22 Schoepf, Travels, II, 62.
23 In the Byrd correspondence, for example, one finds London expressions such as “dining with Duke Humphrey,” a reference to a statue in London which was a gathering place for beggars (Tinling, ed., Three William Byrds, 273). For general discussions of London speech ways in the Chesapeake colonies, see Hugh Jones, The Present State of Virginia (1724), 80; and William Eddis, Letters from America, ed. Aubrey Land (Cambridge, 1969), 33.