16 An excellent discussion of planter debt appears in Timothy Breen, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (Princeton, 1985), 128.

17 Vivienne M. Larmine, “The Lifestyle and Attitudes of the Seventeenth Century Gentleman with Special Reference to the Newdigates” (thesis, Univ. of Birmingham, 1980).

1 Byrd, “A Progress to the Mines,” in London Diary and Other Writings, 627.