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A31221	A short discoverie of the coasts and continent of America, from the equinoctiall northward, and the adjacent isles by William Castell ... ; whereunto is prefixed the authors petition to this present Parliament for the propagation of the Gospell in America, attested by many eminent English and Scottish divines ... ; together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers speech in Parliament, 21 Jan. concerning America.	Castell, William, d. 1645.; Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1231; ESTC R20571	76,547	112

and sometimes dye miserably for lacke of sustenance It is here to be noted that all this South part of the Continent knowne by the name of New France From Cape Britton to Cape Crux was in the yeare 1621. granted by King Iames to Sir William Alexander a Scotch-man who sent forth one since to discover it and gave it a new name of New Scotland but we heare of nothing of worth performed by him or those who were employed by him New England THe next part of the Continent adjoyning to New France formerly accounted a parcell thereof is New England lying between the degrees of 41 and 45. The most No●th-east part of it as yet least discovered by our English beginneth at the River Penobscot which the French call Pentegovet near to the River Haute The next are the Rivers Kinibequi over against Ile Bacchus 13 leagues then Willims Bay 15 more and Tragabigsana alias Cape Anna five more But the most safe and most convenient commings in as lying nearest to the English Plantations are Hender Bay Accomack and Milford Haven near Cape Cod all within 34 leagues of Cape Anna opposite to the Bristow Plantation The Natives bordering neare these Ports have divers names and have many little Villages whereof Sagadehoc Mascosqueck Penobscot and the Mattahunts inhabiting two plesant Islands are chiefe The greatest part of the Countrey as our Country-man Captaine Iohn Smith reporteth aboundeth with variety and store of wholsome cattell fowles fish fruits rich Furres and timber for service whereunto having added the excellent fertillity of the soyle for all manner of culture and the sweet and wholsome temperatue of the climate He doubteth not to compare New England with the most approved Countries of Europe And I find his commendation seconded if not exceeded by the Company of Adventurers for the Plantation there For the goodnesse of the soyle they compare it to Devonshire For the temperature of the ayre to France but yet upon farther enquiry from divers of our English who have been there and have taken a more exact view lately of this Countrey I am certainly informed that in regard of fertility it commeth far short of old England And now will I very briefly impart unto you as far as is requisite what hath beene performed by our Nation in those parts In the yeare 1606. King Iames did under the Great Seale Licence a Plantation there which was undertaken by some Noble men and some M●rchants conditionally that neither should plant within an hundred miles the one of the other The first Colony consisting of an hundred husbandmen sent at the charge for the most of the Lord Chiefe Justice Popham under the government of George Popham in the yeare 1609. entered the great River Saga de Hoc and by the bankes of the said River setled themselves where they continued for the space of one yeare and then returned into England for that they were not able to provide for themselves by reason of the death of both the Pophams by whose care and charge they were chiefly governed and sustained But their unexpected returne was so displeasing to many other Adventurers here as that for a good while after they cast off all care of any further Plantation there Hereupon the French fell upon those parts but they were easily and suddenly beaten out by Captaine Argall After this with far greater preparation was Captaine Hobson sent forth out of England with two of those Natives who were intended for Interpreters as having gotten some little knowledge of our English tongue in the time of more than two yeares abode here But the voyage was frustrated by reason that the Natives then were very much incensed with our English men because one Hunt an English-man had not long before most perfidiously allured twenty of them into his Shippe under pretence of Commerce and so perfidiously carried them away and sold them for slaves unto the Spaniard A third and fourth voyage was performed in the yeare 1614 and 1615 by Captain Iohn Smith but those neither with any good successe for in the former he neither discovered any golden or silver Mines nor yet found any such usefull Whales as he expected And in the other voyage he was taken by the French Pirates and by them for a while detained A fifth voyage accompanied with a Colony of 19. families set forth from Plimmouth in the beginning of September in the yeare 1620. and on the nineteenth of November following they entered a nooke of the Sea ten miles from Cape Cod and there they stayed untill the sixteenth of December But not liking the place they removed to another more fertill and more commodious over against Milford Haven where having built them a Towne called Plimmoth they have continued for more than twenty yeares And since within these twelve yeares last past many hundreths of families have resorted either to new Plimmouth or they have made other plantations as those of Bristall neare Cape Anna and Connock neare Hinders Bay where they have continued a good while every yeare better and better accommodated with necessary provision for life and not without some indifferent intercourse and correspondency with the Natives upon whom they have thus far wrought toward the bringing them to God as that they usually acknowledge the God of the English to be good but their god which they call Tanto to be nought And yet for feare of the Devill by whom they are expresly prohibited they dare not frequent our Plantatione nor confer with our men about Christian Religion so often as they would Neither indeed is it likely our men should be able to doe any good upon those in respect of a happy conversion to Christ so extreamely seduced and hardened infidels unlesse they were better able to give them Law and by a holy violence compell them as it were to come in which may be done without any colour of injustice or cru●lty as tending both to their temporall and eternall felicity especially unlesse they had a greater power and meanes to take away their young children whereby they might become ours and so be brought to the knowledge of Christianity which they might successefully impart unto their miserable seduced parents at least they would be sure to sticks fast to th●t most blessed and saving doctrine they learned in their youth And this rule ought generally to be observed in all other our Plantations in America either made or to be made I might adde many other generall and particular observations concerning New England but it would not agree with my former proposall which was not to write all of any place but somewhat of every place Wherefore leaving those who are desirous of farther information to many English Authors who have more fully writ of that Countrey I proceed to the Dutch Plantation New Netherland AS the bounds of New England West-ward and by the South endeth with the Promontory Malebare So the Dutch Plantation beginneth there and extendeth it selfe more Westward and

out-right They lodged them like bruit beasts under the planks of their ships till their flesh rotted from their backs And if any failed in the full performance of his daily task he was sure to be whipped till his body distilled with goar blood and then poured they in either molten pitch or scalding oyle to supple him A very strange and unlikely way to work Infidels unto the faith neither yet could they if they would impart unto others the Gospell in the truth and purity thereof who have it not themselves but very corruptly accompanied with many idle absurd idolatrous Inventions of their owne which are but as so many superstructures wickedly oppressing if not utterly subverting the very foundations of Christianity And although some of the reformed religion English Scotch French and Dutch have already taken up their habitations in those parts yet hath their going thither as yet beene to small purpose for the converting of those nations either for that they have placed themselves but in the skirts of America where there are but few natives as those of New England or else for want of able and conscionable Ministers as in Virginia they themselves are become exceeding rude more likely to turn Hethen then to turn others to the Christian faith Besides there is little or no hope our plantations there should be of any long continuance since here in England for some years last past they have been rather diversly hindered then any wayes furthered how and by whom your wisdomes either have or will shortly find out but this is evident that the proud superstitious Spaniard who hateth their religion and feareth their neighborhood will spare them no longer then to his over-swelling greatnesse shall seeme good And in the judgement of most judicious Travellers that way they may if they will easily enough suppresse and destroy all other our Plantations as they did of late that of Saint Christophers when they were no way provoked by us as they will now pretend they are by a latter taking of Trinidado and the losse of more then 150 of their men there At least they will be sure to be desperately assaulted as was the Isle of Providence but the year last past Whence your Petitioner offereth unto your Honourable considerations a third Argument drawn from meer necessity that as you tender the happy proceeding of those as yet but weakly setled Plantations the liberties livelyhood and lives of many thousands our deare brethren and countrey men and which is yet more the prosperous progresse of the Gospell you would be pleased to consult of such an able and speedy supply as may secure them against the now expected cruelty of the Spaniard To which needfull supply the better and sooner to induce your wisdomes your Petitioner desireth your yet a little further patience untill he hath shewed some temporall benefits that are thereby like to accrew unto this kingdome together with the easinesse of effecting When a kingdome beginneth to be overburthened with a multitude of people as England Scotland now do to have a convenient place where to send forth Colonies is no small benefit And such are the North-East and North-West parts of America between the degrees of 25 and 45 of the North latitude which at this time do even offer themselves unto us to be protected by us against the known cruelty of the over near approaching Spaniard A very large tract of ground containing spacious healthfull pleasant and fruitfull countries not only apt but already provided of all things necessary for mans sustentation Corne Grasse and wholesome Cattell in good competency but fish fowle fruits and herbs in abuddant variety If we should look no further then the South of Virginia which is our owne wee shall finde there all manner of provision for life besides Merchantable Commodities Silke Vines Cotton Tobacco Deere-skinnes Goat-skinnes rich Furre and Beavers good store Timber Brasse Iron Pitch Tarre Rosin and almost all things necessary for shipping which if they shall be employed that way they who are sent away may with Gods blessing within short time in due recompence of their setting forth returne this kingdome store of silver and gold pearls and precious stones for undoubtedly if there be not a generall mistake in all Authors who have written of these places such treasure is to be had if not there yet in places not farre remote where as yet the Spaniard hath nothing to do And in case the Spaniard will be troublesome to our Plantations or shall as it is generally conceived be found an enemy to this kingdome there is no way more likely to secure England then by having a strong Navie there hereby we may come to share if not utterly to defeat him of that vaste Indian Treasure wherewith he setteth on fire so great a part of the Christian world corrupteth many Councellors of state supporteth the Papacy and generally perplexeth all reformed Churches Nor need any scrupulous quere be made whether we may not assault an enemy in any place or not esteeme them such as shall assault us in those places where we have as much to do as they The Spaniard claimeth indeed an Interest little l●sse than hereditary in almost all America and the West Indies but it is but by vertue of the Popes grant which is nothing worth as was long since determined by Queene Elizabeth and her Councell so as for the Spaniard to debarre us in the liberty of our Plantations or freedome of commerce in those spacious Countries were over proudly to take upon him and for us to permit it were overmuch to yeeld of our own right Especially when we may as now we may so easily help our selves For your Petitioner conceiveth there is no great difficulty in the preparation here or tediousnesse in the passage thither or hazard when wee come there The preparation of men and shipping in respect of the daily happy expected accord between us and the Scots is upon the matter already made And as for money it is in the power of this Honourable House to give sufficient without any grievance or dislike of the Common-wealth who undoubtedly in the generall will think nothing grievous which shall be concluded by your wisdomes expedient to such a pious and charitable worke And as for the passage how can it be thought either tedious or dangerous it being ordinarily but six weeks saile in a sea much more secure from Pirats and much more free from shipwrack and enemies coasts than our ten or twelve moneths voyage into the East-Indies And as for our good successe there we need not feare it The natives being now every where more than ever out of an inveterate hatred to the Spaniard ready and glad to entertaine us Our best friends the Netherlanders being with eigth and twenty ships gone before to assist and further us And which is much more our going with a generall consent in Gods cause for the promoting of the Gospell and inlarging of his Church may assure