Note 307 — Chapter V

[The vexed question as to how far the convict class made part of the early comers is discussed in Jones’s ed. Hakluyt’s Divers Voyages, p. 10; Index to Remembrancia, 1519-1664, with citations in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xvii. 297; Aspinwall Papers, i. 1, note; E. D. Neill, English Colonization in North America, p. 171, and his “Virginia as a Penal Colony,” in Hist. Mag., May, 1869. “It would be wholly wrong, however, to suppose that immigrants of this sort were a controlling element,” says Lodge in his English Colonies, p. 66; and this is now the general opinion.—Ed.]