Old Virginia and her neighbours

22 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.prolific in legend. The historian Robert Beverley,who was born about fifteen years afterward, tellsus that Governor Berkeley's proclamation namedCharles II. as " King of England, Scotland,France, Ireland, and Virginia." The documentitself, however, calls him " our most gratioussoveraigne,Charles the Second, King of England,Scotland, ffrance, & Ireland," and makes no mentionof Virginia.William Lee tells us that it was "in consequenceof this step " that the motto En dat Virginiaquintam was placed upon the seal of thecolony.^ Since " this step " was never taken, thestatement needs some qualification. The idea ofThe sealdesignating Virginiaofas an additionalVjrginia.kingdom to those over which the Englishsovereign ruled in Europe was already entertainedin 1590 by Edmund Spenser, who dedicatedhis " Faery Queene " to Elizabeth as queen of" England, France,^ and Ireland, and of Virginia."^ As early as 1619 the London Companyadopted a coat-of-arms, upon which was themottojEVi dat Virginia qidntum^ in which the unexpressednoun is regnum ;" Behold, Virginia givesthe fifth [kingdom]." After the restoration ofCharles II. a new sealfor Virginia, adopted about1 Meade's Old Churches, ii. 137.2 The claim to the French crown set up by Edward III. in1328 led to the so-called Hundred Years' War, in the course of•which Henry VI. was crowned King of France in the church ofNotre Dame at Paris in 1431. His sway there was practicallyended in 1436, but the English sovereigns continued absurdly tocall themselves Kings of France until 1801.^ See above, vol. i. p. 250.