A
RELATION
OF
THE
NEW-FOVND-LAND
,
with
a
more
ample
discouery
of
that
Countrey
,
then
euer
was
yet
set
foorth
to
the
open
view
;
together
with
the
Briefes
of
such
presentments
,
as
were
there
taken
to
the
vse
of
your
Maiestie
,
by
vertue
of
a
Commission
vnder
the
Broad
Seale
of
the
Admiraltie
,
directed
to
me
RICHARD
WHITBOVRNE
.
IT
is
to
be
seene
by
the
Cosmographers
Maps
;
and
well
approued
,
that
the
New-found-land
is
an
Iland
,
bordering
vpon
the
Continent
of
America
,
from
which
it
is
diuided
by
the
Sea
:
so
farre
distant
,
The
situation
of
the
Countrey
.
as
England
is
from
the
neerest
part
of
France
,
&
lieth
betweene
46
and
53
degrees
North-latitude
:
It
is
neere
as
spacious
as
Ireland
,
and
lyes
neere
the
course
that
ships
vsually
hold
in
their
returne
from
the
West-Indies
,
and
neere
halfe
the
way
betweene
Ireland
and
Virginea
.
I
shall
not
much
neede
to
commend
the
wholesome
temperature
of
that
Countrey
,
seeing
the
greatest
part
thereof
lieth
aboue
3
degrees
neerer
to
the
South
,
then
any
part
of
England
doth
.
And
it
hath
bin
wel
approued
by
some
of
our
Nation
,
who
haue
liued
there
these
many
yeeres
,
The
temperature
of
the
ayre
.
that
euen
in
the
winter
it
is
as
pleasant
and
healthfull
,
as
England
is
.
And
although
the
example
of
one
Summer
be
no
certaine
rule
for
other
yeeres
;
yet
thus
much
also
can
I
truly
affirme
,
that
in
the
yeere
1615
,
of
the
many
thousands
of
English
,
French
,
Portugals
,
and
others
,
that
were
then
vpon
that
Coast
,
(
amongst
whom
I
sailed
to
and
fro
more
then
one
hundred
leagues
)
I
neither
saw
nor
heard
in
all
that
trauell
,
of
any
man
or
boy
of
either
of
these
Nations
,
that
dyed
there
during
the
whole
voyage
;
neither
was
so
much
as
any
one
of
them
sicke
.
The
Inhabitants
,
with
their
nature
and
customes
.
The
naturall
Inhabitants
of
the
Countrey
,
as
they
are
but
few
in
number
;
so
are
they
something
rude
and
sauage
people
;
hauing
neither
knowledge
of
God
,
nor
liuing
vnder
any
kinde
of
ciuill
gouernment
.
In
their
habits
,
customes
&
manners
,
they
resemble
the
Indians
of
the
Continent
,
from
whence
(
I
suppose
)
they
come
;
they
liue
altogether
in
the
North
and
West
part
of
the
Countrey
,
which
is
seldome
frequented
by
the
English
:
But
the
French
and
Biscaines
(
who
resort
thither
yeerely
for
the
Whale-fishing
,
and
also
for
the
Cod-fish
)
report
them
to
be
an
ingenuous
and
tractable
people
(
being
well
vsed
:
)
they
are
ready
to
assist
them
with
great
labour
and
patience
,
in
the
killing
,
cutting
,
and
boyling
of
Whales
;
and
making
the
Traine-oyle
,
without
expectation
of
other
reward
,
then
a
little
bread
,
or
some
such
small
hire
.
The
conueniencie
of
the
Bayes
in
that
Countrey
.
All
along
the
coast
of
this
Countrey
,
there
are
many
spacious
and
excellent
Bayes
,
some
of
them
stretching
into
the
land
,
one
towards
another
,
more
then
twenty
leagues
.
On
the
East
side
of
the
land
,
are
the
Bayes
of
Trinity
and
Conception
;
which
stretch
themselues
towards
the
South-west
;
Tor
Bay
,
and
Capelin
Bay
,
lying
also
on
the
East
,
stretch
toward
the
West
:
The
Bayes
of
Trepassey
,
S.
Mary
,
Borrell
,
and
Plaisance
,
on
the
South
part
of
the
land
,
extend
their
armes
toward
the
North
:
The
great
Bay
of
S.
Peters
,
lying
on
the
Southwest
side
of
the
land
,
and
East
,
Southerly
from
the
great
Riuer
of
Canady
,
being
about
twenty
leagues
distant
,
the
same
stretcheth
toward
the
East
.
And
here
I
pray
you
note
,
that
the
bottoms
of
these
Bayes
doe
meete
together
within
the
compasse
of
a
small
circuit
:
by
meanes
whereof
our
men
passing
ouer
land
from
Bay
to
Bay
,
may
with
much
facilitie
discouer
the
whole
Countrey
.
From
the
Bay
of
S.
Peter
round
about
the
West-side
of
the
land
,
till
you
come
to
the
grand
Bay
,
which
lyeth
on
the
North-side
of
the
Countrey
;
and
so
from
thence
,
till
you
come
round
,
backe
to
Trinity
Bay
,
are
abundance
of
large
and
excellent
Bayes
;
which
are
the
lesse
knowne
,
because
not
frequented
by
the
English
,
who
seldome
fish
to
the
Northward
of
Trinity
Bay
.
And
it
is
to
be
obserued
,
Commodious
Ilands
and
worthy
Harbours
.
that
round
about
the
Coast
and
in
the
Bayes
,
there
are
many
small
Ilands
,
(
none
of
them
further
off
then
a
league
from
the
land
)
both
faire
and
fruitfull
:
neither
doth
any
one
part
of
the
world
affoord
greater
store
of
good
Harbors
,
more
free
from
dangers
,
or
more
commodious
,
then
are
there
built
by
the
admirable
workmanship
of
God
;
I
will
only
instance
two
or
three
of
the
chiefest
,
for
some
speciall
reasons
.
Trinity
Harbour
affoording
diuers
good
commodities
.
Trinity
Harbour
lyes
neere
in
49
degrees
North-latitude
,
being
very
commodiously
seated
to
receiue
shipping
in
reasonable
weather
,
both
to
anchor
in
,
and
from
thence
to
saile
towards
either
the
East
,
West
,
or
South
:
It
hath
three
Armes
or
Riuers
,
long
and
large
enough
for
many
hundred
saile
of
Ships
,
to
moare
fast
at
Anchor
neere
a
mile
from
the
Harbours
mouth
;
close
adioyning
to
the
Riuers
side
,
and
within
the
Harbour
is
much
open
land
,
well
stored
with
grasse
sufficient
,
Winter
and
Summer
,
to
maintaine
great
store
of
ordinary
cattell
,
besides
Hogs
and
Goates
,
if
such
beasts
were
carried
thither
;
and
it
standeth
North
,
most
of
any
Harbor
in
the
land
,
where
our
Nation
practiseth
fishing
;
It
is
neere
vnto
a
great
Bay
lying
on
the
North-side
of
it
,
called
the
Bay
of
Flowers
;
to
which
place
no
Shippes
repaire
to
fish
;
partly
in
regard
of
sundry
Rocks
and
Ledges
lying
euen
with
the
water
,
and
full
of
danger
;
but
chiefly
(
as
I
coniecture
)
because
the
Sauage
people
of
that
Countrey
doe
there
inhabite
:
Sauages
liuing
neere
to
Trinitie
Harbour
.
many
of
them
secretly
euery
yeere
,
come
into
Trinity
Bay
and
Harbour
,
in
the
night
time
,
purposely
to
steale
Sailes
,
Lines
,
Hatchets
,
Hookes
,
Kniues
,
and
such
like
.
And
this
Bay
is
not
three
English
miles
ouer
land
from
Trinity
Bay
in
many
places
;
which
people
,
if
they
might
be
reduced
to
the
knowledge
of
the
true
Trinity
indeed
,
no
doubt
but
it
would
be
a
most
sweet
and
acceptable
sacrifice
to
God
,
an
euerlasting
honour
to
your
Maiesty
,
and
the
heauenliest
blessing
to
those
poore
Creatures
,
who
are
buried
in
their
owne
superstitious
ignorance
.
The
taske
thereof
would
proue
easie
,
if
it
were
but
well
begun
,
and
constantly
seconded
by
industrious
spirits
:
and
no
doubt
but
God
himselfe
would
set
his
hand
to
reare
vp
and
aduance
so
noble
,
so
pious
,
and
so
Christian
a
building
.
The
bottome
of
the
Bay
of
Trinity
lyeth
within
foure
leagues
through
the
land
Southwest
,
The
bottoms
of
di●●●●
bayes
meeting
neere
together
.
Southerly
from
Trinity
,
as
by
experience
is
found
,
and
it
comes
neere
vnto
the
Bay
of
Trepassey
,
and
the
bottome
of
some
other
Bayes
,
as
I
haue
already
touched
before
.
And
what
commodities
may
thereby
redound
,
if
some
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
were
also
once
setled
to
plant
neere
vnto
Trepassey
,
being
the
South
part
of
New-found-land
,
where
some
ships
vse
yeerely
to
fish
?
If
therefore
neere
the
Harbour
of
Trinity
it
were
inhabited
by
some
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
,
I
see
no
reason
to
the
contrary
,
but
that
a
speedy
and
more
certaine
knowledge
might
be
had
of
the
Countrey
,
by
reason
those
sauage
people
are
so
neere
;
who
being
politikely
and
gently
handled
,
much
good
might
be
wrought
vpon
them
:
for
I
haue
had
apparant
proofes
of
their
ingenuous
and
subtile
dispositions
,
and
that
they
are
a
people
full
of
quicke
and
liuely
apprehensions
.
Trepassey
in
like
manner
is
as
commodious
a
Harbour
,
lying
in
a
more
temperate
climate
,
almost
in
46
degrees
the
like
Latitude
,
The
Harbour
of
Trepassey
lying
commodiously
.
and
is
both
faire
and
pleasant
,
and
a
wholesome
Coast
free
from
Rockes
and
Shelues
:
so
that
of
all
other
Harbours
,
it
lies
the
South-most
of
any
Harbour
in
the
land
,
and
most
conueniently
to
receiue
our
shipping
passing
to
and
from
Virginea
,
and
the
Bermuda
Ilands
;
and
also
any
other
shipping
that
shall
passe
to
and
from
the
Riuer
of
Canady
and
the
coast
thereof
;
because
they
vsually
passe
,
and
so
returne
in
the
sight
of
the
land
of
Trepassey
;
and
also
for
some
other
purposes
,
as
shall
be
partly
declared
in
the
following
discourse
.
But
I
will
not
insist
vpon
further
particulars
of
Harbours
in
this
place
,
seeing
our
men
that
yeerely
trade
to
that
Coast
,
know
them
to
be
as
good
and
commodious
Harbours
,
as
any
other
whatsoeuer
.
The
fertilitie
of
the
soyle
.
The
soyle
of
this
Countrey
in
the
valleys
and
sides
of
the
mountaines
,
is
so
fruitfull
,
as
that
in
diuers
places
,
there
the
Summer
naturally
produceth
out
of
the
fruitfull
wombe
of
the
earth
,
without
the
labour
of
mans
hand
,
great
plenty
of
greene
Pease
and
Fitches
,
faire
,
round
,
full
and
wholesome
as
our
Fitches
are
in
England
:
of
which
I
haue
there
fed
on
many
times
:
the
hawmes
of
them
are
good
fodder
for
cattel
and
other
beasts
in
the
winter
,
with
the
helpe
of
Hay
;
of
which
there
may
be
made
great
store
with
little
labour
in
diuers
places
of
the
Countrey
.
Seuerall
sorts
of
fruites
there
growing
.
Then
haue
you
there
faire
Strawberries
red
and
white
,
and
as
faire
Raspasse
berries
,
and
Goose
berries
,
as
there
be
in
England
;
as
also
multitudes
of
Bilberries
,
which
are
called
by
some
,
Whortes
,
and
many
other
delicate
Berries
(
which
I
cannot
name
)
in
great
abundance
.
There
are
also
many
other
fruits
,
as
small
Peares
,
sowre
Cherries
,
Filberds
,
&c.
And
of
these
Berries
and
fruits
the
store
is
there
so
great
,
that
the
mariners
of
my
Ship
and
Barkes
company
,
haue
often
gathered
at
once
,
more
then
halfe
an
hogshead
would
hold
;
of
which
diuers
times
eating
their
fill
,
I
neuer
heard
of
any
man
,
whose
health
was
thereby
any
way
impaired
.
There
are
also
herbes
for
Sallets
and
Broth
;
Herbes
and
flowers
both
pleasant
and
medicinable
.
as
Parsley
,
Alexander
,
Sorrell
,
&c.
And
also
flowers
,
as
the
red
and
white
Damaske
Rose
,
with
other
kinds
;
which
are
most
beautifull
and
delightfull
,
both
to
the
sight
and
smell
.
And
questionles
the
Countrey
is
stored
with
many
Physicall
herbs
and
roots
,
albeit
their
vertues
are
not
knowne
,
because
not
sought
after
;
yet
within
these
few
yeeres
,
many
of
our
Nation
finding
themselues
ill
,
haue
brused
some
of
the
herbes
and
strained
the
iuyce
into
Beere
,
Wine
or
Aqua-vitae
;
and
so
by
Gods
assistance
,
after
a
few
drinkings
,
it
hath
restored
them
to
their
former
health
.
The
like
vertue
it
hath
to
cure
a
wound
,
or
any
swelling
,
either
by
washing
the
grieued
places
with
some
of
the
herbes
boyled
,
or
by
applying
them
so
thereunto
(
plaister-wise
)
which
I
haue
seene
by
often
experience
.
This
being
the
naturall
fruitfulnes
of
the
earth
,
producing
such
varietie
of
things
,
fit
for
food
,
without
the
labour
of
man
;
I
might
in
reason
hence
inferre
,
that
if
the
same
were
manured
,
and
husbanded
in
some
places
,
as
our
grounds
are
,
it
would
be
apt
to
beare
Corne
,
and
no
lesse
fertill
then
the
English
soyle
.
But
I
need
not
confine
my selfe
to
probabilities
;
Corne
growing
there
,
yeelding
good
increase
.
seeing
our
men
that
haue
wintred
there
diuers
yeeres
,
did
for
a
triall
and
experiment
thereof
sowe
some
small
quantitie
of
Corne
,
which
I
saw
growing
very
faire
;
and
they
found
the
increase
to
be
great
,
and
the
graine
very
good
;
and
it
is
well
knowne
to
me
,
and
diuers
that
trade
there
yeerely
,
how
that
Cabbage
,
Carrets
,
Turneps
,
Lettice
,
and
such
like
,
proue
well
there
.
Store
of
Deere
and
other
beasts
.
In
diuers
parts
of
the
Countrey
,
there
is
great
store
of
Deere
,
and
some
Hares
,
many
Foxes
,
Squirrels
,
Beuers
,
Wolues
,
and
Beares
,
with
other
sorts
of
beasts
,
seruing
as
well
for
necessitie
,
as
for
profit
and
delight
.
Neither
let
me
seeme
ridiculous
,
to
annex
a
matter
of
nouelty
,
rather
then
waight
,
to
this
discourse
.
A
rare
example
of
the
gentle
nature
of
the
beasts
of
that
Countrey
.
In
the
yeere
1615.
it
was
well
knowne
to
48
persons
of
my
company
,
and
diuers
other
men
,
that
three
seuerall
times
,
the
Wolues
and
beasts
of
the
Countrey
came
downe
neere
them
to
the
Sea-side
,
where
they
were
labouring
about
their
Fish
,
howling
and
making
a
noise
:
so
that
at
each
time
my
Mastiffe-dogge
went
vnto
them
(
as
the
like
in
that
Countrey
hath
not
been
seene
:
)
the
one
began
to
fawne
and
play
with
the
other
,
and
so
went
together
into
the
Woods
,
and
continued
with
them
,
euery
of
these
times
,
nine
or
ten
dayes
,
and
did
returne
vnto
vs
without
any
hurt
.
Hereof
I
am
no
way
superstitious
,
yet
it
is
something
strange
to
me
,
that
the
wilde
beasts
,
being
followed
by
a
sterne
Mastiffe-dogge
,
should
grow
to
a
familiaritie
with
him
,
seeing
their
natures
are
repugnant
:
surely
much
rather
the
people
,
by
our
discreet
and
gentle
vsage
,
may
be
brought
to
societie
,
being
already
naturally
inclined
thereunto
.
But
to
returne
to
our
purpose
,
and
to
speake
something
of
the
great
plenty
of
Fowle
in
that
Countrey
,
Plenty
of
Land-fowle
.
as
well
Land-fowle
,
as
Water-fowle
;
the
variety
of
both
kinds
is
infinite
.
The
Land-fowle
(
besides
great
number
of
small
birds
flying
vp
and
downe
,
some
without
name
,
Great
store
of
Land-fowle
.
that
liue
by
scraping
their
food
from
the
earth
in
the
hardest
winter
that
is
)
there
are
also
Hawkes
,
great
and
small
,
Partridges
,
Thrush
,
and
Thrussels
abundance
,
very
fat
.
As
also
Filladies
,
Nightingales
and
such
like
,
that
sing
most
pleasantly
.
There
are
also
birds
that
liue
by
prey
,
as
Rauens
,
Gripes
,
Crowes
,
&c.
For
Water-fowle
,
These
Penguins
are
as
bigge
as
Geese
,
and
flye
not
,
for
they
haue
but
a
little
short
wing
,
and
they
multiply
so
infinitly
,
vpon
a
certaine
flat
Iland
,
that
men
driue
them
from
thence
vpon
a
boord
,
into
their
boates
by
hundreds
at
a
time
;
as
if
God
had
made
the
innocency
of
so
poore
a
creature
,
to
become
such
an
admirable
instrument
for
the
sustentation
of
man
.
There
are
also
Godwits
,
Curlewes
,
and
a
certaine
kinde
of
fowle
that
are
called
Oxen
and
Kine
,
with
such
like
;
which
fowle
doe
not
only
steed
those
that
trade
thither
greatly
for
foode
,
but
also
they
are
a
great
furthering
to
diuers
Ships
voyages
,
because
the
abundance
of
them
is
such
,
that
the
Fishermen
doe
bait
their
hookes
with
the
quarters
of
Sea-fowle
on
them
:
and
therewith
some
ships
do
yeerely
take
a
great
part
of
their
fishing
voyages
,
with
such
bait
,
before
they
can
get
others
.
The
fresh
waters
and
Springs
of
that
Countrey
,
are
many
in
number
,
Fresh
water
and
Springs
.
and
withall
very
pleasant
,
delightfull
and
wholesome
,
that
no
Countrey
in
the
world
hath
better
.
And
Fewell
for
fire
is
so
plentifull
,
that
there
is
neuer
like
to
be
want
of
that
commoditie
.
Many
sorts
of
Timber
there
growing
.
In
like
manner
there
is
great
abundance
of
Trees
fit
to
be
imployed
in
other
seruiceable
vses
:
There
are
Firre
and
Spruce
trees
,
sound
,
good
,
and
fit
to
mast
Ships
withall
;
and
as
commodious
for
boords
and
buildings
as
the
Spruce
and
Firre
trees
of
Norway
;
and
out
of
these
came
abundance
of
Turpentine
.
No
Countrey
can
shew
Pyne
and
Birch
trees
,
of
such
height
and
greatnes
as
those
are
there
:
and
doubtlesse
,
if
some
store
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
do
once
settle
there
to
liue
,
&
would
be
industrious
to
search
further
,
and
more
throughly
into
the
Countrey
,
then
as
yet
it
hath
been
,
there
might
be
found
many
other
commodities
of
good
worth
.
Amongst
the
which
I
may
not
omit
,
Good
hope
of
Mines
,
and
making
of
Iron
and
Pitch
.
that
there
is
much
probabilitie
of
finding
Mines
,
and
making
of
Iron
and
Pitch
.
The
Riuers
also
and
Harbours
are
generally
stored
with
delicate
Fish
,
as
Salmons
,
Peales
,
Eeles
,
Herring
,
Fish
in
great
abundance
.
Mackerell
,
Flounders
,
Launce
,
Capelin
,
Cod
,
and
Troutes
the
fairest
,
fattest
and
sweetest
,
that
I
haue
seene
in
any
part
of
the
world
.
The
like
for
Lobsters
,
Crafish
,
Muskles
,
Hens
;
and
other
varietie
of
Shell-fish
great
store
.
And
also
obserue
here
,
that
in
these
places
there
is
vsually
store
of
the
spawne
and
frie
of
seuerall
sorts
of
fishes
:
whereby
the
Sea-fowle
liue
so
fat
,
as
they
are
there
in
the
winter
:
And
likewise
the
Beuers
,
Otters
and
such
like
,
that
seeke
their
food
in
the
Ponds
and
fresh
Riuers
.
The
Seas
likewise
all
along
the
Coast
,
doe
plentifully
abound
in
other
sorts
of
fish
,
as
Whales
,
Spanish
Mackerell
,
Dorrell
,
pale
,
Herring
,
Hogs
,
Porposes
,
Seales
,
and
such
like
royall
fish
,
&c.
But
the
chiefe
commodity
of
New-found-land
yet
knowne
,
and
which
is
growne
to
be
a
settled
trade
,
and
that
may
be
much
bettered
by
an
orderly
Plantation
there
,
(
if
the
Traders
thither
will
take
some
better
course
,
then
formerly
they
haue
done
,
as
shall
be
declared
)
is
the
Cod-fishing
vpon
that
Coast
,
Cod-fishing
a
great
hope
of
benefit
there
from
.
by
which
our
Nation
and
many
other
Countries
are
enricht
.
And
if
I
should
here
set
downe
a
valuation
of
that
fish
,
which
the
French
,
Biscaines
,
The
benefit
arising
to
France
,
Spaine
,
and
Italy
,
from
fishing
vpon
those
coasts
.
and
Portugals
fetch
yeerely
from
this
Coast
of
New-found-land
,
and
the
Banke
,
which
lieth
within
25
leagues
from
the
South-cape
of
that
Countrey
,
where
the
French
vse
to
fish
Winter
and
Summer
,
vsually
making
two
voyages
euery
yeere
thither
:
(
To
which
places
,
and
to
the
Coast
of
Canady
,
which
lieth
neere
vnto
it
,
are
yeerely
sent
from
those
Countries
,
more
then
400.
saile
of
ships
:
)
It
would
seeme
incredible
,
yea
some
men
are
of
opinion
,
that
the
people
of
France
,
Spaine
,
and
Italy
,
could
not
so
well
liue
,
if
the
benefit
of
the
fishing
vpon
this
Coast
,
and
your
Maiesties
other
Dominions
,
were
taken
from
them
.
But
I
trust
it
will
be
sufficient
,
that
I
giue
an
estimate
of
our
owne
trading
thither
,
and
partly
of
the
wealth
and
commodities
we
reape
thereby
,
without
any
curious
search
into
other
mens
profits
.
In
the
yeere
1615.
when
I
was
at
New-found-land
with
the
Commission
before-mentioned
,
Saile
of
ships
lying
vpon
that
Coast
,
Anno
1615.
which
was
an
occasion
of
my
taking
the
more
particular
obseruations
of
that
Countrey
,
there
were
then
on
that
Coast
,
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
,
250.
saile
of
Ships
great
and
small
.
The
burthens
and
Tunnage
of
them
all
one
with
another
,
so
neere
as
I
could
take
notice
,
allowing
euery
ship
to
be
at
least
threescore
tunne
(
for
as
some
of
them
contained
lesse
,
so
many
of
them
held
more
)
amounted
to
more
then
15000.
tunnes
.
Now
for
euery
threescore
tunne
burthen
,
according
to
the
vsuall
manning
of
Ships
in
those
voyages
,
agreeing
with
the
note
I
then
tooke
,
there
are
to
be
set
down
twenty
men
and
boyes
:
by
which
computation
in
these
250.
saile
,
there
were
no
lesse
then
fiue
thousand
persons
.
Now
euery
one
of
these
ships
,
so
neere
as
I
could
guesse
,
had
about
120000.
fish
,
and
fiue
tunne
of
Traine
oyle
one
with
another
.
What
the
valew
of
the
fish
contained
in
most
ships
did
amount
vnto
.
So
that
the
totall
of
the
fish
in
these
250.
saile
,
when
it
was
brought
into
England
,
France
or
Spaine
,
(
being
sold
after
the
rate
of
foure
pound
,
for
euery
thousand
of
fish
,
sixe
score
fishes
to
the
hundred
,
which
is
not
a
penny
a
fish
,
and
if
it
yeeld
lesse
,
it
was
ill
sold
)
amounted
in
money
to
120000.
pound
.
Now
,
as
I
haue
said
before
,
allowing
to
euery
ship
of
60.
tunne
,
at
least
fiue
tunne
of
Traine
oyle
,
the
totall
of
that
ariseth
to
1250.
tunne
;
each
tunne
,
whether
it
be
sold
in
England
,
or
elsewhere
,
being
vnder-valued
at
twelue
pound
.
So
as
the
whole
value
thereof
in
money
,
amounteth
to
the
summe
of
15000.
pound
,
which
added
to
the
fish
,
it
will
appeare
that
the
totall
value
of
the
fish
,
and
Traine
oyle
of
those
250.
saile
of
ships
that
yeere
,
might
yeeld
to
your
Maiesties
subiects
better
then
the
summe
of
135000.
pound
,
omitting
to
reckon
the
ouer-prices
which
were
made
and
gotten
by
the
sale
thereof
in
forraine
Countreys
,
being
much
more
then
what
is
vsually
made
at
home
,
and
so
the
like
in
other
yeeres
.
And
this
certainly
,
in
my
vnderstanding
,
is
a
poynt
worthy
of
consideration
,
that
so
great
wealth
should
yeerely
be
raised
,
by
one
sole
commoditie
of
that
Countrey
,
yea
by
one
only
sort
of
fish
,
and
not
vpon
any
other
trade
thither
,
which
must
needes
yeeld
,
with
the
imployments
thereof
,
great
riches
to
your
Maiesties
subiects
:
And
this
also
to
be
gathered
and
brought
home
by
the
sole
labour
and
industrie
of
men
,
without
exchange
or
exportation
of
our
Coine
,
and
natiue
commodities
,
or
other
aduenture
(
then
of
necessary
prouisions
for
the
fishing
)
as
Salt
,
Nets
,
Leads
,
Hookes
,
Lines
,
and
the
like
;
and
of
victuals
,
as
Bread
,
Beere
,
Beefe
,
and
Porke
,
in
competent
measure
,
according
to
the
number
and
proportion
of
men
imployed
in
those
voyages
.
The
conuerting
of
these
commodities
(
gotten
by
fishing
)
into
money
,
cannot
chuse
but
be
a
great
benefit
to
all
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
in
many
respects
.
What
the
charge
in
setting
foorth
of
these
250.
saile
might
amount
vnto
(
being
only
for
victuals
,
which
our
Countrey
yeeldeth
)
I
hold
it
not
fit
here
to
set
downe
,
lest
I
should
bee
accused
by
some
therein
.
And
withall
it
is
to
be
considered
,
The
reliefe
that
the
trading
there
will
affoord
to
seuerall
sorts
of
people
.
that
the
trade
thither
(
as
now
it
is
)
doth
yeerely
set
on
worke
,
and
relieue
many
numbers
of
people
,
as
Bakers
,
Brewers
,
Coopers
,
Ship-Carpenters
,
Smiths
,
Net-makers
,
Rope-makers
,
Line-makers
,
Hooke-makers
,
Pully-makers
,
and
many
other
trades
,
which
with
their
families
haue
their
best
meanes
of
maintenance
,
from
these
New-found-land
voyages
.
Adde
vnto
them
the
families
or
seruants
of
diuers
Owners
and
Masters
of
such
ships
as
goe
thither
,
and
mariners
with
their
families
,
hereby
employed
and
maintained
.
By
this
little
which
hath
been
thus
briefly
spoken
of
the
situation
,
temperature
,
safenes
of
the
Coast
,
naturall
fertility
,
commodities
and
riches
of
New-found-land
,
it
doth
plainly
appeare
,
that
it
is
a
Countrey
not
only
habitable
and
lying
open
,
ready
to
receiue
the
first
commers
;
but
also
for
the
goodnesse
thereof
,
worthy
to
be
embraced
,
and
made
the
habitation
of
Christians
.
Reasons
inducing
for
a
Plantation
there
.
What
the
reasons
,
motiues
and
inducements
are
,
either
of
honour
,
profit
or
aduantage
,
which
may
iustly
inuite
your
Maiestie
,
and
all
your
good
subiects
,
to
take
some
speedy
and
reall
course
,
for
planting
there
,
I
will
endeuour
hereafter
to
shew
.
First
reason
,
hope
of
conuerting
the
Inhabitants
to
Christianitie
.
For
it
is
most
certaine
,
that
by
a
Plantation
there
,
and
by
that
meanes
only
,
the
poore
misbeleeuing
Inhabitants
of
that
Countrey
may
be
reduced
,
from
Barbarisme
,
to
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
the
light
of
his
truth
,
and
to
a
ciuill
and
regular
kinde
of
life
and
gouernment
.
This
is
a
thing
so
apparant
,
that
I
neede
not
enforce
it
any
further
,
or
labour
to
stirre
vp
the
charity
of
Christians
therein
,
to
giue
their
furtherance
towards
a
worke
so
pious
,
euery
man
knowing
,
that
euen
we
our selues
were
once
as
blind
as
they
in
the
knowledge
and
worship
of
our
Creator
,
and
as
rude
and
sauage
in
our
liues
and
manners
.
Only
thus
much
will
I
adde
,
that
it
is
not
a
thing
impossible
,
but
that
by
meanes
of
those
slender
beginnings
which
may
be
made
in
New-found-land
,
all
the
regions
neere
adioyning
thereunto
,
may
in
time
be
conuerted
to
the
true
worship
of
God
.
Secondly
,
the
vniting
of
a
Countrey
so
beneficiall
already
,
Second
reason
,
the
temporall
benefits
that
may
iustly
and
easily
arise
from
hence
.
and
so
promising
vnto
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
without
either
bloudshed
,
charge
,
or
vsurpation
,
must
needes
be
a
perpetuall
honour
to
your
Maiestie
in
all
succeeding
ages
:
and
not
so
onely
,
but
also
a
great
benefit
and
aduantage
to
the
State
,
by
a
new
accesse
of
Dominion
.
And
what
Prince
or
State
can
inlarge
their
territories
,
by
a
more
easie
,
and
more
iust
meanes
then
this
?
The
English
are
reputed
for
the
first
Discouerers
of
this
Countrey
:
and
a
Subiect
of
this
State
,
one
Sir
Humfrey
Gilbert
(
as
is
touched
before
)
hath
long
since
taken
possession
thereof
,
long
since
tooke
possession
thereof
to
the
vse
of
this
Crowne
.
to
the
vse
of
your
Maiesties
royall
Crowne
;
and
that
possession
hath
bin
continued
by
seuerall
Patents
and
Commissions
:
so
that
of
right
,
I
doe
conceiue
,
it
appertaineth
to
your
Maiestie
,
although
it
be
not
yet
peopled
with
your
Maiesties
subiects
,
notwithstanding
the
said
Patents
.
Neither
seemes
it
impossible
to
me
,
but
that
your
Maiestie
,
and
your
royall
Progenie
,
may
in
time
annexe
vnto
your
Crowne
,
a
great
part
of
the
Continent
of
America
,
bordring
vpon
New-found-land
,
Hope
of
ioyning
America
,
or
some
parts
therof
to
New-found-land
.
the
same
lying
neerer
to
your
Maiesties
kingdoms
,
then
to
any
other
Countrey
of
these
our
knowne
parts
of
the
World
:
and
for
the
most
part
of
it
vnder
the
same
Eleuation
of
the
Pole
with
vs
;
and
but
little
aboue
sixe
hundred
leagues
distance
from
hence
.
At
least
I
cannot
see
,
but
that
from
hence
further
Discoueries
may
be
made
,
and
new
trades
found
out
,
yea
peraduenture
the
supposed
Northwest
passage
:
For
if
it
can
be
proued
,
or
if
there
be
any
possibilitie
or
probabilitie
,
that
there
is
such
a
passage
,
on
the
Northside
of
America
towards
Iapan
and
China
,
which
in
the
opinion
of
some
men
,
is
to
lie
neere
the
height
of
64
degrees
:
the
fittest
place
from
whence
to
proceed
to
that
Discouerie
,
is
(
in
my
opinion
)
the
New-found-land
.
And
for
those
that
hencefoorth
attempt
to
search
that
straight
or
passage
,
to
set
foorth
sooner
and
more
early
,
then
heretofore
they
haue
done
,
and
to
saile
directly
to
some
conuenient
Harbour
in
New-found-land
,
there
to
refresh
themselues
with
such
prouision
as
shall
be
needfull
;
and
so
put
out
from
thence
about
the
twentieth
day
of
May
(
if
it
be
once
set
in
a
faire
Westerly
winde
,
)
and
to
saile
along
the
North
part
of
New-found-land
,
and
that
Coast
which
is
called
Cambaleu
,
continuing
that
Northerly
course
vnto
64
,
which
is
but
15
degrees
from
Trinity
Harbour
;
and
it
may
be
sailed
in
lesse
then
sixe
dayes
,
with
a
faire
Westerly
winde
,
which
commonly
maketh
a
cleere
coast
all
along
to
the
North
,
both
from
fogges
and
Ice
also
;
both
which
are
violent
hinderers
to
men
that
haue
vndertaken
these
voyages
.
For
comming
to
feeke
out
those
straights
or
passages
,
with
a
large
Easterly
,
Southerly
,
or
Northerly
winde
,
which
commonly
bring
on
that
Coast
the
fogges
and
Ice
,
and
comming
so
late
in
the
Summer
,
they
haue
thereby
lost
the
aduantage
and
benefit
of
time
for
finding
out
so
happy
a
businesse
.
But
if
this
designe
of
a
Plantation
should
not
be
entertained
,
and
throughly
prosecuted
,
it
may
be
iustly
doubted
,
that
some
other
Prince
will
step
in
,
and
vndertake
the
same
:
which
if
it
so
fall
out
,
your
Maiestie
shall
not
onely
lose
all
those
aduantages
and
benefits
,
which
your
Maiestie
,
and
your
subiects
might
reape
by
this
Plantation
,
but
also
the
actuall
possession
;
and
then
those
that
should
vsurpe
your
Maiesties
right
there
,
will
be
an
hindrance
to
your
Maiestie
either
to
remoue
them
,
or
to
plant
by
them
,
without
hazarding
a
breach
of
peace
.
And
it
may
be
feared
,
that
such
a
Plantation
,
growing
to
haue
strength
,
your
subiects
shall
be
(
if
not
prohibited
)
yet
at
least
hindred
of
their
free
trading
and
fishing
there
,
or
constrained
to
take
their
fish
of
the
Planters
,
and
at
their
prices
;
which
may
fall
out
to
be
a
notable
disseruice
to
your
Maiestie
,
and
the
vtter
ouerthrow
of
your
subiects
trade
thither
.
But
in
setting
downe
the
aduantages
wee
shall
haue
by
a
settled
Plantation
there
,
I
haue
sufficiently
discouered
,
what
our
losses
will
be
,
if
wee
suffer
our selues
to
be
preuented
by
others
.
That
Countrey
may
be
made
a
place
of
great
vse
and
aduantage
,
for
this
State
in
any
action
,
that
may
ingage
vs
by
way
of
attempt
or
defence
,
in
regard
of
those
parts
of
the
world
.
For
the
first
,
this
Countrey
lyeth
so
neere
the
course
which
the
Spanish
ships
,
that
come
from
Mexico
,
Hauona
,
and
other
places
of
the
West-Indies
,
hold
in
their
returne
from
thence
,
that
they
often
saile
within
150.
leagues
from
the
South
part
thereof
.
In
the
yeere
1615.
whilest
I
was
in
that
Countrey
,
three
ships
returning
from
the
West-Indies
,
did
arriue
there
,
purposely
to
refresh
themselues
with
water
,
wood
,
fish
,
and
fowle
,
and
so
haue
diuers
others
done
at
other
times
.
Sundry
Portugall
ships
haue
come
thither
purposely
to
loade
fish
from
the
English
,
and
haue
giuen
them
a
good
price
for
the
same
,
and
sailed
from
thence
with
it
to
Brasile
,
where
that
kinde
of
fish
is
in
great
request
,
and
they
haue
made
great
profit
thereby
.
And
diuers
Dutch
and
French
ships
haue
also
oftentimes
come
thither
,
purposely
to
loade
fish
from
the
English
,
which
they
afterwards
transport
into
Italy
,
Spaine
,
and
other
parts
,
whereby
they
imploy
both
their
shipping
,
and
mariners
,
making
good
profit
thereof
.
We
haue
already
spoken
of
the
great
numbers
of
French
and
Portugall
shipping
,
that
vsually
trade
euery
yeere
to
this
Coast
,
and
the
places
neere
adioyning
in
fishing
voyages
:
so
that
what
in
all
likelihood
may
be
the
euent
of
a
Plantation
to
be
made
there
,
if
either
Spaine
or
France
should
break
league
with
your
Maiestie
,
or
your
royall
Progeny
;
I
leaue
to
the
consideration
of
your
Maiestie
.
And
certainly
as
your
Maiesties
subiects
sailing
to
and
from
Virginia
,
&
the
Bermuda
Ilands
,
might
in
any
extremity
(
hauing
spent
a
mast
or
yard
,
or
when
any
leake
is
sprung
)
be
relieued
,
and
at
other
times
refresh
themselues
in
their
voyages
,
if
a
Plantation
were
settled
neere
about
Trepassey
:
So
vpon
occasion
of
any
attempt
,
or
other
iniuries
which
might
be
offered
those
more
remote
Plantations
,
they
might
from
thence
receiue
succour
in
shorter
time
then
from
England
.
Besides
all
this
,
it
would
be
a
great
ease
to
all
the
rest
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
,
if
some
part
of
our
superabounding
multitudes
were
transplanted
into
New-found-land
;
for
besides
the
great
number
of
idle
persons
that
liue
here
,
spending
their
time
in
drinking
,
and
other
excesse
,
among
which
many
of
your
New-found-land
men
may
be
reckoned
,
during
the
winter
season
,
whilest
they
are
at
home
:
There
are
many
thousands
of
poore
people
of
both
sexes
,
which
might
be
spared
out
of
all
your
Maiesties
Dominions
,
who
liuing
penuriously
,
and
in
great
want
,
would
be
perswaded
to
remoue
their
dwelling
into
New-found-land
,
where
they
might
not
onely
free
themselues
of
their
present
miseries
,
but
also
by
their
industrie
,
in
time
inrich
themselues
,
and
deserue
well
of
the
State
by
their
imploiments
:
for
there
is
yeerely
great
abundance
of
good
fish
lost
for
want
of
labourers
,
and
other
good
things
also
.
Neither
are
the
people
of
those
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
any
way
inferiour
to
other
Nations
in
courage
,
either
to
vndertake
,
or
maintaine
,
but
they
are
often
lesse
industrious
and
diligent
.
And
(
with
griefe
it
is
to
be
spoken
)
by
our
sluggishnes
,
some
of
our
neere
neighbours
haue
wonne
from
vs
the
ancient
honour
,
and
that
reputation
,
by
which
we
were
held
the
Masters
of
Nauigation
,
and
Commanders
of
the
Seas
.
And
I
am
verily
of
opinion
,
if
their
Audit
were
truly
published
to
the
world
,
that
their
trade
of
fishing
vpon
your
Maiesties
Sea-coasts
,
hath
been
the
best
meanes
of
their
present
strength
,
hauing
thereby
increased
their
shipping
and
wealth
,
and
inabled
their
men
for
Nauigation
.
For
it
is
well
knowne
,
that
the
French
and
also
the
Dutch
,
by
their
fishing
on
your
Maiesties
Sea-coasts
,
doe
vse
a
pettie
kind
of
picking
away
of
infinite
summes
of
money
yeerely
from
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
;
not
only
from
North-Yarmouth
,
&
other
places
thereby
,
all
the
time
that
the
Herring
fishing
lasteth
:
but
also
for
Mackerell
,
Soles
,
Whitings
,
and
other
sorts
of
fish
which
they
take
,
in
sight
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdome
,
and
bring
it
here
to
land
daily
,
and
sell
it
for
ready
mony
;
such
daily
gathering
away
of
coyne
,
may
well
be
remedied
,
if
your
Maiesties
subiects
would
forbeare
to
buy
any
fresh
fish
of
other
Nations
,
which
me
thinks
they
should
:
then
Strangers
should
be
constrained
to
bring
coyne
into
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
with
their
fish
,
to
set
poore
people
a
worke
to
salt
and
preserue
their
Herrings
,
and
other
fish
withall
,
when
they
bring
it
here
a
land
;
whereby
some
Customes
and
other
duties
will
also
grow
:
or
otherwise
they
will
leaue
their
daily
fishing
so
neere
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
(
as
now
they
doe
)
and
then
such
fish
will
be
the
more
plentifull
for
your
Highnesse
subiects
to
take
,
and
thereby
greatly
encourage
them
to
set
foorth
and
employ
many
a
poore
man
the
more
in
fishing
,
then
now
there
is
:
and
it
will
then
not
only
preserue
great
summes
of
mony
yeerely
from
carrying
away
from
your
Maiesties
Kingdoms
,
but
also
there
will
be
more
gotten
,
than
now
there
is
,
and
great
numbers
of
mariners
increased
,
to
be
very
seruiceable
for
the
Nauy
,
when
there
may
bee
cause
.
Now
that
which
is
like
to
be
the
present
benefit
,
and
which
(
in
my
opinion
)
will
weigh
most
toward
the
furtherance
of
this
Plantation
in
New-found-land
,
by
reason
of
the
many
consequences
thereof
;
is
the
bettering
of
our
trade
there
,
which
will
fall
out
exceeding
beneficiall
in
diuers
respects
,
if
those
who
aduenture
thither
,
will
follow
some
better
course
then
formerly
they
haue
vsed
:
And
in
so
doing
,
ships
may
then
faile
in
much
more
safetie
thither
,
and
returne
yeerely
from
thence
much
more
richer
then
now
they
doe
.
For
many
disorderly
courses
are
committed
by
some
traders
and
aduenturers
thither
,
in
setting
foorth
to
that
Countrey
,
and
practised
by
some
of
them
when
they
arriue
there
:
If
these
disorders
were
reformed
,
the
great
benefit
expected
will
soone
follow
.
It
is
well
knowne
,
that
they
which
aduenture
to
New-found-land
a
fishing
,
begin
to
dresse
and
prouide
their
ships
ready
commonly
in
the
moneths
of
December
,
Ianuary
,
and
February
,
and
are
ready
to
set
foorth
at
Sea
in
those
voyages
neere
the
end
of
February
,
being
commonly
the
foulest
time
in
the
yeere
.
And
thus
they
doe
,
striuing
to
be
there
first
in
a
Harbour
,
to
obtaine
the
name
of
Admirall
that
yeere
:
and
so
,
to
haue
the
chiefest
place
to
make
their
fish
on
,
where
they
may
doe
it
with
the
greatest
ease
,
and
haue
the
choice
of
diuers
other
necessaries
in
the
Harbors
,
which
do
them
little
stead
:
but
the
taking
of
them
wrongs
many
others
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
,
which
arriue
there
after
the
first
.
And
thus
by
their
hasting
thither
,
oftentimes
there
comes
not
only
danger
to
themselues
,
but
also
great
mischiefe
,
and
losses
to
many
others
which
arriue
there
after
the
first
;
as
it
may
by
that
which
followes
truly
appeare
.
For
by
the
hasting
foorth
as
now
they
vse
,
they
greatly
endanger
themselues
,
being
many
times
beaten
with
rough
and
stormy
windes
;
and
oftentimes
they
are
thereby
forced
to
returne
backe
with
great
losse
both
of
mens
liues
and
goods
,
as
it
is
well
knowne
:
So
that
to
get
the
superioritie
to
arriue
there
first
in
an
Harbour
,
they
will
beare
such
an
ouer-prest
saile
,
and
in
so
desperate
a
manner
,
as
there
are
no
true
vnderstanding
Sea-men
that
vse
the
like
to
any
other
part
of
the
world
.
For
albeit
when
the
fogges
are
thicke
,
and
the
nights
darke
,
that
sometimes
they
cannot
discerne
the
length
of
three
ships
in
the
way
before
them
,
and
the
Ice
often
threatning
much
perill
to
them
:
yet
on
runnes
the
ship
amaine
,
so
fast
as
possibly
she
may
,
when
commonly
most
part
of
the
company
are
fast
asleep
,
euen
with
extreme
hazard
of
their
liues
.
Thus
many
times
both
ships
and
men
haue
been
suddenly
cast
away
,
to
the
vtter
vndoing
of
many
Aduenturers
,
and
families
.
So
had
I
my selfe
a
ship
lost
sailing
to
that
Countrey
,
and
diuers
others
the
like
.
And
also
this
vntimely
setting
foorth
,
consumeth
a
great
quantitie
of
victuals
,
that
might
bee
saued
to
better
purpose
,
and
it
forceth
them
to
carry
and
recarry
many
more
men
in
euery
ship
,
euery
voyage
,
then
they
neede
,
if
they
once
take
a
fitter
course
.
Such
Stages
and
Houses
,
that
the
first
arriuers
into
an
Harbour
finde
standing
,
wherein
men
set
diuers
necessaries
,
and
also
salt
their
fish
,
some
men
haue
vsed
to
pull
downe
,
or
taken
their
pleasures
of
them
:
by
which
vnfit
disorders
of
some
first
arriuers
there
yeerely
,
those
which
arriue
after
them
,
are
sometimes
twenty
dayes
and
more
to
prouide
boords
and
timber
,
to
fit
their
boates
for
fishing
;
and
other
necessary
roomes
to
salt
and
dry
their
fish
on
:
whereby
much
time
is
lost
,
and
victuals
consumed
to
no
good
purpose
;
and
thereby
also
the
voyages
of
the
after-commers
,
are
often
greatly
hindred
and
prolonged
,
to
the
great
hurt
of
your
Maiestie
,
and
many
a
good
subiect
:
and
the
mariners
themselues
which
trade
to
that
Countrey
,
and
commit
those
great
abuses
,
are
thereby
also
much
wronged
,
as
they
haue
acknowledge
,
by
their
owne
disorderly
behauiours
.
Wherefore
if
such
which
hence-foorth
aduenture
to
that
Countrey
,
take
some
better
course
in
that
trade
of
fishing
,
then
heretofore
they
haue
vsed
,
they
shall
finde
the
greater
safety
of
their
aduentures
,
and
much
good
thereby
.
For
whereas
heretofore
they
haue
vsed
to
make
ready
their
ships
to
saile
in
those
voyages
,
in
such
vnseasonable
time
of
the
yeere
,
whereby
they
often
receiue
great
hinderances
and
losses
;
they
need
not
then
goe
foorth
in
the
said
voyage
,
vntill
the
25.
day
of
March
,
which
is
a
fit
time
of
the
yeere
to
put
to
Sea
from
our
Coast
to
that
Countrey
;
the
winter
stormes
beginning
then
to
cease
.
And
then
any
such
ship
which
carries
in
her
thirtie
men
in
euery
voyage
,
may
well
leaue
sixe
men
there
behinde
them
,
or
more
,
all
the
winter
season
,
vntill
the
ships
returne
to
them
againe
.
And
these
sixe
mens
victuals
wil
be
saued
,
and
serue
to
better
vse
,
and
thereby
also
likewise
cut
off
that
moneths
setting
foorth
in
those
voyages
so
soone
in
the
yeere
,
as
now
men
vse
to
doe
,
and
then
the
victuals
for
that
moneth
which
is
so
vainly
and
with
such
great
danger
consumed
,
may
well
maintaine
those
men
,
which
are
left
in
the
Countrey
all
the
winter
season
,
till
the
ships
returne
to
them
againe
,
with
a
very
small
addition
to
it
.
And
if
it
may
so
please
your
Maiestie
,
that
any
subiect
which
will
vndertake
to
settle
people
in
the
New-found-land
,
shall
haue
this
priuiledge
,
that
in
case
he
leaue
there
a
fifth
person
of
such
which
hee
carries
thither
in
his
fishing
voyage
to
inhabit
;
wherby
those
men
so
left
,
might
keep
a
certain
place
continually
for
their
fishing
,
and
drying
thereof
,
whensoeuer
their
ship
arriueth
thither
:
then
would
all
such
which
leaue
people
there
,
build
strong
and
fitting
necessary
roomes
for
all
purposes
;
and
then
in
some
of
those
necessary
houses
or
roomes
they
may
put
their
fish
when
it
is
dried
,
which
fish
now
standeth
after
such
time
it
is
dried
,
vntill
it
is
shipped
,
which
is
commonly
aboue
two
moneths
,
in
great
heapes
packt
vp
vncouered
,
in
all
the
heate
and
raine
that
falleth
,
whereby
great
abundance
of
good
fish
is
there
yeerely
spoyled
,
and
cast
away
for
want
of
such
necessarie
roomes
:
And
for
the
want
of
such
fit
houses
,
some
mens
voyages
(
to
my
knowledge
)
haue
been
greatly
ouerthrowne
;
and
then
a
meane
place
to
make
fish
on
,
will
be
made
more
commodious
then
the
best
place
is
now
,
that
men
so
dangerously
and
desperatly
runne
for
euery
yeere
.
And
thus
euery
mans
fishing
Pinnaces
may
be
preserued
in
such
perfect
readinesse
,
against
his
ship
shall
yeerely
arriue
there
againe
,
which
Pinnaces
are
now
often
lost
,
and
sometimes
torne
in
pieces
by
the
first
arriuers
there
very
disorderly
.
And
if
such
Pinnaces
and
such
Stages
and
Houses
may
be
maintained
and
kept
in
such
readinesse
yeerely
,
it
would
be
the
most
pleasant
,
profitable
,
and
commodious
trade
of
fishing
,
that
is
at
this
time
in
any
part
of
the
world
.
For
then
euery
ships
company
might
fall
to
fishing
,
the
very
next
or
second
day
after
their
arriuall
;
whereas
now
,
it
is
twenty
dayes
vntill
they
are
fitted
:
and
then
such
ships
should
not
need
so
soone
to
haste
away
from
England
by
one
moneth
at
least
;
mens
liues
might
be
thereby
much
the
better
saued
,
lesse
victuals
wasted
,
and
many
dangers
preuented
.
And
so
euery
ship
in
euery
such
voyage
,
may
gaine
quickly
one
hundred
pound
,
that
vsually
carry
in
her
but
twenty
men
,
more
then
now
they
doe
,
by
leauing
of
foure
men
there
of
twenty
.
And
as
the
proportion
(
before
named
)
holds
for
leauing
sixe
men
in
New-found-land
of
thirty
,
so
the
allowing
of
men
to
be
made
proportionably
from
euery
ship
,
wil
soone
raise
many
people
to
be
settled
in
euery
Harbour
where
our
Nation
vseth
to
fish
,
and
in
other
Harbours
there
also
in
little
time
.
Some
ships
by
this
course
may
then
quickly
gain
two
hundred
pound
,
&
some
three
hundred
pound
and
more
,
according
to
their
greatnesse
,
more
then
they
do
yeerely
now
.
And
those
men
so
left
,
will
manure
land
for
come
,
saw
boords
,
and
fit
Timber
to
be
transported
from
thence
,
and
search
out
for
diuers
commodities
in
the
Countrey
,
which
as
yet
lye
vndiscouered
:
and
by
such
meanes
the
Land
will
be
in
little
time
fitly
peopled
with
diuers
poore
handy-crafts
men
,
that
may
be
so
commodiously
carried
thither
to
liue
with
their
wiues
.
And
that
no
man
else
should
appropriate
to
himselfe
any
such
certaine
place
,
and
commoditie
for
his
fishing
voyage
,
except
he
will
in
such
manner
settle
a
fifth
part
of
his
company
there
to
liue
.
And
then
such
Aduenturers
thither
will
carefully
prouide
yeerely
for
such
as
they
leaue
there
,
not
only
for
bread
and
victuals
,
but
likewise
for
all
necessarie
tooles
,
fit
for
any
kind
of
husbandry
.
The
charge
thereof
will
yeerely
repay
it selfe
,
with
the
benefit
of
their
labours
that
shall
be
so
left
there
,
with
great
aduantage
.
And
for
others
which
yeerely
aduenture
thither
,
and
wil
not
settle
people
there
in
such
manner
,
they
may
hold
on
such
vnfit
courses
in
setting
on
to
that
Countrey
,
and
take
their
places
,
as
it
falleth
out
,
as
formerly
they
haue
done
:
wherein
I
am
perswaded
they
will
soone
grow
weary
,
when
they
shall
see
the
great
commoditie
and
benefit
that
other
men
will
gaine
by
settling
of
people
there
.
By
this
meanes
will
the
burthens
and
numbers
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
shipping
be
greatly
increased
,
and
strengthned
,
and
great
numbers
of
mariners
yeerely
augmented
,
and
then
our
shipping
may
well
trade
thither
two
voyages
in
euery
yeere
,
and
more
,
whereas
now
they
goe
but
once
.
If
you
will
know
what
victuals
might
be
saued
by
those
sixe
men
of
thirtie
so
to
be
left
there
,
and
so
proportionably
for
greater
numbers
;
this
is
the
estimate
:
The
allowance
of
victuall
to
maintaine
euery
sixe
men
,
to
carry
and
recarry
them
outwards
bound
and
homewards
,
is
sixe
hogsheads
of
beere
,
and
sixe
hundred
waight
of
bread
,
besides
beefe
and
other
prouision
;
which
men
,
when
they
saile
to
and
fro
(
as
now
they
vse
)
doe
little
good
or
any
seruice
at
all
,
but
pester
the
ship
in
which
they
are
,
with
their
bread
,
beere
,
water
,
wood
,
victuall
,
fish
,
chests
,
and
diuers
other
trumperies
,
that
euery
such
sixe
men
doe
cumber
the
ship
withall
yeerely
from
thence
:
which
men
,
when
the
voyage
is
made
,
may
be
accounted
vnnecessary
persons
returning
yeerly
from
thence
.
But
being
left
in
the
Countrey
in
such
manner
,
as
aforesaid
,
those
parts
of
these
ships
that
leaue
those
men
there
,
that
are
so
pestered
now
yeerely
with
such
vnprofitable
things
,
may
bee
filled
vp
yeerely
with
good
fish
,
and
many
beneficiall
commodities
,
for
the
good
of
those
Aduenturers
that
wil
so
settle
people
there
to
plant
.
These
men
that
may
be
so
fitly
left
in
the
Countrey
,
will
not
onely
be
free
from
the
perils
of
the
Sea
,
by
not
returning
yeerely
,
as
now
they
vse
to
doe
,
but
will
liue
there
very
pleasantly
;
and
(
if
they
be
industrious
people
)
gaine
twice
as
much
in
the
absence
of
the
ships
that
leaue
them
there
,
more
then
twelue
men
shall
be
able
to
benefit
their
Masters
,
that
are
kept
vpon
most
Farmes
in
England
in
a
whole
yeere
.
For
certainly
I
haue
already
seene
and
knowne
by
experience
,
that
the
desired
Plantation
can
neuer
bee
made
beneficiall
by
such
idle
persons
,
as
I
found
there
the
yeere
1618.
when
I
was
there
with
power
,
by
vertue
of
a
graunt
from
the
Patentees
,
which
people
had
remained
there
a
whole
yeere
,
before
I
came
neere
,
or
knew
any
of
them
;
and
neuer
applied
themselues
to
any
commendable
thing
,
no
not
so
much
as
to
make
themselues
an
house
to
lodge
in
,
but
lay
in
such
cold
and
simple
roomes
all
the
winter
,
as
the
Fishermen
had
formerly
built
there
for
their
necessary
occasions
,
the
yeere
before
those
men
arriued
there
.
Such
persons
are
not
fit
to
aduance
your
Maiesties
intended
worke
,
but
rather
disgrace
and
hinder
the
same
.
Therefore
seeing
those
people
that
were
so
formerly
sent
to
plant
in
the
South
part
of
the
Countrey
,
to
bee
so
vnfit
for
that
seruice
,
as
it
is
well
knowne
,
I
grew
out
of
heart
to
behold
such
abuse
to
be
vsed
by
those
that
were
so
sent
to
plant
.
Yet
entring
into
consideration
,
how
iniurious
I
should
be
to
God
,
and
(
as
I
did
conceiue
in
my
conscience
)
trecherous
to
your
Maiesty
,
and
my
Countrey
,
hauing
once
as
it
were
laid
hold
on
the
plough
,
I
should
take
it
off
and
looke
backe
:
I
did
then
incourage
my
retiring
spirits
;
notwithstanding
all
my
former
wrongs
then
sustained
.
And
although
I
found
those
people
that
were
so
formerly
sent
to
plant
,
so
vnfit
for
that
seruice
,
I
did
not
only
consider
of
the
fittest
course
whereby
to
aduance
that
work
,
which
was
formerly
so
worthily
intended
;
but
also
truly
and
plainly
to
write
this
Discouery
,
as
now
I
haue
,
how
commodiously
and
beneficially
it
may
be
proceeded
on
;
and
so
shipped
some
of
them
to
returne
home
againe
,
and
gaue
others
leaue
to
depart
,
all
,
excepting
sixe
only
;
to
whom
I
gaue
directions
for
building
an
house
,
and
imploying
themselues
,
otherwise
then
formerly
they
had
done
,
vntill
they
heard
from
the
Gentleman
that
sent
them
thither
:
And
so
they
liued
there
pleasantly
all
the
next
winter
.
Now
hauing
laid
open
a
commodious
and
beneficiall
course
how
that
Land
may
be
peopled
;
yet
I
suppose
it
may
be
questioned
,
that
if
a
fifth
man
of
some
ships
,
or
euery
ship
were
so
left
in
the
Countrey
;
that
it
will
rather
lessen
the
number
of
mariners
,
that
may
be
ready
here
at
home
to
doe
your
Maiestie
seruice
,
then
to
increase
them
:
and
so
by
misconceiuing
therein
,
your
Maiesties
intended
Plantation
may
be
hindred
.
To
which
I
answere
,
that
most
ships
which
trade
thither
yeerely
a
fishing
,
doe
commonly
carry
in
them
euery
fifth
person
that
was
neuer
at
Sea
before
,
or
such
as
haue
but
little
vnderstanding
in
their
Compasse
;
neither
knowledge
of
Sea
termes
,
or
what
to
doe
in
a
ship
:
and
those
men
are
yeerely
hired
by
the
Owners
,
and
Victuallers
foorth
of
ships
in
those
voyages
,
and
by
the
Master
of
the
ship
,
and
the
better
sort
of
men
for
small
wages
,
who
haue
the
benefit
of
their
shares
;
and
those
men
doe
serue
euen
so
fitly
for
some
purposes
in
those
New-land
voyages
the
first
yeere
,
as
some
of
those
men
doe
that
haue
bin
there
often
:
So
that
by
carrying
thither
yeerely
euery
fifth
man
,
such
as
were
neuer
there
before
,
there
will
be
aboue
1000.
Sea-men
increased
euery
yeere
by
that
trade
;
and
they
being
left
there
the
winter
,
will
at
times
kill
Deere
and
other
beasts
,
and
also
take
store
of
fish
and
fowle
for
their
prouision
;
and
it
will
harden
them
well
to
the
Sea
,
and
at
other
times
they
may
imploy
themselues
beneficially
in
Husbandry
vpon
the
land
,
as
seruants
ought
to
do
.
So
that
whereas
there
goes
now
yeerely
,
as
the
trade
is
,
aboue
two
hundred
and
fifty
Saile
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
ships
,
with
aboue
fiue
thousand
men
in
them
;
and
being
yeerely
carried
thither
the
fifth
person
that
was
neuer
at
Sea
before
,
there
will
be
by
that
course
increased
aboue
fiue
thousand
Sea-men
in
euery
fiue
yeeres
:
and
whereas
now
there
is
yeerely
trading
thither
aboue
two
hundred
and
fifty
Saile
of
ships
,
there
will
be
then
in
little
time
(
God
blessing
that
trade
)
aboue
foure
hundred
Saile
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
ships
there
imployed
;
which
may
be
a
greater
increase
of
wealth
,
strength
and
power
to
your
Maiestie
and
Kingdomes
,
than
now
it
is
.
And
although
it
be
well
knowne
,
that
the
New-found-land
yeeldeth
yeerly
such
great
blessings
from
God
,
to
maintain
Christians
;
yet
many
of
our
English
Nation
,
who
in
great
fulnesse
taste
them
,
doe
there
as
it
were
tread
them
vnder
their
feete
;
as
may
partly
appeare
by
the
following
discourse
.
For
our
Nation
,
vpon
their
arriuall
yeerly
to
that
Countrey
,
doe
cut
downe
many
of
the
best
trees
they
can
finde
,
to
build
their
stages
and
roomes
withall
for
their
necessary
occasions
;
hewing
,
rinding
,
and
destroying
many
others
that
grow
within
a
mile
of
the
Sea
,
where
they
vse
to
fish
.
The
rindes
of
these
trees
serue
to
couer
their
Stages
,
and
necessary
roomes
,
with
turfes
on
them
;
so
that
in
few
yeeres
,
I
feare
,
that
most
of
the
good
timber
trees
neere
the
Sea-side
,
where
men
vse
to
fish
,
will
be
either
felled
,
spoyled
or
burned
:
yet
at
our
peoples
departure
from
such
roomes
&
stages
,
they
will
suffer
but
little
thereof
to
stand
,
whereby
to
doe
any
man
seruice
the
yeere
ensuing
.
These
are
things
lamentable
to
be
suffered
,
and
great
pitty
that
it
is
not
redressed
:
for
no
Nation
else
doth
the
like
,
neither
doe
the
Sauage
people
,
after
such
time
as
our
Country-men
come
from
thence
,
either
hurt
or
burne
any
thing
of
theirs
,
thatz
they
leaue
behinde
them
;
so
that
those
trees
,
and
that
timber
might
be
conuerted
to
many
seruiceable
vses
for
the
good
of
your
Maiestie
,
and
your
subiects
.
Now
I
thinke
good
to
make
knowne
partly
what
abuses
be
also
offered
to
the
Harbours
and
Rodes
in
New-found-land
,
that
are
so
beautifull
and
excellent
,
ordained
by
God
for
ships
to
ride
safe
in
at
anchor
,
as
there
are
not
better
in
any
part
of
the
world
:
yet
for
all
this
beauty
of
theirs
,
and
the
commodity
that
wee
receiue
by
them
;
these
disorders
diuers
men
doe
there
commit
,
viz.
All
ships
,
for
euery
voyage
they
make
there
,
take
in
many
exceeding
great
stones
,
therewith
to
presse
their
drie
fish
in
their
ships
;
which
worke
being
done
,
they
cast
many
of
these
stones
into
the
Harbors
where
they
ride
at
Anchor
,
which
are
to
be
seene
lying
in
great
heaps
in
some
places
,
within
three
fadome
of
water
,
to
the
great
indangering
of
ships
and
cables
;
to
the
perill
also
both
of
mens
liues
,
and
their
goods
,
and
likely
in
time
to
choake
vp
or
spoyle
many
excellent
Harbours
in
that
Countrey
,
if
prouision
be
not
by
your
Maiesties
high
authoritie
made
to
the
contrary
.
All
these
abuses
are
confessed
in
the
briefe
of
the
presentments
,
that
follow
in
the
latter
part
of
this
booke
,
the
which
being
made
knowne
to
the
subiects
that
aduenture
thither
,
I
am
confident
(
in
my
opinion
)
that
they
should
all
desire
your
Maiestie
,
that
there
may
be
some
better
gouernment
established
there
,
than
now
it
is
:
and
that
such
which
plant
there
,
may
not
abuse
or
hinder
any
such
which
yeerely
come
thither
a
fishing
,
whereby
they
should
haue
any
iust
cause
to
complaine
the
one
against
the
other
,
as
now
they
doe
.
And
because
my
desire
is
,
that
not
onely
Merchants
,
or
such
as
liue
neere
the
Sea-side
,
but
also
all
others
that
shal
giue
their
furtherance
to
this
Plantation
,
either
by
aduenturing
their
moneyes
,
or
sending
men
thither
(
because
it
is
to
be
vndertaken
by
men
of
good
ability
)
and
in
such
manner
,
as
the
wealthy
men
doe
in
other
Countries
,
ioyning
their
purses
to
further
any
such
good
worke
:
I
thinke
it
fit
to
shew
how
such
persons
may
aduenture
to
that
Countrey
,
though
they
dwell
farre
from
the
Sea-coast
;
and
others
likewise
that
dwell
neere
,
may
do
it
with
little
trouble
,
but
only
by
a
trusty
seruant
to
giue
account
yeerely
of
his
disbursings
,
and
likewise
of
his
receits
;
which
(
I
trust
)
will
be
very
beneficiall
to
all
such
as
will
aduenture
therein
.
Some
,
who
dwell
farre
from
the
Sea-coast
,
may
say
,
they
are
so
farre
off
,
that
they
should
be
but
little
the
better
for
a
Plantation
to
be
made
in
New-found-land
,
and
so
may
hold
it
a
needlesse
thing
for
them
to
know
how
beneficiall
that
Countrey
hath
long
time
bin
to
these
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
;
and
how
it
may
in
little
time
be
worth
double
to
your
Maiesties
subiects
,
in
respect
of
what
now
it
is
,
euen
in
the
only
trade
of
fishing
,
besides
the
good
that
may
come
by
other
commodities
.
To
such
therefore
that
should
here
obiect
,
that
those
that
liue
farre
from
the
Sea
,
whether
Gentlemen
or
others
,
and
are
not
experienced
in
affaires
of
this
nature
,
cannot
so
conueniently
aduenture
thither
:
I
answere
,
that
none
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
dwell
further
then
100.
miles
from
the
Sea-side
,
which
is
no
great
iourney
;
By
the
same
reason
that
Commodities
brought
from
Forraine
parts
,
and
landed
on
our
coasts
and
Hauen
townes
,
dispersed
thorow
all
places
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
and
so
vented
(
our
men
liuing
thus
in
any
of
these
places
)
may
with
as
little
difficulty
aduenture
into
other
Countries
.
For
as
wee
haue
the
example
of
diuers
,
both
Gentlemen
and
others
of
Italy
,
Spaine
,
Germany
,
Sauoy
,
the
Low
Countries
,
and
other
places
that
come
yeerely
more
then
200.
miles
to
the
City
of
Siuill
,
purposely
to
saile
to
the
West
Indies
,
and
doe
returne
rich
;
So
it
may
be
also
well
vnderstood
by
the
following
discourse
,
how
commodiously
there
may
bee
sent
many
people
from
any
part
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
to
bee
there
imployed
,
that
haue
but
small
meanes
to
liue
,
and
be
very
beneficiall
to
themselues
,
&
will
imploy
them
there
.
The
first
thing
therefore
that
I
will
aduise
any
subiect
that
is
but
little
acquainted
with
Sea-affaires
,
and
such
as
is
willing
to
aduenture
in
the
desired
Plantation
,
is
,
to
acquaint
himselfe
with
an
approued
vnderstanding
man
in
Sea-affaires
,
and
also
with
a
second
;
and
then
with
both
their
opinions
and
his
owne
iudgement
,
he
may
set
forward
therein
,
with
great
hope
of
the
better
successe
;
for
to
my
knowledge
,
diuers
worthy
gentlemen
that
haue
aduentured
to
the
Seas
;
partly
through
their
owne
conceit
,
seeming
to
know
that
which
they
did
not
,
haue
also
oftentimes
been
animated
on
by
some
turbulent
spirits
that
haue
outrun
themselues
,
and
so
brought
men
in
such
mindes
,
that
on
the
coast
of
Guinnie
there
,
they
might
gather
vp
gold
along
the
Sea-shore
,
washed
vp
with
the
Sea
in
great
abundance
;
and
likewise
if
they
would
aduenture
to
the
West
Indies
,
there
they
should
load
their
ships
with
gold-oare
,
and
drawe
it
aboord
their
ships
with
Wheele-barrowes
,
and
then
share
it
by
the
pound
;
and
such
like
proiects
.
Thus
by
such
meanes
diuers
men
haue
runne
so
farre
at
Sea
,
in
some
such
vnfit
voyages
,
that
they
haue
brought
land
to
water
,
and
knew
not
how
to
shape
a
course
to
recouer
vnto
land
againe
.
God
send
all
those
that
will
henceforth
aduenture
to
the
Seas
in
any
Plantation
,
good
Pilots
,
and
it
will
be
the
greater
hope
of
good
successe
.
Now
for
those
that
will
put
their
hands
to
the
furthering
of
a
Plantation
in
New-found-land
,
my
opinion
is
,
they
are
best
either
to
buy
a
Ship
of
100.
Tun
,
and
a
Pinnace
of
40.
Tun
,
or
neere
such
burthens
,
or
else
to
hire
the
like
Ship
to
serue
for
the
passing
of
people
,
victuals
,
and
prouisions
,
in
the
Spring
of
the
yeere
,
fit
for
such
a
purpose
,
and
for
the
returning
of
such
fish
,
and
other
commodities
from
thence
,
as
those
men
so
sent
and
imployed
,
may
procure
with
their
labours
;
and
those
Ships
and
men
so
sent
,
may
be
so
fitted
and
prouided
with
Salt
,
Nets
,
Hooks
,
Lines
and
such
like
prouisions
,
as
those
Ships
and
men
are
,
which
yeerely
faile
thither
a
fishing
.
The
best
course
of
the
two
,
as
I
conceiue
,
is
for
any
such
,
to
buy
a
Ship
and
a
Pinnace
to
serue
for
that
purpose
,
and
then
the
Pinnace
may
be
sent
thither
before
the
bigger
Ship
,
whereby
to
settle
and
begin
to
such
a
conuenient
place
for
habitation
,
as
God
shall
direct
them
whither
the
greater
ship
may
repaire
:
and
they
may
imploy
themselues
all
the
time
that
there
is
good
to
be
done
in
fishing
in
that
trade
onely
,
and
betweene
the
faile
of
the
Shoales
of
fish
,
they
may
build
houses
and
other
necessarie
things
in
perfect
readinesse
to
be
transported
into
Spaine
,
Portugall
and
other
places
beyond
the
Seas
,
much
cheaper
then
the
Hollanders
doe
,
seeing
it
is
to
bee
had
there
easily
with
mans
labour
onely
.
And
therefore
more
commodiously
from
thence
for
vs
from
those
parts
,
then
the
Hollanders
are
able
to
serue
them
,
as
now
they
doe
,
who
buy
such
commodities
with
their
money
in
Spruce-land
,
Norway
and
other
places
,
and
yet
thereby
gaine
much
,
and
increase
a
number
of
Shipping
and
Mariners
,
and
set
them
a
worke
continually
.
Now
hauing
shewed
how
men
may
vndertake
to
further
this
Plantation
,
by
prouiding
ships
for
the
fishing
trade
,
as
is
formerly
expressed
;
I
suppose
that
some
worthy
men
,
that
may
be
zealous
and
willing
to
further
so
pious
,
honourable
,
and
beneficiall
a
worke
,
may
be
vnwilling
to
trouble
themselues
with
the
fishing
trade
,
and
yet
very
willing
to
further
the
said
Plantation
after
some
other
manner
,
that
may
be
lesse
troublesome
to
them
,
which
they
may
well
performe
in
this
manner
:
They
may
hire
a
ship
with
men
,
and
victualled
to
saile
from
any
part
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
to
the
New-found-land
,
to
carrie
people
,
victuals
,
beasts
,
and
other
prouisions
in
such
competent
number
,
as
may
be
fit
to
passe
in
such
a
shippe
,
as
any
one
shall
so
hire
;
and
hauing
landed
such
people
and
prouisions
there
to
plant
,
the
said
shippe
may
there
loade
fish
from
the
fishermen
;
and
if
any
will
plant
in
that
manner
,
they
are
to
bargaine
for
their
fish
here
in
England
,
with
such
as
do
set
forth
ships
in
the
fishing
trade
,
which
fish
may
be
bought
before
hand
of
them
to
be
deliuered
there
at
eyght
shillings
the
hundred
waight
,
or
neere
that
price
,
and
to
pay
for
the
same
within
fortie
daies
,
more
or
lesse
,
after
such
times
here
in
England
,
that
there
comes
from
thence
the
sight
of
any
Bills
of
Exchange
,
from
those
that
receiue
the
fish
there
in
that
manner
;
and
the
shippe
so
hired
,
being
there
loaden
,
may
sayle
from
thence
to
Portugall
,
Spaine
,
or
any
other
Port
within
the
straights
of
Gibraltar
,
and
vnto
Marsellis
or
Naples
;
I
suppose
the
fraight
of
euery
Tunne
of
fish
so
to
be
transported
there
,
will
be
neere
foure
pound
the
Tunne
,
twentie
hundred
waight
to
the
Tunne
;
which
fraight
and
hire
for
the
shippe
,
men
and
victuals
,
in
all
that
time
,
it
may
be
agreed
to
be
paide
there
where
the
fish
is
solde
;
so
that
for
the
hire
of
the
shippe
,
men
and
victuals
,
there
will
be
no
occasion
to
disburse
any
money
before
the
shippe
safely
arriue
to
either
of
the
places
aforesaid
,
where
,
by
Gods
assistance
,
any
one
shal
so
intend
to
make
sales
;
and
there
the
shippe
so
hired
may
be
set
free
;
and
then
what
more
so-euer
the
fish
may
yeeld
,
may
be
to
discharge
the
buying
of
the
fish
in
the
New-found-land
,
and
what
profit
may
accrew
ouer
and
aboue
the
fraight
and
hire
of
the
shippe
,
men
,
and
victuals
being
discharged
,
will
redound
to
the
good
of
any
man
that
will
aduenture
so
to
plant
,
and
hire
his
shippe
in
that
manner
;
and
such
course
may
any
sufficient
man
take
euery
yeere
to
further
the
said
Plantation
,
and
haue
one
shippe
to
make
three
voyages
there
in
a
yeere
,
that
shall
but
land
people
and
prouisions
for
them
,
and
presently
reloade
such
Fish
,
Masts
,
Deale-bords
,
Beames
,
Timber
for
buildings
,
and
other
commodities
,
such
as
those
people
which
he
had
formerly
sent
,
should
haue
prouided
in
readinesse
:
with
which
commodities
,
if
he
returne
to
Spaine
or
Portugall
,
it
will
yeeld
ready
money
:
and
if
hee
returne
with
it
to
the
Citie
of
London
and
Port
of
Bristoll
,
or
any
other
place
within
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
it
will
also
not
onely
yeelde
ready
money
,
but
it
will
be
a
meanes
to
imploy
many
the
more
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
and
shipping
therein
:
so
that
the
Hollanders
and
other
Nations
should
not
bring
so
much
of
such
commodities
into
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
as
they
doe
now
yeerely
,
and
carrie
away
much
coyne
for
the
same
.
And
withall
it
is
to
be
considered
,
that
whereas
now
there
are
yeerely
at
New-found-land
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
ships
in
the
fishing
trade
,
at
least
15000.
tunne
burthen
of
shipping
,
as
is
already
expressed
,
and
that
these
shippes
yeerely
carrie
thither
,
neere
halfe
their
lading
of
salt
,
to
saue
their
fish
withall
,
which
cannot
be
lesse
then
7000.
tunne
,
the
which
salt
,
whether
it
bee
bought
in
Spaine
,
Portugall
or
France
at
a
cheape
rate
,
it
cannot
cost
lesse
then
seuen
thousand
pounds
,
which
is
but
twentie
shillings
the
tunne
,
adding
the
fraight
thereunto
for
bringing
it
from
those
parts
,
it
cannot
stand
in
lesse
then
twentie
shilling
a
tunne
more
,
which
is
seuen
thousand
pounds
more
;
so
that
the
salt
may
stand
those
that
trade
thither
as
the
trade
is
now
,
with
the
waste
and
transportation
of
it
thither
,
aboue
foureteene
thousand
pounds
,
of
which
summe
there
is
aboue
seuen
thousand
pounds
yeerely
bestowed
in
other
Countries
,
which
I
should
gladly
shew
some
fit
meanes
that
it
may
bee
henceforth
saued
and
brought
into
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
in
Coyne
,
or
some
other
good
commodities
.
The
which
may
be
very
fitly
,
commodiously
and
beneficially
done
,
if
those
which
yeerely
aduenture
thither
,
will
settle
people
there
in
such
order
as
aforesaid
,
in
euery
harbor
where
they
vse
to
fish
,
and
prouide
pannes
in
euery
such
harbor
to
boyle
salt
to
preserue
their
fish
withall
,
the
which
may
be
performed
there
very
cheape
;
so
in
that
manner
one
panne
will
make
aboue
twentie
bushels
of
good
salt
in
euery
foure
and
twentie
houres
for
that
purpose
,
onely
with
mans
labour
and
the
salt
water
;
and
not
as
some
doe
vse
,
to
make
salt
vpon
salt
;
and
there
it
will
bee
vndertaken
to
be
made
with
the
wood-fire
(
which
may
be
there
had
with
little
labour
)
without
Charcole
or
Sea-coles
;
and
that
salt
so
made
there
,
shall
not
stand
in
threepence
the
bushell
,
to
those
that
will
prouide
to
make
it
in
that
manner
:
and
now
salt
stands
those
that
aduenture
there
,
neuer
lesse
then
twentie
pence
a
bushell
.
And
it
is
well
approued
by
all
those
that
yeerely
fish
for
Ling
,
Codde
,
and
Herrings
vpon
all
your
Maiesties
Sea-coasts
,
that
salt
orderly
boyled
in
such
manner
,
doth
much
better
preserue
fish
,
and
keepe
it
more
delightfuller
in
taste
,
and
better
for
mans
bodie
,
then
that
fish
which
is
preserued
with
any
other
kinde
of
salt
.
And
I
am
well
assured
,
that
such
fish
as
is
salted
with
the
finest
white
salt
,
will
sell
farre
better
in
Siuill
,
and
other
places
of
Spaine
and
Italie
,
then
that
which
is
preserued
with
any
other
kinde
of
muddie
salt
:
and
thus
by
taking
such
a
fit
course
for
making
thereof
in
New-found-land
,
it
will
not
onely
saue
a
great
deale
of
coyne
yeerely
in
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
but
also
greatly
inrich
your
Maiesties
Subiects
thereby
.
There
is
no
question
to
bee
made
,
but
that
those
ships
which
may
be
so
procured
to
carrie
people
thither
,
will
yeerely
returne
from
thence
deepe
loaden
with
good
fish
to
diuers
places
beyond
the
Seas
,
and
make
good
profit
with
the
imployments
thereof
,
(
if
fit
prouision
bee
made
to
take
fish
withall
as
it
ought
to
be
:
for
euery
man
,
the
better
he
doth
prouide
himselfe
for
that
purpose
,
shall
reape
the
greater
benefit
thereby
at
the
first
)
and
not
be
able
to
returne
from
thence
,
Deale-bords
,
Masts
,
and
such
like
,
vntill
such
time
as
shipping
be
builded
much
greater
,
and
fitter
for
that
seruice
then
now
they
are
.
The
trade
to
the
New-found-land
being
followed
in
this
manner
,
as
it
may
well
be
,
your
Maiesties
Subiects
may
then
haue
there
yeerely
,
aboue
400.
saile
of
good
ships
from
all
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
readie
to
be
called
home
from
thence
,
without
imbarment
of
any
forraine
Prince
,
vpon
lesse
then
foureteene
daies
warning
,
if
the
winde
serue
,
with
aboue
eyght
thousand
lustie
,
strong
and
seruiceable
Seamen
in
them
,
vpon
any
occasion
of
seruice
,
when
some
other
ships
and
Mariners
that
are
then
abroad
in
voyages
,
to
the
East
,
or
West
Indies
,
and
diuers
other
places
,
will
not
be
so
speedily
called
home
;
neither
(
when
they
come
)
so
lustie
and
strong
,
as
those
which
vse
to
the
New-found-land
are
,
if
your
Maiestie
and
Kingdomes
haue
neuer
so
great
neede
of
their
seruice
.
Which
being
considered
,
must
needs
bee
also
a
great
terror
to
any
forraine
Prince
that
shall
proffer
to
quarrell
with
your
Maiestie
,
when
he
shall
consider
that
your
Maiestie
may
so
speedily
be
furnished
with
so
many
seruiceable
ships
of
your
Subiects
,
and
so
many
Saylors
,
and
that
but
from
that
onely
place
of
trading
:
So
,
againe
it
is
to
bee
considered
,
that
yeerely
from
the
New-found-land
,
as
the
trade
is
now
,
the
Subiects
bring
from
thence
to
the
value
much
aboue
the
summe
of
135000.
pounds
:
what
the
benefit
and
imployment
thereof
,
and
the
imployments
of
ships
and
Mariners
are
thereby
,
may
be
well
considered
,
and
that
trade
carrieth
not
away
any
coyne
out
of
the
Land
,
as
some
others
doe
,
neither
any
other
commodities
,
and
therefore
it
may
be
well
vnderstood
what
a
great
benefit
shall
arise
to
all
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
if
the
trade
be
once
orderly
settled
and
increased
as
aforesaid
:
and
then
your
Maiesties
Subiects
ships
will
be
much
bigger
builded
for
that
trade
,
and
better
furnished
with
good
Ordnance
,
fit
for
any
defence
,
and
likewise
then
Ordnance
will
not
bee
sold
into
other
Countries
(
as
it
hath
been
much
in
my
time
)
which
Ordnance
so
sold
(
I
feare
)
if
occasion
should
bee
offered
,
may
shoot
their
bullets
at
our
owne
bosomes
,
as
it
is
already
too
much
seene
.
And
whereas
my
opinion
is
,
that
it
is
better
to
buy
ships
for
that
trade
,
then
to
take
them
to
hyre
(
as
some
doe
)
which
yeerely
send
ships
thither
,
to
loade
either
fish
or
Trayne
and
transport
it
into
France
,
Spaine
and
other
places
;
those
which
hire
ships
,
are
bound
by
conditions
vnder
hand
and
seale
,
which
we
call
Charter
parties
;
wherein
it
is
expressed
,
in
how
many
daies
the
owners
of
the
ships
are
to
make
them
ready
,
&
how
many
daies
she
must
stay
there
,
to
attend
the
Marchant
,
and
such
like
conditions
:
And
although
the
place
where
she
ariues
be
neuer
so
much
ouerlaid
with
the
like
commoditie
that
she
bringeth
;
yet
there
must
shee
discharge
and
also
relade
;
though
such
commodities
,
which
she
is
to
relade
,
be
there
much
dearer
then
at
some
other
place
not
farre
from
it
:
which
hath
bin
a
great
losse
to
many
Marchants
;
yea
diuers
cauils
haue
risen
thereby
betweene
them
that
haue
taken
and
letten
Ships
in
that
manner
.
Therefore
I
hold
,
that
the
buying
of
Ships
to
follow
that
seruice
,
is
the
best
and
profitablest
course
that
may
be
taken
therein
;
for
then
they
may
send
them
to
New-found-land
,
or
where
they
thinke
good
at
all
times
of
the
yeere
,
and
to
any
place
,
or
so
many
places
as
may
please
God
to
direct
them
,
to
make
their
saile
and
imployments
,
and
likewise
to
vent
the
same
,
where
they
may
be
best
aduised
.
Such
as
will
vndertake
to
send
people
to
that
land
,
as
aforesaid
,
I
would
also
aduise
them
to
acquaint
themselues
with
a
fit
man
to
be
Master
in
each
Ship
,
that
vnderstands
the
order
of
a
fishing
voyage
to
that
Country
;
and
hee
will
procure
fit
fishermen
,
to
goe
with
him
for
that
purpose
,
and
likewise
acquaint
them
with
euery
particular
thing
that
is
fit
for
such
a
voyage
.
And
withall
it
is
to
be
obserued
,
that
for
euery
such
seruant
that
any
Master
will
send
thither
to
plant
,
and
liue
all
the
yeere
,
hee
is
to
haue
a
single
share
allowed
vnto
euery
man
alike
of
such
fish
as
is
taken
,
whilest
they
labour
together
in
the
Summer
time
with
the
ships
company
with
whom
they
are
,
though
afterwards
they
stay
in
the
land
,
and
follow
some
other
seruice
for
their
masters
,
whiles
the
ships
are
imployed
abroad
in
venting
their
commodities
,
and
vntill
they
returne
to
them
againe
,
to
the
New-found-land
:
which
single
share
of
fish
so
taken
,
may
well
defray
all
the
charge
and
hire
that
any
man
shall
haue
of
his
master
,
who
doth
stay
there
all
the
winter
,
with
good
aduantage
.
Note
also
I
pray'
,
that
any
ship
which
shall
be
so
imployed
to
fish
only
,
as
now
men
vse
to
doe
,
if
she
be
100.
Tun
,
doth
commonly
carry
in
her
36.
men
and
boyes
;
and
that
ship
will
saile
well
to
the
New-found-land
,
and
from
thence
to
the
Straites
of
Gibraltar
,
or
any
other
part
of
Christendome
,
with
20.
of
the
former
36.
men
:
so
that
16.
of
the
said
companie
may
very
well
remaine
there
,
till
the
said
ships
returne
to
them
againe
,
and
doe
good
seruice
to
your
Maiestie
and
themselues
,
but
most
of
all
to
those
who
shall
send
so
great
a
number
thither
to
liue
all
the
yeere
;
whereas
now
these
16.
men
lye
still
in
the
ship
at
great
charge
euery
voyage
,
much
pestering
the
ships
with
their
persons
,
victuals
,
chests
,
and
diuers
vnprofitable
things
to
no
good
purpose
,
as
is
touched
before
;
which
places
in
the
ship
may
be
filled
with
good
fish
and
other
profitable
things
,
if
those
16.
men
were
left
behinde
in
the
Country
where
they
may
be
well
imployed
,
which
is
almost
the
one
halfe
part
of
such
a
ships
company
.
By
this
it
may
plainely
be
vnderstood
,
that
the
victuall
which
those
16.
men
spend
sayling
thither
,
and
returning
homeward
,
and
a
moneths
victuall
at
least
for
all
those
36.
men
,
will
yeerly
be
saued
to
maintaine
them
there
all
the
winter
season
,
with
the
helpe
of
very
little
victuals
to
it
,
and
also
it
will
be
a
great
good
ease
to
the
Common-wealth
,
to
leaue
so
many
there
all
the
Winter
;
&
after
this
rate
poportionably
from
diuers
ships
,
great
companyes
may
commodiously
and
beneficially
be
raysed
to
remaine
there
in
little
time
,
from
such
as
will
voluntarily
and
willingly
entertaine
their
certaine
places
to
make
their
fish
on
,
and
plant
:
for
the
most
part
of
those
men
,
who
may
so
well
and
beneficially
remaine
there
to
plant
,
may
be
,
some
handycrafts-men
with
their
wiues
,
and
some
such
other
people
as
your
Maiesties
Kingdoms
may
very
wel
spare
,
doing
good
to
themselues
,
their
masters
and
Common-wealth
,
learning
experience
and
to
be
fit
for
seruice
.
I
am
also
confident
in
my
opinion
(
wherein
I
submit
my selfe
to
deeper
iudgements
)
that
if
New-found-land
may
be
thus
planted
,
our
Shipping
and
Mariners
will
be
so
increased
,
Marriners
to
be
increased
.
that
wee
may
hereafter
furnish
France
,
Spaine
,
Portugall
,
and
other
Countries
,
with
such
kinde
of
fish
as
those
Seas
doe
yeeld
;
and
so
by
this
meanes
the
whole
fishing
trade
on
that
coast
,
may
be
drawne
into
the
hands
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
only
:
and
whether
then
it
will
be
better
for
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
let
each
man
iudge
.
I
do
not
intend
that
other
Nations
should
be
prohibited
the
free
priuiledge
of
fishing
,
No
Nation
to
be
forbidden
Fishing
.
which
for
many
yeeres
they
haue
inioyed
there
with
vs
;
or
that
wee
should
assume
it
vnto
our selues
by
strong
hand
,
or
constrayne
those
that
come
thither
,
to
take
their
fish
of
vs
at
our
prices
:
but
this
is
my
only
meaning
;
That
whereas
at
this
present
,
the
French
,
Bilcaines
,
and
Portugals
send
yeerely
to
that
Countrey
many
sayle
of
ships
,
as
I
haue
already
declared
,
our
men
by
sayling
thither
with
fewer
persons
,
and
in
lesse
danger
in
euery
ship
then
now
we
doe
,
by
multiplying
their
voyages
,
and
spending
lesse
time
and
victuals
in
the
same
,
and
by
carrying
more
and
better
fish
in
euery
ship
then
now
they
vse
to
doe
,
may
be
able
not
only
to
furnish
France
,
Spaine
,
and
Italy
with
those
commodities
,
but
also
to
sell
farre
better
cheape
,
then
any
of
these
nations
can
possibly
fetch
the
same
from
thence
with
their
owne
shipping
and
labors
.
And
which
of
these
nations
will
then
aduenture
thither
,
when
he
knowes
that
his
returne
will
be
a
certaine
losse
?
●urres
of
diuers
sorts
.
Moreouer
,
our
men
wintring
there
,
might
take
of
the
beasts
of
the
Countrey
yeelding
Furres
,
when
they
are
in
season
,
and
in
their
perfection
;
So
that
in
processe
of
time
,
they
may
also
settle
a
traffike
with
the
Sauages
for
their
Furres
of
Beuer
,
Martons
,
Seale
,
Otters
,
and
what
else
is
of
worth
amongst
them
.
Shipping
maintayned
.
Shipping
also
(
the
walls
and
Bulwarkes
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
)
will
bee
heereby
not
only
maintayned
;
but
also
greatly
increased
,
both
in
number
and
burthen
,
which
would
bee
a
great
aduantage
to
your
Maiestie
,
and
a
notable
defence
and
addition
of
strength
vnto
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
.
Artificers
set
on
worke
.
Many
more
poore
Artificers
and
others
will
be
then
in
great
numbers
heereby
set
a
worke
,
then
nowe
there
are
,
and
by
the
increase
and
bettering
of
this
Trade
,
a
great
augmentation
of
your
Maiesties
Reuenues
in
your
Customes
must
of
necessity
follow
.
And
certainely
if
this
Trade
and
Plantation
were
once
settled
in
such
manner
,
it
would
proue
more
commodious
and
beneficiall
then
any
other
Plantation
your
Maiestie
hath
elsewhere
:
for
,
as
I
haue
said
,
it
bringeth
in
great
wealth
,
and
carrieth
away
nothing
but
a
little
victuals
,
Wealth
brought
in
,
none
carryed
away
.
which
would
be
consumed
by
so
many
idle
persons
in
lesse
then
halfe
the
time
,
which
haue
no
imployments
,
and
yet
the
Kingdomes
receiue
no
benefit
by
such
Drones
neither
.
Much
more
might
be
said
to
this
purpose
:
Fishing
on
the
coast
of
New-found-land
,
great
security
to
great
Brittaine
.
but
I
desire
not
to
inuent
,
or
enlarge
matters
beyond
my
obseruations
;
yet
thus
much
also
may
I
truly
say
,
that
the
fishing
on
the
coast
of
New-found-land
,
is
a
sure
and
good
trade
to
great
Brittaine
,
and
therefore
deserues
to
be
cherished
:
for
trading
thither
and
returning
home
thence
,
wee
little
feare
the
Turkes
bondage
and
circumcision
,
nor
any
outlandish
Inquisition
,
nor
the
Imbarkements
of
any
Prince
,
nor
such
contagious
heates
,
as
those
finde
that
trade
neere
the
Lyne
,
neither
the
danger
and
hurt
of
Art-wormes
,
wherewith
ships
that
trade
to
most
parts
Southward
,
are
sometimes
much
hurt
,
nor
many
other
hazards
and
inconueniences
,
to
which
some
of
our
other
tradings
are
subiect
.
And
as
this
Plantation
will
be
in
all
respects
so
beneficiall
,
as
any
of
those
your
Maiestie
holds
abroad
elsewhere
:
so
may
the
same
be
effectually
proceeded
on
in
much
more
safety
,
and
with
a
great
deale
lesse
charge
.
For
first
of
all
,
touching
the
transportation
of
men
,
●ransporting
of
●en
,
victuals
●nd
other
neces●aries
from
●ence
,
at
an
easy
●ate
.
victuals
and
other
necessaries
from
hence
into
New-found-land
,
it
will
be
by
the
cheapest
and
easiest
way
that
can
possibly
be
:
for
there
will
be
no
occasion
to
hire
any
ships
expresly
for
that
voyage
,
as
is
vsually
done
to
other
of
your
Maiesties
Plantations
,
from
whence
hauing
vnloden
,
ships
returne
somtimes
with
few
commodities
.
But
those
ships
that
goe
yeerely
empty
to
the
New-found-land
,
only
to
loade
fish
and
Trayne
oyle
,
and
so
to
depart
from
thence
,
cannot
be
lesse
in
number
then
40.
sayle
:
Therfore
whatsoeuer
shall
be
thought
fit
and
necessary
to
be
transported
from
hence
,
towards
the
furtherance
and
setting
forward
of
that
Plantation
,
may
be
by
those
Ships
and
Barkes
carried
thither
with
a
very
little
charge
,
and
without
trouble
or
hinderance
to
their
voyages
;
and
for
the
prouiding
and
furnishing
of
the
Plantation
with
victuals
and
prouisions
for
their
liuelyhood
,
the
chiefe
want
at
the
beginning
will
be
Corne
,
(
the
Country
it selfe
yeelding
plenty
of
beasts
,
fowle
,
fish
and
fruites
,
as
was
before
spoken
of
:
)
yea
much
good
fish
is
there
yeerely
cast
away
,
which
might
be
made
good
food
for
the
Planters
,
if
it
were
preserued
.
And
if
need
be
,
ships
may
saile
from
thence
in
fiue
dayes
with
a
faire
winde
,
to
the
Ilands
of
Flowers
,
Ilands
abounding
with
great
store
of
Beasts
for
prouision
of
victuals
.
and
Azores
,
which
Ilands
abound
in
Wheat
,
Beeues
,
Sheepe
,
Goates
,
Hogs
,
Hennes
,
Potatoes
,
Muske-millions
,
Onyons
,
and
many
other
fruites
which
they
may
haue
there
at
cheape
rates
:
and
if
that
should
faile
,
our
Country
men
that
stay
there
,
may
be
supplied
with
as
little
inconuenience
and
preiudice
,
as
to
any
other
Plantations
,
vntill
the
Countrey
shall
be
by
their
paynes
and
industry
made
fit
to
beare
Corne
.
For
the
settling
of
people
there
,
I
haue
sufficiently
declared
,
it
being
that
they
,
who
shall
either
alone
or
with
their
families
voluntarily
goe
thither
,
haue
good
conditions
,
both
for
allowing
them
land
,
and
other
conuenient
priuiledges
.
For
the
imployment
of
men
in
the
absence
of
the
shipping
,
it
will
be
very
beneficiall
in
many
respects
;
Imployment
for
all
in
the
absence
of
our
men
.
so
that
although
thousands
of
your
Maiesties
people
should
at
once
goe
thither
,
yet
there
would
be
present
imployment
for
them
all
:
no
man
shall
need
to
liue
idlely
for
want
of
worke
.
And
as
New-found-land
is
neerer
to
vs
by
more
then
400.
leagues
then
Virginia
;
The
quicke
returne
of
our
people
,
a
comfort
to
their
Countrey
men
.
and
farre
from
any
of
the
Plantations
of
the
King
of
Spaine
,
which
peraduenture
might
make
this
businesse
the
more
difficult
;
so
those
of
this
Plantation
will
haue
a
great
comfort
and
encouragement
aboue
all
others
,
in
that
they
shall
not
be
left
desolate
in
a
remote
Country
,
to
shift
for
themselues
,
as
some
haue
been
,
but
that
after
fiue
moneths
past
,
they
shall
againe
see
great
numbers
of
their
country
men
,
and
haue
their
company
the
rest
of
the
yeere
.
Neither
are
there
in
that
part
of
the
Countrey
any
Sauages
,
to
oppose
and
resist
our
mens
planting
,
No
Sauages
in
that
part
where
our
Nation
trades
,
as
it
falls
out
in
many
other
places
;
Those
that
are
there
,
liue
in
the
North
and
West
parts
of
the
Countrey
(
as
hath
bin
said
)
where
our
Nation
trades
not
:
But
on
the
East
and
South
side
of
the
Land
,
where
the
English
doe
fish
,
and
which
is
the
fittest
place
for
a
Plantation
,
there
is
not
the
least
signe
or
appearance
,
that
euer
there
was
any
habitation
of
the
Sauages
,
or
that
they
euer
came
into
those
parts
,
to
the
Southward
of
Trinity
Bay
:
of
which
I
could
also
giue
some
reasons
,
if
it
were
not
a
thing
needlesse
to
trouble
this
discourse
withall
.
And
as
they
shall
stand
in
no
feare
to
receiue
hurt
from
the
Sauages
,
Security
from
●yrates
,
●nd
the
Sauages
.
so
may
they
be
easily
secured
against
the
iniury
of
Pyrats
,
who
sometimes
come
thither
,
and
not
onely
take
from
the
fishermen
,
victuals
and
other
prouision
and
munitions
,
and
haue
thereby
strengthened
themselues
,
but
also
haue
carried
away
from
them
many
seruiceable
Mariners
into
Barbary
and
other
parts
,
and
thereby
made
many
a
poore
widow
and
fatherlesse
childe
:
and
it
is
to
be
feared
,
that
those
men
so
carried
from
the
New-found-land
,
who
seeing
their
estates
and
their
families
so
ouerthrowne
,
may
be
prouoked
to
animate
the
Turkes
men
of
warre
,
to
saile
thither
to
take
the
spoyle
of
our
Nation
,
and
others
that
are
yeerely
a
fishing
on
that
Coast
(
which
God
defend
)
whereby
to
hinder
that
Trade
,
or
the
desired
Plantation
.
The
which
inconuenience
that
is
so
to
be
feared
,
may
be
easily
preuented
by
maintaining
two
good
ships
of
warre
,
of
200.
tunne
a
piece
,
and
two
Pinnaces
of
40.
tunne
a
piece
well
prouided
,
to
be
there
maintained
all
the
Summer
time
,
and
that
the
Commanders
of
them
may
haue
power
,
that
if
any
great
force
of
the
Turkes
,
or
any
others
should
at
any
time
come
thither
,
whereby
to
disturbe
your
Maiesties
Subiects
in
their
trade
of
fishing
,
or
attempt
to
hinder
the
Plantation
;
that
then
to
raise
a
greater
force
from
the
Fishermen
and
Planters
to
defend
any
such
attempt
.
The
charge
of
which
Ships
&
Pinnaces
of
warre
,
so
to
be
yeerely
maintained
there
for
that
seruice
,
An
easie
contribution
for
maintenance
of
their
security
from
Pyrates
.
may
be
easily
and
commendably
defraied
,
with
your
Maiesties
allowance
therein
,
if
euery
Ship
and
Vessell
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
,
fishing
on
that
Coast
,
will
voluntarily
contribute
thereunto
the
value
of
halfe
a
good
daies
fishing
in
the
whole
voyage
,
which
will
be
abundantly
recompenced
vnto
them
,
in
regard
that
they
may
then
fish
continually
and
securely
many
a
daies
fishing
the
more
in
euery
voyage
,
which
now
oftentimes
they
dare
not
doe
.
And
then
these
two
Ships
of
warre
,
and
two
Pinnaces
so
to
be
maintained
,
by
such
a
small
contribution
to
be
paid
for
their
seruice
at
New-found-land
in
dry
fish
,
they
will
so
scoure
the
Seas
euery
yeere
going
forth
thitherward
bound
,
and
likewise
in
their
returne
,
that
no
Pirate
of
any
Nation
durst
come
neere
the
Southerne
parts
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
;
neither
to
lie
in
waite
in
the
course
sayling
to
and
from
the
New-found-land
,
for
those
that
trade
thither
,
as
yeerely
heretofore
they
haue
done
,
and
ouerthrowne
many
a
mans
voyage
.
For
which
course
,
Hollanders
attended
with
men
of
warre
wee
haue
the
example
of
our
neighbours
the
Hollanders
,
who
generally
in
all
their
trades
,
but
most
specially
in
their
fishing
vpon
your
Maiesties
Sea-coasts
,
are
attended
with
men
of
warre
,
which
are
defrayed
by
a
certaine
contribution
from
those
men
,
in
whose
defence
they
are
imployed
.
And
by
this
meanes
the
Marchants
and
Traders
of
Holland
,
receiue
farre
greater
assurance
and
benefit
,
then
if
euery
Marchants
shippe
should
set
themselues
forth
in
warlike
manner
in
their
owne
defence
.
For
besides
the
security
they
haue
,
and
sauing
the
charge
which
such
prouisions
would
require
,
they
haue
much
the
more
roome
in
their
Marchants
ships
for
their
Commodities
.
Many
seruiceable
men
and
Mariners
bred
th●●
.
And
these
ships
thus
sent
to
guard
their
Fleets
,
which
are
called
Wafters
,
doe
continually
breede
many
seruiceable
Sea-men
,
not
only
Mariners
,
but
also
good
souldiers
,
and
fit
Commanders
,
that
are
well
experienced
how
to
command
in
Ships
vpon
all
occasions
;
for
without
such
fit
Commanders
in
good
Ships
,
there
is
but
small
hope
of
good
seruice
to
be
performed
by
them
:
and
if
the
New-found-land
men
may
be
thus
guarded
with
two
such
Ships
,
and
two
Pinnaces
,
it
would
not
only
in
little
time
breed
many
a
Gentleman
and
others
in
them
to
be
experienced
how
to
command
in
ships
,
vpon
any
occasion
of
seruice
,
but
also
it
will
make
your
Maiesties
subiects
Ships
that
trade
thither
,
so
strong
,
that
they
neede
not
feare
the
greatest
force
,
that
any
Prince
should
at
any
time
send
thither
to
disturbe
or
hinder
them
,
neither
in
returning
from
thence
,
vpon
any
occasion
to
doe
your
Maiestie
seruice
.
If
after
all
this
,
I
should
be
demanded
by
those
which
know
not
the
Countrey
,
what
other
places
in
the
Land
are
also
fit
to
be
peopled
at
first
,
so
well
as
the
Harbors
of
Trepassey
,
&
Trinity
(
of
which
I
haue
already
spoken
)
wherby
those
which
will
aduenture
thither
,
may
not
be
doubtfull
to
plant
in
other
Habors
,
although
I
haue
first
expressed
them
for
some
speciall
reasons
as
it
may
be
well
vnderstood
,
the
one
of
them
lying
North-most
,
where
our
Nation
vseth
to
fish
,
neere
the
Sauages
,
and
the
other
lying
on
the
South-most
part
of
the
Land
,
and
neere
vnto
the
passages
of
diuers
ships
that
saile
yeerly
to
and
from
other
places
of
the
world
,
as
is
already
plainely
shewed
;
yet
there
are
many
other
excellent
good
Harbors
where
our
nation
vseth
to
fish
,
lying
betweene
them
both
,
which
are
very
good
for
ships
to
moore
fast
at
anchor
,
and
easily
to
be
defended
from
enemies
,
that
shall
at
any
time
attempt
to
molest
such
as
shall
plant
in
them
:
and
better
for
fishing
,
then
either
of
the
foresaid
two
Harbors
are
,
of
which
I
will
particularly
expresse
some
of
their
names
.
First
,
the
Harbor
of
Sant
Iohns
:
Foriland
:
Good
Harbors
,
Bayes
and
Rodes
for
Ships
and
Fishing
.
Formosa
:
Agafort
:
Harbor
de
Grace
:
Renouze
:
and
diuers
other
good
Harbors
,
Bayes
,
and
Roades
,
where
there
is
good
fishing
,
and
are
fit
places
for
ships
to
ride
in
the
Summer
time
:
&
as
it
is
already
shewed
,
that
the
bottomes
of
diuers
Bayes
,
that
are
expressed
to
be
in
this
South
part
of
the
Land
,
doe
euen
meete
together
,
within
the
compasse
of
a
small
circuit
,
neere
vnto
the
Bay
of
Trepassey
;
So
likewise
not
far
from
Trepassey
,
which
lyeth
six
leagues
to
the
West
,
from
the
South
cape
of
the
Land
,
which
is
called
Cape
Derasse
,
and
sixe
leagues
to
the
North-ward
of
the
said
Cape
,
lyeth
the
Harbor
of
Renouze
,
which
is
a
place
easily
to
be
defended
,
there
being
at
a
low
ebbe
not
18.
foot
water
fine
sand
:
yet
in
danger
to
be
spoiled
by
the
stones
and
ballast
that
are
throwne
into
the
same
,
Stones
and
Ballast
throwne
in
the
said
Rodes
,
dangerous
for
Ships
.
which
are
to
be
seene
in
great
heapes
when
the
water
is
cleare
,
as
commonly
it
is
in
a
faire
Sun-shining
day
.
These
stones
and
ballast
,
so
throwne
into
the
Harbors
by
Christians
(
if
there
be
not
some
better
course
taken
therein
)
it
is
to
be
sorrowed
,
that
the
offenders
are
not
seuerely
punished
.
Good
land
for
Tillage
.
Close
adioyning
to
the
Harbour
of
Renouze
,
are
aboue
200.
Acres
of
good
land
,
that
is
cleere
without
Woods
or
Rocks
,
and
lieth
commodiously
to
be
ouerflowne
with
fresh
Riuers
in
the
Summer
time
,
with
very
little
labour
,
as
I
haue
well
obserued
:
and
within
a
mile
further
off
from
the
said
Harbours
,
lye
many
hundred
acres
more
of
very
good
open
land
,
that
are
able
to
receiue
and
relieue
many
hundreds
of
Cattell
,
and
fit
,
with
little
labour
,
to
be
manured
for
Tillage
.
Great
store
of
Deere
.
There
are
yeerely
neere
vnto
the
said
Harbour
of
Renouze
,
great
store
of
Deere
seene
;
and
sometimes
diuers
of
them
haue
been
taken
.
There
is
a
man
yet
liuing
,
that
was
once
at
New-found-land
in
a
ship
with
me
;
and
he
in
one
voyage
did
there
,
neere
vnto
the
Harbour
of
Renouze
,
kill
18.
very
large
and
fat
Deere
,
as
it
is
well
knowne
,
yet
he
went
with
his
Peece
but
seldome
for
that
purpose
,
and
would
then
haue
killed
many
more
,
if
he
might
haue
been
spared
from
other
labour
to
attend
thereon
:
whereby
it
may
be
well
vnderstood
,
that
there
is
great
store
of
Deeres
flesh
in
that
Countrey
,
Store
of
Fish
and
Fowle
,
fresh
water
&
wood
.
and
no
want
of
good
fish
,
good
fowle
,
good
fresh
water
,
and
store
of
wood
,
&c.
From
the
said
Harbour
of
Renouze
,
it
is
not
aboue
ten
miles
ouer
land
to
the
Harbour
of
Trepassey
,
and
not
farre
from
thence
to
the
bottome
of
Trinity
Bay
,
and
within
three
leagues
vnto
the
Harbour
of
Renouze
,
are
three
very
good
Harbours
,
where
our
Nation
vseth
to
fish
,
which
lie
to
the
Northward
of
it
.
Now
whereas
there
haue
been
reports
made
of
great
cold
in
that
Countrey
,
by
people
that
haue
traded
thither
,
who
(
I
suppose
)
neuer
saw
any
other
Countrey
,
but
onely
that
,
and
their
owne
natiue
soyle
:
and
such
when
they
haue
returned
from
thence
one
voyage
,
though
they
neuer
vnderstood
,
or
felt
the
nature
and
temperature
of
other
Clymates
,
neither
consider
the
goodnesse
of
New-found-land
,
as
it
is
now
partly
made
knowne
,
haue
giuen
a
great
deale
worse
report
of
that
Countrey
,
then
in
reason
they
should
:
and
if
such
were
but
a
little
acquainted
,
or
would
vnderstand
of
the
great
colde
that
is
at
times
in
Muscouia
,
Sweidon
,
Norway
,
Spruceland
,
Poland
,
Denmarke
,
and
other
Easterne
and
Northerne
parts
of
the
world
,
where
the
people
liue
well
and
grow
rich
;
such
ill
reporters
of
New-found-land
would
alter
their
opinions
.
And
although
the
Ice
is
so
great
in
those
other
parts
the
Winter
season
,
commonly
foure
moneths
together
,
that
neither
Ship
nor
Boat
can
passe
in
all
that
time
,
from
one
place
to
another
,
but
lye
still
fast
frozen
,
yet
in
that
season
,
where
Ships
vse
to
saile
the
Summer
time
from
one
place
to
another
,
Carts
and
Coaches
doe
passe
vpon
the
Ice
.
Ships
also
in
Holland
and
in
those
neere
places
,
in
some
Winters
doe
lie
there
fast
frozen
a
long
time
together
:
and
likewise
it
hath
beene
in
some
Winters
so
hard
frozen
in
the
Riuer
of
Thames
,
aboue
London-bridge
neere
the
Court
,
that
the
tenderest
faire
Ladies
and
Gentlewomen
that
are
in
any
part
of
the
world
,
who
haue
beheld
it
,
and
great
numbers
of
people
,
haue
there
sported
on
the
Ice
many
dayes
together
,
and
haue
felt
it
colder
there
,
then
men
doe
that
liue
in
New-found-land
.
Now
if
such
men
,
when
they
come
from
thence
,
that
haue
but
little
experience
of
the
colde
in
other
Countries
,
neither
take
due
obseruation
of
the
colde
that
is
sometimes
in
England
,
would
listen
to
men
that
haue
traded
in
the
Summer
time
to
Greeneland
,
for
the
killing
of
Whales
,
and
making
of
that
Traine
oyle
(
which
is
a
good
trade
found
out
)
and
consider
well
of
the
abundance
of
great
Ilands
of
Ice
,
that
those
Ships
and
men
are
there
troubled
withall
at
times
,
they
would
thereby
be
perswaded
to
speake
little
of
the
colde
in
New-found-land
:
yet
,
praised
be
God
,
seldome
any
of
those
Ships
and
men
that
trade
to
Greeneland
,
take
hurt
thereby
.
Wherefore
I
desire
to
satisfie
any
that
shall
be
willing
to
further
this
Plantation
,
and
cleare
those
reports
and
doubts
that
are
feared
by
some
people
of
the
colde
there
;
and
also
to
let
them
know
,
that
the
Sauage
people
of
the
Country
endure
it
so
well
,
that
they
liue
there
naked
Winter
and
Summer
.
And
also
my selfe
,
and
most
of
our
Nation
,
and
others
that
haue
traded
there
,
endure
the
greatest
colde
wee
haue
met
withall
there
at
any
time
,
in
our
faces
,
neckes
,
and
eares
,
as
well
as
any
Gentlewomen
in
England
doe
the
colde
in
their
naked
bosomes
,
neckes
and
faces
in
the
Winter
time
,
when
they
goe
so
vncouered
:
and
therefore
I
doe
conceiue
,
that
it
is
but
a
little
needlesse
charie
nicenesse
vsed
by
some
that
trade
there
,
that
complaine
any
thing
of
the
cold
in
that
Countrey
,
by
keeping
themselues
too
warme
:
which
colde
(
I
suppose
)
some
that
haue
beene
there
,
may
feele
the
more
,
if
they
haue
been
much
accustomed
to
drinke
Tobacco
,
strong
Ale
,
double
Beere
,
or
haue
beene
accustomed
to
sit
by
a
Tauerne
fire
,
or
touched
with
the
French
disease
:
such
,
when
they
come
to
a
little
cold
,
wheresoeuer
they
bee
,
feele
the
cold
more
extremely
then
otherwise
they
would
.
Furthermore
they
may
be
also
more
fully
satisfied
of
the
cold
in
that
Countrey
by
a
Gentleman
,
one
Master
Iohn
Guy
,
late
Maior
of
the
Citie
of
Bristoll
,
that
liued
there
two
yeeres
together
,
with
diuers
others
of
sort
and
qualitie
,
many
yeeres
so
pleasantly
,
and
healthfull
with
their
wiues
and
families
,
as
if
they
had
liued
in
England
.
And
whereas
there
come
some
yeeres
vpon
that
Coast
great
Ilands
of
Ice
,
which
are
congealed
in
the
North
,
farre
from
thence
,
as
it
may
be
well
perceiued
,
and
that
the
coast
of
New-found-land
lieth
in
longitude
from
the
South
Cape
thereof
to
the
graund
Bay
,
which
is
the
North-most
part
of
the
Countrie
,
North
,
North-East
,
and
South
,
South-west
,
aboue
fiue
degrees
;
and
that
from
thence
,
any
ship
being
off
from
that
Coast
twelue
Leagues
,
and
sailing
North
,
North-East
,
may
run
on
,
till
they
come
to
the
North-ward
of
70.
degrees
,
and
no
land
to
hinder
him
,
neither
from
thence
any
land
found
,
in
that
altitude
,
directly
East
vnto
Greeneland
,
where
the
trade
is
for
killing
of
Whales
,
which
is
aboue
400.
leagues
distance
from
that
course
:
Therefore
it
may
be
well
vnderstood
,
as
it
hath
bin
approued
by
diuers
men
that
haue
attempted
to
seeke
out
some
new
Discoueries
,
in
those
North
parts
of
the
world
,
that
there
is
alwayes
abundance
of
great
Ilands
of
Ice
,
which
the
current
setting
very
strongly
from
thence
,
by
reason
(
as
I
conceiue
of
)
of
some
Straite
and
passage
that
the
Sea
hath
from
the
large
Seas
that
lie
on
the
North
side
of
Tartaria
,
and
those
vnknowne
parts
of
the
world
,
and
sets
towards
the
Coast
of
New-found-land
,
with
the
said
Current
and
North
winds
;
&
do
there
in
little
tyme
dissolue
,
and
thereby
they
make
the
ayre
and
water
some
thing
the
colder
there
.
Jlands
of
Ice
there
speedily
melt
.
Those
Ilands
of
Ice
are
not
dangerous
vnto
Ships
being
once
descried
,
as
by
their
whitenes
they
may
in
a
dark
night
when
men
looke
out
for
them
;
for
they
wil
driue
along
so
fast
with
the
wind
,
as
I
haue
often
prooued
,
that
if
a
Ship
bee
vnder
the
Lee
of
an
Iland
of
Ice
,
and
there
strike
downe
his
sayles
,
the
Ice
will
driue
faster
with
the
winde
,
then
the
ship
will
driue
before
it
,
so
that
a
ship
may
turne
from
it
when
there
is
cause
.
Thus
hauing
shewed
(
as
I
conceiue
)
the
reasons
that
such
Ilands
of
Ice
are
seene
some
yeeres
on
the
Coast
of
New-found-land
;
I
will
also
shew
my
opinion
partly
,
why
there
are
such
Fogs
there
also
sometimes
.
It
is
well
knowne
vnto
all
those
that
haue
seene
the
Country
and
obserued
it
,
how
the
Land
is
ouergrowne
with
Woods
and
Bushes
that
haue
growne
,
&
so
rotted
into
the
ground
againe
(
in
my
opinion
euer
since
the
floud
)
the
rottennes
therof
hath
so
couered
the
earth
,
and
Rocks
in
diuers
places
of
the
Countrey
in
great
thicknes
,
and
by
reason
thereof
,
the
open
land
and
woods
doe
a
long
time
in
the
Summer
containe
a
great
moisture
vnder
the
same
,
The
cause
of
the
Fogges
.
so
that
a
man
may
obserue
,
when
the
heate
of
the
yeere
comes
on
,
a
kinde
of
Fogge
arising
continually
from
it
.
Therefore
,
in
my
opinion
,
How
to
abate
the
Fogs
,
and
to
make
the
Countrey
hotter
.
which
I
submit
to
deeper
Iudgements
,
if
those
vnnecessary
bushes
,
and
such
vnseruiceable
woods
were
in
some
places
burned
,
so
as
the
hot
beames
of
the
Sunne
might
pearce
into
the
earth
and
stones
there
,
so
speedily
as
it
doth
in
some
other
Countreys
,
that
lye
vnder
the
same
eleuation
of
the
Pole
,
it
would
then
there
make
such
a
reflection
of
heate
,
that
it
would
much
lessen
these
Fogs
,
and
also
make
the
Countrey
much
the
hotter
Winter
and
Summer
,
and
thereby
the
earth
will
bud
forth
her
blossoms
and
fruites
more
timely
in
the
yeere
,
then
now
it
doth
,
and
so
bring
the
Land
more
familiar
to
vs
,
and
fitter
for
Tillage
,
and
for
Beasts
,
and
also
for
Land-fowle
,
then
now
it
is
;
and
thereby
those
Ilands
of
Ice
that
come
on
that
Coast
at
any
time
,
will
the
sooner
dissolue
,
which
doe
speedily
melt
,
when
they
come
neere
the
South
part
of
that
Land
,
&c.
Also
,
it
may
be
obiected
by
some
,
that
the
Countrey
is
rockie
,
and
mountainous
,
and
so
ouergrowne
with
trees
&
bushes
,
in
such
a
Wildernes
,
that
it
wil
be
an
endles
trouble
to
bring
it
to
good
perfection
:
and
such
like
obiections
are
often
vsed
,
as
if
they
would
haue
such
a
Land
cleansed
to
them
without
labour
.
Yet
my
hope
is
,
when
any
such
shall
reade
ouer
this
Discourse
,
and
consider
well
of
the
particular
motiues
herein
expressed
,
whereby
a
Plantation
there
should
bee
imbraced
,
they
will
be
well
satisfied
therein
,
and
I
suppose
,
forbeare
to
say
it
is
such
a
rockie
,
and
cold
Countrey
as
is
vnfit
to
be
planted
.
I
haue
been
seuerall
times
in
Norway
,
where
the
Countrey
is
in
most
places
more
rockie
,
and
mountainous
then
the
New-found-land
,
and
lies
aboue
sixe
degrees
more
to
the
North
,
and
yet
very
beneficiall
to
the
King
of
Denmarke
,
where
many
of
his
Maiesties
Subiects
liue
pleasantly
;
but
the
New-found-land
is
much
more
pleasant
to
liue
in
.
I
haue
often
seene
the
Coast
of
Biskay
and
Portugall
all
along
the
Sea-Coast
,
how
rocky
,
barren
and
mountainous
these
Countries
be
in
most
places
,
although
they
lie
in
a
pleasant
and
temperate
Climate
;
if
such
which
should
dispraise
the
New-found-land
,
had
seene
it
as
I
haue
,
they
would
not
onely
like
well
,
and
be
in
loue
to
further
the
desired
Plantation
,
but
also
admire
how
the
people
in
those
other
Countries
doe
liue
by
their
good
industrie
,
and
seeke
out
little
places
amongst
the
Rocks
,
and
in
the
sides
of
Hils
and
Mountaines
,
Rocks
and
Mountaines
good
for
Seeds
,
Roots
and
Vines
.
to
set
and
sowe
their
seeds
for
Rootes
,
Cabage
,
Onions
,
and
such
like
,
whereby
they
receiue
great
comforts
:
for
all
alongst
those
parts
on
the
Sea-coast
,
their
best
meanes
of
liuing
is
by
fishing
,
and
other
trades
by
Sea
.
The
like
benefit
may
all
such
haue
,
that
will
plant
at
New-found-land
,
and
much
better
in
many
other
things
,
as
is
already
sufficiently
touched
.
Likewise
it
is
well
knowne
to
all
those
that
haue
trauailed
from
thence
all
along
the
Coast
of
Spaine
,
euen
to
Granada
,
how
barren
and
rockie
those
parts
of
Spaine
are
also
in
most
places
;
and
yet
the
people
by
their
good
industry
,
plant
many
of
their
Vines
and
other
fruits
,
on
the
sides
of
some
steepe
Hils
amongst
the
Rocks
,
where
men
are
faine
in
diuers
places
,
euen
to
creepe
on
their
hands
and
knees
to
prune
the
said
Vines
,
and
gather
the
Grapes
of
them
,
to
make
their
strong
wines
,
and
sweete
Raysins
withall
,
which
we
so
much
delight
to
taste
.
In
those
toothsome
,
and
delightfull
Commodities
,
our
Marchants
bestow
much
money
,
which
the
New-found-land
trade
and
Commodities
had
from
thence
,
will
be
able
in
little
time
,
if
it
be
peopled
as
aforesaid
,
to
supply
all
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
withall
,
with
the
sales
of
such
commodities
had
from
thence
,
to
be
imployed
therein
.
Likewise
from
Granada
,
to
Carthagena
,
Allegant
,
Denia
,
and
from
thence
euen
to
the
Citie
of
Valencia
,
which
is
a
large
circuit
,
the
most
parts
all
along
,
as
I
haue
trauelled
by
land
,
are
very
barren
,
rockie
and
mountainous
;
that
very
few
Cattell
,
Sheepe
,
Goates
,
or
any
other
beasts
are
able
to
liue
there
,
&
yet
doe
the
people
in
those
parts
vse
great
industry
,
to
plant
their
Vines
and
other
fruits
,
whereby
they
seeke
out
their
best
meanes
they
haue
to
liue
:
and
likewise
also
in
diuers
other
places
neere
the
Mediterranean
Sea
,
from
thence
to
Bassalonia
,
Marsellis
,
Sauoy
,
and
Genoway
,
and
in
diuers
other
places
in
Italy
,
these
Countries
are
very
Rocky
and
Mountainous
:
and
yet
those
places
doe
abound
with
many
other
rich
blessings
,
by
meanes
of
the
peoples
good
industrie
there
,
and
so
by
reason
thereof
,
the
people
in
all
those
parts
from
the
Coast
of
Biskay
,
vnto
Italy
;
and
also
the
most
parts
of
France
,
Gascoyne
,
Brittaine
,
Normandy
and
Picardy
,
are
by
the
New-found-land
fish
greatly
relieued
:
which
fish
is
in
all
those
parts
in
great
request
,
and
steeds
them
greatly
,
and
doth
sell
very
well
there
most
commonly
,
and
so
likewise
in
England
great
abundance
thereof
is
spent
;
which
being
well
considered
,
I
know
no
reason
to
the
contrary
,
but
that
the
Subiects
of
all
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
should
be
most
willing
to
further
that
Plantation
,
and
shew
their
good
industry
to
clense
Land
there
for
Corne
and
Woade
,
and
plant
diuers
kindes
of
fruites
,
which
questionlesse
will
also
proue
very
well
there
;
and
then
will
it
be
to
all
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
such
a
nurcery
to
get
wealth
,
and
increase
and
maintaine
Shipping
,
and
beget
seruiceable
Sea-men
,
as
great
Brittaine
had
neuer
the
like
.
With
these
good
blessings
which
are
before
recited
,
being
followed
by
industrious
spirits
,
there
is
a
great
hope
of
a
plentifull
haruest
vnto
your
Maiestie
and
Kingdomes
thereby
.
God
send
good
Seeds-men
and
Planters
to
set
it
forward
,
as
I
trust
in
God
it
will
haue
,
seeing
it
hath
already
had
many
right
Honourable
and
worthy
Fathers
to
commend
it
.
And
although
that
sithence
I
presumed
to
write
this
Discourse
,
I
haue
been
often
dishartened
from
proceeding
herein
:
Yet
,
when
I
did
remember
Columbus
his
good
indeuours
,
that
first
and
patient
Discouerer
of
the
West
Indies
,
whom
,
if
God
had
not
hartened
him
on
with
a
worthy
minde
,
and
a
bosome
armed
for
all
the
stormes
of
crosse
fortunes
,
he
had
neuer
finished
that
Honourable
attempt
for
finding
such
an
happy
businesse
out
,
the
which
Discouery
of
his
,
hath
euer
since
filled
the
Spanish
Cofers
with
gold
and
siluer
,
and
made
that
Nation
Lords
of
the
greatest
riches
vnder
the
Sunne
:
and
although
that
attempt
of
his
,
was
held
at
first
impossible
to
to
come
any
good
effect
,
&
Columbus
laught
at
by
some
:
yet
euer
sithence
,
by
his
attempt
I
may
say
,
that
Spaine
hath
had
from
thence
to
helpe
to
furnish
other
Christian
Kingdomes
with
gold
,
siluer
,
and
diuers
other
great
riches
;
and
also
now
to
that
Country
so
discouered
,
those
commodities
that
great
Brittaine
may
yeerely
well
spare
,
and
other
Countries
also
,
are
the
better
vented
:
and
so
likewise
,
may
the
New-found-land
and
the
parts
of
America
,
neere
thereunto
,
proue
beneficiall
for
diuers
trades
in
little
time
.
These
good
motiues
considered
,
what
great
good
comes
vnto
Christian
Kingdomes
,
by
Forraine
Plantations
,
and
what
infinite
wealth
is
yeerely
brought
from
the
West
Indies
into
Spaine
,
as
I
haue
there
seene
landed
;
doe
put
me
in
great
hope
,
that
if
there
bee
an
orderly
Plantation
settled
in
New-found-land
,
the
trade
to
that
Countrey
by
your
Maiesties
Subiects
,
and
other
places
thereby
,
may
yeerely
be
so
beneficiall
to
your
Maiestie
and
your
Highnes
other
Kingdomes
,
as
the
West
Indies
are
now
yeerely
worth
to
the
King
of
Spaine
.
Now
hauing
thus
commended
the
Countrey
of
New-found-land
in
my
opinion
,
it
ought
not
to
bee
one
of
the
least
motiues
,
whereby
to
further
this
Plantation
,
the
setting
of
some
better
order
and
gouernement
amongst
the
Fishermen
,
and
all
others
of
our
Nation
that
yeerely
trade
there
,
then
nowe
there
is
;
so
that
there
may
be
a
reformation
of
such
abuses
as
are
there
yerely
committed
;
wherein
it
is
well
knowne
,
that
I
haue
already
vsed
my
best
endeuors
in
the
yeere
1615.
at
which
time
I
had
a
Commission
with
me
for
that
purpose
vnder
the
broade
Seale
of
the
Admiralty
,
and
did
then
therewith
set
forth
,
to
follow
that
seruice
from
the
Port
of
Exceter
,
in
the
County
of
Deuon
,
on
the
11.
day
of
May
1615.
in
a
Barke
victualled
and
manned
with
11.
men
and
boyes
at
my
owne
charge
,
and
I
did
then
arriue
at
the
Coast
of
New-found-land
,
in
the
Bay
of
Trinity
,
vpon
Trinitie
Sunday
,
being
the
4.
of
Iune
,
and
anchored
the
same
day
in
the
saide
Harbor
of
Trinity
;
and
there
,
in
the
name
of
the
holy
and
indiuiduall
Trinity
,
began
,
to
the
vse
of
your
Maiestie
,
by
vertue
of
that
Commission
,
to
send
forth
a
Precept
,
to
call
the
Masters
of
those
English
ships
,
that
were
then
there
riding
at
Anchor
,
and
also
the
Masters
of
some
other
English
ships
that
were
neere
thereunto
,
and
so
began
to
hold
the
first
Court
of
Admiralty
in
your
Maiesties
name
,
that
euer
was
(
as
I
beleeue
)
holden
in
that
Countrey
,
to
the
vse
of
any
Christian
Prince
,
and
proceeded
therein
according
to
course
of
Lawe
,
as
the
tenor
of
my
Commission
did
warrant
me
therein
;
and
also
in
other
Harbors
of
the
said
Coast
I
did
the
like
.
Part
of
which
abuses
there
committed
,
I
haue
already
touched
:
so
likewise
I
will
briefly
insert
a
part
of
the
seuerall
presentments
of
such
iniuries
,
that
were
then
there
deliuerd
vnto
me
,
as
aforesaid
,
vnder
the
hands
and
seales
of
those
170.
Masters
of
English
Ships
,
to
the
vse
of
your
Maiestie
:
which
presentments
were
,
vpon
my
returne
from
the
said
voyage
,
deliuered
by
me
into
your
Maiesties
high
Court
of
the
Admiralty
,
and
then
by
those
Masters
of
ships
there
impannelled
,
such
abuses
as
follow
,
they
did
acknowledge
,
and
order
,
that
henceforth
with
your
Maiesties
allowance
might
be
redressed
&c.
First
,
they
did
all
acknowledge
,
that
there
is
but
little
difference
of
daies
obserued
amongst
the
Fishermen
;
some
men
presuming
to
goe
to
Sea
,
and
to
fish
with
hooke
and
lyne
,
vpon
the
Sabbath
day
,
as
vsually
as
vpon
the
weeke
dayes
.
Secondly
,
that
diuers
of
our
Nation
doe
take
into
their
ships
very
great
stones
,
to
presse
their
dry
fish
withall
;
which
worke
being
done
,
they
cast
those
stones
into
the
Harbors
,
where
their
ships
vse
to
ride
at
anchor
;
which
will
vtterly
spoile
the
Roades
and
Harbors
in
that
Countrey
,
and
be
to
the
endangering
of
Ships
and
Cables
,
yea
and
mens
liues
also
,
if
it
be
not
reformed
in
time
.
There
are
many
men
yeerly
,
who
vnlawfully
conuey
away
other
mens
fishing
boates
,
from
the
Harbour
&
place
where
they
were
left
the
yeere
before
in
that
Countrey
;
&
some
cut
out
the
markes
of
them
;
and
some
others
rippe
and
carry
away
the
pieces
of
them
,
to
the
great
preiudice
and
hinderance
of
the
voyages
of
such
ships
that
depend
on
such
fishing
boates
,
and
also
to
the
true
Owners
of
such
boates
.
There
are
some
men
,
who
arriuing
there
first
into
a
Harbor
,
doe
rippe
and
pull
downe
Stages
,
that
were
left
standing
for
the
splitting
and
salting
of
fish
the
yeere
before
;
and
other
Stages
some
men
haue
set
on
fire
:
which
is
a
great
hinderance
to
the
voiages
of
such
men
,
as
are
not
there
with
the
first
in
the
Harbor
,
for
that
they
must
then
spend
20.
dayes
time
,
for
preparing
new
Stages
,
and
fitting
new
Pinnaces
,
and
other
necessary
things
,
in
euery
voyage
before
they
be
settled
to
fish
.
There
are
also
some
,
who
arriuing
first
in
Harbor
,
take
away
other
mens
Salt
that
they
had
left
there
the
yeere
before
,
and
also
rip
and
spoile
the
Fats
wherein
they
make
their
Traine
;
and
some
teare
downe
Flakes
,
whereon
men
yeerely
dry
their
fish
,
to
the
great
hurt
and
hinderance
of
many
other
that
come
after
them
.
Some
men
likewise
steale
away
the
bait
out
of
other
mens
Nets
by
night
,
and
also
out
of
ther
fishing
boates
by
their
ships
side
,
whereby
their
fishing
,
from
whome
it
is
so
taken
,
is
ouerthrowne
for
the
next
day
.
They
did
acknowledge
,
that
some
men
take
vp
more
roome
then
they
neede
,
or
is
fitting
to
dry
their
fish
on
,
whereby
other
mens
voyages
are
oftentimes
greatly
hindered
.
They
also
found
,
that
diuers
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
haue
come
to
that
Coast
,
in
fishing
voiages
in
ships
not
appertayning
to
any
of
your
Maiesties
subiects
,
which
they
conceiued
worthy
of
punishment
,
and
reformation
.
They
did
acknowledge
,
that
some
men
rip
,
and
take
away
Timber
and
Rayles
from
Stages
,
and
other
necessary
roomes
,
that
are
fastened
with
nayles
,
Spike
or
Trey
naile
;
and
some
men
take
away
the
Rindes
&
Turfe
wherewith
diuers
necessary
roomes
are
fitly
couered
for
seruiceable
vses
,
and
likewise
take
away
Stakes
that
are
fastened
in
the
ground
with
Rayles
on
them
,
wherevpon
men
vse
to
dry
their
fish
;
and
that
some
set
the
standing
Woods
in
the
Countrey
on
fire
,
which
haue
in
little
time
burned
many
thousand
acres
;
and
that
there
are
some
which
yeerely
take
away
other
mens
Traine
there
by
night
;
which
they
conceiued
worthy
of
reformation
.
They
found
,
that
diuers
idle
persons
,
which
were
hired
for
those
voyages
,
when
they
come
thither
,
notwithstanding
that
they
were
still
in
health
,
would
not
worke
,
and
were
so
lazy
and
idle
,
that
their
worke
was
to
little
purpose
:
which
was
worthy
of
punishment
.
Against
all
these
great
abuses
,
and
diuers
others
committed
in
the
said
New-found-land
(
which
they
did
set
downe
in
their
seuerall
presentments
,
as
by
them
it
may
at
large
appeare
,
they
did
all
condiscend
,
and
order
from
that
time
thenceforth
,
that
no
subiect
to
your
Maiestie
should
commit
any
more
such
abuses
in
that
Countrey
:
which
may
be
very
well
remedied
,
seeing
they
tend
to
the
aduancement
of
the
Trade
,
and
quietnes
amongst
the
Fishermen
,
and
to
the
Glory
of
God
,
the
honour
and
good
of
your
Maiestie
,
and
the
generall
benefit
of
the
Common-welth
.
They
did
further
present
to
the
vse
of
the
Lord
Admirall
of
England
,
two
small
Boats
,
Anchors
,
and
a
small
Grapple
,
that
were
found
in
the
Sea
vpon
that
Coast
,
which
were
there
prized
to
bee
worth
two
shillings
sixepence
apiece
,
amounting
to
seuen
shillings
sixepence
.
Now
hauing
laid
open
how
commodious
and
beneficiall
it
will
bee
to
your
Maiestie
and
Kingdomes
,
to
settle
a
Plantation
in
the
New-found-land
,
and
also
made
knowne
some
vnfit
courses
that
are
yeerely
vsed
by
some
Fisher-men
that
aduenture
there
:
and
likewise
shewed
a
part
of
some
great
wrongs
that
haue
been
committed
there
by
Pyrats
and
some
erring
subiects
;
and
also
touched
a
little
,
that
there
haue
not
been
such
fit
courses
taken
by
some
of
those
that
haue
been
imployed
to
that
Countrey
in
the
Plantation
already
there
begunne
,
as
they
should
haue
done
,
by
reason
whereof
it
is
to
be
feared
,
that
some
of
those
Honourable
,
and
other
right
Worshipfull
persons
that
vndertake
the
same
,
and
that
haue
been
at
some
great
charge
therein
,
seeing
their
good
indeuours
and
charge
take
no
better
successe
,
they
may
waxe
colde
and
weary
in
disbursing
more
thereunto
,
and
so
by
their
remissenesse
the
Plantation
might
be
giuen
ouer
,
and
the
Countrey
left
to
the
spoyle
and
vsurpation
of
some
other
Prince
that
may
vndertake
the
same
,
and
then
reape
the
haruest
of
your
Maiesties
Subiects
labours
,
that
shall
then
trade
to
that
Countrey
,
&c.
And
therefore
shewing
how
it
may
be
prouided
for
by
your
Maiestie
,
and
all
those
wrongs
henceforth
remedied
:
now
I
suppose
,
that
some
,
who
may
finde
themselues
a
little
touched
herein
,
may
not
onely
enuie
me
,
for
laying
open
that
which
I
haue
;
whereby
to
preuent
such
further
dangers
and
inconueniencies
in
that
Countrey
,
and
to
further
such
a
worthy
worke
:
and
therefore
I
may
be
vniustly
taxed
,
as
many
worthy
men
haue
been
,
for
well
doing
.
For
although
I
haue
by
Pyrats
,
and
other
crosses
receiued
great
losses
,
yet
doe
I
acknowledge
my selfe
much
bound
to
God
my
Creator
,
who
hath
preserued
me
from
many
dangers
in
my
time
,
and
safely
to
returne
with
my
ship
wherein
I
was
;
I
do
also
most
humbly
giue
God
the
praise
,
that
I
am
now
so
happily
ariued
with
this
my
plaine
and
true
Discouery
,
vnto
the
view
of
your
most
Sacred
Maiestie
,
and
the
right
Honourable
Lords
of
your
Maiesties
most
Honourable
Priuie
Councell
,
and
my
Countrey
,
whereby
to
shew
what
in
all
likelihood
the
effect
of
a
Plantation
will
there
produce
;
vsing
also
many
arguments
,
motiues
and
inducements
to
perswade
a
generall
willingnesse
thereunto
.
And
these
excellent
benefits
distribute
themselues
,
betweene
your
Maiestie
and
your
Subiects
:
your
Highnesse
part
will
bee
the
Honour
of
the
Action
;
the
accesse
of
Territory
,
increase
of
strength
and
power
,
aduantage
against
other
Princes
,
augmentation
of
Reuenew
,
and
ease
of
your
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
&c.
The
Subiects
part
will
be
the
bettering
and
securing
of
their
Trade
;
inriching
of
themselues
;
reliefe
of
other
Trades
;
and
a
meanes
of
further
Discoueries
.
But
these
two
haue
a
relation
and
dependency
,
the
one
on
the
other
,
that
neither
can
subsist
without
the
other
.
I
will
not
therefore
diuide
your
Maiestie
from
your
Subiects
;
your
Highnesse
prosperitie
being
their
happinesse
;
and
their
wealth
,
your
Maiesties
riches
.
The
first
thing
which
is
to
bee
hoped
for
,
and
which
hath
euer
been
your
Maiesties
principall
care
,
is
the
propagation
of
the
Christian
Faith
:
and
by
that
meanes
onely
,
the
poore
vnbeleeuing
Inhabitants
of
that
Countrey
may
be
brought
to
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
a
ciuill
kinde
of
gouernement
:
and
it
is
not
a
thing
impossible
,
but
that
from
those
slender
beginnings
which
may
bee
made
in
New-found-land
,
all
the
Regions
adioyning
(
which
betweene
this
place
,
and
the
Countries
actually
possessed
by
the
King
of
Spaine
,
and
to
the
North
of
New-found-land
,
are
so
spacious
as
all
Europe
)
may
be
conuerted
to
the
true
Worship
of
God
.
The
next
is
,
the
vniting
of
a
Countrey
so
beneficiall
already
,
and
so
promising
vnto
your
Maiesties
Crowne
,
without
bloodshed
,
charge
,
or
vsurpation
,
which
must
needs
be
a
perpetuall
Honour
to
your
Maiestie
,
in
all
succeeding
ages
;
neither
will
it
be
an
Honour
onely
to
your
Highnesse
,
but
a
benefit
to
the
State
,
by
a
new
accesse
of
Dominion
.
And
what
Prince
can
inlarge
his
Territories
by
a
more
easie
and
more
iust
meanes
then
this
,
seeing
that
of
right
it
appertaineth
to
your
Maiestie
,
and
therefore
deserues
to
be
imbraced
?
Now
if
it
please
your
most
excellent
Maiestie
,
not
onely
to
lend
your
eare
to
a
Proiect
of
this
nature
,
but
also
to
approue
the
matter
proiected
,
and
vouchsafe
the
furtherance
therein
,
the
which
out
of
my
soules
deuotion
,
and
zealous
affection
to
doe
seruice
to
your
Maiestie
and
your
Kingdomes
,
I
tender
on
my
knees
;
most
humbly
beseeching
your
Highnesse
,
both
to
accept
of
my
honest
and
zealous
intent
,
as
also
to
pardon
my
boldnesse
and
presumption
therein
;
for
it
is
,
and
so
hath
euer
been
my
resolution
,
rather
to
beare
the
burden
of
pouerty
,
then
iustly
to
deserue
,
or
giue
cause
of
reproach
;
and
to
subiect
all
the
dayes
of
my
life
,
and
the
manifold
dangers
thereof
,
thereby
to
approue
my selfe
a
profitable
member
,
both
to
your
Maiestie
,
and
to
my
Countrey
that
gaue
mee
my
first
breath
;
for
which
onely
cause
I
haue
aduentured
to
publish
this
my
simple
and
plaine
Discourse
,
whereunto
my
very
conscience
hath
a
long
time
,
and
still
doth
not
forbeare
to
sollicite
me
.
The
prosecution
and
perfection
of
the
worke
,
I
leaue
to
the
pleasure
of
God
,
and
your
Maiesties
happy
directions
;
in
the
discourse
and
discouery
whereof
,
if
I
haue
either
been
tedious
,
or
any
other
way
offensiue
,
it
is
to
be
imputed
to
my
want
of
learning
:
and
so
,
though
perhaps
I
doe
not
satisfie
some
mens
curiosities
,
yet
I
hope
I
haue
sufficiently
informed
their
iudgements
;
and
beseech
God
to
incline
their
affections
to
the
furtherance
of
so
pious
,
and
so
profitable
a
businesse
,
as
this
appeareth
to
be
.
And
so
I
rest
,
and
euer
will
remaine
a
faithfull
and
loyall
Subiect
to
your
Maiestie
,
an
hearty
and
true
louer
of
my
Countrey
,
and
a
zealous
well-wisher
to
this
intended
Plantation
.
Richard
Whitbourne
.