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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15069	A discourse and discouery of Nevv-found-land with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. Together with the laying open of certaine enormities and abuses commited by some that trade to that countrey, and the meanes laide downe for reformation thereof. Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmouth, in the county of Deuon, and published by authority.	Whitbourne, Richard, Sir, fl. 1579-1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 25372; ESTC S111717	48,883	94

shall reade ouer this Discourse and consider well of the particular motiues herein expressed whereby a Plantation there should bee imbraced they will be well satisfied therein and I suppose forbeare to say it is such a rockie and cold Countrey as is vnfit to be planted I haue been seuerall times in Norway where the Countrey is in most places more rockie and mountainous then the New-found-land and lies aboue sixe degrees more to the North and yet very beneficiall to the King of Denmarke where many of his Maiesties Subiects liue pleasantly but the New-found-land is much more pleasant to liue in I haue often seene the Coast of Biskay and Portugall all along the Sea-Coast how rocky barren and mountainous these Countries be in most places although they lie in a pleasant and temperate Climate if such which should dispraise the New-found-land had seene it as I haue they would not onely like well and be in loue to further the desired Plantation but also admire how the people in those other Countries doe liue by their good industrie and seeke out little places amongst the Rocks and in the sides of Hils and Mountaines to set and sowe their seeds for Rootes Cabage Onions and such like whereby they receiue great comforts for all alongst those parts on the Sea-coast their best meanes of liuing is by fishing and other trades by Sea The like benefit may all such haue that will plant at New-found-land and much better in many other things as is already sufficiently touched Likewise it is well knowne to all those that haue trauailed from thence all along the Coast of Spaine euen to Granada how barren and rockie those parts of Spaine are also in most places and yet the people by their good industry plant many of their Vines and other fruits on the sides of some steepe Hils amongst the Rocks where men are faine in diuers places euen to creepe on their hands and knees to prune the said Vines and gather the Grapes of them to make their strong wines and sweete Raysins withall which we so much delight to taste In those toothsome and delightfull Commodities our Marchants bestow much money which the New-found-land trade and Commodities had from thence will be able in little time if it be peopled as aforesaid to supply all your Maiesties Kingdomes withall with the sales of such commodities had from thence to be imployed therein Likewise from Granada to Carthagena Allegant Denia and from thence euen to the Citie of Valencia which is a large circuit the most parts all along as I haue trauelled by land are very barren rockie and mountainous that very few Cattell Sheepe Goates or any other beasts are able to liue there yet doe the people in those parts vse great industry to plant their Vines and other fruits whereby they seeke out their best meanes they haue to liue and likewise also in diuers other places neere the Mediterranean Sea from thence to Bassalonia Marsellis Sauoy and Genoway and in diuers other places in Italy these Countries are very Rocky and Mountainous and yet those places doe abound with many other rich blessings by meanes of the peoples good industrie there and so by reason thereof the people in all those parts from the Coast of Biskay vnto Italy and also the most parts of France Gascoyne Brittaine Normandy and Picardy are by the New-found-land fish greatly relieued which fish is in all those parts in great request and steeds them greatly and doth sell very well there most commonly and so likewise in England great abundance thereof is spent which being well considered I know no reason to the contrary but that the Subiects of all your Maiesties Kingdomes should be most willing to further that Plantation and shew their good industry to clense Land there for Corne and Woade and plant diuers kindes of fruites which questionlesse will also proue very well there and then will it be to all your Maiesties Kingdomes such a nurcery to get wealth and increase and maintaine Shipping and beget seruiceable Sea-men as great Brittaine had neuer the like With these good blessings which are before recited being followed by industrious spirits there is a great hope of a plentifull haruest vnto your Maiestie and Kingdomes thereby God send good Seeds-men and Planters to set it forward as I trust in God it will haue seeing it hath already had many right Honourable and worthy Fathers to commend it And although that sithence I presumed to write this Discourse I haue been often dishartened from proceeding herein Yet when I did remember Columbus his good indeuours that first and patient Discouerer of the West Indies whom if God had not hartened him on with a worthy minde and a bosome armed for all the stormes of crosse fortunes he had neuer finished that Honourable attempt for finding such an happy businesse out the which Discouery of his hath euer since filled the Spanish Cofers with gold and siluer and made that Nation Lords of the greatest riches vnder the Sunne and although that attempt of his was held at first impossible to to come any good effect Columbus laught at by some yet euer sithēce by his attempt I may say that Spaine hath had frō thence to helpe to furnish other Christian Kingdomes with gold siluer and diuers other great riches and also now to that Country so discouered those commodities that great Brittaine may yeerely well spare and other Countries also are the better vented and so likewise may the New-found-land and the parts of America neere thereunto proue beneficiall for diuers trades in little time These good motiues considered what great good comes vnto Christian Kingdomes by Forraine Plantations and what infinite wealth is yeerely brought from the West Indies into Spaine as I haue there seene landed doe put me in great hope that if there bee an orderly Plantation settled in New-found-land the trade to that Countrey by your Maiesties Subiects and other places thereby may yeerely be so beneficiall to your Maiestie and your Highnes other Kingdomes as the West Indies are now yeerely worth to the King of Spaine Now hauing thus commended the Countrey of New-found-land in my opinion it ought not to bee one of the least motiues whereby to further this Plantation the setting of some better order and gouernement amongst the Fishermen and all others of our Nation that yeerely trade there then nowe there is so that there may be a reformation of such abuses as are there yerely committed wherein it is well knowne that I haue already vsed my best endeuors in the yeere 1615. at which time I had a Commission with me for that purpose vnder the broade Seale of the Admiralty and did then therewith set forth to follow that seruice from the Port of Exceter in the County of Deuon on the 11. day of May 1615. in a Barke victualled and manned with 11. men and boyes at my owne charge and I did then arriue at the Coast of New-found-land