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Updated: June 21, 2025
"REVERED FRIEND AND PASTOR, On Monday sennite we arriv'd in London, wich seems to me a mighty bigg citty, but of no more meritt or piety than Babylon of old. My husband, who knows ye towne better than he knows those things with wich it would more become him to be familiar, was pleas'd to laugh mightily at that pious aversion wherewith I regarded some of ye most notable sights in this place.
Resolution! how can a man have resolution that drinkes nought but ale able to kill a Dutchman? Conduit water is nector to it, Suc. Nay, but I say, suppose Crac. Suppose! Why here are no wenches halfe so amorous as Citty tripennies : those that are bewtifull the dew is not so cold. I did but begg a curtesie of a chambermaide, and she laughd at me! Suc.
It includes an interesting, rather antithetical, account by this officer of Rochester and its cathedral as they were just before the troublous times of the Civil War. He says: "As I found this Citty little and sweet, so I found her cheife and best structures correspondent to her smallnesse, which was neat and hansome, and neither great nor sumptuous.
There were twenty-seven at four specified points. It leads one to doubt that a full list of names was submitted. Thought soon turned to a repair of the damages. It was judged "very necessarie to raise new workes especiallie at Henrico & Charles Citty" which according to one report were "utterlie demolished by the Indians."
Even though separated from "James Citty" only by the narrow Back River and its marshes, settlement seemingly was delayed for a decade. At least the records are silent on the matter if colonists did establish here in the first years.
Containing the pleasures, paines, and kind entertainment of William Kemp betweene London and that Citty, in his late Morrice. He seems to have encountered more pleasures than 'paines. Gentle and simple, all the way, were very cordial. The gentle entertained him in their mansions by night. The simple danced with him by day.
On January 10, 1620, when Yeardley wrote of seating the Berkeley Hundred people, he appeared to be concerned lest he be accused of infringing on the West claim. He pointed out that the new settlement was more up river "more towardes West and Sherley Hundred, and towardes Charles Citty."
It is no valour to use Tyranny Upon the conquerd: they have been reported A noble nation; and when last the pride Of this Citty adornd their victory, by command Or their brave Generall, no outrage ever The soldiers durst committ upon our persons: Though all our wealth ran in full streames upon them Our honours were preserved, or fame belys them. Buz.
There were others as well totaling "not so few as fifty." Gates' lieutenant, George Yeardley, was then in charge. A "crosse pale," about four miles long, was, in 1614, already built "with bordering houses along the pale." It was in this Hundred that the "hogges, and other cattell" had a 20 mile circuit in which to graze securely. The "chiefe Citty," when Hamor left, was not yet ready.
It is now assumed that this was about a mile up a creek directly across the river from Jamestown and that it still exists in part. The fort saw no service. As a matter of fact, the colonists evidently did not, in the first decade, find the south shore of the James across from "James Citty" particularly hospitable.
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