About New England in general and the fishing business, see also C. F. Adams, _Three Episodes in Massachusetts History_ (1894), I; C. K. Bolton, _The Real Founders of New England_ (1929); I. S. Proper, _Monhegan the Cradle of New England_ (1930); Frances Rose-Troup, _John White the Patriarch of Dorchester_ (1930) and _The Massachusetts Bay Company and its Predecessors_ (1930); C. K. Shipton, _Roger Conant of Massachusetts_ (1945); and William Vaughan, _The Golden Fleece_ (London, 1626), Part III. Footnotes [1]Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, Treasurer (chief executive) of the Virginia Company of London, 1620-24. [2]Thomas Jones, Captain of the _Discovery_, the ship in the service of the Virginia Company on which Pory was traveling. (Not to be confused with Christopher Jones, master of the _Mayflower_ in 1620.) [3]Sandys was Treasurer of the Virginia Company, 1619-20, a notable Puritan and opponent of royal absolutism, influential in granting a patent to the Pilgrims and their backers permitting them to establish a “particular plantation” in Virginia, which then extended as far north as 41°, thus including the mouth of the Hudson River. John Ferrar was Deputy to the Treasurer in 1620. Sir George Yeardley, knighted and sent out as Governor to Virginia in 1619, was the candidate of Sandys’s party. [4]Christopher Jones or John Clarke, a pilot experienced in the northern route to Virginia (on which a ship sighted land at or near Cape Cod and proceeded down the coast to Chesapeake Bay). [5]Provincetown, Mass. [6]Gloucester or Annisquam, Mass. [7]“Anna” in the manuscript. [8]Englishmen tended to translate Indian customs into feudal law. Plymouth and the territory around it had been the home of a tribal group of which Squanto was the only survivor. Neighboring Indians traditionally had no rights there. The Pilgrims interpreted the claims of Massasoit, the Wampanoag chief, as feudal overlordship over southeastern Massachusetts, so the vacant parts of it which they took up logically had to be a feudal domain of some kind. [9]Bermudas. [10]Romans 11:16. [11]William Bradford. [12]Alewives. [13]Town Brook. [14]The whole passage reads: “Naturam expelles furca licet, tamen usque recurret, et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.” “You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will ever hurry back, and, ere you know it, will burst through your foolish contempt in triumph.” Horace, “Epistles, Book I, Epistle x,” _Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica_ with English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb Classical Library, 1932), 316, 317.