item: #1 of 5
          id: A10725
      author: Rich, Richard, fl. 1610.
       title: Nevves from Virginia The lost flocke triumphant. With the happy arriuall of that famous and worthy knight Sr. Thomas Gates: and the well reputed & valiant captaine Mr. Christopher Newporte, and others, into England. With the maner of their distresse in the Iland of Deuils (otherwise called Bermoothawes) where they remayned 42. weekes, & builded two pynaces, in which they returned into Virginia. By R. Rich, Gent. one of the voyage.
        date: 1610
       words: 2427
      flesch: 75
     summary: A discreet counsell he creates , of men of worthy fame : That noble Gates leiftenant was the Admirall had to name . Where they vnto their labour fall , as men that meane to thriue : Let 's pray that heauen may blesse them all and keep them long aliue .
    keywords: eebo; english; haue; men; tcp; text; virginia
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: A25505
      author: Somers Islands Company.
       title: The answer of the Bermuda Company to the matters complained of in the petition of Mr. Perient Trott humbly offered to the consideration of the honourable the knights, citezens and burgisses assembled in Parliament.
        date: 1677
       words: 1447
      flesch: 61
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: company; islands; tcp; text
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: A33345
      author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
       title: A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...
        date: 1670
       words: 63613
      flesch: 79
     summary: A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ... Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 1670 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 864:24) A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ... Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 85
    keywords: bay; beasts; birds; black; body; colour; come; corn; country; cut; day; drink; end; england; english; fire; fish; flesh; foot; fruit; good; green; ground; grow; hair; half; hath; head; houses; idem; island; leaves; like; man; meat; men; miles; new; night; pil; place; plenty; red; river; sea; set; skins; small; sorts; stone; sugar; sun; time; town; trees; unto; use; virginia; water; whereof; white; women; wood; work; year; yellow
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: A41380
      author: Golding, William, 17th cent.
       title: Servants on horse-back, or, A free-people bestrided in their persons and liberties, by worthlesse men being a representation of the dejected state of the inhabitants of Summer Islands : containing short illustrations upon a petition presented to the High Court of Parliament for redresse / published by Will. Golding ...
        date: 1648
       words: 15815
      flesch: 57
     summary: But this is too low a style for them , therefore ( by their Speaker ) they are called a Parliament , and by the Governour summoned downe under the name of Burgesses , that under this pretence , without respect to the Parliament of England or Company under whom they stand , they might exercise an independent power over the Congregation . The Magistrates , under the odium of Independents ( though standing by power of Parliament and Company ) are ipso facto discharged of their place , and others chosen by the Governour and his councell .
    keywords: assembly; authority; captaine; company; congregation; court; golding; governour; hath; inhabitants; islands; liberty; order; parliament; people; persons; petition; power; ship; summer; tobacco
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: A91187
      author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
       title: A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.
        date: 1645
       words: 48991
      flesch: 45
     summary: But since their Session , the case is quite altered , nothing but Iesuiticall and Machivillian pollicy hath bin on foote , thousands of Petitions of poore Widdowes , Orphanes and all manner of distressed oppressed persons , who cry daiely and cannot be heard ; and these fat Preists can have Ordinance upon Ordinance for their ends ; they can have the sweat of other mens browes confirmed upon them by an Ordinance , whiles others e cannot have their just requests , for their owne rights Answered : though their Wives and Children perish ; our f Presbyterians wives must go like Ladyes , with their silke & Taffety , some with their fanns and silver watches forsooth hunging by their girdles , to please the pretty sweet faced , lovely Mopphet withall pretty things , t is pitty there 's not an Ordinance all this while , for them to weare Rattle● ; Consider this with your selves , & for what your estates and blood have beene engaged , The liberties of the subject , and the Protestant Religion , now how much after this vast expence , this sea of blood , of the subjects Liberties , have you attain'd ? even thus much , He that shall open his mouth freely for the Vindication of your Native Liberties , cannot doe it without the hazard of his own , yea of his life ; I know that the Priests thirst after my blood , but I call the God of heaven to witnesse , would it quench their thirst , and be a ransome for our posterity , I would freely offer it to the Common good● and as for the P●●testant Religion hath it not beene lock'd up in the breasts , of the Assembly ? hath not your faith beene pin'd upon their sleeve ? your estates spent , and your blood shed for the result of their mindes , right or wrong , and so have fough● for you know not what ? ●o that if this Libeller were not past all shame , he might have blush● to Print and ●●print so notorious a falshood , without retractation .
    keywords: answer; assembly; authority; children; christ; church; churches; clergy; conscience; covenant; discipline; divines; doe; ecclesiasticall; england; god; gods; good; government; great; hath; holy; independents; kingdome; lord; man; martin; master; ministers; new; ordinance; owne; pag; parliament; party; people; persecution; power; present; proceedings; religion; reverend; set; sir; spirit; state; synod; things; time; truth; tythes; way; word; yea; ● ●
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