CHAPTER XI.
TYRANNY AND FLIGHT.
"Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of successful or unsuccessful war, Might never reach me more." -- Cowper.
When Virginia came back to the royal fold, her people little suspected that she was to be fleeced by the very men for whom they had clamored.
No event worthy of note had occurred in the colony until September, 1663, when what was known as the "Oliverian Plot" was concocted.

A number of indented servants conspired to "anticipate the period of their freedom," and made an appointment to assemble at Poplar Spring in Gloucester, with what precise designs is not known.

They were betrayed by one of their number, and Berkeley, who already seemed to thirst for blood, had the four ringleaders hung.
Jamestown was the gay city of the South; but the halcyon days promised on the restoration of Virginia to royalty were never realized.

The common people were made worse for the change, and only the favorite few were bettered.
At the home of Mrs.Dorothe Price matters went on fairly well.

Her children from the first seemed to whisper rebellion; but the stern cavalier husband met them with firmness.