The somewhat inexact _History of Virginia_ by John Burk has some of the traits of expansive utterance which might be expected of an expatriated Irishman who had been implicated in political hazards, and who was yet to fall in a duel in 1808.[326] This book, which was published in three volumes at Petersburg (1804-5), was dedicated to Jefferson. A fourth volume, by Skelton Jones and Louis Hue Girardin, was added in 1816; but as the edition was in large part destroyed by a fire, it is rarely found with the other three.[327] Burk used the copy of the Virginia Company records which had belonged to John Randolph, as well as some collections made by Hickman (which Randolph had had made when it was his intention to write on Virginian history), and Colonel Byrd’s Journal. The name of Campbell is twice associated with the history of Virginia. J. W. Campbell published in 1813 at Petersburg a meagre and unimportant _History of Virginia_, coming down to 1781. The best known, however, is the work of Charles Campbell, his son, who in 1847, at Richmond, published a well-written _Introduction to the History of Virginia_, and in 1860, at Philadelphia, a completed _History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia_, coming down to 1783,—a book written before John Smith was called a romancer. The book, however defective in arrangement and execution, is thought to be the best general authority.[328] The most comprehensive _History of Virginia_ is that of Robert R. Howison, vol. i. coming down to 1763, being published at Philadelphia in 1846, and vol. ii., ending in 1847, being published at Richmond the next year. He is a pleasing writer, but sacrifices fact to rhetoric, though he makes an imposing display of references. To these may be added, in passing, William H. Brockenbrough’s _Outline of History of Virginia to 1754_; Martin’s _Gazetteer_, 1835, and Howe’s _Historical Collections of Virginia_, printed in Charleston, 1856. * * * * * Respecting the religious history of the colony, besides the general historians, there have been several special treatments. Mr. Neill has written upon the Puritan affinities in _Hours at Home_, November, 1867, and on Thomas Harrison and the Virginia Puritans in his _English Colonization_, where is also a chapter on the planting of the Church of England. Patrick Copland’s sermon, _Virginia’s God be thanked_, was preached before the Company in London, April 18, 1622; a copy of which is in Harvard College Library. Cf. Mr. Neill’s _Memoir of Rev. Patrick Copland_, New York, 1871, p. 52, and his _English Colonization_, p. 104.