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A78294	A petition of W.C. exhibited to the high court of Parliament now assembled, for the propagating of the Gospel in America, and the West Indies; and for the setling of our plantations there; which petition is approved by 70 able English divines. Also by Master Alexander Henderson, and some other worthy ministers of Scotland.	Castell, William, d. 1645.	1641 (1641)	Wing C1230; Thomason E181_26; ESTC R212670	5,213	17

least they will bee sure to be desperately assaulted as was the Ile of Providence but the yeare last past Whence your Petitioner offereth unto your Honourable considerations a third Argument drawne from meere necessity that as you tender the happy proceeding of those as yet but weakely setled Plantations the liberties livelihood and lives of many thousands our deare brethren and countrey men And which is yet more the prosperous progress of the gospel you would be pleased to consult of such an able and speedy supply as may secure them against the now expected cruelty of the Spaniard To which needfull supply the better and sooner to induce your wisedomes your Petitioner desireth your yet a little further patience untill hee hath shewed some temporall benefits that are thereby like to acrew unto this Kingdome together with the easinesse of effecting When a Kingdom beginneth to be over-burthened with a multitude of people as England and Scotland now do to have a convenient place where to send forth Coloniesis no smal benefit And such are the North-east and North-west parts of America betweene the degrees of 25. and 45. of the North latitude which at this time doe even offer themselves unto us to bee protected by us against the knowne cruelty of the over-neare approaching Spaniard A very large tract of ground containing spacious healthfull pleasant and fruitfull countries not only apt but already provided of all things necessary for mans sustentation Corne Grasse and wholsome cattell in good competencie but Fish Fowle Fruits and Herbes in abundant variety If wee should looke no further then the South of Virginia which is our owne wee shall find there all manner of provision for life besides Merchantable Commodities Silke Vines Cotton Tobacco Deer-skins Goat-skins rich Furre and Beavers good store Timber Brasse Iron Pitch Tarre Rosin and almost all things necessary for shipping which if they shall bee employed that way they who are sent away may with Gods blessing within short time in due recompence of their setting forth returne this Kingdome store of silver and gold pearles and precious stones for undoubtedly if there be not a generall mistake in all Authors who have written of these places such treasure is to bee had if not there yet in places not farre remote where as yet the Spaniard hath nothing to doe And in case the Spaniard will bee troublesome to our Plantations or shall as it is generally conceived bee found an Enemy to this Kingdome there is no way more likely to secure England then by having a strong Navie there hereby wee may come to share if not utterly to defeat him of that vaste Indian Treasure wherewith hee setteth on fire so great a part of the Christian World corrupteth many Counsellors of state supporteth the Papacie and generally perplexeth all reformed Churches Nor need any scrupulous quere bee made whether wee may not assault an enemy in any place or not esteeme them such as shall assault us in those places where wee have as much to doe as they The Spaniard claimeth indeed an Interest little lesse then hereditarie in almost all America and the West Indies but it is but by vertue of the Popes grant which is nothing worth as was long since determined by Queene Elizabeth and her Councell so as for the Spaniard to debarre us in the liberty of our Plantations or freedome of commerce in those spacious countries were over proudly to take upon him and for us to permit it were over-much to yeeld of our own right Especially when we may as now we may so easily helpe our selves For your Petitioner conceiveth there is no great difficulty in the preparation here or tediousnesse in the passage thither or hazard when wee come there The preparation of men and shipping in respect of the daily happy expected accord betweene us and the Scots is upon the matter already made and as for money it is in the power of this Honourable House to give sufficient without any grievance or dislike of the Common-wealth who undoubtedly in the generall will thinke nothing grievous which shall bee concluded by your wisedomes expedient to such a pious and charitable worke And as for the passage how can it be thought either tedious or dangerous it being ordinarily but six weekes sayle in a sea much more secure from Pirats and much more free from shipwrack and enemies coasts then our ten or twelve moneths voyage into the East-Indies And as for our good successe there wee need not feare it The natives being now every where more then ever out of an inveterate hatred to the Spaniard ready and glad to entertaine us Our best friends the Netherlanders being with eight and twenty ships gone before to assist and further us And which is much more our going with a generall consent in Gods cause for the promoting of the Gospel and inlarging of his Church may assure us of a more then ordinary protection and direction That hitherto wee have beene lesse successefull in our voyage that way wee may justy impute it to this that as yet they have not beene 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 then so weighty a matter might well require hee submits all the premises to your more full deliberation and conclusion which hee humbly prayeth may bee with all convenient speed the onely best way under God to make it the better successefull WEe whose names are here under-written having beene upon occasion acquainted with a motion intended to bee 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 Gospel of Christ in America As wee doe well approve of the motion so we doe humbly desire his reasons may bee duly considered And so good a worke 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 Mathias 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 Marbury Ioseph Caryll Edmond Calamy Adoniram Byfield William Price Richard Maden Iames Batty Math Griffeth Ephraim Paget Robert Pory William Ianeway Nathaniell Barry Ministers of severall other Counties Iohn White Dorset-shire William Ford Somerset-shire Iohn Pyns Somerset-shire Zachery Caudry Lestershire Henry Paynter Devonshire Stephen Marshall Essex Samuell Ioyner Essex Iohn Ward Suffolke Ier. Burroughes Northfolke Iohn Rawlinson Darby Moses Capell Kent William Rhet. Kent Francis Charliot Buck. Richard Gifford Herford William Englesby Herford 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 Moyle Daniel Rogers Benjamin Tomkins Richard Cooke Richard True-man Iohn Guderick William Spencer Edmond Iames Iohn Baynard George Iay Francis Presse Iohn Guderick Miles Berket Francis Atturbury Ieremy Stephens Iohn Ward Peter Fawtract William Malkinson The motion made by Master William Castell Minister of the Gospel for propagating of the blessed Evangell of Christ our Lord and Saviour in America wee conceive in the generall to bee 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 bee considered by the wisedomes of Churches and civill powers whom God hath called and enabled with Piety Prudence and Peace for matters of publicke 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 Iesus Christ Alexander Henderson Robert Blare R. Baillie M. Gillaspie N. Smyth M. Borthrick FINIS