As Prendergast relates in his _Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland_, they had agents actively engaged throughout Ireland, “who were authorized by Parliament to seize women, orphans and the destitute to be transported to Barbadoes and the plantations of Virginia.” Among the destitute were those whose ancient properties had been confiscated by the crown and many of whom had become wanderers over the stricken island, or had become inmates of the workhouses. “The commissioners for Ireland,” says Prendergast, “issued orders to the governors of garrisons to deliver all prisoners of war; to the jail-keepers for all offenders in their custody; to the masters of workhouses for the destitute in their care, and gave directions to all in authority to seize those who had no visible means of livelihood and deliver them to the British agents.” All unfortunates who were thus caught were quickly conducted to the waterside and there herded like so many cattle until such time as a sufficient number had been gathered in to embark them on board some ship bound for the West Indies or the coast of Virginia. Some of the English adventurers in Ireland also engaged in the business of man-hunting on their own account, and we find from the records of Virginia that on April 12, 1621, Sir William Newce, an English officer who resided in the County of Cork, wrote to the governor “offering to transport two thousand persons to Virginia.” The same records indicate that Daniel Gookin, an Irish Quaker merchant of Cork City, was in the business of transporting cattle from Ireland to Virginia. On one occasion, he came in person to the colony, and, seeing the probable advantages of a permanent settlement in the country, he sailed from Cork in the _Flying Harte_ with a large number of his countrymen, who, we are told, “were exceedingly well furnished with all sorts of provisions and cattle,” and landed at Newport News in November, 1621. Notwithstanding that the records of Virginia say that this large colony came from Ireland, they are referred to by historians, who at all make reference to them, as “English.” The fact that they were so “well furnished” would also indicate that Ireland sent forth other colonizers to America in those early days besides the “convicts” and the “destitute.” In the “Records of the London Company” (the Proprietors of Virginia), Daniel Gookin is mentioned as having undertaken “to transport great multitudes of people and cattle to Virginia,” and as having “received patents for 300 people.” The records do not state from where this large colony came, but, from the fact that their leader had formerly been a merchant in the city of Cork, from where his first contingent sailed, it is entirely within the bounds of probability that the second colony was largely, if not entirely, composed of Munstermen.