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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85356	Good news from Nevv-England: with an exact relation of the first planting that countrey : a description of the profits accruing by the worke. Together with a briefe, but true discovery of their order both in church and common-wealth, and maintenance allowed the painfull labourers in that vineyard of the Lord. With the names of the severall towns, and who be preachers to them.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1062; Thomason E431_21; ESTC R8856	18,639	29

do deeme A gallant barbour there 's for ships the best that yet is seene Boates may come up unto our doors the Creeks convenient lye Fish plenty taken in them are plains plowable hard by No bush nor roots to hinder them yet stately timber is In every swamp yea uplands too most clobberd trees I wis Clay there for bricke and tile pot-earth with ease and store Some men suppose black lead is there silver and copper o're Carry but guns and wild fowle will be brought unto our dishes Venison and Moose you there may catch according to your wishes All creatures thrive exceeding well Goats Swine and sheep for meat Horse Cows and Calves encrease as well ther 's store of English wheat Five seven or nine old Planters doe take up their station first Whose property is not to share unto themselves the worst Their Cottages like Crows nests built new commers goods attain For mens accommodation sake they truck their seats for gaine Come buy my house here may you have much medow at your dore 'T will dearer be if you stay till the land be planted o're See you that garden plat inclos'd Pumkins there hundreds are Parsnips and Roots with Cabiges grow in great plenty there Lay out an hundred pound or two you shall have such a seat When you have planted but one crop you cannot want for meate This praise doth make the purchaser his gold and silver throw Into his hand for house and land that yet he did not know Vnseen and yet sudden bought when once the sale was ended His purchase makes him misse of more with gifts he 's not befriended One he hath friends to praise his parts his lot shall larger be For usefull men are highly priz'd such shall sell two or three Sure much mistaken towns have been for many have made prize Get all they can sell often than and thus old Planters rise They build to sell and sell to build where they find towns are planting Till men no more the Sea passe o're and Customers are wanting Then those that boast their townes were full for company are longing Who lately fear'd land would fall short when men to them came thronging Insatiate minds for medow and best land they could attain Hath caused Townes land lay by lot I wish it were not vaine Of their Civill Government THe Transplantation of this people and patten inrevaded though rare yet honest advice in law was had by wise sober and godly Gentlemens fore-seeing the daily adding stones to such a work would be more envyed then the Golden fleece of Calchos God giving favour they attain'd a large patten under the bro●d Seale of England to set up government not only for the orderly execution of judgment and justice among themselves but for the suppressing of all malignant adversaries to the kingdome of Christ that at any time should invade or disturb this government for proofe ask their adversaries who though Doeg like will tel you both Magistrates and Ministers joyne heart and hand herein yet the latter meddle not with Civill Justice as some would beare men in hand But le ts on this patten hath proved corrasive to some especially in not admitting appeales Some seeking to have it reca'd others crying out it 's forfeit yet hitherto held and meet men yearly chose for Governour Deputy and Assistants whose acts of justice have passed sundry censures as also from each Towne two Deputies are sent in the name of the Free-men who joyning together in one body or generall Court have according to their patten made many Causes agreeable to the word of God and their wildernesse condition both for English and Indian to follow Quarter Session or Goale-delivery are kept by seven Magistrates the Governour or Deputy being one as also in the severall Shires for tryals between man and man are constant Courts kept and in every Town certain persons are yearly chosen to end causes of lesser vertue with free accesse for any persons that finde themselves grieved to appeal from one Court to another even to the highest which is the generall Court Their laws are of three sorts 1. The lawes of England so far as the people and place can be capable 2. Lawes wholly of their own 3. When cases fall out that neither of these will reach they are to follow such rules as are cleerly drawn from the word of God and because many men take upon them to interpret the Scriptures now adays so that instead of one of a thousand there appears a thousand to one which makes them endeavour with the ablest gifted men God hath given them to obtaine positive lawes for all matters may come in judgment that Arbitrarinesse may be avoided And now because the courage dexterity and skill of Commanders appeareth most when they meete with their enemie know foure sorts of persons have battered this government not only with their greater Artillery at 900. leagues distance but with continuall small shot at 10. or 12. and sometimes at pistoll-shot raising over-topping batteries brest-works out-facing Galleries delving deepe to undermine the foundation though built on the surest rocke casting forth fierce fireing granadoes using all the stratagems such cunning Engineers could possibly invent The first onset was given by Bonasosias under the conduct of their host of Merri-mount who having some tryals in the Courts of Justice assaid to mend his bad cause with bribes but finding repulse in both began to make use of an Engine for battery called Pontifieatus consulting with such as were best skil'd herein to beate downe this new erected government yet did little dammage it being of small force in these American parts at length was intreated to depart which he refusing was shipt with a takele for the fertile Isle of great Brittain which those Gentlemen now ruling this Collony so lostly left where he arriving made his complaint to those whose lordly injunctions enforced the greater part of this people to make choise of a banished condition for them and theirs enduring rather the wants of a wilderdesse than a Prelats prison his complaint being heard appeales to England being of purpose left out in the Mattachusets Patten no Somner nor Pursevant was found to venter so far yet the Host to make a merriment of the departure of so many reverend learned godly and judicious men a sad Omen of some following tragedy set forth a Pamphlet in print full fraught with loud lies to make his Bonasosia's laugh But prevailing little ventured another voyage in these parts to find a new place for storming this government afresh tracing the Countrey to and fro was apprehended of Indian ammunition arrow heads of a more mortal nature than any yet used among them The second onset was given by greater troops of Sexs not marshal'd under the command of any one in chief but those that could best use their battering Engine were leaders of the rest and verily they handled the matter so that they came to handy gripes undiscovered their