Old Virginia and her neighbours

CONTENTS.VHThe plant-cutters' riot of 1682 Ill, 112Contracting the currency with a vengeance . . . 112Culpeper is removed and Lord Howard of Effingham comesto govern in his stead ....... 113More trouble for Beverley 114For stiipid audacity James 11., after all, was outdone byGeorge III 114, 115Francis Nicholson comes to govern Virginia and exhibitseccentric manners ....... 115How James Blair founded William and Mary College 116, 117How Sir Edmund Andros came as Nicholson's successor andquarrelled with Dr. Blair 118How young Daniel Parke one Sunday pulled Mrs. Blair outof her pew in church 119Removal of Andros ........ 119The Earl of Orkney draws a salary for governing Virginiafor the next forty years without crossing the ocean,while the work is done by lieutenant-governors . . 120The first of these was Nicholson once more .... 120Who removed the capital from Jamestown to Middle Plantation,and called it Williamsburg ..... 121How the blustering Nicholson, disappointed in love, behavedso badly that he was removed from office . . 122, 123Fortunes of the college 123Indian students ......... 124Instructions to the housekeeper...... 125Horse-racing prohibited ....... 126Other prohibitions 126The courtship of Parson Camm ; a Virginia PriscUla 127, 128Some interesting facts about the college . . . 128, 129Nicholson's schemes for a union of the colonies . . 129, 130CHAPTER Xni.Maryland's vicissitudes.Maryland after the death of Oliver Cromwell . . . 131Fuller and Fendall 132The duty on tobacco 133Fendall's plot 134Temporary overthrow of Baltimore's authority . . . 135Superficial resemblance to the action of Virginia . . 136Profound difference in the situations 137