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A21108	A plaine path-vvay to plantations that is, a discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries. Wherein is declared, that the attempts or actions, in themselues are very good and laudable, necessary also for our country of England. Doubts thereabout are answered: and some meanes are shewed, by which the same may, in better sort then hitherto, be prosecuted and effected. Written for the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this land, chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these attempts better then yet they doe. With certaine motiues for a present plantation in New-found land aboue the rest. Made in the manner of a conference, and diuided into three parts, for the more plainnesse, ease, and delight to the reader. By Richard Eburne of Hengstridge in the countie of Somerset.	Eburne, Richard.	1624 (1624)	STC 7471; ESTC S105454	98,023	134

by him most affected all tending to this maine end To moue our people of England to plant themselues abroad and free themselues of that penurie and perill of want wherein they liue at home But none that I know hath handled the point in generall viz. to shew the benefit and the good the lawfulnesse and the ancient and frequent vse the facilitie and necessitie that is indeed if I may so speake the Doctrine of Plantations That taske therefore haue I vndertaken which how I haue performed I leaue to others to iudge requesting this at your hands beneuolent and curteous Readers that you obserue and consider First That I am the first that hath broken this Ice and searched out this way and that therefore it must needs be to me more rough and rude then if I had passed a smooth water and gone along in an vsuall and beaten path Secondly That my whole purpose and intent is principally and specially to doe some good this way for and with the meaner sort of our people to whose capacitie therefore it was fit and more then fit necessarie that I should fit and frame my speech That obserued I doubt not but you will not onely beare with but also approue of my plainnesse as best befitting my purpose to worke and my subiect to worke vpon the more learned and iudicious sort I freely and ingeniously acknowledge my selfe more desirous to haue my Teachers and directours in this kind of Learning then my Readers and Followers If any thinke it a point beyond my Compasse for a Diuine by Profession to deale with an argument of this Nature viz. to intreat of Plantations which are commonly taken to be a matter altogether of Temporall and Secular right Let him be pleased to know First That I am not alone nor the first in this attempt but haue for my president the precedent examples of some farre before me in Learning and Knowledge as Master Hackluit who long since wrote a great Volumne of English Voiages Master Crashaw in England and Master Whitaker in Virginia who haue both employed their Pens and paines for that Plantation Secondly That Plantations are Actions wherein we also of the Cleargie are as farre interessed as any other They are as free for vs as for others and if men will haue any hope that they shall prosper in their hands we must haue a distinct part a certaine share and Cleargie-like Portion in them as well as men of other places and qualities haue theirs And therefore to write and discourse of and for them it behoueth and becommeth vs of the Cleargie as well and as much as any other Thirdly That one proper and principall end of Plantations is or should be the enlargement of Christs Church on Earth and the publishing of his Gospell to the Sons of Men and therefore in that respect it cannot but properly and directly belong vnto them to whom Christ hath giuen commandement and authority aboue others to take care of his Flock to seeke the furtherance of the Gospel and to sound forth the glad tidings of Saluation to all Nations to be principall Agents therein and speciall furtherers thereof That my proofes and examples are most out of the Bible and Sacred Histories I haue done it of purpose not onely because they are with me most familiar and of best authoritie but because they should be so with all Christians euen the Lay sort likewise As I am not of the Papists opinion that is to care little for the Scripture so I like not to be of the Popish fashion which is to fill the peoples eares with sound of the Names of Fathers Councels and others-like which they nor are nor can be acquainted with but to let them heare little and see lesse the Word of God in which they easily might and certainly should be ripe and ready and well both seene and read Besides for this present argument it is so frequent in the Scriptures that there is not any substantiall point thereabout for or of the which because the practice thereof was verie much in those times there is not some either precept or president to be found If I haue any where dissented from the common practice and shewed some dislike of the ordinarie proceedings in these Proiects I desire but so farre to be borne with and accepted as I bring good reason for it and declare or intimate some iust and reasonable cause thereof Though I haue not presumed to set downe any certaine and regular platforme of a good and right Plantation which happely to haue done would haue seemed in me too much either boldnesse or rashnesse yet thus much I presume to affirme of that I haue written that if any will read and consider it well he may without any great labour collect and find out a true and good platforme of such an Action I haue so answered many and most of the common Obiections made against and about these attempts that out of and by the same an answer may likewise be shaped to any other obiection that lightly can be made there-against The whole I haue so drawne vnto certaine heads and s●…rted againe into seuerall parts as I thought might best accord with the matter haudled and be most likely to yeeld ease and delight to the Reader Wherein that I haue digested all into the forme of a Conference or Dialogue hauing so many examples for it and most of them from the best of all Ages I am so far from fearing lest thereby I should offend any that I presume rather that in that point and paines aboue the rest howsoeuer I be a little the larger because of the Interlocution I shall be the better accepted my meaning and drift the sooner perceiued and my Labours and Lines the oftner lookt vpon and perused And now that I may reuert my speech to you my countrimen and friends you I say of the meaner sort for whose sake chiefly out of the abundance of my ardent loue and feruent desire to doe you good I haue put my selfe to all this paines I haue vndertaken this worke Be pleased I pray you to peruse that is to reade and cause to be read to you ouer and ouer this booke which I haue written to you and for you The Argument whereof I intreat therein is of Plantations which howsoeuer attempted by many worthy great and honourable Personages yet seeme little to bee accepted and respected of you for whom of all other they are most necessary and to whom properly they are intended Looks vpon the miserie and want wherein you doe and abiding in England you cannot but liue Looke vpon the plentie and felicitie wherein going hence you may liue Preferre not pouertie before riches nor your perpetuall euill and wretchednesse before perpetuall good happines Now is a time wherein you may do you and yours nitie for euer if you will Now God doth offer you that Opportugood with choice of place to rid your selues from your present miserie and

will neuer say well Many idle wretches when they come into such places because they cannot haue the plenty without paines not finde those golden mountaines they dreamed of at home though many things bee notable and very good yet will cauill at and blame euery thing Suppose it be somewhat as they say that is The ground not so fruitfull as some places here in England yet doth it follow therefore it is not worth the hauing If I be not deceiued There bee few Countries in Europe that can compare with England for richnesse of the Soile and fatnesse of the earth yet we all know they are not therefore forsaken Againe in England it selfe all places are not alike good As there be some of excellent mold so there be barren heath and hungry Soiles a great many yet we see people are glad to inhabit them Be it then that some of those parts be no better then our worser grounds our heaths Mendip hills Wiltshire downes Salisbury plaines and other like yet I hop●… they are better then none A great deale of such ground together I thinke may be as good as a little good ground If any man will thus consider of such complaints and murmurs he shall see no great cause to regard them These therefore thus satisfied if you haue any thing else to say say on Resp. Some say also That those Countries are so ouer growne with wood trees bushes and such like that there is no roome for building no ground for pasture and tillage or at least not without excessiue labour and charge or intolerable and pit●…ifull spoile of the woods and timbor to no vse Enr. It cannot be but that those countries hauing either not at all or but little as yet beene inhabited must needs be much ouergrowne with woods and no small part thereof to be a very Forrest and Wildernesse yet certaine it is that there are a thing very admirable and almost beyond expectation there are I say in them to be found many goodly parts of those Countries that are very cleare of woods faire and goodly open champion ground large Meadowes and Pastures many hundred sometimes thousands of Acres together So that besides the wood-lands there is abundantly roome and ground enough to build and inhabit vpon for more people I beleeue then will hastily be gotten ouer to dwell there and more ground open and cleare already rid for pasture and tillage then yet there will be people and cattle enough had thither to such vses the same to conuert and employ And therefore there needs not either that Complaint which they make of the excessiue store and encomberment of woods nor which is worse of that present and hastie spoile and burning vp of woods on the sudden for making of roome that some doe talke of and would haue to be made and as it is reported haue already made by burning vp thousands of Acres together This truly in my opinion is a thing very wicked and such as cannot but be displeasing to Almightie God who abhorreth all wilfull waste and spoile of his good creatures Gather vp that which is left saith our Sauiour Ioh. 6. 12. that nothing be lost and a thing that in common ciuilitie and humane policie should not be suffered to be done or being done not passe vnpunished Wee may know by our owne present want of wood here in England what a pretious commoditie wood is and be warned by our owne harmes to make much of it if we haue plenty thereof and no further nor faster to cut it downe then present vse and good occasions from time to time shall require We should not be so blinde as not to foresee that if the countries come once to be inhabited there will be so many and so great occasions of cutting downe wood and timber trees as will quickly cause infinite store thereof necessarily to be imployed and so the grounds from time to time speedily enough to be made cleare and ridde for other vses For first the very building of Houses to which adde the necessary making of fences about houses and grounds will vse an infinit deale of Wood and Timber Secondly The store that will daily and yeerely be spent in necessary vses for fire which at the first specially till houses bee warme and drie and the ayre corrected will and must be more than ordinarie cannot but if once any number of Inhabitants goe ouer be exceeding great Thirdly The building and making of Ships and shipping will require and consume very much there And such order may bee taken that by the woods there great spare a thing very needfull may be made in England of our Woods here for that vse Fourthly To these places may be transplanted the making of Glasse and Iron as well for England as for the same Countries two things that as it is well knowne doe deuoure yet vpon necessary vses wonderfull store of Wood continually Fiftly The Trades of Potters for earthen vessels and of Coupers for treen Vessels both very necessary specially at the first will and must still from time to time spend vp much Wood and Timber Sixtly And little behinde them in expence of Wood will be that very necessary Trade of making of Salt considering how great vse there is and will be thereof there for the fishing voyages besides all other vses thereof both there and else-where Seuenthly No small quantity thereof likewise may be cut vp and transported into England for our Buildings for Coupers Ioyners and Trunk-makers trades heere which now at a daerer hand wee buy and fetch out of other Countries Eighthly Besides the Woods standing are of themselues and by industry more may be made a great fortification for the Inhabitants against man and Beast till the Countries be and can be better employed and fortified These and other like necessary and great vses of wood considered which either must or may be made thereof little reason or cause is there why as if it could like the waters in the riuers neuer be spent while the world stands there should any sudden and needlesse spoile by fire or any other wastfull hauocke be made thereof and seuerely deserue they to be punished that shall make it and sharply the rest to be restrained that none like hereafter be made Resp. These Countries are full of wilde Beasts Beares c. Enr. 1. Some of them as the Summer Ilands haue no such at all No harmfull thing in them 2. None of them especially Newfound Land as farre as I heare haue any or at least any store of noysome creatures as of Serpents Crocodiles c. as haue many parts of this Continent which yet long hath beene and still be inhabited 3. It is well there are some beasts there wilde at least if not tame That is an argument vndeniable that tame beasts may there be bred and liue 4. Better wilde then none at all For of some of them some good vse may be made for the present viz. for labour for