This practice continued, or at intervals was resumed, for years, but its consequences were not so dire, perhaps, as we might imagine.

The penal laws were execrably brutal, and in the drag-net of the law might be found many merely unfortunate, many perhaps finer than the law.
Virginia thus was founded and established.

An English people moved through her forests, crossed in boats her shining waters, trod the lanes of hamlets builded of wood but after English fashions.
Climate, surrounding nature, differed from old England, and these and circumstance would work for variation.

But the stock was Middlesex, Surrey, Devon, and all the other shires of England.

Scotchmen came also, Welshmen, and, perhaps as early as this, a few Irish.