The profits thus secured were at once utilized in new measures for increasing and strengthening the colony. Encouraged by the discovery in Virginia of so profitable a commodity, the Company became convinced that now at last success was at hand. "Broadsides" were sent out to the British people, depicting in glowing terms the advantages of the country, and asking for immigrants and for financial support. Once more a wave of enthusiasm for the enterprise swept over England. Money was contributed liberally. The clergy, interested in the spread of the Anglican Church, and in the conversion of the savages, worked ardently for the success of the colony. Soon vessel after vessel was being fitted out for the voyage across the Atlantic, and hundreds of artisans and laborers were preparing to risk their all in the New World.[116] FOOTNOTES: [1] F. R., pp. 21, 22. [2] F. R., p. 23. [3] Arb. Smith, lxi-lxii. [4] Gen., p. 55. [5] Gen., p. 56. [6] Gen., pp. 55, 70, 73. [7] Gen., p. 77. [8] Gen., p. 67. [9] Gen., pp. 342, 411. [10] Gen., p. 77. [11] Arb. Smith, p. 91. [12] Arb. Smith, p. 91. [13] Arb. Smith, p. 91; F. R., pp. 27, 32. Smith denied the justice of these charges. "Now Captaine Smith, who all this time from their departure from the Canaries, was restrained as a prisoner, upon the scandalous suggestions of some of the chiefe (envying his repute); who fained he intended to ursurpe the government, murder the Councell, and make himself king; that his confederats were dispearsed in all the three ships, and that divers of his confederats that revealed it, would affirme it: for this he was committed." Arb. Smith, p. 92. [14] Arb. Smith, liii. [15] Arb. Smith, liv. [16] F.R., p. 39. [17] Arb. Smith, lxxvii. [18] Arb. Smith, lxxvi. [19] Arb. Smith, lxxix. [20] Arb. Smith, lxxxi. [21] Arb. Smith, lxxxiv. [22] Arb. Smith, lxxxiv. [23] Arb. Smith, lxxxv. [24] Arb. Smith, lxxxv. [25] F. R., p. 54. [26] Arb. Smith, lxxxvi. [27] Arb. Smith, lxxxvi. [28] F. R., p. 58. [29] Arb. Smith, pp. 114, 115. [30] Arb. Smith, p. 119. [31] Arb. Smith, p. 121; F. R., p. 61. [32] F. R., p. 68; Arb. Smith, p. 122. [33] Arb. Smith, p. 122. [34] Arb. Smith, p. 444. [35] F. R., 70. [36] F. R., 71. [37] F. R., p. 73. [38] F. R., p. 73. [39] F. R., p. 80. [40] F. R., p. 84. [41] F. R., p. 84. [42] Gen., pp. 1329, 1330, 346, 400; Force, III; Arb. Smith, p. 635. [43] F. R., p. 93. [44] Gen., pp. 331, 347. [45] Gen., pp. 331, 332; F. R., p. 98. [46] Arb. Smith, p. 484. [47] Ratcliffe wrote the Earl of Salisbury, "This man is sent home to answere some misdemenors, whereof I perswade me he can scarcely clear himselfe from great imputation of blame." Gen., p. 334. [48] F. R., p. 108. [49] F. R., p. 115. [50] F. R., p. 117. [51] Gen., p. 84. [52] Arb. Smith, p. 5. [53] Arb. Smith, lxxii. [54] F. R., p. 55. [55] Nar. of Va., p. 146. [56] Many of these, however, died of starvation or were killed by the Indians. Nar. of Va., p. 200.