[512:A] The record of this convention of the clergy, which is probably in the archives of the See of London, would be extremely interesting at the present day.
[512:B] Robinson.
[512:C] Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America in the year 1759 and 1760, with Observations upon the state of the Colonies, by the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, A.M., Vicar of Greenwich. Second edition. London, 1775.
[512:D] The collectors.
[514:A] Old Churches of Va., i. 217.
[517:A] Letter of Rev. James Maury, in Memoirs of Huguenot Family, 421, 422.
[517:B] In Virginia to this day the preterite of "plead" is pronounced "pled." Wirt actually prints the word "pled," and has raised a smile at his expense. It is proper, however, to observe that "plead" and "read" followed the same analogies even in England in the seventeenth century. Many of the quaint words used by the common people, obsolete among the well educated, and usually set down as illiterate mistakes, are really grounded in traditional authority. Thus the word "gardein," for guardian, is the old law term: and the verb "learn," still often used actively, was, according to Trench, originally employed indifferently in a transitive sense as well as intransitive. The common people are often right without being able to prove it.
[517:C] Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry; Hawks, 124; Old Churches, etc., i. 219.
[518:A] Anderson's Hist. Col. Church, iii. 158.