He left his case in the hands of his fellow-countrymen.

What a pity he did not induce some of these English Lords to accompany him and spend a winter with him in the wilds of Nova Scotia.

It is quite possible had he been able to prevail upon them to do so, that they would have returned home in the early spring and strongly advised the Lords of Trade and Plantations to at once settle the case of Captain Godfrey by reimbursing him for his losses.
The boast of England is her colonies, yet the statesmen of Britain at that time knew little, and, in all probability, cared less, about the hardships, dangers and perils which their countrymen were enduring while laying the foundations of a Greater Britain.
The great bulk of the early colonists were thoroughly British, and Captain Godfrey was no exception.

They suffered what most early colonists suffer, but they suffered without murmuring, because they were Englishmen in an English colony.

They possessed a sort of blind loyalty and a sincere patriotism toward their King and old England.