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ably the house of the captain, in the background of the latter.* 

 (See fig. 20.) 



A gun-platform cut out of the solid rock still exists on the extreme 

 end of " Gurnett Head," and just under the walls of the old stone 

 fort, or King's Castle, now in ruins. This probably is the successor 

 of Governor Moore's platform, enlarged and improved, and furnished 

 with embrasures. A sentinel box has also been cut out of the " main 

 rock," and also oven-like niches for the cannon balls. An old iron can- 

 non, dismounted and thrown over the sea-wall, may still be seen there. 



Governor Butler, in his " Historye," writing of this fort, 

 repeatedly speaks of it as built on "Gurnett Head," and often calls 

 it the " Kings Castle on Gurnett Head." This name of the headland 

 on Castle Island occurs at least seven times in his Historye. But 

 on modern maps the name "Gurnet Head" is given to a headland on 

 Cooper's Island, where Pembroke Fort was built by Governor Moore, 

 — a " fashionable redoubt," as Butler called it. 



In the " Orders and Constitutions of the Bermuda Company."' 

 1021-2, the following reference to this headland occurs in the enu- 

 meration of public lands to be allotted: — 



"To the Captaine of the Fort on [Cooper's] Island, with a Plat- 

 forme over against the Forts at the Gurnards Head, two shares, and 

 to the Captaine of the Forts on Gurnards Head, two shares." 



The editor (Governor Lefro}-) supplied the word Cooper's, which 

 was missing in the above, but it is far more probable that Southcnnji- 

 ton was the island intended, for the fort there had a captain and 

 was garrisoned at that time, while Pembroke Fort on Cooper's 

 Island was not, but was cared for by one Carter,! the owner or 

 tenant of the adjacent land. Moreover, there was no " platf orrne " 

 there, but only a small cedar redoubt with two guns on its top. 



The Rev. Mr. Hughes, Avho went out to Bermuda in Moore's time, 

 also mentioned it in his " Letter sent into England from the Summer 

 Islands," Dec, 1(314, published in London, 1615, and this is the first 

 place where the name was published. He says of Governor Moore: 

 — "At the Gurnets Head he hath built three forts,J and planted them 



* Gov. Butler stated that he built here a house of hewn stone for the captain 

 of the Castle, taking his former mean frame house for a " corps du garde." 



f This was the same Christopher Carterwho remained on the islands two years, 

 with only two companions, after Somer's death, in 1609. 



% In the old illustrations published by Capt. Smith, in 1624 (see fig. 20) there 

 are two redoubts and a platform shown on Gurnet Head, doubtless built by 

 Governor Moore: and the new Devonshire Redoubt, built by Butler (1620) to 



