[615] West, the crown counsel in 1719, interpreted the law as leaving in the hands of the king the right to present to vacant benefices in Virginia. Chalmers’ Opinions of Eminent Lawyers concerning the Colonies, etc. London, 1814, i. p. 17. Blair was still the champion of the ecclesiastical supremacy. Cf. Spotswood’s Official Letters, ii. 292; Perry’s Church Papers of Va., pp. 199, 247.
[616] Meade, Old Churches, etc., ii. 75.
[617] Speeches of Gov. Drysdale to the assembly in 1723 and 1726 are printed in Maxwell’s Virginia Reg., vol. iv.
[618] We have the journal of William Black, who was sent by the province in 1744 to treat with the Iroquois, with reference to these shadowy lands. Penna. Mag. of Hist., vols. i. and ii.
[619] See the view of this mansion in Appleton’s Journal, July 19, 1873; in Mrs. Lamb’s Homes of America, N. Y., 1879; and in the paper on the Fairfaxes in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (Mar., 1885), vol. xiii. p. 217, by Richard Whateley. Fairfax’s stone office, which was near the mansion, is still standing.
[620] There is no portrait of Maj. William Mayo known to be in existence. Mayo came to Virginia in 1723, and in 1728 was one of those who ran the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina. In 1737 he planned Richmond, and died in 1744. See the paper, “Some Richmond Portraits,” in Harper’s Magazine, 1885.
[621] The speeches and papers respecting the opening of the assembly under Gooch in 1736 are reprinted from the Virginia Gazette in Maxwell’s Virginia Reg., iv. p. 121.
[622] Byrd, of Westover, in comparing the New Englanders with the Southrons of Virginia, says that the latter “thought their being members of the established church sufficient to sanctifie very loose and profligate morals.” Wynne’s ed. Westover MSS., i. p. 7. Cf. the collation of the laws and traits of Virginia and New England in “Old Times in Virginia,” in Putnam’s Mag., Aug., 1869. A paper by W. H. Whitmore on “The Cavalier Theory refuted,” in the Continental Monthly (1863), vol. iv. p. 60, was written in the height of feeling engendered by the civil war.
[623] Given in the Dinwiddie Papers, i. p. 3.
[624] Post, ch. viii.