For those wondering about the "Starving Time" in Jamestown, see

"Tree-ring data from Virginia indicate that the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Island disappeared during the most extreme drought in 800 years (1587-1589)
and that the alarming mortality and the near abandonment of Jamestown colony
occurred during the driest 7-year episode in 770 years (1606-1612). These
extraordinary droughts can now be implicated in the fate of the Lost Colony
and in the appalling death rate during the early occupations at
Jamestown,the first permanent English settlement in America."
[Stahle, David W., Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Dennis B. Blanton, Mathew D.
Therrell, and David A. Gay. "-the Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts."
Science 280, no. April 24 (1998): 564-67.]

Great picture of tree-rings analysis that shows the drought!!

Also, Randy, Do you by any chance have the ballad music sung to  "lusty
gallant"  to which "London live thou famous long" was sung?

Emily Rose
Cambridge University

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