[27] Circumstances not wholly creditable to him; see Stebbing's Ralegh, pp. 89-94.
[28] Stith's Virginia, Sabin's reprint, New York, 1865, p. 30.
[29] The Ancient British Drama, London, 1810, vol. ii.
[30] Brown's Genesis, i. 46.
[31] See my Civil Government in the United States, chap. iv.
[32] He is commonly but incorrectly called the brother of the Chief Justice.
[33] The original is in the MS. Minutes of the London Company, in the Library of Congress, 2 vols. folio.
[34] Brown's Genesis, i. 91.
[35] Drayton's Works, London, 1620. Drayton was afterwards poet laureate.
[36] Some skepticism was manifested by one of Smith's contemporaries, Thomas Fuller, who says, in his Worthies of England, "It soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them." The good Fuller was mistaken, however. Some of Smith's most striking deeds, as we shall see, were first proclaimed by others.