> >> I'm no expert, but I'd agree with you. I came across one mention of a >> law in early Va.- I don't know the date- that said a person had to go >> to church once every 4 months, and the sermon was not to exceed 20 >> minutes. <snip> >> Virginia was not Mass!! Arrgghhhh! I just finished reading William >> Kelso's newest book on the recent James Fort discoveries, and he said >> that with one exception, every religious relic they there found was >> Catholic. So while these first colonists may have been Anglican, they >> plainly still harbored Catholic feelings as well. They were not >> Puritanical religious zealots. Obviously, their religion was rather >> ambiguous. Or flexible. Not so according to the early written records. Here's what William Strachey wrote about Jamestown in his *A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, knigh . . .* dated July 15, 1610: " . . .euery Sonday wee haue Sermons twice a day, and euery Thursday a Sermon, hauing true preachers, which take their weekely turnes, and euery morning, at the ringing of a Bell, about ten of the clocke, each man addresseth himselfe to prayers, and so at foure of the clocke before Supper." Strachey also compiled *For The Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, &c.,* setting out the early laws enacted by Sir Thomas Gates and Lord De-La-Warre, which can be read at http://www.virtualjamestown.org/. Tom Reedy To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html