Jamestown

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Daniel!

Here, let me help you.

Ma'am?

Are we going to die out here?

No. The storm will pass.

I'll go to hell for what I've done.

What is it, Mistress Woodbryg?

I had to leave England.

That's why I'm here.

That's why I'll surely die.

I killed a man.

That's the worst of it, I reckon.

Aren't you glad, Verity?

Aren't you grateful that we're the ones to come to this new world?

Hell's teeth, no!

- Land! -

Land!

Heave!

William Clemell.

Edward Manston.

Joshua Little.

Alice Kett.

Henry Sharrow.

Edmund Godfrey.

Henry?

Alice.

I'm Silas.

- Oh. - I'm to take you to my brother.

This is Pepper, the youngest Sharrow.

Here.

I hope you find this place as we do.

The most beautiful land that God ever made.

Verity Bridges.

Meredith Rutter!

Meredith Rutter?!

Sir. Master Castell, sir.

You forgot the love token.

Oh, thank you, Mercy.

Is she beautiful, Master Castell, sir?

She is, Mercy.

I always wanted a mistress. No disrespect intended, sir.

It is fine to have a master, but I always wished to have a mistress.

I'm excited enough to marry her myself.

Oh, thank you.

As you will see, Jocelyn, there is still much work to be done

in building Jamestown.

I hope I didn't paint too rose-hued a picture

when we met in Oxfordshire?

I will leave you with Mercy,

while I speak to the agent.

Let us be the first to congratulate you, sir, on your appointment

- as our new governor. - And on your recent knighthood.

I'm sure you'll understand, gentlemen,

after such a taxing voyage, if I escort my wife home to rest

and recuperate, before we begin the difficult business of governance.

You look weary from your journey, Alice.

Oh, I don't mean that you appear anything but pretty.

What I mean is that I'm sure you'd like to rest.

Mm.

Why did Henry send his brothers to meet me?

Is he not curious to see the woman he is to marry?

We Sharrows are tenured to Master Massinger.

We work for our right to be here...

...and the promise of our freedom one day.

So, the likes of us can't afford the price of a wife.

You cost him 150 pounds of the finest leaf tobacco.

I'm glad to know I'm worth so many pounds of the finest tobacco.

The debt must be repaid with labour.

Henry has something of a hunger for work and improvement.

Eh? That's why we're here.

I know, Jocelyn, this is not what you were used to in England.

We made our arrangements in such haste.

We'll make the most of it.

You will stay here.

I have arranged to reside with a good friend until our wedding night.

I will let you settle in.

- You must be exhausted. - Yes.

- Oh. - Oh.

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Might I have some clean bedsheets?

Eh... them are the clean sheets, ma'am.

Where might I find Meredith Rutter?

A whole other world.

Meredith Rutter?

Henry, this is Alice.

We'll be married in a week.

Eh...

might I ask, sir,

where can I find Meredith Rutter?

What's your name?

Verity.

Verity Bridges.

It's too late to be out on your own, Verity.

Jamestown is a hive of men starved of women.

I'll walk you to the tavern.

You can sleep the night there.

Ain't Alice Kett the lucky one?

No.

No.

No! No!

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- No! -

The town will grow.

We might build a home out here.

Imagine the views, Jocelyn.

What a place to raise children.

Children?! Children are thieves.

They exist merely to rob you of sleep.

Who are those men?

That's Edgar Massinger.

He build his tobacco plantation with land he bought from the Company.

And the others?

Marshall Redwick.

And the finely-dressed man is Secretary Farlow, my employer.

Samuel, I dined with Sir George several times on the journey.

He spoke so fondly of you, it gave me the most harmonious notion.

You must ask him to be groomsman at our wedding.

I have agreed with Christopher that he will.

- Christopher? - Dr Priestly.

The gentleman I spoke of.

He has been a kind friend to me since we arrived here.

He is to be my groomsman.

Oh.

- Meredith Rutter! - Get off!

You are charged with slandering the Company,

lewdness and drunkenness.

You... are a reprobate.

And you, sir,

are as fair and honest as any Virginia Company man.

- - You're drunk now, are you not, Rutter?

Sir Marshall Redwick, sir,

I tried to be sober.

I didn't like it.

You would stand here and mock this hearing, eh?

Then I'll have you nailed by the ear to the post,

- for the remainder of the day. - You can't!

Huh?! Huh?!

- Huh?! - To the post!

Ouch! Ouch!

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Our newly-arrived, newly-knighted governor,

Sir George Yeardley wishes to address us all.

Ow!

O-ow!

You see standing before you a man proud.

Proud to be returned here as governor of all Virginia.

Proud to bring with me maids, to make wives,

and confident that we can maintain...

I know why George Yeardley's come back.

He wants the same thing you were chasing nine years ago...

Gold.

We are building a new world.

A world where a man might start with nothing,

and through his own labours and venturesome spirit

he might prosper.

Towns will grow across this country,

so that every man will enjoy fellowship

and the freedom to pursue his own ambitions.

The Virginia Company would like to reward those

who have served our colony from the very first day.

Those ancients of you who arrived here on the first ships

will be granted your due.

Every man will receive 100 acres,

to plant and cultivate as you see fit.

Archibald Briggs...

Henry Sharrow... Silas Sharrow...

...Benjamin Briggs. Nathanial Covington...

Is that the brother you're to marry?

- - Hey!

He followed me down to the lake

and I cried for him to stop, but...

He has no mercy in him.

I think he would have beaten the life out of me

if I had not surrendered to him.

I will knee his balls up out of his throat.

No, Verity! No.

Hey.

Didn't the agent on the ship say we were to report our troubles to him?

If the rules in this colony say you can have your face hammered to