[223] Hening, v. 102, 229-231; vi. 76-81. Washington was very fond of playing at cards for small stakes, also at billiards; and he sometimes bet moderately at horse-races. See Ford, loc. cit.
[224] About four dollars.
[225] Virginia Gazette, October, 1737, cited in Rives’s Life of Madison, i. 87, and Lodge’s History of the English Colonies, pp. 84, 85.
[226] The recorder was a member of the flute family, and its name may be elucidated by Shakespeare’s charming lines (Pericles, act iv., prologue):—
To the lute
She sang, and made the night-bird mute
That still records with moan.
Mr. Bruce (op. cit. ii. 175) mentions cornets as in use in Old Virginia, but this of course means an obsolete instrument of the hautboy family, not the modern brass cornet, which has so unhappily superseded the noble trumpet.
[227] The inventory is printed in William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 251.
[228] The full list is given in William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 170-174.
[229] See Lyman Draper, in Virginia Historical Register, iv. 87-90.
[230] William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 247-249.