Note 28 — Chapter X · THE COMING OF THE CAVALIERS.

For an excellent account of local government in Virginia before the Revolution, see Howard, Local Const. Hist. of the U. S. i. 388-407; also Edward Ingle in Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, iii. 103-229. With regard to the county lieutenant’s honorary title, Mr. Ingle suggests that it may help to explain the super-abundance of military titles in the South, and he quotes from a writer in the London Magazine in 1745: “Wherever you travel in Maryland (as also in Virginia and Carolina) your ears are astonished at the number of colonels, majors, and captains that you hear mentioned.”