1 William Byrd, The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings, (New York, 1958), 469, 1 Nov. 1720.

2 William Fitzhugh to Kenelm Chiseldine, 8 June 1681, Davis, ed., Letters of Fitzhugh, 97.

3 Archibald Burnett of Maryland (1688) married an eleven-year-old heiress without permission of her guardian, and landed in jail. Archives of Maryland VIII, 32-34; for a clandestine child marriage in Northampton County, Va., where the bride was under the age of twelve, see Bruce, Social Life in Virginia, 224, 233.