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Journal Article
Settled Place, Contested Past: Reconciling George Percy's \A Trewe Relacyon\ with John Smith's \Generall Historie\
2007
Overview
In a prefatory note to his brother Henry, the ninth Earl of Northumberland, George Percy clearly posits his \"Trewe Relacyon\" manuscript as a response to Smith's critical account of the colony in his self-promoting Generall Historie of the previous year:4 many untrewthes concerneinge Theis p[ro]ceedeinges have bene formerly published, wherein The author hathe nott Spared to apropriate many desertts to him selfe w[hi]ch he never p[er] formed and stuffed his Relacyons w[i]th so many falseties and malicyous detractyons nott onely of this p[ar]t and Tyme w[hi]ch I have selected to Treate of, Butt of former ocurrentts also: so thatt I coulde nott contein my selfe butt expresse the Trewthe unto your Lordshipp concerninge Theis affayers. Another family member's circumstantial connections to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 led King James to imprison the ninth Earl (Henry Percy, George's brother) in the Tower for his alleged complicity.5 Thus, while his ancestors had damaged the family name through their unlucky political associations at home, George Percy, presumably anxious to acquit the family name, removed himself to the New World and situated himself and his family at the center of a historic, colonizing endeavor tinged with nationalistic overtones.
