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world_n	mercy_n	miserable_a	sinner_n	9,243	5	11.1935	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12458	Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where. Or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation With the yearely proceedings of this country in fishing and planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630. and their present estate. Also how to prevent the greatest inconveniences, by their proceedings in Virginia, and other plantations, by approved examples. With the countries armes, a description of the coast, harbours, habitations, land-markes, latitude and longitude: with the map, allowed by our royall King Charles. By Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 22787; ESTC S121885	31,468	55

plantations and my selfe how oft up how oft downe sometimes neere despaire and ere long flourishing how many scandals and Spanolized English have sought to disgrace them bring them to ruine or at least hinder them all they could how many have shaven and couzened both them and me and their most honourable supporters and well-willers cannot but conceive Gods infinite mercy both to them and me Having beene a slave to the Turks prisoner amongst the most barbarous Salvages after my deliverance commonly discovering and ranging those large rivers and unknowne Nations with such a handfull of ignorant companions that the wiser sort often gave mee for lost alwayes in mutinies wants and miseries blowne up with gunpowder A long time prisoner among the French Pyrats from whom escaping in a little boat by my selfe and adrift all such a stormy winter night when their ships were split more than an hundred thousand pound lost wee had taken at sea and most of them drownd upon the I le of Ree not farre from whence I was driven on shore in my little boat c. And many a score of the worst of winter moneths lived in the fields yet to have lived neere 37. yeares in the midst of wars pestilence and famine by which many an hundred thousand have died about mee and scarce five living of them went first with me to Virginia and see the fruits of my labours thus well begin to prosper Though I have but my labour for my paines have I not much reason both privately and publikely to acknowledge it and give God thankes whose omnipotent power onely delivered me to doe the utmost of my best to make his name knowne in those remote parts of the world and his loving mercy to such a miserable sinner Had my designes beene to have perswaded men to a mine of gold as I know many have done that knew no such matter though few doe conceive either the charge or paines in refining it nor the power nor care to defend it or some new invention to passe to the South sea or some strange plot to invade some strange Monastery or some chargeable Fleet to take some rich Charaques or letters of mart to rob some poore Merchant or honest fisher men what multitudes of both people and money would contend to be first imployed But in those noble indevours now how few unlesse it bee to begge them as Monopolies and those seldome seeke the common good but the commons goods as the 217. the 218. and the 219. pages in the generall history will shew But only those noble Gentlemen and their associates for whose better incouragements I have recollected those experienced memorandums as an Apologie against all calumniating detracters as well for my selfe as them Now since them called Brownists went some few before them also having my bookes and maps presumed they knew as much as they desired many other directers they had as wise as themselves but that was best that liked their owne conceits for indeed they would not be knowne to have any knowledge of any but themselves pretending onely Religion their governour and frugality their counsell when indeed it was onely their pride and singularity and contempt of authority because they could not be equals they would have no superiours in this fooles Paradise they so long used that good husbandry they have payed soundly in trying their owne follies who undertaking in small handfuls to make many plantations and to bee severall Lords and Kings of themselves most vanished to nothing to the great disparagement of the generall businesse therefore let them take heed that doe follow their example CHAP. 10. The mistaking of Patents strange effects incouragements for servants WHo would not thinke that all those certainties should not have made both me and this Country have prospered well by this but it fell out otherwayes for by the instigation of some whose policy had long watched their oportunity by the assurance of those profitable returnes procured new Letters Patents from King Iames drawing in many Noblemen and others to the number of twenty for Patentees dividing my map and that tract of land from the North Sea to the South Sea East and West which is supposed by most Cosmographers at least more than two thousand miles and from 41. degrees to 48. of Northerly latitude about 560. miles the bounds Virginia to the South the South Sea to the West Canada to the North and the maine Ocean to the East all this they divided in twenty parts for which they cast lots but no lot for me but Smiths Iles which are a many of barren rocks the most overgrowne with such shrubs and sharpe whins you can hardly passe them without either grasse or wood but three or foure short shrubby old Cedars Those Patentees procured a Proclamation that no ship should goe thither to fish but pay them for the publike as it was pretended five pound upon every thirty tuns of shipping neither trade with the natives cut downe wood throw their balast over boord nor plant without commission leave and content to the Lord of that division or Mannor some of which for some of them I beleeve will be tenantlesse this thousand yeare Thus whereas this Country as the contrivers of those projects should have planted it selfe of it selfe especially all the chiefe parts along the coast the first yeare as they have oft told me and chiefly by the fishing ships and some small helpe of their owne thinking men would be glad upon any termes to be admitted under their protections but it proved so contrary none would goe at all So for feare to make a contempt against the Proclamation it hath ever since beene little frequented to any purpose nor would they doe any thing but left it to it selfe Thus it lay againe in a manner vast till those noble Gentlemen thus voluntarily undertooke it whem I intreat to take this as a memorandum of my love to make your plantations so neere and great as you can for many hands make light worke whereas yet your small parties can doe nothing availeable nor stand too much upon the letting setting or selling those wild Countries nor impose too much upon the commonalty either by your maggazines which commonly eat out all poore mens labours nor any other too hard imposition for present gaine but let every man so it bee by order allotted him plant freely without limitation so much as hee can bee it by the halfes or otherwayes And at the end of five or six yeares or when you make a division for every acre he hath planted let him have twenty thirty forty or an hundred or as you finde hee hath extraordinarily deserved by it selfe to him and his heires for ever all his charges being defrayed to his lord or master and publike good In so doing a servant that will labour within foure or five yeares may live as well there as his master did here for where there is so much