Foreword iii Preface v PART ONE Introduction: English Promotion and Settlement of the Americas 1

PART TWO The Documents 31 1. Richard Hakluyt (the elder), “Inducements to the Liking of the Voyage Intended towards Virginia in 40. and 42. Degrees” (1585) 33 2. Richard Hakluyt (the younger), “Discourse of Western Planting” (1584) 45 3. George Peckham, A True Reporte of the Late Discoveries . . . by . . . Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583) 62 4. Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590) 71 Illustration section: Selections from Theodor de Bry’s engravings of John White’s True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Parte of America Now Called Virginia (1585) 85 5. Sir Walter Ralegh, “Of the Voyage for Guiana” (1596?) 107 6. George Percy, “A Discourse of the Plantation of the Southern Colonie in Virginia” (1606-1607) 112 7. Anonymous, A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia (Issued by the Virginia Company) (1610) 127 8. John Winthrop, “Reasons to Be Considered for Justifying the Undertakers of the Intended Plantation in New England and for Encouraging Such Whose Hearts God Shall Move to Join with Them in It” (1629) 133 9. John Smith, A Description of New England (1616) and Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Any Where (1631) 140 10. William Wood, New England’s Prospect (1635) 149 APPENDICES Chronology of Exploration and Colonization in the Americas 169 Suggestions for Further Reading 172 Index 177