so discontented, that few or none would go; so that the Patentees, who never a one of them had been there, seeing those Projects Would not prevail, have since not hindred any to go that would, that within these few last years, more have gone thither than ever. * * * * * {MN-1} _Considerations about the loss of time._ {MN-2} _The effect of negardliness._ {MN} Now this Year 1629, a great company of People of good Rank, Zeal, Means, and Quality, have made a great Stock, and with six good Ships in the Months of April and May, they set Sail from _Thames,_ for the Bay of the _Massachusets,_ otherwise called _Charles's_ River; _viz._ the _George Bonaventure,_ of twenty pieces of Ordnance, the _Talbot_ nineteen, the _Lions-whelp_ eight, the _May-flower_ fourteen, the _Four Sisters_ fourteen, the _Pilgrim_ four, with three hundred and fifty Men, Women, and Children; also an hundred and fifteen head of Cattel, as Horse, Mares, and neat Beast; one and forty Goats, some Conies, with all Provision for Houshold and Apparel; six pieces of great Ordnance for a Fort, with Muskets, Pikes, Corselets, Drums, Colours, with all Provision necessary for a Plantation, for the good of Man; other Particulars I understand of no more, than is writ in the general History of those Countries. * * * * * {MN} _A new Plantation_ 1629. But you are to understand, that the noble Lord chief Justice _Popham,_ Judge _Doderege;_ the Right Honourable Earls of _Pembroke, Southampton, Salisbury,_ and the rest, as I take it, they did all think, as I and them went with me, did; That had those two Countries been planted, as it was intended, that no other Nation should complant betwixt us. If ever the King of _Spain_ and we should fall foul, those Countries being so capable of all Materials for shipping, by this might have been Owners of a good Fleet of Ships, and to have relieved a whole Navy from _England_ upon occasion; yea, and to have furnished _England_ with the most Easterly Commodities; and now since, seeing how conveniently the _Summer Isles_ fell to our shares, so near the _West-Indies,_ we might with much more facility than the _Dutch_ Men have invaded the _West-Indies,_ that doth now put in practice, what so long hath been advised on, by many an honest _English_ States-man.