marke of Honor to her Faith, to have converted Nations, and an obloquie
cast upon us, that we, having the better Vine, should have worse
dressers and husbanders of it?....
APPENDIX.--To render a more particular satisfaction and account....
And to avoyde both the scandall and peril of accepting idle and wicked
persons; such as shame or fear compels into this action (and such as
are the weedes and ranknesse of this land; who, being the surfet of
an able, healthy, and composed body must needes be the poison of one
so tender, feeble, and as yet unformed); And to divulge and declare
to all men, what kinde of persons, as well for their religion and
conversations, as Faculties, Arts and Trades, we propose to accept
of:--We have thought it convenient to pronounce that for the first
provision, we will receive no man that cannot bring or render some good
testimony of his religion to God, and civil manners and behaviour to
his neighbor with whom he hath lived; And for the second, we have set
downe in a Table annexed, the proportion, and number we will entertaine
in every necessary Arte, upon proofe and assurance that every man shall
be able to performe that which he doth undertake, whereby such as are
requisite to us may have knowledge and preparation to offer themselves.
And we shall be ready to give honest entertainment and content, and to
recompence with extraordinary reward, every fit and industrious person
respectively _to his Paines and quality_.
_The Table_ of such as are required to This _Plantation_.
_Foure honest and learned Ministers._
2. Salt-makers.
6. Coopers.
2. Surgeons.
2. Coller-makers for draught.
2. Druggists.
2. Plow-wrights.
10. Iron men for the Furnace and Hammer.
4. Rope-makers.
6. Vine-dressers.
2. Armorers.
2. Presse-makers.
2. Gun-Founders.
2. Joyners.
6. Blacksmiths.
10. Sawyers.
2. Sope-ashe men.
6. Carpenters.
4. Pitch Boylers.
6. Ship-wrights.
2. Minerall men.
6. Gardeners.
2. Planters of Sugar-Cane.
2. Silke-dressers.
4. Turners.
2. Pearle Drillers.
2. Bakers.
4. Brickmakers.
2. Brewers.
2. Tile-makers.
2. Colliers.
6. Fowlers.
10. Fishermen.
4. Sturgeon dressers.
8. Marston's "Eastward Hoe"
Marston published this play in 1605 to caricature the intended
Virginian colonization. The name is a survival of the idea that
Columbus had found the East. In the extract, the mate, Sea Gull, at
a tavern meeting, is persuading some young blades to embark for the
venture.
* * * * *
_Sea Gull._ Come boyes, Virginia longs till we share the rest of her....
_Spendall._ Why, is she inhabited alreadie with any English?
_Sea Gull._ A whole countrie of English is there, men bread of those
that were left there in '79 [Ralegh's colony of '87 is meant]; they
have married with the Indians ... [who] are so in love with them that
all the treasure they have they lay at their feete.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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