sentences:  Green's play ends with the colonists leaving Roanoke Island to evade an approaching Spanish ship, leaving the audience to wonder if the Spanish found them.Spanish forces knew of English plans to establish a new Virginia base in 1587, and were searching for it before White's colonists had even arrived.The Spanish Empire had included most of North America in their Florida claim, and did not recognize England's right to colonize Roanoke or Chesapeake Bay.