"Five hundred copies printed from type, no. 70."

Edited and published by authority of the Library board, Virginia State library.

"This set of volumes...contains such of the Journals of the Council, acting as a branch of the General assembly of colonial Virginia, as the editor has been able to discover. No journal has been found for any session prior to that beginning the 8th of June 1780 [i.e. 1680]" - Pref., v.l.