4 Fitzhugh to Roger Jones, 18 May 1685, Davis, ed., Fitzhugh Letters, 168.
5 A. G. Roeber, “Authority, Law and Custom: Rituals of Court Day in Tidewater Virginia,” WMQ3 (1980), 29-52; for the architecture of the Middlesex County court house see Rutman and Rutman, A Place in Time, 129.
6 William Fitzhugh to Robert Fitzhugh, 30 Jan. 1687, Davis, ed., Fitzhugh Letters, 201.