[393] Generall Historie of New England, London, 1624, pp. 203-4.
[394] Sir Ferdinando Gorges’ Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings of the advancement of plantations into the parts of America, especially showing the beginning, progress, and continuance of that of New England, London, 1658, pp. 8-10. When first published, Sir Ferdinando had been dead some years, and his grandson, Ferdinando Gorges, Esq., included it in a general work, America Painted to the Life, etc.
[395] Fourth Series, i. 219.
[396] Maine Hist. Coll., iii. 286, with an introduction by W. S. Bartlet.
[397] A Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc, now first printed from the original manuscript in the Lambeth Palace Library, edited with preface, notes, and appendix, by the Rev. B. F. De Costa. Cambridge, John Wilson & Son, University Press, 1880. [The Preface reviews the story of the settlement; and the Appendix reprints the extracts from Gorges, Smith, Purchas, and Alexander, from which, previous to the publication of Strachey’s account, all knowledge of the colony was derived.—Ed.]
[398] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xviii. (1880-1881) 82, 117.
[399] Smith’s Generall Historie, p. 203.
[400] [The literary history of this controversy is traced more minutely in the Editorial note C, at the end of this chapter.—Ed.]
[401] [The Gorges papers, which might prove so valuable, have not been discovered. Dr. Woods examined some called such, in Sir Thomas Phillipps’s collection, but they proved unimportant. Hakluyt, Westerne Planting, Introduction, p. xx. The grant from James I. to Gorges, April 10, 1606, covering the coast from 34° to 45° north latitude, and which was afterwards the cause of not a little controversy with the Massachusetts colonists, is given in Hazard’s Historical Collections, i. 442, and in Poor’s Vindication of Gorges, p. 110.—Ed.]
[402] See Nova Britannia, London, 1609, p. 1, no. vi., p. 11, in Force’s Tracts, vol. i.