6 Durand, A Huguenot Exile in Virginia, 138-39.
7 Bamford, ed., A Royalist’s Notebook, 235.
8Ibid., 70-71, 201.
9The Whole Duty of Man (London, 1684); quoted in Smith, Inside the Big House, 140; Smith describes an episode when William Byrd’s daughter Evelyn wished to marry a British baronet of whom he disapproved. The angry father ordered his daughter “never more to greet, speak or write to that gentleman”; and if she refused to obey she was warned “not to look for one brass farthing. … Figure then to yourself my dear child how wretched you will be with a provoked father and a disappointed husband.”