A
true
declaration
of
the
estate
in
VIRGINIA
.
THERE
is
a
great
distance
,
betwixt
the
vulgar
opinion
of
men
,
and
the
iudicious
apprehension
of
wise
men
.
Opinion
is
as
blind
Oedipus
,
who
could
see
nothing
,
but
would
heare
all
things
,
Hinc
aucupari
verba
rumoris
vagi
,
to
hawke
after
the
winged
report
of
a
vagabond
rumor
.
But
iudgement
,
is
as
Salomon
in
his
throne
,
able
by
the
spirit
of
wisedome
,
to
discerne
betwixt
contesting
truth
,
and
falshood
:
neither
depending
on
the
popular
breath
of
fame
,
which
is
euer
partiall
,
nor
vpon
the
euent
of
good
designes
,
which
are
euer
casuall
.
These
two
commanders
of
our
affections
,
haue
diuided
the
vniuersall
spirits
of
our
land
,
whilst
(
in
the
honorable
enterprise
for
plantation
in
Virginia
)
some
,
are
caried
away
with
the
tide
of
vulgar
opinion
,
and
others
,
are
encouraged
,
by
the
principles
of
religion
,
and
reason
.
But
because
,
it
is
for
hawkes
and
not
for
men
,
to
build
their
nests
in
aires
,
and
because
the
honor
and
prosperity
of
this
so
noble
an
action
,
is
eclipsed
by
the
interposition
of
clamorous
&
tragicall
narrations
:
the
compiler
of
this
relation
endeuoureth
to
wash
away
those
spots
,
which
foule
mouths
(
to
iustifie
their
owne
disloialty
)
haue
cast
vpon
so
fruitfull
,
so
fertile
,
and
so
excellent
a
country
.
Wherein
he
professeth
,
that
he
will
relate
nothing
(
concerning
Virginia
)
but
what
he
hath
from
the
secrets
of
the
iudiciall
councell
of
Virginia
,
from
the
letters
of
the
Lord
La
Ware
,
from
the
mouth
of
Sir
Thomas
Gates
,
whose
wisedomes
(
he
conceiueth
)
are
not
so
shallow
,
as
easily
to
be
deceiued
of
others
,
nor
consciences
so
wretched
,
as
by
pretences
to
deceiue
others
.
But
when
a
matter
of
such
consequence
,
is
not
to
be
shufled
ouer
with
supine
negligence
,
and
when
no
man
raiseth
a
faire
building
,
that
laith
not
a
firme
foundation
,
it
will
not
be
impertinent
,
to
dig
a
little
deeper
,
that
we
may
build
a
great
deale
higher
:
and
from
the
vniuersall
policie
of
all
ciuill
states
(
in
replenishing
the
world
with
colonies
of
domesticall
subiects
)
to
deriue
this
wisedome
to
our
populous
state
and
country
.
Dei
facta
,
sunt
nostra
praecepta
,
Gods
actions
,
are
our
instructions
:
who
(
in
the
eleuenth
of
Genesis
)
turned
the
greatest
cursing
,
into
the
greatest
blessing
,
and
by
confusion
of
tongues
,
kept
them
from
confusion
of
states
;
scattering
those
clouen
people
,
into
as
many
colonies
ouer
the
face
of
the
earth
,
as
there
are
diuersities
of
languages
in
the
earth
.
Now
if
Tertullians
rule
be
true
,
Omne
genus
ab
origine
censendum
that
euery
action
is
most
beutifull
in
the
originall
.
Can
there
be
a
better
beginning
then
from
God
,
whose
wisedome
is
not
questioned
,
and
whose
footsteps
in
all
succeeding
ages
haue
beene
followed
.
Search
the
records
of
diuine
truth
,
and
humane
monuments
of
state
,
you
shall
find
,
Salmanasar
transporting
the
Babilonians
,
and
other
Gentiles
,
to
Samaria
:
and
replenishing
with
the
captiues
of
Israell
,
the
dispeopled
confines
of
Media
.
You
shall
find
that
140.
yeeres
after
the
destruction
of
Troy
the
Ionian
colony
,
was
carried
from
Greece
,
to
Asia
:
by
which
that
famous
City
of
Ephesus
was
first
builded
,
and
inhabited
.
You
shall
find
the
Egiptians
,
planted
Babilon
,
Argos
,
and
Athens
.
The
Phenicians
first
inhabiting
Carthage
,
Vtica
,
and
Thebes
.
That
Timolcon
and
the
city
of
Corinth
,
at
one
time
repeopled
Sicilie
,
with
10000.
soules
.
That
the
Romans
deduced
53.
colonies
out
of
the
City
of
Rome
into
the
wombe
of
Italy
.
That
Bremius
an
Englishman
by
birth
,
but
sonne
in
law
to
the
King
of
France
,
with
an
equall
third
part
of
the
kingdome
,
entred
into
the
hart
of
Italy
,
gaue
the
prime
sacke
to
the
City
of
Rome
,
and
diuerted
from
thence
to
Gallograecia
,
whose
ofspring
possesse
that
land
vnto
this
day
.
That
the
Admirall
of
France
,
among
all
the
feares
and
discouragements
of
ciuill
wars
,
neuer
gaue
ouer
the
proiect
of
plantation
in
Florida
.
Which
heroicall
actions
,
haue
not
beene
vndertaken
by
so
mighty
states
and
Princes
,
vpon
triuiall
and
vulgar
motiues
,
when
by
these
courses
that
first
blessing
(
of
crescite
and
multiplicamini
,
increase
and
multiplie
)
hath
beene
sanctified
:
the
meaner
sorte
haue
beene
prouided
:
the
matter
of
plagues
,
famine
and
sedition
,
hath
beene
exhausted
:
the
fennes
of
a
state
politique
were
drained
:
the
enemies
of
their
peace
were
bridled
:
the
reuenues
of
their
treasury
were
augmented
:
and
the
limites
of
their
dominions
were
enlarged
.
Which
diuine
,
humane
,
externall
,
and
domesticall
,
examples
,
doe
shine
before
vs
,
as
a
Pharaoes
towre
,
that
wee
should
not
make
shipwracke
of
our
intentions
,
concerning
Virginia
.
Blacke
enuie
,
and
pale
feare
,
being
not
able
to
produce
any
arguments
,
why
that
should
bee
lawfull
for
France
,
which
is
(
in
vs
)
vnlawfull
:
that
which
to
Rome
was
possible
,
(
to
vs
)
is
impossible
:
that
which
to
others
is
honourable
,
and
profitable
,
(
in
vs
)
should
bee
traduced
,
as
incommodious
,
base
,
and
contemptible
:
First
,
if
it
bee
vnlawfull
:
it
must
be
so
,
either
in
respect
of
the
law
of
God
,
or
in
regard
of
the
lawe
of
man
.
If
in
respect
of
Gods
lawe
,
(
considering
our
primarie
end
is
to
plant
religion
,
our
secondarie
and
subalternate
ends
are
for
the
honour
and
profit
of
our
nation
)
I
demand
a
resolution
of
this
plaine
question
:
whether
it
bee
not
a
determinated
truth
,
that
the
Gospell
should
bee
preached
,
to
all
the
world
,
before
the
end
of
the
world
?
If
,
it
must
bee
preached
,
(
as
heauen
and
earth
must
passe
awaie
,
but
Gods
word
shall
not
passe
awaie
)
then
must
it
bee
preached
,
one
of
these
three
waies
:
Either
meerly
Apostolically
,
without
the
helpe
of
man
,
(
without
so
much
as
a
staffe
(
or
meerely
imperiallie
,
when
a
Prince
,
hath
conquered
their
bodies
,
that
the
Preachers
may
feede
their
soules
;
Or
mixtly
,
by
discouerie
,
and
trade
of
marchants
;
where
all
temporall
meanes
are
vsed
for
defence
,
and
security
,
but
none
for
offence
,
or
crueltie
.
For
the
first
(
to
preach
Apostolicallie
)
it
is
simplie
impossible
:
except
wee
had
the
gift
of
tongues
,
that
euerie
nation
might
heare
the
word
of
God
in
their
owne
language
;
or
the
guift
of
miracles
,
that
it
might
be
confirmed
,
with
wonders
from
heauen
;
which
two
beeing
ceased
,
questionlesse
the
identicall
commission
of
the
Apostles
is
expired
:
Or
if
yet
the
matter
bee
vrged
,
that
God
by
fishers
did
conuert
Emperors
and
therefore
that
wee
must
aduenture
our
liues
without
humane
helpe
;
yet
must
it
bee
remembred
,
that
there
is
no
Apostolicall
preaching
,
but
where
wee
may
expect
eitheir
their
conuersion
,
or
our
martyrdome
.
But
we
can
expect
neither
,
not
their
conuersion
who
cannot
vnderstand
vs
,
nor
our
martyrdome
,
when
the
people
of
Florida
,
did
deuoure
the
Preachers
of
the
word
,
without
speaking
any
word
.
Non
quia
Christiani
,
sed
quia
homines
,
not
because
they
were
christian
men
,
but
because
they
were
men
,
wee
cannot
be
said
to
be
martyrs
,
when
wee
are
not
killed
because
wee
are
christians
.
And
therefore
the
Iesuite
Acosta
confesseth
(
notwithstanding
Bellarmines
relation
of
Indian
miracles
)
that
they
haue
no
tongues
,
they
haue
no
signes
from
heauen
,
and
they
can
haue
no
martyrdome
,
and
by
consequent
there
is
no
meanes
left
of
Apostolicall
preaching
.
For
the
second
,
to
preach
the
Gospell
to
a
nation
conquered
,
and
to
set
their
soules
at
liberty
,
when
we
haue
brought
their
bodies
to
slauerie
;
It
may
be
a
matter
sacred
in
the
Preachers
,
but
I
know
not
how
iustifiable
in
the
rulers
.
Who
for
their
meere
ambition
,
doe
set
vpon
it
,
the
glosse
of
religion
.
Let
the
diuines
of
Salamanca
,
discusse
that
question
,
how
the
possessor
of
the
west
Indies
,
first
destroied
,
and
then
instructed
.
The
third
,
belongs
to
vs
,
who
by
way
of
marchandizing
and
trade
,
doe
buy
of
them
the
pearles
of
earth
,
and
sell
to
them
the
pearles
of
heauen
;
which
action
,
if
it
be
vnlawfull
,
it
must
proceede
from
one
of
these
three
grounds
,
either
because
we
come
to
them
,
or
trade
with
them
,
or
tarrie
and
dwell
and
possesse
part
of
their
country
amongst
them
.
Is
it
vnlawfull
because
wee
come
to
them
?
why
is
it
not
a
dutie
of
christianitie
,
to
behold
the
imprinted
footsteps
of
Gods
glorie
,
in
euery
region
vnder
heauen
?
Is
it
not
against
the
lawe
of
nations
,
to
violate
a
peaceable
stranger
,
or
to
denie
him
harbour
.
The
Ethiopians
,
Egyptians
,
and
men
of
China
,
are
branded
with
a
foule
marke
of
sanguinarie
and
barbarous
inhumanity
,
for
blessing
their
Idols
,
with
the
bloud
of
strangers
.
It
is
not
vnlawfull
to
trade
with
them
,
except
Salomon
shall
bee
condemned
for
sending
for
gold
to
Ophir
,
Abraham
for
making
a
league
with
Abimelech
,
and
all
christendome
shall
bee
traduced
,
for
hauing
comerce
with
Turks
and
miscreants
.
Finallie
,
it
is
not
vnlawfull
,
that
wee
possesse
part
of
their
land
,
and
dwell
with
them
,
and
defend
our selues
from
them
.
Partlie
because
there
is
no
other
,
moderate
,
and
mixt
course
,
to
bring
them
to
conuersion
,
but
by
dailie
conuersation
,
where
they
may
see
the
life
,
and
learne
the
language
each
of
other
.
Partlie
,
because
there
is
no
trust
to
the
fidelitie
of
humane
beasts
,
except
a
man
will
make
a
league
,
with
Lions
,
Beares
,
and
Crocodiles
.
Partlie
because
there
is
roome
sufficient
in
the
land
(
as
Sichem
sometime
said
)
for
them
,
and
vs
:
the
extent
of
an
hundred
miles
,
being
scarce
peopled
with
2000.
inhabitants
.
Partlie
,
because
they
haue
violated
the
lawe
of
nations
,
and
vsed
our
Ambassadors
as
Ammon
did
the
seruants
of
Dauid
:
If
in
him
it
were
a
iust
cause
to
warre
against
the
Ammonites
,
it
is
lawfull
,
in
vs
,
to
secure
our selues
,
against
the
infidels
.
But
chieflie
because
Paspehay
,
one
of
their
Kings
,
sold
vnto
vs
for
copper
,
land
to
inherit
and
inhabite
.
Powhatan
,
their
chiefe
King
,
receiued
voluntarilie
a
crowne
and
a
scepter
,
with
a
full
acknowledgement
of
dutie
and
submission
.
Principallie
when
Captaine
Newport
was
with
Powhatan
at
Warow
a
comaco
hee
desired
him
to
come
from
Iames
towne
as
a
place
vnholesome
,
and
to
take
possession
of
an
other
whole
kingdome
which
he
gaue
vnto
him
.
If
any
man
alleadge
,
that
this
was
done
in
subtlety
,
not
that
they
euer
meant
we
should
possesse
them
,
but
that
they
might
first
gaine
by
vs
,
and
then
destroy
vs
.
This
makes
our
cause
,
much
the
iuster
,
when
God
turned
their
subtletie
,
to
our
vtilitie
:
giuing
vnto
vs
a
lawfull
possession
,
(
as
Pharaoe
gaue
Goshen
to
Israell
;
or
Ephron
sold
his
caue
to
Abraham
)
and
freeing
vs
,
from
all
impious
and
sinister
construction
.
If
anie
man
alleadge
,
that
yet
wee
can
possesse
no
farther
limits
,
than
was
allotted
by
composition
,
and
that
fortitudo
sine
iustitia
,
est
iniquitatis
Materia
,
fortitude
without
iustice
,
is
but
the
firebrand
of
iniquitie
.
Let
him
know
that
Plato
defineth
it
,
to
bee
no
iniustice
,
to
take
a
sword
out
of
the
hand
of
a
mad
man
;
That
Austen
hath
allowed
it
,
for
a
lawfull
offensiue
warre
,
quod
vlciscitur
iniurias
that
reuengeth
bloudie
iniuries
.
So
that
if
iust
offences
fhall
arise
,
it
can
bee
no
more
iniustice
to
warre
against
infidells
,
than
it
is
when
vpon
iust
occasions
wee
warre
against
Christians
.
And
therefore
I
cannot
see
,
but
that
these
truths
,
will
fanne
away
all
those
chaffie
imputations
,
which
anie
Romish
boasters
(
that
challenge
a
monopolie
of
all
conuersions
)
will
cast
vpon
it
,
or
any
scrupulous
conscience
can
impute
vnto
it
.
Certainlie
the
Church
of
Geneua
in
the
yeere
1555.
determined
in
a
Synode
,
whereof
(
Caluine
)
was
president
,
to
send
Peter
Richier
,
and
William
Quadrigarius
,
vnder
a
French
Captaine
to
Brasilia
,
who
although
they
were
supplanted
,
by
the
comming
of
the
Cardinall
of
Loraine
,
and
the
trecherie
of
their
double
hearted
leader
,
yet
would
not
the
Church
of
Geneua
,
(
after
a
Synodicall
consultation
)
haue
sent
their
ministers
to
such
an
aduenture
,
had
not
all
scruples
,
(
in
their
iudgement
)
beene
cleared
by
the
light
of
Scripture
.
When
therefore
,
it
is
a
sweete
smelling
sacrifice
,
to
propagate
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
when
the
Babylonish
Inchantresse
(
if
her
owne
Calenders
,
are
to
bee
credited
)
hath
compassed
sea
,
and
land
,
to
make
,
sixe
,
eight
,
or
ten
millions
,
of
Romish
proselites
.
When
there
is
no
other
,
mixt
,
moderate
,
course
,
to
transport
the
Virginian
soules
to
heauen
.
When
there
hath
beene
a
reall
concession
from
their
rurall
Emperour
,
that
hath
licensed
vs
to
negotiate
among
them
,
and
to
possesse
their
countrie
with
them
.
When
there
is
more
vnpeopled
continent
of
earth
,
than
wee
and
they
(
before
the
dissolution
of
the
pillars
of
heauen
)
can
ouerburden
with
multitude
.
When
we
neuer
intend
to
play
the
Rehoboams
,
and
to
scourge
them
with
scorpions
.
It
is
not
good
,
to
create
more
sinnes
,
then
God
euer
censured
:
nor
to
brand
that
action
with
impietie
,
which
God
hath
begun
for
promulgating
of
his
glorie
Nunquid
ideo
deforme
est
,
quia
figura
mentitur
?
is
the
action
therefore
deformed
,
because
a
false
glasse
doth
slaunder
it
?
Concerning
the
other
braunch
of
this
discourse
,
wherein
some
slie
whisperers
would
seeme
to
cast
an
aspersion
of
iniustice
vpon
the
action
,
supposing
some
forraine
Prince
to
haue
a
former
interest
.
Certainlie
hee
is
but
a
rotten
subiect
that
quarells
the
actions
of
his
countrie
,
descrying
a
serpentine
stinge
vnder
the
faire
leaues
of
pietie
.
And
though
it
bee
not
for
a
theoreticall
Schollar
,
to
circumscribe
the
dominions
of
Princes
,
yet
a
few
proofes
from
antiquitie
,
shall
suffice
to
controwle
ignorant
or
presumptuous
follie
.
In
the
yeere
1170.
Madocke
the
sonne
of
Owen
Guyneth
Prince
of
Northwales
(
leauing
the
land
in
contention
betwixt
his
two
brethren
Howell
and
Dauid
)
sailed
into
the
West
Indies
,
and
after
a
second
,
and
a
third
returne
,
and
supplie
,
setled
himselfe
in
those
dominions
.
In
the
yeere
1495.
Iohn
Cabot
a
Venetian
,
but
the
indenized
subiect
of
King
Henrie
the
seauenth
discouered
the
North
parts
of
America
,
to
Meta
incognita
,
and
so
it
was
annexed
to
the
Crowne
of
England
.
As
for
the
donation
of
Alexander
the
sixt
;
it
is
but
a
reciprocall
clawing
,
when
Emperors
create
their
seruants
Bishops
vniuersall
,
and
shauelings
create
their
Lords
,
Emperors
generall
.
If
the
donation
of
Constantine
were
not
more
vertuall
for
Saint
Peters
patrimonie
,
wee
should
haue
neede
of
more
purgatories
,
to
maintaine
fuell
in
the
Popes
kitchen
:
for
if
the
kingdome
of
Christ
was
not
on
earth
,
what
a
transubstantiated
power
,
doth
the
pretended
Vicar
of
Christ
claime
,
to
dispose
all
the
kingdomes
of
the
earth
.
Petrarch
recordeth
a
memorable
historie
,
of
Sautius
brother
to
the
King
of
Spaine
,
who
was
elected
generall
against
the
Saracens
of
Egypt
,
and
comming
to
Rome
for
that
purpose
,
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
made
it
to
bee
proclaimed
in
the
Consistorie
that
hee
bestowed
the
kingdome
of
Egypt
vpon
Sautius
.
Sautius
vnderstanding
this
fauour
,
(
by
his
interpreter
)
commanded
to
proclaime
the
Pope
,
great
Caleph
of
Baldacho
:
perfuming
the
sonne
of
pride
,
with
his
owne
smoke
.
The
Pope
hauing
no
more
power
,
to
make
Sautius
a
King
,
then
Sautius
had
power
to
make
the
Pope
a
Caleph
.
Let
such
retailers
of
Crownes
remember
,
who
it
was
that
sometime
saide
,
all
these
will
I
giue
thee
if
thou
wilt
fall
downe
,
and
worship
me
,
And
yet
with
this
item
that
the
diuell
pretended
to
giue
no
more
than
he
saw
.
These
points
beeing
thus
defined
,
I
come
to
the
possibility
.
Against
which
three
maine
impediments
are
obiected
.
First
the
daungerous
passage
by
sea
,
secondlie
the
barrennesse
of
the
countrie
,
thirdly
the
vnholesomnesse
of
the
climate
:
the
storme
that
seperated
the
admirall
from
the
fleete
proouing
the
first
,
the
famine
amongst
our
men
importing
the
second
,
the
sicknesse
of
our
men
arguing
the
third
.
All
which
discouragements
doe
astonish
our
men
with
feare
,
as
though
our
expences
were
vnprofitable
,
when
our
ends
are
impossible
.
But
before
I
shall
enter
into
this
discourse
I
must
craue
leaue
to
make
a
necessarie
digression
,
and
to
iustifie
his
reputation
whose
worth
is
of
speciall
regard
in
this
plantation
.
Sir
Thomas
Gates
supposeth
himselfe
accused
publiquelie
and
in
print
of
a
treeble
defect
.
First
that
hee
ranne
so
farre
Southerlie
and
into
the
Tropique
,
that
the
heat
caused
the
infection
in
the
ships
.
Secondlie
that
hee
gaue
a
sealed
direction
,
that
if
they
were
seperated
by
anie
storme
,
that
they
should
make
for
the
Baruada
in
the
West
Indies
,
which
direction
himselfe
following
,
it
caused
his
shipwracke
,
but
the
other
shippes
,
(
vpon
better
iudgement
)
declining
these
instructions
,
ariued
safelie
in
Virginia
.
Thirdlie
that
hee
caried
in
one
bottome
all
the
principall
Commissioners
who
should
successiuelie
haue
gouerned
the
Colonie
.
Against
all
which
imputations
,
hee
maketh
this
iust
Apologie
.
First
hee
confesseth
that
a
little
before
they
came
vnto
the
Canaries
,
that
hee
entred
into
consultation
with
Sir
George
Summers
,
Captaine
Newport
,
and
the
other
of
chiefe
regarde
in
the
fleete
,
wherein
it
was
resolued
by
an
vniformitie
of
consent
,
to
runne
Southerlie
into
the
Tropique
,
which
they
did
,
till
they
came
to
the
height
of
foure
and
twentie
,
but
hee
denieth
that
this
course
was
anie
cause
of
infection
.
For
in
the
Faulcon
,
the
Blessing
,
the
Lyon
,
(
and
in
the
Admirall
wherein
were
one
hundred
and
fiftie
soules
)
there
was
not
one
sicke
of
the
pestilence
nor
other
disease
;
In
the
other
two
ships
the
infection
was
somewhat
hote
,
but
they
shipped
the
same
from
London
;
To
the
second
hee
affirmeth
,
that
hee
first
gaue
them
sealed
instructions
(
not
to
bee
opened
till
a
time
of
storme
)
which
directed
them
to
the
Baruada
,
But
after
when
they
came
to
the
height
of
foure
and
twentie
,
hee
countermaunded
those
directions
by
word
of
mouth
,
and
assigned
them
,
(
that
if
they
were
scattered
)
that
they
should
make
with
all
speede
for
Virginia
.
Which
himselfe
(
esteeming
the
price
of
time
vnualuable
)
woulde
haue
executed
,
had
not
the
violent
leake
of
the
shippe
hindred
him
,
So
that
the
other
ships
safe
ariuall
in
Virginia
,
proceeded
originallie
from
his
aduise
and
authoritie
.
To
the
third
,
he
briefly
signifieth
,
that
no
other
Commissioners
were
in
his
Ship
,
but
such
,
(
as
for
especiall
reasons
)
were
precisely
and
peremptorily
appointed
,
by
the
Councell
of
Virginia
.
And
thus
you
see
,
that
Tacitus
wisely
obserued
two
great
enemies
of
great
actions
,
Ignorantiam
veri
,
&
Inuidiam
,
the
ignorance
of
Truth
,
and
the
emulation
of
Vertue
.
To
returne
therefore
vnto
the
maine
channell
of
this
discourse
,
and
to
dispell
the
clouds
of
feare
,
that
threaten
shipwracks
,
and
sea-dangers
:
For
we
are
not
to
extenuate
the
seas
tempestuous
violence
,
nor
yet
therefore
to
dispaire
of
Gods
assisting
prouidence
.
For
true
it
is
,
that
when
Sir
Thomas
Gates
,
Sir
George
Summers
,
and
Captaine
Newport
,
were
in
the
height
of
27.
and
the
24.
of
Iuly
1609.
there
arose
such
a
storme
,
as
if
Ionas
had
been
flying
vnto
Tarshish
:
the
heauens
were
obscured
,
and
made
an
Egyptian
night
of
three
daies
perpetuall
horror
;
the
women
lamented
;
the
hearts
of
the
passengers
failed
;
the
experience
of
the
sea
Captaines
was
amased
:
the
skill
of
the
marriners
was
confounded
:
the
Ship
most
violently
leaked
,
and
though
two
thousand
tunne
of
water
by
pumping
from
Tuesday
noone
till
Fryday
noone
was
discharged
,
notwithstanding
the
Ship
was
halfe
filled
with
water
,
and
those
which
laboured
to
keepe
others
from
drowning
were
halfe
drowned
themselues
in
labouring
.
But
God
that
heard
Ionas
crying
out
of
the
belly
of
hell
,
he
pittied
the
distresses
of
his
seruants
:
For
behold
,
in
the
last
period
of
necessitie
,
Sir
George
Summers
descryed
land
,
which
was
by
so
much
the
more
ioyfull
,
by
how
much
their
danger
was
despairefull
.
The
Islands
on
which
they
●ell
were
the
Bermudos
,
a
place
hardly
accessable
,
through
the
inuironing
rocks
and
dangers
:
notwithstanding
they
were
forced
to
runne
their
Ship
on
shoare
,
which
through
Gods
prouidence
fell
betwixt
two
rockes
,
that
caused
her
to
stand
firme
and
not
immediately
to
be
broken
,
God
continuing
his
mercie
vnto
them
,
that
with
their
long
Boats
they
transported
to
land
before
night
,
all
their
company
,
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
to
the
number
of
one
hundred
and
fiftie
,
they
carryed
to
shoare
all
the
prouision
of
vnspent
and
vnspoyled
victuals
,
all
their
furniture
and
tackling
of
the
Ship
,
leauing
nothing
but
bared
ribs
,
as
a
pray
vnto
the
Ocean
.
These
Islands
of
the
Bermudos
,
haue
euer
beene
accounted
as
an
inchaunted
pile
of
rockes
,
and
a
desert
inhabitation
for
Diuels
;
but
all
the
Fairies
of
the
rocks
were
but
flocks
of
birds
,
and
all
the
Diuels
that
haunted
the
woods
,
were
but
heards
of
swine
.
Yea
and
when
Acosta
in
his
first
booke
of
the
hystories
of
the
Indies
,
auerreth
,
that
though
in
the
continent
there
were
diuerse
beasts
,
and
cattell
,
yet
in
the
Islands
of
Hispaniola
,
Iamaica
,
Marguarita
,
and
Dominica
,
there
was
not
one
hoofe
,
it
increaseth
the
wonder
,
how
our
people
in
the
Bermudos
found
such
abundance
of
Hogs
,
that
for
nine
moneths
space
they
plentifully
sufficed
:
and
yet
the
number
seemed
not
much
diminished
.
Again
,
as
in
the
great
famine
of
Israell
,
God
commanded
Elias
to
flie
to
the
brooke
Cedron
,
and
there
fed
him
by
Rauens
;
so
God
prouided
for
our
disconsolate
people
in
the
midst
of
the
Sea
by
foules
:
but
with
an
admirable
difference
:
vnto
Elias
the
Rauens
brought
meat
,
vnto
our
men
the
foules
brought
(
themselues
)
for
meate
:
for
when
they
whisteled
,
or
made
any
strange
noyse
,
the
foules
would
come
and
sit
on
their
shoulders
,
they
would
suffer
themselues
to
be
taken
and
weighed
by
our
men
,
who
would
make
choise
of
the
fattest
and
fairest
,
and
let
flie
the
leane
and
lightest
.
An
accident
,
I
take
it
,
that
cannot
be
paralleld
by
any
Hystorie
,
except
when
God
sent
abundance
of
Quayles
to
feed
his
Israel
in
the
barren
wildernesse
.
Lastly
they
found
the
berries
of
Cedar
,
the
Palmeto
tree
,
the
prickle
peare
,
sufficient
fish
,
plentie
of
Tortoises
,
and
diuers
others
kinds
,
which
sufficed
to
sustaine
nature
.
They
found
diuersity
of
woods
,
which
ministred
materials
for
the
building
of
two
Pinaces
,
according
to
the
direction
of
the
three
prouident
Gouernours
.
Consider
all
these
things
together
.
At
the
instant
of
neede
,
they
descryed
land
,
halfe
an
hower
more
,
had
buried
their
memorial
in
the
Sea
.
If
they
had
fel
by
night
,
what
expectation
of
light
,
from
an
vninhabited
desart
?
They
fell
betwixt
a
laberinth
of
rockes
,
which
they
conceiue
are
mouldred
into
the
Sea
,
by
thunder
and
lightning
.
This
was
not
Ariadnes
threed
,
but
the
direct
line
of
Gods
prouidence
.
If
it
had
not
beene
so
neere
land
,
their
companie
or
prouision
had
perished
by
water
:
if
they
had
not
found
Hogs
,
and
foule
,
and
fish
,
they
had
perished
by
famine
:
if
there
had
not
beene
fuell
,
they
had
perished
by
want
of
fire
:
if
there
had
not
beene
timber
they
could
not
haue
transported
themselues
to
Virginia
,
but
must
haue
beene
forgotten
foreuer
.
Nimium
timet
qui
Deo
non
credit
,
he
is
too
impiously
fearefull
,
that
will
not
trust
in
God
so
powerfull
.
What
is
there
in
all
this
tragicall
Comaedie
that
should
discourage
vs
with
impossibilitie
of
the
enterprise
?
when
of
all
the
Fleete
,
one
onely
Ship
,
by
a
secret
leake
was
indangered
,
and
yet
in
the
gulfe
of
despaire
,
was
so
graciously
preserued
.
Quae
videtur
poena
,
est
medicina
,
that
which
we
accompt
a
punishment
of
euill
,
is
but
a
medicine
against
euill
.
After
nine
Moneths
aboade
in
these
Islands
,
on
the
tenth
of
May
1610.
they
imbarqued
themselues
in
their
two
new
built
Pinaces
,
and
after
some
eleuen
daies
saile
,
they
arriued
neere
point
Comfort
vpon
the
coast
of
Virginia
:
where
they
had
intelligence
of
so
wofull
miserie
,
as
if
God
had
onely
preserued
them
,
to
communicate
in
an
new
extremitie
.
From
which
calamitie
,
the
other
arguments
of
impossibilitie
are
framed
;
For
if
the
Countrie
bee
barren
,
or
the
scituation
contagious
;
as
famine
,
and
sicknesse
,
destroy
our
Nation
:
wee
striue
against
the
streame
of
reason
,
and
make
our selues
the
subiects
of
scorne
and
derision
.
Therefore
in
this
maine
point
of
consequence
,
I
will
propound
this
plaine
and
simple
Methode
;
First
to
demonstrate
that
there
is
,
and
may
be
in
Virginia
a
sufficient
meanes
(
in
all
abundance
)
to
sustaine
the
life
of
man
;
Next
that
the
Climate
is
wholesome
and
temperate
,
agreeing
with
the
constitutions
of
our
men
;
Thirdly
,
that
those
extremities
proceeded
from
accidentall
and
not
inherent
euils
.
Lastly
,
I
will
delineate
the
state
of
the
the
Colony
,
as
Sir
Thomas
Gates
left
it
vnder
the
gouernment
of
the
honorable
L.
Laware
:
whereby
it
shall
appeare
,
that
all
difficulties
are
amended
,
and
that
the
State
of
that
Countrie
is
sufficiently
mannaged
.
To
begin
,
with
the
staffe
of
bread
.
It
is
auowed
vnto
mee
,
in
writing
,
in
the
words
of
the
Author
,
that
hath
been
there
,
as
followeth
.
They
vse
to
put
their
wheat
into
Sir
Raph
Lane
conceiued
,
that
wee
may
extract
sugar
,
in
great
quantity
.
But
Sir
Thomas
Gates
affirmeth
that
our
men
doe
make
cordiall
drinke
thereof
,
to
their
great
comfort
.
Powhaton
;
Lastly
,
infinite
store
haue
been
presented
to
Captaine
Newport
vpon
sundry
occurrents
:
such
a
plentie
of
Cattell
,
as
all
the
Spaniards
found
not
in
the
whole
kingdome
of
Mexico
,
when
all
their
presents
were
but
hennes
,
and
ginycocks
,
and
the
bread
of
Maize
,
and
Cently
.
There
are
Arocouns
,
and
Apossouns
,
in
shape
like
to
pigges
,
shrowded
in
hollow
roots
of
trees
;
There
are
Hares
and
Conies
,
and
other
beasts
proper
to
the
Countrie
in
plentifull
manner
.
Our
transported
Cattell
,
as
Horses
,
Kine
,
Hogs
,
and
Goats
,
do
thriue
most
happily
:
which
is
confirmed
by
a
double
experiment
;
one
,
of
Sir
Raph
Lane
,
who
brought
Kine
from
the
West
Indian
Island
;
the
other
of
our
Colony
,
who
need
take
no
other
care
of
them
,
but
least
they
should
straie
too
farre
,
or
be
stolne
from
them
.
The
Turkyes
of
that
Countrie
are
great
,
and
fat
,
and
exceeding
in
plentie
.
The
riuers
from
August
,
or
September
,
till
February
,
are
couered
with
flocks
of
Sir
Thomas
Gates
)
in
such
abundance
,
as
are
not
in
all
the
world
to
be
equalled
.
Lo.
Laware
,
as
it
is
warranted
to
mee
by
the
copie
of
his
Letters
sent
to
the
Virginian
Councell
.
Howsoeuer
,
men
haue
belyed
both
it
and
themselues
,
heretofore
,
yet
let
no
rumor
of
the
Countrie
(
as
if
in
the
wombe
thereof
lay
not
these
elementall
seedes
of
plenty
and
increase
)
waue
any
mans
faire
purposes
,
or
wrest
them
to
a
declyning
and
falling
off
from
the
businesse
.
No
man
ought
to
judge
of
any
Countrie
by
the
fennes
and
marshes
(
such
as
is
the
place
where
James
towne
standeth
)
except
we
will
condemne
all
England
,
for
the
Wilds
and
Hundreds
of
Kent
and
Essex
.
In
our
particular
,
wee
haue
an
infallible
proofe
of
the
temper
of
the
Countrie
:
for
of
an
hundred
and
odd
,
which
were
seated
at
the
Falles
,
vnder
the
gouernment
of
Captaine
Francis
West
,
and
of
an
hundred
to
the
Sea-ward
on
the
South
side
of
the
riuer
,
(
in
the
Countrie
of
the
Nansamunds
)
vnder
the
charge
of
Captaine
Iohn
Martin
;
of
all
these
two
hundred
,
there
did
not
so
much
as
one
man
miscarrie
:
when
in
Iames
Towne
,
at
the
same
time
,
and
in
the
same
moneths
,
100.
sickned
,
and
halfe
the
number
died
.
The
like
experiment
was
long
since
in
the
regiment
of
Sir
Raph
Lane
,
where
,
in
the
space
of
one
whole
yeare
,
not
two
of
one
hundred
perished
.
Adde
vnto
this
the
discourse
of
philosophie
,
when
in
that
Countrie
flesh
will
receiue
salt
,
and
continue
vnputrified
(
which
it
will
not
in
the
West
Indies
)
when
the
most
delicate
of
all
flowers
,
grow
there
as
familiarly
,
as
in
the
fields
of
Portingale
,
where
the
woods
are
replenished
with
more
sweet
barks
,
and
odors
,
then
they
are
in
the
plesantest
places
of
Florida
.
How
is
it
possible
that
such
a
virgin
and
temperat
aire
,
should
work
such
contrarie
effects
,
but
because
our
fort
(
that
lyeth
as
a
semy-Iland
)
is
most
part
inuironed
with
an
ebbing
and
flowing
salt
water
,
the
owze
of
which
sendeth
forth
an
vnwholsome
&
contagious
vapour
?
To
close
vp
this
part
with
Sir
Thomas
Gates
his
experiment
:
he
professeth
,
that
in
a
fortnights
space
he
recouered
the
health
of
most
of
them
by
moderat
labour
,
whose
sicknesse
was
bred
in
them
by
intemperate
idlenes
.
If
any
man
shall
accuse
these
reports
of
partiall
falshood
,
supposing
them
to
be
but
Vtopian
,
and
legendarie
fables
,
because
he
cannot
conceiue
,
that
plentie
and
famine
,
a
temperate
climate
,
and
distempered
bodies
,
felicities
,
and
miseries
can
be
reconciled
together
,
let
him
now
reade
with
judgement
,
but
let
him
not
judge
before
he
hath
read
.
The
ground
of
all
those
miseries
,
was
the
permissiue
prouidence
of
God
,
who
,
in
the
fore-mentioned
violent
storme
,
seperated
the
head
from
the
bodie
,
all
the
vitall
powers
of
regiment
being
exiled
with
Sir
Thomas
Gates
in
those
infortunate
(
yet
fortunate
)
Ilands
.
The
broken
remainder
of
those
supplies
made
a
greater
shipwrack
in
the
continent
of
Virginia
,
by
the
tempest
of
dissention
:
euery
man
ouervaluing
his
own
worth
,
would
be
a
Commander
:
euery
man
vnderprising
an
others
value
,
denied
to
be
commanded
.
The
emulation
of
Caesar
and
Pompey
,
watered
the
plains
of
Pharsaly
with
bloud
,
and
distracted
the
sinewes
of
the
Romane
Monarchy
.
The
dissentions
of
the
three
besieged
Captains
betraied
the
Citie
of
Hierusalem
to
Vespasian
.
how
much
more
easily
might
ambitious
discord
teare
in
peeces
an
infant
Colony
,
where
no
eminent
and
respected
magistrats
had
authoritie
to
punish
presumptuous
disobedience
.
Tacitus
hath
obserued
,
that
when
Nero
sent
his
old
trained
souldiers
to
Tarantum
and
Autium
,
(
but
without
their
Captains
and
Centurians
)
that
they
rather
made
a
number
,
then
a
Colony
:
euery
souldier
secretly
glided
into
some
neighbour
Prouince
,
and
forsooke
their
appointed
places
:
which
hatched
this
consequent
mischiefe
;
the
Cities
were
vninhabited
,
and
the
emperour
was
frustrated
:
when
therfore
licence
,
sedition
,
and
furie
,
are
the
fruits
of
a
headie
,
daring
,
and
vnruly
multitude
,
it
is
no
wonder
that
so
many
in
our
colony
perished
:
it
is
a
wonder
,
that
all
were
not
deuoured
.
Omnis
inordinatus
animus
sibi
ipsi
fit
poena
,
euery
inordinate
soule
becomes
his
owne
punishment
.
The
next
fountaine
of
woes
was
secure
negligence
,
and
improuidence
,
when
euery
man
sharked
for
his
present
bootie
but
was
altogether
carelesse
of
succeeding
penurie
.
Now
,
I
demand
whether
Sicilia
,
or
Sardinia
,
(
sometimes
the
barnes
of
Rome
)
could
hope
for
increase
without
manuring
?
A
Colony
is
therefore
denominated
,
because
they
should
be
Coloni
,
the
tillers
of
the
earth
,
and
stewards
of
fertilitie
:
our
mutinous
loiterers
would
not
sow
with
prouidence
,
and
therefore
they
reaped
the
fruits
of
too
deare-bought
repentance
.
An
incredible
example
of
their
idlenes
,
is
the
report
of
Sir
Thomas
Gates
,
who
affirmeth
,
that
after
his
first
comming
thither
,
he
hath
seen
some
of
them
eat
their
fish
raw
,
rather
than
they
would
go
a
stones
cast
to
fetch
wood
and
dresse
it
.
Dij
laboribus
omnia
vendunt
,
God
sels
vs
all
things
for
our
labour
,
when
Adam
himselfe
might
not
liue
in
paradice
without
dressing
the
garden
.
Vnto
idlenesse
,
you
may
ioyne
treasons
,
wrought
by
those
vnhallowed
creatures
that
forsooke
the
Colony
,
and
exposed
their
desolate
brethren
to
extreame
miserie
.
You
shall
know
that
28.
or
30.
of
the
companie
,
were
appointed
(
in
the
Ship
called
the
Swallow
)
to
truck
for
Corne
with
the
Indians
,
and
hauing
obtained
a
great
quantitie
by
trading
,
the
most
seditious
of
them
,
conspired
together
,
persuaded
some
,
&
enforced
others
,
to
this
barbarous
proiect
.
They
stole
away
the
Ship
,
they
made
a
league
amongst
themselues
to
be
professed
pirates
,
with
dreames
of
mountaines
of
gold
,
and
happy
robberies
:
thus
at
one
instant
,
they
wronged
the
hopes
,
and
subuerted
the
cares
of
the
Colony
,
who
depending
vpon
their
returne
,
fore-slowed
to
looke
out
for
further
prouision
:
they
created
the
Indians
our
implacable
enemies
by
some
violence
they
had
offered
:
they
carried
away
the
best
Ship
(
which
should
haue
been
a
refuge
,
in
extremities
:
)
they
weakned
our
forces
,
by
substraction
of
their
armes
,
and
succours
.
These
are
that
scum
of
men
that
fayling
in
their
piracy
,
that
beeing
pinched
with
famine
and
penurie
,
after
their
wilde
rouing
vpon
the
Sea
,
when
all
their
lawlesse
hopes
failed
,
some
remained
with
other
pirates
,
they
men
vpon
the
Sea
,
the
others
resolued
to
returne
for
England
,
bound
themselues
by
mutuall
oath
,
to
agree
all
in
one
report
,
to
discredit
the
land
,
to
deplore
the
famyne
,
and
to
protest
that
this
their
comming
awaie
,
proceeded
from
desperate
necessitie
:
These
are
they
,
that
roared
out
the
tragicall
historie
of
the
man
eating
of
his
dead
wife
in
Virginia
;
when
the
master
of
this
Ship
willingly
confessed
before
40
witnesses
,
that
at
their
comming
awaie
,
they
left
three
moneths
victuals
,
and
all
the
cattell
liuing
in
the
Fort
:
sometimes
they
reported
that
they
saw
this
horrible
action
,
sometimes
that
Captaine
Dauies
sayd
so
,
sometimes
that
one
Beadle
the
Lieutenant
of
Captaine
Dauies
did
relate
it
,
varying
this
report
into
diuersitie
of
false
colours
,
which
hold
no
likenesse
and
proportion
:
But
to
cleare
all
doubts
,
Sir
Thomas
Gates
thus
relateth
the
tragedie
.
There
was
one
of
the
companie
who
mortally
hated
his
wife
,
and
therefore
secretly
killed
her
,
then
cut
her
in
pieces
and
hid
her
in
diuers
parts
of
his
house
:
when
the
woman
was
missing
,
the
man
suspected
,
his
house
searched
,
and
parts
of
her
mangled
body
were
discouered
,
to
excuse
himselfe
he
said
that
his
wife
died
,
that
hee
hid
her
to
satisfie
his
hunger
,
and
that
he
fed
daily
vpon
her
.
Vpon
this
,
his
house
was
againe
searched
,
where
they
found
a
good
quantitie
of
meale
,
oatemeale
,
beanes
and
pease
.
Hee
thereupon
was
araigned
,
confessed
the
murder
,
and
was
burned
for
his
horrible
villany
.
Now
shall
the
scandalous
reports
of
a
viperous
generation
,
preponderate
the
testimonies
of
so
worthie
leaders
?
shall
their
venemous
tongues
,
blast
the
reputation
of
an
auncient
&
worthy
Peere
,
who
vpon
the
ocular
certainty
of
future
blessings
,
hath
protested
in
his
Letters
,
that
he
will
sacrifice
himselfe
for
his
Countrie
in
this
seruice
,
if
he
may
be
seconded
;
and
if
the
company
doe
giue
it
ouer
he
will
yet
lay
all
his
fortunes
vpon
the
prosecution
of
the
plantation
?
shall
sworne
lyes
,
and
combined
oathes
,
so
far
priuiledge
trechery
,
and
piracy
as
to
rob
vs
of
our
hopes
,
&
to
quell
our
noble
resolutions
?
God
forbid
:
Qui
in
mendacio
confidit
,
cito
diffidit
,
a
lyers
confidence
,
is
but
a
blazing
diffidence
.
Vnto
Treasons
,
you
may
ioyne
couetousnesse
in
the
Mariners
,
who
for
their
priuate
lucre
partly
imbezeled
the
prouisions
,
partly
preuented
our
trade
with
the
Indians
,
making
the
matches
in
the
night
,
and
forestalling
our
market
in
the
day
:
whereby
the
Virginians
were
glutted
with
our
trifles
,
and
inhaunced
the
prices
of
their
Corne
and
Victuall
.
That
Copper
which
before
would
haue
prouided
a
bushell
,
would
not
now
obtaine
so
much
as
a
pottle
:
Non
habet
euentus
sordida
praeda
bonos
,
the
consequent
of
sordid
gaine
is
vntimely
wretchednesse
.
Ioyne
vnto
these
an
other
euill
:
there
is
great
store
of
Fish
in
the
riuer
,
especially
of
Sturgeon
;
but
our
men
prouided
no
more
of
them
,
then
for
present
necessitie
,
not
barrelling
vp
any
store
against
that
season
the
Sturgeon
returned
to
the
sea
.
And
not
to
dissemble
their
folly
,
they
suffered
fourteene
nets
(
which
was
all
they
had
)
to
rot
and
spoile
,
which
by
orderly
drying
and
mending
might
haue
been
preserued
:
but
being
lost
,
all
help
of
fishing
perished
.
Quanto
maiora
timentur
dispendia
,
tanto
promptior
debet
esse
cautela
,
fundamentall
losses
that
cannot
be
repealed
,
ought
with
the
greatest
caution
to
be
preuented
.
The
state
of
the
Colony
,
by
these
accidents
began
to
find
a
sensible
declyning
:
which
Powhatan
(
as
a
greedy
Vulture
)
obseruing
,
and
boyling
with
desire
of
reuenge
,
he
inuited
Captaine
Ratclife
,
and
about
thirty
others
to
trade
for
Corne
,
and
vnder
the
colour
of
fairest
friendship
,
he
brought
them
within
the
compasse
of
his
ambush
,
whereby
they
were
cruelly
murthered
,
and
massacred
.
For
vpon
confidence
of
his
fidelitie
,
they
went
one
and
one
into
seuerall
houses
,
which
caused
their
seuerall
destructions
,
when
if
but
any
sixe
had
remained
together
,
they
would
haue
been
a
bulwarke
for
the
generall
preseruation
.
After
this
,
Powhatan
in
the
night
cut
off
some
of
our
boats
,
he
draue
away
all
the
Deere
into
the
farther
part
of
the
Countrie
,
hee
and
his
people
destroyed
our
Hogs
,
(
to
the
number
of
about
sixe
hundred
)
he
sent
none
of
his
Indians
to
trade
with
vs
,
but
laied
secret
ambushes
in
the
woods
,
that
if
one
or
two
dropped
out
of
the
fort
alone
,
they
were
indaungered
.
Cast
vp
this
reckoning
together
:
want
of
gouernment
,
store
of
idlenesse
,
their
expectations
frustrated
by
the
Traitors
,
their
market
spoyled
by
the
Mariners
,
our
nets
broken
,
the
deere
chased
,
our
boats
lost
,
our
hogs
killed
,
our
trade
with
the
Indians
forbidden
,
some
of
our
men
fled
,
some
murthered
,
and
most
by
drinking
of
the
brackish
water
of
Iames
fort
weakened
,
and
indaungered
,
famyne
and
sicknesse
by
all
these
meanes
increased
,
here
at
home
the
monies
came
in
so
slowly
,
that
the
Lo.
Laware
could
not
be
dispatched
,
till
the
Colony
was
worne
and
spent
with
difficulties
:
Aboue
all
,
hauing
neither
Ruler
,
nor
Preacher
,
they
neither
feared
God
nor
man
,
which
prouoked
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
and
pulled
downe
his
iudgements
vpon
them
.
Discite
iustitiam
moniti
.
Now
,
(
whether
it
were
that
God
in
mercie
to
vs
would
weede
out
these
ranke
hemlockes
;
or
whether
in
iudgement
to
them
he
would
scourge
their
impieties
;
or
whether
in
wisedome
he
would
trie
our
patience
,
Vt
magna
magnè
desideremus
,
that
wee
may
beg
great
blessings
earnestly
)
our
hope
is
that
our
Sunne
shall
not
set
in
a
cloude
,
since
this
violent
storme
is
dispersed
,
since
all
necessarie
things
are
prouided
,
an
absolute
and
powerfull
gouernment
is
setled
,
as
by
this
insuing
relation
shall
be
described
.
When
Sir
Thomas
Gates
arriued
in
Virginia
,
the
strange
and
vnexpected
condition
wherein
he
found
the
Colony
,
gaue
him
to
vnderstand
,
how
neuer
was
there
more
neede
of
all
the
powers
of
judgement
,
then
at
this
present
;
it
being
now
his
charge
,
both
to
saue
such
as
he
found
so
forlorne
and
wretched
,
as
to
redeeme
himselfe
and
his
from
falling
into
the
like
calamities
.
All
which
considered
,
he
entred
into
consultation
with
Sir
George
Summers
,
and
Captaine
Newport
,
and
the
Gentlemen
and
councell
of
the
former
gouernment
.
They
examined
first
their
store
,
which
after
two
cakes
a
day
to
a
man
,
would
hold
out
but
sixteene
dayes
,
(
it
being
fiue
moneths
betwixt
the
stealing
away
of
the
Swallow
,
and
his
landing
)
the
Corne
of
the
Indians
but
newly
sowed
,
not
an
eye
of
Sturgeon
,
as
yet
appeared
in
the
riuer
:
And
therefore
at
the
same
consultation
it
was
concluded
by
a
generall
approbation
,
That
they
should
abandon
the
Countrie
,
and
in
the
foure
Pinaces
(
which
remained
in
the
riuer
)
they
should
make
for
the
New
found
land
,
where
(
it
beeing
fishing
time
)
they
might
meete
with
many
English
Ships
,
into
which
they
hoped
to
disperse
the
most
of
the
Company
.
This
conclusion
taking
effect
,
vpon
the
seuenth
of
Iune
Sir
Thomas
Gates
(
hauing
appointed
euery
ship
her
complement
and
number
,
and
deliuered
likewise
to
each
a
proportionable
weight
of
prouision
)
caused
euery
man
to
repaire
aboord
;
his
company
(
and
of
his
company
himselfe
)
remained
last
on
shore
,
to
keepe
the
towne
from
being
burned
,
which
some
of
our
owne
company
maliciously
threatned
.
About
noone
they
fell
downe
with
the
tyde
to
the
Iland
of
Hogges
,
and
the
next
morning
to
the
Mulbury
Iland
:
at
what
time
,
they
discouered
the
long
Boate
of
the
Lord
Laware
,
which
his
Lordship
(
hearing
of
this
resolution
by
the
Captaine
of
the
Fort
,
which
standeth
at
the
mouth
of
the
riuer
)
suddenly
dispatched
with
letters
to
Sir
Thomas
Gates
,
which
informed
him
of
his
Lordships
arriuall
.
Vpon
receite
of
these
letters
,
Sir
Thomas
Gates
bore
vp
the
Helme
,
and
that
night
with
a
fauourable
winde
relanded
all
our
men
at
the
Fort.
Before
which
,
the
tenth
of
Iune
(
being
Sunday
)
his
Lordship
came
with
all
his
Fleete
,
went
ashore
in
the
afternoone
,
heard
a
Sermon
,
read
his
Commission
,
and
entred
into
consultation
for
the
good
of
the
Colony
.
In
which
secret
counsell
,
I
will
a
little
leaue
his
Lordship
,
that
wee
may
duly
obserue
the
reuealed
counsell
of
God
.
He
that
shal
but
turne
vp
his
eye
,
and
behold
the
spangled
Canopie
of
heauen
,
shall
but
cast
down
his
eye
,
and
consider
the
imbroidered
Carpet
of
the
earth
,
and
withall
shall
marke
,
how
the
heauens
heare
the
earth
,
the
earth
heare
the
corne
and
oyle
,
and
they
relieue
the
necessities
of
man
,
that
man
wil
acknowledge
Gods
infinite
prouidence
.
But
hee
that
shall
further
obserue
,
how
God
inclineth
all
casuall
euents
,
to
worke
the
necessary
helpe
of
his
Saints
,
must
needs
adore
the
Lords
infinite
goodnesse
.
Neuer
had
any
people
more
iust
cause
to
cast
themselues
at
the
foot-stoole
of
God
,
and
to
reuerence
his
mercy
,
then
our
distressed
Colony
:
for
if
God
had
not
sent
Sir
Thomas
Gates
from
the
Bermudos
within
foure
daies
,
they
had
all
beene
famished
:
if
God
had
not
directed
the
heart
of
that
worthy
Knight
,
to
saue
the
Fort
from
fire
at
their
shipping
,
they
had
been
destitute
of
a
present
harbor
,
and
succor
;
if
they
had
abandoned
the
Fort
any
longer
time
,
and
had
not
so
soone
returned
,
questionlesse
the
Indians
would
haue
destroied
the
Fort
,
which
had
beene
the
meanes
of
our
safety
among
them
,
and
a
terrour
vnto
them
.
If
they
had
set
Saile
sooner
,
and
had
lanched
into
the
vast
Ocean
,
who
could
haue
promised
,
that
they
should
haue
encountred
the
Fleet
of
the
Lo.
La-ware
?
especially
when
they
made
for
the
New-found
land
,
a
course
contrary
to
our
Nauies
approaching
.
If
the
Lord
La-ware
had
not
brought
with
him
a
yeares
prouision
,
what
comfort
could
those
soules
haue
receiued
,
to
haue
beene
relanded
to
a
second
destruction
?
Brachium
Domini
,
this
was
thearme
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
who
would
haue
his
people
to
passe
the
redde
Sea
and
Wildernesse
,
and
then
to
possesse
the
land
of
Canaan
:
It
was
diuinely
spoken
of
heathen
Socrates
,
Si
Deus
sit
solicitus
prote
,
cur
tu
tibi
sis
solicitus
?
if
God
for
man
be
carefull
,
why
should
man
be
ouer
distrustfull
?
The
noble
Lord
gouernor
,
after
mature
deliberation
,
deliuered
some
few
words
to
the
company
,
laying
iust
blame
vpon
them
for
their
haughty
vanities
,
and
sluggish
idlenesse
;
earnestly
entreating
them
to
amend
those
desperate
follies
,
lest
he
should
be
compelled
to
draw
the
sword
of
Iustice
,
and
to
cut
off
such
delinquents
,
which
he
had
rather
draw
(
euen
to
the
shedding
of
his
vital
blood
)
to
protect
them
from
iniuries
;
heartning
them
with
relation
of
that
store
hee
had
brought
with
him
;
constituting
officers
of
all
conditions
to
rule
ouer
them
,
alotting
euery
man
his
particular
place
to
watch
vigilantly
and
worke
painefully
.
This
Oration
and
direction
being
receiued
with
a
generall
applause
,
you
might
shortly
behold
the
idle
and
restie
diseases
of
a
diuided
multitude
,
by
the
vnity
and
authority
of
this
gouernment
,
to
be
substantially
cured
.
Those
that
knew
not
the
way
to
goodnes
before
,
but
cherished
singularity
and
faction
,
can
now
chalke
out
the
path
of
all
respectiue
duetie
and
seruice
:
euery
man
endeuouring
to
out-strip
each
other
in
diligence
:
the
French
preparing
to
plant
the
Vines
,
the
English
labouring
in
the
woods
and
groundes
;
euery
man
knoweth
his
charge
,
and
dischargeth
the
same
with
alacrity
.
Neither
let
any
man
be
discouraged
,
by
the
relation
of
their
daily
labor
,
(
as
though
the
sappe
of
their
bodies
should
be
spent
for
other
mens
profite
)
the
setled
times
of
working
(
to
effect
all
themselues
,
or
the
Aduenturers
neede
desire
)
requiring
no
more
pains
then
from
sixe
of
clocke
in
the
morning
vntill
ten
,
and
from
two
of
the
clocke
in
the
afternoone
till
foure
:
at
both
which
times
they
are
prouided
of
spiritual
and
corporall
relie●e
.
First
,
they
enter
into
the
Church
,
and
make
their
prayers
vnto
God
;
next
,
they
returne
to
their
houses
,
and
receiue
their
proportion
of
foode
.
Nor
should
it
be
conceiued
,
that
this
busines
excludeth
Gentlemen
,
whose
breeding
neuer
knew
what
a
daies
labour
meant
;
for
though
they
cannot
digge
,
vse
the
square
,
nor
practise
the
axe
and
chizell
;
yet
may
the
stayde
spirits
of
any
condition
finde
how
to
employ
the
force
of
knowledge
,
the
exercise
of
counsell
,
the
operation
and
power
of
their
best
breeding
and
qualities
.
The
houses
which
are
built
are
as
warme
and
defensible
against
winde
and
weather
,
as
if
they
were
tiled
and
slated
;
being
couered
aboue
with
strong
boordes
,
and
matted
round
within
,
according
to
the
fashion
of
the
Indians
.
Our
forces
are
now
such
as
are
able
to
tame
the
fury
and
treachery
of
the
Sauages
:
our
Forts
assure
the
Inhabitants
,
and
frustrate
all
assailants
.
And
to
leaue
no
discouragement
in
the
heart
of
any
,
who
personally
shall
enter
into
this
great
action
,
I
will
communicate
a
double
comfort
:
first
,
Sir
George
Summers
(
that
worthy
Admiral
)
hath
vndertaken
a
dangerous
aduenture
,
for
the
good
of
the
Colony
.
Vpon
the
fifteenth
of
Iune
(
accompanied
with
Captaine
Samuel
Argoll
)
he
returned
in
two
Pinaces
vnto
the
Bermudos
;
promising
(
if
by
any
meanes
God
will
open
a
way
to
that
Iland
of
Rockes
)
that
he
would
soone
returne
with
sixe
moneths
prouision
of
flesh
,
and
with
liue
Hogges
to
store
againe
Virginia
.
It
is
but
eleuen
daies
saile
,
and
we
hope
that
God
will
send
a
pillar
of
fire
to
direct
his
iourney
.
The
other
comfort
is
,
that
the
Lord
gouernour
hath
built
two
new
Forts
(
the
one
called
Fort
Henry
,
and
the
other
Fort
Charles
,
in
honor
of
our
most
noble
Prince
and
his
hopefull
brother
)
vpon
a
pleasant
hill
,
and
neere
a
little
riuelet
,
which
we
call
South
▪
hampton
riuer
.
They
stand
in
a
wholsome
ayre
,
hauing
plenty
of
springs
of
sweete
water
;
they
command
a
great
circuit
of
ground
,
containing
wood
,
pasture
and
meadow
;
with
apt
places
for
vines
,
corne
and
gardens
.
In
which
Forts
it
is
resolued
,
that
all
those
that
come
out
of
England
shall
be
at
their
first
landing
quartered
;
that
the
wearisomnes
of
the
sea
may
bee
refreshed
in
this
pleasing
part
of
the
countrey
.
The
fertility
of
the
soile
,
the
temperature
of
the
climate
,
the
form
of
gouernment
,
the
condition
of
our
people
,
their
daily
inuocating
of
the
name
of
God
,
being
thus
expressed
;
Why
should
the
successe
(
by
the
rules
of
mortall
iudgement
)
be
despaired
?
Why
should
not
the
rich
haruest
of
our
hopes
be
seasonably
expected
?
I
dare
say
,
that
the
resolution
of
Caesar
in
Fraunce
,
the
designes
of
Alexander
in
Greece
,
the
discoueries
of
Hernando
Cortes
in
the
West
,
and
of
Emanuel
,
King
of
Portugale
in
the
East
,
were
not
incouraged
vpon
so
firme
grounds
of
state
and
possibility
.
All
which
I
could
demonstrate
out
of
their
owne
Records
,
were
I
not
preuented
with
hast
,
to
satisfie
their
longings
,
who
with
an
open
care
,
hearken
after
the
commodities
of
the
countrey
:
whose
appetites
I
will
no
longer
frustrate
,
then
their
eyes
can
runne
ouer
this
succinct
Narration
.
I
called
it
a
succinct
Narration
,
because
the
commodities
in
former
Treatises
haue
beene
largely
described
,
which
I
will
only
here
epitomise
,
lest
any
man
should
change
his
resolution
,
when
the
same
grounds
remaine
,
which
were
the
cause
of
his
former
aduenture
.
The
Councell
of
Virginia
(
finding
the
smalnesse
of
that
returne
,
which
they
hoped
should
haue
defraied
the
charge
of
a
new
supply
)
entred
into
a
deepe
consultation
,
and
propounded
amongst
themselues
,
whether
it
were
fit
to
enter
into
a
new
contribution
,
or
in
time
to
send
for
home
the
Lord
La-ware
,
and
to
abandon
the
action
.
They
resolued
to
send
for
sir
Thomas
Gates
,
who
being
come
,
they
adiured
him
to
deale
plainely
with
them
,
and
to
make
a
true
relation
of
those
things
which
were
presently
to
be
had
,
or
hereafter
to
be
hoped
for
in
Virginia
▪
Sir
Thomas
Gates
with
a
solemne
and
sacred
oath
replied
,
that
all
things
before
reported
were
true
:
that
the
country
yeeldeth
abundance
of
wood
,
as
Oake
,
Wainscot
,
Walnut
tres
,
Bay
trees
,
Ashe
,
Sarsafrase
,
liue
Oake
,
greene
all
the
yeare
,
Cedar
and
Firre
;
which
are
the
materials
,
of
foape
ashes
,
and
pot
ashes
,
of
oyles
of
walnuts
,
and
bayes
,
of
pitch
and
tarre
,
of
Clap
boards
,
Pipe
▪
staues
,
Masts
and
excellent
boardes
of
forty
,
fifty
and
sixtie
length
,
and
three
foote
bredth
,
when
one
Firre
tree
is
able
to
make
the
maine
Mast
of
the
greatest
ship
in
England
.
He
auouched
,
that
there
are
incredible
variety
of
sweet
woods
,
especially
of
the
Balsamum
tree
,
which
distilleth
a
pretious
gum
;
that
there
are
innumerable
white
Mulberry
trees
,
which
in
so
warme
a
climate
may
cherish
and
feede
millions
of
silke
wormes
,
and
returne
vs
in
a
very
short
time
,
as
great
a
plenty
of
silke
as
is
vented
into
the
whole
world
from
al
the
parts
of
Italy
:
that
there
are
diuers
sorts
of
Minerals
,
especially
of
Iron
oare
,
lying
vpon
the
ground
for
ten
miles
circuite
;
of
which
we
haue
made
triall
at
home
,
that
it
maketh
as
good
Iron
as
any
is
in
Europe
:
)
that
a
kinde
of
hempe
or
flax
,
and
silke
grasse
doe
grow
there
naturally
,
which
will
affoord
stuffe
for
all
manner
of
excellent
Cordage
:
that
the
riuer
swarmeth
with
Sturgeon
;
the
land
aboundeth
with
Vines
,
the
woodes
doe
harbor
exceeding
store
of
Beauers
,
Foxes
and
Squirrils
,
the
waters
doe
nourish
a
great
encrease
of
Otters
;
all
which
are
couered
with
pretious
furres
:
that
there
are
in
present
discouered
dyes
and
drugs
of
sundry
qualities
;
that
the
Orenges
which
haue
beene
planted
,
did
prosper
in
the
winter
,
which
is
an
infallible
argument
,
that
Lymmons
,
sugar
Canes
,
Almonds
,
Rice
,
Anniseede
,
and
all
other
commodities
which
we
haue
from
the
Staights
,
may
be
supplied
to
vs
in
our
owne
countrey
,
and
by
our
owne
industry
:
that
the
corne
yeeldeth
a
trebble
encrease
more
then
ours
;
and
lastly
,
that
it
is
one
of
the
goodliest
countries
vnder
the
sunne
;
enterueined
with
fiue
maine
Riuers
,
and
promising
as
rich
entrals
as
any
Kingdome
of
the
earth
,
to
whom
the
sunne
is
no
neerer
a
neighbour
.
What
these
things
will
yeelde
,
the
Merchant
best
knoweth
,
who
findeth
by
experience
,
that
many
hundreth
of
thousands
of
pounds
are
yearly
spent
in
Christendome
in
these
commodities
.
The
Merchant
knoweth
,
that
Caueare
and
Traine
which
come
from
Russia
,
can
be
brought
hither
but
once
in
the
yeare
,
in
regard
of
the
Ice
:
and
that
Sturgeon
which
is
brought
from
the
East
countries
,
can
come
but
twice
a
yeare
;
and
that
not
before
the
end
of
Aprill
,
or
the
beginning
of
May
;
which
many
times
in
regard
of
the
heat
of
those
moneths
,
is
tainted
in
the
transportation
:
when
from
Virginia
they
may
be
brought
to
vs
in
foure
and
twenty
daies
,
and
in
al
the
colde
seasons
of
the
yeare
.
The
Merchants
know
,
that
the
commodity
of
sope
and
pot
ashes
are
very
scant
in
Prussia
;
that
they
are
brought
three
hundred
miles
by
land
,
and
three
hundred
miles
by
riuers
,
before
they
come
to
the
Sea
;
that
they
pay
a
custome
there
,
and
another
in
Denmarke
,
which
enhanceth
the
prices
exceedingly
:
But
in
Virginia
they
may
haue
them
without
carriage
by
land
or
custom
(
because
fiue
Nauigable
Riuers
doe
lead
vp
fiue
seuerall
waies
into
the
bowels
of
the
whole
countrey
.
)
As
therefore
the
like
Riuers
,
are
the
cause
of
the
riches
of
Holland
,
so
will
these
be
to
vs
a
wondrous
cause
of
sauing
of
expences
.
The
merchant
knoweth
,
that
through
the
troubles
in
Poland
&
Muscouy
,
(
whose
eternall
warres
are
like
the
Antipathy
of
the
Dragon
&
Elephants
)
all
their
traffique
for
Mastes
,
Deales
,
Pitch
,
Tarre
,
Flaxe
,
Hempe
,
and
Cordage
,
are
euery
day
more
and
more
indangered
,
and
the
woods
of
those
countries
are
almost
exhausted
.
All
which
are
to
be
had
in
Virginia
with
farre
lesse
charge
,
and
farre
more
safety
.
Lastly
,
the
Merchant
knoweth
,
that
for
our
commodities
in
the
Staights
,
as
sweet
wines
,
orenges
,
lemmonds
,
anniseeds
,
&c.
that
we
stand
at
the
deuotion
of
politique
Princes
and
States
,
who
for
their
proper
vtility
,
deuise
all
courses
to
grinde
our
merchants
,
all
pretences
to
confiscate
their
goods
,
and
to
draw
from
vs
al
marrow
of
gaine
by
their
inquisitiue
inuentions
:
when
in
Virginia
,
a
few
yeares
labour
by
planting
and
husbandry
,
will
furnish
all
our
defects
,
with
honour
and
security
;
especially
since
the
Frenchmen
(
who
are
with
the
Lord
Gouernour
)
do
confidently
promise
,
that
within
two
yeares
we
may
expect
a
plentifull
Vintage
.
When
therfore
this
noble
enterprise
,
by
the
rules
of
Religion
is
expresly
iustified
;
when
the
passages
by
Sea
are
all
open
and
discouered
;
when
the
climate
is
so
fruitfully
tempered
;
when
the
naturall
riches
of
the
soile
are
so
powerfully
confirmed
:
will
any
man
so
much
betray
his
owne
inconsiderate
ignorance
,
and
bewray
his
rashnesse
;
that
when
the
same
Sunne
shineth
,
he
should
not
haue
the
same
eies
to
beholde
it
;
when
the
same
hope
remaines
,
he
should
not
haue
the
same
heart
to
apprehend
it
?
At
the
voyage
of
Sir
Thomas
Gates
,
what
swarmes
of
people
desired
to
be
transported
?
what
alacrity
and
cheerefulnesse
in
the
Aduenturers
by
free
wil
offerings
,
to
build
vp
this
new
Tabernacle
?
Shall
we
now
be
deiected
?
Shall
we
cast
downe
our
heads
like
Bull
rushes
?
because
one
storme
at
sea
hath
deferred
our
ioyes
and
comforts
!
We
are
too
effeminate
in
our
longings
,
and
too
impatient
of
delaies
.
Gods
al-disposing
prouidence
,
is
not
compellable
by
mans
violence
.
Let
any
wisedome
giue
a
solide
reason
,
why
his
purpose
should
be
changed
,
when
those
grounds
which
gaue
life
to
his
first
purpose
,
are
not
changed
.
It
is
but
a
golden
slumber
,
that
dreameth
of
any
humane
felicity
,
which
is
not
sauced
with
some
contingent
miserie
.
Dolor
&
voluptas
,
inuicem
cedunt
,
Griefe
and
pleasure
are
the
crosse
sailes
of
the
worlds
euer-turning-windmill
.
Let
no
man
therefore
be
ouer
wise
,
to
cast
beyond
the
moone
and
to
multiply
needlesse
doubts
and
questions
.
Hannibal
by
too
much
wisedome
,
lost
opportunity
to
haue
sacked
Rome
Charles
the
eighth
of
Fraunce
,
by
temporising
,
lost
the
Kingdome
of
Naples
,
and
the
gouernement
of
Florence
:
Henry
the
seuenth
by
too
much
ouer-warines
,
lost
the
riches
of
the
golden
Indies
.
Occasion
is
pretious
,
but
when
it
is
occasion
.
Some
of
our
neighbours
would
ioine
in
the
action
,
if
they
might
be
ioynt
inheritors
in
the
Plantation
;
which
is
an
euident
proose
,
that
Virginia
shall
no
sooner
be
quitted
by
vs
,
then
it
will
be
reinhabited
by
them
.
A
dishonor
of
that
nature
,
that
will
eternally
blemish
our
Nation
;
as
though
we
were
like
the
furious
Pyrrhus
,
or
impetuous
Swissers
,
who
in
a
brunt
can
conquer
any
thing
,
but
with
wisedome
can
maintaine
nothing
.
It
is
time
to
wipe
away
such
an
imputation
of
Barbarisme
,
especially
since
the
consequence
is
so
pregnant
,
that
without
this
or
the
like
,
the
state
cannot
subsist
without
some
dangerous
and
imminent
mutation
.
He
is
ouer
blinde
that
doth
not
see
▪
what
an
inundation
of
people
doth
ouerslow
this
little
Iland
:
Shall
we
vent
this
deluge
,
by
indirect
and
vnchristian
policies
?
shal
we
imitate
the
bloody
and
heathenish
counsell
of
the
Romanes
,
to
leane
a
Catthage
standing
,
that
may
exhaust
our
people
by
forraine
warre
?
or
shall
we
nourish
domesticall
faction
,
that
as
in
the
dayes
of
Vitellius
and
Vespasian
,
the
sonne
may
imbrew
his
hands
in
the
blood
of
the
father
?
Or
shall
we
follow
the
barbarous
foot-steps
of
the
state
of
China
,
to
imprison
our
people
in
a
little
circle
of
the
earth
,
and
consume
them
by
pestilence
?
Or
shall
we
like
the
beast
of
Babylon
,
denie
to
any
sort
the
honourable
estate
of
mariage
,
and
allow
abhominable
stewes
,
that
our
people
may
not
ouer
increase
in
multitude
?
Or
shall
we
take
an
inhumane
example
from
the
Muscouite
,
in
a
time
of
famine
to
put
tenne
thousand
of
the
poore
vnder
the
yce
as
the
Mice
and
Rats
of
a
state
politique
?
If
all
these
be
diabolicall
and
hellish
proiects
,
what
other
means
remaines
to
vs
,
but
by
setling
so
excellent
a
Plantation
,
to
disimbarke
some
millions
of
people
vpon
a
land
that
floweth
with
all
manner
of
plenty
?
To
wade
a
little
further
,
who
euer
saluted
the
monuments
of
antiquity
,
and
doth
not
finde
,
that
Carthage
aspired
to
be
Empresse
of
the
world
,
by
her
opportunity
of
hauens
and
multitude
of
shipping
?
What
hindereth
the
great
Mahumetane
Prince
,
from
seazing
vpon
al
the
territories
of
Europe
,
but
onely
the
want
of
skilfull
marriners
?
What
created
the
rich
and
free
states
of
Holland
,
but
their
winged
Nauy
?
It
was
a
fit
embleme
that
painted
death
standing
vpon
the
shoares
of
Fraunce
,
Germany
and
Spaine
,
and
looking
ouer
into
England
:
intymating
vnto
vs
,
that
so
long
as
we
are
Lords
of
the
narrow
seas
,
death
stands
on
the
other
shoares
,
and
onely
can
looke
vpon
vs
:
but
if
our
wooden
wals
were
ruinated
,
death
would
soone
make
a
bridge
to
come
ouer
,
and
deuoure
our
Nation
.
When
therefore
our
mils
of
Iron
,
and
excesse
of
building
,
haue
already
turned
our
greatest
woods
into
pasture
and
champion
,
within
these
few
years
;
neither
the
scattered
Forrests
of
England
,
nor
the
diminished
Groues
of
Ireland
,
will
supply
the
defect
of
our
Nauy
.
When
in
Virginia
there
is
nothing
wanting
,
but
onely
mens
labours
,
to
furnish
both
Prince
,
State
and
merchant
,
without
charge
or
difficulty
.
Againe
,
whither
shall
wee
transport
our
cloth
,
and
how
shall
we
sustaine
our
Artisans
?
Shall
we
send
it
into
Turkey
?
Some
priuate
and
deceitfull
auarice
hath
discredited
our
merchandize
.
Into
Spaine
?
it
aboundeth
with
sheepe
and
wooll
.
Into
Poland
and
Muscouy
?
the
daunger
doth
ouer-ballance
the
gaine
in
times
of
contention
.
Into
Fraunce
and
Germany
?
they
are
for
the
most
part
supplied
by
their
owne
peace
.
When
if
our
Colony
were
peopled
in
Virginia
,
mutabit
vellera
merces
,
we
shall
exchange
our
store
of
cloth
for
other
merchandize
.
Let
any
man
resolue
why
the
Councell
of
Virginia
,
doe
now
most
earnestly
continue
their
aduentures
?
why
those
that
were
(
eye
witnesses
)
of
the
former
supposed
miseries
,
do
voluntarily
returne
with
ioy
and
comfort
?
why
those
noble
and
worthy
personages
,
doe
offer
to
make
the
action
good
vpon
the
hazard
of
their
liues
&
fortunes
?
And
why
Sir
Thomas
Gates
longeth
and
hasteneth
to
go
thither
again
,
and
the
Lord
La-ware
desireth
so
earnestly
to
stay
there
?
Are
not
all
these
things
as
deere
to
them
as
to
any
other
of
the
Aduenturers
?
Haue
not
their
hopes
the
same
wings
?
their
feares
the
same
fetters
?
their
estates
the
same
rockes
?
their
liues
and
soules
greater
gulfes
of
perill
and
despair
?
And
yet
neither
the
imbracements
of
their
wiues
,
nor
indulgence
to
their
babes
,
nor
the
neglect
of
their
domesticke
fortunes
,
nor
banishment
from
their
natine
soile
,
nor
any
experimented
dangers
haue
broken
their
noble
resolution
.
And
therefore
,
he
that
desireth
to
purchase
inf●llible
hope
of
priuate
vtility
;
hee
that
aimeth
at
the
honor
&
wealth
of
his
natiue
country
;
he
that
esteemeth
his
owne
repute
as
deere
as
his
owne
eies
;
he
that
ende●uo●reth
to
enlarge
the
dominions
of
his
Prince
,
and
the
Kingdome
of
his
God
:
let
him
remember
what
hee
hath
already
spent
,
which
is
all
buried
;
let
him
consider
the
consequences
of
state
,
which
are
all
vanished
into
smoake
;
let
him
conceiue
what
a
scorne
we
shall
be
made
to
the
maligners
of
our
state
abroad
,
and
our
il
affected
at
home
;
let
him
meditate
,
the
external
riches
of
other
Kingdoms
,
able
to
buy
and
sell
the
monarch
of
the
west
;
let
him
heare
the
triumphant
boasting
of
the
beast
of
Rome
,
as
though
God
would
not
suffer
our
schismaticall
and
hereticall
Religion
,
to
be
infused
into
a
new
conuerted
Region
:
O
all
ye
worthies
,
follow
the
euer-sounding
trumpet
of
a
blessed
honour
;
let
Religion
be
the
first
aim
of
your
hopes
,
&
caetera
adijcientur
,
and
other
things
shall
be
cast
vnto
you
:
your
names
shall
be
registred
to
posterity
with
a
glorious
title
;
These
are
the
men
,
whom
God
raised
to
augment
the
State
of
their
countrey
,
and
to
propagate
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Neyther
ought
any
man
to
liue
vnder
Augustus
,
as
if
he
liued
vnder
Domitian
,
quibus
inertia
est
pro
sapientia
;
to
whom
sluggishnes
&
priuacy
is
imputed
for
wisedome
and
pollicy
.
The
same
God
that
hath
ioyned
three
Kingdomes
vnder
one
Caesar
,
wil
not
be
wanting
to
adde
a
fourth
,
if
wee
would
dissolue
that
frosty
Ioinesse
which
chilleth
our
zeale
,
and
maketh
vs
so
cold
in
the
action
.
But
it
is
a
meere
Idaea
,
speculation
and
fancy
,
to
sow
sparingly
,
and
yet
expect
for
to
reape
plentifully
;
when
a
penurious
supply
is
like
the
casting
on
of
a
little
water
vpon
a
great
fire
,
that
quencheth
not
the
heat
,
but
augments
it
:
when
procrastinating
delayes
,
and
lingring
counsels
,
doe
lose
the
oportunity
of
flying
time
;
whereby
we
rather
bewray
our
Colony
then
releeue
them
:
let
no
man
adore
his
golde
as
his
God
,
nor
his
Mammon
as
his
Maker
.
If
God
haue
scattered
his
blessings
vpon
you
as
snow
,
will
you
returne
no
tributary
acknowledgement
of
his
goodnesse
?
If
you
will
,
can
you
select
a
more
excellent
subiect
,
then
to
cast
downe
the
altars
of
Diuels
,
that
you
may
raise
vp
the
Altar
of
Christ
:
to
forbid
the
sacrifice
of
men
,
that
they
may
offer
vp
the
sacrifice
of
contrite
spirites
;
to
reduce
Barbarisme
and
infidelity
,
to
ciuill
gouernement
and
Christianity
?
Sifrigido
loquor
,
nihil
loquor
;
If
I
speake
to
a
man
void
of
piety
,
I
speake
but
the
words
of
winde
and
vanity
;
otherwise
how
doth
that
man
groane
vnder
the
worlds
corruption
,
that
doth
not
actually
or
vocally
hasten
the
worldes
conuersion
?
Doubtye
not
but
God
hath
determined
,
and
demonstrated
(
by
the
wondrous
preseruation
of
those
principal
persons
which
fell
vpon
the
Bermudos
)
that
he
will
raise
our
state
,
and
build
his
Church
in
that
excellent
climate
,
if
the
action
be
seconded
with
resolution
and
Religion
.
Nil
disperandum
Christo
Duce
,
&
Auspice
Christo
.
FINIS
.