This without a smile Baltimore promised.

Articles were signed; a new Assembly composed of all manner of Christians was called; and Maryland returned for a time to her first allegiance.
Quiet years, on the whole, follow in Virginia under the Commonwealth.
The three Governors of this period--Bennett, Digges, and Mathews are all chosen by the Assembly, which, but for the Navigation Laws,* might almost forget the Home Government.

Then Oliver Cromwell dies; and, after an interval, back to England come the Stuarts.

Charles II is proclaimed King.

And back into office in Virginia is brought that staunch old monarchist, Sir William Berkeley--first by a royalist Assembly and presently by commission from the new King.
* See Editor's Note on the Navigation Laws at the end of this volume.
Then Virginia had her Long Parliament or Assembly.