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A66359	Virgo triumphans, or, Virginia in generall, but the south part therof in particular including the fertile Carolana, and the no lesse excellent island of Roanoak, richly and experimentally valued : humbly presented as the auspice of a beginning yeare, to the Parliament of England, and councell of state / by Edward Williams, Gent.	Williams, Edward, fl. 1650.; Ferrar, John, d. 1657.	1650 (1650)	Wing W2660; ESTC R23293	44,964	64

VIRGO TRIVMPHAN● OR VIRGINIA In Generall but the South part therof in particular Including the fertile CAROLANA and the no lesse excellent Island of ROANOAK richly and experimentally valued Humbly presented as the Auspice of a beginning Yeare To the Parliament of ENGLAND And Councell of STATE By EDVVARD WILLIAMS Gent. LONDON Printed by THOMAS HARPER for JOHN STEPHENSON and are to be sold at his Shop on Ludgate-Hill at the Signe of the Sunne 1650. To the Supreme Authority of this Nation The Parliament of ENGLAND Right Honorable THis Dedication in it selfe unworthy the honour of an addresse to your Grandeurs and of a foile too dead i●●h●ddow to approach neere your most vigorous luster reposes it selfe yet upon a confidence that in imitation of that God of whom you are in power the proper Representatives who vouchsafed graciously to accept a p●ore paire of Turtles from those whose abilities could not ascend t● a more rich oblation you will be pleased to cast a favourable aspect upo● this humble offering as proceeding from a gratefull cleere and sincere intention whose desire being strong●y passionate to present Your Hono●rs with something more worthy the auspice of a beginning Yeare is circumscribed by a narrownesse of abilities and fortunes And indeed my lownesse had prompted me to have found out a more humble Patron for this Treatise but since the Interest of that Nation you have so happily restored to its just and native liberty is the principall ayme intended in it since the publick acknowledgement of the world unites in this common testimony That God hath subscribed to all your Heroick and Christian undertakings with his own broad seal of Victory● with his owne field word Go on and prosper led you through the red sea of bloud into the Land of Canaan into the Harvest and Vintage of Israel since Pharoah and his mighty ones have been swallowed up in the rapid current in the hideous cataracts of their ambit●ous opposition and have by loud and convincing testimonies testimonies attracting the admiration of your friends and confounding the malice of your enemies made it a blessed object of your consideration that the preservation and fixure requires a bl●ssing no lesse sublime and a vert●e no less● ex●l●●d then the acquisiti●n and tenure of conquests m●de good in the 〈◊〉 Christ●ndome by vindicating the English Honour up●n the Brittish Ocean with a ●u●ssant Navy a formidable subject of ●●●●●ment to the Forraine Enemies of your Sion by a strong winged prosecution of the Irish Assassinates a spacious lettred example to teach English Mutineers what they may expect by the re● sentence of justice upon Irish Rebells All indeavours holding forth the way to improve the interest of this Nation are improperly addressed to any other then your selves who as you have been the unexampled instruments of our unpinion● liberty ought to be the sole Iudges of whatsoever may relate to our future felicity We should have suspected the sincerity of History in its delineation of the Majesty which sat upon that August and venerable Roman Senats after having made the Land tremble under the terrour of their Armies the sea to labour under the burthen of their numerous Navies after having delivered all power oppressing the universall liberty to the revenging beak of their victorious Eagles● and minted the Governments of the world by the Rom●n Standard had not the Concentrici●y of your undertakings had not the Homogeniousnesse of your actions and felici●y vindicated and asserted the honour of antiquity and raysed your reputations upon so high a wing of glory that Posterity will be los● in the same mist of jealousie and incredulity of your owne augustnesse yet for ever want the revivall of such examples the restauration of such presidents to confirme them And to the end you may in all things either parallell or transcend that Romane greatnesse of which you are the inimitable exemplary who inriched the heart and strengthned the armes of their Dominions by dispersing Colonies in all Angles of their Empire Your pious care hath already layd a most signall foundation by inviting incouragemen● to undertakers of that nature In the pursuit whereof let me beg the liberty in this Paper under your Honours Patronage to publish the many pressing and convincing reasons which have and may induce you to prosecute a designe of such universall concernment 1. It will disburthen this Nation of many indigent persons who having formerly perhaps enjoyed a fulnesse of abused or ●orfeyted plenty at the present reduced to an inequality of such subsistence are commonly prompted to their own● and other me●s ruine by making the high way●s which should be as publike and inviolable a sanctuary as the most sacred places an ambuscado to innocent Travellers by which interruption of passages there is commonly occasioned a decay and disincouragement of commerce and dayly examples informe us that Prisons at present are almost as full of crimi●all as indebted persons 2. It will take off all Parish charges in providing for destitute Minors and Orphans whereof there are at presen● a burthensome multitude wherby the Parishes so freed m●y with greater alacrity and ability part with c●ntributory moneys to maintaine recrui●e and incourage your Armies and Navies 3. Those Orphans so provided for may by Gods blessings upon their labours become happy and wealthy instruments advantagious to the place of their nativity in particular and their whole Nation in generall Whereas the condition of their birth and the usuall way of exposing them● makes them capable of no more gainfull calling then that of day-labourers or which is more frequent hereditary beggers 4. The Republick in its present constitution abounding with so dangerous a number of male contents who commonly like Shrubs under high and spreading Cedars imagine the spacious height of others to be the cause of their owne lownesse may by this means be honourably secured and such men removing their discontents with their persons will have a brave and ample theater to make their merits and abilities emergent and a large field to fow and reape the fruit of all their honest industrious and publick intentions 5. It will to admiration increase the number of Ships and Sea-men the brazen wall of this Nation all materialls to advance Navigation being abundantly to be furnished out of those Countries and the more ingenious Passengers by conference and disputation with the k●owing Mariner will take a great delight satisfaction and ambition to attaine to the Theory of that knowledge while the lesse capable being accustomed and assigned to an usuall part in the toyle thereof and instructed by the ordinary Seaman will bee brought to a good readinesse therein and speedy perfection 6. All Materialls for shipping as Timber Cordage Sailes Iron Brasse Ordnance of both mettals and what ever else we are necessitated ●o supply our wants with out of the E●sterne Countries who make it not unusuall to take advantages of their neighbours necessitie a●d often times upon a pretence

that voluptuous and gluttonous Nation who wanton away their wealth in banquets as the Wines of France and Spai● are to the more Northerne and lesse abstenious Nations of Europe There needs no objection be made against this Staple for the Southw●st part of Virginia being once discovered the Sea laid open and that passage compleat in all its numbers the pleasure of the commerce the richnesse of returnes and the extraordinary quicknes of the profit will invite so m●ny to come over and plant that commodious quarter of Virginia that as we shall never labour with too numerous a multitude of inhabitants so we shall not have any great occasion to complaine of the pa●city of Planters Nor is Tobacco in those Indian seas especially cured as in Virginia and of that strength and excellency a commodity of inconfiderable commerce particularly if wee call to minde what gayne there is by the exchange for Indian commodities so that any ordinary understanding may comprehend that although Tobacco should yeeld but three pence the pound in India yet by way of barter with those Nations where the returne quadruples the value in England the gaynes gotten by it might be very considerable But if we may beleeve Printed Relations and the person delivering it so cleerely is in my opinion worthy of all credit Tobacco from Surat to Moco yeeld ten for one profit returned in Eastridge feathers to England you have six to one profit but this is for those Planters who are so infected with that disease of the Countrey that they cannot admit of any other Staple though more gainefull and lesse laborious Yet is not Tobacco without its vertues for the Spaniard hath found out besides the use of it in smoke or the smoky use that the juice thereof when greene applyed to any wound cut sore and without any distinction whether greene festered or cankered will heale it speedily and almost miraculously the leafe bruised or stamped and applied to any bite or sting of a venemous quality to any wound made by a poysoned arrow the green leafe heated in hot ashes and layd upon any part of the body afflicted with aches will worke effects answerable to the most powerfull operations of Nature The Benefit and part of the Silke-worme mystery treated of BUT to show to the World that wee may equall the best of the Westerne Kingdomes in this noble mystery of Nature the Silke-g286 worme That France and Italy are much below this Mignon of Glory and Profit the universally advantageous Virginia wee shall ●pon those in●●llible demonstrations of Nature make evident having the clew of truth reason and modesty to direct us It will not be denied by any whose forehead is not too brazen that no Countrey is so proper for adventitious as its owne Native Commodities● the seeds of things suffer a deterioration by changing the propriety of that soile which was geniall to them and the exact order of Nature suffers a diminution if wee imagine any other Climate or Region more proper for the perfection of any thing then where it is originally produced T●lli●r aff●rmes that this mystery of the Silke-worme hath not been experimented in Europe above a thousand yeares being transmitted to our Climate out of the Asiatick World in so much that Italy hath not beene above 200 yeares enriched with this industrious Creature France received it from Italy and it is observed that the warmer the Region by so much larger and stronger encrease and texture receive they from the labour of this admirable and naturall Weaver France being of a colder temper then Italy their Wo●mes are weaker in the more Northerne part of that Kingdome from one ounce of seed they profit five or sixe pound of Silke increase worth at the least ● os per pound in Languedock and the warmer Provinces the same quantity is increased to 7 8 or 9l but in Brescia of Calabria seede they use usually to make eleaven or twelve pound of Silke from the same originall proportion The poore people in both those Kingdomes buy their Mulberry leaves to feede this profitable and industrious Spinner and the very charge of those leaves amounts to a full halfe of all other their expences The Nobility of Italy and France the Grand Duke of Tuscany himselfe descending into a part of this profit make up a considerable part of their Revenue from their Trees the Leaves of every one b●ing valued according to their goodnesse and quality from five shillings to twenty and upwards so that divers make an income of three four five sometimes a thousand pounds per annum from the sole profit of their Mulberry trees The Grand Duke from the sale of his rayses an income communibus annis of sixty thousand Duca●s Yet divers Gentlemen in Italy make a larger increase of profit by setting out their Mulberry trees to necessitous people for halfe the gaine arising from the worme so fed Those poore contribute their seed employ their labour and are at all expences in bringing the silke to perfection yet notwithstanding when completed the Gentleman who sets out his Trees divides the moyety of the entire profit for the hire of his Leaves only y●t are these people ma●gre this difficulty comfortable gayners And the same Tellier is bold to affirme that non obstante the disagreeablenesse of the Country to that worme in the Kingdome of France from the sole revenue now of Silke arises a greater intrade then from their Corne Oyle and Woad put together which grow in that Kingdome in vast proportions And another French Author affirmeth that the benefit of the Silke-worme of which France hath had no triall till within these fifty yeeres ariseth to four Millions per annum ste●ling and this he pretends to have all circumstances of truth and certainty drawne from an exact computation to confirme it If France an almost improper Countrey for this improvement can rayse within the verge of fifty yeeres so large and numerous a revenue what shall we imagine Italy a warmer Region and by much more convenient although not altogether Native for this inriching creature may meerely upon this Staple returne in their Treasury having besides the advantage of Climate a hundred and fifty yeeres precedency in the mystery and their seed more s●rong better fed and lesse subject to diseases and casualties But Virginia a Countrey which Nature hath no lesse particul●●ly assigned for the production food and perfection of this Creature then Persia or China stored naturally with infinites of Mulberry-trees some so large that the leaves thereof have by Frenchmen beene esteemed worth 5l● in which the indigenall and naturall Worme hath beene found as bigge as Wallnuts and thriving in the South thereof in admirable plenty and excellence if this mystery were but duly followed and industriously promoved might be a Magazine for all the Westerne World and singly in her selfe outvy France Spaine and Italy in all their advantages collected Heere the Leaves are onely sold by nature who requires no