... gave so great an alarm that measures were taken by vigorous enactment to prohibit the importation of such dangerous and scandalous people, since thereby we apparently lose our reputation. In 1671 Captains Bristow and Walker were made to give security in the some of 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco and cask that certain Newgate birds be sent out of the colony within two months. Smith, in his Historie, gives e...