ted you from a more worthy pen, it cannot from
a more honest heart.

As yet, I never begged anything of the State; and it is my want of
ability, and her exceeding desert; your birth, means, and
authority; her birth, virtue, want and simplicity, doth make me
thus bold, humbly to beseech your majesty to take this knowledge
of her, though it be from one so unworthy to be the reporter as
myself; her husband's estate not being able to make her fit to
attend your majesty.

The most and least I can do, is to tell you this, and the rather
because of her being of so great a spirit, however her stature. If
she should not be well received, seeing this kingdom may rightly
have a kingdom by her means; her present love to us and
Christianity, might turn to such scorn and fury, as to divert all
this good to the worst of evil. Where finding that so great a
queen should do her more honor than she can imagine, for having
been kind to her subjects and servants, 'twould so ravish her with
content, as to endear her dearest blood, to effect that your
majesty and all the king's honest subjects most earnestly desire.
And so I humbly kiss your gracious hands, &c.

(Signed)
JOHN SMITH.
Dated June, 1616.

Sec. 30. This account was presented to her majesty, and graciously
received. But before Capt. Smith sailed for New England, the Indian
princess arrived at London, and her husband took lodgings for her at
Branford, to be a little out of the smoke of the city, whither Capt.
Smith, with some of his friends, went to see her and congratulate her
arrival, letting her know the address he had made to the queen in her
favor.

Till this lady arrived in England, she had all along been informed that
Captain Smith was dead, because he had been diverted from that colony by
making settlements in the second plantation, now called New England; for
which reason, when she saw him, she seemed to think herself much
affronted, for that they had dared to impose so gross an untruth upon
her, and at first sight of him turned away. It cost him a great deal of
intreaty, and some hours attendance, before she would do him the honor
to speak to him; but at last she was reconciled, and talked freely to
him. She put him in mind of her former kindnesses, and then upbraided
him for his forgetfulness of her, showing by her reproaches, that even a
st