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A54990 A description of the province of New Albion and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely, and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : with a briefe of the charge of victuall, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master 50 l. per annum, or more in twelve trades, and at 10 l. charges onely a man. Plantagenet, Beauchamp.; Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent. 1648 (1648) Wing P2378; ESTC R10729 28,128 32

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Companion to the Emperour or King Comes Curarum Par extans Curis solo diademate dispar That in Chester Durham Lancaster and Pembroke were made Earl Palatines and County Palatines and in Ireland in Lemster Earl Strongbows Sir Hugh de Lacy in Meth to Sir Hugh de Lacy the younger in Vister That William Marshall marying Earl Strongbows daughter had by her five daughters So as the Province of Lemster descending to them it was divided into five Counties to each of them one County Palatine That Bracton the ancientest of Lawyers averres Earl Palatines have regall power in all things saving Liegance to the King Hugh Lupus by the Conquerour was made Earl Palatine of the County of Chester as free to the sword as the King to the Crown and the Palatine of Chester made Barons the Baron of Haulton the Baron of Malbanck the Baron Malpas the Baron of Kinderton and in Lancaster the Baron of Walton in Durham the Baron of Hilton and in Meth Magnates and Barons Baron de Streene Baron de Nuven Baron de Baltrim Baron de la Narrow Baron de Rheban in Kildare the Baron Idrone in Caterlogh the Baron of Burn-Church in Kilkenny Baron of Nevill in Wexford Baron of Loughmo in Tiperary Baron Misset and Baron Savage in Vlster That these Earles Palatines had Parliaments made tenures in Capite and grand Serjancy and the tenants sued out Licence of Alienations and all Writs and Pleas Officers Chancelours Judges and that none of the Kings Officers could enter there or that the Kings Writs neither at Law or Chancery did lie or run there and that the County Palatine was thereby absolutely severed from the Crowne That the County Palatine of Lancaster was created by that of Chester and to Chester was annexed his conquered small County of Flint in Wales and made besides the four above foure other Barons Vernon of Saybrook Hammond de Massi Baron of Durham and the Barons of Hawardin and Stockport and in other Antiquities Cornwall Baron of Burford in Shropshire That any Manors or Lands lying out of the County Palatine if held thereof and the pleas of the inhabitants there arising shall bee tried within the County Palatine Thomas and Hugh Count Palatines both and both Bishops pleaded and returned to the Kings Writs I am a Lord Royall here the Kings Writs doe not run here The eldest sisters son by descent after her mother was Earl Palatine of Pembroke And the Law Reports and Abridgements shew they made Knights and as Knights were to be impleaded Divers statutes shew Durham and the Earle Palatines Mints Durham pence yet extant The Earl Palatines had in their Counties Iura Regalia as the King had in his Palace c. In the Lord Lovels Case the name or title of a Baron is no name of dignity or addition 8 H. 6. 10. but Earl is parcell of his name and of the substance of his name and if it be left out of the Writ the Writ shall abate 39 E. 3. 35. the case of Gilbert Vmfrevill Earl of Angus and 14 E. 3. Brief 278. the case of Hugh de Audley Earle of Gloucester yet note Master Burlacy for not calling the Lord Mohun Lord but Mohun was committed to prison and note in a Star-chamber Bill the Lord Verulam his widow marrying Sir Iohn Vnderhill was called and charged as my Lady Vnderhill the late wife of Vicount Verulam and not being called Vicountesse the Bill was cast out and a Fine for dishonour imposed Now there be four other Lord Proprietors that have Palatine jurisdiction granted and Provinces in the West-India Isles Florida and Maryland and as free as the Bishop of Durham had but none have a speciall creation of an Earle Palatine but ours of New Albion nor have they the words with such Additions Titles Dignities and Priviledges as either Durham or any other had nor any speciall grant to coin money in that of Maryland speciall Resort or Soveraign Dominion which is a Court of Appeal as in the case of King E. the third and his son E. in Aquitany with free fishing and wood for houses and to set up fishing stages is reserved Else all the Lord Proprietors have all the like Royalties and Regalities and all these 11 H. 6. in a long Roll particularly expressed are confirmed by Parliament to the Bishop of Durham and so thereby to all the Lord Proprietors And all of them have a speciall clause to give to the well deserving inhabitants in those Provinces Titles Honour and Dignities so as they be not the same used in England Now though some question is made whether the other four Lord Proprietors can make Barons or any Knights in their Provinces because such Honours and Titles of Barons and Knights are used here but there is no question or doubt in the Province of New Albion our Lord being an Earle Palatine 16 years standing as free as Chester and Pembroke or Lacy OF Strongbow in Ireland by that second power according to the judged cases in Law and in Parliament may make Provinciall locall and fewdall Barons as the 19 above named and make Knight Batchelours though here used to have precedency as others have had heretofore though his intended order of Knights of the Conversion of Albion is more proper And for our Earle Palatines Honour and Peerage in Ireland and to make his Proxy in his absence in that House of Peers there with all suh Honor and Titles Precedency to him his Countesse and children in all places as an Irish Earl the speciall Decree and Clauses in the Charter doth fully warrant it All the Civilians Pleaders in the Court of Honour and two Serjeants of the Coife at Law nine in number have certified it and enrolled on record and is exemplified under the seal the Baronets of Nova Scotia being President for the like case And note both the King of France and this our King have made Barons and Knights Hollanders that have precedency there before other the subjects there But to answer an Objection of some not truly informed and mistaken conceiving that our Earle Palatine might in his Countrey onely and no where else have his Honour Title and Precedency I answer that our Soveraign Lord King Charles as Emperour of England under his Privy Signet signed with his Royall hand so granted and created him which alone had been sufficient as others have been made in Master Seldens Book Records and Presidents mentioned but being farther with speciall Clauses and Decree and speciall Creation so made and particularly granted that both by Tenure and Dependency and that this Province shall be of the Liegance of Ireland and all there born to be free Denizens thereof and under his Majesties Great Seal there is no doubt or question thereof For he is no Alien Earl made by an Alien King as Copply by the French King Duke Dudley and Count Arundell by the Emperour but by our own King the fountain of
eighteen Swedes who proclaiming a gold mine drew more to them and have gotten a great trade and now this last Summer fifteen Swedes and fifteene Dutch had a skirmish the Swedes pulled down a Dutch trading house and doe both undersell them and spoiled much their and English trading with the Indians both striving to please and side with the Indians both entertaining and refusing to return all English fugitives and servants The Swedes hiring out three of their souldiers to the Sasquehannock● have taught them the use of our arms and fights and marching with them into the Kings owne Colony of Virginia have caried thence the King of Pawtomeck prisoner and expelled his and eight other Indian Nations in Maryland civilized and subject to the English Crown Now if a Proclamation of open war be set out against the Dutch and Swedes for this their villany and all English forbid to trade victuall or relieve them they must both vanish especially if those bad English that live adhere and obey these Aliens in these his Majesties countries be warned of the statute of King Iames of famous memory in these words That all Subjects giving any obedience or acknowledgement to any forain Prince State Pope or Potentate within his Majesties Territories and Dominions in England or beyond the sea is a traitor and shall forfeit and suffer as a traitour And certainly all English and chiefly those of New England being ready in twenty four hours will joyn to expel them both to regain their own trade to get their seates and to be rid of the danger of armed gunning Indians CHAP. II. VVHereas that part of America or North Virginia lying about 39 degrees at Delaware Bay called the Province of new Albion is scituate in the best and same temper and as Italy between too cold Germany and too hot Barbary so this lying just midway betweene New England 200 miles North and Virginia 150 miles South where now are settled 800000 English and 140 ships in trade is freed from the extream cold and barrennesse of the one heat and aguish Marshes of the other is like Lumbardy and a rich fat soil plain and having 34 rivers on the main land 17 great Isles partaketh of the healthiest aire and most excellent commodities of Europe and replenished with the goodliest woods of Oaks and all Timber for ships and Masts Mulberries for silk sweet Cypresse Cedars Pines and Firres 4 sorts of Grapes for wine Raisins with the greatest variety of choice fruits fish fowl stored with all sons of corn yeelding 5 7 and 10 quarters an acre Silkgras salt good Mines and Diers ware 5 sorts of Deer Buffes and huge Elks to plow and work all bringing 3 young at once The Uplands covered many moneths with berries roots chestnuts walnuts Beech and Oak Mast to feed them Hogges and Turkeys 500 in a flock and having neer the Colony of Manteses 400000 acres of plain mead land and meer levell to be flowed and fludded by that river for corn rice rapes flax and hemp After 17 years trading and discovery there and triall made is begun to be planted and stored by the Governour and Company of New Albion consisting of forty four Lords Baronets Knights and Merchants who for the true informing of themselves their friends Adventurers and Partners by Residents and Traders there four severall years out of their Journall Books namely by Captaine Browne a Ship-master and Master Stafford his Mate and by Captain Claybourn 14 years there trading and Constantine his Indian there born and bred and by Master Robert Evelin 4 yeares there yet by eight of their hands subscribed and enrolled doe testifie this to be the true state of the Country of the Land and Delaware Bay or Charles River which is further witnessed by Captain Smith and other books of Virginia and by New Englands Prospect new Canaan Captain Powels Map and other descriptions of New England and Virginia Captain Brown Captain Clayborn Robert Evelin Stafford Constantine Stratton Thomas White Richard Buckham Christoph Thomas Edward Monmouth Tenis Palee Edward Rhodes Peter Rixford Master Evelins Letter Good Madam SIr Edmund our noble Governour and Lord Earl Palatine persisting still in his noble purpose to goe on with his plantation in Delaware or Charles river just midway between New England and Virginia where with my Unckle Young I severall years resided hath often informed himselfe both of me and Master S●rat●on as I perceive by the hands subscribed of Edward Monmouth Tenis Palce and as Master Buckham Master White and other Ship-masters and Saylors whose hands I know and it to be true that there lived and traded with me and is sufficiently instructed of the state of the country and people there and I should very gladly according to his desire have waited on you into Hamshire to have informed your Honour in person had not I next weeke been passing to Virginia But neverthelesse to satisfie you of the truth I thought good to write unto you my knowledge and first to describe you from the North side of Delaware unto Hudsons river in Sir Edmunds Patent called new Albion which lieth just between New England and Maryland and that Ocean sea I take it to be about 160 miles I finde some broken land Isles and Inlets and many small Isles at Egbay But going to Delaware Bay by Cape May which is 24 miles at most and is as I understand very well set out and printed in Captain Powels Map of New England done as is told mee by a draught I gave to M. Daniel the plot-maker which Sir Edmund saith you have at home on that North side about five miles within a port or rode for any ships called the Nook and within it lieth the King of Kechemeches having as I suppose about 50 men and 12 leagues higher a little above the Bay and Bar is the river of Manteses which hath 20 miles on Charles river and 30 miles running up a fair navigable deep river all a flat levell of rich and fat black Marsh mould which I think to be 300000 acres In this Sir Edmund intendeth as he saith to settle and there the King of Manteses hath about 100 Bow-men next above about 6 leagues higher is a fair deep river 12 miles navigable where is Freestone and there over against is the King of Sikonesses and next is Asomo●ches river and King with an hundred men and next is Eriwoneck a King of forty men where we sate down and five miles above is the King of Ramcock with a hundred men and four miles higher the King of Axion with two hundred men and next to him tenne leagues overland an inland King of Calcesar with an hundred fifty men then there is in the midle of Charles river two fair woody Isles very pleasant and fit for Parks the one of a thousand acres the other of fourteen hundred or thereabout And six leagues higher neer a Creek called Mosilian the King having two hundred men And