[605] Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1872, p. 30.
[606] Cf. James Drew Sweet on Williamsburg, as the “ancient vice-regal capital of Virginia,” in Mag. of Western Hist., Oct., 1885, p. 117.
[607] Palmer’s Calendar, p. 86.
[608] Palmer’s Calendar, p. 152.
[609] Official Letters, i. 116, 134; Byrd MSS., Wynne’s ed., ii. 192.
[610] Palmer’s Calendar, p. 162.
[611] See post, ch. viii. Iron was first forged in 1714.
[612] Spotswood’s speeches to the assembly in 1714 and 1718 are in Maxwell’s Virginia Register, vol. iv.
[613] February, 1718-19. Official Letters, ii. 273. “Capt. Teach, alias Blackbeard, the famous Pyrate, came within the Capes of this Colony in a Sloop of six Guns and twenty Men; whereof our Governor having Notice, ordered two Sloops to be fitted out, which fortunately met with him. When Teach saw they were resolv’d to fight him, he leap’d upon the Round-House of his Sloop, and took a Glass of Liquor, and drank to the Masters of the two Sloops, and bid Damnation seize him that should give Quarter; but notwithstanding his Insolence the two Sloops soon boarded him, and kill’d all except Teach and one more, who have been since executed. The head of Teach is fix’d on a Pole erected for that Purpose.” (1719.) Mag. of Amer. Hist., Sept., 1878.
[614] Account in Byrd MSS., Wynne’s ed., ii. 249-63.