nicely honest, affable, and without blemish in his conversation and dealings." Thus friends declared, though foes said of him quite other things.

At any rate, having emigrated to Virginia and married there, he had presently acquired, because of a lawsuit over land in which he held himself to be unjustly and shabbily treated through influences of the Governor, an inveterate prejudice against that ruler.
He calls him in short "an old, treacherous villain." Lawrence and his wife, not being rich, kept a tavern at Jamestown, and there Bacon lodged, probably having been thrown with Lawrence before this.

Persons are found who hold that Lawrence was the brain, Bacon the arm, of the discontent in Virginia.

There was also Mr.William Drummond, who will be met with in the account of Carolina.

He was a "sober Scotch gentleman of good repute"-- but no more than Lawrence on good terms with the Governor of Virginia.
On a morning in June, when the Assembly met, it was observed that Nathaniel Bacon was not in his place in the Council--nor was he to be found in the building, nor even in Jamestown itself, though Berkeley had Lawrence's inn searched for him.