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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14514	A true and sincere declaration of the purpose and ends of the plantation begun in Virginia of the degrees which it hath receiued; and meanes by which it hath beene aduanced: and the resolution and conclusion of his Maiesties councel of that colony, for the constant and patient prosecution thereof, vntill by the mercies of God it shall retribute a fruitful haruest to the kingdome of heauen, and this common-wealth. Sett forth by the authority of the gouernors and councellors established for that plantation.	Counseil for Virginia (England and Wales)	1610 (1610)	STC 24832; ESTC S106908	10,768	30

pleasure fertility and scituation of the land to our proiected ends wee freshly and cheerefully sent in the next yeare a like number and yet also receiuing nothing new wee had courage and constancie to releeue them the third time with one hundred more at which returne experience of error in the equality of Gouernors and some out-rages and follies committed by them had a little shaken so tender a body after Consultation and aduise of all the inconueniences in these three supplies and finding them to arise out of two rootes the forme of Gouernment and length and danger of the passage by the Southerly course of the Indyes To encounter the first wee did resolue and obteine to renew our Letters Pattents and to procure to our selues such ample and large priuiledges and powers by which wee were at liberty to reforme and correct those already discouered and to preuent such as in the future might thteaten vs and so to sett and furnish out vnder the Conduct of one able and absolute Gouernor a large supply of fiue hundred men with some number of families of Wife Children and Seruants to take fast holde and roote in that land and this resolution was with much alacritie and confidence And to meete the second Inconuenience wee did also prepare to sett out one small shipp for discouery of a shorter way and to make tryall of the Fishing within our Bay and Riuer Hetherto vntill the sending of this Auisall for experience and Fleete for setling the Gouernment appeares no distaste nor despaire for euery supply in some respect was greater then other and that in preparation greater then them all in euery respect and must in reason hold Anologie and proportion with our expectations and hopes at the dis-inboging of it So that what-so-euer wound or Palsie this Noble action hath gotten the sicknesse vnder which it seemes to faint must needs arise out of the successe of these two which wee will now examine apart with all equitye and cleerenesse and waigh whither there bee any such reason to desist from the prosecution thereof in rectified iudgement or to fall so lowe in our resolutions and opinions of it as rumor and ignorance doth pretend wee doe or haue cause to doe For the Discouerie Captaine Argoll receiued our Commission vnder our Seale with instruction to auoide all danger of quarrell with the Subiects of the King of Spaine not to touch vpon any of his Dominions actually possessed or rightly entituled vnto and to shape his course free from the roade of Pyrotts that hang vpon all streights and skirts of lands and to attempt a direct and cleare passage by leauing the Canaries to the East and from thence to runne in a streight Westerne Course or some point neere there-vnto And so to make an experience of the Windes and Currents which haue affrighted all vnder-takers by the North. By which discouery there would growe to vs much securitie and ease and all occasion of offence remooued and wee should husband and saue a moyetie of the charge in victuall and freight which was expended and lost in the South erne passage To these endes hee sett sayle from Portsmouth the fift day of May and shaping his course South-south-west to the height of thirty degrees leauing the Canaries a hundred leagues to the East hee found the windes large and so tooke his course direct West did neuer turne nearer the South beeing in the longitude of the Barmudos hee found the winde a little scant vppon him yet so that on the thirteenth of Iuly he recouered our harbor and in tryall found no currant nor any thing else which should deter vs from this way Hee made his iourney in nine weekes and of that was becalmed fourteene dayes whervpon hee hath diuers times since his returne publikely auowed and vndertaken to make this passage within seauen weekes and that the windes in all this course are as variable as at other places and no apparant inconuenience in the way So that the maine end of this aduise hath succeeded almost beyond our hopes The second for fishing proued so plentifull especially of Sturgion of which sort hee could haue loaded many ships if he had had some man of skill to pickell and prepare it for keeping whereof he brought sufficient testimony both of the flesh and Caueary that no discreet man will question the truth of it so it appeares cleerely that from hence there can bee deriued no cause to susspect or desist from our first endes but so contrary that in this proiect both our purposes and waies were happy and successefull euen to our desires But from this Ship ariseth a rumor of the necessity and distresse our people were found in for want of victuall of which though the noise haue exceeded the truth yet we doe confesse a great part of it But can lay aside the cause and fault from the dessigne truely and home vpon the misgouernment of the Commāders by dissention and ambition among themselues and vpon the Idlenesse and bestiall slouth of the common sort who were actiue in nothing but adhearing to factions and parts euen to their owne ruine like men almost desperate of all supply so conscious and guilty they were to them-selues of their owne demerit and lasinesse But so soone as Captaine Argoll arriued among them whose presence and example gaue new assurance of our cares and new life to their indeauours by fishing onely in few daies they were all recouered growne hearty able and ready to vndertake euery action So that if it bee considered that without industry no land is sufficient to the Inhabitants and that the trade to which they trusted betrayed them to loose the opportunity of seed-time and so to rust and weare out them-selues for the Naturals withdrew from all commerce and trafficke with them cunningly making a war vpon them which they felt not who durst no other-way appeare an enemye And they beeing at diuision among themselues and without warrant from hence could not resolue to inforce that which might haue preserued them and which in such a necessity is most lawfull to doe euery thing returning from ciuill Propryety to Naturall and Primary Community Lastly if it bee remembred that this Extremitie in which they were now relieued which is as happy in the presage of Gods future blessing as in his present prouidence and mercy was but an effect of that we did fore-see in the first Gouernment and for which the forme was chaunged and the new in proiect and therfore cannot bee obiected as any iust exception to the successe of this but a consequent Considered and digested in the former It is then I say euident that in al the progresse of this discouery or any thing accidentall to it there cannot bee rack'd nor pressed out any confession either of error in the ends or miscarriadges in the waies vnto them To the establishment of a gouernment such as should meete with all the reuealed inconueniences wee gaue our