"What may be the daunger of this unto us," he wrote home, "who are here so few, so weake, and unfortified,...

I refer me to your owne honorable knowledg." Months pass, and the English Ambassador to Spain writes from Madrid that he "is not hasty to advertise anything upon bare rumours, which hath made me hitherto forbeare to write what I had generally heard of their intents against Virginia, but now I have been...

advertised that without question they will speedily attempt against our plantation there.

And that it is a thing resolved of, that ye King of Spain must run any hazard with England rather than permit ye English to settle there....Whatsoever is attempted, I conceive will be from ye Havana." Rumors fly back and forth.

The next year 1613--the Ambassador writes from Madrid: "They have latelie had severall Consultations about our Plantation in Virginia.