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err. For upon every invention of value we erect a statue 

 to the inventor, and give him a liberal and honourable 

 reward. These statues are some of brass, some of 

 marble and touchstone, some of cedar and other special 

 woods gilt and adorned ; some of iron, some of silver, 

 some of gold. 



We have certain hymns and services, which we say 

 daily, of laud and thanks to God for His marvellous 

 works. And forms of prayer, imploring His aid and 

 blessing for the illumination of our labours, and the 

 turning of them into good and holy uses. 



Lastly, we have circuits or visits, of divers principal 

 cities of the kingdom ; where, as it cometh to pass, 

 we do publish such new profitable inventions as we 

 think good. And we do also declare natural divinations 

 of diseases, plagues, swarms of hurtful creatures, scarcity, 

 tempests, earthquakes, great inundations, comets, tem 

 perature of the year, and divers other things ; and we 

 give counsel thereupon, what the people shall do for 

 the prevention and remedy of them. 



And when he had said this he stood up ; and I, as 

 I had been taught, knelt down ; and he laid his right 

 hand upon my head, and said, God bless thee, my son, 

 and God bless this relation which I have made. I give 

 thee leave to publish it, for the good of other nations ; 

 for we here are in God s bosom, a land unknown. And 

 so he left me ; having assigned a value of about two 

 thousand ducats for a bounty to me and my fellows. 

 For they give great largesses, where they come, upoo 

 all occasions. 



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