how suddenly to raise their fortunes. Peruse the Table, and you shall finde the way plainely layd downe. By William Bvllock, Gent. 19 April, 1649. Imprimatur,
Hen: Whaley.
London: Printed by
John Hammond, and are to be sold at his house over-against S. Andrews Church in
Holborne,
1649.
F229 .B93
First Edition. 4to. 40 leaves, the last a blank.
Sabin 9145.
STC B5428.
Church 490.
John Carter Brown II, 665.
Swem 662.
Clayton-Torrence 571.
Baer 29.
Arents 235.
William Bullock, fl. 1649, prefaced this work, a guide for prospective settlers in Virginia, by several introductory letters, of which the
first was addressed “To the Right Honourable, the Earle of Arundel and Surrey, and the Lord Baltamore.”
The letter “To his much honored Friends, the Knights and Gentlemen that importuned this Worke” begins: “Had you given me more
time, I should have been larger in your satisfaction, but this is what six nights could produce, which time you know is all
I had . . .”
William Bullock seems never to have visited Virginia, though he owned property in the colony. He was “among the first to emphasize
in a published work the economic disadvantages which affected Virginia as a result of the colonists’ concentration upon tobacco.”
The tract is reprinted in the third volume of the Force Tracts.
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3.
Orders and Constitvtions, partly collected out of his Maiesties Letters Patents; and partly by authority, and in vertue of
the said Letters Patents: Ordained upon mature deliberation, by the Gouernour and Company of the City of London, for the Plantation
of the Svmmer-Ilands: for the better gouerning of the actions and affaires of the said Company and Plantation. 6. Febr. 1621.
At
London: Imprinted by
Felix Kyngston,
1622.
F1636 .B51
First Edition. 4to. 44 leaves, printer’s woodcut device on the title, and a coat of arms on the verso of the leaf.
STC 1905.
Sabin 57499.
H. V. Jones, page 85.
Not in Church.
The last paragraph is headed
Land in Virginia and begins: Whereas the Company for
Virginia, in consideration of the great defect of the quantity of Land in the
Summer-Ilands, conceiued to haue been at the time of the sale thereof to this Company, and to make recompence for the same, haue ordered
in one of their great and generall Courts, that there shall bee granted by them, and vnder their Legall Seale, a large proportion
of Land in
Virginia, to be and continue to the Company of the said
Summer-Ilands, and the members thereof for euer, for the better support of the said Company, and of the Inhabitants of the said Ilands
. . .
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4. [WHITE,
John.]
The Planters Plea. Or the Grovnds of Plantations examined, and vsuall Objections answered. Together with a manifestation of
the causes mooving such as have lately undertaken a Plantation in Nevv-England: For the satisfaction of those that question
the lawfulnesse of the Action . . .
London: Printed by
William Iones,
1630.
F67 .W57
First Edition. Sm 4to. 44 leaves.
Halkett and Laing IV, 359.
Sabin 103396.
Church 418.
STC 25399.
John White, 1575-1648, called the Patriarch of Dorchester (England), interested himself about 1624 in sending out a colony of Dorset
men to settle in Massachusetts, and undertook to procure them a charter and to raise money. It was through his efforts that
the Massachusetts Company, with Sir Richard Saltonstall as the chief shareholder, was formed. His
Planters Plea, anonymously issued in 1630, contains the earliest trustworthy information on the founding of the colony. It was formerly
erroneously attributed to the Rev. John Cotton. It was originally ascribed to White on the authority of Increase Mather. This
tract has been several times reprinted, and is in the second volume of the Force Tracts.
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