Note 31 — B. NEW ENGLAND TO 1660

Bradford gives forty-two names,—those still interested in 1626. (Bradford's Letter Book, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, First Series, III, 48.) In his latest work (Advertisements, etc., 1630) Smith implies that the London merchants lost far the greater part of their investment,—"being out of purse six or seven thousand pounds," and accepting in lieu of this the promise of the Planters in 1627 "to pay them for nine years two hundred pounds yearely, without any other account [settlement]." Smith, no doubt, heard only the merchants' side and exaggerates their loss. Bradford's History shows that the accounts were badly muddled.