>
>Well, there is one connection at least: the Mayflower sailed with a patent 
>granted to its backers by the Virginia Company.
>

Can anyone confirm the financial statement of AL Rowse:

"The Virginians  gave them [the Pilgrims] every encouragement. They got 
their patent to settle, the company approved their plan, declared the thing 
was of God, and, what was more important, loaned them £300 out of its 
exiguous resources."


Rowse, A. L. "The Elizabethans and America: Part III
New England in the Earliest Days
before Plymouth Colony There Was Sagadahoc, the Short-Lived Settlement for 
Which Sir Ferdinando Gorges Had High Hopes." American Heritage 10, no. 5 
(1959).

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