deep that I have often relied upon it in situations of some perplexity. I do not recollect once to have regretted the adoption of her opinion. I have sometimes regretted its rejection."

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was as blessed a godsend to the cadets of noble English houses two hundred and fifty years ago as are Australia, India, and Canada to-day.

Nearly every one of our "old families" that has preserved a genealogical tree, may discern the beginning of its line in a twig that grew well toward the terminal tip of the bough.

Already, careers that led to fortune and renown were becoming scarce in the mother country. The rich unclaimed spaciousness of the El Dorado across the sea attracted, in equal measure, the prudent and the ambitious.

John Chew, merchant, the younger son of a Somersetshire family of the same name, sailed from England with Sarah, his wife, in

the Seaflower in 1622, and was received with open arms by those of his own name and blood, who had, a year earlier, settled in Virginia. Hogg Island (now

Homewood") a little below Jamestown, in the widening James River, is said to have been the place of landing. His name occurs in several grants of land by, and memorials addressed to, the parent government in 1642-4, and as a member of the Honorable House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, yearly, from 1623-43, a protracted period of service, which is silent testimony to personal probity and official ability. His term of office embraced the latter part of the reign of James I. whose death his loving colonists mourned in 1625, and, almost the whole of that of his unhappy

successor.

Strafford and Laud had perished on the scaffold, and Charles I. had departed from London upon the seven years of conflict and captivity that were to end in the shadow of Whitehall, January 30, 1649, when the thriving merchant, against the will of Governor Berke

ley, removed to Maryland. The earliest date of the exodus given is 1643. John Chew was, therefore, one of the body that listened to the comfortable words conveyed in the king's letter, "Given at our Court of York the 5th of July, 1642."

In this instrument, drawn up by the king's secretary, on the eve of the grand rebellion, the sovereign engages not to restore the detested Virginia Company to their rule over the colony, and expresses the royal approval of "your acknowledgments of our great bounty and favors toward you, and your so earnest desire to continue under our immediate protection."

When the head of his royal master rolled on the scaffold, John Chew, who appears, from the hints transmitted to us of his individual traits, to have been of a provident and pacific turn of mind, was living upon the extensive estate deeded to him in the province of Maryland, the original bulk of which was swollen by five hundred acres, paid for in tobacco, at the rate of ten pounds of the Virginia weed per

acre.

His eldest son, Samuel Chew, made a will before his death in 1676, bequeathing most of

the "Town of Herrington," with other properties, including "Negroes, able-bodied Englishmen, and hogsheads of tobacco," to his heirs. His Quaker wife, Anne Chew, née Ayres, was his executrix. Her son, Dr. Samuel Chew, removed, in mature manhood, to Dover, then included in the Province of Pennsylvania.

Anne Ayres had brought the whole family over to her peaceful faith, and Dr. Samuel (also known as Judge) Chew remained a member of the Society of Friends until the celebrated battle in the Assembly of Pennsylvania over the Governor's recommendation of a Militia Law. When this was passed, the Quaker members of the legislative body appealed to the court over which Samuel Chew presided as Chief-Justice. With promptness that smacks of un-Friend-like indignation, they proceeded to expel him “from meeting" upon his decision that "self-defense was not only lawful, but obligatory upon God's citizens."

He may not have regretted the act of excision, so far as it affected himself. His published commentary upon the temper it evinced is spirited to raciness. In it he declares the "Bulls of Excommunication" of his late