The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the publication of The
Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677, edited by Dr. Warren M.
Billings, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University
of New Orleans and historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. This
volume brings together the surviving papers of the most important man in
seventeenth-century Virginia. Sir William was Virginia's leading
politician and planter throughout the years he lived in the colony.
Disagreements between Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon over Indian policy
ripened into Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, the most serious colonial
challenge to English royal authority before the American Revolution.
More Virginian than Cavalier, Sir William's like as governor would not
be seen in the Old Dominion again. 
  
  This edition contains the largest body of original documents
concerning any seventeenth-century Virginian. The volume also includes
the surviving papers of Sir William's redoubtable wife, Frances Culpeper
Stephens Berkeley Ludwell, who over her life married three colonial
governors.
 
731 pp., 3 b&w illus., 1 map, notes, index

ISBN 978-0-88490-207-2, $59.95 cloth

 

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