[166] Hening, iv. 133, 134.
[167] Hening, iii. 448, act of 1705.
[168] See Larned’s excellent History for Ready Reference, iv. 2921, where the case is ably summed up.
[169] Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, 1782, Query xviii.
[170] Hening, iii. 87, 454.
[171] Hening, iii. 87.
[172] Hening, ii. 170, act of 1662.
[173] See Bruce, Economic History, ii. 109, where we are told that Jamestown was sorely scandalized by the loose behaviour of “thoughtful Mr. Lawrence.”
[174] “The gain from the African labour outweighed all fears of evil from the intermixture.” Foote’s Sketches of Virginia, i. 23.
[175] Baird, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, ii. 178.