Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 1 (of 2)

by John Fiske

[87] Smith's Works, p. 533.

[88] See Meade's Old Churches and Families of Virginia, ii. 79; a most useful and delightful hook, in about a thousand pages without an index!

[89] There is a play upon words here. The first "top" is apparently equivalent to "drink up," as in the following: "Its no hainous offence (beleeve me) for a young man ... to toppe of a canne roundly," Terence in English, 1614. The second "top" seems equivalent to "put the finishing touch on."—"Silenus quaffs the barrel, but Tobacco perfects the brain."

[90] Sweet.

[91] Nichols, Progresses of King James, ii. 739.

[92] Neill's Virginia Company, p. 66.

[93] Neill's Virginia Company, p. 67.

[94] Neill's Virginia Company, p. 71.

[95] Brown's Genesis, ii. 1014.

[96] Doyle's Virginia, p. 157.