| Author | Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650.
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| Title | A plaine description of the Barmvdas, now called Sommer Ilands. With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609 by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are truly set forth the commodities and profits of that rich, pleasant and healthfull covntrie. With an addition, or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable matters concerning those ilands since then experienced, lately sent from thence by one of the colonie now there resident ... London, Printed by W. Stansby, for W. Welby, 1613.
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| Published | [Washington, W. Q. Force, 1844]
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| Description | 24 p. 24 cm.
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| Series | In Force, Peter. Tracts ... Washington, 1836-46. v. 3, no. 3
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| General Note | "The epistle dedicatorie" (p. 3-7) signed "your seruant in Christ Iesus. W. C.," is ascribed by Neill (Hist. of the Virginia company of London, 1869, p. 54) and by Brown (Genesis of the U. S., 1890, v. 2, p. 621) to Rev. Wm. Crashaw. Sabin, however, ascribes it to "Castell?"
"A discovery of the Barmvdas (p. [9]-15) is a reprint, without acknowledgment, of Jourdain's work first published in 1610.
"An additon [etc.]" by one of the colonists who went out with Gov. Moore in 1612: p. [17]-22.
"A copie of the articles which Master R. More, gouernour deputie of the Sommer Ilands, propounded to the companie that were there with him ... anno 1612": p. [23]-24.
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| Subjects | Bermuda Islands.
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| Other Authors | Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.
Castell, William, d. 1645.
More, Richard, fl. 1612.
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| LC Card Number | 04-27036//r |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 187 F697 v.3, no.3
mq143046: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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