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To the right honourable the lords and others of His Majesties most honourable Priuie Councell
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Hughes, Lewes, fl. 1620.
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1625
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STC 13920.5; ESTC S5222
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a certaine quantity of corne into the Forts to be kept there in store and handled the matter so after he was come ouer as he drew all the company to beleeue that by meanes of his industry and care the Ilands were so well furnished with corne and the Ratts destroyed Wherevpon to require his care they did bestowe vpon him the stately house that he had built and three shares of the best land in all the Ilands At his comming away he left the Gouernment in the hands of one Captaine Kendall who through pouerty was constrained to take out of the Forts the corne that Capt. Tucker and caused to bee brought in After Capt. Kendall succeded Capt. Nathaniel Butler a man well qualified euery way for such employment He no sooner saw how God had done his part to make those Ilands strong and safe from all forraine inuasion by fortifying them round about with fearefull rockes and shoules so as there is no comming neare with shippes to inuade them but in two narowe and durious channels which doe lead into two goodly and large Harbours and how the first Planters in Capt. Mores time had done them best endeauours in the matter of artificiall fortifications as On the channell that leadeth into the west harbour they had builded a strong Fort and a Castle which they called the Kings Castle where they had mounted 18. great Pieces on carriages sent from England which through the negligence of succeeding Gouernors were gone to decay Capt. Butler tooke small rest till he had repaired such as could be repaired and made new cariages of cedar for the rest so now those 18. great Peices are very seruiceably mounted so also are all the other great Peices in the rest of the Forts As not farre from that channell towards the south is a Fort built by the first Planters in Capt. Mores time called Charies Fort where are two great Peices On the North side of the Channell Capt. Butler bath built a strong Fort to slanker the Kings Castie which he called Southampton Fort where are fiue great Peices seruiceablely mounted by Cap. Butler on carriages of cedar Which Fort doth make a great showe to the sea as though it were a Castle To the Northward of that Fort the first Planters in Capt. Mores time built a Fort which they called Pembrooke Fort where are two great Peices The other Channell that leadeth into the Fast Harbour commonly called the Towne Harbour hath on the one side towards the North a Fort built by the first Planters in Capt. Mores time called Rogers Fort where are 7. great Pieces On the other side towards the South is a Fort called Smiths Fort built by the first Planters in Capt. Mores time where are 5 great Peices Not farre from that Channell towards the north is a Fort called Penistons Fort built by the first planters in Capt. Mores time where is one great Piece A little from that Fort is a Fort built by the first Planters in Capt. Mores time called Sands Fort where are 2. great Pieces On a Hill neare the Harbour is a Fort built by the first Planters in Capt. Mores time called Warwicke Fort where are 3. great Pieces to command the Harbour On a Hill neare the Towne was a high Mount built by the first Planters in Capt. Mores time blowne downe with a terrible gust of winde is now built vp againe higher and stronger by Capt. Butler where is also one great piece mounted by Capt. Butler to gine warning In the Towne vpon the Wharfe are 7. great Pieces mounted by Capt. Butler to command the Harbour which great Pieces he recouered out of certaine Wrackes Captaine Butler hath built in the Towne a faire towne Hall of stone and a faire strong Prison of cedar In the Maine he hath built throe faire long Bridges of cedar like Kingston Bridge In his time the Kings I awes were established in the Ilands and the Assites kept orderly as they are in England Before his time ever since Capt. Mores time the Gouernors will went for lawe and some of the Kings Subiects were hanged contrary to the Kings law and some condemned and censured to perpetuall slauery Captaine Butler did ordaine sort euery Tribe a Iustice of the Peace a Constable Chuâ—…h wardens Side-men and Waywards and did cause Cages Stockes and Cucking-stooles to be made in euery Tribe Notwithstanding the great care that he had to suppresse since it did abound euery day more and more through the want of Gods Word the Ilands being pestered with leud Persons taken vp out of the Sâ—…es out of Newgate and Bridewell In his time I came to England to seed I could perswade some Ministers to goe ouer and to dequaint the Company with the weake estate of the Ilands and grâ—…uances of the people which were ready to mutany When I came into the Barmude Court to present the grieuances of the People and weake estate of the Ilands St. Edwas Sand misinforthed by Capt. Tucker did stand vp in the face of the Court to accuse me of many soule crimes saying vnto me Mr. Lewes you doe vse in your Sermons to speake against the Church of England to raile vpon Bishops and to say that the Booke of Common Praier is but in dide Wises tale and you will not Baptize Children vnlesse their Parents doe first make confession of their Faith To his first accusation I answered that the Church of England was my Mother and that al the knowledge all the faith and hope of saluation that I haue I had it in the Church of England which I take to be the true Church of God and that therefore my tongue shall be cut out of my mouth before it shall speake against the Church of England as some doe To his second concerning tailing vpon Bishops I tolde him that it were too much peeuishnesse for me to meddle with the Bishops there where they could not meddle with me The truth is that preaching vpon the suffering of our Sauiour Christ I shewed how the high Priests were the greatest enemies that our Sausour had and from them I gathered that the grace of God and learning d ee not alway goe together and for proofe of my doctrine I shewed how the Romish Lord Bishops are the greatest supplanters of Christian Religion and shedders of Christian blood and did nominate bloody Bonner Bishop of London and Gardner Bishop of Winchester Not speaking a word of the reuerend Fathers the Bishops of the Church of England as it now stands whom I honour from my heart for the good that I haue and dayly doe receaue out of their godly and learned Works To his third accusation concerning the Booke of Common Praier I answered that I was so farre from speaking as I neuer had and hoped neuer should haue a thought in my heart tending to that way wherevpon Sr. Edwin did produce mine Enemie Capt. Tucker for his Informer Capt. Tucker did produce Capt. Kendall who testified that he had heard me
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Lord and others of his Majesties most Honourable pritile Councell Right Honourable IT is well seene that all such in this Land as seare not Gods Iudgements are loath to be judged by your Honourable it is also very apparent that were it not but for your Honours there would bee no end of oppression and wrong not any liuing in this Land neither for Poore nor Rith and that therefore all the Kings louing and true hearted Subjects both high and lowe haue cause continually to pray for your Honours next to our gracious Xing and his Royall Issue Giue me your poote Suppliant leaue to declare the wrongs vnder which I haue a long time groaned honing spent many yeares in the seruice of the Summer Ilands Company in much misery especially in the two first yeares wherein I was like to perish through want of food when the Gouernor had not so much meale as would hold our one month to giue to euery man one pound for a weeke did our of his care to saue some aliue cull out all such as were hartlesse and lazie and sent them into the maine to line vpon Berries or to statue seeing there was no remedy I then went to the Gouenor and told him that it was too much cruelty to let them starue in body and soule together and therefore did desire that I might goe with them With much importunity he gaue me leaue to stay with them all the time of famine in which time I did pine a way to skinne and bone and became so weake as they were glad to lead mee to some lowe rocke on the side of an hill where they set me downe first and then sat downe themselues in rowes vpon the ground to heare the word of God preached vnto them Their forwardnesse to heare Gods word and the Gouernors loue in sending continually to know how I did did so heare and make glad my heart as I made no reckning of the misery and want that I liued in When this Gouernors time was out he came for England and left the gouernment in the hands of sixe men to gouern monthly In the time of the mis-rule of those sixe Gouernors three of them went out in a little Pinace to seeke for some reliese with a promise from the other three to admit of no Gouernor sent from England vntill sixe month after there arriuall not long after their departure one of the other three named Iohn Mansfield became sole Gouernor and for the strengthening of himselfe against the Gouernor that was expected from England did drawe a large Petition as though the People had drawn it to entreat him to keepe the Gouernment in his owne hand they promising to maintaine him against the Goluernor that was expected from England to which Petition he and one Iohn Parker a Black-Smith drew the people euery where to subscribe Assoon as I heard thereof I followed after from Tribe to Tribe preaching and in my Sermons shewing the vnlawfulnesse and euill that was like to come of the rebellion intended and so drew the people euery where to renounice the said Petition The Vsurper hearing that the people had renounced the Petition and that I was comming to the Towne did raise the whole Towne vp in armes to apprehend me and one Mr. Fosseth that kept me company the said Mr. Fosseth being apprehended they hung him vp on the Wharse by the hands and feere where he hung is grieuous paine no man daring to relieue him but the women who brought stones in their aprons and thrust them vnder his body to heare vp the weight of it After they had so hung him vp Parker the Black-Smith came and with a Crowe of yron brake open my Chamber doore and drag'd me out to his owne house where he kept me prisoner till a tumultuous assembly was called by the name of an Assizes and then brought me to the Barre where I was arraigned and condemned for a contemner of authority The sentence pronounced against me was that I should be depriued of my ministâ—…y and confined to a little stand where I should be kept from comming to the people This sentence did so offend the people as they would by no meanes yeeld to the execution of it but told him that they were starued enough in their bodies and that he had no reason to starue them in their soules by depriuing them of my ministery By which opposition I had rest vntill the arriuall of a new Gouernor one Captaine Tucker Assoone as the Vsurper heard that a shippe was come into the Harbour with a new Gouernor and what the new Gouernor had spoken to me to preach at the reading of his Commission he the said Vsurper caned the towne people together and told them that if they would stand to him like then he would sticke to them so long as he had a droppe of blood in his heart they promising that they would he charged them to be vp in armes the next day betimes and told them he would not haue me to preach but Mr. Keath Mr. Keath was no Minister but a poore Schollet that cunningly had got himselfe sent ouer for a Minister who to further the rebellion intended had buz'd into the peoples eares that it was lawfull to resist the Gouernor that was expected from England and for proose thereof did alleadge the example of the Israelites their putting downe of Rehoboam and setting vp of Ioreboam in his steed And to stirre vp the Vsurper to shed the blood of such as should dare to oppose him he did alleadge the example of Athaliah who to vsurpe the Gouernment did murther all the Kingâ—…de Also be the Vsurper cold the people that presently after the Sermon he would make a short speech to the Gouernor and that he would haue them assoone as he had left speaking to crye a Mansfield a Mansfield and then shew themselues men The next meaning as I was studying for my Sermon and looking out at a windowe I saw the people vp in armes and heard one of them swears that he would sheath his sword in the new Gouernors guts Whereupon I made haft out of my Chamber and finding she Ship-boate ready to goe off did enter in to goe to the new Gouernor to acquaint him with what was intended the new Gouernor being then on ship-boord I was no sooner in the Boace but certaine Muscateres were sent in hast by the Vsurper to shoote at me vnlesse I would come out Whereupon the Marriners fearing they would shoote and kill some of them instead of me did set me on shore againe The Vsurper seeing me about to land came with a rusty browne Bill on his backe as though hee meant to knocke me in the head telling the people that they had all of them cause to curse the time that euer they saw my face which did put me in some seare that either he or they would doe mee some mischiefe therefore I made hast away and lockt my selfe