ADVERTISEMENTS
For the unexperienced Planters of
New England, or any where.
OR
The Path-way to experience to erect a
PLANTATION.
With the yearely proceedings of this Country in Fishing
and Planting, since the yeare 1614. to the yeare 1630.
and their present estate.
Also how to vrevent the greatest inconviences, by their
proceedings in Virginia, and other Plantations,
by approved examples.
With the Countries Armes, a description of the Coast,
Harbours, Habitations, Land-markes, Latitude and
Longitude: with the Map, allowed by our Royall
King CHARLES.
Captaine John Smith, sometimes Governour of
VIRGINIA, and Admirall of NEW-ENGLAND.
LONDON,
Printed by JOHN HAVILAND, and are to be sold by
ROBERT MILBOURNE, at the Grey-hound
in Pauls Church-yard. 1631.
["Advertisements" here means "advice, information, admonitions." Below, "approved examples" are
those that have been tested or tried by experience. The "Countries Armes" refers to the heraldic device on
the next page.
The editor is grateful to The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, for permission to
reproduce this title page.]
[This unrecorded coat of arms was apparently intended by Smith to be the arms of New England. Note
Smith's reference on the title page to the "Countries Armes." Dr. Conrad Swan, York Herald of Arms,
believes that the arms were the "creation of someone other than the Kings of Arms" (letter to the editor,
May 5, 1972). The shield simply puts the Royal Stuart arms (see, for example, the top portion of the map
of New England for a depiction) in the upper half and adds symbolic waves on the bottom half. According
to Dr. Swan, the waves would probably have been blue with a silver background. The meaning of the Latin
motto is obscure. Literally it states: "A race unknown will be subject to me."
The editor is grateful to The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, for permission to
reproduce the coat of arms.]
