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They might advance rapidly if they would, however; they must advance somehow or other whether they would or no. She hardly wished to have more leisure for them. There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, from having been longer than usual absent from Surry, were exciting of course rather more than the usual interest.
In 1652 the settlements in Virginia were embraced in thirteen counties, of which Northampton, on the Accomack Peninsula, extended to the southern boundary of Maryland. On the James River were nine counties: Henrico, Charles City, James City, Surry, Warwick, Warascoyack, or Isle of Wight, Elizabeth City, Nansemond, and Lower Norfolk.
He was senseless! and I mounted my horse, galloped to the parsonage, was received with radiant smiles, and forgot the whole scene. On the next day Nighthawk did not return nor on the next. I did not see him again until the evening of the day on which I was married. "To that 'auspicious moment' I have now conducted you, my dear Surry. The morning for my marriage came.
"I hope to do good work with them, my dear Surry and I think they are just in time." With which words Mohun put the paper in his pocket. "You know the latest intelligence?" he said. "Yes; but do not let us talk of it. Tell me something about yourself but first listen to a little narrative from me."
He had his majesty's leave to resign his poll of auditor of the exchequer, to his nephew the honourable George Montague; and after being made first lord commissioner of the Treasury, and sworn of the privy-council, he was advanced to the dignity of earl of Hallifax, and viscount Sunbury, by letters patent, bearing date the 26th of October, 1714; and before the end of that year, was installed one of the knights companions of the most noble order of the garter, and made lord lieutenant of the county of Surry.
It did not seem possible that Tejon could be running as fast as Surry; and yet, after a half-mile or so of that killing pace, Jack could not see that he was gaining much.
Upon the accession of Queen Mary the attainder was taken off his father, which circumstance has furnished some people with an opportunity to say, that the princess was fond of, and would have married, the Earl of Surry. I shall transcribe the act of repeal as I find it in Collins's Peerage of England, which has something singular enough in it.
Ibid., 309. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1671, 105, 171. We have two accounts of this affair: Strange and Wonderful News from Yowell in Surry , and An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts . Roger North, op. cit., 131-132. York Depositions, 247. York Depositions, 112, 113. Drage, Daimonomageia, 12. For an account of her case, see Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 127-146.
WHORTS, or BILBERRIES. To a common observer this would appear to be a very insignificant shrub; it is not uncommonly met with on our heaths: but it is only in particular places where it fruits in abundance, and in such districts it is of considerable value. The waste lands on Hindhead and Blackdown in Surry and Sussex are noticed for producing this fruit, which is similar to Black Currants.
Previous to leaving Halifax he signed the paper known as the "Association," containing a declaration of patriotic principles and means of redress, relative to the existing troubles with Great Britain. Soon after his removal to Surry he was appointed a member of the "Committee of Safety" for that county.
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