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A54990	A description of the province of New Albion and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely, and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : with a briefe of the charge of victuall, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master 50 l. per annum, or more in twelve trades, and at 10 l. charges onely a man.	Plantagenet, Beauchamp.; Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2378; ESTC R10729	28,128	32

disturb the peace or quiet of the Inhabitants but therein to obey the Civill Magistrate For the Politique and Civill Government and Justice Virginia and New England is our president First the Lord head Governour a Deputy Governour Secretary of Estate or Seal keeper and twelve of the Councell of State or upper House and these or five of them is also a Chancery Court Next out of Counties and Towns at a free election and day prefixed thirty Burgesses or Commons Once yearly the tenth of November these meet as at a Parliament or Grand Assembly and make Laws or repeal alter explain and set taxes and rates for common defence and without full consent of Lord upper and lower House nothing is done Appeals are here also tried all criminall cases for life above only by two Juries or actions at Law a Jury on either side may be called and by them tried and any before judgement may stop the Law and be tried in Equity The two months Courts may try before four Justices of Peace any action not exceeding 10 l. or 1500 l. of Tobacco at 4 s. charge onely and plead without Atturney an Appeal lieth thence to each quarter or Chancery first Court above and from thence an Appeal to the Grand Assembly any matter under 40 s. value or 200 l. of Tobacco to be ended by the next Justice at 1 s. charge no deposition to be taken but before two Justices whereof one of the Quorum or in Court or before a Councell or of Estate and here is no Jeofails nor Demurrers but a Summary hearing and a Sheriffe and Clerk of Court with small fees ends all for the most part in a few words Last of all how plentifully may a quiet industrious man live here having rich Corn Land Mead and Pasture and Timbers and Woods covered many months with Ches-nuts and four other nuts and mast for Deer Hogs and Turkeys Fish Fowl Venison Wine and Fruits gratis Our chiefe Staples are Tobacco then Flaxe and Rice of which in floated lands you have infinite increase and without floating you may have and all the winter Ship-plankes Clove board and Pipe-staves these lade home ships twice a year hence and for them bring you any English servants or English or Dutch wares cloths stuffes drams wines or what you bespeak but surely we may easily grow rich if we will and buy no clothes for a good Weaver brought hither will make us of our own Flaxe nine sorts of Linnens tufted Hollands Velures Velvets Tuftaffetaes and Plushes and for Winter a good Glover with allome onely of our own Elk-skins maketh the best Buffe-coats our owne Stag and Deer skins make best gentile and soldiers clothes fittest for our Woods a Doe-skin breeches with the fur inside in our short Winter is better then two broad clothes and warmer so we need no English clothing Cattle in Virginia and all Grain in New England brought to our doores cheaper then here Indian Corn or Pease or Beans at twelve pence a bushel by truck with the Indians and Rye Meal a third with the white and dry Mayz Meal which is all together but twenty pence a bushell of Meale maketh the best bread and we have more choice drinks then here for sweet Stalk and Pumpion drink hopped is good beer and ale we have and mault as you and in the hot Summer rock cold water with an eighth of Peach Vinegar is the best Beaverage Peaches better then Apricocks by some doe feed Hogs one man hath ten thousand trees all Apples Pears Cherries and other fruits grow here in half the time as in your cold and blasty Region and so do all Hops Roots Hearbs and Garden stuffe Our days in Summer 2 hours shorter and in Winter more comfortable two houres longer and a warmer Sun and bigger fires and no rent to my Landlord makes us merry He that is lazy and will not work needs not fear starving but may live as an Indian sometimes Oysters Cockles Wilkes Glams Scollons two moneths together sometimes wilde Pease and Vetches and Long Oats sometimes Tuckaho Cuttenoman ground Nuts Marhonions sometime small nuts Fillbirds Wall-nuts Pokikerries ten sorts of Berries Egs of Fowl small fish in Cove at low water will teach him to live idly CHAP. V. EAch Adventurer of twenty or fifty men must provide houshold necessaries as irons and chains for a draw-bridge two Mares or Horses to breed or ride on Pots Pans Dishes Iron for a Cart and Plow Chains Sithes and Sickles Nets Lines and Hooks A sail for a fishing Shallop of three tun and Hemp to employ his people in making them as with hair and canvas for quilts aswell on shipboard as demurring at the sea port as with locks keys bolts and glasse casements for his house And generally fit Implements for the work or trade he intends For trade with the Indians buy Dutch or Welch rugged cloth seven quarters broad a violet blew or red at four or five shillings a yard small hooks and fishing lines Morris bels Jewes-harps Combes trading knives Hatchets Axes Hoes they will bring you Venison Turkeys and Fowles Flesh 4t for a pennyworth of corn at twelve pence a bushell Provisions for each man and the charge from London 1. Canvas or linnen clothes Shooes Hats c. costing here foure pound for two men to buy Cows Goats and Hogs in Virginia which there yeelds sixe pound and will buy one Cow and Oxe two Goats two Sowes which for each man comes to 2 l. 0. 0. 2. freight for a Passenger and his half Tun of provisions and Tooles 1 l. 10. 0. 3. Victuals till his own stock and crop maintain him for seven moneths That is Pease Oatmeal and Aquavite 7 s. five bushels of Meal of which two to be baked into Biskets and five bushels of Malt some must be ground and brewed for the voyage both 1 l. 10 s. a hundred of Beefe and Pork 1 l. 2 s. two bushels of roots 2 s. salt fish 2 s. Cask to carry provision 5 s. five pound of Butter 2 s. 3 l. 10. 0. 4. One Hogshead of eares of Corn Garden seeds Hemp and linseed with Cask and some Rice from Virginia 0. 16. 0. 5. Armes viz. a Sword Calliver five foot long or long Pistoll Pikehead six pound of powder ten pound of shot halfe an old slight Armour that is two to one Armour 0. 19 s. 0. 6. Tools a Spade Axe and Shovell 5 s Iron and Steel to make and mend more and two hundred of nails 5 s. 0. 10. 0. 7. Guns and Powder for the Fort that is to every fifty foure Murtherers 8 l. a barrell of powder 4 l. 10 s. that is to each man 5 s. Bed and Sheets of Canvas to be filled with huls each man a Rug 15 s. Sum totall 10 l 5. 0. CHAP. VI 1. HEre by bringing good Labourers and Tradesmen the provident planters may doe well by giving shares or double wages when each man may earn his five nay sixe shillings a day

when the Spaniard and Portugall discovered and possest 140 years since the East-Indies Brasill the South part of America the Charibees and Antell Isles and seated Saint Iohn de porto Rico Hispanicla Iamaica and Cuba and the Fort and Port of Havanah against the Gulf and Current Batuana Isles and point of Florida then that most powerfull and richest King of Europe King Henry the seventh of England sent out an English man born in Bristoll called Cabot granted under his Great Seale to him all places and countries by him to be discovered and possest who then beginning at Cape Florida discovered entred on took possession set up crosses and procured atturnment and acknowledgement of the Indian Kings to his then Majesty as Head Lord and Emperour of the South-west America all along that coast both in Florida from 20 degrees to 35 where old Virginia in 35 and 30 minutes 65 years since was seated by 5 severall Colonies about Croatan Cape Haloraske and Rawleys Isle by Sir Walter Rawley who had from Queen Elizabeth that place and two hundred leagues from it in all places adjoyning Sir Richard Greenfield Sir Ralph Lane and Master White his partners s●ating and fortifying there the said Cabot farther taking possession in 37 of that part called Virginia and Chisapeack Bay being now his Majesties Demesne Colony of Virginia and of the next great Bay in or neer 39 called now by the Dutch Cape Henlopen the south river and by us Cape Iames and Delaware Bay of the Baron of Delawares name being then Governour of Virginia who by Sir Thomas Dale and Sir Samuel Argoll 40 yeares since took possession and atturnment of the Indian Kings and 60 years since Sir Walter Rawley seated and left 30 men and four peeces of Ordnance at the Creek neer Cape Iames by the Dutch called Horekill by us Ro●mont and by the Indians Cui Achomoca and so the next river by us called Hudsons river of the name of Hudson an English man the discoverer thirty five years since who sold his discovery plots and cards to the Dutch and so Cabot discovered severall rivers and countries all along the coast North-East now called New England and divided in nine severall Governments and further discovered Port Royall and that part called New Scotland set up Crosses where you may see in the French Book called New France the French found an old Crosse all mossy in an eminent place at the head of that Bay and Port and discovered all that coast and New-found-land and that called Terra de Laborador or New Britain as far as the frozen strait of Davis Shortly after one Master Hore in the Reign of King Henry the 8●● renued this actuall possession atturnment of the Indian Kings brought home divers of the chief Indian Kings to England who gave their Homage and Oath of fidelity for these countries to King Henry the eight in person sitting on his Throne in State in his Palace Hall at Westminster Then Virginia being granted settled and all that part now called Maryland New Albion and New Scotland being part of Virginia Sir Thomas Dale and Sir Samuel Argoll Captains and Counsellors of Virginia hearing of divers Aliens and Intruders and Traders without licence with a Vessell and forty soldiers landed at a place called Mount Desert in Nova Scotia neer S. Iohns river or Twede possest by the French there killed some French took away their Guns and dismantled the Fort and in their return landed at Manhatas Isle in Hudsons river where they found four houses built and a pretended Dutch Governour under the West-India Company of Amsterdam share or part who kept trading boats and trucking with the Indians but the said Knights told him their Commission was to expell him and all Aliens Intruders on his Majesties Dominion and Territories this being part of Virginia and this river an English discovery of Hudson and English man the Dutch man contented them for their charge and voiage and by his Letter sent to Virginia and recorded submitted himself Company and Plantation to his Majesty and to the Governour and government of Virginia but the next pretended Dutch Governour in Maps and printed Cards calling this part New Netherland failing in paying of customes at his return to Plymouth in England was there with his Bever goods and person attached to his damage of 1500 l. whereupon at the suit of the Governour and Councell of Virginia his now Majesty by his Embassadour in Holland cōplaining of the said Aliens intrusion on such his Territories Dominions the said Lords the States of Holland by their publique instrument declared That they did not avow nor would protect them being a private party of the Amsterdam West-India Company but left them to his Majesties wil mercy whereupon three severall Orders from the Councell Table and Commissions have been granted for the expelling and removing them thence of which they taking notice and knowing their weaknesse and want of victuals have offered to sell the same for 2500 l. And lastly taking advantage of our present war distractions now ask 7000 l. and have lately offered many affronts damages to his Majestis subjects in New England and in generall endanger all his Majesties adjoyning Countries most wickedly feloniously and traiterously contrary to the Marine and Admirall Laws of all Christians sell by whole sale guns powder shot and ammunition to the Indians instructing them in the use of our fights and arms insomuch as 2000 Indians by them armed Mohacks Raritans and some of Long Isle with their own guns so sold them fall into war with the Dutch destroyed all their scattering Farms and Boors in forcing them all to retire to their Up for t 40 leagues up that river and to Manhatas for all or most retreating to Manhatas it is now a pretty town of trade having more English then Dutch and it is very considerable that three years since Stuy their Governour put out his Declaration confessing that the neighbour English might well be offended with their selling Indians arms and ammunition but being but a few and so scattered they could not live else there or trade the Indians refusing to trade or suffer the Dutch to plow without they would sell them guns The like folly they committed and inconvenience to themselves and all English for eight years since in their West-India Fleet battered by the Spanish Armado they brought home forty Swedish poor soldiers and hearing that Captain Young and Master Evelin had given over their Fort begun at Eriwemeck within Delaware Bay there halfe starved and tottered they left them who learning the Indian language and finding much talk and trials of a gold mine there though in truth fifty shillings charges produced of that light sand but nine shillings in gold and therefore was of Captain Young that tried it slighted yet one Bogot under the Swedes name and Commission there traded to crosse the Dutch of Manhatas and to undersell them and left and seated there