command of Major Robert Beverley, in order to cross the bay and oppose
the malcontents. By this means there happened some skirmishes, in which
several were killed, and others taken prisoners. Thus they were going on
by a civil war to destroy one another, and lay waste their infant
country, when it pleased God, after some months' confusion, to put an
end to their misfortunes, as well as to Bacon's designs, by his natural
death. He died at Dr. Green's in Gloucester county. But where he was
buried was never yet discovered, though afterward there was great
inquiry made, with design to expose his bones to public infamy.

Sec. 109. In the meanwhile those disorders occasioned a general neglect of
husbandry, and a great destruction of the stocks of cattle, so that
people had a dreadful prospect of want and famine. But the malcontents
being thus disunited by the loss of their general, in whom they all
confided, they began to squabble among themselves, and every man's
business was, how to make the best terms he could for himself.

Lieutenant General Ingram, (whose true name was Johnson) and Major
General Walklate, surrendered, on condition of pardon for themselves and
their followers, though they were both forced to submit to an incapacity
of bearing office in that country for the future.

Peace being thus restored, Sir William Berkeley returned to his former
seat of government, and every man to his several habitation.

Sec. 110. While this intestine war was fomenting there, the agents of the
country in England could not succeed in their remonstrance against the
propriety grants, though they were told that those grants should be
revoked. But the news of their civil war reaching England about the same
time, the king would then proceed no farther in that matter. So the
agents thought it their best way to compound with the proprietors.
Accordingly they agreed with them for four hundred pounds a man, which
was paid. And so all the clamor against those grants ended; neither was
any more heard from them there till above a dozen years afterwards.

Sec. 111. But all those agents could obtain after their composition with
the lords, was merely the name of a new charter, granting only so much
of their former constitution as mentioned a residence of the governor or
deputy; a granting of escheat lands for two pounds of tobacco per acre,
composition; and that the lands should be held of the crown in the same
tenure as East Greenwich, that