... Two things are especially required herein, _people_ to make the plantation, and _money_ to furnish our present provisions and shippings now in hand: For the first, wee neede not doubt, our land abounding with swarmes of idle persons, which having no meanes of labour to releeve their misery, doe likewise swarme in lewd and naughtie practises, so that if we seeke not some waies for their forreine employment, wee must provide shortly more prisons and corrections for their bad conditions, for it fares with populous common weales as with plants and trees that bee too frolicke, which not able to sustaine and feede their multitude of branches, doe admit an engrafting of their buds and sciences into some other soile, accounting it a benefite for preservation of their kind, and a disburdening their stocke of those superfluous twigs that suck away their nourishment. 7. Statement of the Virginia Company, 1609 Brown's _Genesis of the United States_, I, 377 ff. This is one of the pamphlets put forth by the Company to stimulate stock subscription and emigration. As to the motives set forth in it, and in Nos. 2-6 above, cf. _American History and Government_, # 17. _A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purposes and Ends of the Plantation in Virginia. By Authority of the Governor and Councillors, December 14, 1609._[4] ... If all these be yet too weake to confirm the doubtfull, or awake the drousie, then let us come nearer, and arise from their _reasons_ and _affections_ to their _soules_ and _consciences_: remember that what was at first but of _conveniency_, and for _Honour_ is now become a case of _necessity_ and _piety_: let them consider, that they have promised to adventure and not performed it; that they have encouraged and exposed many of _Honorable_ birth, and which is of more consequence 600 of our _Bretheren_ by our common mother the _Church_, Christians of one _Faith_ and one _Baptisme_, to a miserable and inevitable death. Let not any man flatter himself, that it concernes not him, for he that forsakes whome he may safely releeve, is as guilty of his death as he that can swim, and forsakes himself by refusing, is of his owne. Let every man look inward, and disperse that cloud of avarice, which darkeneth his spiritual sight and he will finde there that when he shall appeare before the _Tribunall of Heaven_, it shall be questioned him what he hath done? Hath he fed and clothed the hungry and naked? It shall be required, what he hath done for the advancement of that Gospell which hath saved him; and for the releefe of his makers Image, whome he was bound to save: O let there be a vertuous _emulation_ betweene us and the _Church_ of _Rome_, in her owne _Glory_, and _Treasury of Good Workes_! And let us turn all our contentions upon the common enemy of the _Name_ of CHRIST. How farre hath _she_ sent out her _Apostles_ and thorough how _glorious dangers_? How is it become a