'Beastly idleness', 1612
| Powhatan, on this map of Virginia pictured holding court, was the
father of Pocahontas. She married John Rolfe, an English lawyer, and,
according to one of John Chamberlain's letters, was very reluctant
to return home after seeing James's court. Chamberlain was often critical
of the idleness and indiscipline of the colonists - 'the extreme beastly
idleness of our nation which [notwithstanding any cost or diligence
used to support them] will rather die and starve than be brought to
any labour or industry to maintain themselves'. Catalogue reference: MPG 1/284, no. 63 (1612) |
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