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cases a river harbor or landing place where hundreds
of hogsheads of tobacco were exported annually and
where people took ship for long sojourns in England.
The master of the modified manor was generally a
vestryman of the established church, although he
was apt to be a deist; he was also a justice of the
county court, and he had a little office in the corner
of his great yard or grove where he had law books
and often tried cases of minor significance; and he
was apt to be a member of the legislature of his
colony, sometimes a member of the sancro-sanct Colonial 
Council with a commission signed by His Royal
that so many of the entrepreneurs of 1630 and 1663
had expected to become: he was the self-made planter
without a title, rather crude in manner and dress,
but enterprising and speculative in character. The
service he rendered as vestryman or justice of the
county court was never compenstated - it would have
been a dishonor widely criticized for him to take
or ask payment from the county treasury; he regarded
himself as a public servant. But he rarely paid the
quit rents due to the British Government; he frequently