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    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

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    Release dateJan 1, 1971
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      A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Harriot

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Briefe and True Report of the New Found

      Land Of Virginia, 1590, by Thomas Hariot

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land Of Virginia, 1590

      Author: Thomas Hariot

      Release Date: July, 2003 [EBook #4247]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEFE REPORT ***

      Produced by Norman M. Wolcott and David Widger

      A BRIEFE AND TRUE REPORT OF THE NEW FOUND LAND OF VIRGINIA

      1590

      By Thomas Hariot

      The 1590 edition of de Brys in the Library of Congress

      [Redactor's note: This is an 8 bit version with accented characters. Italics have been bracketed with the single 'quote' character.]

              A Briefe and True Report —— by Thomas Hariot

                           A briefe and true report

                       of the new found land of Virginia,

                'of the commodities and of the nature and man

                ners of the naturall inhabitants: Discouered bÿ

                the English Colony there seated by' Sir Richard

                Greinuile Knight 'In the yeere 1585. Which rema

                =ined vnder the gouernment of twelue monethes,

                At the speciall charge and direction of the Honou=

                rable' SIR WALTER RALEIGH Knight, lord Warden

                of the stanneries Who therein hath beene fauoured

                        and authorised bÿ her' MAIESTIE

                         ':and her letters patents:

                       This fore booke Is made in English

                  By Thomas Hariot; seruant to the abouenamed

                 Sir' WALTER, 'a member of the Colonÿ, and there

                         imploÿed in discouering.'

                   CVM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO CÆS. MATIS SPECIALD

                               FRANCOFORTI AD MOENVM

                   TYPIS IOANNIS WECHELI, SVMTIBVS VERO THEODORI

                              DE BRY ANNO CD D XC.

                VENALES REPERIVNTVR IN OFFICINA SIGISMVNDI FEIRABENDII

                                    TO THE RIGHT

                                  WORTHIE AND HONOV-

                              RABLE, SIR VVALTER RALEGH,

                         KNIGHT, SENESCHAL OF THE DVCHIES OF

            Cornewall and Exeter, and L. Warden of the stannaries in Deuon

                     and Cornewall, T.B. wisheth true felicitie.

      'SIR, seeing that the parte of the Worlde, which is betwene the FLORIDA and the Cap BRETON nowe nammed VIRGINIA, to the honneur of yours most souueraine Layde and Queene ELIZABETZ, hath ben descouuerd by yours meanes. And great chardges. And that your Collonye hath been theer established to your great honnor and prayse, and noelesser proffit vnto the common welth: Yt ys good raison that euery man euertwe him selfe for to showe the benefit which they haue receue of yt. Theerfore, for my parte I haue been allwayes Desirous for to make yow knowe the good will that I haue to remayne still your most humble særuant. I haue thincke that I cold faynde noe better occasion to declare yt, then takinge the paines to cott in copper (the most diligent ye and well that wear in my possible to doe) the Figures which doe leuelye represent the forme and maner of the Inhabitants of the sane countrye with theirs ceremonies, sollemne feastes, and the manner and situation of their Townes of Villages. Addinge vnto euery figure a brief declaration of the same, to that ende that cuerye man cold the better vnderstand that which is in liuely represented. Moreouer I haue thincke that the aforesaid figures wear of greater commendation, If somme Histoire which traitinge of the commodites and fertillitye of the rapport which Thomas Hariot hath lattely sett foorth, and haue causse them booth togither to be printed for to dedicated vnto you, as a thiuge which by reigtte dooth allreadye apparteyne vnto you. Therfore doe I creaue that you will accept this little Booke, and take yt In goode partte. And desiring that fauor that you will receue me in the nomber of one of your most humble seruantz, besechinge the lord to blese and further you in all yours good doinges and actions, and allso to preserue, and keepe you allwayes in good helthe. And so I comitt you unto the almyhttie, from Franckfort the first of Apprill 1590.'

      'Your most humble seruant,'

      THEODORVS de BRY.

                                    TO THE ADVEN-

                                TVRERS, FAVORERS, AND

                               VVELVVILLERS OF THE EN-

                            TERPRISE FOR THE INHABITTING

                              and planting in VIRGINIA.

      SINCE the first vndertaking by Sir Walter Ralegh to deale in the action of discouering of that Countrey which is now called and known by the name of VIRGINIA; many voyages hauing bin thiter made at sundrie times to his great charge; as first in the yeere 1584. and afterwardes in the yeeres 1585. '1586'. and now of late this last yeare of '1587'. There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence. Especially of that discouery which

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