[8] Written in 1771 by his great-grandson William Lee, alderman of London, and quoted in Edmund Lee’s Lee of Virginia, Philadelphia, 1895, p. 49.
[9] “The petition of John Jeffreys, of London,” in Sainsbury’s Calendar of State Papers, 1574-1660, p. 430; Lee of Virginia, p. 61.
[10] Compare L. G. Tyler’s remarks in William and Mary College Quarterly, i. 155.
[11] See the testimony of John Gibbon, in Lee of Virginia, p. 60.
[12] Beverley, History and Present State of Virginia, London, 1705, p. 56; Robertson, History of America, iv. 230.
[13] Hening’s Statutes, i. 526.
[14] The document is given in William and Mary College Quarterly, i. 158, where the bill of items quoted in the next paragraph may also be found. Mr. Philip Malory was an officiating clergyman.
[15] Meade’s Old Churches, ii. 137.
[16] The claim to the French crown set up by Edward III. in 1328 led to the so-called Hundred Years’ War, in the course of which Henry VI. was crowned King of France in the church of Notre Dame at Paris in 1431. His sway there was practically ended in 1436, but the English sovereigns continued absurdly to call themselves Kings of France until 1801.
[17] See above, vol. i. p. 250.