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A14803	A declaration of the state of the colony and affaires in Virginia With a relation of the barbarous massacre in the time of peace and league, treacherously executed by the natiue infidels vpon the English, the 22 of March last. Together with the names of those that were then massacred; that their lawfull heyres, by this notice giuen, may take order for the inheriting of their lands and estates in Virginia. And a treatise annexed, written by that learned mathematician Mr. Henry Briggs, of the Northwest passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia, and by Fretum Hudson. Also a commemoration of such worthy benefactors as haue contributed their Christian charitie towards the aduancement of the colony. And a note of the charges of necessary prouisions fit for euery man that intends to goe to Virginia. Published by authoritie.	Waterhouse, Edward, colonist.; Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630.; Virginia Company of London. Inconveniencies that have happened to some persons which have transported themselves from England to Virginia, without provisions necessary to sustaine themselves, hath greatly hindred the progresse of that noble plantation.	1622 (1622)	STC 25104; ESTC S111598	27,991	65

that in time we by our growing continually vpon them would dispossesse them of this Country as they had beene formerly of the West Indies by the Spaniard produced this bloody act That neuer griefe and shame possessed any people more then themselues to be thus butchered by so naked and cowardly a people who dare not stand the presentment of a staffe in manner of a Peece nor an vncharged Peece in the hands of a woman from which they flye as so many Hares much faster then from their tormenting Deuill whom they worship for feare though they acknowledge they loue him not THus haue you seene the particulars of this massacre out of Letters from thence written wherein treachery and cruelty haue done their worst to vs or rather to themselues for whose vnderstanding is so shallow as not to perceiue that this must needs bee for the good of the Plantation after and the losse of this blood to make the body more healthfull as by these reasons may be manifest First Because betraying of innocency neuer rests vnpunished And therefore Agesilaus when his enemies vpon whose oath of being faithfull hee rested had deceiued him he sent them thankes for that by their periury they had made God his friend and their enemy Secondly Because our hands which before were tied with gentlenesse and faire vsage are now set at liberty by the treacherous violence of the Sauages not vntying the Knot but cutting it So that we who hitherto haue had possession of no more ground then their waste and our purchase at a valuable consideration to their owne contentment gained may now by right of Warre and law of Nations inuade the Country and destroy them who sought to destroy vs whereby wee shall enioy their cultiuated places turning the laborious Mattocke into the victorious Sword wherein there is more both ease benefit and glory and possessing the fruits of others labours Now their cleared grounds in all their villages which are situate in the fruitfullest places of the land shall be inhabited by vs whereas heretofore the grubbing of woods was the greatest labour Thirdly Because those commodities which the Indians enioyed as much or rather more then we shall now also be entirely possessed by vs. The Deere and other beasts will be in safety and infinitly increase which heretofore not onely in the generall huntings of the King whereat foure or fiue hundred Deere were vsually slaine but by each particular Indian were destroied at all times of the yeare without any difference of Male Damme or Young The like may be said of our owne Swine and Goats whereof they haue vsed to kill eight in tenne more then the English haue done There will be also a great increase of wild Turkies and other waighty Fowle for the Indians neuer put difference of destroying the Hen but kill them whether in season or not whether in breeding time or sitting on their egges or hauing new hatched it is all one to them whereby as also by the orderly vsing of their fishing Weares no knowne Country in the world will so plentifully abound in victuall Fourthly Because the way of conquering them is much more easie then of ciuilizing them by faire meanes for they are a rude barbarous and naked people scattered in small companies which are helps to Victorie but hinderances to Ciuilitie Besides that a conquest may be of many and at once but ciuility is in particular and slow the effect of long time and great industry Moreouer victorie of them may bee gained many waies by force by surprize by famine in burning their Corne by destroying and burning their Boats Canoes and Houses by breaking their fishing Weares by assailing them in their huntings whereby they get the greatest part of their sustenance in Winter by pursuing and chasing them with our horses and blood-Hounds to draw after them and Mastiues to teare them which take this naked tanned deformed Sauages for no other then wild beasts and are so fierce and fell vpon them that they feare them worse then their old Deuill which they worship supposing them to be a new and worse kinde of Deuils then their owne By these and sundry other wayes as by driuing them when they flye vpon their enemies who are round about them and by animating and abetting their enemies against them may their ruine or subiection be soone effected So the Spaniard made great vse for his owne turne of the quarrels and enmities that were amongst the Indians as throughly vnderstanding and following that Maxime of the Politician Diuide impera Make diuisions and take Kingdomes For thus he got two of the greatest Kingdomes of the West Indies Peru and Mexico by the Princes diuisions and the peoples differences After the death of Guainacapa king of Peru his sonnes Attabalippa and Gascar falling to war about the kingdom each of thē striuing to make the Spaniard to his friend Francis Pizzarro managing those their diuisions onely to his owne ends easily stripped them both of that rich Kingdome and became Master of Peru. And so likwise Ferdinando Cortez vanquished King Motezuma and gained the Kingdome of Mexico from him by the aid and furtherance of the neighboring people of the Prouince of Tascala being deadly enemies to the Mexicans for which seruice they of Tascala are freed by the Spaniards from all Tributes to this time In VIRGINIA the many diuers Princes and people there are at this day opposite in infinite factions one vnto another and many of them beare a mortall hatred to these our barbarous Sauages that haue beene likely as false and perfidious heretofore to them as vnto vs of late So as the quarrels and the causes of them and the different humours of these people being well vnderstood it will be an easie matter to ouerthrow those that now are or may bee our enemies hereafter by ayding and setting on their enemies against them And by these factions and differences of petty Princes the Romans tooke their greatest aduantage to ouercome this Iland of Great Britayne of which Tacitus fayes Ita dum singuli pugnant vniuersi vincuntur And Iustin hath the like saying of the cause of vanquishing the Grecian Cities Fiftly Because the Indians who before were vsed as friends may now most iustly be compelled to seruitude and drudgery and supply the roome of men that labour whereby euen the meanest of the Plantation may imploy themselues more entirely in their Arts and Occupations which are more generous whilest Sauages performe their inferiour workes of digging in mynes and the like of whom also some may be sent for the seruice of the Sommer Ilands Sixtly This will for euer hereafter make vs more cautelous and circumspect as neuer to bee deceiued more by any other treacheries but will serue for a great instruction to all posteritie there to teach them that Trust is the mother of Deceipt and to learne them that of the Italian Chi non fida non s'inga muu Hee that trusts not is not deceiued and