[214] Meade’s Old Churches, i. 98.
[215] A rich Oriental silk, usually watered, first made in the Attabiya quarter of Bagdad, whence its name.
[216] Mr. Bruce gives many inventories taken from county records, of which the following may serve as a specimen: “The wardrobe of Mrs. Sarah Willoughby, of Lower Norfolk, consisted of a red, a blue, and a black silk petticoat, a petticoat of India silk and of worsted prunella, a striped linen and a calico petticoat, a black silk gown, a scarlet waistcoat with silver lace, a white knit waistcoat, a striped stuff jacket, a worsted prunella mantle, a sky-coloured satin bodice, a pair of red paragon bodices, three fine and three coarse holland aprons, seven handkerchiefs, and two hoods.” Economic History, ii. 194.
[217] The following specimen of a bill of funeral expenses is given in Bruce, op. cit. ii. 237:—
| lbs. tobacco. | |
|---|---|
| Funeral sermon | 200 |
| For a briefe | 400 |
| “ 2 turkeys | 80 |
| “ coffin | 150 |
| 2 geese | 80 |
| 1 hog | 100 |
| 2 bushels of flour | 90 |
| Dunghill fowle | 100 |
| 20 lbs. butter | 100 |
| Sugar and spice | 50 |
| Dressing the dinner | 100 |
| 6 gallon sider | 60 |
| 6“rum | 240 |
[218] Virginia Magazine, ii. 294; cf. William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 136.
[219] Jones’s Present State of Virginia, London, 1724, p. 48.
[220] Mr. W. G. Stanard, in an admirable paper on this subject, gives some names of famous horses then imported, “many of them being ancestors of horses on the turf at the present day;” such as “Aristotle, Bolton, Childers, Dabster, Dottrell, Fearnaught, Jolly Roger, Juniper, Justice, Merry Tom, Sober John, Vampire, Whittington, James, Sterling, Valiant, etc.” Virginia Magazine, ii. 301.
[221] Smyth’s Tour in the United States, i. 20.
[222] Ford, The True George Washington, pp. 194-198.