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A15072	A discourse containing a louing inuitation both honourable, and profitable to all such as shall be aduenturers, either in person, or purse, for the aduancement of his Maiesties most hopeful plantation in the Nevv-found-land, lately vndertaken. Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmouth, in the county of Deuon; Discourse containing a loving invitation for the advancement of his Majesties most hopefull plantation in the New-found-land	Whitbourne, Richard, Sir, fl. 1579-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 25375; ESTC S119923	29,118	56

aduenture 200. pounds or a greater or lesse summe hee should bring in the other halfe part of such a summe as he doth promise and subscribe to aduenture the second yeere at conuenient time wherby to make fit prouisions in readinesse of all necessaries as shall be then thought fitting for the yeere following and then by Gods assistance there is great hope of gaine to bee made and good proceedings in the said Plantation Some of those which will be Aduenturers in this manner may bee as Committees to giue their best opinions what they should conceiue to be most fitting in euery respect whereby there may bee the more orderly proceedings therein and whatsoeuer any 4 5 6 or a more number of them may think fit one or more of them may at conuenient times acquaint your Honour withall whereby it may the more speedily bee put in action and you so little troubled withall from your other waighty occasions as possible may bee And so one of the said Committees to be as Treasurer who may keepe the bookes of accounts of whatsoeuer may be so aduentured and likewise to bee receiued which will giue a good content to euery Aduenturer And as concerning the manner how Ships and men should bee imployed in this intended Plantation I shall as followeth acquaint you whereby there may be hired some industrious men which are most pliable for the fishing voyage agreed withall in time to faile in such shipping and with such men some others may goe to be as Seruants in the voyage which may be Tradesmen and their wiues who will labour fitly in the fishing whiles it lasteth and afterwards continue there to plant It is to be vnderstood that a Ship which vsually carrieth there in an ordinary fishing voyage 30. men and boyes and returnes yeerely with them should not that is thus imployed carry aboue 34. men women and some Youths of 13. or 14. yeeres of age whose victuall and wages for more then three quarters of the yeere will be euen defrayed vpon the ordinary charge of the fishing voyage for any such Ship may well be sailed thither and home againe with lesse then twenty men So that those other fourteene may be accounted vnprofitable passengers to be carryed and so recarryed from thence as vsually is done And therefore it is requisite that such as shall remaine there to inhabite should bee agreed withall in time whereby to prepare themselues for that purpose and not to seeke after such in haste for then should you not onely haue those which are not so fit as I doe wish for that purpose but also they will be much more dearer as I haue often proued what they will be if they be taken when they proffer their seruice And he that is either a fit house-Carpenter Mason Smith Brick-maker Lime-burner Turner Tyler Husbandman Gardener or what trade soeuer and will carry his wife with him should be so agreed withall at first so that notwithstanding their trades they should help to fish and labour diligently about the same when time serues for all building of houses which is a thing will fitly bee done at all times very commodiously with little labour and lesse charge when the fish faileth And if any Aduenturer will send thither a kinsman friend or seruant to be imployed in the said Plantation which will take paines hee may haue a fit hire allowed him by the yeere as the Treasurer and one or more of the Aduenturers may thinke fit And any such so imployed may see such lands and woods allotted out for his said Master or friend and yeerely certifie him from thence what fit proceedings there are in the said Plantation And also any that shall serue their 5. yeeres industriously may not only be well paid as hee shall be agreed withall but you will then also giue him 100. acres of land and woods in the South part of that Countrey in fee for euer to him his heires and assignes if he will continue there to liue or any other man for him which is to be holden of your Honour paying at the sealing of his Deed 8. shillings and euer after but a penny rent by the yeere for the said hundred acres which will be a good incouragement to such as will go there to liue and be also a fit meanes to people the Countrey with such as may be well spared from all his Maiesties Kingdomes And thus in time they may finde out diuers good commodities there which as yet lye vndiscouered wherof there is great hope in some speciall thing which I omit to write of By this it may be partly vnderstood what great hope of good there may come vnto his Maiesty and all his Maiesties Kingdomes by settling people to inhabite there seeing it is a Countrey already so well approoued to be so healthy and warme in winter as England and yeelds yeerly as the trade is now in fishing onely aboue 150000 li into this Kingdome besides the great maintenance and increase of shipping and Mariners and the relieuing of many families the which trade onely may well in little time be worth double so much yeerely to his Maiesties subiects then now it is besides the great hope of gaine which is there to be gotten otherwaies In the yeere of our Lord God 1615. being there with a Commission directed vnto me out of his Maiesties high Court of Admiralty for the reformation of abuses and settling of fit orders amongst such as yerely trade to that Countrey wherein I did spend much time and was at great charge and then sailing from harbour to harbour I found the masters of English Ships then there willing to haue such abuses reformed and thereunto aboue 170. of them being impanelled in seuerall inquests for that seruice they did deliuer vnto me their seuerall presentments vnder their hands seales to the vse of the Kings Maiesty which were the first Iuries that euer were impanelled there to the vse of any Christian Prince In which presentments are contained diuers orders which vpon my returne from thence I did present into the high Court of Admiraltie in which seruice I tooke notice there was on that Coast aboue 250. saile of Ships great and small of our Nation with aboue 6000. Subiects in them Now if it may please his Maiestie and that but 200. of such Ships which yeerely saile thither a Fishing will leaue there in the end of the yeere when their voyages are made but foure persons from euery of them there to inhabite with fit prouision for them vntill the next Summer that the said Owners Ships repaire thither againe and take the benefit of their labour in that time then after that proportion there will be aboue 800. persons fitly and cheapely left there and maintained the first yeere and so euery yeere some people so left both men and women will not onely bee a great ease to this Kingdome but also saue a great charge in carrying thither and in returning yeerely from thence so many

persons and they will be also worth vnto such Aduenturers as will so leaue them there in diuers labours whiles the Ships are wanting from thence a great benefit and also the greater security vnto euery such Ship and company that haue people so left in the Countrey to prouide against their comming whereby they need not then saile thitherward bound so timely in the yere and in such casuall and so desperate a manner as yeerely now they vse to doe And if such a beneficiall course be taken for peopling of that Land how may there be a fitter Plantation settled there or elsewhere let any man iudge and so fit to be vnited vnto his Maiesties other Kingdomes without charge bloodshed or vsurpation Any man that will thus aduenture shall not only haue a great quantity of land there to him his heires with many other priuiledges vpon fit conditions but also he shall haue the yeerely benefit of such a summe as he shall so disburse for the setting foorth of any such shipping and the labours of such as shall be so imployed so that your Lordship intends not to haue the benefit of any such summe as shal be thus aduentured therein by any other man but only your equall part of such a great summe as you pretend by Gods assistance to aduenture therein likewise Then who will not be willing to imploy a part of his estate or to goe himselfe or send a friend to inhabite that Countrey though he haue but small meanes or but onely his merit to aduance his fortune there to tread and plant that Land he shall so purchase by his good indeuours if hee haue the taste of vertue and magnanimity What to such a mind can be more pleasant then building a foundation for his posteritie so to bee gotten without preiudice to any if hee haue any zeale in Religion What can he doe lesse hurtfull to any or more agreeable to God then to seeke to conuert the poore Sauages which liue in the North part of that Country to know their Creator and Redeemer What so truely suites with honour and honestie as by informing the ignorant and reforming things vniust teaching vertue and gaine to our natiue mother Country another Kingdome neere as spacious as Ireland to attend her where there may bee found imployments for those that now liue idlely Which is so far from wronging any as to cause posterity to remember them and remembring them euer to honour that remembrance with prayse Then who would liue at home idlely that may bee there imployed or thinke himselfe worthy to liue only to eate drinke and sleepe and so die hauing consumed that carelesly his friends got worthily or by vsing that talent miserably which may thus maintaine vertue honestly Now my hope is that gaine will make some to affect that which Religion charity and the common good cannot I hauing for my owne part no other purpose herein but for the generall good of all his Maiesties Subiects and not any desire to perswade any man to aduenture thither but for honour and profit neither is my purpose by these perswasions to draw children from their parents men from their wiues nor seruants from their masters but onely such as with a free consent will goe or may bee spared from such Cities and Parishes that will but apparell some of their fatherlesse children of foureteene or fifteene yeeres of age and some such yong married people as haue but small meanes to set themselues forth who by their good industry may liue there pleasantly and grow rich in little time And if any man which shall be willing to aduenture thither desire to be further satisfied they may reade my discouery of that Countrey what defect is found in either they shall find supplied in me to further their good desire therin that haue thus freely thrown myself with my mite into the treasury of my Countrys good which I esteeme worth much more then Columbus could certainly giue the Spaniards at his first enterprise of any such certainties of great wealth by his designes in the West Indies as since hath bin there found and although I cannot now at first promise to haue such Mines of gold in New-found-land yet let vs in that Plantation something imitate our neere neighbors the Hollanders whose wealth and strength gotten in few yeeres only by fishing are good testimonies wherby they haue in little time gotten their wealth strength and if the Plantation at New-found-land be orderly proceeded on the trades thither at other of his Maiesties Westerne Plantations would questionlesse in time afford yeerly a greater quantity of gold and siluer into all his Maiesties Kingdomes then all the Mines of the West Indies doe now yeerly yeeld to the King of Spaine and with lesse hazard more certainty felicity And thus I descend to the charge of victualling forth a Ship of 100. Tun with 40. persons to bee imployed for the more orderly proceeding in the said Plantation THE CHARGE AS FOLLOWETH   li. s. d. IN primis eleuen thousand waight of Bisket bread bought at XV. shillings the hundred waight 082 10 0 Twenty six Tun of Beere and Sider at 53. shillings 4. pence the Tun 069 07 0 Two Hogs-heads of very good English Beefe 010 00 0 Two Hogs-heads of Irish Beefe 005 00 0 Ten fat Hogs salted Caske and Salt 010 10 0 Thirty bushels of Pease at 006 00 0 Two Firkins of Butter 003 00 0 Two hundred waight of Cheese 002 10 0 One bushell of Mustard-seede 000 06 0 One Hogs-head of Vineger 001 05 0 Wood to dresse meate withall 001 00 0 One great Copper kettle 002 00 0 Two small Kettles 002 00 0 Two Frying pans 000 03 4 Platters Ladles and Cans for Beere 001 00 0 A paire of Bellowes for the Cooke 000 02 0 Locks for the bread Roomes 000 02 6 Tap Boriers and Funnels 000 02 0 One hundred waight of Candles 002 10 0 One hundred and thirty quarter of Salt at 2. s. the bushell 15. gallons to the bushell is 16. shillings the quarter 104 00 0 Mats and dynnage to lye vnder the salt in the Ship 002 10 0 Salt shouels 000 10 0 More in prouisions for the foresaid 40. persons to keepe 8. fishing boates at Sea with three men in euery boate is 24. men for which eight Pinnaces it is fit to carry 500. foote of Elme boords of an inch in thicknes at 8. s. the hundred 002 00 0 Two thousand nayles for the said boats and Stages at 13. s. 4. d. the thousand 001 06 8 Foure thousand nayles at 6. s. 8. d. the thousand 001 06 8 Two thousand nayles at 5. d. the hundred 000 08 0 Fiue hundred waight of Pitch at 8. s. the hundred 002 00 0 A barrell of Tarre 000 10 0 Two hundred waight of black Ocome 001 00 0 Thrummes for Pitch mabs 000 01 6 Bolles Buckets and Funnels 001 00 0 Two brazen Crocks 002 00 0 Canuase to make boate sailes

manner there come three seuerall Shoales of the Cod-fishes in the Summer time The one of them followes on the Herrings the other followes the Capling which is a fish like the Smelt And the third followes the Squid which is a fish something like the Cuddell Now at those times there vsually goe many Boates forth a fishing from that coast onely with three men in each Boat And those three being fit Fishermen will daily take at those times aboue 1200. of those Cod-fishes six score to the hundred and euery of those fishes with the Oyle which comes of them being valued but at a penny for euery such fish which is a cheape rate it wil amount to be worth six pound starling being splitted salted and dried as the same ought to be wherein there is good industry experience and much iudgement to be vsed otherwise there is but little hope that such fish can be taken and fitly preserued whereby to defray the charge and bring profit withall to both your Honours and all other Aduenturers with you as I much desire that yee and they all may haue By this it may be well vnderstood it is good angling with the hooke and line there when a single man may take in that imployment aboue forty shillings worth of fish a day for I haue often seene there that those who are most industrious in taking and well handling of such fish haue certainely been most willing fittest and readiest to build and doe any other seruice there at such times whilest the fish failes when some others that are vnskilfull in the one will stand and talke with their hands in their Gloues or Pockets and doe but little to any purpose in the other like those that come on the Stage to act their part in a Comedy but performe it not sufficiently so that they are not onely scoffed and hist at but also those which are at the charge and chiefe Actors thereof receiue some disgrace and wrong thereby for I haue often knowne there some proper men which haue not beene well acquainted with those affaires yet haue had some other good parts in them and would speake well when they haue come from thence yet neuer performed any thing there worthy of great commendations THus I haue endeuoured with much trauaile great expence and losse of time to make it plainely appeare that it will be pleasing honourable and beneficiall vnto all those that shall be willing to aduance the said Plantation which praised be God is now partly by my seuerall relations come vnto a faire forwardnes And although I haue but little hope to receiue any benefit by the said Plantation to my selfe or for my endeuours great expence and losse of time herein yet by Gods blessed assistance I shall among many other great losses and discontents which I haue had as it is well knowne beare this one content to my graue that I haue euer beene a true louing Subiect to my Prince and Countrey and in the sollicitation by these my two seuerall Treatises and otherwise I haue dealt truly with his Maiesty carefully and vprightly with either of your Honours and sincerely with all those which shall be willing to assist either of your good purposes therein Now if any which shall not be willing or is not able to performe a part for the perfecting of this great and most hopefull worke should dislike that I haue thus laid open a gap into those grounds which some doe seeme to challenge and appropriate as it were vnto themselues and so would not haue all others of his Maiesties Subiects made acquainted with the trade and benefit which is there like to be obtained Such as I conceiue may be compared to be something like vnto Esops dog which could eate no Hay neither would hee suffer the hungry Asse to feede thereon Yet my hope is that such may well vnderstand by what I haue written that my true desire is to shew vnto any of them that by the said Plantation and trading to that Countrey being so well followed as it may orderly be that all his Maiesties Kingdomes which now are beholding vnto other Countreys for some necessarie commodities might not only be furnished with the like from thence but also in taking of such fish as those Seas do yeeld at an easier rate then now we vse to haue them wherby we may serue France Spain Portugall Italy and other places much cheaper with that sort of fish then any of these other nations shall be able to fetch the same from thence and thereby haue and retaine all the trade of that Countrey vnto his Maiesties Subiects hands onely For whereas there saile yeerely to that Countrey aboue 250. saile of Ships from England only with aboue 5000. English men in them by whose labours there is yeerely gotten into this Kingdome aboue the sum of 150000. li. and also thereby many families set on worke and relieued then it may bee well vnderstood what a great benefit and strength it will be when there shall faile thither 500. saile of Ships aboue 10000. seruiceable Subiects in them which will be able to gaine with the helpe of such numbers of other men women and children as may yeerely bee so commodiously carried thither few yeeres when the Subiects are made acquainted with such an orderly course as both your Honours haue already taken for the aduancement of the said Plantation Whereby there may be thus yeerely gotten not onely much wealth but also great strength against such time as any other Prince should breake league with his Maiestie that then to haue in such readines 500. saile of his Subiects Ships so ready to come from thence with more then 10000. seruiceable Sea-men in them in lesse time then 15. dayes warning if the wind serue which is so short a time as Saylers may be prest in some part of this Kingdome and be able to come from thence vnto his Maiesties Nauy Royall at Chattam vpon any occasion of seruice The like strength by Sea there is not any other Prince in the world able to call home vnto him in so short a time of his owne subiects from any one place of trading if he haue neuer so great occasion Thus God blessing the said Trade and Plantation it will be not onely a great augmentation to his Maiestie in his reuenues and customes but also a generall good vnto all his Highnesse Kingdomes and Subiects both in inriching of aduenturers in particular and also in strengthening the wall of defence which God hath set about our natiue nest Great Brittaine namely Nauigation which must needes be much cherished and furnished by this Seminary of Fishers imployed in such Colonies and out of that shoale will be alwayes in readinesse of ability to be translated higher from fishing vessels into fighting Ships Royall and so are alwayes vsefull for peace or warre merchandize or defence as the occasions of our estate and welfare shall require And so I leaue the successe thereof to the good pleasure of God to whom be all the glory RICH. WHITBOVRNE