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A12461	The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Barra, John, ca. 1574-1634, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 22790; ESTC S111882	354,881	269

see nothing but miserable complaints therefore vnder your correction to rectifie all is with all expedition to passe the authority to them who will releeue them lest all bee consumed ere the differences be determined And except his Maiestie vndertake it or by Act of Parlament some small tax may be granted throughout his Dominions as a Penny vpon euery Poll called a head-penny two pence vpon euery Chimney or some such collection might be raised and that would be sufficient to giue a good stocke and many seruants to sufficient men of any facultie and transport them freely for paying onely homage to the Crowne of England and such duties to the publike good as their estates increased reason should require Were this put in practice how many people of what quality you please for all those disasters would yet gladly goe to spend their liues there and by this meanes more good might be done in one yeere then all those pety particular vndertakings will effect in twenty For the Patent the King may if he please rather take it from them that haue it then from vs who had it first pretending to his Maiesty what great matters they would doe and how little we did and for any thing I can conceiue had we remained still as at first it is not likely we could haue done much worse but those oft altering of gouernments are not without much charge hazard and losse If I be too plaine I humbly craue your pardon but you requested me therefore I doe but my duty For the Nobility who knowes not how freely both in their Purses and assistances many of them haue beene to aduance it committing the managing of the businesse to inferiour persons amongst whom questionlesse also many haue done their vtmost best sincerely and truly according to their conceit opinion and vnderstanding yet grosse errors haue beene committed but no man liues without his fault for my owne part I haue so much adoe to amend my owne I haue no leisure to looke into any mans particular but those in generall I conceiue to be true And so I humbly rest Yours to command I. S. THus those discords not being to be compounded among themselues nor yet by the extraordinary diligences care and paines of the noble and right worthy Commissioners Sir William Iones Sir Nicholas Fortescue Sir Francis Goston Sir Richard Sutton Sir Henry Bourgchier and Sir William Pit a Corante was granted against Master Deputy Farrar and 20. or 30. others of that party to plead their causes before the right Honourable the Lords of his Maiesties Priuy Councell now notwithstanding all the Relations Examinations and intercepting of all Letters whatsoeuer came from thence yet it seemes they were so farre vnsatisfied and desired to know the truth as well for the preseruation of the Colony as to giue content and doe all men right they sent two Commissioners strictly to examine the true estate of the Colony Vpon whose returne after mature deliberation it pleased his royall Maiesty to suppresse the course of the Court at Deputy Farrars and that for the present ordering the affaires of Virginia vntill he should make a more full settlement thereof the Lord Viscount Mandeuile Lord President of his Maiesties Priuie Councell and also other Priuy Councellors with many vnderstanding Knights and Gentlemen should euery Thursday in the afternoone meet at Sir Thomas Smiths in Philpot lane where all men whom it should concerne may repaire to receiue such directions and warrant for their better security as more at large you may see in the Proclamation to that effect vnder the great Seale of England dated the 15. of Iuly 1624. But as for the relations last returned what numbers they are how many Cities Corporations townes and houses cattle and horse they haue what fortifications or discoueries they haue made or reuenge vpon the Saluages who are their friends or foes or what commodities they haue more then Tobacco their present estate or what is presently to be put in execution in that the Commissioners are not yet fully satisfied in the one nor resolued in the other at this present time when this went to the Presse I must intreat you pardon me till I be better assured Thus far I haue trauelled in this Wildernesse of Virginia not being ignorant for all my paines this discourse will be wrested tossed and turned as many waies as there is leaues that I haue writ too much of some too little of others and many such like obiections To such I must answer in the Companies name I was requested to doe it if any haue concealed their approued experiences from my knowledge they must excuse me as for euery fatherles or stolne relation or whole volumes of sofisticated rehearsals I leaue them to the charge of them that desire them I thanke God I neuer vndertooke any thing yet any could tax me of carelesnesse or dishonesty and what is hee to whom I am indebted or troublesome Ah! were these my accusers but to change cases and places with me but 2. yeeres or till they had done but so much as I it may be they would iudge more charitably of my imperfections But here I must leaue all to the triall of time both my selfe Virginia's preparations proceedings and good euents praying to that great God the protector of all goodnesse to send them as good successe as the goodnesse of the action and Country deserueth and my heart desireth FINIS THE FIFTH BOOKE THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE BERMVDAS now called the Summer Iles from their beginning in the yeere of our Lord 1593. to this present 1624. with their proceedings accidents and present estate BEfore we present you the matters of fact it is fit to offer to your view the Stage whereon they were acted for as Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation Those Ilands lie in the huge maine Ocean and two hundred leagues from any continent situated in 32. degrees and 25. minutes of Northerly latitude and distant from England West South-West about 3300. miles some twenty miles in length and not past two miles and a halfe in breadth enuironed with Rocks which to the North-ward West-ward and South-East extend further then they haue bin yet well discouered by reason of those Rocks the Country is naturally very strong for there is but two places scare two vnlesse to them who know them well where shipping may safely come in and those now are exceeding well fortified but within is roome to entertaine a royall Fleet the Rocks in most places appeare at a low water neither are they much couered at a high for it ebbs and flowes not past fiue foot the shore for most part is a Rocke so hardened with the sunne wind and sea that it is not apt to be worne away with the waues whose violence is also broke by the Rocks before they can come to the shore it is very

of the Bermudas where at last with his company he safely arriued but such was his diligence with his extraordinary care paines and industry to dispatch his businesse and the strength of his body not answering the euer memorable courage of his minde hauing liued so long in such honourable seruices the most part of his well beloued and vertuous life God and nature here determined should euer remaine a perpetuall memory of his much bewailed sorrow for his death finding his time but short after he had taken the best course he could to settle his estate like a valiant Captaine he exhorted them with all diligence to be constant to those Plantations and with all expedition to returne to Virginia In that very place which we now call Saint Georges towne this noble Knight died whereof the place taketh the name But his men as men amazed seeing the death of him who was euen as the life of them all embalmed his body and set saile for England being the first that euer went to seeke those Ilands which haue beene euer since called Summers Iles in honour of his worthy memory leauing three men behind them that voluntarily stayed whose names were Christopher Carter Edward Waters there formerly left as is said and Edward Chard This Cedar ship at last with his dead body arriued at Whit-Church in Dorsetshire where by his friends he was honourably buried with many vollies of shot and the rites of a Souldier and vpon his tombe was bestowed this Epitaph Hei mihi Virginia quod tam cito praeterit Aestas Autumnus sequitur saeuiet inde biems At ver perpetuum nascetur Anglialaeta Decerpit flores florida terra tuas In English thus Alas Virginia's Summer so soone past Autumne succeeds and stormy Winters blast Yet Englands ioyfull Spring with ioyfull showers O Florida shall bring thy sweetest flowers THe honour of this resulution belongs principally to Carter for through his importunity not to leaue such a place abandoned Chard Waters were moued to stay with him and the rest promised w●th all the speed they could againe to reuisit them But the ship once out of sight those three Lords the sole inhabitants of all those Ilands began to erect their little common wealth for a while with brotherly regency repairing the ground planting Corne and such seeds and fruits as they had building a house c. Then making priuy search amongst the creusses and corners of those craggy Rocks what this maine Ocean since the worlds creation had throwne amongst them at last they chanced vpon the greatest peece of Amber-greece was euer seene or heard of in one lumpe being in weight fourescore pound besides diuers other small peeces But now being rich they grew so proud and ābitious contempt tooke such place they fell out for superiority though but three forlorne men more then three thousand miles from their natiue Country and but small hope euer to see it againe Notwithstanding they sometimes fell from words to blowes about meere trifles in one of which fights one of them was bitten with his owne dog as if the dumbe beast would reproue them of their folly at last Chard and Waters the two greater spirits must try it out in the field but Carter wisely stole away their weapons affecting rather to liue amongst his enemies then by being rid of them liue alone and thus those miserable men liued full two yeeres so that all their clothes were neere worne cleane from their backs and their hopes of any forraine releefe as naked as their bodies At last they began to recouer their wits yet in a fashion perhaps would haue cost them dearer then when they were mad for concluding a tripartite peace of their Marachin warre they resolued to frame as good a Boat as they could and therein to make a desperate attempt for Virginia or New found Land but no sooner were they entred into that resolution but they descried a saile standing in for the shore though they neither knew what she was nor what she would they were so ouer-ioyed with all possible speed they went to meet her and according to their hearts desire she proued an English-man whom they safely conducted into their harbour Now you are to vnderstand that Captaine Matthew Somers Nephew and heire to Sir George that returned with his dead body though both he and his Company did their vtmost in relating all those passages to their Countrey-men and aduenturers their relations were beleeued but as trauellers tales till it came to be apprehended by some of the Virginia Company how beneficiall it might be and helpfull to the Plantation in Virginia so that some one hundred and twentie of them bought the pretended right of all the Company and had sent this ship to make a triall but first they had obtained Letters Patents of the Kings most excellent Maiestie Sir Thomas Smith was elected Treasurer and Gouernor heere and Master Richard More to be Gouernor of the Iles and Colony there The first beginning of a Colonie in the Somer Iles vnder the command of Master Richard More extracted out of a plot of Master Richard Norwood Surueior and the relations of diuer's others MAster More thus finding those three men not onely well and lusty but well stored with diuers sorts of prouisions as an Acre of Corne ready to be gathered numbers of Pumpions and Indian Beanes many Tortoises ready taken good store of hogs flesh salted and made in flitches of Bacon were very good and so presently landed his goods and sixty persons towards the beginning of Iuly 1612. vpon the South side of Smiths I le Not long after his arriuall More hauing some priuate intelligence of this Amber-greece tooke first Chard in examination he being one of the three the most masterfull spirit what Amber-greece Pearle Treasure or other Commodities they had found Chard no lesse witty then resolute directly answered Not any thing at all but the fruits of the I le what his fellowes had done he knew not but if they had he doubted not but to finde it out and then hee should know it certainly This he spake onely to win time to sweare his Consorts to secrecy and he would finde the meanes how they should all returne in that ship with it all for England otherwise they should be deceiued of all Till this was effected they thought euery houre an age now for the better conueiance of it aboord they acquainted it to Captaine Dauis master of the ship and one Master Edwin Kendall that for their secrecy and transportation should participate with them Without further ceremony the match was accepted and absolutely concluded the plot laid time and place set downe to haue it aboord But Carter were it for feare the Gouernor at last should know of it to whom so oft they had denied it or that the rest should deceiue him is vncertaine but most certaine it is he reuealed all the plot to Master More To get

his first peece of fortification vpon a Rocke which flankers the Kings Castle and finding the ship called the Treasurer starke rotten and vnseruiceable hee tooke nine peeces of Ordinance from her to serue other vses The Garland for want of meanes could not make her voiage to Virginia as she was appointed wherefore he entertained her to returne to England with all the Tabacco they had in the I le It was Ianuary before she departed in which time shee failed not much to haue beene twice cast away But those strange and vnauoidable mischances rather seemed to quicken the Gouernors industry then to dull it Hauing finished the Church begun by Captaine Kendall with an infinite toile and labour he got three peeces out of the wracke VVarwicke Hauing an excellent Dutch Carpinter he entertained of them that were cast away in the Dutch Frigot he imploied him in building of Boats whereof they were in exceeding great want In February they discouered a tall ship beating too and againe as it seemed by her working being ignorant of the Coast some thought her a Spaniard to view their Forts which stand most to that part she so neerely approached some English but the most some Dutch man of Warre The wind blew to high they durst not send out a Boat though they much doubted she would be foule of their Rocks but at last she bore vp rommy for the Sea and we heard of her no more That euening a lucky fellow it should seeme he was that found a peece of Amber-greece of eight ounces as he had twice before which bringing to the Gouernor he had ready money for the one halfe after three pound an ounce according to their order of Court to encourage others to looke out for more and preuent the mischiefe insueth by concealing of it Within a few daies after they descried two Frigots that came close to the shore and sent a Letter to the Gouernor writ in Italian that they were Hollanders had beene in the West-Indies and desired but to arriue refresh themselues with wood and water and so be gone The Gouernor forthwith sent them to vnderstand that being there vnder his Maiestie of England to command those Iles he was to carrie himselfe a friend to his friends and an enemy to his enemies if therefore he could shew a lawfull Commission for his being honestly and nobly emploied he and his should be kindly welcome otherwise they were to aduenture at their perills But his Commission was so good he staied there two moneths and was so well fitted with Oile Bacon they were all glad and happy of this Dutch Captaine Scoutans arriuall with many thanks to their old friend Captaine Powell that had conducted him thither the Colony being exceedingly in great want and distresse bought the most part of it at reasonable rates so Captaine Scoutan returned to the West-Indies and Captaine Powell for his part in the Low-Countries Whilest these things were in action the Aduenturers in \ England made many a long looke for their ships at last the Garland brought them all the newes but the Tobacco was so spoiled either in the leaking ship or the making vp it caused a great suspicion there could none was good come from those Iles where were they but perfit in the cure questionlesse it would be much better then a great quantitie of that they sell for Verinas and many a thousand of it in London hath beene bought and sold by that title The Gouernor being cleere of those distractions falls vpon the restoring of the burnt Redoubt where he cuts out a large new plat-forme and mounts seuen great peece of Ordnance vpon new cariages of Cedar Now amongst all those troubles it was not the least to bring the two Ministers to subscribe to the Booke of Common Praier which all the Bishops in England could not doe Finding it high time to attempt some conformitie bethought himselfe of the Liturgie of Garnsey and Iarse wherein all those particulars they so much stumbled at were omitted No sooner was this propounded but it was gladly imbraced by them both whereupon the Gouernor translated it verbatim out of French into English and caused the eldest Minister vpon Easter day to begin the vse thereof at S. Georges towne where himselfe most of the Councell Officers and Auditorie receiued the Sacrament the which forme they continued during the time of his gouernment Much about this time in such a faire morning that had inuited many Boats farre out to the Sea to fish did rise such a Hericano that much indangered them all so that one of them with two Boies were driuen to Sea and neuer more heard of The Ministers thus agreed a Proclamation was published for keeping of the Sabbath and all the defectiue cariages he endeuoured to haue renewed builded a small Boat of Cedar onely to goe with Ores to be ready vpon any occasion to discouer any shipping and tooke order euery Fort should haue the like Also caused numbers of Cedars to be brought from diuers places in flotes to rebuild the Mount which with an vnspeakable toile was raised seuen foot higher then before and a Falcon mounted at the foot to be alwaies discharged for a warning to all the Forts vpon the discouery of any shipping and this he called Rich Mount This exceeding toile and labour hauing no Cattle but onely mens strengths caused many petitions to the Gouernour that all those generall works might cease till they had reaped their haruests in that they were in great distresse for victuall which hee so well answered their owne shames did cause them desist from that importunity and voluntarily performe as much as hee required Finding accidentally a little crosse erected in a by place amongst a many of bushes vnderstanding there was buried the heart and intrailes of Sir George Summers hee resolued to haue a better memory for so worthy a Souldier then that So finding also a great Marble stone brought out of England hee caused it by Masons to bee wrought handsomely and laid ouer the place which hee inuironed with a square wall of hewen stone Tombe like wherein hee caused to bee grauen this Epitaph he had composed and fixed it vpon the Marble stone and thus it was In the yeere 1611 Noble Sir George Summers went hence to heauen Whos 's well tri'd worth that held him still imploid Gaue him the knowledge of the world so wide Hence 't was by heauens decree that to this place He brought new guests and name to mutuall grace At last his soule and body being to part He here bequeath'd his entrails and his heart Vpon the sixt of Iune began the second Assise that reduced them to the direct forme vsed in England For besides the Gouernour and Councell they haue the Bailiffes of the Tribes in nature of the Deputy Lieutenants of the shires in England for to them are all precepts and warrants directed and accordingly answered and respected they performe also the