He passes from the New World stage, a marked and tragic figure.

Behind him his vengeances displeased even loyalist Virginia, willing on the whole to let bygones be bygones among neighbors and kindred.

It is said that; when his ship went down the river, bonfires were lighted and cannon and muskets fired for joy.

And so beyond the eastward horizon fades the old reactionary.
Herbert Jeffreys and then Sir Henry Chicheley follow Berkeley as Governors of Virginia; they are succeeded by Lord Culpeper and he by Lord Howard of Effingham.

King Charles dies and James the Second rules in England.