According to another county levy as recorded in notations on the last page
of its copy of the October 1660 Acts of Assembly, Lower Norfolk County
paid 500 pounds of tobacco "To the Trumpeter" in connection with the
Restoration of Charles II.

See Jon Kukla, ed., “Some Acts Not in Hening’s Statutes: The Acts of
Assembly, October 1660,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 83
(1975): 94.


> Randy Cabell will like this.
>
> Va-Hist subscriber Peter Bergstrom supplied me with a reference to an
> expense account for the York County celebration of the restoration of
> King Charles II in the autumn of 1660. "In the proclaiming of his sacred
> Majesty," the county rented the use of cannon, bought gunpowder from the
> governor, purchased rum and cider in very great quantities, and paid 800
> pounds of tobacco "To the Trumpeters."
>
> See York County Deeds, Orders, Wills, Etc., 3 (1657-1662), folio 96.
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