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A08123	An historicall discoverie and relation of the English plantations, in Nevv England Containing their aventurous passages, their happie arivall and comfortable planting, manifesting the goodnesse of God in their preservations from many apparent dangers. With a relation of such religious and ciuill lawes, and customs as are in practise amongst the indians, with their natures and habits. As also a naration of the ayre, earth, water, fish, and fowles of that countrie. continued from the first beginning, in the yeare of our Lord 1607. and so handling all passages of moment successiuely from time to time.; Briefe relation of the discovery and plantation of New England	Council for New England.; Bradford, William, 1588-1657. Relation or journall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English adventurers both merchants and others. Selections.; Morton, George, d. 1624.	1627 (1627)	STC 18484; ESTC S119931	20,255	40

resolution to ioyne in sending forth a new supply which was accordingly performed But the Ships arriuing there did not only bring vncomfortable newes of the death of the Lord Chiefe Iustice together with the death of Sir Iohn Gilbert the elder brother vnto Captaine Rawley Gilbert who at that time was President of that Councell But found that the old Captaine Popham was also dead who was the onely man indeed that died there that Winter wherein they indured the greater excremities for that in the depth thereof their lodgings and stores were burnt and they thereby wondrously distressed This calamitie and euill newes together with the resolution that Captaine Gilbert was forced to take for his owne returne in that hee was to succeed his brother in the inheritance of his lands in England made the whole company to resolue vpon nothing but their returne with the Ships and for that present to leaue the Countrey againe hauing in the time of their abode there notwithstanding the coldnesse of the season and the small helpe they had built a prettie Barke of their owne which serued them to good purpose as easing them in their returning The arriuall of these people heere in England was a wonderfull discouragement to all the first vndertakers in so much as there was no more speech of setling any other plantation in those parts for a long time after only Sir Francis Popham hauing the Ships and prouision which remained of the company and supplying what was necessary for his purpose sent diuers times to the coasts for trade and fishing of whose losse or gaines himselfe is best able to giue account Our people abandoning the plantation in this sort as you haue heard the Frenchmen immediately tooke the opportunitie to settle themselues within our limits which being heard of by those of Virginia that discreetly tooke to their consideration the inconueniences that might arise by suffering them to harbour there they dispatched Sir Samuel Argall with commission to displace them which hee performed with much discretion iudgement valour and dexteritie For hauing seized their Forts which they had built at Mount Mansell Saint Croix and Port Reall he carryed away their Ordnance hee also surprised their Ship Cattle and other prouisions which hee transported to the Collonie in Virginia to their great benefit And hereby he hath made a way for the present hopefull plantation to bee made in Noua-Scotia which we heare his Maiestie hath lately granted to Sir William Alexander Knight one of his Maiesties most honourable Councell of the Kingdome of Scotland to bee held of the said Crowne and that not without some of our priuities as by approbation vnder writing may and doth appeare Whereby it is manifest that wee are so farre from making a Monopoly of all those lands belonging to that coast as hath beene scandalously by some obiected That we wish that many would vndertake the like In this Interim there were of vs who apprehenedd better hopes of good that might ensue by this attempt being thereunto perswaded both by the relations of our people that had indured the many difficulties whereunto such actions are subiected chiefly in the Winter season and likewise by the informations giuen them by certaine of the Natiues that had beene kept a long time in their hands wherefore we resolued once more to trie the veritie thereof and to see if possibly we might finde something that might induce a fresh resolution to prosecute a worke so pious and so honourable And thereupon they dispatched Captaine Hotson of the I le of Wight together with Captaine Herley Master Iohn Matthew Master Sturton with two Saluages the one called Epenow the other Manawet with commission and directions fit for them to obserue and follow the better to bring to passe what was expected But as in all humane affaires there is nothing more certaine then the vncertaintie thereof so fell it out in this for a little before such time as they arriued vpon the coast with the foresaid Sauages who were Naturalls of those parts it happened there had beene one Hunt a worthlesse fellow of our Nation set out by certaine Merchants for loue of gaine who not content with the commoditie he had by the fish and peaceable trade he found among the Sauages after hee had made his dispatch and was ready to set sayle more sauage-like then they seized vpon the poore innocent creatures that in confidence of his honestie had put themselues into his hands And stowing them vnder hatches to the number of twnety foure carried them into the Straights where hee sought to sell them for slaues and sold as many as he could get money for But when it was vnderstood from whence they were brought the Friers of those parts tooke the rest from them and kept them to be instructed in the Christian Faith and so disappointed this vnworthy fellow of the hopes of gaine he conceiued to make by this new diuellish project This being knowne by our two Saluages formerly spoken of they presently contracted such an hatred against our whole Nation as they immediatly studied how to be reuenged and contriued with their friends the best meanes to bring it to passe but Manawet dying in a short time after the Ships arriuall there and the other obseruing the good order and strong guard our people kept studied only how to free himselfe out of our hands and thereupon laid the plot very orderly and indeed effected his purpose although with so great hazard to himselfe and friends that laboured his rescue that Captaine Hobson and his whole company imagined he had beene slaine And though in the recouery of his body they wounded the Master of our Ship and diuers other of our company yet was not their designe without the slaughter of some of their people and the hurts of other compassed as appeared afterward Hereupon Captaine Hobson and his companie conceiuing the end of their attempt to bee frustrace resolued without more adoe to returne and so those hopes that charge and voyage was lost also for they brought home nothing but the newes of their euill successe of the vnfortunate cause thereof and of a warre now new begunne betweene the inhabitants of those parts and vs. A miserable comfort for so weake meanes as were now left to pursue the conclusion of so tedious an enterprise While this was a working wee found the meanes to send out Captaine Iohn Smith from Plymouth in a ship together with Master Darmer and diuers others with him to lay the foundation of a new Plantation and to try the fishing of that Coast and to seeke to settle a trade with the Natiues But such was his misfortune as being scarce free of our owne Coast he had his masts shaken ouer boord by stormes and tempests his ship wonderfully distressed and in that extremity forced to come backe againe so as the season of the yeere being almost spent we were of necessitie enforced to furnish him with another ship and taking out the

persons so to the infirmities one of another and so stand in neede of more watchfulnesse this way lest when such things fall out in men and women as you suspected not you be inordinately affected with them which doth require at your hands much wisedome and charitie for the couering and preuenting of incident offences that way And lastly your intended course of ciuill communitie wil minister continuall occasion of offence and will be as fuell for that fire except you diligently quench it with brotherly forbearance And if taking of offence causlesly or easily at mens doings be so carefully to be auoided how much more heed is to be taken that we take not offence at God himselfe which yet we certainly do so oft as we do murmure at his prouidence in our crosses or beare impatiently such afflictions as where with he pleaseth to visit vs. Store we vp therefore patience against the euill day without which we take offence at the Lord himselfe in his holy and iust works A fourth thing there is carefully to be prouided for to wit that with your common emploiments you ioyne common affections truly bent vpon the generall good auoiding as a deadly plague of your both common and speciall comfort all retirednesse of minde for proper aduantage and all singularly affected any maner of way let euery man represse in himselfe and the whole bodie in each person as so many rebels against the common good all priuate respects of mens selues not sorting with the generall conueniencie And as men are carefull not to haue a new house shaken with any violence before it be well settled and the parts firmly knit so be you I beseech you brethren much more carefull that the house of God which you are and are to be be not shaken with vnnecessary nouelties or other oppositions at the first settling thereof Lastly whereas you are to become a body politik vsing amongst your selues ciuill gouernment and are not furnished with any persons of speciall eminencie aboue the rest to be chosen by you into office of gouernment Let your wisedome and godlinesse appeare not onely in chusing such persons as do entirely loue and will diligently promote the common good but also in yeelding vnto them all due honour and obedience in their lawfull administrations not beholding in them the ordinarinesse of their persons but Gods ordinance for your good nor being like vnto the foolish multitude who more honour the gay coate then either the vertuous mind of the man or glorious ordinance of the Lord. But you know better things and that the image of the Lords power and authoritie which the Magistrate beareth is honorable in how meane persons soeuer And this dutie you both may the more willingly and ought the more conscionably to performe because you are at least for the present to haue onely them for your ordinary gouernours which your selues shall make choise of for that worke Sundrie other things of importance I could put you in mind of and of those before mentioned in more words but I will not so far wrong your godly minds as to thinke you heedlesse of these things there being also diuers among you so well able to admonish both themselues and others of what concerneth them These few things therefore and the same in few words I do earnestly commend vnto your care and conscience ioyning there with my daily incessant prayers vnto the Lord that he who hath made the heauens and the earth the sea and all riuers of waters and whose prouidence is ouer all his workes especially ouer all his deare children for good would so guide and guard you in your wayes as inwardly by his Spirit so outwardly by the hand of his power as that both you and we also for and with you may haue after matter of praising his Name all the days of your and our liues Fare you well in him in whom you trust and in whom I rest An vnfained well-willer of your happie successe in this hopefull voyage I. R. A briefe RELATION OF THE DISCOVERY AND PLANTATION of New England ALthough it bee a course farre from the minde of vs that are vndertakers for the aduancement of the Plantation of New-England to seeke by any vaine ostentation to extoll our owne endeuours yet we cannot but striue to vindicate our reputation from the iniurious aspersions that haue beene laid vpon it by the malicious practises of some that would aduenture nothing in the beginning but would now reape the benefit of our paines and charges and yet not seeme beholding to vs and to that end they disualew what is past and by sinister informations derogate what they can from the present course intended the rather because the good Orders appointed to bee put in execution there are likely to restraine the licentious irregularitie of other places And this hath induced vs to publish our proceedings whereunto it hath pleased God to giue a blessing as to any of indifferent iudgement may appeare by that which followeth WHen this designe was first attempted some of the present company were therein chiefly interessed who being carefull to haue the same accomplished did send to the discouery of those Northerne parts a braue Gentleman Captaine Henry Challons with two of the Natiues of that Territory the one called Maneday the other Assecomet But his misfortunes did expose him to the power of certaine Strangers enemies to his proceedings so that by them his company were seized the ships and goods confiscated and that Voyage wholly ouerthrowne This losse vnfortunate beginning did much abate the rising courage of the first Aduenturers but immediately vpon his departure it pleased the noble Lord chiefe Iustice Sir Iohn Popham knight to send out another ship wherein Captain Thomas Haman went Commander Martine Prinne of Bristow Master with all necessarie supplies for the seconding of Captaine Challons and his people who arriuing at the place appointed and not finding that Captaine there after they had made some discouery and found the Coasts Hauens and Harbors answerable to our desires they returned Vpon whose relation the Lord Chiefe Iustice and wee all waxed so confident of the businesse that the yeere following euerie man of any worth formerly interessed in it was willing to ioyne in the charge for the sending ouer a competent number of people to lay the ground of a hopefull plantation Here upon Captaine Popham Captaine Rawley Gilbert and others were sent away with two Ships and an hundred Landmen Ordnance and other prouisions necessarie for their sustentation and defence vntill other supply might bee sent In the meane while before they could returne it pleased God to take from vs this worthy member the Lord Chiefe Iustice whose sudden death did so astonish the hearts of the most part of the Aduenturers as some grew cold and some did wholly abandon the businesse Yet Sir Francis Popham his sonne certaine of his priuate friends and other of vs omitted not the next yeare holding on our first