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The expense of the light horse and infantry is at present three millions three hundred thousand livres; while in 1610 it amounted only to fifteen hundred thousand francs.
The next contemporary authority to be consulted in regard to Pocahontas is William Strachey, who, as we have seen, went with the expedition of Gates and Somers, was shipwrecked on the Bermudas, and reached Jamestown May 23 or 24, 1610, and was made Secretary and Recorder of the colony under Lord Delaware.
It was in 1610 that he first held in his hands one of those little instruments which had been so recently applied to the heavens by Galileo. It should, however, be borne in mind that the epoch-making achievements of Kepler did not arise from any telescopic observations that he made, or, indeed, that any one else made.
He arrived in Virginia in 1610 and remained there two years, as secretary of the colony, and was a man of importance. His "Historie" was probably written between 1612 and 1616.
Printed in the time of Henry VIII. by John Redman. 4to. A Breviate touching the Order and Government of the House of a Nobleman. 1605. Archaeologia, xiii. Orders made by Henry, Prince of Wales, respecting his Household. 1610. Archaeologia, xiv. The School of Good Manners. By William Phiston or Fiston. 8vo, 1609. The School of Virtue, the Second Part. By Richard West. 12mo, 1619.
This, however, was the second time that the judge had tried this ruse; see ibid., P 2. See above, note 21. Two of them, however, were issued to the same woman, one in 1604 and one in 1610. Hist. MSS. Comm. The term "spinster" was sometimes used of a married woman. Cal. St.
Nevertheless, March 2, 1610, Lord Delaware left Cowes with three ships and one hundred and fifty emigrants, chiefly soldiers and mechanics, with only enough "knights and gentlemen of quality" to furnish the necessary leadership. He arrived at Point Comfort June 6; and, following Gates up the river, reached Jamestown June 10.
Chelsea College originally stood on the site of the present Royal Hospital, and was founded by Matthew Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter in 1610, as a school for polemical discussion. It was nicknamed by Laud "Controversy College."
For one man of position who had heard of Shakespeare, there would be twenty, at least, who were quite familiar with the claims of the Head-master of Westminster and Clarenceux King-of-Arms. Camden was in his sixtieth year, in 1610; he had enjoyed slow success, violent detraction, and final triumph.
He forbade the Calvinist Churches of Scotland to hold their customary Synod in 1610, passionately reviling them and their belief, and declaring "their aim to be nothing else than to deprive kings and princes of their sovereignty, and to reduce the whole world to a popular form of government where everybody would be master."
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