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.