Colonial Vitginia and Pettersons Borhood Pirginia was a djocese of London, and contotmity to the established religion was as strietly entoteed in the Colony as in the old country. But its parsons did Iittle to edvcate their Rocks. IH 1727 the Bishop of London, evincing a sudten currosity in these distant parishes of his drocese, addressed a series of questions to the Virginian PAISORS One Has: Thre there any 3cRools II 7OAI Parish all except three Fepted,None Toanother Gvestion Is there any parish Library Sonty one could an We have erer in the attirmative, and his Fepty was: the Book of Homilies, The Whole Duty of Man, and the Singine Praims Possibly the Bishops catechism did Good: for thirty years later, when Thomas Tetterson nds redar to go to school several ClergytHen Watt EE ceiving boarders, and some Fert schools, it appears, had been established in the more densety populated coun- ₤185 It myst not be supposed that Vithinia at the time Oar story ovens was a Rogalist clab, of that Passive Obetience W25 its poiitical creed. The leading tobacto planters have been called Cavaliers by some Writers On Colonia] America in contrast with the Prestyterians, Indepen dents, and Quakers of New England and PennoyIFamia. Brit the Virginian gentry of the eighteenth centirry were not Jacabites. If the Fathers had rejoiced in the Restora tion, most of their sone had relcomed the Clorous Kevo Fation Forsaking Malarious Jamestown, they had named their new capital Williamsbure and their college y Wil- Ham and Mary When the Banoverian Iine was estab- Iished, they felt that the Protestant cause was sate, and that under a limited monarchy cdlonial charters and Eber- tiee would te secare. The advent of George the Third apet their calletatrone [7]
