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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12458	Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where. Or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation With the yearely proceedings of this country in fishing and planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate. Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences, by their proceedings in Virginia, and other plantations, by approved examples. With the countries armes, a description of the coast, harbours, habitations, land-markes, latitude and longitude: with the map, allowed by our royall King Charles. By Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 22787; ESTC S121885	31,468	55

are gone within this eighteene moneths for Cape Anne and the Bay of the Massachusets those which are their chiefe Vndertakers are Gentlemen of good estate some of 500 some a thousand pound land a yeere all which they say they will sell for the advancing this harmlesse and pious worke men of good credit and well-beloved in their Country not such as flye for debt or any scandall at home and are good Catholike Protestants according to the reformed Church of England if not it is well they are gone the rest of them men of good meanes or Arts Occupations and Qualities much more fit for such a businesse and better furnished of all necessaries if they arrive well than was ever any Plantation went out of England I will not say but some of them may be more precise than needs nor that they all be so good as they should be for Christ had but twelue Apostles and one was a traitor and if there be no dissemblers among them it is more than a wonder therefore doe not condemne all for some but however they have as good authority from his Majesty as they could desire if they doe ill the losse is but their owne if well a great glory and exceeding good to this Kingdome to make good at last what all our former conclusions have disgraced Now they take not that course the Virginia company did for the Planters there their purses and lives were subject to some few here in London who were never there that consumed all in Arguments Projects and their owne conceits every yeere trying new conclusions altering every thing yearely as they altered opinions till they had consumed more than two hundred thousand pounds and neere eight thousand mens lives It is true in the yeere of our Lord 1622. they were about seven or eight thousand English indifferently well furnished with most necessaries and many of them grew to that height of bravery living in that plenty and excesse that went thither not worth any thing made the Company here thinke all the world was Oatmeale there and all this proceeded by surviving those that died nor were they ignorant to use as curious tricks there as here and out of the juice of Tabacco which at first they sold at such good rates they regarded nothing but Tabacco a commodity then so vendable it provided them all things and the loving Salvages their kinde friends they trained so well up to shoot in a Peece to hunt and kill them fowle they became more expert than our owne Country-men whose labours were more profitable to their Masters in planting Tabacco and other businesse This superfluity caused my poore beginnings scorned or to be spoken of but with much derision that never sent Ship from thence fraught but onely some small quantities of Wainscot Clap-board Pitch Tar Rosin Sope-ashes Glasse Cedar Cypresse Blacke Walnut Knees for Ships Ash for Pikes Iron Ore none better some Silver Ore but so poore it was not regarded better there may be for I was no Mineralist some Sturgion but it was too tart of the Vinegar which was of my owne store for little came from them which was good and Wine of the Countries wilde Grapes but it was too sowre yet better than they sent us any in two or three yeeres but one Hogshead of Claret Onely speading my time to revenge my imprisonment upon the harmlesse innocent Salvages who by my cruelty I forced to feed me with their contribution and to send any offended my idle humour to Iames towne to punish at mine owne discretion or keepe their Kings and subjects in chaines and make them worke Things cleane contrary to my Commission whilest I and my company tooke our needlesse pleasures in discovering the Countries about us building of Forts and such unnecessary fooleries where an Egge-shell as they writ had beene sufficient against such enemies neglecting to answer the Merchants expectations with profit feeding the Company onely with Letters and tastes of such commodities as we writ the Country would afford in time by industry as Silke Wines Oyles of Olives Rape and Linsed Rasons Prunes Flax Hempe and Iron as for Tabacco wee never then dreamt of it Now because I sent not their ships full fraught home with those commodities they kindly writ to me if we failed the next returne they would leave us there as banished men as if houses and all those commodities did grow naturally only for us to take at our pleasure with such tedious Letters directions and instructions and most contrary to that was fitting we did admire how it was possible such wise men could so torment themselves and us with such strange absurdities and impossibilities making Religion their colour when all their aime was nothing but present profit as most plainly appeared by sending us so many Refiners Gold-smiths Iewellers Lapidarics Stone-cutters Tabacco-pipe-makers Imbroderers Perfumers Silkemen with all their appurtenances but materialls and all those had great summes out of the common stocke and so many spies and super-intendents over us as if they supposed we would turne Rebels all striving to suppresse and advance they knew not what at last got a Commission in their owne names promising the King custome within seven yeares where we were free for one and twenty appointing the Lord De-la-ware for Governour with as many great and stately officers and offices under him as doth belong to a great Kingdome with good summes for their extraordinary expences also privileges for Cities Charters for Corporations Universities Free-schooles and Glebe-land putting all those in practice before there were either people students or schollers to build or use them or provision and victuall to feed them were then there and to amend this most of the Tradesmen in London that would adventure but twelue pounds ten shillings had the furnishing the Company of all such things as belonged to his trade such jugling there was betwixt them and such intruding Committies their associats that all the trash they could get in London was sent us to Uirginia they being well payed for that was good Much they blamed us for not converting the Salvages when those they sent us were little better if nor worse nor did they all convert any of those we sent them to England for that purpose So doating of Mines of gold and the South Sea that all the world could not have devised better courses to bring us to ruine than they did themselves with many more such like strange concoits by this you may avoid the like inconveniences and take heed by those examples you have not too many irons in the fire at once neither such change of Governours nor such a multitude of Officers neither more Masters Gentlemen Gentlewomen and children than you have men to worke which idle charge you will finde very troublesome and the effects dangerous and one hundred good labourers better than a thousand such Gallants as were sent me that could doe nothing but complaine curse and despaire when