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came, but the result was not encouraging. 
At Henrico, the attempt to civilize these 
people had been repaid by a bloody mas- 
sacre of their benefactors, and now the 
whole scheme was seen to be illusory. The 
young Indians entered as stu- 
dents pined or fell into idle 
courses. A writer in 1 724 says ; 
‘‘ They have for the most part 
returned to their homes — some 
with and some without baptism 
— where they follow their own 
savage customs and heathenish 
rites, * * or loiter and idle 
away their time in laziness and 
mischief.” 
The famous Old Chapel” 
was built in 1732, and became 
the place of sepulture of some 
of the most distinguished men 
of Virginia. It was in refer- 
ence to the chapel and to old 
Bruton Church that Bishop 
Meade wrote: ‘‘Williamsburg 
was once the miniature copy of 
the Court of St. James, some- 
what aping the manners of that 
iroyal place, while the old church 
grave-yard and the college 
chapel were — si licet cum magnis 
xomponere parva — the Westminster Abbey 
.and the St. Paul’s of London, where the 
great ones were interred.” The first person 
who came to sleep beneath the pavement 
of this American Westminster Abbey was 
Sir John Randolph, who had espoused the 
English side during the Revolution and 
gone into exile ; and he was followed by his 
two sons, John Randolph, formerly the King’s 
Attorney- General, and Peyton Randolph, 
President of the first Congress, and by Bishop 
Madison,first Bishop of Virginia; Chancellor 
Nelson, and it is believed Lord Botetourt, 
the royal governor, whose statue was in 1797 
placed upon the college green. Botetourt 
had been a warm friend of the Virginians 
and the Virginia college; and, as he had 
expressed a desire to be buried in the colony, 
his friend, the Duke of Beaufort, wrote, after 
his death, requesting that “the president, 
etc., of the college will permit me to erect 
a monument near the place where he was 
buried.” This phrase is supposed to indi- 
cate that the old chapel of William and 
Mary contained the last remains of the most 
popular and beloved of the royal governors. 
After long delay, and a successful weather- 
ing of the chances of time and tide, the col- 
lege was now, at last, in full operation. It 
was a “beautiful and commodious” edifice 
of brick, one hundred and thirty-six feet 
long, surmounted by a cupola, with its rear 
wing described as a “ handsome hall its 
piazza extending along the western front; 
its apartments for the “ Indian Master” and 
his scholars ; its park and extensive grounds, 
containing one hundred and fifty acres ; and 
here and there on the green rose great live 
oaks heavy with foliage, beneath which 
passed to and fro the sixty-five students of 
the institution. Only here and at Harvard, 
in the Western World, had the ingrained 
instincts of the great Anglo-Saxon race 
begun to fight ignorance and superstition, 
and train the new generation in polite learn- 
ing, and “good morals and manners” for the 
coming years. 
A recital like that just made, dealing with 
charters, legislative enactments and dates, is 
always more or less uninteresting to the 
general reader, but has the merit at least 
of conveying information. We come now 
to a few incidents and details connected 
with the career of the old college, which 
will present a somewhat more lively picture 
of its character and proceedings. The stu- 
dents, whose average number up to the time 
of the Revolution was about sixty, seem to 
have resembled young gentlemen of their 
class in all ages of the world, and the Fac- 
ulty were much exercised to control their 
restless energies, which took the direction 
of horse-races, cock-fights, and devotion to 
