Roanoke Hundred Author:Inglis Fletcher Historical novel based on the occupation of Roanoke Island during the year 1585-86. Although a piece of fiction, much of it is based on fact, and many of the names really did exist. Sir Richard Grenville did sail from Bideford and although his original plan was to take 1 man out of every — hundred in Cornwall to settle in Virginia he was thwarted... more » and had to take some Londoners too. At the end of the book the author gives a list of the 108 men who spent a year there and then left when Drake arrived just before the supply ships which were intended to relieve their