[46] Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia (ed. 1860).

[47] The characters of the two parties is controversial owing to the scarcity of documentary evidence.

[48] Doyle, op. cit. p. 220.

[49] Ibid., p. 226.

[50] There was no question of abandoning the colony itself, which was what Spain desired.

[51] Doyle, op. cit. pp. 242, 244.

[52] Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth, i. 317.

[53] Neill, Virginia Carolorum (1886), p. 215.

[54] Cromwell's Speech V., Sept. 17, 1656.

[55] Hening, Statutes at Large (New York, 1823), ii. p. 517.