may be vsed for profitable Cattell to be had and transported thither p. 26 5. The people there rude and barbarous p. 28 6 The Aduentures very dangerous p. 29. 30. 31 7 That small profit no weaâ—…th is there to be had p. 32. 33. 33. There what great riches and liuings by all likelihood are there to be had p. 34 35 There Nâ—…rmandie and Aquitaine lost in France and when p. 36 8 That it will bee long time and much expense spent Before any thing there to any purpose can be effected p. 37 The Summe of the second Part. Wherein is shewed 1. That the best course to be taken for Plantations is by Act of Parliament pag. 46 2 Two things being principally necessarie to the working of Plantations viz. Men and Money What Inferiour courses might be taken for the raising or procuring of both plentifully that is Of Money 1 By Voluntaries p. 47 2 By personall Aduenturers p. ibid. 2 By generall Collections p. ibid. 4 By Hospital Mony p. 48. By monies giuen to the vse of the poore p. ibid. 6 By Moneys giuen to the vse of the Church p. 49. 7 By Lotterie p. ibid. 8 By some ratable Imposition p. 50 9 By base Monies for those purposes and places to be stamped p. ibid. 10 By Gold and Siluer coynes altered p. 52. 11 By frugall expences p. 53 An Extrauagant p. 54. By godly parsimonie of the richer sort at home p. ibid. Then of Men. 1 By Proclamation 2 3 By good order for remouing p. 56 4 By prouision supplyed p. 57 5 By Vagrants 6 By Prisoners p. 59. 7 Maimed Souldiers 8 Cottagers 9 Inmates p. 60. 10 Souldiers and Seruants p. 62 There what sort of persons are fittest for a Plantation p. 63 11 Ministers of the Word p. 64 There how they may be prouided for p. 64. 65 12 Scholemasters and other Schollers p. 66 There what meanes may be vsed for procuring such men to be goe ouer p 67 A notable Historie of the Conuersion of certaine Indians in the time of Athanasciouâ—… p. 67 13 By men of name and note to be Gouernours p. 68 14 And that in the State Ecclesiasticall as well as Temporall p. 69 15 That his Maiestie would entitle himselfe to that Countrey in which any Plantation shall be p. 70 Certaine Obiections answered as 1 The greatnesse of the expenses p. 72 2 The remouing of so many at once p. ibid. 3 The weakning and impouerishing of our Land p. 73 4 The wast of the reuenues of the Crowne p. 78 The summe of the third Part. 1 Causes why Plantations proceed no better in England viz. 1 The want of a generall resolution thereto p. 90 2 The want of some good course for it p. 91 3 The great idlenesse of our people lack of industrie p. ibid. 4 The immoderate loue of their naturall Countrey p. 92 2 How many Plantations there be now in hand p. 93 3 Whether all of them can be finished p. 94 4 Which of them seemeth to be best to be set forward p. 95 5 How many waies to make a Plantation p 96 There Planting by inuasion disliked p. ibid 6 That Plantation and Inuasion are somewhat like in some things and how p. 100 There what Celeritie is needfull in making a Plantation p. 101 7 Whether better to plant in an Iland or a Continent p. 104. 8 Certaine motiues gathered out of Captaine â—… huburnes booke why Newfound land may be thought fittest for a present Plantation p. 104. 105. 106. 9 Certaine personall Obiections vsually made by such as are vnwilling to goe in a Plantation answered as 1 Of Agednesse p. 109. 2 Vn-vsuall for old men ibid. There whether old men and married or young single men be fitter for a Plantation p. 100. 3 Hard Trauelling by Sea p. 111 4 Of them that haue some good liuings here p. 112 5 That such men doe not vsually goe p. 114 6 That women mens wiues are not willing p. 116 10 To goe into one or other â—…lantation the Authour intendeth p. 19 The end of the Contents Errata Page 6. line 4. for barren reade barbarian page 15. line 5. for idle r. such p. 19. l. 6. for Iland r. Ireland p. 24. l. vlt. for employed r. enpeopled p. 59. l. 19. for stealing r. filching p. 61. l. 10. for poory r. poore p. 62. li. 32. for of r. to p. 64. l. for informed r. inforced p. 65. l. 2. for distinted r. distincted p. 110. l. 27. for hur r. hurt p. 114. l. 7. for willingly r. willing p. 115. l. 19. for approue reade proue A PLAINE PATH-WAY TO PLANTATIONS The first Part. The Speakers be Respire a Farmer Enrubie a Merchant Respire I Am very glad to see you in health good Master Enrubie and hearing of your comming home I am come to see you and to salute you Enrubie I thanke you heartily for it Neighbour Respire and am glad to see you and the rest of my good Neighbours and friends here to be also in good health I pray you sit downe by me in this Harbour Resp. That I would doe willingly but that I doubt I shall be troublesome to you for I see you are busie in reading some Booke what-euer it be Enr. That shall be no trouble to me nor let to vs. For it is but to recreate my selfe withall for want of better company and exercise Resp. If it be for Recreation then I hope it is some matter of delight and speciall obseruation Enr. Yes indeed It is a new and prettie Discourse of some of our new Plantations namely that in N. Resp. I maruaile what good or pleasure you should finde in such idle Bookes fables I thinke not worth the looking on Enr. They are better then you yet vnderstand I see and therefore bee not you rash in condemning lest you be hastic also in repenting for Ad poenitendum properat citò qui iudicat Hastie men as they say neuer lacke woe Resp. Why But doe you indeed find any good in reading such books which I know of many to be but little regarded Enr. Yea truly and that I doubt not but you also shall acknowledge before you depart from hence if you haue the leisure to stay with me but a while Resp. I haue lost more time then this ere now and therefore for your good companies sake I will God willing see the euent and any great businesse to hasten me away at this time I haue not I pray you therefore tell me what good you get by those Bookes Enr. Besides the delight that comes by the noueltie of the contents thereof and you know that Est natura hominum Nouitatis auida we are by much nature like the Athenians spokeÌ„ of in the 17. the Acts of the Apostles desirous very much to heare Newes I doe reape thereby vnto my selfe this threefold benefit First I doe thereby after a sort as blessed Moses from mount Nebo Deut. 34. view and behold with the eyes of my minde
the soundnesse of your opinion about the things we haue talked of Enr. Whether you spake as you did of Ignorance or for triall to proue what I could or would say in these cases it is not greatly materiall I haue spoken nothing I hope but what is â—…it and probable in the cause and the same in such sort as may suffice to satisfie you or any other that will with veritie and probabilitie be satisfied in these points therefore I trust that you will take all that I haue spoken in good part as proceeding from a minde that would willingly gratifie all but offend none Resp. You haue in truth satisfied me to the sull concerning those things of which I desired a Resolution and did somewhat doubt with my selfe that it was not to be had For now I perceiue that to make a good Plantation store of people to inhabit and store of Prouision to inable them to inhabite it are necessary I perceiue also that our Land is able to affoord both both People and Prouision plentifully if good courses might be taken for procuring them Wherefore as I cannot but acknowledg my selfe much beholding vnto you for that you haue brought me out of errour into the truth as out of darknesse into light so I cannot but prosesse that I now wish with all my heart that I might liue to heare and know these or some of these worthy commendable and necessary Proiects brought to some good effect and will from henceforth bee as ready to incourage and perswade others thereunto as I haue beene heretofore to discourage and disswade them therefrom Enr. If you be so well minded whereof I am very glad then you haue done contradicting and I shall not need to bethinke my selfe of any further answers Resp. I haue done obiecting and opposing for I perceiue it is to 〈◊〉 â—…nd but if there doe come any thing into my mind concerning these proiects wherein I shall need some better information then I can gather to my selfe I will make bold to come vnto you once more but that shall be not as an opposite and gain-saier but as a Scholler that desireth to learne that so I may haue mine owne mind and vnderstanding so well informed and prepared that I may be able to confer with and if need be to informe others Enr. Come and welcome whensoeuer you see it good The end of the second Part. A PLAINE PATH-WAY TO PLANTATIONS That is A Discourse in generall concerning the Plantation of our English people in other Countries The third Part. LONDON Printed by G. P. for Iohn Marriot THE PATH-WAY TO PLANTATIONS The third Part. The Speakers be Respire a Farmer Enrubie a Merchant Respire ONce againe M. Enrubie I am come to trouble you a little For by often thinking and as it were meditating vpon these new and notable businesses of Plantation which I hope will and wish may take good effect some things are come into my mind that need a better wit and vnderstanding then mine to open them to me I pray you therefore a little to instruct me therein Enr. With a verie good will I will doe what I may Aske me what you will Resp. The great and goodly workes that we haue talked of I see to be exceeding good and necessarie for our people and meanes enough to be had for setting them forward What therefore may be the reason they goe on no better Enr. There may diuers reasons or causes thereof be conceiued The maine or principall whereof in my conceit is this There wanteth among vs a generall and setled resolution to proceed with them Resp. What might worke such a Resolution Enr. A like knowledge and perswasion of the Necessitie Abilitie and Opportunitie that our whole Nation hath thereunto Resp. I pray you speake somewhat of each of these seuerally Enr. I haue reasonably well done it alreadie if you call to mind what hath passed betweene vs in conference For in our first dayes Labour I shewed you manifoldly that a Plantation is for our Land at this present time verie needfull And indeed it is so needfull and necessarie that vnlesse God take away the present necessitie thereof by war or pestilence or both if it be not this way remedied this Land cannot but shortly come for want thereof to verie great miserie and euill And at our next meeting I shewed you that there are both people enow and meanes for prouision enough to performe such a businesse and that in a large and ample both manner and measure if good courses be taken for it accordingly which can be best done by some Act of Parliament if the Estates of the Land might be pleased to take this matter into their consideration as a matter that highly and neerely concerneth the common good at this instant Matters of ten times lesse moment are ordinarily vouchsafed the help and authoritie of that most high and honourable Court and therefore great hope we may conceiue that in due time which is euen now this also shall For opportunitie I take it it hath passed betweene vs in our whole conference as a matter granted that there is opportunitie thereto offered vs abundantly because as it is most certainly knowne and out of all controuersie there are sundry Places and Countreys where Plantations may be made and our people may inhabite if they will Resp. What take you for a second cause Enr. The want of some good order and course for such a purpose such I meane as may be setled generally all the Land ouer by Regall and Legall authoritie and not by priuate agreements and directions only which if I be not much deceiued will neuer effect such a worke while the world standeth The ancient Romans well vnderstanding this neuer therefore attempted the plantation of any one Collony or City alone or of any of those lands they had gotten in warre but that first there was Lâ—…x lâ—…ta a speciall Law or publike Decree much like an Act of Parliament with vs made for it the titles whereof were De Colonys dedâ—…cendis De Agris diuideâ—…dis and other like Resp. The Kings Maiesty permitteth any that will to goe Enr. 1. First that is more then we doe know whatsoeuer folke doe say 2. Experience doth shew there must be vsed to the thorow effecting of any such attâ—…mpt a Coactiâ—…e as well as a Permissiue power It is not an easie matter scarce to be hoped for in these daies and in our land to make if need should be any great army for the field much lesse to get Voluntaries enough for a Plantation considering that it is easier to get carelesse young men and single men to goe out of their Country vnto a warfare then to get setled Housholders and whole Families men women and children to goe into a strange country to a plantation and habitation Resp. What may be a third cause Enr. The want of industry and inclination to labour and take any paines in our people who
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 hopâ—… 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 pitâ—…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
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 sâ—…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
be further satisfied in Resp. The Enterprises themselues Plantations I meane you haue well shewed me to be in themselues very commendable and good and for our Land and Nation at this present exceeding necessarie yet as I suppose there cannot or there will not sufficient and conuenient means be had for the expedition and performance therof as is requisite as may appeare by the â—…ll successe the giuing ouer or slow proceeding of such Actions heretofore from time to time to the notable hinderance of the Gospel the great dishonour and reproach of our Nation and the extreme losse and disaduantage of the Vndertakers and Aduenturers and then to what end is it to take in hand impossibilities Enr. You say well and therefore for speedie and due remedie in this behalfe especially and aboue all other things as wherein alone the true and perfect cure of those euils doth consist it were to be wished that by Act of Parliament some good courses might speedily be taken throughout the Land by which it might effectually be accomplished For Plantations indeed are properly a matter of publique and generall and not as the practice is with vs of priuate and particular Action If it seeme to any a matter too meane and vnworthy a Parliamentarie consideration for my part I protest I can in no wise be of their opinion vnlesse I may plainly be taught and informed that it is no part of a Fathers care to place abroad his Children as they grow vp but to keepe them still vnder his owne Roofe till they eate him out of House and home or of an Housholders prouidence to foresee that his Meyny exceed not his meanes or of the Sheephâ—…ards dutie when his Flocke is increased to prouide them larger pastures or of the Gardiners charge when his plants and sets are ouer thicke and doe incomber the ground to remoue disperse them into other plots where hauing more roome they may bigger grow and better prosper Resp. Till that may be obtained which all men know cannot possibly be on a suddaine and those attempts being now begun doe necessarily require speedie and much supply and continuall furtherance lest else besides all other euils that be â—…all on vs which is written in the Gospel Luk. 14. 29. viz hauing laid such foundations and being not able to performe them all that behold them mocke vs saying These men these Englishmen began Plantations here and there and now are not able to make an end of any one of them what courses might there be taken for the speedie effecting of them in some tolerable measure and commendable manner Enr. Till some good course that way a thing in mine opinion much to be desired may be obtained and prouided if I might be bold to speake my minde and toward a common good why should it not be free and without offence for any man as a well willer to so good a worke to speake since as it hath been well and of old obserued Aliquando est olitor opportuna locutus A meane man may sometime speake to the purpose I could be willing to acquaint you or any other with what inferiour courses I haue conceiued might the meane while be taken and followed for the bringing of the same to some tolerable estate and reasonable good effect Resp. I pray you let me heare them for I hope no man will dislike with any man to put to his helping hand to doe any good in this great worke which so much concerneth all specially when as you intend not to vrge or binde any man to your words but leaue it free to all men to accept or reiect as it pleaseth them Enr. Trusting then of fauourable acceptation I will speake what I thinke Two things there be aboue all other most materiall and necessarie for such a businesse to be prouided that is men and money People to goe to the Plantation and Prouision to set them forth Both which howsoeuer to some they may be thought impossible to be had I am perswaded if good courses for them might be vsed though not without some difficultie And what high and worthy enterprize is there that euer hath without some difficultie beene atchieued may sufficiently be obtained 1 For Money well knowne it is that many Honourable and other worthy Persons haue this way employed much and no doubt intend to proceed accordingly 2 It cannot be but that some of those that aduenture in person intending there to inhabit doe and will goe some of them sufficiently and many of them some-what prouided that way Few will goe with an emptie purse 3 For procuring what farther shall be needfull it seemeth vnto me it were verie requisite and a thing not verie hard to be obtained by some or other that some Letters Patent vnder the great Seale of England or other like course might be set forth for some gâ—…nerall and Yeerely Collection or contribution to that purpose and the Briefes Bookes rather for it to be directed either to the Lord Bishops of euerie Diocesse or to the Sherife of euerie Shire by them to be dispersed into euerie Parish For likely it is that many well-disposed able men would giue to this great and worthy worke more liberally then to others many of farre lesse importance and yet good summes of Money haue thus beene oft collected specially if men may perceiue by the remouing and departure of any it redounds indeed as is pretended to the common good 4 Probable also it is that the Iustices of euerie Shire vpon good intimation of the cause vnto them would be pleased to bestow some part of that Money which quarterly at their Sessions is receiued by the name of Hospitall Money toward the setting forth of some maimed Souldiers or some other poore of the said Countrey yeerely into some or other of those Plantations 5 Neither is it improbable that the Churchwardens and Ouerseers for the Poore that haue as in sundry Parishes within this Land they haue seuerall portions and summes of Money by well disposed people in their last Wils or otherwise giuen and bequeathed for and toward the reliefe of the Poore in their Parish committed to their charge and custodie may be perswaded and drawne or otherwise caused to conferre and lay out the said portions or summes of Money or the greatest part thereof in this sort to the setting forth of some of the Poore of their Parish Children or other that else must within the same continually be relieued and maintained Resp. That were very vnreasonable and euill too I thinke for what consciâ—…nce were this to sulsifie the trust reposed in them and to defraud their Poore of their reliefe Enr. No euill no wrong no defrauding at all howsoeuer you vpon the suddaine doe so take it but rather this were a readie way to employ it indeed to their vse to whom by the Donours it was properly intended whereas now for the most part you shall â—…ind if you
himselfe that perswadeth or moueth others thereunto For Plantation is no matter of our Faith and Saluation There may be as great reasons and iust occasions why he should not goe as why they others whom hee perswadeth should goe yet because no man shall take any exception at all against mâ—… or my perswasions that way I say I doe purpose God willing to goe And I shall thinke my selfe happy if I may bee one of those that may lay the first stones of such a building and spend and end my daies in being onâ—… Instrument among the many thousands of our English Natition that shall betake and bestow themselues in such a manner to the enlargement of Gods Church of the Kings dominions and of our owne English habitations But I say withall Secondly I cannot goe as yet because I haue not my meanes and estate so setled and prouided as it is fit for one that will goe well Thirdly if I goe it shall bee partly in hope by Gods mercifull prouidence toward me and mine to better mine estate and to doe good as to others so specially to those that are mine owne or doe otherwise depend vpon me And therefore I haue no reason to goe till I see some good likelihood of probability and assurance that it may and will be done Fourthly I will not goe by my goodwill till I finde some good course taken for a good Plantation in that place or Country wheremy desire and purpose is aboue any I heare of yet to plant my selfe When some such course shall be taken and followed effectually I will not God willing be one of the last that shall make vse of it Fifthly I suppose I ought not either to tempt God by going without good and necessary meanes nor seeke my owne destruction by running before I am sent in good order And therefore expecting a conuenient and appointed time it is enough that I doe for the present prepare my selfe to be ready prepared against that time and hauing my minde and affection setled that way doe hearken as the good Souldier for the sound of the trumpet to the battell for the publishing of that decree that may rouse vp all England to such an attempt and expedition Resp. I like your answer so well that besides other good vses which I shall make of it the while by Gods helpe whensoeuer you shall goe for I see you will not goe but vpon good ground You shall haue me ready on reasonable warning to beare you company And I doe not thinke but that you shall haue many more of our Neighbours and Acquaintance that will doe the like Enr. The more the merrier by the grace of God And I pray God of his loue and goodnesse to our Nation and for the furtherance and increase of his Gospell to vouchsafe to these actions and to all that shall goe in them a happy and speedy proceeding â—…fid to vs in particular iâ—… it be his will that wee shall be partakers in the same a ioyfull and good successe therein Respire AMEN The end of the third and last part Anâ—…o Domini 1624. The summe of he whole Treatise What profit may come by reading such books as concerne Plantations Plantations themselues are Actions very commendable necessarie c. 1. By them the Church of Christ may notably bee enlarged By the Addition of other Countries to Christendome And by the Conuersion of infinite heathens to Christianitie The Papists haue much endeuoured this way It is Gods will to call them to the knowledge of his truth And their conuersion must be before the end of the world can be D. Keckar Dantiscan 2. By them the Maiestie and renowne of the Kings of England may be much augmented 3. By them the good of this Land may notably be procured 1. In the easier supportation of the Regall state 2. In ridding out of the land the great and superfluous multitude thereof 3. In abating the excessiue high prices of all things to liue by 4. In enriching the poorer sort hence remoued 5. In amending the Trade and Traffique of Merchants 6. In rooting out Idlenesse out of this Land The fruits of Idlenesse Ale houses Tobacco-shops Idle Trades Prisons Violent deaths Plantations be lawfull Plantations no new nor strange course but both vsuall and ancient Tully Gen. 10. 5. Gen. 9. 1. Certaine Obiections answered 1. Obiection Answere â—…id 2. Obiect Answ. Tents may serue for a time 3. Obiection Answer The spoyle of woods in those countries not sufferable 4. Obiection Answere What meanes for profitable cattell to be had and transported 5. Obiect Answ. 6. Obiect Answer â—… Obiect Answer Normandie and Aquitaine in France lost and when Note this 8. Obiect Answer The Summe of this first part The best course to be taken for Plantations is by Act of Parliament What inferior courses might be taken to further thesâ—… attemptâ—… Money to be had First By Voluntaries Secondly By personall Aduenturers Thirdly By generall Collections Fourthly By Hospitall Money Fifthly By Moneys giuen to the vse of the Poore Ambros. de Offic. lib. 2. cap. â—…7 Sixthly By Moneys giuen to the vse of the Church Seuenthly By the Lotterie 8. By some ratable imposition 9. By base monies for those purposes and places to be stamped The vse and 〈◊〉 of such money Tenthly By Gold and Siluer Coynes An obiection of the fall of base monie answered 11. By frugall expenses in Diet c. An extrauagant 12. By the godly parsimonie of the richer sort at home Lacedemonians To procure people to goe what meanes might be vsed 1. By Proclamation a a There is a president of this forme set forth by Robert Harecourt Esquire in the end of his Deseription of his voyage to Guâ—…ana b b This I see is now reasonably well performed by Captaine R. 〈◊〉 who hath obtained his Bookes to be dispersed into all parishes sauing that his project is for one onely plantation viz. Nâ—…wfound Land but that I intend shuld be for all or one after another successiuely as they go on and with more Authoritie Fourthly By prouision supplyed 5. By Vagarant Persons 6. Prisoners Seuenthly Maimed Souldiers Eighthly Cottagers Ninthly Inmates 10. Souldiers in garrisons And seruants Diuers sorts of mâ—…necessaryn for a Plantation 11. Ministers of the word How they may be prouided for 12. Other schollers for teaching of youth Meanes that may be vsed for procuring such men to goe Ruffin hist. Eccles lib. 1. cap. 9. Socrat. hist. Eccl. lib. 1. cap. 15. 13. Men of name and note to be Gouernours c. 14. And that in the Ecclesiasticall estate as well as in the temporall The fifteenth and chiefest of all is That his Maiesty would entitle himselfe King of that Countrey in which the present Plantation shall be Certaine obiections answered 1 Obiect Answ. 2 Obiect Answ. 3 Obiect Answ. How great a number in England may be spared for Plantations 4 Obiect Answ. The summe of the second part Causes why our Plantations proceed no better First want of a generall resolution Secondly The want of some good course for it 3. Want of â—…dustry in 〈◊〉 people 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 4. The immodeiate loue of their owne Countâ—…y How many Plantations now in hand Which of them seemetâ—… best to be seâ—… forwardâ—… How many waies there be to make Plantations Plantation by Inuasion disliked 〈◊〉 13. 17 Psal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wherein Inuasion and Plantation are somewhat like 1. Discouery 2. Number of people What number of people may suffice to begin a Plantation withall Romane Colonies â—… Prouision 4 Celeritie What celerity needfull in a Plantation 5. Policie Whether is better to plant in an Iland or in a Continent Moâ—…ues for a present Plantation in New found land The name of such as already haue begun a Plantation in New-found Land Excuses and delaies for not going inâ—…o a Plantation answered 1. Agedness 2. Not vsuall for old men Butler in his feminine Monar cap. 5. Num. 3. Gen. 1â—… 4. Exod. 7. 7. 3. Young men and single not so fit as elder and married men 4. tâ—…uell by Sea 1. Of them that haue liuings here â—… Cor. 12. 14. â—… Tim. 5. 8. 6. It is not vsuall for men that haue liuings here to goe The manner in ancient times how to raise people for a Plantation 7. Women are vnwilâ—…ing to goe Examples of Women Sara Rebecca Rachel 〈◊〉 Queene Eâ—…anor Plutâ—…rc iâ—… 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 7. 6. The Author â—…mselfe doth purpose God willing to goe into one or other Plantaâ—…ion And many will accompany him