On Friday the 22. of November 1633. a finall
         gale of winde comming gently from the
         Northweft, we weighed from the Cowes in
         the Ile of Wight, about ten in the morning;
         and (hauing stayed by the way twenty dayes
         at the Barbada's, and fourteene dayes at St.
         Chriftophers, vpon fome neceffary occafions)
wee arriued at Point-Comfort in Virginia
on the 24. of February following, the Lord be praifed for it. At
this time one Captaine Claybourne was come from the parts where
wee intended to plant, to Virginia; and from him wee vnderftood,
that all the natiues of thofe parts were in preparation of de-
fence, by reafon of a rumour fome had raifed amongft them, of
fixe fhips that were to come with a power of Spanyards, whofe
meaning was to driue all the inhabitants out of the countrey.

Wee had good letters from his Maiefty to the Gouernour and
Councell of Virginia, which made them fauour vs, and fhew vs as
noble vfage as the place afforded, with promife, that for their cattell
and Hoggs, Corne or Poultry, our plantation fhould not want the
open way to furnifh our felues from thence; they told vs likewife,
That when his Lordfhip fhould bee refolued on a convenient place
to make himfelfe a feat; they fhould bee able to prouide him with
as much Bricke and Tile, as he fhould haue occafion to imploy, vn-
till his Lordfhip had made of his owne: Alfo, that they had to fur-
nifh his Lordfhip with two or three hundred Stocks ready grafted
with Peares, Apples, Plummes, Apricotes, Figgs, and Peaches, and
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