. Historic Virginia homes and churches . The Palace was the very centre of social and ceremoni-ous life in Colonial Virginia. It was there that the paintedand powdered belles and beaux displayed to the best ad-vantage their velvets and brocades, their jewelled bucklesand falls of rich lace and also their accomplishments in theway of ornate manners and speech; there the minuet andthe more lively country dances occupied the hours twixtcandle-light and dawn when the birthday of his honor, theGovernor of Virginia, or his JNIajesty, the King of Eng-land, was being celebrated, and upon other liolida
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . The Palace was the very centre of social and ceremoni-ous life in Colonial Virginia. It was there that the paintedand powdered belles and beaux displayed to the best ad-vantage their velvets and brocades, their jewelled bucklesand falls of rich lace and also their accomplishments in theway of ornate manners and speech; there the minuet andthe more lively country dances occupied the hours twixtcandle-light and dawn when the birthday of his honor, theGovernor of Virginia, or his JNIajesty, the King of Eng-land, was being celebrated, and upon other liolidays. 20 HOMES AND CHURCHES WYTHE HOUSE The square brick mansion over-run with ivy and Vir-<rinia creeper hard by the ehureli was the home of the (hs-tin^niished Kevohilionarv patriot and signer of tlie Dec-laration of Independence, George Wythe (1726-1806)/This house has figured in hotli liistory and fiction, for justbefore the Vorktown campaign Cieneral \Vashington tookit for his headcpiarters and in recent times Miss Ellen. WYTHE HOUSE, WILLIAMSBURG Glasgow made use of it as the home of Judge Bassett, oneof the chief characters of her novel, The Voice of thePeople. The Wythe House can boast of no less than threeghosts. Wlioever sleeps in what was Judge Wythes bed-room upon the night of the 8th of June is suddenly awak-ened by the touch of a cold hand upon his brow; the shadowof General Washington walks in the wide hall on moon-light nights, and, on occasion, a glimpse of the lovelj Mrs. Wythe family: WiUiam and Mary Quarterly, ii, 69. WILLIAMSBURG 21 Skipwitli, who was Miss Elizabeth Byrd, of Westover,may be had, as she descends the broacl, dark stairs. SAUNDERS HOUSE The picturesque mansion with the two-storied, pillaredporch, just beyond the Wythe House, is the SaundersHouse—formerly the home of Mr. Robert Saunders^ (aprominent gentleman of W^illiamsburg and a President of ?^-^1«i *^. i 1 .-Ai ;.-- ,!., uii,;iaia, William and Mary College) and
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