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A31221	A short discoverie of the coasts and continent of America, from the equinoctiall northward, and the adjacent isles by William Castell ... ; whereunto is prefixed the authors petition to this present Parliament for the propagation of the Gospell in America, attested by many eminent English and Scottish divines ... ; together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers speech in Parliament, 21 Jan. concerning America.	Castell, William, d. 1645.; Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1231; ESTC R20571	76,547	112

us of a more than ordinary protection and direction That hitherto we have been lesse successefull in our voyages that way we way justly impute it to this that as yet they have not been undertaken with such a generall consent and with such a full reference to Gods glory as was requisite And so your Petitioner having delivered his apprehension herein more briefely than so weighty a matter might well require he submits all the premises to your more full deliberation and conclusion which he humbly prayeth may be with all convenient speed the only best way under God to make it the better successefull WEE whose names are here under-written having been upon occasion acquainted with a motion intended to be made by Master William Castell Parson of Courtenhall in the County of Northampton to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament now assembled concerning the propagation of the glorious Gospell of Christ in America As we do well approve of the motion so we do humbly desire his reasons may be duly considered And so good a work furthered their wiser judgements may resolve upon to which we humbly submit the same Iohn Moseley D. D. Ra● Brownricke D. D. Thomas Bambrig D. D. Robert Sanderson D. D. Richard Alleyne D. D. Daniel Featly D. D. Matthius Styles D. D. Edmond Stanton D. D. Stephen Denison D. D. Edw. Williamot D. D. Ionathan Brown D. D. Iasper Fisher D. D. Hanniball Potter D. D. Anthony Clapton D. D. Thomas Drayton D. D. Iohn Grant D. D. Ministers of London George Walker Iames Palmer Edward Malbury Ioseph Caryll Edmond Calamy Adoniram Byfield William Price Richard Maden Iames Batty Matth. Griffeth Ephr●im Paget Robert Pory William Ianeway Nathaniel Barry Ministers of severall other Counties Iohn White Dorsetshire William Ford Iohn Pyns , Somersetshire Zachery Caudry Leistershire Henry Paynter Devonshire Stephen Marsholl Samuel Ioyner Essex Iohn Ward Suffolke Ier. Buroughes Northfolke Iohn Rawlinson Darby Moses Capell William Rhet Kent Francis Charliot Richard Gifford Buck. William Englesby Hertford Other worthy Ministers of the Diocesse of Peterburrough where the Petitioner liveth Daniel Caudery Ieremy Whittaker Iohn Barry Iames Cranford Samuel Craddock David Ensme Edmond Castell Samuel Male Daniel Rogers Benjamin Tomkins Richard Cook Richard Trueman Iohn Guderick William Spencer Edmond Iames Iohn Baynard George Iay Francis Presse Miles Berket Francis Atturbury Ieremy Stephens Iohn Ward Peter Fawtract William Malkinson THe motion made by Master William Castell Minister of the Gospell for propagating of the blessed Evangell of Christ our Lord and Saviour in America we conceive in the generall to be most pious Christian and charitable And therefore worthy to be seriously considered of all that love the glorious Name of Christ and are zealous of the salvation of soules which are without Christ and without God in the world wishing the opportunity and fit season the instruments and meanes and all things necessary for the prosecution of so pious a worke to be considered by the wisdomes of Churches and civill powers whom God hath called and enablad with Piety Prudence and Policy for matters of publick concernment and of so great Importance And beseeching the Lord to blesse all their consultations and proceedings for the advancing and establishing the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Alexander Henderson Robert Blare R. Bailly M. Gallaspie N. Smyth M. Borthrick AN ORDINANCE Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Whereby Robert Earle of Warwicke is made Governour in Chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those I●ands and other Plantations in●abited planted or belonging to any his Majesties the King of Englands Subjects within the bounds and upon the Coasts of America And a Committee appointed to be assisting unto him for the better governing strengthning and preservation of the said Plantations but chiefly for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion and farther spreading of the Gospell of Christ among those that yet remaine there in great and miserable blindenesse and ignorance WHereas many thousands of the Natives and good Subjects of this Kingdome of England though the oppression of the Prelates and other ill affected Ministers and Officers of State have of late yeares to their griefe and miserable hardship been inforced to transplant themselves and their families into severall Ilands and other remote and desolate parts of the West Indies and having there through exceeding great labour and industry with the blessing of God obtained for themselves and their families some competent and convenient meanes of maintenance and subsistance so that they are now in a reasonable well setled and peaceable condition But fearing least the outragious malice of Papists and other ill-affected persons should reach unto them in their poor low but as yet peaceable condition and having beene informed that there hath beene lately procured from his Majesty severall grants under the Great Seale for erecting some new Governours and Commanders amongst the said Planters in their afore-mentioned Plantations Whereupon the said Planters Adventurers and Owners of land in the said forreign Plantations have preferred their Petition unto this present Parliament that for the better securing of them and their present estates there obtained through so much extreame labour and difficulty they might have some such Governours and government as should be approved of and confirmed by the authority of both Houses of Parliament Which Petition of theirs the Lords and Commons having taken into consideration and finding it of great importance both to the safety and preservation of the aforesaid Natives and Subjects of this Kingdome as well from all forraigne invasions and oppressions as from their owne intestine distractions and disturbances as also much tending to the honour and advantage of his Majesties Dominions have thought fit and do hereby Constitute and Ordain Robert Earle of Warwick Governour in chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those Ilands and other Plantations inhabited planted or belonging to any his Majesties the King of Englands Subjects or which hereafter may be inhabited planted or belonging to them within the bounds and upon the Coasts of America And for the more effectuall speedier and easier transaction of this so weighty and important a businesse which concernes the well-being and preservation of so many of the distressed Natives of this and other his Majesties Dominions the Lords and Commons have thought fit that Philip Earle of Pembrooke Edward Earle of Manchester William Viscount Say and Seale Philip Lord Wharton Iohn Lord Roberds Members of the House of Peeres Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight and Baronet Sir Arthure Haselrig Baronet Sir Henry Vane junior Knight Sir Benjamin Rudyer Knight Iohn Pym Oliver Cromwell Dennis Bond Miles Corbet Cornelius Holland Samuel Vassall Iohn Rolles and William Spurstow Esquiers Members of the House of Commons shall be Commissioners to joyn in aide and assistance with the said Earle of Warwick chiefe Governour and Admirall of the said Plantations which chiefe Governour together with the said Commissioners or any four of them shall hereby have power and authority

out-right They lodged them like bruit beasts under the planks of their ships till their flesh rotted from their backs And if any failed in the full performance of his daily task he was sure to be whipped till his body distilled with goar blood and then poured they in either molten pitch or scalding oyle to supple him A very strange and unlikely way to work Infidels unto the faith neither yet could they if they would impart unto others the Gospell in the truth and purity thereof who have it not themselves but very corruptly accompanied with many idle absurd idolatrous Inventions of their owne which are but as so many superstructures wickedly oppressing if not utterly subverting the very foundations of Christianity And although some of the reformed religion English Scotch French and Dutch have already taken up their habitations in those parts yet hath their going thither as yet beene to small purpose for the converting of those nations either for that they have placed themselves but in the skirts of America where there are but few natives as those of New England or else for want of able and conscionable Ministers as in Virginia they themselves are become exceeding rude more likely to turn Hethen then to turn others to the Christian faith Besides there is little or no hope our plantations there should be of any long continuance since here in England for some years last past they have been rather diversly hindered then any wayes furthered how and by whom your wisdomes either have or will shortly find out but this is evident that the proud superstitious Spaniard who hateth their religion and feareth their neighborhood will spare them no longer then to his over-swelling greatnesse shall seeme good And in the judgement of most judicious Travellers that way they may if they will easily enough suppresse and destroy all other our Plantations as they did of late that of Saint Christophers when they were no way provoked by us as they will now pretend they are by a latter taking of Trinidado and the losse of more then 150 of their men there At least they will be sure to be desperately assaulted as was the Isle of Providence but the year last past Whence your Petitioner offereth unto your Honourable considerations a third Argument drawn from meer necessity that as you tender the happy proceeding of those as yet but weakly setled Plantations the liberties livelyhood and lives of many thousands our deare brethren and countrey men and which is yet more the prosperous progresse of the Gospell you would be pleased to consult of such an able and speedy supply as may secure them against the now expected cruelty of the Spaniard To which needfull supply the better and sooner to induce your wisdomes your Petitioner desireth your yet a little further patience untill he hath shewed some temporall benefits that are thereby like to accrew unto this kingdome together with the easinesse of effecting When a kingdome beginneth to be overburthened with a multitude of people as England Scotland now do to have a convenient place where to send forth Colonies is no small benefit And such are the North-East and North-West parts of America between the degrees of 25 and 45 of the North latitude which at this time do even offer themselves unto us to be protected by us against the known cruelty of the over near approaching Spaniard A very large tract of ground containing spacious healthfull pleasant and fruitfull countries not only apt but already provided of all things necessary for mans sustentation Corne Grasse and wholesome Cattell in good competency but fish fowle fruits and herbs in abuddant variety If we should look no further then the South of Virginia which is our owne wee shall finde there all manner of provision for life besides Merchantable Commodities Silke Vines Cotton Tobacco Deere-skinnes Goat-skinnes rich Furre and Beavers good store Timber Brasse Iron Pitch Tarre Rosin and almost all things necessary for shipping which if they shall be employed that way they who are sent away may with Gods blessing within short time in due recompence of their setting forth returne this kingdome store of silver and gold pearls and precious stones for undoubtedly if there be not a generall mistake in all Authors who have written of these places such treasure is to be had if not there yet in places not farre remote where as yet the Spaniard hath nothing to do And in case the Spaniard will be troublesome to our Plantations or shall as it is generally conceived be found an enemy to this kingdome there is no way more likely to secure England then by having a strong Navie there hereby we may come to share if not utterly to defeat him of that vaste Indian Treasure wherewith he setteth on fire so great a part of the Christian world corrupteth many Councellors of state supporteth the Papacy and generally perplexeth all reformed Churches Nor need any scrupulous quere be made whether we may not assault an enemy in any place or not esteeme them such as shall assault us in those places where we have as much to do as they The Spaniard claimeth indeed an Interest little l●sse than hereditary in almost all America and the West Indies but it is but by vertue of the Popes grant which is nothing worth as was long since determined by Queene Elizabeth and her Councell so as for the Spaniard to debarre us in the liberty of our Plantations or freedome of commerce in those spacious Countries were over proudly to take upon him and for us to permit it were overmuch to yeeld of our own right Especially when we may as now we may so easily help our selves For your Petitioner conceiveth there is no great difficulty in the preparation here or tediousnesse in the passage thither or hazard when wee come there The preparation of men and shipping in respect of the daily happy expected accord between us and the Scots is upon the matter already made And as for money it is in the power of this Honourable House to give sufficient without any grievance or dislike of the Common-wealth who undoubtedly in the generall will think nothing grievous which shall be concluded by your wisdomes expedient to such a pious and charitable worke And as for the passage how can it be thought either tedious or dangerous it being ordinarily but six weeks saile in a sea much more secure from Pirats and much more free from shipwrack and enemies coasts than our ten or twelve moneths voyage into the East-Indies And as for our good successe there we need not feare it The natives being now every where more than ever out of an inveterate hatred to the Spaniard ready and glad to entertaine us Our best friends the Netherlanders being with eigth and twenty ships gone before to assist and further us And which is much more our going with a generall consent in Gods cause for the promoting of the Gospell and inlarging of his Church may assure