[28] For an excellent account of local government in Virginia before the Revolution, see Howard, Local Const. Hist. of the U. S. i. 388-407; also Edward Ingle in Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, iii. 103-229. With regard to the county lieutenant’s honorary title, Mr. Ingle suggests that it may help to explain the super-abundance of military titles in the South, and he quotes from a writer in the London Magazine in 1745: “Wherever you travel in Maryland (as also in Virginia and Carolina) your ears are astonished at the number of colonels, majors, and captains that you hear mentioned.”
[29] Jefferson’s Works, vii. 13.
[30] Id. vi. 544.
[31] Ingle, in J. H. U. Studies, iii. 90.
[32] “The humble Remonstrance of John Bland, of London, Merchant, on the behalf of the Inhabitants and Planters in Virginia and Mariland,” reprinted in Virginia Historical Magazine, i. 142-155.
[33] Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, i. 394.
[34] Papers from the Records of Surry County, William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 123-125.
[35] Pepys, Diary, Nov. 29, Dec. 3, 1664.
[36] Diary, Jan. 19 and 28, 1661.
[37] Neill, Virginia Carolorum, p. 341.