Nothing daunted by the ill luck of these companies, he tried colonizing on his account in 1620, in what was represented to him as the genial soil and climate of Newfoundland.

Sending good money after bad, he was glad to get out of this venture at the end of nine years with a loss of thirty thousand pounds.

In 1629 he sent home his children, and with a lady and servants and forty of his surviving colonists sailed for Jamestown, where his reception at the hands of the council and of his old Oxford fellow-student, Governor Pott, was not cordial.

He could hardly have expected that it would be.

He was a recent convert to the Roman Catholic Church, with a convert's zeal for proselyting, and he was of the court party.