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A04581	Nova Britannia offering most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia : exciting all such as be well affected to further the same.	Johnson, Robert, fl. 1586-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 14699.5; ESTC S889	22,243	35

land with honour wealth and riches returning still to the heads and Fountaines from whence their first occasions grew Wee may but looke a little backe and wee shall see what a nouice our nation was within these sixscore yeeres in case of Forraine trade not knowing whence to fetch nor which way to transport but onely to some marte or staple towne within two daies sailing and that was counted so great a matter then that therefore they were called Marchant aduenturers and the great Hulkes of Italy which in those daies brought spices Corants and such like and landes at Southampton the Storehouse then for Marchandize are Chronicled for wonders in our English Stories for indeede we knew no better then but were content as babes with Easterlings on the one hand Lumbards on the other which were continuall Liegers in London and fed vs as they listed And take this euer as a rule that Domesticke Marchandizing brings forth but poore effects in a Commonwealth whereof I needed not haue shewed example further then our owne doores What was the case of England before the golden daies of Quéene Elizabeth at whose comming to the crowne the state of Marchants was so poore and meane that renting out her customes in wardes but at a very lowe rate yet it brought the farmer vpon his knées A man that markes the difference and shall compare those times and these together shall thinke it were impossible vnlesse his knowledge taught him otherwise that the dayes and raigne of one Elizabeth whose hand was euer lending to distressed neighbour Princes and her sword vnsheathed continually repulsing forraine enemies should yet releeue and raise the state of her customes the strength of her Nauie and the condition of her people euery way seuen fold to that they were before onely by encouraging the royall trade of Marchandize as wee see it this day apparant Let God haue the honour and blessed be her memory and the memoriall of those managers of State in her daies for their worthy counsells many of which though they now sléepe and rest with their Soueraigne in peace yet some doe still remaine and do succeede in place where long may they stand and their séede after them like the Pillars and Worthies of King Dauid to shielde the head and honour of our Solomon and still to vphold and enlarge our happinesse for euer and this I am driuen to speake and mention by the way where I meant it not in regard of some which vpon a disaster beginne to ware weary of all discouraging themselues and others from this and all other forreine aduentures to let them know that each thing hath encrease from whence it had beginning and to put our selues in mind that wee faile not in furthering those causes that bring forth such effects Another instance might be shewed in one particular which taxeth very much our English Nation and all the Subiects of our soueraigne King that enioying such plentie of wood-lands and fruitfull soiles within England Scotland Ireland and Wales yet our want of industry to bee such that Netherlanders which haue not a stick of wood growing nor any land for sowing should surpasse and goe beyond vs in continuall plenty of corne and shipping me thinks the reformation hereof should find more fauour at our hands that in such points of ciuil pollicie no people of lesser meanes should cast vs so behinde and each well minded man should lend his helpe to heale and cure such staines and scarres in the face of our state as being viewed and wayed well may very well make vs blush And now to our present businesse in hand which so many stumble at in regard of the continuall charge I would haue them know that it cannot be great nor long as the businesse may be handled Two things are especially required herein people to make the plantation and money to furnish our present prouisions and shippings now in hand For the first we neede not doubt our land abounding with swarmes of idle persons which hauing no meanes of labour to reléeue their misery doe likewise swarme in lewd and naughtie practises so that if we seeke not some waies for their forreine employment wee must prouide shortly more prisons and corrections for their bad conditions for it fares with populous common weales as with plants and trees that bee too frolicke which not able to sustaine and feede their multitude of branches do admit an engrafting of their buds and Siences into some other soile acounting it a benefite for preseruation of their kind and a disburdening their stocke of those superfluous twigs that sucke away their nourishment And we shal find that hence it was the Gothes and Uandalles with other barbarous nations séeing an ouerflowing of their multitudes at home did therefore send their Armies out as raging floods at sundrie times to couer the faces of Spain Italy and other Prouinces to f●ée their owne from pestering so that you see it no new thing but most profitable for our State to rid our multitudes of such as lie at home pestering the land with pestilence and penury and infecting one another with vice and villanie worse then the plague it selfe whose very miseries driues many of them by meanes to be cutte off as bad and wicked members or else both them and theirs to be reléeued at the common charge of others Yet I doe not meane that none but such vnsound members and such poore as want their bread are fittest for this imployment for wee intend to haue of euery trade and profession both honest wise and painefull men whereof our land and Citie is able to spare and furnish many as we had experience in our last sending thither which will be glad to goe and plant themselues so happily and their children after them to holde and keepe conformitie with the lawes language and religion of England for euer Touching which I doe earnestly admonish you to beware and shunne three kindes of people the first a most vile minded sort and for the most part badde members of this Citie by some meanes shaken out of their honest courses and now shifting by their wittes will bee alwaies deuising some vnhappines to wrong the plantation such as daily beate their braines and séeke by lying suggestions vnder colour of good pretence to the Common-wealth to infringe our auncient liberties and would if they were not mette withall and curbed by authoritie make a monopoly to themselues of each thing after other belonging to the freedome of euery mans profession the very wrack of Merchandizing The second sort are papists professed or Recusant of which I would not one seasoned with the least taint of that leauen to be setled in our plantation nor in any part of that country but if once perceiued such a one wéede him out and ship him home for England for they will euer bee plotting and conspiring to root you out if they can howsoeuer they sweare flatter and equiuocate beleeue them not keepe onely these

and people of God shall bee able to lend to all and neede to borrow of none and it added very much to the fame and wisedome of King Solomon which the world came ●arre and neere to wonder at in that his Kingdomes were replenished with golde and siluer in aboundance and with riches brought in by shippes sent yearely forth in ample trade of Merchandize whereof wee reade not the like among all the Kings of Israel And vpon good warrant I speake it here in priuate what by these new discoueries into the Westerne partes and our hopefull setling in chiefest places of the East with our former knowne trades in other parts of the world I doe not doubt by the helpe of God but I may liue to see the dayes if Marchants haue their due encouragement that the wisedome Maiestie and Honour of our King shall be spread and enlarged to the ends of the world our Nauigations mightily encreased and his Maiesties customes more then trebled And as for the third part the releeuing our men already planted to preserue both them and our former aduentures I shall not neede to say much the necessitie is so apparent that I hope no Aduenturer will be wanting therein Our Sauiour Christ resembles them that giue ouer in their best duties to foolish builders that hauing laid the foundation doe grauell themselues in the midde way and so become ridiculous It had béene extreame madnes in the Iewes when hauing sent to spye the land that flowed with milke and honey and ten for two returned backe with tydings of impossibilitie to enter and preuaile if then they had retyred and lost the land of promise No doubt the Deuill that enuied then that enterprize of theirs doth now the like in ours and we must make accompt and look to bee encountred with many discoragements partly by our friends and neighbours such as we vse to say will neither goe to Church nor tarrie at home as also which is no new thing euen by such as haue béen sent to spy the land one while obiecting the charge will be great the businesse long and the gaines nothing and besides the Anakimes that dwell in the mountaines will come and pull vs out by the eares with such like fooleries I know not what But wee must bée prepared with Caleb and Iosua so highly commended to oppose an extraordinarie zeale against the detra●●ings of such to rescue our enterprize from malicious ignorance and to still their murmurings with reproofe for though in ordinarie and common occasions it be our duetie to be caried with ordinarie patience méekenes and humilitie yet to shew an excellent spirit when the cause is worth it and in such a case as this requiring passing resolution It is but our weakenesse to stumble at strawes and a basenesse to gnaw vpon euery bone that is cast in our way which wée may obserue by those noble dogges of Albania presented to King Alexander whose natures contemned to encounter or prey vpon séely beasts of no valour but with an ouerflowing courage flying vpon the Lion and the Tyger did th●n declare their vertue And now it followes how it can be good for this Commonwealth which is likewise most apparant many waies First if we consider what strength of shipping may be raysed and maintained thence in furnishing our owne wants of sundrie kindes and the wants of other Nations too in such needfull things arising thence which can hardly now be obtained from any other part of the world as planck and tymber for shipping with Deale and Wainscot pipestaues and clabbord with store of Sope ashes whereof there grow the best woods to make them in great aboundance al which we may there haue the wood for the cutting and the Ashes for the burning which though they bee grosse commodities yet no Marchandize is better requested nor will sooner yeelde golde or siluer in any our bordering Nations England and Holland alone spend in these about three hundreth thousand poundes sterling euery yeare we may transport hether or vnto Hamborough Holland or other places fiftie per centum better cheape then from Prusia or Polonia from whence they are onely now to be had where also the woods are so spent and wasted that from the place where the wood is cut and the ashes burnt they are brought by land at least two hundred miles to ship And from thence we may haue Iron and Copper also in great quantitie about which the expence and waste of woode as also for building of Shippes will be no hurt but great seruice to that countrey the great superfluity whereof the continuall cutting downe in manie hundred yeares will not be able to ouercome whereby will likewise grow a greater benefite to this land in preseruing our woodes and tymber at home so infinitely and without measure vpon these occasions cutte downe and falne to such a sickenesse and wasting consumption as all the physick in England cannot cure Wee doubt not but to make there in few yeares store of good wines as any from the Canaries by replanting and making tame the Uines that naturally grow there in great abundance onely send men of skill to doe it and Coopers to make caske and hoopes for that and all other vses for which there is wood enough at hand There are Silke-wormes and plenty of Mulberie-trees whereby Ladies Gentlewomen and litle children beeing set in the way to doe it may bee all imploied with pleasure in making Silke comparable to that of Persia Turkey or any other We may bring from thence Sturgion Cauiare and new land-fish of the best There grows hempe for Cordage an excellent commoditie and flaxe for linnen cloth which beeing sowen and well manured in such a clymate and fertile soyle will make great benefite and will put downe that of other countries And for the making of Pitch Tarre Turpentine Sope-ashes Deale Wainscott and such like wee haue alreadie prouided and sent thither skillfull workemen from Forraine parts which may teach and set ours in the way whereby we may set many thousands a worke in these and such like seruices For as I tolde you before there must be Art and industry with other helps and meanes extended with a little pacience to bring these things to passe wee must not looke to reape with ioy except we sow in teares The aboundance of King Salomons golde and siluer did not raine from heauen vpon the heads of his subiects but heauenly prouidence blessed his Nauigations and publike affayres the chiefe meanes of their wealth Experience hath lately taught vs by some of our neighbour Prouinces how excéedingly it mounts the State of a common-wealth to put forth Nauigation if it were possible into all parts and corners of the world to furnish our owne wants and also to supply from one Kingdome to another such seuerall néedefull things as for want of shipping and other meanes they cannot furnish of themselues for this will raise experience and men of skill as also strength at Sea and