452 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 
Governor Butler also relates a quaint anecdote in regard to this 
affair, as follows :— 
“Upon the very expectance of the entrance of these shyps, and in 
the hurrey of the preparation for a defence, the only barrell of pow- 
der that they had was improvidently tumbled vnder the mussell of 
one of the ordinance, the which being one of thoes two that wer dis- 
charged, the powder notwithstandinge, which lay thus under her, 
fired not certaine cartredges slightly made of paper and filled with 
powder, being brought up to be used upon occasion, a negligent fel- 
lowe left his lighted match upon one of them, all the whilst they 
wer at prayer, the cole whereof, though it continually touched the 
paper, yet kindled noethinge. Thes direct demonstrations of heavenly 
assistance exceedinge wrought upon most of them, and especially it 
moved the governour, who (as I find him generally) was noe lesse 
pious than painefull ; so that callinge his men together like a good 
christian and a soldier he publickly gave thanks to God for this his 
so protecting a preservation.” : 
The first temporary cedar fortification, which was described as 
having four guns, was replaced by a larger one, built by Governor 
Moore, who was mentioned as assiduously engaged in this work in 
June, 1613, and March, 1614. 
Governor Butler (1619) thus referred to the work as still going on 
at the arrival of the “Blessing” and “Starre” [about March, 
1614,] with 280 new settlers:* “for some of them he sent to the 
Gurnetts head, to make that plattforme and rayse thoes battlements, 
that to this daye lie out upon the mouth of the harbor ; the which, 
haveing finished in some reasonable manner, was called the Kings- 
Castle.” 
Governor Moore built on Castle Island two cedar platforms and 
three redoubts : two of the latter on the top of Gurnet Head, which 
came to be called, more specially, King’s Castle ; the other on the 
highest point of the island, to which Governor Butler, when he 
rebuilt it in 1620, gave the name of “ Devonshyres Redoubt.” But 
* Within the first three years, up to the autumn of 1615, 660 settlers are 
recorded as having arrived, a large part of them ignorant and depraved, 
many having been taken from the slums and prisons of London and almost use- 
less as pioneer colonists in a remote place like the Bermudas. It was fortunate, 
perhaps, that many of the laziest and most worthless died in the famines of 1614 
and 1615. The first 60 seem to have been better men, though there were also 
some good men in the later arrivals. Governor Moore’s task to take care of such 
a crowd of helpless men and women, without any adequate supply of provisions, 
must have been a terrible ordeal. (See Part III, ch. 23.) 
