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	Berkeley, Sir William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Berkeley defeated the Native Americans and the Dutch, extended explorations, and encouraged agriculture, but so persecuted dissenters that many of them left the colony.
		Berkeley was deposed by a Puritan force from England in 1652 and lived quietly on his Virginia plantation until the Restoration in 1660, when he was reappointed governor.
		At the same time it was charged that Berkeley was showing favoritism toward a small group of friends and depriving the freemen of their rights.
	www.bartleby.com /65/be/BerkeleyW.html (281 words)

	William Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Berkeley (1605-July 9, 1677) was a governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favorite.
		Before troops sent by Charles II could arrive, Berkeley was able to put down the rebellion, but in such a harsh manner that he was removed from office.
		William Berkeley was co-proprietor of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Berkeley (589 words)

	William Berkeley, Sir Biography / Biography of William Berkeley, Sir Biography
		Sir William Berkeley (1606-1677), English royal governor of the colony of Virginia, was a leading protagonist in Bacon's Rebellion.
		William Berkeley was the son of Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, Somerset, and brother of Lord John Berkeley, a proprietor of Carolina.
		William was educated at Oxford, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1624 and a master of arts in 1629.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-berkeley-sir (236 words)

	Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley Castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened "HMS Berkeley Castle".
		They honour either Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia and co-proprietor of New Jersey, in whose honour Berkeley Plantation in Tidewater Viginia was named; or Bishop George Berkeley.
		"Berkeley" may refer to the University of California, Berkeley, also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal"; not to be confused with Berkeley College, which is not Berkeley College, Yale, nor the Berklee College of Music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berkeley (399 words)

	Genealogy - pafg2117 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William Darrell [Parents] was born in 1268 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England.
		William De Berkeley Sir [Parents] was born in 1433 in Stoke Gifford, Chipping, Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
		William was born in 1290 in Preston, Somersetshire, England.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~elessar5/pafg2117.htm (280 words)

	NPS Interpretive Series: Jamestown
		Sir William Berkeley was most loyal to the Crown, and the colony went far in supporting his position, yet in the end, when commissioners appointed by Parliament appeared before Jamestown in the ship Guinea, Virginia surrendered to the Commonwealth of England, despite Berkeley's plans for defensive measures.
		Sir John Harvey, who served two terms as Governor in Virginia, is better known perhaps for his autocratic and arbitrary methods than for his more constructive accomplishments.
		Sir William Berkeley, an outstanding figure in the history of the colony, served long in Virginia and for much of the time wisely.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/source/is2/is2f.htm (1289 words)

	bradley - aqwg730
		Sir Edward GREY Lord Ferrers of Groby was born 1415 and died 18 Dec 1457.
		Sir Reynold de GREY Lord Gey of Ruthin was born 1362 and died 30 Sep 1440.
		Sir William de ROS Knight was born 1368 and died 1 Sep 1414.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~hwbradley/aqwg730.htm (723 words)

	BERKELEY of Berkeley
		According to the Berkeley family pedigree obtained at Berkeley Castle, he was the 11th Baron by tenure and the 1st Baron by Writ, 1394-1463.
		William was challenged to battle by Viscount Lisle, heir of the Earl of Shrewsbury.
		He left Berkeley Castle and its estates to the crown for 'entail male', which meant that only with the extinction of the Royal male line on the death of King Edward VI did the Castle revert once more to the Berkeley line.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /BERKELEY1.htm (1644 words)

	Jamestown Interpretive Essays - Sir William Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Berkeley erected Green Spring House on a tract of land west of the capital, where he experimented with alternatives to tobacco.
		Berkeley's economic visions failed because he never accepted Stuart colonial policy, especially the navigation system which was designed to regulate trade between England and her colonies, and he chose to ignore as much of it as possible.
		Berkeley proclaimed his enemy a rebel once more, but few planters flocked to his standard and he was forced to flee to safety across Chesapeake Bay after Bacon doubled back on him.
	www.virtualjamestown.org /essays/billings_essay.html (1807 words)

	Bacon's Rebellion
		Governor Sir William Berkeley, seventy when the crisis began, was a veteran of the English Civil Wars, a frontier Indian fighter, a King's favorite in his first term as Governor in the 1640's, and a playwright and scholar.
		Berkeley's policy was to preserve the friendship and loyalty of the subject Indians while assuring the settlers that they were not hostile.
		Berkeley granted Bacon's previous volunteer commission but Bacon refused it and demanded that he be made General of all forces against the Indians, which Berkeley emphatically refused and walked away.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Jthanout/BacRebel.html (1954 words)

	Some Unpublished Facts Relating to Bacon's Rebellion on the Eastern Shore of Virginia Gleaned from the Court Records of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is known that Sir William Berkeley, during the short period of the Rebellion, was twice driven from Jamestown, then the seat of government in the Colony, and forced to take shelter among his friends in Accomac, which he considered the last refuge of the loyal cause in Virginia.
		All the historians of Virginia agree in stating that Sir William Berkeley on arriving in Accomac, found all the people disaffected towards him except a few fellows of the baser sort, 'longshoremen and adventurers, whom a desire for plunder drew to follow the fortunes of the impetuous old governor; and even Mr.
		As Sir William Berkeley was present in Accomac the greater part of the time, he evidently took affairs into his own hands, and adopted such measures as he deemed best adapted to insure his own safety and the ultimate triumph of his fortunes.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/va/bacon1.htm (2418 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : Sir William Berkeley
		William Berkeley was the 4th of the five sons of Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton in Somerset.
		William was knighted for services to Charles I and became Governor of Virginia in 1641 but, as a Royalist offering the colony as an asylum, he was deprived of the post.
		Who being conftituted governor general in Virginia in 1660, after the death of Colonel Mathews, wrote a defcription of that country, and collected the laws then in force into one body, and added moft of the beft himfelf, which he procured to be confirmed by the Grand Affembly anno 1661.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=226 (418 words)

	William Berkeley
		Knighted by Charles I in 1639, Berkeley was appointed as governor of Virginia.
		Berkeley appointed Nathaniel Bacon to his governing council but the two men soon fell out about the development of the colony.
		Frequent complaints of bloodshed were sent to Sir William Berkeley from the heads of the rivers, which were as often answered with promises of assistance.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAberkeley.htm (662 words)

	The One Hundered Year Seed.
		The colony was governed by a self centered, self serving greedy tyrant by the name of Sir William Berkeley.
		Anticipating the fact that Berkeley would probably return with reinforcements, Bacon and his men made sure there would be nothing left for Bekeley and his men to take back.
		Back in England, Sir William Berkeley was stripped of his power, disgraced, and he soon died a broken man.
	www.angelfire.com /music3/EB/BillBaxterDTM/HYS.html (473 words)

	The Thomas Jefferson Papers - Viriginia Records Timeline - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sir William Berkeley becomes governor of the colony of Virginia.
		Berkeley is a strong Anglican and attempts to establish the Anglican Church more firmly in Virginia.
		Governor Sir William Berkeley forces a treaty on the new chief of the Powhatan, Necotowance, in which the Powhatans must cede to the English all peninsular lands between the James and York Rivers as far inland as Richmond Falls.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjvatm6.html (1272 words)

	Becoming Virginians - The Story of Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This was the result of conscious choice, and largely of the vision of one man -- Sir William Berkeley -- royal governor from 1642 to 1652 and from 1660 to 1677.
		Sir William's ideal society was authoritarian, like that he had known at home.
		Sir William Berkeley's ideal society, however, needed not only a ruling class, but also a people to be ruled.
	www.vahistorical.org /sva2002v1/virginians.htm (4222 words)

	Berkeley County, West Virginia Genealogical Records Information
		Berkeley County was created by an act of the House of Burgesses in February 1772 from the northern third of Frederick County (Virginia).
		Advocates of Norborne Berkeley note that the other Governor Berkeley (William) was known by some as the "Tyrannical Governor of Virginia" because he ordered the hanging of Nathaniel Bacon's followers for resisting his authority.
		Berkeley County was of strategic importance to both the North and the South during the Civil War (1861-1865).
	www.mywestvirginiagenealogy.com /wv_county/ber.htm (3003 words)

	Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia (1641 - 1676); 1606 - 1677
		Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia (1641 - 1676); 1606 - 1677
		In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon mounted an expedition against the Indians in defiance of Berkeley's policy of fostering trade.
		Berkeley fought Bacon for control of the colony, which he eventually regained.
	www.cfhg.org /20050123ad.htm (290 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bacon's Rebellion (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		High taxes, low prices for tobacco, and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor, Sir William Berkeley, provided the background for the uprising, which was precipitated by Berkeley's failure to defend the frontier against attacks by Native Americans.
		After a few months Berkeley returned to wreak a bloody vengeance before he was forced to return to England.
		Berkeley's removal and the end of attacks by Native Americans were the only benefits the yeomen had won in the rebellion, and the tidewater aristocracy long maintained its power.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BaconsRe.html (384 words)

	Warren M. Billings, Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
		Despite his central role in the development of Virginia, Berkeley has been as misunderstood by historians as he was by his contemporaries, his motives and character a source of contention for three centuries.
		He is director and editor of the Papers of Sir William Berkeley Project, chairman of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project Advisory Board, and historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
	www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/Fall2004/books/Billings_Berkeley.html (697 words)

	Where's My Damn Castle? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Berkeley is still Governor of Virginia and, except for a couple minor interruptions, has been since 1641.
		Berkeley is somewhere around 70 years old, has a really good thing going for himself and the last thing he really needs is an all-out war with the Indians.
		Bacon captured Jamestown and William Berkeley was forced to flee to the Eastern Shore.
	www.azoz.com /family/castle/1662/1670.html (5881 words)

	Historical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Sir Thomas Culpepers of Hollingbourne: The Elder (1578-1662) and The Younger (1626-1697) Writers on Usury.
		Apart from Pocahontas, Lady Frances (Culpeper) Berkeley, the strong-willed, thrice-married and childless Colonial dame who ruled the political roost in Virginia from around 1670 until her death in the 1690s, was the Old Dominion's most notable 17th century woman.
		Sponsored jointly by the University of New Orleans and the Virginia Historical Society, the project was initiated in 1986 to bring together in a letterpress edition all of the extant papers of Sir William Berkeley (16051677), governor of Virginia from 1641 to 1652 and 1660 to 1677.
	gen.culpepper.com /historical/CivilWar/JWC (977 words)

	Sir Lennox Berkeley (British composer) by PETER DICKINSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sir Lennox (Randall Francis) Berkeley was born at Boars Hill, Oxford, on 12 May 1903 and died in London on 26 December 1989.
		The composer's father, Captain Hastings George Fitzhardinge Berkeley, RN (1855-1934), was the eldest son, but since he was born before his parents were able to marry he was legally unable to inherit the title and estates to which Lennox Berkeley, as his only son, would otherwise have succeeded.
		Berkeley lacked confidence in most of his early works written whilst he was studying with Boulanger and many of them disappeared, some to be rediscovered later.
	www.musicweb-international.com /berkleyl (2568 words)

	leighton family
		Alexander Leighton (1568-1649) was a physician and divine and was born in Scotland.
		Sir Ellis served as secretary to John Lord Berkeley of Stratton when he was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1670 and Ambassador to France in 1675.
		It is interesting to note that the secretary to Sir William Berkeley, Governor of the Colony of Virginia, was Thomas Ludwell, who wrote correspondence for Sir William to his brother John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/7647/leighton.htm (700 words)

	bacon
		William Drummond was a native of Scotland, who came to Virginia in 1637 as an indentured servant.
		Sir William Berkeley sent Drummond to North Carolina in 1664 to serve two years as the first governor of the new colony.
		During Bacon's Rebellion, William Drummond was Nathaniel Bacon's ardent and enthusiastic suporter.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Shores/3787/bacon.html (405 words)

	Sir William Berkeley -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Berkeley was the youngest son of Sir Maurice Berkeley and the brother of John Berkeley, lst Baron Berkeley of Stratton, one of the Carolina and New Jersey proprietors.
		Berkeley is one of the cities in this area.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078785?tocId=9078785 (722 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Berkeley Sir William
		Berkeley, Sir William (1606-77), English colonial governor, born in Bruton, Somersetshire, and educated at the University of Oxford.
		The 1676 uprising known as Bacon’s Rebellion began chiefly over complaints from Virginia colonists that the colonial government, headed by governor...
		Bacon’s Rebellion, uprising in 1676 of Virginia farmers against the colonial authorities headed by Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia.
	encarta.msn.com /Berkeley_Sir_William.html (132 words)

	AllRefer.com - Virginia, state, United States : History : A Royal Colony, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - ...
		By 1641, when Sir William Berkeley became governor, the colony was well established and extended on both sides of the James up to its falls.
		Serious discontent spread and was aggravated by Governor Berkeley's high-handed policies, by his favoritism toward the wealthy tidewater planters, and by his refusal to sanction a campaign against the Native Americans who had been attacking frontier settlements.
		The unfortunate death of Nathaniel Bacon left the yeomen leaderless, and they were put down so ruthlessly that Berkeley was recalled to England.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VirgnSt-history-a-royal-colony.html (538 words)

	South Carolina State Library Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Berkeley County was named for two of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, Lord John Berkeley (d.
		Many of the oldrice plantations are now covered by the waters of Lake Moultrie, which was built in the 1940s as part of the Santee-Cooper hydroelectric project.
		Two famous Revolutionary War generals were residents of the area: William Moultrie (1730-1805) and Francis Marion (1732-1795), known as the Swamp Fox.
	www.state.sc.us /scsl/berk.html (193 words)

	rotwang.co.uk : Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		rotwang.co.uk : Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia
		William Ironside's History and Antiquities of Twickenham, published in 1797 but written much earlier.
		John Biron) one of the family the body of Sir William Berkeley was found lying on the ground, without a coffin, cased in lead exactly fitted to the shape of the body, shewing the form of the features, hands, feet, and even nails; and appears to be beat firmly to it.
	rotwang.co.uk /william_virginia.html (93 words)

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