• General Notes

  Libraries in Colonial Virginia
  
     William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4.
     (Apr., 1894), pp. 247-249.
  
                       LIBRARIES IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA.
  
     IV.  Library of Col. Richard Lee(1), Esquire, of Westmoreland county, taken
  literally from his inventory, recorded December 8, 1715:
     "Universal Dictionary Philips fo Salmon's Londo dispensty 8vo  Dr. Barrows
  sermons 3 voll fo comon prayer book 8vo  Parable of the Pilgram S Patrick ac-
  complished Cooke 8vo  Callimachi Cyrinaei Eipgrammata  Markhams Masterpiece 8vo
  Austins Meditacons fo  Wings Art of Surgeying 8vo  Etymolgicum parvum 8vo  Reg-
  limens and Ordinances 8vo  cockers Arithmetick 8vo  Mametij Epistol 12mo
  Gulielm Hardaei Medici Regij 12mo  learn to die 12mo  a treatize of maratime
  affairs  The Union of Honour fo Silva Silvarum fo  Scholastical History of the
  Canons of the Holdy Scripture fo  fflorus ffranciscus 12mo  Bayles receipts 8vo
  Les Guerres D; Alexandre par Arrian  Greek Grammar 8vo  Comentarij Collegii
  Cambriciensis Scoietatis  Jesus de Anima Aristoteles  Les Sex primes liberi
  Euclidij 8vo  Caesaris Comentarii 8vo  Dodonas grove 8vo  Jno Whites Works
  
  Divinity fo  Government & obedience as they are directed by Scripture & reason
  Hodders Arithmetic 8vo  the art of distillation 8vo  Peti Suavij Hist Cons
  Tridentiri Opera Theologica fo 1 vol  History of K. Henry 7th fo  corpus
  doctrinae orthodoxae 8vo  History of the D of Espernon fo  a piece of Surgery
  fo  ffrench Dictionary 4to little description of the great world  Lucci Annaei
  Senecae opera 4to. Luciani Diologi 8vo  Logicales controversial 8vo  Laurentii
  Vallae opera 8vo  aurea clavis 8vo  della Sagassee tres livres 8vo  Hammond's
  Catechism 8vo  alvari Grammatica 8vo  Juvenal & Perseus 8vo  exercitationes de
  morbis 8vo  Rabdologica 12mo  Pastor Fido 12 mo  Merlin anglica Ephemeris 8vo
  Hesiod 8vo  Tulleys Orations 8vo  Thos A Kempis de Xto imitando 12mo  Hegentii
  Itinerarium 8vo  Book of Prayers 8vo  Elenchi Motuum 8vo  Elementa optica 8vo
  Phrasis Oratoriae 8vo  Alberti Magni opera
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     (1) Richard Lee, memeber of the Council, etc., was the son of "Richard Lee,
  Gent." and as his tombstone (on Lee's Creek, an arm of Lower Machodoc, West-
  moreland county) states, "was descended from an ancient family of Merton Regis
  in shropshire, and was very skilful in the Greek and Latin Languages and other
  
  parts of polite learning."  He died 12th March 1714-15 in his 68th year.
  
  Page 248.
  
  8vo  The mischief of sin 8vo  Hermani Brittania magna 8vo  Selected discourses
  Epithetorum farago 8vo  Day of Jubilee 8vo  Systema medicinale 8vo  Iodici
  Sinceri Itinerarium  Rhetorica Libri due 12mo  Owens Epigrams 12mo  Morum
  Exempla 12mo  Zenophontis opera 8vo  Rainoldi Orationes 12mo  A Septuagint 8vo
  Introductio ad Blazoniam 8vo  Historia Universalis 8vo  Erasmus 8vo  Logicae
  institutiones 8vo  hear the Church a pamphlet natura brevium 8vo  Bergers dicij
  Logica 8vo Dictionariolum Ang et Lat 8vo  Poemata Latina 8vo  Gentill Sumer 8vo
  Ars Signorum 8vo  Comentaries on Aristoles Ethics Terminationes et Exempla
  conjugationum  Toutes Lees Oures Charitables 8vo  Statuta miniversitatis Oxon
  8vo  Claudianus 8vo  Dialogues Rusticks 8vo  A Collection of Articles 4to 
  Method of Physick 8vo  the method & Honr of the old English Clergy  Demosthenes
  Orationes 12 mo  Heliodorus 8vo  a tratise of famous places 8vo  Renati Des
  Cartes tractatio 8vo  disputatio Juridica 4to  The Life of Count Gabalis 12mo
  Nugae venales 12mo  Glissons Anatomy 12mo  Jani nicii pinacotheca 8vo  Glory
  of the Church 8vo  Thomas Smith Aug de repub Anglorum  Horace 8mo  Janua
  Linguarum Institutiones Medicinal 8vo  Virgil 12mo  Ovid 12mo  Livius 8vo
  Opiscula 8vo  Notitia imperii Romani 8vo  Edonis nentuti Theatrum  Illustrium
  Poetarum Flores 8vo  Cornelius Tacitus 8vo  English Gentleman fo  Diogenes 8vo
  Sallust 12mo  Moors Arithmetick 8vo  Synonima Latinorum 8vo  Musae Sacrae 8vo
  Angius flagellatus 8vo  Cornelius Tacitus 12mo  a piece of Divinity 4to  time
  
  & the end of time 12mo Aurea Pythagorum Cormina 8vo   Hist. of Civil Wars of
  ffrance fo  Urania practica 8vo  Pauli Orosij opera 8vo  Histo of the World
  Sr Waltr Rawley fo  Michll De Montaignes fo  Bates Dispensatory 8vo  Hemrii
  Orationes 12 mo  Epitome Del Hist Romane 8vo  Clavis mystica D. ffeatley fo
  the only way to the rest of the Soul 12mo  Jo Bapt fferarij  Sensensi Orationes
  12mo  Hugonis Grotii Institutio 12 mo  The whole duty of man 8vo  Sermons on
  Several occasion 4to  elementorum Euclides libri tridecem fo  Lex mercutoriae
  fo  Enchiridium Anatomicum 8vo  Obervacons out of Terence 8vo  Sr Edwd Cooks
  reports fo 4 vol  English Roge 8vo  discripcon of Engld & Wales 8vo  laws of
  Ecclesiastical pollity fo  Galens works fo 5 vol  exposicons on the principall
  scriptures  Warrs of Italy fo Sennerti opera omnia fo Cornelius Tacitus Annals
  fo  Lancelott Andres Sermons fo  Areti opera fo  Hypocratis opera  Annotacons
  on old & new Testamt fo  A concordance of Holy Scripture fo  Annals of the
  World fo  Collecon of orphan lectures  Opela Sebastian munsterii fo  Laws of
  Virginia fo  Matheseos tractatio 4to  Collecon of ffrancis Bacon works  Lexicon
  Scapula fo 2 vol  Calepini Dictionarium Latinum fo  Johannis Gorrei opera fo
  speeds prospect of the world fo  Titles of Honr fo  Anatomy of man fo  right way
  to the best religion  History of the Holy Land fo  Delavalls Travels fo  Re-
  conciliableness of Specifick medicines fo  Martials Epigrams 8vo  Erotenun
  linguae sanctae 8vo  Hymns Tabaci 8vo  fflorus Anglicus 8o Londo  Practice
  of Physick 8vo
  
  Page 249.
  
  a Glympse of Eternity 8vo  Eikon Basilakij or Royall Image Hudibras 8vo 
  Epistolae Elianae 4to  Spirituall refineings 4to  Aristotle Paraphrase on the
  Pslams 8vo  ffrench Testamt 12mo  ffrench Bible 8vo  Treatise of Divinity 4to
  Mangers ffrench Gramar 8vo  Kenelm Digby's receipts 8vo  fflorilegium 8vo
  accomplished courtier 8vo  Cluvers Georgraphy 12mo  Greek Testament 12mo,
  Hippocrates 8vo  Barclai Pomatum 8vo  La fida pastora 8vo  Homer Iliads ob-
  servators fo  Euphorionis satiricon 8vo  a concordnace 4to  Plinij Epistolae
  8vo  corneli felsus (Celsi?) de Medicina 8vo  Davids Psalm in Latine 8vo
  Bacons Sermons ffideles spheere Johannes de sacro Bosco 8vo  a collection of
  penal laws 4to  ffrench schoolmaster 8vo  Exercitationes de gen. animalium fo
  Caesars comentaries 8vo  Quintus Curtius 8vo  Wingates arithmetick 8vo  Moriae
  encomium 8vo  the new art of living  Orationes Latinae 8vo  Calligraphia
  Oratoria 8vo  Practice of quietness 8vo  Suetonius 8vo  Epictetus 8vo  Magiae
  naturalis tractatio 8vo  La Secretaria de Apolie 8vo  Apthenii proginnasmata
  12mo  Les Lettres de Mr. De Voiture 8vo  Historia Alexandria Magna 12mo
  familiar Coloques 12mo  Europe a slave unless Engld break her chains  Hobbs
  Elements 8vo  Orlando furioso 8vo  Aesops Fables Gr. & Lat. 8vo  Legrands
  Philosophy fo  merchants mirror fo  Sr Geo Crokes reports fo 2 vol  law
  Dictionary fo  Symboleography 4to  a comentary on Littleton fo  a compleat book
  of sea laws 4to  Practick part of the law 8vo  Greenwood revised 8vo  Trials
  p Pais 8vo  Compleat History of Europe 8vo  3 vol abridgmt of Geo Crokes reprts
  8vo  Natura brevium 8vo  Records Arithmetick 8vo  M De Voitures Letters 8vo
  Cleavelands Poems 8vo  Bacons Elements quarto Witt & drollery 8vo  Court Keepers
  guide 8vo  virtus rediviva 8vo  Vellius parterculus 8vo  Hobbs Philos Rudiments
  12mo  Divine breathings 12mo   a practical catechism 8vo  Balzacs Letters 8vo
  Pains Poems 8vo  Annals of Queen Anne 8vo  3 vols Contemplations Moral &
  Divine 8vo  Institutio Legalis 8vo  English Rudiments 8vo  Les termes de Loy
  8vo  Hostoll acct of rise &c of the W. Indies  misteries of clerkship 8vo
  office & duty of Exrs 8vo  Kebles Justice of the Peace fo  ffortescutus
  Illustratus fo Eyres Arithmetick 8vo  Syllabus Graeco Latinus 8vo  Marriners
  fallen 8vo  Pia desideria 12mo  Lylleys Gramar 8vo  Winton School phrases 8vo
  Corderius 8vo  Latin Testamt 12mo  Graecae prosodia 8vo  Greek Gramar 8vo  Gold
  mine of the french tongue 8vo  Plutarcks Lives fo  Rushworths collections fo
  1st part Boyles consideracons of the style of H. Scriptures.
  
  
     [In the inventory are mentioned:  "In the Hall: Richard Lee's picture, frame
  & curtain."  "G. Corbin's(1) picture," "the Quakers picture", "T. Corbin's
  picture."  In the chamber, among many pieces of plate, "six large spoons,
  marked squirrel."(2)].
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     (1) Richard Lee married Lettice Corbin, daughter of Henry Corbin.
  
     (2) The Lee crest was a squirrel.

Details of Laetitia's family with Richard Lee