The resolution is--That it must be removed, but they thinke it fitt to suspend the execution of it,...

for that they are in hope that it will fall of itselfe." The Spanish hope seemed, at this time, not at all without foundation.
Members of the Virginia Company had formed the Somers Islands Company named for Somers the Admiral--and had planted a small colony in Bermuda where the Sea Adventure had been wrecked.

Here were fair, fertile islands without Indians, and without the diseases that seemed to rise, no man knew how, from the marshes along those lower reaches of the great river James in Virginia.

Young though it was, the new plantation "prospereth better than that of Virginia, and giveth greater incouragement to prosecute yt." In England there arose, from some concerned, the cry to Give up Virginia that has proved a project awry! As Gates was once about to remove thence every living man, so truly they might "now removed to these more hopeful islands!" The Spanish Ambassador is found writing to the Spanish King: "Thus they are here discouraged...

on account of the heavy expenses they have incurred, and the disappointment, that there is no passage from there to the South Sea...