[97] See my American Revolution, i. 18, 19.
[98] This charming story is only one of many good things for which I am indebted to President L. G. Tyler; see William and Mary College Quarterly, i. 11.
[99] Partonopeus de Blois, 1250, ed. Crapelet, tom. i. p. 45. “She acts like a woman, and so does well, for under the heavens there is nothing so daring as the woman who loves, when God wills to turn her that way: God bless the ladies all!”
[100] William and Mary College Annual Catalogue, 1894-95.
[101] See Sparks, “Causes of the Maryland Revolution of 1689,” Johns Hopkins University Studies, vol. xiv. p. 501, a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.
[102] See above, p. 20.
[103] For this description of Herman I am much indebted to E. H. Vallandigham’s paper on “The Lord of Bohemia Manor,” reprinted in Lee Phillips, Virginia Cartography, Washington, 1896, pp. 37-41.
[104] To enable him to hold real estate in Maryland, Herman received letters of naturalization, the first ever issued in that province, and he is supposed by some writers to have been the first foreign citizen thus naturalized in America.
[105] See Browne’s Maryland, p. 137.
[106] Johnson, “Old Maryland Manors,” Johns Hopkins University Studies, vol. i.