Anglican homes and he
records occasionally the fact that a county sheriff or constable or
justice of the county court was present at his preaching. He does not
record any instance in which anyone in civil authority in the colony
protested against his preaching or attempted to stop him; and the high
point of his visit came when the Governor of Virginia, learning of his
approach, invited him and his friends to the Governor's mansion,
entertained them and gave them fruit to carry with them on their
journey toward Philadelphia.

So Virginia came to the end of its first century, having fought
through the various adverse conditions which its people found along the
way. The colony had come into an era of opportunity and growth with a
well established government, a seaborne trade which brought prosperity,
and a concept of religion which made room for all forms of the
Christian faith that would remain at peace with each other, and as
citizens be loyal to their government. As the people approached their
first centennial anniversary celebration in 1707 they looked forward
with a confidence born of past experience to the new century upon which
they were to enter.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

In addition to the titles in the following brief list the reader will
find many references to official papers, and other important and useful
works, in the author's _Virginia's Mother Church_, volumes one and two.
A great many of the statements herein made are based upon these two
volumes.

Anderson, James S. M. _A History of the Colonial Church_.
London: 1843. 3 vols.

Andrews, Matthew Page. _The Soul of a Nation, The Founding
of Virginia and the Projection of New England_. New York:
Doubleday, 1943.

Brydon, George MacLaren. _Virginia's Mother Church and the
Political Conditions Under Which It Grew_. Richmond,
Virginia: Virginia Historical Society, 1947. Vol. I,
1607-1727; Vol. II, 1725-1814.

Fiske, John. _Old Virginia and Her Neighbors_. Boston and
New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. 2 vols.

Goodwin, Edward L. _The Colonial Church in Virginia_.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Morehouse Publishing Company, 1927.

With appendix giving list of Anglican clergymen who served
in Virginia in the Colonial period.

Hening, W. W. _Statutes of Virginia_, 1619-1792. 13 vols.

Mason, George C. _Colonial Churches of Tidewater, Virginia_.
Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson, 1945.