cherley, Vice-President of the Council, and afterwards
deputy-governor upon the death of Governor Jeffreys. The other house was
the residence of Thomas Ludwell, Secretary to the colony, and brother to
Colonel Philip Ludwell, whose sturdy and unflinching loyalty during the
rebellion, has preserved his name to our own times.

The state-house, itself, was a large brick building, with two wings, the
one occupied by the governor and his council, the other by the general
court, composed indeed of the same persons as the council, but acting in
a judicial capacity. The centre building was devoted to the House
Burgesses exclusively, containing their hall, library, and apartments
for different offices. The whole structure was surmounted by a queer
looking steeple, resembling most one of those high, peaked hats, which
Hogarth has placed on the head of Hudibras and his puritan compeers.

Between the palace and the state-house, as we have said before, ran
Stuart street, the thoroughfare of the little metropolis, well built up
on either side with stores and the residences of the prominent citizens
of the town. There was one peculiarity in the proprietors of these
houses, which will sound strangely in the ears of their descendants.
Accustomed to the generous hospitality of the present day, the reader
may be surprised to learn that most of the citizens of old Jamestown
entertained their guests from the country for a reasonable compensation;
and so, when the gay cavalier from Stafford or Gloucester had passed a
week among the gaieties or business of the metropolis,

He called for his horse and he asked for his way,
While the jolly old landlord cried "_Something_ to pay."

But when we reflect that Jamestown was the general resort of persons
from all sections of the colony, and that the tavern accommodations were
but small, we need not be surprised at a state of things so different
from the glad and gratuitous welcome of our own day.

Such, briefly and imperfectly described, was old Jamestown, the first
capital of Virginia, as it appeared in 1676, to the little party of
travellers, whose fortunes we have been following, as they rode into
Stuart street, late in the evening of the day on which they left Windsor
Hall. The arrival, as is usual in little villages, caused quite a
sensation. The little knot of idlers that gathered about the porch of
the only regular inn, desisted from whittling the store box, in the
demolishing of wh