A Source Book in American History to 1787 - Unknown

Foure honest and learned Ministers.
2. Salt-makers.
6. Coopers.
2. Surgeons.
2. Coller-makers for draught.
2. Druggists.
2. Plow-wrights.
10. Iron men for the Furnace and Hammer.
4. Rope-makers.
6. Vine-dressers.
2. Armorers.
2. Presse-makers.
2. Gun-Founders.
2. Joyners.
6. Blacksmiths.
10. Sawyers.
2. Sope-ashe men.
6. Carpenters.
4. Pitch Boylers.
6. Ship-wrights.
2. Minerall men.
6. Gardeners.
2. Planters of Sugar-Cane.
2. Silke-dressers.
4. Turners.
2. Pearle Drillers.
2. Bakers.
4. Brickmakers.
2. Brewers.
2. Tile-makers.
2. Colliers.
6. Fowlers.
10. Fishermen.
4. Sturgeon dressers.

8. Marston's "Eastward Hoe"

Marston published this play in 1605 to caricature the intended Virginian colonization. The name is a survival of the idea that Columbus had found the East. In the extract, the mate, Sea Gull, at a tavern meeting, is persuading some young blades to embark for the venture.

Sea Gull. Come boyes, Virginia longs till we share the rest of her....

Spendall. Why, is she inhabited alreadie with any English?

Sea Gull. A whole countrie of English is there, men bread of those that were left there in '79 [Ralegh's colony of '87 is meant]; they have married with the Indians ... [who] are so in love with them that all the treasure they have they lay at their feete.

Scape Thrift. But is there such treasure there, Captaine ...?

Sea Gull. I tell thee, golde is more plentifull there then copper is with us; and for as much redde copper as I can bring, Ile have thrise the waight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping pans ... are pure gould; and all the chaines with which they chaine up their streets are massie gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold; and for rubies and diamonds they goe forth on holydayes and gather 'em by the seashore to hang on their childrens coates, and sticke in their children's caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron-gilt brooches. ... Besides, there wee shall have no more law than consceince, and not too much of eyther.