Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 2 (of 2)
CHAPTER XII.
WILLIAM AND MARY.
A century of political education 108
Robert Beverley, clerk of the House of Burgesses 109
His refusal to give up the journals 110
Arrival of Lord Culpeper as governor 110, 111
The plant-cutters’ riot of 1682 111, 112
Contracting the currency with a vengeance 112
Culpeper is removed and Lord Howard of Effingham comes to govern in his stead 113
More trouble for Beverley 114
For stupid audacity James II., after all, was outdone by George III. 114, 115
Francis Nicholson comes to govern Virginia and exhibits eccentric manners 115
How James Blair founded William and Mary College 116, 117
How Sir Edmund Andros came as Nicholson’s successor and quarrelled with Dr. Blair 118
How young Daniel Parke one Sunday pulled Mrs. Blair out of her pew in church 119
Removal of Andros 119
The Earl of Orkney draws a salary for governing Virginia for the next forty years without crossing the ocean, while the work is done by lieutenant-governors 120
The first of these was Nicholson once more 120
Who removed the capital from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, and called it Williamsburg 121
How the blustering Nicholson, disappointed in love, behaved so badly that he was removed from office 122, 123
Fortunes of the college 123
Indian students 124
Instructions to the housekeeper 125
Horse-racing prohibited 126
Other prohibitions 126
The courtship of Parson Camm; a Virginia Priscilla 127, 128
Some interesting facts about the college 128, 129
Nicholson’s schemes for a union of the colonies 129, 130