5 Calvert added, “In short Sancho Pancha [sic] in his government, as described in Don Quixote, is the nearest description I can give you of myself and subjects. The country in itself is certainly kindly disposed by the author of Nature, to bless with kindly fruits the labour of man and beast, soil rich and various, and perhaps the greatest disposition of waters favorable to navigation, that any country has, but we as yet have only followed the planting of tobacco, which of late yields so little produce in England that without helps from the legislature in England, will not answer the Planters’ pains. We must leave it off and turn to other manufactures.” Benedict Leonard Calvert to Earl of Litchfield, 17 March 1728, Litchfield Mss, OXRO.
6 Sir Henry Chicheley to his niece, 16 Feb. 1673/74, Lady Newton, Lyme Letters, 1660-1760 (London, 1925), 64.
7 Byrd to 5 July 1726, Tinling, ed., Three William Byrds, I, 355.
8“The Lads of Virginia,” Firth, ed., The American Garland, 72-73.
9 William Byrd II to John Bartram, 30 Nov. 1738, Tinling, ed., Three William Byrds, II, 530.