[660] In his introduction, p. xxxv., he discusses the successive seals of Virginia.
[661] Sparks’ Catal., p. 214.
[662] Spotswood Letters, ii. 16.
[663] Hist. Amer. Lit., ii. 260. Cf. Sprague’s Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, v. p. 7.
[664] One of the earliest accounts of the college is in the paper of 1696-98 (Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. v. section xii.). Palmer (Calendar, p. 61) gives a bill for facilitating the payment of donations to the college (1698). Its charter is given in The Present State, etc., by Blair and others, was printed at Williamsburg in 1758, and is found in the History of the College of William and Mary (1660-1874), printed with the general catalogue at Richmond in 1874. An oration by E. Randolph on the founders of William and Mary College was printed at Williamsburg in 1771. Jones in 1724 gave a rather melancholy picture of the institution, then a quarter of a century old. It is, he says, “a college without a chapel, without a scholarship, and without a statute; a library without books, comparatively speaking, and a president without a fixed salary, till of late.” (Hugh Jones’s Present State, 83.) Other sketches are Historical Sketch of the College of William and Mary, Richmond, 1866 (20 pp.); History of William and Mary College from the foundation, Baltimore, 1870; and Mr. C. F. Richardson’s “Old Colonial College” in the Mag. of Amer. History, Nov., 1884. Richardson, together with Henry Alden Clark, also edited The College Book, which includes an account of the college, as of others in the United States. Doyle (English in America, 363) says, “We may well doubt if the college did much for the colony.... It is evident it was nothing better than a boarding-school, in which Blair had no small difficulty in contending against the extravagance engendered by the home training of his pupils.”
[665] The Canadian Antiquarian (iv. 76) describes an old MS. concerning the government of the English plantations in America, which is preserved in the library at Ottawa, and is supposed to have been written “by a Virginian in 1699, Mr. Blaire or B. Hamson [? Harrison], Jr.” Cf. on Blair, E. D. Neill’s Virginia Colonial Clergy. Can this be the account elsewhere referred to, and printed in the Mass. Hist. Collections, vol. v.? See Scribner’s Monthly, Nov., 1875, p. 4.
[666] See Vol. III. 164. Lodge, Short Hist. Eng. Colonies, speaks of this book as “inaccurate but not uninteresting.” Cf. Cooke’s Virginia, p. 361. Beverley’s family is traced in the Dinwiddie Papers, ii. 351.
[667] In Maxwell’s Virginia Register, iii. p. 181, etc., there is a paper, “Some observations relating to the revenue of Virginia, and particularly to the place of auditor,” written early in the 18th century; and extracts from “A general accompt of the quit-rents of Virginia, 1688-1703, by William Byrd, Rec’r Gen’ll,” etc.
[668] There is a copy in Harvard College library. Sabin (ix. 36,511) says it is not so rare as Rich represents. It was reprinted in 1865 as no. 5 of Sabin’s Reprints (New York).
[669] Hist. Amer. Lit., ii. 268. Cf. Perry’s Amer. Episc. Church, i. 307; Sprague’s Annals, v. p. 9.