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A12461	The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Barra, John, ca. 1574-1634, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 22790; ESTC S111882	354,881	269

hundred in seuen or ten moneths as you see they haue done spending twice so much time in comming and going as in staying there were I there planted seeing the variety of the fishings serue the most part of the yeere and with a little labour we might make all the Salt we need vse as is formerly said and can conceiue no reason to distrust of good successe by Gods assistance besides for the building of ships no place hath more conuenient Harbours ebbe nor floud nor better timber and no Commoditie in Europe doth more decay then wood Master Dee his opinion for the building of ships MAster Dee recordeth in his Brittish Monarchy that King Edgar had a Nauy of foure thousand saile with which he yeerely made his progresse about this famous Monarchy of Great Britaine largely declaring the benefit thereof whereupon hee proiected to our most memorable Queene Elizabeth the erecting of a Fleet of sixty Saile he called a little Nauy Royall imitating that admired Pericles Prince of Athens that could neuer secure that tormented estate vntill he was Lord and Captaine of the Sea At this none need wonder for who knowes not her Royall Maiestie during her life by the incredible aduentures of her Royall Nauy and valiant Souldiers and Sea-men notwithstanding all treacheries at home the protecting and defending France and Holland and reconquering Ireland yet all the world by Sea and Land both feared or loued and admired good Queene Elizabeth Both to maintaine and increase that incomparable honour God be thanked to her incomparable Successor our most Royall Lord and Soueraigne King Iames this great Philosopher hath left this to his Maiestie and his Kingdomes consideration that if the tenths of the earth be proper to God it is also due by Sea The Kings high waies are common to passe but not to dig for Mines or any thing So Englands Coasts are free to passe but not to fish but by his Maiesties Prerogatiue His Maiesty of Spaine permits none to passe the Popes order for the East and West Indies but by his permission or at their perils if all that world be so iustly theirs it is no iniustice for England to make as much vse of her owne shores as strangers doe that pay to their owne Lords the tenth and not to the owner of those liberties any thing to speake of whose subiects may neither take nor sell any in their Teritories which small tribute would maintaine this little Nauy Royall and not cost his Maiesty a peny and yet maintaine peace with all Forrainers and allow them more courtesie then any Nation in the world affords to England It were ashame to alleage that Holla●d is more worthy to enioy our fishing as Lords thereof because they haue more skill to handle it then we as they can our wooll and vndressed Cloth notwithstanding all their warres and troublesome disorders To get money to build this Nauy he saith who would not spare the one hundreth penny of his rents and the fiue hundreth penny of his goods each seruant that taketh forty shillings wages foure pence and euery forrainer of seuen yeeres of age foure pence for seuen yeeres not any of these but they will spend three times so much in pride wantonnesse or some superfluitie And doe any men loue the securitie of their estates that of themselues would not bee humble suters to his Maiesty to doe this of free will as a voluntary beneuolence or but the one halfe of this or some such other course as I haue prounded to diuers of the Companies free from any constraint tax lottery or imposition so it may be as honestly and truly imploied as it is proiected the poorest Mechanicke in this King-would gaine by it Then you might build ships of any proportion and numbers you please fiue times cheaper then you can doe here and haue good merchandize for their fraught in this vnknowne Land to the aduancement of Gods glory his Church and Gospel and the strengthning and releefe of a great part of Christendome without hurt to any to the terror of Pirats the amazement of enemies the assistance of friends the securing Merchants and so much increase of Nauigation to make Englands trade and shipping as much as any Nations in the world besides a hundred other benefits to the generall good of all true subiects would cause thousands yet vnborne to blesse the time and all them that first put it in practise Now lest it should be obscured as it hath beene to priuat ends or so weakely vndertaken by our ouerweening incredulity that strangers may possesse it whilest we contend for New-Englands goods but not Englands good I haue presented it as I haue said to the Prince and Nobility the Gentry and Commonalty hoping at last it will moue the whole land to know it and consider of it since I can finde them wood and halfe victuall with the foresaid aduantages were this Country planted with what facility they may build and maintaine this little Nauy Royall both with honour profit and content and inhabit as good a Country as any in the world within that paralell which with my life and what I haue I will endeuour to effect if God please and you permit But no man will goe from hence to haue lesse freedome there then here nor aduenture all they haue to prepare the way for them will scarce thanke them for it and it is too well knowne there haue beene so many vndertakers of Patents and such sharing of them as hath bred no lesse discouragement then wonder to heare such great promises and so little performance in the Interim you see the French and Dutch already frequent it and God forbid they in Virginia or any of his Maiesties subiects should not haue as free liberty as they To conclude were it not for Master Cherley and a few priuate aduenturers with them what haue we there for all these inducements As for them whom pride or couetousnesse lulleth asleepe in a Cradle of slothfull carelesnesse would they but consider how all the great Monarchies of the earth haue beene brought to confusion or but remember the late lamentable experiences of Constantinople and how many Cities Townes and Prouinces in the faire rich Kingdoms of Hungaria Transiluania Wallachia Moldauia and how many thousands of Princes Earles Barons Knights Merchants and others haue in one day lost goods liues and honours or sold for slaues like beasts in a market place their wiues children and seruants slaine or wandring they knew not whither dying or liuing in all extremities of extreme miseries and calamities surely they would not onely doe this but giue all they haue to enioy peace and liberty at home or but aduenture their persons abroad to preuent the conclusions of a conquering Foe who commonly assaulteth and best preuaileth where he findeth wealth and plenty most armed with ignorance and security Though the true condition of warre is onely to suppresse the proud and defend the

and Poultry as is formerly related yet for so departing and other occasions much difference hath beene betwixt him and some of the Company as any of his Predecessors which I rather wish were reconciled then to be a reporter of such vnprofitable dissentions For Till trechery and faction and auarice be gone Till enuy and ambition and backbiting be none Till periury and idlenesse and iniury be out And truly till that villany the worst of all that rout Vnlesse those vises banisht be what euer Forts you haue A hundred walls together put will not haue power to saue Master Iohn Barnard sent to be Gouernour TO supply this place was sent by the noble aduenturers Iohn Bernard a Gentleman both of good meanes and quality who arriued within eight daies after Butlers departure with two ships and about one hundred and forty passengers with armes and all sorts of munition and other prouisions sufficient During the time of his life which was but six weekes in reforming all things he found defectiue he shewed himselfe so iudiciall and industrious as gaue g●eat satisfaction and did generally promise vice was in great danger to be suppressed and vertue and the Plantation much aduanced but so it hapned that both he and his wife died in such short time they were both buried in one day and one graue and Master Iohn Harrison chosen Gouernour till further order came from England What hapned in the gouernment of Master Iohn Harrison THey are still much troubled with a great short worme that deuours their Plants in the night but all the day they lie hid in the ground and though early in the morning they kill so many they would thinke there were no more yet the next morning you shall finde as many The Caterpillers to their fruits are also as pernicious and the land Crabs in some places are as thicke in their Borowes as Conies in a Warren and doe much hurt besides all this there hapned this yeere a very heauy disaster for a ship wherein there had beene much swearing and blaspheming vsed all the voyage and landed what she had to leaue in those Iles iou●ally froliking in their Cups and Tobacco by accident fired the Powder that at the very instant blew vp the great Cabin and some one way and some another it is a wonder to thinke how they could bee so blowne out of the gun-roome into the Sea where some were taken vp liuing so pitifully burned their liues were worse then so many deaths some died some liued but eighteene were lost at this fatall blast the ship also immediatly sunke with threescore barrels of meale sent for Virginia and all the other prouision in her was thus lost Now to consider how the Spaniards French and Dutch haue beene lost and preserued in those inuincible Iles yet neuer regarded them but as monuments of miseries though at this present they all desire them How Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Summers being ready to sinke in the sea were saued what an incredible abundance of victuall they found how it was first planted by the English the strange increase of Rats and their sudden departure the fiue men came from England in a boat the escape of Hilliard and the rest of those accidents there hapned a man would thinke it a tabernacle of miracles and the worlds wonder that from such a Paradise of admiration who would thinke should spring such wonders of afflictions as are onely fit to be sacrificed vpon the highest altars of sorrow thus to be set vpon the highest Pinacles of content and presently throwne downe to the lowest degree of extremity as you see haue beene the yeerely succeedings of those Plantations the which to ouercome as it is an incomparable honour so it can be no dishonour if a man doe miscarry by vnfortunate accidents in such honourable actions the which renowne and vertue to attaine hath caused so many attempts by diuers Nations besides ours euen to passe through the very amazement of aduentures Vpon the relation of this newes the Company hath sent one Captaine Woodhouse a Gentleman of good repute and great experience in the warres and no lesse prouident then industrious and valiant then returned report all goeth well there It is too true in the absence of the noble Treasurer Sir Edward Sackvill now Earle of Dorset there haue beene such complaints betwixt the Planters and the Company that by command the Lords appointed Sir Thomas Smith againe Treasurer that since then according to their order of Court he is also elected where now we must leaue them all to their good fortune and successe till we heare further of their fortunate proceedings FINIS To his friend Captaine Smith vpon his description of New-England SIr your Relations I haue read which shew Ther 's reason I should honour them and you And if their meaning I haue vnderstood I dare to censure thus Your Proiect 's good And may if follow'd doubtlesse quit the paine With honour pleasure and a trebble gaine Beside the benefit that shall arise To make more happy our Posterities For would we daigne to spare though 't were no more Then what ore-fils and surfets vs in store To order Nature's fruitfulnesse a while In that rude Garden you New-England stile With present good ther 's hope in after-daies Thence to repaire what Time and Pride decaies In this rich Kingdome And the spacious West Being still more with English bloud possest The proud Iberians shall not rule those Seas To checke our ships from sailing where they please Nor future times make any forraine power Become so great to force a bound to Our Much good my minde foretels would follow hence With little labour and with lesse expence Thriue therefore thy Designe who ere enuy England may ioy in England's Colony Virginia seeke her Virgin sisters good Be blessed in such happy neighbourhood Or whatsoere Fate pleaseth to permit Be thou still honour'd for first mouing it George Wither è societate Lincol. To that worthy and generous Gentleman my very good friend Captaine Smith MAy Fate thy Proiect prosper that thy name May be eternized with liuing fame Though foule Detraction Honour would peruert And Enuie euer waits vpon desert In spight of Pelias when his hate lies cold Returne as Iason with a fleece of gold Then after-ages shall record thy praise That a New-England to this I le didst raise And when thou di'st as all that liue must die Thy fame liue here thou with Eternity R. Gunnell To his worthy Captaine the Author OFt thou hast led when I brought vp the Rere In bloudy wars where thousands haue beene slaine Then giue me leaue in this some part to beare And as thy seruant here to reade my name T is true long time thou hast my Captaine beene In the fierce warres of Transiluania Long ere that thou America hadst seene Or led wast captiu'd in Virginia Thou that to passe the worlds foure parts dost deeme No more then

meane which is Wood Flax Pitch Tarre Rozen Cordage and such like which they exchange againe to the French Spaniards Portugals and English c. for what they want are made so mighty strong and rich as no state but Venice of twice their magnitude is so well furnished with so many faire Cities goodly Townes strong Fortresses and that abundance of shipping and all sorts of Merchandize as well of Gold Siluer Pearles Diamonds precious Stones Silkes Veluets and Cloth of Gold as F●sh Pitch Wood or such grosse Commodities What voiages and discoueries E●st and West North and South yea about the world make they What an Army by Sea and Land haue they long maintained in despight of one of the greatest Princes of the world and neuer could the Spaniard with all his Mines of Gold and Siluer pay his debts his friends and Army halfe so truly as the Hollanders still haue done by this contemptible Trade of Fish Diuers I know may alleage many other assistances but this is the chiefest Mine and the Sea the source of those siluer streames of all their vertue which hath made them now the very miracle of industry the onely paterne of perfection for these affaires and the benefit of fishing is that Primum Mobile that turnes all their spheares to this height of plentie strength honor and exceeding great admiration Herring Cod and Ling is that triplicitie that makes their wealth and shippings multiplicitie such as it is and from which few would thinke it they should draw so many millions yeerely as they doe as more in particular in the trials of New England you may see and such an incredible number of ships that breeds them so many Sailers Mariners Souldiers and Merchants neuer to be wrought out of that Trade and fit for any other I will not deny but others may gaine as well as they that will vse it though not so certainly nor so much in quantitie for want of experience and this Herring they take vpon the Coast of England and Scotland their Cod and Ling vpon the Coast of Izeland and in the North seas if wee consider what gaines the Hamburgans the Biskinners and French make by fishing nay but how many thousands this fiftie or sixty yeeres haue beene maintained by New found land where they take nothing but small Cod whereof the greatest they make Cor-fish and the rest is hard dried which we call Poore-Iohn would amaze a man with wonder If then from all those parts such paines is taken for this poore gaines of Fish especially by the H●●landers that hath but little of their owne for building of ships and setting them to sea but at the second third fourth or fift hand drawne from so many p●r●s of the world ere they come together to be vsed in those voiages If these I say can gaine why should we more doubt then they but doe much better that may haue most of all those things at our doores for taking and making and here are no hard Landlords to racke vs with high rents or extorting fines nor tedious pleas in Law to consume vs with their many yeeres disputation for Iustice no multitudes to occasion such impediments to good orders as in popular States so freely hath God and his Maiestie bestowed those blessings on them will attempt to obtaine them as here euery man may be master of his owne labour and land or the greatest part if his Maiesties royall meaning be not abused and if he haue nothing but his hands he may set-vp his Trade and by industry quickly grow rich spending but halfe that time well which in England we abuse in idlenesse worse or as ill Here is ground as good as any lieth in the height of forty one forty two forty three c. which is as temperate and as fruitfull as any other parallel in the world As for example on this side the line West of it in the South Sea is Nona Albion discouered as is said by Sir Francis Drake East from it is the most temperate part of Portugall the ancient Kingdomes of Galizia Bisky Nauarre Aragon Cattilonia Castillia the old and the most moderatest of Castillia the new Valentia which is the greatest part of Spaine which if the Histories be true in the Romans time abounded no lesse with gold siluer Mines then now the West-Indies the Romans then vsing the Spaniards to worke in those Mines as now the Spaniards doe the Indians In France the Prouinces of Gascony Langadooke Auignon Prouince Dolphine Pyamont and Turyne are in the same parallel which are the best and richest parts of France In Italy the Prouinces of Genua Lumbardy and Verona with a great part of the most famous state of Venice the Dukedomes of Bononia Mantua Ferrara Rauenna Bolognia Florence Pisa Sienna Vrbine Ancona and the ancient Citie and Countrey of Rome with a great part of the Kingdome of Naples In Slauonia Istria and Dalmatia with the Kingdomes of Albania In Grecia those famous Kingdomes of Macedonia Bullulgaria Thessalia Thracia or Romania where is seated the most pleasant and plentifull Citie in Europe Constantinople In Asia in the same latitude are the temperatest parts of Natolia Armenia Persia and China besides diuers other large Countries and Kingdomes in those most milde and temperate Regions of Asia Southward in the same height is the richest of Gold Mines Chily and Baldinia and the mouth of the great Riuer of Plate c. for all the rest of the world in that height is yet vnknowne Besides these reasons mine owne eies that haue seene a great part of those Cities and their Kingdomes as well as it can finde no aduantage they haue in Nature but this they are beautified by the long labour and diligence of industrious people and art This is onely as God made it when hee created the world Therefore I conclude if the heart and intrailes of those Regions were sought if their Land were cultured planted and manured by men of industry iudgement and experience what hope is there or what need they doubt hauing the aduantages of the Sea but it might equalize any of these famous Kingdomes in all commodities pleasures and conditions seeing euen the very hedges doe naturally affoord vs such plentie as no ship need returne away emptie and onely vse but the season of the Sea Fish will returne an honest gaine besides all other aduantages her treasures hauing yet neuer beene opened nor her originals wasted consumed nor abused And whereas it is said the Hollanders serue the Easterlings themselues and other parts that want with Herring Ling and wet Cod The Easterlings a great part of Europe with Sturgion and Cauiare as the Blacke Sea doth Grecia Podolia Sagouia Natolia and the Hellespont Cape Blanke Spaine Portugall and the Leuant with Mulit and Puttargo New foundland the most part of the chiefe Southerne Ports in Europe with a thin Poore-Iohn which hath beene so long so much ouer-laied