7 William Fitzhugh to Capt. Roger Jones, 18 May 1685, Davis, ed., Fitzhugh Letters, 168; for the origins of Virginia’s clergy, which have been much misunderstood by historians, see Bruce, Institutional History of Virginia, I, 194-207.

8 Cf. Perry Miller, “Religion and Society in the Early Literature: The Religious Impulse in the Founding of Virginia,” WMQ3 6 (1949), 24-41.

9“A Release for the Parish of Mulberry Island in Virginia,” 1672, Filmer ms., KAO.

10 Bruce, Institutional History of Virginia, I, 25.

11 George K. Smith, “Private Libraries in Colonial Virginia,” AL 10 (1938), 24-52.