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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

us of a more than ordinary protection and direction That hitherto we have been lesse successefull in our voyages that way we way justly impute it to this that as yet they have not been undertaken with such a generall consent and with such a full reference to Gods glory as was requisite And so your Petitioner having delivered his apprehension herein more briefely than so weighty a matter might well require he submits all the premises to your more full deliberation and conclusion which he humbly prayeth may be with all convenient speed the only best way under God to make it the better successefull WEE whose names are here under-written having been upon occasion acquainted with a motion intended to be made by Master William Castell Parson of Courtenhall in the County of Northampton to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament now assembled concerning the propagation of the glorious Gospell of Christ in America As we do well approve of the motion so we do humbly desire his reasons may be duly considered And so good a work furthered their wiser judgements may resolve upon to which we humbly submit the same Iohn Moseley D. D. Ra● Brownricke D. D. Thomas Bambrig D. D. Robert Sanderson D. D. Richard Alleyne D. D. Daniel Featly D. D. Matthius Styles D. D. Edmond Stanton D. D. Stephen Denison D. D. Edw. Williamot D. D. Ionathan Brown D. D. Iasper Fisher D. D. Hanniball Potter D. D. Anthony Clapton D. D. Thomas Drayton D. D. Iohn Grant D. D. Ministers of London George Walker Iames Palmer Edward Malbury Ioseph Caryll Edmond Calamy Adoniram Byfield William Price Richard Maden Iames Batty Matth. Griffeth Ephr●im Paget Robert Pory William Ianeway Nathaniel Barry Ministers of severall other Counties Iohn White Dorsetshire William Ford Iohn Pyns , Somersetshire Zachery Caudry Leistershire Henry Paynter Devonshire Stephen Marsholl Samuel Ioyner Essex Iohn Ward Suffolke Ier. Buroughes Northfolke Iohn Rawlinson Darby Moses Capell William Rhet Kent Francis Charliot Richard Gifford Buck. William Englesby Hertford Other worthy Ministers of the Diocesse of Peterburrough where the Petitioner liveth Daniel Caudery Ieremy Whittaker Iohn Barry Iames Cranford Samuel Craddock David Ensme Edmond Castell Samuel Male Daniel Rogers Benjamin Tomkins Richard Cook Richard Trueman Iohn Guderick William Spencer Edmond Iames Iohn Baynard George Iay Francis Presse Miles Berket Francis Atturbury Ieremy Stephens Iohn Ward Peter Fawtract William Malkinson THe motion made by Master William Castell Minister of the Gospell for propagating of the blessed Evangell of Christ our Lord and Saviour in America we conceive in the generall to be most pious Christian and charitable And therefore worthy to be seriously considered of all that love the glorious Name of Christ and are zealous of the salvation of soules which are without Christ and without God in the world wishing the opportunity and fit season the instruments and meanes and all things necessary for the prosecution of so pious a worke to be considered by the wisdomes of Churches and civill powers whom God hath called and enablad with Piety Prudence and Policy for matters of publick concernment and of so great Importance And beseeching the Lord to blesse all their consultations and proceedings for the advancing and establishing the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Alexander Henderson Robert Blare R. Bailly M. Gallaspie N. Smyth M. Borthrick AN ORDINANCE Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Whereby Robert Earle of Warwicke is made Governour in Chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those I●ands and other Plantations in●abited planted or belonging to any his Majesties the King of Englands Subjects within the bounds and upon the Coasts of America And a Committee appointed to be assisting unto him for the better governing strengthning and preservation of the said Plantations but chiefly for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion and farther spreading of the Gospell of Christ among those that yet remaine there in great and miserable blindenesse and ignorance WHereas many thousands of the Natives and good Subjects of this Kingdome of England though the oppression of the Prelates and other ill affected Ministers and Officers of State have of late yeares to their griefe and miserable hardship been inforced to transplant themselves and their families into severall Ilands and other remote and desolate parts of the West Indies and having there through exceeding great labour and industry with the blessing of God obtained for themselves and their families some competent and convenient meanes of maintenance and subsistance so that they are now in a reasonable well setled and peaceable condition But fearing least the outragious malice of Papists and other ill-affected persons should reach unto them in their poor low but as yet peaceable condition and having beene informed that there hath beene lately procured from his Majesty severall grants under the Great Seale for erecting some new Governours and Commanders amongst the said Planters in their afore-mentioned Plantations Whereupon the said Planters Adventurers and Owners of land in the said forreign Plantations have preferred their Petition unto this present Parliament that for the better securing of them and their present estates there obtained through so much extreame labour and difficulty they might have some such Governours and government as should be approved of and confirmed by the authority of both Houses of Parliament Which Petition of theirs the Lords and Commons having taken into consideration and finding it of great importance both to the safety and preservation of the aforesaid Natives and Subjects of this Kingdome as well from all forraigne invasions and oppressions as from their owne intestine distractions and disturbances as also much tending to the honour and advantage of his Majesties Dominions have thought fit and do hereby Constitute and Ordain Robert Earle of Warwick Governour in chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those Ilands and other Plantations inhabited planted or belonging to any his Majesties the King of Englands Subjects or which hereafter may be inhabited planted or belonging to them within the bounds and upon the Coasts of America And for the more effectuall speedier and easier transaction of this so weighty and important a businesse which concernes the well-being and preservation of so many of the distressed Natives of this and other his Majesties Dominions the Lords and Commons have thought fit that Philip Earle of Pembrooke Edward Earle of Manchester William Viscount Say and Seale Philip Lord Wharton Iohn Lord Roberds Members of the House of Peeres Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight and Baronet Sir Arthure Haselrig Baronet Sir Henry Vane junior Knight Sir Benjamin Rudyer Knight Iohn Pym Oliver Cromwell Dennis Bond Miles Corbet Cornelius Holland Samuel Vassall Iohn Rolles and William Spurstow Esquiers Members of the House of Commons shall be Commissioners to joyn in aide and assistance with the said Earle of Warwick chiefe Governour and Admirall of the said Plantations which chiefe Governour together with the said Commissioners or any four of them shall hereby have power and authority

to provide for order and dispose all things which they shall from time to time finde most fit and advantagious to the well-governing securing strenghning and preserving of the said Plantations and chiefly to the preservation and advancement of the true Protestant Religion amongst the said Planters inhabitants and the further inlargement and spreading of the Gospell of Christ amongst those that yet remaine there in great and miserable blindnesse and ignorance And for the better advancement of this so great a work It is hereby further ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the aforesaid Governour Commissioners shall hereby have power and authority upon all weighty and important occasions which may concerne the good and safety of the aforesaid Planters to call unto their advice and assistance therein any other of the aforesaid Planters Owners of land or Inhabitants of the said Ilands and Plantations which shall then be within twenty miles of the place where the said Commissioners shall then be And shall have power and authority to send for view and make use of all such Records Books and Papers which do or may concerne any of the said Plantations And because the well-setling and establishing of such Officers Governours as shall be laborious and faithfull in the right governing of all such persons as be resident in or upon the said Plantations and due ordering and disposing of all such Affaires as concerne the safety and welfare of the same is of very great advantage to the publick good of all such remote and new Plantations It is thereby further Ordained and Decreed That the said Robert Earle of Warwick Governour in chiefe and Admirall of the said Plantations together with the aforesaid Commissioners Philip Earle of Pembrooke Edward Earle of Manchester William Viscount Say and Seale Philip Lord Wharton Iohn Lord Roberts Sir Gibbert Gerard Knight and Baronet Sir Arthure Ha●elrig Baronet Sir Henry Vane junior Knight Sir Benjamin Rudyer Knight Iohn Pym Oliver Cromwell Dennis Bond Miles Corbet Cornelius Holland Samuel Vassall Iohn Iohn ●olls and William Purstowe Esquires or the greater member of them shall have power and authority from time to time to nominate appoint and constitute all such subordinate Governours Councellors Commanders Officers and Agents as they shall judge to be best affected and most fit and serviceable for the said Ilands and Plantations And shall hereby have power and authority upon the death or other avoidance of the aforesaid chiefe Governour and Admirall or any the other Commissioners before named from time to time to nominate and appoint such other chiefe Governour Admirall or Commissioners in the place or room of such as shall so become voide And shall also hereby have power and authority to remove any of the said subordinate Governours Councellors Commanders Officers or Agents which are or shall be appointed to governe counsell or negotiate the publick affaires of the said Plantation and in their place and room to appoint such other Officers as they shall judge fit And it is hereby ordained That no subordinate Governours Councellors Commanders Officers Agents Planters or Inhabitants whatsoever that are now resident in or upon the same Ilands or Plantations shall admit or receive any other new Governours Councellors Commanders Officers or Agents whatsoever but such as shall be allowed and approved of under the Hands and Seales of the afore mentioned Commissioners or any six of them or under the Hands and Seales of such as shall authorize thereunto And whereas for the better governement and security of the said Plantations and Ilands and the Owners and Inhabitants thereof there may be just and fit occasion to assigne over some part of the power and authority granted in this Ordinance to the chiefe Governour and Commissioners afore named unto the said Owners Inhabitants or others It is hereby Ordained that the said chiefe Governors and Commissioners before mentioned or the greater number of them shall hereby be authorized to assigne ratifie and confirme so much of their aforementioned authority and power and in such manner and to such persons as they shall judge to be fit for the better governing and preserving of the said Plantations and Ilands from open violence and private disturbance and distractions And lastly That whosoever shall doe execute or yeeld obedience to any thing contained in this Ordinance shall by vertue hereof be saved harmelesse and indempnified Sir Benjamin Rudyers Speech Concerning a WEST INDIE Association at a Committee of the whole House in the Parliament 21 JACOBI Sir Dudley Digs I Doe professe that as my Affection my Reason and my Iudgement go strongly with the scope and drift of this proposition so shall a good part of my poor fortune when it comes to execution For to my understanding there was never propoundin Parliament a design more proper for this kingdome nor of more pregnant advantage to it whether we consider the Nature of our situation or the quality of our Enemies forces As we are an Iland it concernes our being to have store of ships to defend us and also our well-being by their Trade to inrich us This Association for the West Indies when it shall be regulated and established by Act of Parliament and thereby secured from the violence and injury of any intruding hand it will certainly give many men encouragement and confidence voluntarily to bring in large and liberall contributions towards so notable so profitable an Enterprise So that in short time we shall see many new ships built many brave men imployed and inabled for the service of their Country none of this money shall be carryed out of the Kingdtme but laid out for shippeng which is the defence of it and bestowed upon our own men who must be ●ed and maintained though they stay at home For this we shall reape the fruit of whatsoever benefit Plantation Traffick or Purchase can procure us besides honour and security Now let us a little consider the Enemy we are to encounter the King of Spain They are not his great Territories which make him so powerfull and so troublesome to all Christendome For it is very well known that Spain it selfe is but weak in men and barren of Naturall Commodities As for his other Territories they lye divided and asunder which is a weaknesse in its selfe besides they are held by force and maintained at an extraordinary charge Insomuch as although he be a great King yet is he like the great G●ant who was said to have 100 hands but he had 50 bellies to feed so that ra●ably he had no more hands then another man No Sir they are his Mines in the West Indies which minister fuell to feed his vast ambitious desire of universall Monarchy It is the money he hath from thence which makes him able to levie and pay Souldiers in all places and to keepe an Army continually on foot ready to invade and indanger his Neighbours So that we have no other way but to endeavour to cut him