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 520 E. p. Cheymey and fleeing from justice, or seeking shelter came hither, hoping to be without fear of man's justice in a land where there was nothing, or but httle as yet, of the fear of God.' So Sir Thomas Dale describes those whom he took over with him in 1611 as " sutch disordered persons, so prophane, so riotous, so full of mutinie and treasonable intendments, as I am well to witness in a parcell of 300 which I brought with me, of which well may I say not many give testimonie beside their names that they are Christians, besides of sutch diseased and erased bodies ".^ Fortunately for both settlements we have reason to know that they contained also far better elements. There is the same tendency in both colonizations to introduce that compulsion in order to secure colonists to which men so readily turned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.' Eventually the colonization of Ireland and of the American colo- nies became rival movements. This opposition had been felt by some from an early period. In 1605 Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, wrote to the Earl of Salisbury of the absurd folly or wilful ignorance of those who run over the world in search of colonies in Virginia and Guiana whilst Ireland is lying waste and desolate.* Later, in speaking of the proposed colonization of the north of Ireland, he says, " My heart is so well affected unto it that I had rather labour with my hands in the plantation of Ulster than dance or play in that of Virginia."" At first the greater proximity of Ireland to Scotland and England was a point overwhelmingly in its favor ; and in the second and third decades of the century, while hundreds were going to America, Irish immigration might count thousands. But there came a time when this proximity was looked upon as a disadvantage, and those ernigrants who wanted to leave England at all wished to get entirely away from the mother-country. Puritans and Churchmen successively emigrated, but emigrated by preference to New England or Virginia, where the hostility of the dominant party in England had less effect than it might have in Ire- land. .Colonists for Ireland were never abundant. The plantations which were carried out just after that of Ulster, in the period from 161 5 to 1630, and which it was intended to establish on the mountain slopes of the southeast and in the forests and bogs along the Shan- non, had increasing difficulty in finding settlers." When Wentworth ' Rev. Andrew Stewart, in Hill, Summary Sketch, p. i8. 2 Sir Thomas Dale to Lord Salisbury, August 17, 1611, in Brown, Genesis of Ike United States, I. 508. 3 Brown, First Republic in America. 248, 296, 346, 375, etc. 5 Ibid., 160S-1610, p. 520. I" Bonn, Kolonisation in Irland, I. 353-357-
 * Cal. St. Papers, Ireland, 1603-1606, p. 326.