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CHAPTER I TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS, 1583-1763
Compiled by George Parker Winship and Maude E. C. Covell of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence.
The anonymous titles are entered first, in chronological order; the others alphabetically by the author's name. Separate editions and reprints are listed so far as found. Excerpts and condensed reprints are not included. See, also, Bibliography to Book I, Chapter II.
A True and Sincere declaration of the purpose and ends of the Plantation begun in Virginia. London, 1610.
A True declaration of the estate of the Colonie in Virginia, with a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise. London, 1610.
A Relation of the Successefull Beginnings of the Lord Baltemore's Plantation in Mary-land. Being an extract of certaine Letters written from thence, by some of the Adventurers to their friends in England. London, 1634. Albany, 1865, Mayer, Brantz, ed. [Sometimes attributed to Cornelius Calvert. Substantially the same as A briefe relation of the voyage unto Maryland by Andrew White.]
A Relation of Maryland; Together, With a Map of the Countrey, The Conditions of Plantation, His Majesties Charter to the Lord Baltemore, translated into English. London, 1635. New York, 1865, Hawks, F. L., ed. 1910, Hall, C. C, ed. In Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. [Apparently a revision and enlargement of A Relation of the successefull beginnings of the
