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So he built smelting furnaces, and altogether was so eager over it that he was called the Tubal Cain of Virginia. For Tubal Cain, you remember, "was an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron." Spotswood also planted vines, and brought over a colony of Germans to teach the people how to grow them properly, and make wine. It was he, too, who first explored "the West."
She has often reproached me with my being young; and I must be very young indeed, and as ill advised, to treat of matters of such great concern and importance without the advice of my parliament. I have not been wanting in all friendly offices to her; but she disbelieves or overlooks them. * Caballa, p. 374. Spotswood, p. 177.
As we alighted at the doorway of the Spotswood Hotel, the Judge said to the Colonel, "Button your outside-coat up closely. Your uniform must not be seen here." The Colonel did as he was bidden; and, without stopping to register our names at the office, we followed the Judge and the Captain up to No. 60.
They permeated the Valley of Virginia; many moved on south into Carolina; finally, in large part, they made Kentucky and Tennessee. Germans, too, came into the valley down from Pennsylvania quiet, thrifty folk, driven thus far westward from a war-ravished Rhine. Shrewd practicality trod hard upon the heels of romantic fancy in the mind of Spotswood.
I will call at ten o'clock, and take it to him." "Very well. But will Mr. Davis see us on Sunday?" "Oh, that will make no difference." The next morning, after breakfast, which we took in our room with Mr. Javins, we indited a note of which the following is a copy to the Confederate Secretary of State. "Spotswood House, Richmond, Va. "July 17th, 1864. "Hon. J. P. Benjamin,
The marriage was solemnized by the bishop of Orkney, a Protestant, who was afterwards deposed by the church for this scandalous compliance. Few of the nobility appeared at the ceremony: they had most of them, either from shame or fear, retired to their own houses. * Spotswood, p. 203. Melvil, p. 82. Keith, p. 392. * Digges, p. 14. Melvil, p. 82. Keith, p. 402.
Elizabeth, pretending ignorance of the place of his retreat, never executed the treaties, by which she was bound to deliver up all rebels and fugitives to the king of Scotland. * Spotswood, p. 257, 258.
* Haynes, vol i. p. 256, 259. Haynes. vol. i. p. 223. * Rymer, tom. xv. p. 593. Keith, p. 137. Spotswood, p. 147. Knox, p. 229. Thus Europe saw, in the first transaction of this reign, the genius and capacity of the queen and her ministers. She discerned at a distance the danger which threatened her; and instantly took vigorous measures to prevent it.
But notwithstanding this step, taken in favor of Mary's enemies, she never laid aside her ambiguous conduct, nor quitted the appearance of amity to that princess. * Spotswood, p. 241. Spotswood, p. 243. * Crawford, p. 136. See note P, at the end of the volume.
Meanwhile Bothwell, during her conference with Grange, fled unattended to Dunbar; and fitting out a few small ships, set sail for the Orkneys, where he subsisted during some time by piracy. * Keith, p. 402. Spotswood, p. 207. Melvil, p. 83, 84. * Anderson, vol. ii. p. 165, 166, etc.
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