. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 79 been replaced by houses very substantially built of brick broughtfrom England. They were ample, with low ceilings, thick wallsand heavy shutters. All the furniture, plate, china, linen andbooks were imported from England. Of the latter there were notmany. These were bound in heavy embossed leather. Theplanters library included the works and plays of Shakespeare, BenJonson and Fletcher. He eagerly acquired all the volumes per-taining to his adopted country: Purchas, his Pilgrimage, The
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 79 been replaced by houses very substantially built of brick broughtfrom England. They were ample, with low ceilings, thick wallsand heavy shutters. All the furniture, plate, china, linen andbooks were imported from England. Of the latter there were notmany. These were bound in heavy embossed leather. Theplanters library included the works and plays of Shakespeare, BenJonson and Fletcher. He eagerly acquired all the volumes per-taining to his adopted country: Purchas, his Pilgrimage, The Generall HistoricNew EnglandIsles, Theof the Presentia, The Wreckture, and a fewThe lord ofgold on hisenormous genial, a mix-observance andman who huntedfor his pastime,horses and rodeproud of hiswere the in-with which hemust be cutof maple, kept. of Virginia,and the SummerTrue DiscourseState of Virgin-of the Sea Ven-beside. the manor wore clothes, and an He was hospitable ture of courtly the bearing of a wolves and foxes He owned fine well, and was tobacco. Many teJL^ cantations d it. It upon a block lily jar, and the coal which lighted the pipe must be lifted with silvertongs and lighted from juniper wood. The planter loved his homeand his family, and left them with regret when he went down inhis sloop to James Cittie to take his seat in the House of Burgessesand frame those queer laws of the times : for the government ofthe church until God shall please to turn his Majesties piousthoughts to us ; for laying a duty on rum, because it hath beenfound to bring diseases and death to divers people ; for furnishing 8o GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, Indians with badges, no Indian to be allowed to enter the Englishconfines without a badge, on pain of imprisonment and one hun-dred arms length of roanoke ; for keeping the sabbath; for thed
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