A Voyage to Virginia in 1609 by Strachey William; Jourdain Silvester; Wright Louis B

Author:Strachey, William; Jourdain, Silvester; Wright, Louis B.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2018-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

About the last of April, Sir George Somers launched his pinnace and brought her from his building bay in the main island into the channel where ours did ride; and she was by the keel nine-and-twenty foot, at the beam fifteen foot and an half, at the luff fourteen, at the transom nine; and she was eight foot deep and drew six foot water, and he called her the “Patience.”

58. Bark of aviso: advice boat.

59. Item 22 of “Instructions, Orders, and Constitutions to Sir Thomas Gates, Governor of Virginia,” as printed in The Records of the Virginia Company of London, edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury (Washington, D. C., 1933), III, 20, reads, in part, as follows: “One officer or two in every fort, whom you must only appoint to be truncmasters [? truckmasters], may dispatch the whole business of trade. . . . And . . . you must by proclamation or edict publicly affixed prohibit and forbid upon pain of punishment of your discretion all other persons to trade or exchange for anything but such as shall be necessary for food or clothing. . . . Over this truncmaster there must be appointed a cape merchant or officer belonging to the store or provision house, that must deliver by book all such things as shall be allowed for trade and receive and take an account of whatsoever is returned, according to the prices therein set, and, so being booked, must store them up to the public use of the colony.”

60. Hopeful.

61. Mutiny.

62. Perhaps.

63. Churlish entreaty: niggardly provision.

64. Intractable.

65. A follower of Robert Browne, an early advocate of the congregational system of church government.

66. Outlawed.

67. Services.

68. Won over by artful persuasion.

69. Conceptions.

70. Grapple.

71. I.e., not much.

72. Crime.

73. Excluding.

74. Personal.

75. Persons who indulge their own changing whims.

76. Draw in the yoke of goodness: perform their duty submissively.

77. Crafty.

78. I.e., John Rolfe, who later married Pocahontas.

79. Cleaned her bottom.

80. Brittle.

81. Memorial.

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