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A peace was made not long after with Necotowance, his successor, by which the Indians agreed to retire entirely from the peninsula between the York and James rivers. One of the most remarkable results of the massacre was the change it produced in Rev. Thomas Harrison, Berkeley's chaplain at Jamestown, who had used his influence with the governor to expel the Nonconformist ministers of New England.
Here he found time 'to weigh, and pause, and pause again, the grounds and foundations of those principles for which he suffered, and he was a Nonconformist still. 'I cannot, I dare not now revolt or deny my principles, on pain of eternal damnation, are his impressive words. 'Faith and holiness are my professed principles, with an endeavour to be at peace with all men.
The Elizabethan age had been one of immense animal life and vigor, and of intense capacity for enjoyment, and, deny it as one might, the effect lingered and had gone far toward forming character. The early Nonconformist still shared in many worldly pleasures, and had found no occasion to condense thought upon points in Calvinism, or to think of himself as a refugee from home and country.
"A fox gone to ground, an otter killed among your reeds, or a hawk in the sulks, is an event in the country. Anything would be a relief from the weekly total of London deaths, which is our chief subject of conversation, or the General's complaints that there is no one in town but himself to transact business, or dismal prophecies of a Nonconformist rebellion that is to follow the Five Mile Act."
He moved on quickly, but even as he went the thought thrust itself upon him, that half London, for some reason or the other, was abroad in the streets unusually early. His own objective was a great Nonconformist church, where one of London's most popular and remarkable preachers had ministered.
Never before had the Rector spoken to the Nonconformist Samuel, but now he spoke to him; he squeezed his hand. "Ah, Mr. Povey!" he ejaculated grievously. "I I'm afraid it's serious!" Samuel stammered. He hated to admit that it was serious, but the words came out of his mouth.
Of course, all people connected with the theatres were very indignant at the insult implied; whilst, on the other hand, many parsons and Nonconformist ministers rushed into print and said very unflattering things about the stage.
The venerable William Arthur, a Nonconformist minister, says: "We will not be put under a Parliament in Dublin. The Imperial franchise and all which that guarantees is our birthright. No man shall take it from us. We will never sell it. If Englishmen and Scotchmen will not let us live and die in the freedom we were born to, they will have to come and kill us.
This was the Nonconformist Conscience hitherto a quantite negligeable in the calculations of the leaders, but now one that it appeared absolutely necessary to take into account as a factor.
That plant of tender growth the English Nonconformist conscience it was that decreed the fall of the mighty Irish leader. It is only in recent years that the full facts of what happened during what is known as "The Parnell Split" have been made public, and these facts make it quite clear that neither during the Divorce Court proceedings nor subsequently had Parnell had a fair fighting chance.
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