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A21108	A plaine path-vvay to plantations that is, a discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries. Wherein is declared, that the attempts or actions, in themselues are very good and laudable, necessary also for our country of England. Doubts thereabout are answered: and some meanes are shewed, by which the same may, in better sort then hitherto, be prosecuted and effected. Written for the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this land, chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these attempts better then yet they doe. With certaine motiues for a present plantation in New-found land aboue the rest. Made in the manner of a conference, and diuided into three parts, for the more plainnesse, ease, and delight to the reader. By Richard Eburne of Hengstridge in the countie of Somerset.	Eburne, Richard.	1624 (1624)	STC 7471; ESTC S105454	98,023	134

great cause why men attaine to riches there more slowly then they might and should if they were otherwise managed As First If the Plantation begin with a small number farre too little for such a businesse For then neither can they bee able to extend themselues farre into the Countries in a long time and so not to finde out the goodnes sweetnesse and benefit thereof nor to set vp all kinde of necessary trades and faculties among themselues whereby they may bee able to assist and set one another a worke 2. If they that remoue hence goe sparely and ill prouided of cattell corne and other necessaries for Plantation and Habitation which those countries afford not impossible it is for them to make that profit and get that increase by their Lands and Liuings there which they might if they were well and throughly prouided of such things at the first 7. This is the onely way which men in ancient time did finde out and obserue to get riches and wealth withall to increase and amend their estate by when as by multitudes of people their country was as ours now is so ouerlaid that they could not thriue and prosper therein Neither were they euer lightly deceiued but the euent and computation did answer their intent and expectation And no doubt if the like courses bee now attempted they may and will if they be well carried produce the like or rather better and speedier effects to vs then to them For we haue many helps for peace and warre for shipping and nauigation for defence and fortification for traffique and negotiation for building and habitation for religious and ciuill conuersation for skill in many needfull arts and occupations which they had not to further vs withall 8. Of all other meanes to get wealth and riches by Husbandry which of all courses of life is that which in those places must chiefly and most of all be followed and employed hath anciently and worthily euer beene accounted the chiefest best and surest Wherein though it be somewhat more chargeable combersome and for a time vncomfortable to enter into a void and desolate country ouergrowne with woods thickets and other like yet who knowes not what great oddes and aduantage to the getting of riches and wealth there is first betweene the breaking vp of such grounds as were neuer yet employed but hauing lien waste vntoucht and vntilled from the beginning haue all their sweetnesse and fatnesse in them and the tillage and vsage of poore and hungry soiles that from time to time haue beene turned vp and worne out to the vttermost and then betwixt the hauing of great and goodly Lands for there one man may easily haue as much as ten or twentie haue here and of small and simple Tenements 9. When Brutus came first into this Land who would haue imagined it would haue proued so goodly so plentifull so fruitfull so rich so excellent and happy a Land as we God be praised for it doe finde and all the world about vs doth know it is And who but sailing along the Coasts of any of those new Countries or but going ashore here and there not aboue a mile or two happely within the Land can imagine or conceiue much lesse know and vnderstand what wealth and riches what goodly fields and pastures hills and valleys mines and metals woods and waters what hidden treasures and sundry commodities are to be found and had therein 10. The name of a Kingdome is verie great and what should not or heretofore what would not men doe to gaine a Kingdome By these meanes opportunitie is offered vnto our Land to our English Nation to g●…t and gaine to possesse and take to haue and enioy together with Plantation and Habitation for thousands and hundred thousands thereof more then one or two Kingdomes great and goodly Prouinces that by Gods blessing and prouidence towards vs may in time bee vnited to the Crowne the Imperiall Crowne of this Land Which by consequence for what infinite store of riches and wealth how many places of peferment and honour for hundreds and thousands of particular and inferiour persons is there contained and comprehended within a Kingdome must needs bring with euery of them seuerally riches and wealth of great and in manner infinite valew and estimation The English lost in France in the time of Henrie the sixth two seuerall parts of that spacious Countrie that had beene English neere about three hundred yeeres before that is Normandie and Aquitaine in the former whereof saith an English Historie as minding to expresse the greatnesse of the losse by the particulars there were then an hundred strong townes and fortresses one Archbishoppricke and sixe Bishopprickes besides some other townes destroyed in the warres and in the latter foure Archbishopprickes fifteene Earledomes two hundred sixtie and two Baronies and aboue a thousand Captainships and Bailiwicks Suppose we now the same had fallen out in our times and I hope I may without offence make vse of former and forraine things would we not or should we not thinke you account it an ines●…imable losse and damage to the Crowne and Countrey of England worthy to be redeemed with hundred thousands of our mony and goods and to be recouered if it were possible with thousands of the liues of our men and no small effusion of Christian bloud If now contrariwise we may in our dayes not lose but get not hazard but assuredly haue and gaine and that sine sanguine sudore euen without bloud or blowes and without any waste or spoyle of our treasur●… and state I will not say the same that we had lost but in stead 〈◊〉 some other Regions and Countries Territories and 〈◊〉 for Habitation as great and likely in time to proue as g●… 〈◊〉 might not this bee iustly accounted a gaine and good 〈◊〉 ●…sargement and increase to our Nation and Kingdome inesti●…le and exceeding great If the name of a Kingdome shall be●… thought too high and excellent too great and glorious for Cou●…s so vaste and wast so remote and obscure as those of our Plantations yet are let them bee vouchsafed the name but of Dukedomes as those I last mentioned or Lordships as Ireland for a long time was or by whatsoeuer other titles parts or members of a kingdome hee shall be pleased to stile and nominate them Quem ●…enes arbitrium est ius norm●… loquendi as one saith for so we haue the thing it is no great matter for the name yet if there may be had as the probabilities possibilities and opportunities already had and made vs doe plainly declare there may in one place a Countrey as great at the least as that of Normandie in another place as that of Aquitaine in a third twise as much as they both that is such a one wherein there may be in time erected constituted and made speaking somewhat thought not altogether according to the former proportions fortie Earledomes or Counties foure Archbishopprickes

For he that is so kinde to his enemies what would he haue beene to his friends Resp. I easily perceiue that this might redound not a little to the glorie of God if the Conuersion of such People and Nations might be accomplished Lord How many thousands and millions of soules might so be saued which now run headlong into hell It were a glorious worke imitating notably that of the blessed Apostles which conuerted the world so long agoe from dead Idols to serue the liuing God And in so holy and religious a labour I am sorry to heare that we should not be as forward as Papists but that to be verified twixt vs and them also in this case which our Sauior said in another The children of this world are in their generation wiser then the children of light But as I must needes confesse that the worke were a worthy piece of worke if it might be wrought and that happy were our Land if the children thereof might be made of God Agents therein So me thinkes we had need to haue some assurance of the will of God that it should be done For as you know better then I can tell you If the time of their Conuersion be not come or if God as he hath wrapped them hitherto in vnbeliefe so he be not pleased nor determined to release them to call them to the knowledge of his truth and to manifest his Son vnto them at all our labour then will be but in vaine and our attempt not pleasing but displeasing in his sight Enr. That God desireth and willeth his Name his truth and Gospell by vs to be published in those Heathen and barren lands the inclination and readinesse alone of those people and Nations may sufficiently assure vs who as it were prepared of God to receiue the Gospell from our mouthes if it might be but sounded vnto them doe euen of their owne accord offer themselues to be taught suffer their children to bee baptized and instructed by vs and as weary of and halfe seeing the grossenesse of their own abominations and the goodnes of our obseruations doe make no great difficultie to peferre our Religion before theirs and to confesse that it is God that we and the deuill that they doe worship For my owne part I am perswaded that God will instantly haue them either by vs or by others if we will not called to the knowledge of his Truth turned from darknes to light from the power of Satan vnto God that so the words of our Sauiour may be fully fulfilled who Math. 24. 14. hath foretold vs That the Gospell before the end shall come must be preached throughout the whole world and Mark 13. 10. be published among all Nations which howsoeuer most hold is long since accomplished in that it either now is or heretofore hath beene preached to all or neere all Nations of this vpper Continent yet I am now resolued let it bee my priuate errour if I doe erre that they will not bee fulfilled indeed according to our Sauiours intent vntill that vnto them also that inhabit that other the vnder Continent it be made manifest which it seemeth vnto me God doth now hasten to accomplish in that within our Age alone a great part thereof hath had the same though corruptly though imperfectly brought vnto them Resp. You doe well to say that this is your owne priuate Opinion for no man else I thinke is of that minde Enr. Not many it may be but yet I assure you I am not alone For there was but few yeeres past a Preacher in Dorsetshire of some note and name that in a Sermon of his intituled The Magold and the Sun now extant in Print page 40. vpon these words of his Text Luk. 1. 79. To giue light to them that sit in darkenesse c. saith thus This light rising first from the Iewes as from his East or Orient is carried ouer all the world and hath giuen light to vs English that sate in darkenesse Of his first rising reade Luke 24 47. beginning saith our Sauiour there from Ierusalem Hence sprung this blessed light first and thence besides his dispersion into other parts of the world was carried ouer all Greece Italy Germany France and rose to vs also and is now making day to the Indians and Antipodes For the world shall not end till he haue finished his Course I meane till as the Euangelist Math. 24. 14. saith The Gospell be preached in all the world and be a testimony to all nations and then shal the end come Thus he D. Keckerman likewise that famous professor of Arts and Learning diuine and humane in his Manuduction to Theologie of late translated into English by my worthy friend Master T. Uicars Batchelour in Diuinitie pag. 94. writes of this matter in this manner And doubtlesse towards the end of the world the true Religion shall be in America as God is now preparing way for it by the English and Low-Country Merchants that that of Christ may be fulfilled Math. 24. 14. This Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached through the whole world for a witnesse vnto all Nations and then shall the end come For God in all his works is wont to effect a thing successiuely and therefore first he sends to those Nations some light of his Essence and Truth by the Papists and afterward will make these things shine more clearely vnto them by the true and faithfull Ministers of the Gospell Thus farre he So that in their opinion as well as mine this is a worke that must be done before the end can be Wherefore since it is a worke and a most holy and necessary worke which must be done before the day the great day of the Lord can come I see not how we can without sinne hauing any thing to doe in those parts withdraw our shoulder from this burthen or with-hold our hand from this plough And so much the more will the sinne be by how much it is farre more easie for vs this to hold and vndergoe then it was for those that did vndertake the like taske for vs I meane the Conuersion of our Ancestors and predecessors in this land a people as rude and vntractable at the least that way as these now in as much as they were to preach and not to subdue but wee may plant as well as preach and may subdue as well as teach whereby the Teachers shall need to feare no losse of goods or life no prison nor sword no famine or other persecuting distresse for the Gospels sake Whose steps if our Nation now if our Countrimen in their intended Plantations among those Infidels would in any measure follow how many soules might they saue aliue How many sinners might they conuert from going astray How much might they ampliate the Kingdome of Christ in earth aduance the name glory and worship of our the onely true and euerlasting God and prepare for themselues an abundant or rather

Corne and Cattell Fifthly They being rich within themselues for such Money while it holds value is as good where it is currant as any other should yet be poore to others-ward among whom it is not currant which would make them the lesse desired of and the lesse to feare any such as seeke for spoile and prey Sixthly By this meanes we should oft receiue from them good store of forraine Coynes receiued by them for Fish and other commodities sold to such as come to trade there Seuenthly Moreouer Hereby the great hurt that some imagine is to be feared by those Plantations in carrying away of our Gold and Siluer would easily and that both to our and their great aduantage be auoided Resp. And in truth many doe complaine of the carriage away of our Money out of our Land and I perceiue by you that it is likely a great deale of it goes this way Enr. It must needs be so if the workes goe forward in any sort and then note whatsoeuer is gone ouer Sea that way neuer returnes againe We receiue backe but either nothing at all or else but some commodities of those Countries as Fish Timber Salt c. And therefore this is a thing in mine opinion that must timely and carefully be lookt vnto or else the Coyne and Treasure of our Land will by these Plantations if once they goe well and roundly forward within a while be extremely spent and exhausted For say for a triall or example there should goe twentie thousand and each of them to carrie but ten pounds a man a small reckoning and poore stocke to begin withall yet that comes to in the whole to two hundred thousand pounds Now by this guesse of the rest Resp. This is very plaine yet men will hardly heare of this base money because of the strangenesse and noueltie of the matter Enr. If any thinke this matter strange let him but enquire and he shall be informed at full that at the first in all Lands such coine was either only or most common That it is not yet much aboue one Age agoe that in England it selfe it was in vse that in our time Ireland had it and that at this day if Trauellers tell true Spaine it selfe for all her Indian Siluer mines and Golden mountaines vpon good policie is not without it And if it were as strange and new a course as it is old and common yet if necessitie so require better it is I thinke to be vsed then some other more vsuall and lesse profitable But leauing that to iudgement and consideration of the wise and iudicious I professe that for my owne part I doe rest resolued There can no good Plantation be made by vs any where without the vse and great store of such base monies 10. Yet I say further if the continuance of Gold and Siluer coines shall be thought more necessary for these employments then I conceiue them to be that such a course may be taken the like whereof hath oft been practised in sundry kingdomes and and dominions vpon lesse occasion then this that both our present coines may remaine safe within our Land and yet many thousands of pounds in gold and siluer may be conferred on those that shall dwell and inhabit in those new Plantations without any pound or penny charge almost to those that shall the same on them for their enriching and incouragement there conferre and bestow Resp. I doe not well vnderstand you in this by better thinking on your words it may be I shall but for your base monies I preconceiue one very great inconuenience of it whensoeuer it shall be called in The fall of mony as Experience hath proued in England many times here to fore will be a great preiudice and impouerishment vnto all them on whom it doth alight Enr. 1. That need not to bee feared vnlesse the Countries themselues happen to yeeld better metals for many generations yet to come 2. That losse will bee recompensed by the vse thereof an hundred fold before any such fall doe or can come 3. And it may whensoeuer it doth come so equally be diuided by times that it may so easily bee borne that the posterities may haue little cause thereby to complaine that they beare some part of the burthen of their Progenitors Commodit as quaequè sua fert incommoda secum No commoditie but hath his discommoditie with it which must be borne with for a greater good Resp. I cannot dislike that you say Proceed I pray you Enr. If either order might be taken or people be perswaded that they which goe ouer might leaue behinde them that I will not say Superfluitie and Excesse which both the place and plentie wherein we liue God be thanked doe and happely may afford vs but that Uarietie Costlinesse Statelinesse Delicacie Brauery and Abundance in Apparell Diet Building and all other Prouisions which here many doe vse it cannot easily be estimated how much it might auaile to the speedy furtherance and cheape setting forth of these worthy workes Frugalitie and Parsimonie like that of ancient times will better befit the infancie and vprisings of any commonwealth which euer haue beene and necessarily must be or else they will neuer frame well rude and plaine It was neuer better with Rome it selfe whose best men saith one of their best Authours in priuatis rebus suisque sumptibus minimo contenti tenuissimo cultu viuebant c. In priuate estates and matters of their owne charges contented with a very little did liue with very slender prouision then when her Consuls and Dictators were taken from the plough and her Senators serued at the table in earthen plate and neuer merrier in England then when Farmors would weare none other then their owne home-made cloth when Gentlemen delighted to haue plentie rather then daintie at their tables and the best Housekeepers held them rather to their owne countrie yeeld then to forraine and farre fetcht prouision Some be of the minde That though all other meanes failed if they alone that roist and riot out their goods and wealth in pride and vanitie in drunkennesse and gluttony and other like disorderd courses And many there be woe be to them therefore as witnesseth the holy Ghost Esa. 5. 11. and 22. and cap. 22. 13. Ezek. 16. 40. Luk. 16. 19. and other places moe that indeed doe so lauish and waste that they haue by such intemperate and deuillish courses as if they were nati consumere fruges had no other thoughts but how to hauocke and spoile and made that the very end of their life here to see the end of all before they goe hence If these I say could be either perswaded or compelled to bestow that or but halfe that so luxurious is our land become which so prodigally and profanely they profuse and spend vpon this pious good and necessary vse that that alone would abundantly suffice to supply all the wants of this worke and to bring