15 Morgan, Virginians at Home, 19.
16 John Richards Diary, 13 Oct. 1701, DORSRO.
17 Byrd, London Diary and Other Writings, 433.
18 William Byrd II to William Beckford, 6 Dec. 1735, Tinling, ed., Correspondence of the Three William Byrds, II, 464.
19 Scott, Criminal Law in Colonial Virginia, 150.