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therefore why we jhould Jit at borne, I fhaU now give you an account by it 

 Jeff 1 Jnd it will dra"^ nearer, togiVeyoufatisfaBion, to your principal 

 Queftion. 



There reigned in this Ijlahd, about iqqo years ago , dKing, 

 whofe memory of ail others we mojl adore ; Not fuperftitiou fly % but 

 as a Divine Inftrument, though a Mortal Man', his Name was Sa- 

 iompna : Jnd we efleem him as the Law-giVer of our Ration. This 

 King had a large heart, infcrutMe for good; and was wholly bent to 

 make his J^jngdomr and People Happy. He therefore taking into con- 

 sideration , how fufficient and fubflantive this Land "teas, to maintain it 

 /elf without any ayd (at all) of the Foreiner; (Being 5600 Mtte 

 in Circuit , and of rare Fertility of Soyl , in thegreatejl part there- 

 of $ Jnd finding al/o the Shipping of this Country mought be plen- 

 tifully fet on "Stork , both by Fifhing, and by Tranfportations from 

 Port to Tort:) and like*toife by Sayling unto fome fmall Iflands that 

 are not fane from us , and are under the Cro^n and Laws of this 

 State ; Jnd recalling into his Memory , the happy and flourishing 

 Eflate , wherein this Land then was g So as it mought be a thou] and 

 waies altered to the "fcorfe, but fcarce any one way to the better ; 

 thought nothing "banted to his Noble and Heroical Intentions, but on- 

 ly {as far re as Humane forejight mought reach) to give perpetuity to 

 that • "tohich was in his time fo happily eftablijhed^ therefore amongfl 

 his other Fundamental La^s of this ^ingdome , he did ordain , the 

 Inter diBs and Prohibitions , Tbhicb "we have touching Entrance of 

 Strangers ; "tikich at that time ( thmgh it was after the Calamity of 

 America ) was frequent ; Doubting Novelties and Commixture of 

 Manners. It is true, the Like LaH>, againfl the admiffion of Strangers 

 without Licence, is an antknt haft>,in the IQngdome of China, and 

 yet continued in ufe. But there it is a poor thing- J nd hath made them 

 a curious , ignorat, fear full foolifh Nation* But our Law-giver 

 made hs Lato of anither temper. For firfl,he hath preferVed all 

 points of Humanity, in taking Order^ and making Provifionfor the (2^e 

 lief of Strangers dislreffed^ thereof you haVe ta[led % At which Speech 

 (as icafon was) we a!l rofe up, and bowed our feives. He went 

 on. 'That King al/o (tdl de firing to joyn Humanity and Policy toge- 

 ther . J nd thinking it againjl Humanity, to detem Strangers here 

 aga'mjl their Wills j and againU Policy 9 that M?ey jhould return^ and 

 difcoVer their knowledge of this Eslate , hee took this Courfe ; Hf 

 did ordain , that of the Strangers a that jhould be permitted to Land_ 

 as many {at a'l times) might depart as would', But as maw 

 as would flay , jhould have <very good Conditions 7 and Means to live^ 



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