22, 201.
Mr.Neill's various publications on the colonial history of Virginia and Maryland are of the highest value and authority.

They include: "The English Colonization of America During the Seventeenth Century"; "History of the Virginia Company"; "Virginia Vetusta"; "Virginia Carolorum"; "Terra Mariae; or, Threads of Maryland Colonial History"; "The Founders of Maryland"; "Life of Patrick Copland." [45:1] It was customary for the Company, when a candidate was proposed for a chaplaincy in the colony, to select a text for him and appoint a Sunday and a church for a "trial sermon" from which they might judge of his qualifications.
[50:1] The project of Eleuthera is entitled to honorable mention in the history of religious liberty.
[51:1] For fuller details concerning the Puritan character of the Virginia Company and of the early ministers of Virginia, see the articles of E.D.Neill, above referred to, in "Hours at Home," vol.vi..