[5-21] British Public Record Office, CO5-1371, p. 246, Colonial Entry Book.
[5-22] British Public Record Office, CO5-1371, pp. 232-240, Dialogue Between John Good and Nathaniel Bacon, Colonial Entry Book, 1677.
[5-23] British Public Record Office, CO1-30, p. 51, Petition of the Governor and Council to the King, July 1673.
[5-24] British Public Record Office, CO5-1355, p. 410, Colonial Entry Book.
[5-25] British Public Record Office, CO5-1356, p. 179, Colonial Entry Book.
[5-26] G. L. Beer, The Old Colonial System, Vol. II, p. 147.
[5-27] British Public Record Office, CO5-1371, p. 276, Colonial Entry Book.
[5-28] British Public Record Office, CO5-1371, p. 276, Colonial Entry Book.
[5-29] This view of the matter has the support of the dean of Virginia historians, Dr. Philip Alexander Bruce. Dr. Bruce writes: "No less an authority than Robert Beverley, the historian, states that the Navigation Acts had a sensible influence in precipitating Bacon's Rebellion. In the early life of this writer he must have been closely associated with hundreds of people who had been through the uprising, and knew much, by direct observation, of the currents that governed it. The elder Beverley was thoroughly informed and thus, in his own home, the son had the best of opportunities of learning the truth. Beverley himself declared that the Acts were causing discontent among the people, long before the Rebellion actually occurred, and so did John Bland in his memorable petition. There is no doubt that the Acts, by keeping alive a sense of friction, left the people in just the state of mind to seize with eagerness on the more palpable wrongs which were specifically brought forward as the justification for resistance. It was really the groundwork of the movement, though if it had been the only cause, might not have precipitated open resistance to the Government."