The great English love poet and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, John Donne, preached a sermon to the Virginia Company encouraging them to share the faith with the Virginia Indians, considered to be the first missionary sermon given in England, after the Indian Massacre of 1622.

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Born into a well-to-do family, Lucy Harington became the Countess of Bedford at age thirteen when she married Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford.

She became an investor in the Somer Isles Company and helped fund the initial colonization of Bermuda. Find out more about her in this, the third episode in the series — Lucy, Countess of Bedford and Her Trifles of Pleasure.

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In our second episode, we find ourselves on stage with William Shakespeare’s The Tempest -- inspired by the real-life shipwreck of the Sea Venture.

Then, we set sail with Christopher Newport to Brazil, the West Indies, the Mediterranean, the Virginia Colony, and the East Indies.

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