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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16495	An encouragement to colonies· by Sir VVilliam Alexander, Knight	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 8-1640.	1624 (1624)	STC 341; ESTC S104369	33,480	61

present suffering then capable of future hopes they would willingly haue retired from thence but a great quantitie of Ambergreece hauing been found by one by chance and sent backe in a Ship that was going for London their Merchants finding it to bee of a great value were so encouraged by such a substantiall argument that they presently dispatched away a new supply of persons and all prouisions necessary who arriuing there and hauing considered what a gulfe of famine was likely to haue swallowed their fellowes they improuing their judgement by the others experience by betaking themselues to labour in time did preuent the like inconue nience there is no Land where men can liue without labour nor none so barren whence industrie cannot draw some benefit All Adams posteritie were appointed to worke for their food and none must dreame of an absolute ease which can no where subsist positiuely but onely comparatiuely according to the occasions more or lesse This Plantation of the Bermudas a place not knowne when the King came to England hath prospered so in a short time that at this present besides their ordinary and too extraordinarily valued commoditie of Tobacco they haue growing there Oranges Figs and all kind of fruits that they please to plant and doe now intend to haue a Sugar worke These Iles being about twentie miles in bredth can onely be entred into but by one passage which is fortified and easily commanded by Ordnance so that hauing no Sauages within and fearing no forces without it is esteemed to be impregnable and the number of the Inhabitants there being neere three thousand persons are sufficient for the ground that they possesse This part may proue exceedingly steadable to this State if euer it happen to haue as it hath heretofore had any designes for seruice in these Seas The first Plantation that euer the English intended abroad was in Virginia which was first discouered and named so by Sir Walter Raleigh who in the time of Queene Elizabeth did place some persons to inhabite there who not being supplied in time or out of ignorance or lazinesse not vsing the ordinary means the vsual fault of all beginners were brought by famine to a great extremity And Sir Francis Drakes comming by chance that way did transport them backe with him to England whilest at the same time there was another companie furnished forth by Sir Walter Raleigh who missing them whom they expected to haue found there did remaine still themselues but what did become of them if they did remoue to some other part perish disperse or incorporate with the Sauages no monument of them remayning is altogether vnknowne This noble worke hauing so hard a beginning after a long discontinuance was reuiued againe in the Kings time by a companie composed of Noblemen Gentlemen and Merchants who joyning priuate purses with publike supplies did send thither a sufficient Colonie well furnished with all things necessary who after their first comming had a continuall warre with the Natiues till it was reconciled by a Marriage of their Kings sister with one of the Colonie who hauing come to England as shee was returning backe died and was buried at Grauesend Thus euen amongst these Sauages libertie being valued aboue life as they were induced to contest in time before that power which they suspected could come to such a height that it might haue a possibilitie of depressing them so was their malice with their feares quickly calmed by the meanes of a marriage Lawfull allyances thus by admitting equalitie remoue contempt and giue a promiscuous off-spring extinguishing the distinction of persons which if that People become Christians were in some sort tolerable for it is the onely course that vniting minds free from jealousies can first make strangers confide in a new friendship which by communicating their bloud with mutuall assurance is left hereditary to their posteritie This longed for peace though it bred a great contentment for the time was attended by wrapping them that apprehended no further danger too common an inconuenient vp in the lazie remissenesse of improuident s●curitie For a number leauing the seate of the mayne Colonie did disperse themselues to liue apart as if they had bin into a well inhabited Countrey which as perchance it had emboldened the Sauages to imbrace the first occasion of a q●arrell so did it giue them an easie way for executing the mischiefe that they intended by killing two or three hundred persons before they could aduertize one another farre lesse ioyne to oppose them in a company together which course might not onely then haue made them able to resist but preuenting the other● resolution had kept them from being pursued yet I heare of late that they haue reuenged this iniury though as some report not after a commendable manner by killing their King with a great number of the chiefe of them whom they suspected most This Plantation of Virginia if it had not beene crossed by the Incursion of the Sauages abroad and by the diuision of their Owners at home had attayned to a great perfection ere now hauing had Inhabitants from hence to the number of neere three thousand persons and if some o● them who are there being Lords of reasonable proportions of ground and hauing people of their owne owing nothing but due obedience to a Superiour Power and the leading of a life conforme to the Lawes had no care but making their Lands to maintayne themselues how to build plant and plenish in such sort as might best establish a fortune for their Posteritie they might quickly make vp a new Nation but it is a great discouragement vnto them who dwell there that they must labour like the Seruants of a Family purchasing their food and rayment from England in exchange of Tobacco as they are directed by their Masters many whereof are strangers to the estate of that bounds and intending to settle none of their Race there haue no care but how the best benefit may presently bee drawne backe from thence the number of voyces at their assemblies preuayling more then the soundnesse of iudgement otherwise that Countrey before this time for Wine Oyle Wheate and other things necessary for the life of man might haue equalled for the like quantitie any bounds within Europe to which the soile of it selfe lacking nothing but the like industry is no way inferiour And it is to be exceedingly wished by all his Maiesties subiects that the Plantation of Virginia may prosper well which lying neerest to the part from whence danger might come may proue a Bulwarke for the safetie of all the rest That which is now called New England was first comprehended within the Patent of Virginia being the Northeast part thereof it was vndertaken in a Patent by a company of Gentlemen in the West of England one of whom was Sir Iohn Popham then Lord Chiefe Iustice who sent the first company that went of purpose to inhabit there neer to Segadahock but those that went thither being

furthering of so commendable a purpose thereafter they sent away two Fathers of their company with a new supply of all things necessarie to the Plantation at Port Royall but shortly after their arriuall their predominant disposition hardly yeelding to any Superiour specially if it be a Secular power they be-beganne to contradict Poutrincourt in the execution of these Decrees which had beene giuen forth by him as Ciuil Magistrate of that place Whereupon the Gentleman extreamely discontented and wearie of contesting with them hauing said that it was his part to rule them vpon earth and theirs onely to guide him the way to Heauen he returned backe to France leauing his Sonne Biencourt in his place who being a youth at that time of more courage then circumspectnesse disdayning to be controlled by them whom he had inuited thither and scorning their insupportable presumption and imperious kinde of carriage vsing Spirituall Armes for Temporall ends whose spleene had excommunicated and branded him with a Spirituall censure hee threatned them by his Temporall power with a more palpable punishment so that after much controuersie resoluing to separate themselues the two Iesuites taking a part of the company with them went from thence to a place in New England called by them Mount Desert where they seated themselues and hauing a supply from the Queene Mother did plant sundry fruit trees of the most delicate kinds in France such as Apricockes and Peaches neuer intending to remoue from thence At this time Sir Samuell Argall who hath beene Gouernour of Virginia coasting alongst New England to traffique discouer or to acquire things necessary for the Southerne Colonie in these parts where the Lands are reputed to be more fertile and the Seas more frequented did conceiue by a description made vnto him by the Sauages that there were some come from this part of the World to inhabit there and being iealous of any thing that might derogate from the honour or prooue preiudiciall to the benefit of his Nation whereof their interest in this was easie to be apprehended hee went whereas hee was informed that they were and his vnexpected arriuall as it would seeme not onely amazing the mindes of the French but likewise preuenting their preparation and resolution he approched to neere to a ship that lay before their Fort that hee beate them all that were within with Musket shot from making any vse of their Ordnance and killed one of the two Iesuites who was giuing fire to a Peece hauing taken the ship he landed and went before the Fort summoning them that were within to yeeld themselues who at the first made some difficultie asking a time to aduise but that being refused they priuately abandoned the Fort stealing out by some back way into the Woods where they stayed one night and the next day comming backe rendred themselues giuing vp the Patent they had from the French King to bee cancelled hee vsed them courteously as their owne Writers doe make mention suffering such as had a minde to goe for France to seeke out fi●hers ships wherein they might bee transported the rest that were willing to goe for Virginia went thither alongst with him no man hauing lost his life but onely that one Iesuite who was killed whilest they made resistance during the time of the conflict thereafter Father Biard the other of the Iesuites comming backe from Virginia with Sir Samuell Argall out of the indigestable malice that he had conceiued against Biencourt did informe him where he had planted himselfe offering as hee did to conduct him thither As soone as they were entred within the Port neere the vppermost of the Ilands Sir Samuell directing the ship to ride at a reasonable distance to attend occasions before the Fort did land himselfe with fortie of the best of his men vpon a Medow where immediatly they heard a Peece of Ordnance from the Fort and he conceiuing since it was shot whilst it could do no harme that it was done either but to giue terrour to them or to warne some that might happen to bee abroad Did make the greater haste towardes the Fort where hee presently entred finding it abandoned without any men at all left for the defence thereof hee went vp the Riuer side fiue or sixe miles where hee saw their Barnes and the ground where a great quantitie of Wheate had growne which he carried with him to serue for Seed in Virginia he saw likewise their Corne Mill very conueniently placed which together with the Barnes hee left standing vntouched As for the Fort it selfe he destroyed it downe to the ground razing the French Armes and leauing no monument remayning that might wi●nesse their being there After this Biencourt who had beene some where abroad trauelling through the Countrey comming home desired to conferre with Sir Samuell Argall who did meete with him apart from the Company vpon a Medow and after they had expostulated a space for what had past controuerting concerning the French and English Title to these bounds at last Biencourt offered if hee might haue a protection to depend vpon our King and to draw the whole Furres of that Countrey to one Port where he would diuide them with him As likewise he would shew him good Metalls whereof hee gaue him pieces but the other refused to ioyne in any societie with him protesting that his Commission was onely to displant him and that if hee found him there after that time hee would vse him as an enemy Biencourt labouring earnestly to haue had the Iesuit as he confessed with a purpose to hang him Whilst they were discoursing together one of the Sauages came suddenly forth from the Woods and licentiated to come neere did after his manner earnestly mediate a peace wondring why they that seemed to bee of one Countrey should vse others with such hostilitie and that with such a forme of habit and gesture as made them both to laugh After this Biencourt remocuing from thence to some other part Monsieur Champlein who had liued long here did carrie a company with him from France of some fortie persons or thereabouts vp the Riuer of Canada whom hee planted on the North side thereof with a purpose to serue for a Factorie drawing all the Trade of that farre running Riuer which a Plantation would haue dispersed in many parts within the hands of a few whom he doth command otherwise if his desires had beene bended that way hee might haue planted many people there ere now the place is called Kebeck where the French doe prosper well hauing Corne by their owne labour which may furnish themselues for food and likewise for a stocke to traffique with the Sauages with sundry Fruits Roots Vine Grapes and Turkie Wheate Champlein hath discouered the Riuer of Canada from the Gulfe vpwards aboue twelue hundred miles finding in it sometimes such falles as to scape the same he must carrie his Boate a little way by Land and then hee did many times come to great Lakes