1 John Donne, A Sermon … to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation (London, 1622). The same arguments appeared in William Symonds, a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in Virginia: A Sermon Preached at White Chappel, in the Presence of … the Adventurers and Planters of Virginia (London, 1609). Symonds was a ghost-writer of Captain John Smith’s general history of Virginia.