Some of y^e adventurers have sent you hearwith all some directions for your furtherance in y^e co[=m]one bussines, who are like those S^t. James speaks of, y^t bid their brother eat, and warme him, but give him nothing; so they bid you make salt, and uphold y^e plantation, but send you no means wherwithall to doe it, &c. By _y^e next_ we purpose _to send more people on our owne accounte_, and _to take a patente_; that if your peopl should be as unhumane as some of y^e adventurers, not to admite us to dwell with them, which were extreme barbarisme, and which will never enter into my head to thinke you have any shuch Pickerings amongst you. Yet to satisfie our passengers I must of force doe it; and for some other reasons not necessary to be writen, &c. I find y^e generall so backward, and your freinds at Leyden so could, that I fear you must stand on your leggs, and trust (as they say) to God and your selves. Subscribed, your loving freind, THO: WESTON. Jan: 12. 1621. Sundry other things I pass over, being tedious & impertinent. All this was but could comfort to fill their hungrie bellies, and a slender performance of his former late promiss; and as litle did it either fill or warme them, as those y^e Apostle James spake of, by him before mentioned. And well might it make them remember what y^e psalmist saith, Psa. 118. 8. _It is better to trust in the Lord, then to have confidence in man._ And Psa. 146. _Put not you trust in princes_ (much less in y^e marchants) _nor in y^e sone of man, for ther is no help in them._ v. 5. _Blesed is he that hath y^e God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in y^e Lord his God._ And as they were now fayled of suply by him and others in this their greatest neede and wants, which was caused by him and y^e rest, who put so great a company of men upon them, as y^e former company were, without any food, and came at shuch a time as they must live almost a whole year before any could [74] be raised, excepte they had sente some; so, upon y^e pointe they never had any supply of vitales more afterwards (but what the Lord gave them otherwise); for all y^e company sent at any time was allways too short for those people y^t came with it. Ther came allso _by y^e same ship_ other leters, but of later date, one from M^r. Weston, an other from a parte of y^e adventurers, as foloweth.