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ther hopes a littell differed, wheareof wee haue too good 

 experience by Ireland, \v ch being neere vs, a temperate & fertile 

 contrye, subiecte to our owne lawes and halfe sivill, the porttes 

 and many plases freindly inhabited, notw u 'standinge many of 

 good reputacion, became vndertakers there in the tyme of pease, 

 coulde not invite our people, neyther in any compotent numbers, 

 nor constantly in th r action. . . . 



The generall discouery beinge made, a particuler discouery is 

 to bee made, of the plase wheare o v nation should settle, yf 

 there bee hope eyther of mines or oth 1 ' good returne thatt may 

 draw one a secondinge of the action, w b is moste to bee 

 doubted ; for yf her Ma tl0 shall only countenaunce yt and 

 recommend yt to her marchanttes whoe may haue for incorragm* 

 the difficultie of the esterne trade & a gratious junction of the 

 trafficke of america to bee only reserued to the firste adventures, 

 yett when soe great a charge muste be firste issued as the 

 sendinge of a compotent nomber to inhabite, w th all necessaries 

 requisitt for new inhabitants, and victualles for a hole yearc for 

 them, & that th r retorne shall bringe home nothinge aboue the 

 ordinarye freght offish and a narration of the sighte of a cuntrey 

 and hope of better by the nexte adventure, yt is feared that the 

 ordinary wayes of traed, beinge lesse cheargeable, they will 

 content them selues & looke vpon the dangers and allteracions 

 a farr of, and eyther slowlye or not all giue second ; and wheare 

 yt is prepounded that o r poore of England, may be easly sent 

 theth r , by the shippes that goe to fishe yearely they beinge 

 deliuered at the porttes, w th victualles for a yeere, o r common 

 people of England are not riche, & doe almoste repine att those 

 most behouefull impositions w ch are layed vpon them, for 

 leveinge of souldiers yett those willinge subsidies and 

 payments they graunt to her Ma tie for juste reasons deputed in 

 open parliment, then wee muste remember whatt pore they are 

 thatt arre requisite to people a new conqueste, not the im- 

 potente . . . 



And this may well bee lookte for, thatt the inhabitants, will 

 giue vs noe better way then wee can forse, & will easly insulte 

 vpon o r weakenes yf they can find an advantage, besides wee 

 are to conseaue, thatt the frenche whoe haue pretenses, & haue 

 a secreat trafficke theth r , will repine resiste yf they can or 

 dare, all vnder the subiection of the spaniardes are declared 



