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FOOTNOTES:

[1] It is reprinted in Force’s Tracts, vol. ii.; and in Maxwell’s Virginia Historical Register, ii. 61-78. The original, of which there is one in the library of Harvard University, was priced by Rich, in 1832, at £1 10 s., and by Quaritch, in 1879, at £20. See Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist. iii. 157.

[2] The following list of Virginia counties bearing royal names, founded between 1689 and 1765, is interesting:—

King and Queen,1691,afterWilliam and Mary.
Princess Anne,1691,the princess who was afterwards Queen Anne.
King William,1701,William III.
Prince George,1702,the Prince Consort.
King George,1720,George I.
Hanover,1720,one of the king’s foreign dominions.
Brunswick,1720,do.do.
Caroline,1727,the queen of George II.
Prince William,1730,William, Duke of Cumberland.
Orange,1734,the Prince of Orange, who in that year married Anne, daughter of George II.
Amelia,1734,a daughter of George II.
Frederick,1738,Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Augusta,1738,the Princess of Wales.
Louisa,1742,a daughter of George II.
Lunenburg,1746,one of the king’s foreign dominions.
Prince Edward,1753,a son of Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Charlotte,1764,the queen of George III.
Mecklenburg,1764,her father, Duke of Mecklenburg.

[3] Jewett’s History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, ii. 30. Charlestown was named from the river at the mouth of which it stands.

[4] W. H. Whitmore, The Cavalier Dismounted, Salem, 1864.

[5] William and Mary College Quarterly, i. 53. In the same connection we are told that Beverley Tucker apologized for putting on record a brief account of his family, saying “at this day it is deemed arrogant to remember one’s ancestors. But the fashion may change,” etc.

[6] See Cooke’s Virginia, p. 161.

[7] Doyle’s Virginia, etc. p. 283.