and his eyelids became so heavy, that he could not
see, but as they were lifted up by his servants. In this low condition
he was, when Sir William Berkeley, hearing that he was at some distance
from his usual habitation, resolved at all adventures to seize his
person, which he happily effected. For with a party of horse he made a
speedy march, surprised him in his quarters, and brought him prisoner to
Jamestown, where, by the governor's command, he was treated with all the
respect and tenderness imaginable. Sir William had a mind to send him to
England, hoping to get reputation by presenting his majesty with a royal
captive, who at his pleasure, could call into the field ten times more
Indians, than Sir William Berkeley had English in his whole government.
Besides, he thought this ancient prince would be an instance of the
healthiness and long life of the natives of that country. However, he
could not preserve his life above a fortnight. For one of the soldiers,
resenting the calamities the colony had suffered by this prince's
means, basely shot him through the back, after he was made prisoner