6 Governor Francis Wyatt followed Harvey and also became very unpopular. For various views of these events see Bernard Bailyn, “Politics and Social Structure in Virginia,” in James Morton Smith, ed., Seventeenth Century America: Essays in Colonial History (Chapel Hill, 1959), 95-96; J. Mills Thornton, “The Thrusting Out of Governor Harvey,” VMHB 76 (1968), 11-26; Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York, 1975), 144-45.
7 The truth of this reputation was conceded even by so fierce a booster as Berkeley himself. “This to our maligners we would easily grant,” he wrote, “if they would consent to the omen of it, for was not Rome thus begun?” William Berkeley, A Discourse and View of Virginia (London, 1663, rpt. 1914), 3.
8Ibid.