NEW-ENGLANDS
PLANTATION.
OR,
A SHORT AND TRVE
DESCRIPTION OF THE
COMMODITIES AND
DISCOMMODITIES
of that Countrey.
Written by a reuerend Diuine now
there resident.
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LONDON,
Printed by _T. C._ and _R. C._ for _Michael Sparke_,
dwelling at the Signe of the _Blew Bible_ in
_Greene Arbor_ in the little _Old Bailey_.
1630.
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To the Reader.
_Reader, doe not disdaine to read this Relation; and looke not here
to haue a large Gate and no building within; a full-stuffed Title
with no matter in the Booke: But here reade the truth, and that
thou shalt find without any frothy bumbasted words, or any quaint
new-deuised additions, onely as it was written (not intended for the
Presse) by a reuerend Diuine now there living, who onely sent it to
some Friends here, which were desirous of his Relations; which is an
Epitomy of their proceedings in the Plantation. And for thy part if
thou meanest to be no Planter nor Venturer, doe but lend thy good
Prayers for the furthrance of it. And so I rest a well-wisher to all
the good designes both of them which are gone, and of them that are
to goe._