Note 140 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION.

In the absence of detailed specific knowledge it is unsafe to base inferences upon the word “servant,” inasmuch as in the seventeenth century it included not only menials but clerks and apprentices, even articled students in a lawyer’s or doctor’s office, etc. See William and Mary College Quarterly, i. 22; Bruce, Economic History, i. 573-575; ii. 45.