Old Virginia and her neighbours

288 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.partly from the low character of many of the settlersand their dealings with pirates ;partly fromthe unwillingness of the English settlers to admitthe Huguenot immigrants toa share in the franchise; and partly from the fitful and arbitrarymanner in which the lords proprietors tried frombeyond sea to cure the complicated evils. Themuddle was aggravated by Spanish hostility. In1683 a few Scotch families were brought by LordCardross toPort Royal, where they made the be-The Scotchginnings of a settlement. Those were theing 10,000 sturdy Covenanters to Carolina ; butit came to nothing.Cardross got into difficultieswith the people at Charleston, and went back toScotland in disgust. In 1686, in time of peace, aSpanish force pounced upon Port Royal, murderedsome of the Scotchmen, flogged others within aninch of their lives, carried off what booty theycould find, and left the place a smoking ruin. Direwas the indignation of the Charleston men at these" bloody insolencies." Two stout ships with 400Koyar cruel days of Claverhouse in Scotland,1683-86.^^^ ^ scheme was entertained for brins:-men were just ready to sail against St. Augustine,when the newly appointed Governor Colleton arrivedupon the scene and forbade their sailing.His mandate was obeyed with growls and curses.The lords proprietors upheld him. " No man," asthey reasonably said, " can think that the dependenciesof England can have power to make warupon the king's allies without his knowledge orconsent." ^ It was an inauspicious beginning for^ Kivers, Early History of South Carolina, p. 145.