ixty feet, in breadth twenty-four, and the Lord
Governour had repaired it with a chancel of cedar and a
communion table of black walnut; all the pews and pulpit
were of cedar, with fair broad windows, also of cedar, to
shut and open, as the weather shall occasion. The font was
hewen hollow like a canoa, and there were two bells in the
steeple at the west end. The Church was so cast as to be
very light within, and the Lord Governour caused it to be
kept passing sweet and trimmed up with divers flowers. There
was a sexton in charge of the church, and every morning at
the ringing of a bell by him, about ten o'clock, each man
addressed himself to prayers, and so at four of the clock
before supper. There was a sermon every Thursday and two
sermons every Sunday, the two preachers taking their weekly
turns. Every Sunday when the Lord Governour went to church
he was accompanied with all the Councillors, Captains, other
officers, and all the gentlemen, and with a guard of fifty
halberdiers, in his Lordship's livery, fair red cloaks, on
each side and behind him. The Lord Governour sat in the
choir in a green velvet chair, with a velvet cushion before
him on which he knelt, and the Council, Captains and
officers sat on each side of him, each in their place; and
when the Lord Governour returned home he was waited on in
the same manner to his house.

Reverend Alexander Whitaker, the first rector of the City of Henrico
from its foundation in 1611 until his death by drowning in 1617, and
who is still remembered as the clergyman who baptized the Indian
princess Pocahontas, after her conversion to the Christian faith,
described his services as follows:

Every Sabbath we preach in the forenoon and catechize in the
afternoon. Every Saturday at night I exercise in Sir Thomas
Dale's house. Our Church affaires be consulted on by the
minister and four of the most religious men. Once every
month we have a communion, and once every year a solemn
fast.

This method of daily and Sunday services, as the regular rule of the
Church of England, was adopted in Virginia as far as colonial
conditions would permit. But apart from Jamestown itself, and the
schools which came into existence, there would not be many parishes in
which daily services would be feasible. The people lived too far apart
on their fa