Old Virginia and her neighbours

126 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.we all observe You going abroad more frequentlythen even the Mistress of a private Family can dowithout the affairs of her province greatly suffering,We particularly request it of you, that yourvisits for the future in Town and Country maynot be sofrequent, by which Means we doubt notbut Complaints will be greatly lessened." ^At another meeting it is ordered " y* no scholarbelonging to any school in the College, of w* Age,Rank, or Quality, soever, do keep anyracing race Horse at y® College, in y® Town—prohibited. "^/ .,111 for any where in the neighbourhood— y^they be not anyway concerned in making races, orin backing, or abetting, those made by others, andy* all Race Horses, kept in y® neighbourhood ofy® College & belonging to any of y® scholars, beimmediately dispatched & sent off, & never againbrought back, and all of this under Pain of y®severest Animadversion and Punishment."There is a stress in the wording of this orderwhich makes one suspect that the faculty hadencountered difficulty in suppressing horse-racing.Qtj^grSimilar orders forbid students to takeprohibitionB.pj^j.|. jj^ cock-fighting, to frequent "y«Ordinaries," to bet, to play at billiards, or tobring cards or dice into the college. Punishmentis most emphatically threatened for any studentwho may " presume to go out of y® Bounds of y®College, particularly towards the mill pond " withoutexpress leave ; but why the mill pond was tobe so sedulously shunned, we are left to conjecture.Finally, "to y® End y* no Person may pretend1 William and Mary College Quarterly, iii. 263.