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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30076	Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view, to be considered by all iudicious and honest men under which title is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land ... / by William Bullock, Gent.	Bullock, William, b. 1617?	1649 (1649)	Wing B5428; ESTC R4071	45,380	81

VIRGINIA Impartially examined and left to publick view to be considered by all iudicious and honest men Under which Title is comprehended the Degrees from 34 to 39 wherein lyes the rich and healthfull Countries of Roanock the now Plantations of Virginia and Mary-land Looke not upon this BOOKE as those that are set out by private men for private ends for being read you 'l find the publick good is the Authors onely aime For this Piece is no other then the Adventurers or Planters faithfull Steward disposing the Adventure for the best advantage advising people of all degrees from the highest Master to the meanest Servant how suddenly to raise their fortunes Peruse the Table and you shall finde the way plainely layd downe By WILLIAM BVLLOCK Gent. 19 April 1649. Jmprimatur Hen. Whaley LONDON Printed by John Hammond and are to be sold at his house over-against S. Andrews Church in Holborne 1649. To the Right Honourable the Earle of Arundel and Surrey and the Lord Baltamore Right Honourable HAD those worthy Gentlemen been so happie to have laboured for the setling a iust equall Government and designing the best advantages as in discovering the Countrey this labour had beene spared Wherefore he humbly prayes that you 'l looke on this Piece as through a Prospective by which you have these places rendred at a neerer distance you may easily find the impediments of their happinesse which with as much ease as turning of the Glasse you may remove farre off or out of sight I must confesse 't is some boldnesse for a private person to deale with Governments but when you shall finde I speake your thoughts for having lustice impartially dealt and this from a smarting sence of iniustice done I am confident you 'l excuse me and the rather for that I have shortned your Lordships studies which as I have often heard are for settling such a Government in these places as might keep the Ballance even and if your Lordships upon perusall shall find me onely to aime at the Generall good I am confident you 'l owne me to be Your Honours humble servant WILL BVLLOCK TO THE GOVERNOVR AND Councell of Virginia Health and Prosperity Gentlemen WHat your rules of Government or Justice now are I know not but what they were you 'll find in the ensuing discourse wherein I strike at no mans person but at the generall abuse I can speak knowingly of some of your indeavours in former times for Reformation to which you 'll find the way laid down which may be done without eclipsing any power above you it is proposed for absolute Freemen or a people under a higher power 't is a becomming garment and strongly put together if you shall put it on it will beautifie the body of your little Common-Wealth and make all men in love to dwell with you When you have read this over you 'll find my love hath swallowed up my losse and that there 's nothing more desired then the flourishing prosperity of unparalelled Virginia by Your loving friend and Servant William Bullock To his much esteemed Friends M. Samuel Vassell Captaine Richard Cranley Captaine Thomas Davis Captaine Benjamin Cranley Captaine William Ryder Captaine Peter Andrews and the rest of the Gentlemen Adventurers to the English Plantations beyond Sea Most loving Friends DIvers of you having been pleased to think me able to advise in Cases of this nature when in truth I have been more inabled by your questions put then you could by my resolves I determined to joyn my own experience with such Collections I had made from you to compose a Tract which might be usefull wherein I intended to shew how Love Profit and Pleasure might be raised and after maintained by a sweet and orderly Government and this is that which I present yee sure I am if you weigh it well 't will be like a pleasant Garden where you may gather simples for many speciall uses and although the Scene be laid in Virginia yet it may be applied to divers other places Pray believe I have not done this for the advantage of telling you in Print I am your Servant but the necessity of a Work of this nature at this time there never being any before spur'd me on And since in this I do but trace your steps in labouring for the publick good I doubt not but you 'll entertain it kindly and give the Author leave to style himselfe Your truly loving friend Will Bullock To his much honored Friends the Knights and Gentlemen that importuned this Worke HAD you given me more time I should have been larger in your satisfaction but this is what six nights could produce which time you know is all I had and of this the recollecting and reading my ancient studies took up much but what is done upon examination you 'l find is clear and true and having finished the work feare lest some materiall thing should be omitted would not let me sleep when at last I found I had forgot to tell you that I am Your faithfull friend and servant William Bullock TO THE READER Courteous Reader THis small Worke is undertaken for the generall good as well of the Inhabitants as the Adventurers and therefore requires a familiar pen and plain matter more then height of style the Author had rather do good then be commended therefore refused to let the Work be ushered in by the commendation of others he is not ignorant what a slight esteem this place hath amongst the generality of the people and knowes a good name is sooner lost then recovered and that when men joyn with common fame to destroy a good Work the Devill hath got a victory wherein 't is extreamly considerable how great an enemy he hath alwayes been to the Planting of the Gospell especially in places where as here the Natives own him for their God Therefore let no man wonder the good of this place hath been so much obstructed since now they know by whom I have in this place lost some thousands of pounds yet cannot harbour an ill opinion since I am fully satisfied the fault was onely in the men I trusted and this hath been every losers condition wherefore let the Countrey suffer no longer under our hard censures Good Laws duly executed will make good men and quickly change the aspect of these places there wanting nothing else under God to make them flourish Ambition amongst other things hath been none of the least hinderance Therefore he doth advise all such as intend to be labourers in this Harvest to study meeknesse and the generall good for if it be well considered 't is much better to be equall to then a Justice of Peace in which sense he speakes himself and if thou beest such then he 's thine William Bullock The principall Motive that drew the Author to this Worke was THat finding many Gentlemen have unsetled themselves with a desire to better their fortunes in remote places and in this condition inquisitive after the