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A12458	Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where. Or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation With the yearely proceedings of this country in fishing and planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate. Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences, by their proceedings in Virginia, and other plantations, by approved examples. With the countries armes, a description of the coast, harbours, habitations, land-markes, latitude and longitude: with the map, allowed by our royall King Charles. By Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 22787; ESTC S121885	31,468	55

value of fifteene hundred pound and arrived in England with all my men in health in six or seven moneths But Northward the French returned this yeare to France five and twenty thousand bevers and good furres whilest we were contending about Patents and Commissions with such fearefull incredulity that more dazeled our eyes than opened them In this voyage I tooke the description of the coast as well by map as writing and called it New-England but malicious mindes amongst Sailers and others drowned that name with the eccho of Nusconcus Canaday and Penaquid till at my humble sute our most gracious King Charles then Prince of Wales was pleased to confirme it by that title and did change the barbarous names of their principall Harbours and habitations for such English that posterity may say King Charles was their Godfather and in my opinion it should seeme an unmannerly presumption in any that doth alter them without his leave My second voyage was to beginne a Plantation and to doe what else I could but by extreme tempests that bore neare all my Masts by the boord being more than two hundred leagues at Sea was forced to returne to Plimoth with a Jury-Mast The third was intercepted by English and French Pyrats by my trecherous company that betrayed me to them who ran away with my Ship and all that I had such enemies the Sailers were to a Plantation and the greatest losse being mine did easily excuse themselves to the Merchants in England that still provided to follow the fishing much difference there was betwixt the Londoners and the Westerlings to ingrosse it who now would adventure thousands that when I went first would not adventure a groat yet there went foure or five good Ships but what by their dissention and the Turkes men of warre that tooke the best of them in the Straits they scarce saved themselves this yeare At my returne from France I did my best to have united them but that had beene more than a worke for Hercules so violent is the folly of greedy covetousnesse CHAP. 6. A description of the Coast Harbours Habitations Land-marks Latitude Longitude with the map THis Country wee now speake of lyeth betwixt 41. and 44½ the very meane for heat and cold betwixt the Equinoctiall and 〈◊〉 North Pole in which I have founded about five and twenty very good Harbors in many whereof is Ancorage for five hundred good ships of any burthen in some of them for a thousand and more than three hundred Iles overgrowne with good timber or divers sorts of other woods in most of them in their seasons plenty of wilde fruits Fish and Fowle and pure springs of most excellent water pleasantly distilling from their rockie foundations The principall habitations I was at North-ward was Pennobscot who are in warres with the Terentines their next Northerly neighbours Southerly up the Rivers and along the Coast wee found Mecadacut Segocket Pemmaquid Nusconcus Sagadahock Satquin Aumughcawgen and Kenabeca to those belong the Countries and people of Segot igo Pauhuntanuck Pocopassum Taughtanakagnet Wabigganus Nassaque Masherosqueck Wawrtgwick Moshoquen Waccogo Pasharanack c. To those are alied in confederacy the Countries of Aucocisco Accominticus Passataquak Augawoam and Naemkeck all these for any thing I could perceive differ little in language or any thing though most of them be Sagamos and Lords of themselves yet they hold the Bashabes of Pennobscot the chiefe and greatest amongst them The next is Mattahunt Totant Massachuset Paconekick then Cape Cod by which is Pawmet the Iles Nawset and Capawuck neere which are the shoules of Rocks and sands that stretch themselves into the maine Sea twenty leagues and very dangerous betwixt the degrees of 40. and 41. Now beyond Cape Cod the land extendeth it selfe Southward to Virginia Florida the West-Indies the Amazons and Brasele to the straits of Magelanus two and fifty degrees Southward beyond the Line all those great Countries differing as they are in distance North or South from the Equinoctiall in temper heat cold Woods Fruits Fishes Beasts Birds the increase and decrease of the night and day to six moneths day and six moneths night Some say many of those Nations are so brute they have no Religion wherein surely they may be deceived for myself I never saw nor heard of any Nation in the world which had not Religion Deare Bowes and Arrowes Those in New-England I take it beleeve much alike as those in Virginia of many divine Powers yet of one above all the rest as the Southerly Virginians call their chiefe God Kewassa and that we now inhabit Okae but all their Kings Werowances The M●ssichusots call their great God Kichtan and their Kings Sachemes and that we suppose their Devill they call Habamouk The Pennobscots their God Tantum their Kings Sagamos About those Countries are abundance of severall Nations and languages but much alike in their simple curiosities living and workemanship except the wilde estate of their chiefe Kings c. Of whose particular miserable magnificence yet most happy in this that they never trouble themselves with such variety of Apparell Drinkes Viands Sawses Perfumes Preservatives and nicities as we yet live as long and much more healthfull and hardy also the deities of their chiefest Gods Priests Conjurers Religion Temples Triumphs Physicke and Chirurgeric their births educations duty of their women exercise for their men how they make all their Instruments and Engines to cut downe Trees make their Cloaths Boats Lines Nets Fish-hooks Weres and Traps Mats Houses Pots Platters Morters Bowes Arrowes Targets Swords Clubs Jewels and Hatchets Their severall sorts of Woods Serpents Beasts Fish Fowle Roots Berries Fruits Stones and Clay Their best trade what is most fit to trade with them With the particulars of the charge of a fishing voyage and all the necessaries belonging to it their best countries to vent it for their best returnes also the particulars for every private man or family that goeth to plant and the best seasons to goe or returne thence with the particular description of the Salvages Habitations Harbours and Land markes their Latitude Longitude or severall distance with their old names and the new by the Map augmented Lastly the power of their Kings obedience of their subjects Lawes executions planting their Fields Huntings Fishings the manner of their warres and treacheries yet knowne and in generall their lives and conversation and how to bridle their brute barbarous and salvage dispositions of all these particulars you may reade at large in the generall History of Virginia New-England and the Summer Iles with many more such strange actions and accidents that to an ordinary capacity might rather seeme miracles than wonders possibly to bee effected which though they are but wound up as bottoms of fine silke which with a good needle might be flourished into a far larger worke yet the Images of great things are best discerned contracted into smaller glasses CHAP. 7. New Englands yearely trials the

planting new Plimoth supprisals prevented their wonderfull industry and fishing FOr all those differences there went eight tall ships before I arived in England from France so that I spent that yeare in the West Country to perswade the Cities Townes and Gentrie for a Plantation which the Merchants very little liked because they would have the coast free only for themselves and the Gentlemen were doubtfull of their true accounts oft and much it was so disputed that at last they promised me the next yeere twenty saile well furnished made me Admirall of the Country for my life under their hands and the Colonels Seale for New-England and in renewing their Letters Patents to be a Patentee for my paines yet nothing but a voluntary fishing was effected for all this aire NEW ENGLAND The most remarqueable parts thus named by the high and mighty Prince CHARLES Prince of great Britaine At last upon those inducements some well disposed Brownists as they are tearmed with some Gentlemen and Merchants of Layden and Amsterdam to save charges would try their owne conclusions though with great losse and much miserie till time had taught them to see their owne error for such humorists will never beleeve well till they bee beaten with their owne rod. They were supplied with a small Ship with seven and thirty passengers who found all them were left after they were seated well all but six that died for all their poverties in this ship they returned the value of five hundred pounds which was taken by a French-man upon the coast of England There is gone from the West to fish five and thirty saile two from London with sixty passengers for them at New-Plimoth and all made good voyages Now you are to understand the seven and thirty passengers miscarrying twice upon the coast of England came so ill provided they onely relyed upon that poore company they found that had lived two yeares by their naked industry and what the Country naturally afforded it is true at first there hath beene taken a thousand Bayses at a draught and more than twelve hogsheads of Herrings in a night of other fish when and what they would when they had meanes but wanting most necessaries for fishing and fowling it is a wonder how they could subsist fortifie themselves resist their enemies and plant their plants In Iuly a many of stragling forlorne Englishmen whose wants they releeved though wanted themselves the which to requite destroyed their Corne and Fruits and would have done the like to them and have surprised what they had the salvages also intended the like but wisely they slew the salvage Captaines and revenged those injuries upon the fugitive English that would have done the like to them CHAP. 8. Extremity next despaire Gods great mercy their estate they make good salt an unknowne rich myne AT New-Plimoth having planted there Fields and Gardens such an extraordinary drought insued all things withered that they expected no harvest and having long expected a supply they heard no newes but a wracke split upon their Coast they supposed their Ship thus in the very labyrinth of despaire they solemnly assembled themselves together nine houses in prayer At their departure the parching faire skies all overcast with blacke clouds and the next morning such a pleasant moderate raine continued fourteene daies that it was hard to say whether their withered fruits or drooping affections were most revived not long after came two Ships to supply them with all their Passengers well except one and he presently recovered for themselves for all their wants there was not one sicke person amongst them the greater Ship they returned fraught with commodities This yeare went from England onely to fish five and forty saile and have all made a better voyage than ever In this Plantation there is about an hundred and fourescore persons some Cattell but many Swine and Poultry their Towne containes two and thirty houses whereof seven were burnt with the value of five or six hundred pounds in other goods impailed about halfe a mile within which within a high Mount a Fort with a Watch-tower well built of stone lome and wood their Ordnance well mounted and so healthfull that of the first Planters not one hath died this three yeares yet at the first landing at Cape Cod being an hundred passengers besides twenty they had left behind at Plimoth for want of good take heed thinking to finde all things better than I advised them spent six or seven weekes in wandring up and downe in frost and snow wind and raine among the woods cricks and swamps forty of them died and threescore were left in most miserable estate at New-Plimoth where their Ship left them and but nine leagues by Sea from where they landed whose misery and variable opinions for want of experience occasioned much faction till necessity agreed them These disasters losses and uncertainties made such disagreement among the Adventurers in England who beganne to repent and rather lose all than longer continue the charge being out of purse six or seven thousand pounds accounting my bookes and their relations as old Almanacks But the Planters rather than leave the Country concluded absolutely to supply themselves and to all their adventurers pay them for nine yeares two hundred pounds yearely without any other account where more than six hundred Adventurers for Virginia for more than two hundred thousand pounds had not six pence Since they have made a salt worke wherewith they preserve all the fish they take and have fraughted this yeare a ship of an hundred and fourescore tun living so well they desire nothing but more company and what ever they take returne commodities to the value Thus you may plainly see although many envying I should bring so much from thence where many others had beene and some the same yeare returned with nothing reported the Fish and Bevers I brought home I had taken from the French men of Canada to discourage any from beleeving me and excuse their owne misprisions some onely to have concealed this good Country as is said to their private use others taxed me as much of indiscretion to make my discoveries and designes so publike for nothing which might have beene so well managed by some concealers to have beene all rich ere any had knowne of it Those and many such like wise rewards have beene my recompences for which I am contented so the Country prosper and Gods name bee there praised by my Country-men I have my desire and the benefit of this salt and fish for breeding Mariners and building ships will make so many fit men to raise a Common-wealth if but managed as my generall history will shew you it might well by this have beene as profitable as the best Mine the King of Spaine hath in his West Indies CHAP. 9. Notes worth observation miserablenesse no good husbandry NOw if you but truly consider how many strange accidents have befallen those

ADVERTISEMENTS For the unexperienced Planters of New England or any where OR The Path-way to experience to erect a PLANTATION With the yearely proceedings of this Country in Fishing and Planting since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences by their proceedings in Virginia and other Plantations by approved examples With the Countries Armes a description of the Coast Harbours Habitations Land-markes Latitude and Longitude with the Map allowed by our Royall King CHARLES By Captaine IOHN SMITH sometimes Governour of VIROINIA and Admirall of NEVV-ENGLAND LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND and are to be sold by ROBERT MILBOVRNE at the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1631. GENS IN COGNITA MIHI SERVIET To the Most Reverend Father in God GEORGE Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRIE his Grace Primate and Metrapolitan of all ENGLAND AND The Right Reverend Father in God SAMVEL Lord Arch-Bishop of YORKE his Grace Primate and Metrapolitan of ENGLAND MY most Gracious Good Lords I desire to leave testimony to the world how highly I honour as well the Miter as the Lance therefore where my last Booke presented three most honourable Earles with a subject of Warre and received from them favourable acceptance the worke I now prosecute concerning the Plantation of New-England for the increase of Gods Church converting Salvages and enlarging the Kings Dominions prostrates it selfe humbly to your Graces who as you are in the name of Prelacy to this Kingdome so you are to mee in goodnesse both Fathers and Protectors unexpectedly God long preserve your Gracious lives and continue favour Vnto both your Graces most devoted servant IOHN SMITH To the Reader HONEST READER APelles by the proportion of a foot could make the whole proportion of a man were hee now living he might goe to schools for now are thousands can by opinion proportion Kingdomes Cities and Lordships that never durst adventure to see them Malignancy I expect from those have lived 10. or 12. yeares in those actions and returne as wise as they went claiming time and experience for their tutor that can neither shift Sun nor Moone nor say their Compasse yet will tell you of more than all the world betwixt the Exchange Pauls and Westminster so it be newes it matters not what that will passe currant when truth must be stayed with an army of conceits that can make or marre any thing and tell as well what all England is by seeing but Milford haven as what Apelles was by the picture of his great too Now because examples give a quicker impression than arguments I have writ this discourse to satisfie understanding wisdome and honesty and not such as can doe nothing but finde fault with that they neither know nor can amend So I rest Your friend Iohn Smith The Sea Marke Aloofe aloofe and come no neare the dangers doe appeare Which if my ruine had not beene you had not seene I onely lie upon this shelfe to be a marke to all which on the same might fall That none may perish but my selfe If in or outward you be bound doe not forget to sound Neglect of that was cause of this to steare amisse The Seas were calme the wind was faire that made me so secure that now I must indure All weathers be they soule or faire The Winters cold the Summers heat alternatively beat Upon my bruised sides that ●ue because too true That no releefe can ever come But why should I despaire being promised so faire That there shall be a day of Dome The Contents CHAP. 1. WHat people they are that begin this plantation the bane of Virginia strange misprisions of wise men CHAP. 2. Needlesse custome effect of flattery cause of misery factions carelesse government the dissolving the Company and Patent CHAP. 3. A great comfort to new England it is no Iland a strange plague CHAP. 4. Our right to those Countries true reasons for plantations rare examples CHAP. 5. My first voyage to new England my returne and profit CHAP. 6. A description of the Coast Harbours Habitations Land-marks Latitude Longitude with the map CHAP. 7. New Englands yearely trials the planting new Plimoth supprisals prevented their wonderful industry and fishing CHAP. 8. Extremity next despaire Gods great mercy their estate they make good salt an unknowne rich myne CHAP. 9. Notes worth observation miserablenesse no good husbandry CHAP. 10. The mistaking of Patents strange effects incouragements for servants CHAP. 11. The planting Bastable or Salem and Charlton a description of the Massachusets CHAP. 12. Extraordinary meanes for building many caveats increase of corne how to spoyle the woods for any thing their healths CHAP. 13. Their great supplies present estate and accidents advantage CHAP. 14. Ecclesiasticall government in Virginia authority from the Arch Bishop their beginning at Bastable now called Salem CHAP. 15. The true modell of a plantation tenure increase of trade true examples necessity of expert Souldiers the names of all the first discoverers for plantations and their actions what is requisite to be in the Governour of a plantation the expedition of Queene Elizabeths Sea Captaines SIGISMVNDVS BATHORI D G DVX TRANSILVANIE WAL NONONONONONON ADVERTISEMENTS OR The Path-way to Experience to erect a Plantation CHAP. 1. What people they are that beginne this plantation the haue of Virginia strange misprisions of wisemen THe Warres in Europe Asia and Affrica taught me how to subdue the wilde Salvages in Virginia and New-England in America which now after many a stormy blast of ignorant contradictors projectors and undertakers both they and I have beene so tossed and tortured into so many extremities as despaire was the next wee both expected till it pleased God now at last to stirre up some good mindes that I hope will produce glory to God honour to his Majesty and profit to his Kingdomes although all our Plantations have beene so foyled and abused their best good willers have beene for the most part discouraged and their good intents disgraced as the generall History of them will at large truly relate you Pardon me if I offend in loving that I have cherished truly by the losse of my prime fortunes meanes and youth If it over-glad me to see Industry her selfe adventure now to make use of my aged endevours not by such I hope as rumour doth report a many of discontented Brownists Anabaptists Papists Puritans Separatists and such factions Humorists for no such they will suffer among them if knowne as many of the chiefe of them have assured mee and the much conferences I have had with many of them doth considently perswade me to writethus much in their behalfe I meane not the Brownists of Leyden and Amsterdam at New-Plimoth who although by accident ignorance and wilfulnesse have indured with a wonderfull patience many losses and extremities yet they subsist and prosper so well not any of them will abandon the Country but to the utmost of their powers increase their numbers But of those which

they saw our miseries and all things so cleane contrary to the report in England yet must I provide as well for them as for my selfe CHAP. 2. Needlesse custome effect of flatterr cause of misery factions carelesse government the dissolving the Company and Patent THis the Mariners and Saylers did ever all they could to conceale who had alwayes both good fare and good pay for the most part and part out of our owne purses never caring how long they stayed upon their voyage daily feasting before our faces when wee lived upon a little corne and water and not halfe enough of that the most of which we had from amongst the Salvages Now although there be Deere in the woods Fish in the rivers and Fowles in abundance in their seasons yet the woods are so wide the rivers so broad and the beasts so wild and wee so unskilfull to catch them wee little troubled them nor they us for all this our letters that still signified unto them the plaine truth would not be beleeved because they required such things as was most necessary but their opinion was otherwayes for they desired but to packe over so many as they could saying necessity would make them get victuals for themselves as for good labourers they were more usefull here in England but they found it otherwayes the charge was all one to send a workman as a roarer whose clamors to appease we had much adoe to get fish and corne to maintaine them from one supply till another came with more loyterers without victuals still to make us worse and worse for the most of them would rather starve than worke yet had it not beene for some few that were Gentlemen both by birth industry and discretion we could not possibly have subsisted Many did urge I might have forced them to it having authority that extended so farre as death but I say having neither meat drinke lodging pay nor hope of any thing or preferment and seeing the Merchants onely did what they listed with all they wrought for I know not what punishment could be greater than that they indured which miseries caused us alwaies to be in factions the most part striving by any meanes to abandon the Country and I with my party to prevent them and cause them stay But indeed the cause of our factions was bred here in England and grew to that maturity among themselves that spoyled all as all the Kingdome and other Nations can too well testifie Yet in the yeare 1622. there were about seven or eight thousand English as hath beene said so well trained secure and well furnished as they reported and conceited These simple Salvages their bosome friends I so much oppressed had laid their plot how to cut all their throats in a morning and upon the 22. of March so innocently attempted it they slew three hundred forty seven set their houses on fire slew their cattell and brought them to that distraction confusion within lesse than a yeare there were not many more than two thousand remaining the which losse to repaire the company did what they could till they had consumed all their stocke as is said then they broke not making any account nor giving satisfaction to the Lords Planters Adventurers nor any whose noble intents had referred the managing of this intricate businesse to a few that lost not by it so that his Majesty recalled their Commission and by more just cause then they perswaded King Iames to call in ours which were the first beginners without our knowledge or consent disposing of us and all our indevours at their pleasures CHAP. 3. A great comfort to new England it is no Iland a strange plague NOtwithstanding since they have beene left in a manner as it were to themselves they have increased their numbers to foure or five thousand and neere as many cattell with plenty of Goats abundance of Swine Poultry and Come that as they report they have sufficient and to spare to entertaine three or foure hundred people which is much better than to have many people more than provision Now having glutted the world with their too much over-abounding Tabacco Reason or necessity or both will cause them I hope learne in time better to fortifie themselves and make better use of the trials of their grosse commodities that I have propounded and at the first sent over and were it not a lamentable dishonour so goodly a Countrey after so much cost losse and trouble should now in this estate not bee regarded and supplied And to those of New-England may it not be a great comfort to have so neare a neighbour of their owne Nation that may furnish them with their spare cattell swine poultry and other roots and fruits much better than from England But I feare the seed of envy and the rust of covetousnesse doth grow too fast for some would have all men advance Virginia to the ruine of New-England and others the losse of Virginia to sustaine New-England which God of his mercy forbid for at first it was intended by that most memorable Judge Sir Iohn Popham then Lord chiefe Justice of England and the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councel with divers others that two Colonies should be planted as now they be for the better strengthening each other against all occurrences the which to performe shal ever be in my hearty prayers to Almighty God to increase and continue that mutuall love betwixt them for ever By this you may perceive somewhat what unexpected inconveniences are incident to a plantation especially in such a multitude of voluntary contributers superfluity of officers and unexperienced Commissioners But it is not so as yet with those for New-England for they will neither beleeve nor use such officers in that they are overseers of their owne estates and so well bred in labour and good husbandry as any in England where as few as I say was sent me to Virginia but these were naught here and worse there Now when these shall have laid the foundations and provided meanes beforehand they may entertain all the poore artificers and laborers in England and their families which are burthensome to their Parishes and Countries where they live upon almes and benevolence for want of worke which if they would but pay for their transportation they should never be troubled with them more for there is vast land enough for all the people in England Scotland and Ireland and it seemes God hath provided this Country for our Nation destroying the natives by the plague it not touching one Englishman though many traded and were conversant amongst them for they had three plagues in three yeares successively neere two hundred miles along the Sea coast that in some places there scarce remained five of a hundred and as they report thus it began A fishing ship being cast away upon the coast two of the men escaped on shore one of them died the other lived

plantations and my selfe how oft up how oft downe sometimes neere despaire and ere long flourishing how many scandals and Spanolized English have sought to disgrace them bring them to ruine or at least hinder them all they could how many have shaven and couzened both them and me and their most honourable supporters and well-willers cannot but conceive Gods infinite mercy both to them and me Having beene a slave to the Turks prisoner amongst the most barbarous Salvages after my deliverance commonly discovering and ranging those large rivers and unknowne Nations with such a handfull of ignorant companions that the wiser sort often gave mee for lost alwayes in mutinies wants and miseries blowne up with gunpowder A long time prisoner among the French Pyrats from whom escaping in a little boat by my selfe and adrift all such a stormy winter night when their ships were split more than an hundred thousand pound lost wee had taken at sea and most of them drownd upon the I le of Ree not farre from whence I was driven on shore in my little boat c. And many a score of the worst of winter moneths lived in the fields yet to have lived neere 37. yeares in the midst of wars pestilence and famine by which many an hundred thousand have died about mee and scarce five living of them went first with me to Virginia and see the fruits of my labours thus well begin to prosper Though I have but my labour for my paines have I not much reason both privately and publikely to acknowledge it and give God thankes whose omnipotent power onely delivered me to doe the utmost of my best to make his name knowne in those remote parts of the world and his loving mercy to such a miserable sinner Had my designes beene to have perswaded men to a mine of gold as I know many have done that knew no such matter though few doe conceive either the charge or paines in refining it nor the power nor care to defend it or some new invention to passe to the South sea or some strange plot to invade some strange Monastery or some chargeable Fleet to take some rich Charaques or letters of mart to rob some poore Merchant or honest fisher men what multitudes of both people and money would contend to be first imployed But in those noble indevours now how few unlesse it bee to begge them as Monopolies and those seldome seeke the common good but the commons goods as the 217. the 218. and the 219. pages in the generall history will shew But only those noble Gentlemen and their associates for whose better incouragements I have recollected those experienced memorandums as an Apologie against all calumniating detracters as well for my selfe as them Now since them called Brownists went some few before them also having my bookes and maps presumed they knew as much as they desired many other directers they had as wise as themselves but that was best that liked their owne conceits for indeed they would not be knowne to have any knowledge of any but themselves pretending onely Religion their governour and frugality their counsell when indeed it was onely their pride and singularity and contempt of authority because they could not be equals they would have no superiours in this fooles Paradise they so long used that good husbandry they have payed soundly in trying their owne follies who undertaking in small handfuls to make many plantations and to bee severall Lords and Kings of themselves most vanished to nothing to the great disparagement of the generall businesse therefore let them take heed that doe follow their example CHAP. 10. The mistaking of Patents strange effects incouragements for servants WHo would not thinke that all those certainties should not have made both me and this Country have prospered well by this but it fell out otherwayes for by the instigation of some whose policy had long watched their oportunity by the assurance of those profitable returnes procured new Letters Patents from King Iames drawing in many Noblemen and others to the number of twenty for Patentees dividing my map and that tract of land from the North Sea to the South Sea East and West which is supposed by most Cosmographers at least more than two thousand miles and from 41. degrees to 48. of Northerly latitude about 560. miles the bounds Virginia to the South the South Sea to the West Canada to the North and the maine Ocean to the East all this they divided in twenty parts for which they cast lots but no lot for me but Smiths Iles which are a many of barren rocks the most overgrowne with such shrubs and sharpe whins you can hardly passe them without either grasse or wood but three or foure short shrubby old Cedars Those Patentees procured a Proclamation that no ship should goe thither to fish but pay them for the publike as it was pretended five pound upon new- every thirty tuns of shipping neither trade with the natives cut downe wood throw their balast over boord nor plant without commission leave and content to the Lord of that division or Mannor some of which for some of them I beleeve will be tenantlesse this thousand yeare Thus whereas this Country as the contrivers of those projects should have planted it selfe of it selfe especially all the chiefe parts along the coast the first yeare as they have oft told me and chiefly by the fishing ships and some small helpe of their owne thinking men would be glad upon any termes to be admitted under their protections but it proved so contrary none would goe at all So for feare to make a contempt against the Proclamation it hath ever since beene little frequented to any purpose nor would they doe any thing but left it to it selfe Thus it lay againe in a manner vast till those noble Gentlemen thus voluntarily undertooke it whem I intreat to take this as a memorandum of my love to make your plantations so neere and great as you can for many hands make light worke whereas yet your small parties can doe nothing availeable nor stand too much upon the letting setting or selling those wild Countries nor impose too much upon the commonalty either by your maggazines which commonly eat out all poore mens labours nor any other too hard imposition for present gaine but let every man so it bee by order allotted him plant freely without limitation so much as hee can bee it by the halfes or otherwayes And at the end of five or six yeares or when you make a division for every acre he hath planted let him have twenty thirty forty or an hundred or as you finde hee hath extraordinarily deserved by it selfe to him and his heires for ever all his charges being defrayed to his lord or master and publike good In so doing a servant that will labour within foure or five yeares may live as well there as his master did here for where there is so much