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A01932	Encouragements. For such as shall have intention to bee vnder-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway in America, by mee Lochinvar·	Gordon, Robert, Sir, d. 1627?	1625 (1625)	STC 12069; ESTC S105760	13,699	31

ENCOVRAGEMENTS For such as shall have intention to bee Vnder-takers in the new plantation of CAPE BRITON now New Galloway in AMERICA BY MEE LOCHINVAR Non nobis nati 〈◊〉 aliquid parentes aliquid Patria aliquid cognati postulant DREAD GOD 1625 EDINBVRGH Printed by Iohn Wreittoun Anno Dom. 1625. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER of Menstrie Knight Master of Requestes for Scotland and Lievetenant Generall to his Majestie in the Kingdome of NEW SCOTLAND AND TO THE REMNANT THE NOBLEMEN AND KNIGHTS BAROnets in Scotland Vnder-takers in the plantations of New Scotland in AMERICA TO THE ADVENTVRERS FAVOVrers and well-willers of the enterprise for the inhabiting and planting in Cape Briton now New Galloway in America GEntle Reader It hath beene the policie vniversall from the creation of the World vnto this time of all civile States the replenishing of the World with Colonies of their owne subjects Adam and Eva did first beginne this pleasant worke to plant the Earth to succeeding posteritie Noah and his familie began againe the second plantation And the confusion of tongues at Babel made division of States scattering as manie Colonies over the face of the Earth after the Flood as there was diversitie of Languages and their seede as it still increased hath still planted new Countries one after another and so the Worlde to that estate whereinto it is That the planting of Countries and civilizing barbar●●s and inhumane Nations hath ever beene the worke of the greatest Princes of the Earth their ever-living actions hath testified wherewith are filled both the records of divine Trueth and the monuments of humane state and whose heroicke actions wee must not thinke hath beene vndertaken vpon triviall motives when as by that they did aswell inlarge the limites of their Dominions and enriche the revenues of their estates as bridle sedition at home and settle securitie against their enemies abroad These preceeding praise-worthie Fathers and their memorable of spring were diligent to plant that yet vnplanted to their after-livers wherein shined those worthie Founders of the great Monarchies and their virtues the Hebrues the Lacedomonians Gothes Graecians Romanes and the rest from time to time in their severall ages But to leaue these remote times let vs take a view within these 60. yeeres of the discoveries and plantations in America by the English the French the Spainard the Portugale by whose industrious paines are made knowne vnto vs alreadie their so hudge tracts kingdomes and territories peopled and vnpeopled as vpon the hither side for the space of ●000 leagues at the least and for 3000. more on the backe side in the South Sea Manie discourses of the discoueries which hath beene there effected within these few yeeres are made of worthie Personages such as Columbus Cortez Pitzora Soto Magellanes and manie others who to the wonder of all ages hath successivelie seconded one another in those partes Whole Decads are filled with discoveries there and volumes with their actions of plantation There wee see the renowned Drake and memorable Candisch twise about the round circumference of the whole Earth Virginia to perpetrat the memorie of her honourable Knight S r Walter Ralegh Amadas Arthur Whyte Grenuile and Lane her first discoverers and worthie Governours in her plantations S r Iohn Haukins in his Guinea Iohn de Verrazano a Florentine Iohn Rinault Rene Landoniere Dominique Gourgues in their Florida The noble Cortez and the other Spainards and Portugalls in their golden Mynes of the 15. Provinces of new Mexico Nueua Gallicia Nueua Hispanna Nueua Biscaia Cibola Quivira and to the Gulfe of California on the back side of America The famous Cabot Frobisher Davis whose memories shall never die in the North-west parts and many innumerable 〈◊〉 Worthies whom all after-ages shall eternize for their vertues whose actions I leave to bee searched as they are registred in the monuments of their praise-worthie proceedings The shining brightnesse of these Gentle Reader and such others hath so beamed a path way to all posteritie for imitation as that the basest minde that is may bee induced to follow their footsteppes And for my selfe hauing from the source of that ever and over-flowing fountaine that was still a running to all from our late Soveraigne of never-dying memorie King IAMES obtained a Patent of Cape Briton which now by his Royall direction is intituled New Galloway in America I haue resolved to follow the troden way of these others whose happie successe are so plainlie seene in such honorable designes And since I doe propone to my selfe the same ends which are first for the glorie of my great and mightie GOD next the service of his 〈◊〉 my dread Soveraigne and my native Countrie and last the particular weale and vtilitie of my selfe and such as shall bee generouslie disposed adventurers with mee Why shall it bee lawfull for others and not for mee and not as possible and as commodious for mee as vnto others of my qualitie The chiefe then and the farthest poynt that my intention shall seeke to arrive at shall bee to remove that vnbeliefe which is so grounded in the mindes of men to discredite most noble and profitable endevoures with distrust and first to shake off their colourable pretences of ignorance and then if they will not be perswaded to make their selfe-willes inexcusable I shall make manifest the worthinesse of the cause to the mindes of such as are desirous to bee settled in a certaintie As for my selfe I doe giue trust to the relations of such whose wisdomes I know are not so shallow as easilie bee deceiued of others nor consciences so wretched as by pretences to deceive others and having the personall tryall of so honourable and sufficient reporters our owne Countrie-men this naked contemplation and idle knowledge can not content mee but knowing that the chiefe commendation of vertue consisteth in action I haue resolved a practise and to trace the footsteppes of those heroicke fore-runners whose honourable actions shall ever live vpon Earth whiles their Soules live in glorie in the Heavens and shall increase heere and multiplie as their bodies in the grave shall putrifie The inducements which hath incouraged mee to this enterprise and to spend my time and best abilities in these adventures I shall heere sette brieflie downe without any inlargment of made wordes but in single speach as best beseeming a simple meaning Intreating thee Courteous Reader that thou would with an affectioned mind consider these my subsequent motives wherewith I haue beene induced my selfe ponder aright my endes and then but weigh my willing and free Offers which I doe make for the weale and furtherance of so worthie a Worke. Wee are not borne to our selves but to help each others and our abilities and meanes are not much vnlike at the first houre of our birth and the last minute of our death and it is our deades good or bad that all of vs haue to carrie vs to Heaven or Hell after this life While wee are

therefore heere let vs imitate the vertues and glories of our Predecessours that heereafter worthilie wee may bee remembred as their Successours FARE-WELL THE MOTIVES which hath induced mee and may happilie encourage such as haue intention to bee Vnder-takers with Mee in the plantation of New GALLOWAY in AMERICA MOTIVE I. motive 1 AS the chiefe and primarie end of mans creation is the Worshippe of GOD so shall the first and speciall motive of my proceeding be the advancement of his Glorie and that by the propagation of the Gospell of IESVS CHRIST amongst an Heathen people where Christianitie hath not beene knowne nor the worshippe of the true GOD. Where can bee selected a more excellent subject than to cast downe the Altars of Devills and to raise vp the Altar of CHRIST to forbidde the Sacrifice of men that they may offer vp the Sacrifices of contrite Spirites Is it not a determined Trueth that the Gospell of Iesus Christ should bee preached to all the Worlde Heaven and Earth shall passe away but GODS Worde shall not passe away And is it not as certaine a Conclusion amongst all the Divines that these are the latter Dayes wherein we live well knowne by the signes that were to come before sette downe by God himselfe in his sacred Worde and for the most part alreadie manifested And hath not Gods all-seeing Providence begunne as first by discoverie and next by plantation of so hudge and so waste a tract more commonlie than properlie called the New Worlde vnknowne but within this 60. yeeres except by a glimpse to make appeare the progresse of his divine Providence how hee will haue the seede of his worke to bee sowne amongst them Then doth it not belonge vnto vs to prosecute his worke and as by merchandizing and trade wee buy at them the pearles of the Earth wee ought to communicate vnto them the pearles of Heaven The time hath never beene so apparent as now vnder our most gratious and Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES whose generous and gratious goodwill by encouragement to the same hath manifested the same since hee receaved the Crowne to bee the selected instrument to atchieue it Then should not that Heroicke and illustrious disposition in Him whom wee see so prompt to bee still in action both incite and invite to so noble designes all such as would shunne the imputation of idlenesse to imitate His foot-steppes Is it vnlawfull for vs to come to them No it is the duetie of Christianitie in vs to behold the imprinted footsteppes of GODS glorie in everie Region vnder Heaven and to them against the Law of Nations to violate a peaceable Stranger or to deny vs harbour Is it vnlawfull for vs to trade with them No vnlesse Salomon should bee condemned of sending for Golde to Ophir Abraham for making a league with Abimelech and all Christendome for having commerce with Turkes and miscreants Nor neither is it vnlawfull that wee possesse part of their Lands and dwell with them and defend our selves from them because there is no other moderate and mixt course to bring them to conversion but by daylie conversation where wee may see the Life and learne the Languages each of others and because there is towne sufficient in the Land as Sichem said for them and vs the extent of an 100. myles beeing scarce peopled with 500 inhabitants and chieflie because as Pharaoh gaue Goshen to Israel ere Ephron sold his caue to Abraham they have solde to our people their Lands for copper which they more esteme of than money to inherite and inhabite as Paspehay and Powhatan two our there greatest Kinges to these our Colonies in Virginia and chieflie as it is written by Captaine Iohn Smith a worthie actour in the businesse when Captaine Newport was desired by Powhatan at Worowacomaco to come from Iames towne in Virginia where hee was as a place vnwholesome and to take possession of another whole Kingdome which hee gave vnto him If any scrupulous conscience will impute that yet wee can possesse no further limites than was alloted by composition and that fortitude without justice is but the firebrand of iniquitie Let him know that Plato defineth it to bee no injustice to take a sword out of the hand of a madde man And Saint Augustine hath allowed for a lawfull offensiue warre that revengeth injuries and wherein the whole Divines in Europe although contraverting farre in other things yet in this they all agree that it is lawfull That the Church of Rome allowe it The Spaniard and Portugalles large and ample territories and kingdomes in the 15. Provinces of Mexico Nueua Hispanna Nueua Gallicia c. beare witnesse And for the Church of England their Bermudes Virginian and New England conquesse and colonies affirme it And the Church of Geneva in the yeere 1555. determined in a Synode where Calvin was president to sende Peter Rochier and William Quadrigarius vnder a French Captaine to Brasilia althogh they were supplanted by the Cardinall of Loraine and the treacherie of their false Captaine When therefore it is so sweete a smelling Sacrifice to propagate the name of Iesus Christ if wee haue any graine of faith or zeale in Religion let vs seeke to convert these poore Savages to knowe Christ and humanitie Let Religion bee the first aime of our hopes and other thinges shall bee cast vnto vs. Our Names shall bee registred to posteritie with a glorious Title These are the men whom GOD hath raised to augment the state of their Countrie and to propagate the Gospell of Iesus Christ The same GOD that hath ordained three Kingdomes vnder the Scepter of our gratious King CHARLES will not bee wanting to adde a fourth if wee would dissolve that frostie ycienesse which chilleth our zeale and maketh vs cold in the action MOTIVE II. motive 2 AND next to the Worshippe of my GOD is the service of my Prince and native Countrie which is the second end that I haue propounded vnto my selfe by inlarging these Dominions whereof I am a Subject a duetie moste proper to all the true and loyall Lieges whensoever by so lawfull and easie meanes it may bee atchieved What is so truelie sutable with honour and honestie as to gaine to our native Mother-Countrie a Kingdome to attend her Wherein can the taste of true vertue and magnanimitie bee more sweete and pleasant than in planting and building a foundation for thy posteritie gotte from the rude earth by Gods blessing and thine owne industrie without prejudice to any What more conducing to that mysticall bodie politicke whereof thou art a member than for to finde imployment for those that are idle because they knowe not what to doe Posteritie shall remember thee for it and remembring ever honour that remembrance with praise Consider what was the beginninges and endinges of the Monarchies of the Chaldeans the Persians the Graecians and the Romans but this one rule what was it they would not doe for the Common-wealth or there mother Citie for