5 William Harrison, A Description of England, ed. George Edelen (New York, 1968), 149; on honor see Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, chap. 2.
6 Quitt adds the word “apparently” because he was unable to discover the origins of 13 burgesses out of 345. Arguments to the contrary have been made about the Chesapeake, but they tend to draw their evidence from Maryland, which was more open than Virginia in the late 17th and early 18th century. The social system of Virginia had been more fluid in the early years of the colony, but after the arrival of Sir William Berkeley, it became very much more rigid. Quitt’s evidence shows that the major change occurred in the 1640s and 1650s, not in 1676 or 1690. See Martin H. Quitt, “Virginia House of Burgesses, 1660-1706: The Social, Educational and Economic Bases of Political Power (thesis, Washington Univ. 1970), 274.
7 Byrd, Secret Diary, 410, 411, 413: Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Chapel Hill, 1982), 108.