The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-17

4 ORIGINAL Ll1TH v lNklN
ltIeII Rebels, serying Men sold for . term Of years,
Apprentices, Children Stolen, MAldenS Pressed, Fer.
sous Of Quality, and Others who went from Grtat
Blitaln 10 the American PlantAt Ons, lGOO-lIgO.
with their Age, the Localities where they formerly
Lived In the Mother County, the Names OF the
Ships In which they Embarked, and other Interest
log Particulars. From MSS. Preserved 10 inc stals
Paper Department OF Her Majesty'A Public Record
oHiee, England. Edited BY John Camden HOlten.
I Vol. Crown 4to. handsomely printed on superior pa.
per, made expressly for the purpose, aud bound 10
cloth, s. 90. few copies on large paper, slI on
This very curious and exhaustive col.
lection OF authentic original documents,
drawn from the State Paper Office OF Eng
land, will be found to throw what may be
called q magnetic light upon the early
social and political history OF this country.
The State Paper Office Of England, as is
well known, has only within a compare.
lively recent period been made available
for the study ofhistory. Under the super.
vision OF the Master Of the Rolls, its vast
and varied treasures have been systemat-
ica.ly worked up by such competent
scholars and annalists as Mr.. Brewer, Mr..
Turnbull, Mr.. Lemon, Mr.. Stevenson, and
others. The investigation and c~o-ordina.
ton OF these treasures is still going on,
and Is far still from being complete; but
not a year passes without great practical
results from this persistent labor, some
times in the development OF new truth,
sometimes in the correction OF hoary and
rheumatic error. To tho State Paper
Office and its documents we W pretty
nearly all that Is worth. having in Mr..
Froude's passionate and pamphleteering
History Of England. Mr.. John Camden
Hotten's researches among the State
Papers relating 10 America, as embodied
in the work which Is now offered TO the
public, will be found OF almost equal in
terest by English and b Amer;can readers.
Probably nothing except an impossible
series Of Photographic pictures, present.
ing to us the men and women who made
up England's annual contributions to the
New World during the Seventeenth Cen
fury, ''in their manner as they went"
could give us so much exact truth about
the planting Of these colonies as we may
gather by the dry light oil these official
descriptive lists.
They tell us, too, the story of England
during sthe most momentous; hundred
years with startling distinctness and
significance. The great outburst Of com.
mercial- adventure and maritime enter
prise, which under Elizabeth and James l.
sets the London merchants at work fitting
out colonial ventures to all parts OF the
Atlantic seaboard, and turned Captain
John Smith, from a soldier OF fortune in
the East, into a founder OF Empire in the
West, and sent Sir Walter Raleigh wan
dering with golden dreams aud an iron
will along the fair Virginian shores; the
fierce conflict between Puritanism and
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Crown, which has COMMUNICATED itself so
intensely, alike in the virtues and the
vices, the qualities and the defects OF the
New England character; the recklessness
and the riot OF the Restoration; the dark
and terrible judicial despotism Of Jetfreys
under the second James; the revival OF
speculative activity under the constitu-
tional rule OF William OF Orange; all these
successive phases OF England's public
and private life during the Seventeenth
Century found special and striking ex.
preston in the nature and extent OF the
English emigrants to America OF each sue
cessive period. They are all chronicled
here. The lists tell the story. ,Adven-
turers seeking the new Ell Dorado; exiles
seeking the new Jerusalem; spendthrifts
fleeing from the Fleet and the Marshalsea;
political captives doomed to a villainous
servitude, paupers elected by heartless
churchwardens; apprentices Of both sexes
sold by heartless masters beyond the four
seas, women from Bridewell shipped to
the plantations in exchange for tobacco;
helpless children put out OF the way by
scoundrelly relatives, or stolen by gangs
oil organized kidnappers-a strange won.
derful company pass through these pages,
TO build up in the West a realm mightier
than the England which sent them forth.
The genealogical interest OF this curious
collection will be greater, Of course, on
this than on the otherside OF the Atlantic.
In this way, it may be called an American
roll of Battle Abbey; and II the revolu.
tons which 1t has to make are not always
very flattering to the family pride OF those
who will consult it, they may at least
console themselves with the reflection that
the roll Of Battle Abbey Is not exactly the
muster.roll OF a noble army OF saints and
apostles. The host OF Norman William
wassrecruited from the bankrupt butchers
and bakers and the runaway thieves Of
Flanders and France, as well as from the
ambitious gentlemen and men.at-arms Of
Normandy and Poitou. At all events, no
American Of English descent, who cares TO
know what his ancestors were, as well us
who they were, can feel any certainty on
the point until he has consulted these lists.
We have had a great deal OF genealogical
study in this country OF late years, but It
has necessarily been Of a purely nomina.
tive sort. In the work now before us a
descriptive study OF our ioreiathers is first
made somewhat authenticity possible.
A limited edition only has been printed,
and intending purchasers should send in
their names at once to j. W. Bouton, 706
Broadway, New York.