to a trade, or the
sea.

Another charitable method in favor of the poor orphans there, is this:
that besides their trade and schooling, the masters are generally
obliged to give them at their freedom, cattle, tools, or other things,
to the value of five, six, or ten pounds, according to the age of the
child when bound, over and above the usual quantity of corn and clothes.
The boys are bound till one and twenty years of age, and the girls till
eighteen. At which time, they who have taken any care to improve
themselves, generally get well married, and live in plenty, though they
had not a farthing of paternal estate.

CHAPTER VII.

OF THE CHURCH AND CHURCH AFFAIRS.

Sec. 33. Their parishes are accounted large or small, in proportion to the
number of tithables contained in them, and not according to the extent
of land.

Sec. 34. They have in each parish a convenient church, built either of
timber, brick or stone, and decently adorned with everything necessary
for the celebration of divine service.

If a parish be of greater extent than ordinary, it hath generally a
chapel of ease; and some of the parishes have two such chapels, besides
the church, for the greater convenience of the parishioners. In these
chapels the minister preaches alternately, always leaving a reader to
read prayers when he can't attend himself.

Sec. 35. The people are generally of the church of England, which is the
religion established by law in that country, from which there are very
few dissenters. Yet liberty of conscience is given to all other
congregations pretending to Christianity, on condition they submit to
all parish duties. They have but one set conventicle amongst them, viz:
a meeting of Quakers in Nansemond county, others that have lately, been
being now extinct; and 'tis observed by letting them alone they decrease
daily.

Sec. 36. The maintenance for a minister there, is appointed by law at
sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco per annum, (be the parish great or
small;) as also a dwelling house and glebe, together with certain
perquisites for marriages and funeral sermons. That which makes the
difference in the benefices of the clergy is the value of the tobacco,
according to the distinct species of it, or according to the place of
its growth. Besides, in large and rich parishes, more marriages will
probably happen, and more funeral sermons.

The fee by law for a funeral sermon is forty shillings, or four hundred
po