four per cent. in their salaries and they were also made incumbents in their parishes.

The bishop's implication of treason was answered at length. The royal prerogative was, no doubt, of great weight, but it must be used for the good of the people and not their destruction. The royal instructions ought to be obeyed, but they must give place to necessity, and the act of 1758 was necessary to the welfare of the community.

H. J. ECKENRODE.

Colonel Richard Bland, familiarly known as "the Virginia Antiquary," lived at "Jordans" in Prince George County. He was born May 6, 1710, and died in Williamsburg, at the house of his friend John Tazewell, from a stroke of apoplexy, October 26, 1776. His was a mind richly stored with the treasures of learning, while a keen interest in politics and religion, and a knowledge, both broad and deep, of the underlying principles of government and theology, led him frequently into controversy. From 1742, Bland served continuously for thirty-three years as a representative from Prince George County in the House of Burgesses. He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, of the Conventions of 1775 and 1776, the Committee of Safety, and the Virginia delegation to the first Congress, which met in 1774. A re-election to Congress in 1775 he declined on the plea of ill-health. His contribution to the controversy which arose out of the clash between the clergy and the House of Burgesses over the "Two-Penny Acts" includes the pamphlet whose title is given above and another entitled The Colonel Dismounted or the Rector Vindicated [see no. 310]. Bland was one of the leaders in opposing the Stamp Act and a member of the committee of the Virginia House "which prepared the memorials to the Commons, the Lords and the King . . . In 1765, still confiding in the potency of the memorials forwarded to England at the previous session, he opposed the Resolutions of Patrick Henry." In 1766 Bland published his Inquiry into the Rights of the Colonies [see no. 326], which was, says Hugh Blair Grigsby, "the first pamphlet on the nature of the connexion of the Colonies with the parent country." He was one of the first to sign the Non-importation agreement of 1769, and was again led into print by the controversy over an American Episcopate, to the establishment of which he was opposed.

Richard Bland was the son of Richard Bland (1665-1720) of "Berkeley" and "Jordan's Point," long a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. William Randolph I, of "Turkey Island"). The first Richard Bland was the son of Honorable Theodorick Bland (1629-1669) of "Westover," immigrant ancestor of the family in Virginia, and his wife Anne, daughter of Governor Richard Bennett of Virginia. Richard Bland, the subject of this sketch, married first, Anne, daughter of Colonel Peter Poythress, of "Flower de Hundred," by whom he had several children whose descendents are still living in Virginia. By his second wife, Elizabeth Harrison, there was no issue. (Grigsby, The Virginia Convention of 1776 Richmond, 1855, pp. 57-61; The Critic, Rich

mond, Virginia, July 9, 1888).

See nos. 268, 304, 310, 311, 312.

Boston Athenaeum; Library Company

of Philadelphia.

1760.

B

[CARTER, Colonel LANDON (1710-1778).]

A / LETTER TO THE

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RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, / THE LORD
P OF L
N./ OCCASIONED BY A LETTER OF HIS LORDSHIP'S TO
THE L-DS / of T-e, on tHE SUBJECT OF THE ACT OF ASSEMBLY / PASSED
IN THE YEAR 1758, INTITULED, AN ACT TO ENABLE THE INHABITANTS OF THIS
COLONY TO DIS-/CHARGE THEIR PUBLICK DUES, &c. IN MONEY FOR THE
ENSUING YEAR. / FROM / Virginia. / PRINTED IN VIRGINIA, AND REPRINTED
IN LONDON, 1760. /

Title page. Text, 60 pp. 20x13 cm.

[See note under no. 268.]

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1760. FAUQUIER, Honorable FRANCIS (1704?-1768), Lieutenant [280]
Governor. Speech.,

THE SPEECH OF THE HONOURABLE Francis Fauquier, Esq; His
MAJESTY'S LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOUR, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE
COLONY AND DOMINION OF VIRGINIA: TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SUMMONED
TO BE HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF Williamsburg, on Thursday
THE 14TH OF September
1758: AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY

SEVERAL PROROGATIONS, TO Monday THE 6TH OF October,
[Williamsburg: William Hunter.]

Caption title. Text, pp. 1-4. 31x20 cm.

.

1760;...

1760.

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[281]

THE VIRGINIA / ALMANACK / FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD GOD 1761./
BEING THE FIRST AFTER / BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP-YEAR. WHEREIN ARE CON-
TAINED THE LUNATION, CONJUNCTION, ECLIPSES; THE SUN AND MOON'S
RISING AND SETTING; THE RISING, SETTING AND SOUTHING, OF / THE
HEAVENLY BODIES; WEATHER; &C. CALCULATED ACCORDING TO ART; AND
REFERRED TO THE HORIZON OF 38/ DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE, AND A
MERIDIAN OF FIVE HOURS WEST FROM THE CITY OF LONDON; FITTING
VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, NORTH-CAROLINA, / &c.-ALSO. A TABLE OF COURT
DAYS; DESCRIPTION OF THE ROADS / THROUGH THE CONTINENT; A LIST OF
THE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF BURGESSES OF VIRGINIA; DIRECTIONS FOR
MAKING A TRAVELLING-UM-/BRELLA, WHICH MAY BE CARRIED WITHOUT THE
LEAST INCONVENIENCE, WITH REMARKS ON THE PROPRIETY OF DRESS;
DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING COMMON / SMALL-BEER, as pleasant aS FINE ÅLE,
WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL EX-/PENCE: A CERTAIN METHOD OF PRESERVING
BUILDINGS FROM THE FATAL / EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING, WITH A FEW QUERIES
TO THE SUPERSTITIONS; A / METHOD FOR PRESERVING VIRTUES OF LEMONS
AND ORANGES FOR YEARS; / LIMES IN COOKERY; A WHOLESOM LIQUOR MADE
FROM INDIAN CORN; DIRECTIONS HOW to prepare thE BODY FOR INOCULA
TION, IN THE SMALL-/POX; BY OBSERVING OF WHICH NOT ONE IN 700 WILL
LOSE THEIR LIVES, WHEREAS, IN THE COMMON WAY OF INFECTION, ONE
DIES OUT OF FIVE / TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX. / CONTAINING A
COLLECTION OF APPROV'D MAXIMS, ENTERTAINING EPIGRAMS/ CURIOUS
ANECDOTES, DIVERTING STORIES, &C. &C. CALCULATED / FOR INSTRUCTION AND
AMUSEMENT./ BY THEOPHILUS WREG, PHILOM./-/ I WILL BEHOLD THE
HEAVENS, EVEN THE WORKS OF THY FINGERS, THE MOON AND STARS

1760. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Session Laws. (Fifth Session.)

[282]

ANNO REGNI GEORGII II, REGIS MAGNAE BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE,
HIBERNIAE, TRICESIMO TERTIO. AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEGUN AND HELD
AT THE CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG, ON THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, IN THE THIRTY-Second YEAR OF THE REIGN OF OUR SOVEREIGN
LORD GEORGE II. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND
IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER of the FAITH, &C. AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
1758; and FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY SEVERAL PROROGATIONS TO TUESDAY
THE 4TH OF March, in the Year of our LORD 1760; AND THEN HELD AT THE
CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG; BEING THE FIFTH SESSION OF THIS AS-
SEMBLY. [Williamsburg: William Hunter.]

Caption title. Text, 6 pp.

Reprinted: Hening, Statutes at Large, VII, pp. 347-356.

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Lenox Library.

1760. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Session Laws. (Sixth Session.)

[283]

ANNO REGNI GEORGII II, REGIS MAGNAE BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE,
HIBERNIAE, TRICESIMO TERTIO. AT a General ASSEMBLY, BEGUN and held
AT THE CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG, ON THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, IN THE THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF Our SovereigN
LORD GEORGE II. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND
IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &C. AND IN THE YEAR of our Lord
1758; AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY SEVERAL PROROGATIONS TO MONDAY
THE 19TH OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1760; AND THEN HELD AT
THE CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG; BEING THE SIXTH SESSION OF THIS AS-
SEMBLY. [Williamsburg: William Hunter.]

Caption title. Text, 6 pp.

Reprinted Hening, Statutes at Large, VII, pp. 357-367.

ANNO REGNI GEORGII II. REGIS MAGNAE-BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE &
HIBERNIAE, TRICESIMO-QUARTO. AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEGUN AND HELD
AT THE CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG, ON THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH Day of
SEPTEMBER, IN THE THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF OUR SOVEREIGN
LORD GEORGE II. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND
IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &C. AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
1758; AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY SEVERAL PROROGATIONS TO MONDAY
THE 6TH OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1760; AND THEN HELD AT

THE CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG; BEING THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THIS ASSEMBLY. [Williamsburg: William Hunter.]

Caption title. Text, 7 pp.

Reprinted: Hening, Statutes at Large, VII, pp. 369-379.

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Lenox Library.

1760. HOUSE OF BURGESSES. Journal. (Fifth Session.)

JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES.

1760.] [Williamsburg: William Hunter.] Caption title. Text, 14 pp.

[285]

[SESSION: MARCH 4-MARCH 11,

Reprinted: McIlwaine, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia,

1758-1761 (Richmond, 1908), pp. 155-168. Reference: McIlwaine, Journals of

the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1758-1761 (Richmond, 1908), p. xii.

The only known printed copy of this Journal is in the collection of the late Mrs. C. W. Coleman, of Williamsburg, Virginia.

1760. HOUSE OF BURGESSES. Journal. (Sixth Session.)

[286]

JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES. [SESSION: MAY 19-MAY 24, 1760.] [Williamsburg: William Hunter.]

Caption title. Text, 13 pp.

Reprinted: McIlwaine, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1758-1761 (Richmond, 1908), pp. 169-179. Reference: McIlwaine, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1758-1761 (Richmond, 1908), p. xii.

1761.

1761.

The only known printed copy of this Journal is in the collection of the late Mrs. C. W. Coleman, of Williamsburg, Virginia.

[287] SHEW.

DAVIES, Reverend SAMUEL (1723-1761), and others. LETTERS / FROM THE / REV. SAMUEL DAVIES, AND OTHERS; ING. THE STATE OF RELIGION IN / Virginia, South Carolina, &c. / PARTICULARLY AMONG THE NEGROES. /-/ PROV. XXV. 25. As cold Water to a thirsty Soul, so is good News from a far Country. // LONDON: / PRINTED BY J. AND W. OLIVER, IN/ Bartholomew-Close. / MDCCLXI. / (PRICE 3d. Or 2s. 6d. per DOZEN.) /

Title page. Text, pp. [3]-36. 15.2x9.3 cm.
[See note under No. 188.]

John Carter Brown.

[288]

THE Virginia / ALMANACK / FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD GOD 1762. BEING THE SECOND AFTER / BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP-YEAR. / WHEREIN ARE CONTAINED / THE LUNATIONS, CONJUNCTIONS, ECLIPSES; THE Sun and/ MOON'S RISING AND SETTING; THE RISING, SETTING AND SOUTHING, OF / THE HEAVENLY BODIES; WEATHER; &C. CALCULATED/ ACCORDING TO ART; AND REFERRED TO THE HORIZON of 38/ DEGREES North Latitude, and a MERIDIAN OF FIVE HOURS West FROM THE CITY OF London; FITTING Virginia, Maryland, North-Carolina, / &c.—ALSO A TABLE OF COURT-DAYS; DESCRIPTION OF THE ROADS/ THROUGH THE CONTINENT; WITH A LIST OF THE COUNCIL AND/ HOUSE OF Burgesses of Virginia: / To WHICH IS ADDED, / A COLLECTION OF APPROVED MAXIMS, ENTERTAINING EPIGRAMS, CURIOUS / ANECDOTES. DIVERTING

STORIES, &C. &c. &c.

BY THEOPHILUS WREG.

CALCULATED FOR INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT. /
Philom.

For to please All, we strive with all our Might; /

But know, 'tis for your MONEY that we write. /
Williamsburg: / PRINTED AND SOLD BY JOSEPH ROYLE AND Co./

[1761.]

Title page. Text, pp. [2]-[32]. 161⁄2x10 cm.

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1761. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Session Laws. (Seventh Session. [289] Third Meeting.)

ANNO REGNI GEORGII III. REGIS MAGNAE-BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE & HILBERNIAE, PRIMO. AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG, ON THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY Of SeptemBER, IN THE THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF OUR SOVEREIGN LORD GEORGE II. BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &C. AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1758; AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY SEVERAL PROROGATIONS TO THURSDAY THE 5TH OF MARCH, IN THE 1ST YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS PRESENT Majesty, GEORGE III. BY THE GRACE of God of GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &C. AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1761; AND THEN HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF WILLIAMSBURG; BEING THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. William Hunter.]

Caption. Text, pp. 9-50.

Reprinted: Hening, Statutes at Large, VII, pp. 381-461.

[Williamsburg:

Note: The second meeting of this session of Assembly convened December 11, 1760, lasted only one day, when adjournment was made to March 5, 1761. There were no acts made at the second meeting.

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Lenox Library.

1761. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Session Laws. (First Session.) [290]
ANNO REGNI GEORGII III. REGIS MAGNAE-BRITANNIAE, FRANCIAE ET
HILBERNIAE, SECUNDO. AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE
CAPITOL, IN WILLIAMSBURG, ON TUESDAY THE 26TH OF MAY, IN THE 1ST YEAR
OF THE REIGN OF OUR SOVEREIGN LORD GEORGE III. BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF
GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c.,
AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1761, AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY PRORO-
GATION TO TUESDAY THE 3D OF NOVEMBER FOLLOWING; AND THEN HELD AT THE
CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF WILLIAMSBURG; BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF
THIS GENERAL-ASSEMBLY. [Williamsburg: Joseph Royle.]

Caption title. Text, 14 pp.

Reprinted: Hening, Statutes at Large, VII, pp. 463-490.

1761. HOUSE OF BURGESSES.

THE JOURNAL OF THE

HOUSE OF BURGESSES. / MDCCLX. / BEING

THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THIS PRESENT / GENERAL ASSEMBLY. / (VIG