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, 111vii 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