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lord_n	john_n	justice_n	thomas_n	17,750	5	8.7458	4	false

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

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