Not Bacon alone, but many others who were in despair of any good under their present masters were ready for heroic measures.

Berkeley found himself ringed about by a genuine popular revolt.

He therefore lacked the time now to pursue Nathaniel Bacon, but spurred back to Jamestown there to deal as best he might with dangerous affairs.

At Jamestown, willy-nilly, the old Governor was forced to promise reforms.

The Long Assembly should be dissolved and a new Assembly, more conformable to the wishes of the people, should come into being ready to consider all their troubles.
So writs went out; and there presently followed a hot and turbulent election, in which that "restricted franchise" of the Long Assembly was often defied and in part set aside.