EDITORIAL NOTES. 



NOTE I. 



THE present-day visitor to Williamsburg finds it one 

 of the most charmingly antique towns in America. Duke 

 of Gloucester, the main street of the village, broadens at 

 its centre into an open square called Court House Green, 

 where stands an ancient temple of justice, surrounded 

 by fine colonial residences. Farther up Duke of Gloucester 

 Street is another square, Palace Green, faced by other 

 historic mansions, including the old palace of the royal 

 governors. Thence a short walk takes one to the ancient 

 church of Bruton parish, the oldest Protestant house of 

 worship still in use in America; and at the end of the 

 street stands the restored William and Mary College. 

 The site of the old hall of the House of Burgesses is at 

 the other end of Duke of Gloucester Street, but nothing 

 remains of this famous structure save the foundation, and 

 masses of broken plaster from its walls. 



NOTE II. 



The region beyond the Ohio, now the States of Ohio, 

 Indiana and Illinois, was a part of the province of Virginia 

 under her charter, but in 1781 was ceded to the Federal 



