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lord_n	knight_n	sir_n	viscount_n	16,070	5	12.0091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21108	A plaine path-vvay to plantations that is, a discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries. Wherein is declared, that the attempts or actions, in themselues are very good and laudable, necessary also for our country of England. Doubts thereabout are answered: and some meanes are shewed, by which the same may, in better sort then hitherto, be prosecuted and effected. Written for the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this land, chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these attempts better then yet they doe. With certaine motiues for a present plantation in New-found land aboue the rest. Made in the manner of a conference, and diuided into three parts, for the more plainnesse, ease, and delight to the reader. By Richard Eburne of Hengstridge in the countie of Somerset.	Eburne, Richard.	1624 (1624)	STC 7471; ESTC S105454	98,023	134

thereof wonderfully and withall our Seamen and Souldiers for seruices by Sea and so to gaine vs in time the freedome soueraignty and safety of the Seas beyond all other nations whatsoeuer 13. It is likely to yeeld vs many rich and necessary Commodities for our Land which now our Merchants doe fetch as farre or farther off at a dearer rate or with more danger a great deale then there or thence they shall 14. Beeing first and forthwith planted by vs it may bee a meanes of the furtherance of the rest of our Plantations intended which from thence may haue many supplies and which may serue for a resting place for the refreshing of those that goe to or from them this being as it were in the mid-way and high way to them all 15. It is very necessary for our Land because if it should through our negligence and backwardnesse bee intercepted by any other Nation it would bee as ill a Neighbour to England as being accepted by vs it may be a good And namely it would hazard the destruction and ouerthrow of all the rest of our Plantations which can hardly stand without this and the losse for euer of our fishing voyages there which these fourescore yeeres we haue frequented and enioyed which losse alone would be euen the vndoing of many of our Sea-cost Townes in England that doe now liue much by them 16. Last of all diuers honourable and worshipfull persons haue already begun seuerall Plantations in that Country and so laid the foundation of so famous and notable an attempt as all after ages shall haue cause I doubt it not to commend their valour and honour their memory With whom ●…f others or which were much to be wished if our whole Land would ioine the worke could not by the blessing of God vpon so blessed araction but luckily and speedily prosper Resp. Who I pray you are those worthy persons that haue made the first aduenture of planting there Enr. They are these First the right Honourable Henry Lord Cary Viscount Falkland and now Lord Deputy of Ireland hath begunne a great and faire Plantation there some few yeeres since and is well pleased to entertaine any such as will aduenture with him either in purse or in person vpon very fit and reasonable conditions Secondly the right Honourable Sir George Caluert Knight and principall Secretary to the Kings most excellent Maiesty hath also a very large and goodly Plantation there which though it be as yet but in the Infancy viz. of not aboue 5. or 6. yeeres vndertaking yet doth it already well flourish in a place well fortified and secured wherein are some hundred people or thereabout in habiting and emploied in building of houses ridding or clearing of grounds for pasture arable and other like vses and in making of salt for the preseruing of fish and diuers other seruices And his Honour is likewise well pleased to entertaine any that will either aduen●…ure with him or serue vnder him vpon very fit and faire conditions Thirdly Master Iohn Sla●…y of London Merchant and some others with him haue maintained a Colony of his Maiesties subiects there for diuers yeeres past Fourthly diuers worshipfull Citizens of the City of Bristoll haue vndertaken to plant a large Circuit of that Country and haue had people there inhabiting these 5. or 6. yeeres with good and hopefull successe Fifthly Master William Vaughan of Tarracod in the Countie of Carmarthen Doctor of the Ciuill Law hath also done the like and hath within these two or three yeeres last sent thither diuers men and women that doe inhabite there and prosper well Sixtly some other worthy persons there are that be aduenturers in the said Plantation whose names yet I know not By all which you may vnderstand that there is already a faire beginning of this worthy worke and that they which henceforth shall goe thither shall not be the first that shall aduenture to dwell there Which considered may bee a good Motiue to others to follow them and to ioyne themselues vnto them assured by the manifold experiments of those many and worthy persons as haue already aduentured their fortunes and meanes there and that in seuerall and farre distant parts of that Land that the Country is very habitable and good for a present and speedy Plantation Resp. These be good Motiues indeed for the aduancement and hasting of this Plantation And I like them so well that if I were but twenty yeeres younger then I am I thinke I should be like enough to see it my selfe and that now I cannot yet I shall be willing if I once see the same well set forward what I may to animate and perswade others my Children Kinsfolke Friends Allies and Neighbours thereunto as vnto a place and action that is likely to proue greatly to the good of all them and theirs for euer that will ingage themselues therein Enr. So doing and but so doing you shall doe well For assure your selfe you shall thereby much further the honour and glory of God benefit your natiue Country and people doe good seruice to our renowned King and Soueraigne and highly gratifie all those that haue vndertaken so honourable and excellent so necessary and difficult an enterprise But now answer mee one question as I haue done many to you Resp. I will if I can what is it Enr. What lets you notwithstanding your age but that you may goe also your selfe and see it and inhabit it too if you please as well as if you were 20. yeeres younger then you are Resp. Being so farre stricken in yeeres as I am I am not very willing to trauell into other Countries but am content and desirous too to end my life at home and let them that be young strong and ●…y goe for they are fit for it Enr. You are not so old and broken with age that you may say as father Barzillai did to Dauid 2. Sam. 19. 35. when he offered him more then an ordinary fauour I am said he this day fourescore yeere old I cannot discerne betweene good and euill nor hath thy seruant any taste in that he doth eat and drink●… I cannot heare any more the voice of singing men and women and I shall bee but aburthen to him that would pleasure me If you bee come to this state you shall by my consent haue A placard of ●…ase to abide at home or Bill of Dotage to trouble you no farther Resp. Truly I cannot so say I am reasonable strong and healthy yet I could rather say almost as old Caleb did to Captaine Ioshua Iosh. 14. 6. As strong as I was for 20. yeeres agoe so strong well neere am I yet I thanke God and am as apt and able for trauell and employment My senses are good and my ●…ic sight serues me almost as well as euer it did Enr. Then are you as fit to goe in such a businesse as euer you were and fitter too in some respect by your age Your