fty-four, including men, women, and children. Drought, and a
storm that poured down hailstones eight or nine inches in circumference,
greatly damaged the crops of corn and tobacco.

The following is found among the early records:--

"BY THE ADMIRAL, ETC.

"To all to whom these presents shall come, I, Samuel Argall,
Esq., admiral, and for the time present principal Governor of
Virginia, send greeting in our Lord God everlasting, si'thence
in all places of wars and garrison towns, it is most expedient
and necessary to have an honest and careful provost marshall,
to whose charge and safe custody all delinquents and prisoners
of what nature or quality soever their offences be, are to be
committed; now know ye that for the honesty, sufficiency, and
carefulness in the execution and discharge of the said office,
which I conceived of William Cradock, I do by these presents
nominate, constitute, ordain, and appoint the said William
Cradock to be provost marshall of the Bermuda City, and of all
the Hundred thereto belonging, giving and granting unto the
said William Cradock, all power and authority to execute all
such offices, duties, and commands belonging to the said place
of provost marshall; with all privileges, rights, and
preeminences thereunto belonging, and in all cases which
require his speedy execution of his said office, by virtue of
these presents, he shall require all captains, officers,
soldiers, or any other members of this colony, to be aiding
and assisting to him, to oppose all mutinies, factions,
rebellions, and all other discords contrary to the quiet and
peaceable government of this Commonwealth, as they will answer
the contrary at their peril.

"Given at Bermuda City this twentieth of February, in the 15th
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James, by the Grace of
God, King of England, and of Scotland the 51st, and in the
11th year of this Plantation. Anno Domini, 1617.

"Extract and recorded per John Rolf, Sec'y and Recorder Genl.

["Copia. Test. R. Hickman, Ck. Secy's office."]

To reinforce the colony the Company sent out a vessel of two hundred and
fifty tons, well stored, with two hundred and fifty people, under
command of Lord Delaware. They set sail in April, 1618; during the
voyage thirty died, and among them Lord Delaware, a generous fr