6 Bamford, ed., A Royalist’s Notebook, xiv.
7 Quoted by A. G. Roeber, “Authority, Law and Custom: The Rituals of Court Day in Tidewater Virginia, 1720 to 1750,” WMQ3 37 (1980), 33.
8 See, for example, an “Act Concerning Styllyards,” 1654, in Hening, Statutes at Large, I, 391.
9 Smith, Inside the Big House, 101.