A. FE. Verrilli— The Bermuda Tslands. 853 
Hughes (or Hughs), Rev. Lewis.—A Letter sent into England from the Summer 
Tlands, 1615. (See above pp. 670, 671.) 
Hughes (or Hughs), Rev. Lewis—Plaine and True Relation of the Goodness of 
God towards the Sommers Ilands, ete., 1621. See Lefroy, Memorials, ii, 
pp. 577-586. 
Jourdan, Silvanus.—A Plaine description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer 
Tlands, etc., 1613.— (Reprinted by Hakluyt, Richard, ed. ii, vol. v, p. 
551, 1812 ; ed. of 1890, part 4, p. 181; and Select. Voyages, 1812, p. 763 ; by 
Force, Peter, Coll. Tracts and Papers; and by Lefroy, Memorials, vol. i, p. 14.) 
Jourdan, Silvanus.—A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of 
Divils, by Sir Thos. Gates, Sir George Sommers, Capt. Newport, with Divers 
others, etc., 4to, 1610; 1613. Reprinted by Hakluyt, R., vol. v; Peter Force, 
iii; and Lefroy, i, pp. 14-21. Same as last, but with some additions. 
Lefroy, Governor J. H.*—Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of 
the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515-1685. Compiled from the Colonial 
Records and other original sources. London, Longmans, Green & Co., vol. 
i, 1877; vol. ii, 1879. 
Note.—This work contains reliable reprints of the early writings relating to 
Bermuda, by Oviedo, May, Jourdan, Strachy, Admiral Somers, Gov. Moore, Rev. 
Lewis Hughes, Gov. Nathaniel Butler, Norwood, Capt. John Smith, and others. 
Two of the early maps by Norwood are reproduced. See above, p. 535, note. 
Lefroy, Governor J. H. (Editor).—Historye [The] of the Bermudaes or Summer 
Islands, edited from a MS. in the Sloane Collection, British Museum, pp. 
319, 8vo; with portrait of Capt. John Smith. Printed for the Hakluyt 
Society, London, 1882. 
Note. —The author of this very important MS. History was supposed by 
Lefroy to have been Capt. John Smith. Subsequent investigations have shown 
that it was by Gov. Nathaniel Butler (1619-1622), and that Capt. Smith copied 
extensively from it in compiling his works. See ‘‘The Academy,” Dec., 1892; 
also above, p. 552, note. 
Nearly all that is known about the settlement and history of the Islands, from 
1613 to 1624, is derived from this work and those of Hughes, Rev. Lewis. 
Lefroy, Gov. John H.—Witcheraft in the Somers Islands. Archeological Journ., 
vol, xxxii, nos. 125, 126, pp. 89-101, 239-248, 1875. 
* Governor Lefroy was the only governor of Bermuda actively interested in 
Natural History. He aided and encouraged the investigations of Mr. J. M. 
Jones; Mr. G. Brown Goode ; Professor Wm. North Rice, and others. Governor 
Lefroy was heartily devoted to the interests of the Bermudas and promoted their 
prosperity in many ways. Many important public works were completed during 
his administration. He introduced large numbers of new, useful and ornamental 
trees and flowering plants, of which lists are given in his work on the Botany of 
the islands (Bull. U. S. National Mus., No. 25, 1884). See under Botany. He 
sailed from Bermuda, May 10, 1877. The farewell address by the Hon. John 
Harvey Darrell, and Governor Lefroy’s reply are printed in the Hamilton papers, 
May 15, 1877. He was the author of many works on Magnetic observations, 
Artillery, and other military subjects. He was born at Ashe, Hampshire, Jan. 
28, 1817, and died in Cornwall, Eng., Apr. 11, 1890. See portrait, plate civ. 
