Cap. 1. The Canbbyv Iflanck 16$ 



for the better fetlement of it : Of thefe we fti^ll not think it 

 befides our defign to infert here fome few of the principal Arti- 

 cles, to the end the memory of them may be preciouily pre- 

 ferv'd for the inftru&ion of pofterity. 



In the firft place, taking it into his confederation, that by 

 peace and concord fmall things come to be great, and that di- 

 vifion diffracts and difperfes the greateft, he ordered that all 

 the Inhabitants of the Ifland who werefubjeef to his jurifdi&i- 

 on mould maintain a perfect union among themfelves , and 

 that he prels'd and recommended to them upon all occafions 

 as the Pillar of their little State, and the facred Channel through 

 which they were to expect the bleffings both of Heaven and 

 Earth abundantly to flow upon them : And whereas it is impof- 

 lible that in mutual converfation there mould not happen many 

 things which might oftentimes offer fome violence to that ami- 

 cable correfpondence, if fbme prefent provifion be not made 

 to the contrary, he dented that fuch differences might be with 

 the lboneft either decided or fmother'd , and all be recon- 

 cile with meekoefs, and that if poffible before the letting of 

 the Sun. 



Another command of his was,that his people fhould be faith- 

 ful to their truft, and free, andfincere in all their affairs 5 ob- 

 liging and charitable towards their Neighbours, and as religi- 

 ous and punctual in the obfervance of the promifes they had 

 made, as if they had been put into writing, and feal'd and de- 

 liverd before witneffes, or Publick Notaries. 



And that their being continually employ'd about their Plan- 

 tations might not caufe them to forget the bufinefs of War, 

 and out of a diftruft they would degenerate in point of cou- 

 rage, through a long and undifturbed quiet 5 and that if occa- 

 fion fhould require they might be able to handle their Arms, 

 and make ufe of them with dexterity, he appointed certain 

 days for the exercifing of them, that they might thereby be 

 minded of the Rules of Military Difcipline, and order'd, that 

 though all profefs'd the cultivation of the earth, yet that they 

 fhould have the generous looks and demeanors of Souldiers,and 

 that they fhould at all times have about them the Badges and 

 Liveries of that kind of Life, and fo never befeen out of their 

 Quartern without Fire-arms, or at leaft a Sword. 



But if he requir'd them to be thus qualifi'd, to the end that 

 when occafion ferv'd they might make their enemies fenfible 

 of their valour and courage } he on the other fide oblig'd them 

 to be mild and courteous one towards another, and that the 

 ftronger fhould not take their advantages of the weaker. 

 Thence it came that he made this commendable order, which is 

 ftill in force in all thofe Iflands j to wit, that Matters fhould 

 not take Servants for any longer term then three years, during 

 which time they fhould be obligd to treat them with all gentle- 



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