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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENGLISH COLONIE IN
Virginia since their first beginning from England in the yeare of our Lord 1606, till this present 1612, with all their accidents that befell them in their Journies and Discoveries.
Also the Salvages discourses, orations and relations of the Bordering neighbours, and how they became subject to the English.
Unfoldinge ven the fundamentall causes from whence have sprang so many miseries to the undertakers, and scandels to the businesses taken faithfully as they were written out of the writings of Thomas Studley the first provant maister, Anas Todkill, Walter Russell Doctor of Phisicke, Nathaniel Powell, William Phettyplace, Richard Wiggin, Thomas Abbay, Tho: Hope, Rich: Polts and the labours of divers other diligent observers, that were residents in Virginia.
And perused and conformed by diverse now resident in England that were actors in this busines.
By W.S.
At OXFORD,
Printed by Joseph Barnes. 1613.
[Although the Proceedings constitutes the second part of the Map of Virginia, it was published as an
independent volume, with its own title page (which makes no reference to the Map of Virginia) and its own
address "To the Reader." Only at the very end does W[illiam] S[ymonds]'s envoi refer to Capt. John
Smith's active intervention in its preparation. Expanded to form Bk. III of Smith's Generall Historie in 1624,
the Proceedings was then reprinted, with many cuts, in Samuel Purchas's Pilgrimes, as chap. IV of bk. IX of
pt. II, with an abridged version of the original title page and, after the list of authors, due credit to Smith:
"and since enlarged out of the Writings of Captain John Smith, principall Agent and Patient in these
Virginian Occurrents, from the beginning of the Plantation 1606. till Anno 1610. somewhat abridged."
Purchas (Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes [London, 1625], IV, 1705) adds a marginal note
pertinent to the name of Richard Pot[s]: "I have many written Treatises lying by me, written by Captaine
Smith and others, some there, some here after [their] returne: but because these have alreadie seene the
light, and containe a full relation of Virginian affaires, I was loth to wearie the Reader with others of this
time."
For comments on the writers, see the editor's Introduction, above. "W. S." refers to the Reverend
William Symonds, M.A., later created D.D.; see the Biographical Directory. "Rich: Polts" is Richard Pots.
The editor is grateful to The Newberry Library, Chicago, for permission to reproduce this title page.]
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