thousand and five hundred Pounds sterling for Ten Months Moreover this Ship of Three hundred Tun seldom carries less than Forty Pieces of Ordnance which with their Provisions c. by modest computation takes up no less room than One hundred and fifty Tun so that the Ship in all probability cannot bring home more than One hundred and fifty Tun of Merchants Goods and the Freight of these Goods comes to Forty Pounds sterling a Tun to pay Ware and Tare of the Ship and Mens Wages so that for the Ship 's Ware and Tare it comes barely but to One hundred and fifty Pounds sterling clear Now admit an English Ship of Three hundred Tun be bound for Jamaica and suppose the Freight of this Ship be at Six Pounds sterling per Tun this Ship shall make her Voyage better in Eight Months time than the Spaniard shall in Ten Months now the Freight of the English Ship comes to One thousand eight hundred Pounds sterling and the Wages and Victuals of the said Ship at Sixty Pounds per Month comes to Four hundred and eighty Pounds sterling so that you see the Ship clears for her Ware and Tare the sum of One thousand three hundred and twenty Pounds sterling See here therefore the great difference The fourth and last reason is this The King of Spain contracts with a body of Merchants to furnish the West-Indies with Four thousand Negroes every Year and the Nigrilloes or Merchants there engage to pay the King one hundred Pieces of Eight Custom for each Negro-slave brought unto them which comes to Four hundred thousand Pieces of Eight by the Year which is paid to the said King the King therefore prohibits all Merchants and others for bringing Negroes to the West-Indies and each Piece of Eight is valued at Five Shillings sterling in Barbadoes but in the Leeward Islands it goes for six The Proposals lately made by Captain John Poyntz for Himself and Company to all such People as are minded to Transport or Concern themselves in the Island of Tobago WHereas his late Majesty Charles the Second King of Great Britain hath given and granted unto James Duke of Courland his Heirs and Successours the said Island of Tobago on condition that none shall inhabit the said Island save only the Subject of the King of England and the Duke of Courland their Heirs and Successours on the said condition I have contracted with the said Duke that my self and Company settle One hundred and twenty thousand Acres of Land in the said Island and to have several great and large Priviledges some of which are here inserted viz. Imprimis That one hundred and twenty thousand Acres of Land in the said Island of Tobago is given and granted to my self and Company and our Heirs for ever and seven Years to be free from the payment of any Rent and after the expiration of seven Years each for himself is to pay Two-pence per Acre every Year to the Duke his lawful Heirs and Successours Secondly That my self and Company and all the Inhabitantâ— shall enjoy Liberty of Conscience without interruption Roman-Catholicks only excepted Thirdly That my self and Company c. are to be governed by a Governour Deputy-Governour and Assembly to be yearly chosen by the majority of Freeholders Votes of the People in the Island to make good and wholsom Laws for the good Government and Defence of the said Island and all Controversies in the Promises to be decided by the majority of Voices Note These are but Breviates and part of the Heads of the Grant from the Duke of Courland and ratified to my self and Company whereby we hold and enjoy our Land for that end I do refer all People to the Grant as more at large as also them that have been on the skirt or body of the said Island to confirm the truth of what is before spoken of the Products of the said Island Proposals for further Encouragement First THose that are desirous to concern themselves in the said Island shall and may have as much Land as they themselves please either by Lease or Purchase only they are to put upon every Fifteen Acres of Land one White Man and so in proportion to the rest and this to be done in three Years time Secondly All Persons that are desirous to transport themselves to the said Island in the quality of Servants shall have better Encouragement from my self and Company than has been yet propounded by any of his Majesties Subjects in any Settlement in the American Plantations Thirdly And for a further encouragement all those Persons and Planters that are any way concerned in the Premises shall have Credit given unto them from Crop to Crop as the Factory is stored for what they shll stand in need of for which the said Company will erect a Bank or Factory of Credit in the said Island the Debtor allowing only two and a half per Cent. Fourthly All Merchants and others that shall import any Negroes or other Merchandize into the said Island shall have their Goods and Debts insured and disposed of for two and a half per Cent. with Factoâ—age Storage Wharfage c. and exported again for two and a half per Cent. more And all Tradesmen and others that contract any Debts against themselves shall have Credit given them out of the Bank or Factory from Crop to Crop for two and a half per Cent. And the Proprietors to engage their whole Interest for the true performance of the foresaid Premises Fifthly All Merchants and others that have Goods fit to accommodate the said Island and have not ready Money to purchase Land nor to pay for their own or servants Passage such may Barter with Goods in lieu of Money Always this implies only such Persons as Contract with the Proprietors or some of them before the first Shipping departs out of the River of Thames to Ship off as above their proportion of Goods or People as is already sufficiently above expressed FINIS ASTRONOMICAL TABLES SHEWING The Rising and Setting of the Sun with the Length of the Days and Nights in all the Principal English Plantations in the West-Indies ALSO Tables of the New and Full Moons in every Month from the Year 1686 to 1700 in the Meridian of London and from thence referred to the Meridians of the Principal Plantations abovesaid The which Tables will serve as a constant Diary or Calendar for the Use of the English Inhabitants in those Ilands ALSO A Table by which at any Time of the Day or Night here in England you may know what Hoar it is in any of those Islands AND How to make Sun-Dials fitting for all those Remote Parts A Table shewing the Prime or Golden Number the Dominical or Sunday Letter and the Moveable Feasts from the Year 1686 to the Year 1700. Years of our Lord. Pr. or Go. Nu. Dom. or Sun Let. Shrove Sunday Easter Day Ascension Day Whit-Sunday Advent Sunday 1686 15 C Feb. 14 Apr. 4 May 13 May
Captain George Popham being President and the People seemed much affected with our mens devotion and would say King James is a good King and his God a good God but our God Tanto a naughty God which is the Name of the evil Spirit that haunts them every new Moon and makes them worship him for fear he commanded the Indians not to converse nor come near the English threatning to kill some of them if they did and inflict sickness upon others if they disobey'd him beginning with two of their Sagamores or King's Children affirming he had power to do the like against the English and would the next new Moon execute it on them In January in the space of seven hours they had Thunder Lightning Rain Frost and Snow all in very great abundance There is likewise found a Bath so hot for two Miles about they cannot drink of it One of the Indians for a Straw-hat and Knife stript himself of his cloathing which was Beaver-skins worth in England 50 s. or 3 l. to present them to the President only leaving himself a piece to cover his Nudities About this time by the industry of Capt. Gosnold and Capt. Smith James-Town was built James-Town built the Indians supplying their Necessities which were sometimes very extream the Winter approaching the Rivers afforded them very great plenty of Cranes Swans Geese Ducks wherewith they had Pease and wild Beasts c. But in the discovery of Chickahamine-River George Casson was surprised and Smith with two others beset with two hundred Savages his Men slain and himself taken Prisoner but in about a Months time he procured not only his liberty but was in great favour among them being extraordinary well pleased with his Discourses of God Nature and Art so that he had a most noble Entertainment from Powhatan one of their Emperours who sate in state upon his Bed of Mats Pillow of Leather imbroidered with Parl and white Beads attired with Robes of Skins as large as an Irish-Mantle at his Head sate a handsom young Woman and another at his Feet and on each side the Room twenty others their Heads and Shoulders painted red with a great Chain of white Beads about their Necks and a Robe of Skins large like an Irish-Mantle before these sate his chiefest Men in their orders In his Palace or Arbour one Newport who accompanied Captain Smith gave the Emperour a Boy in requital whereof Powhatan bestowed upon him Namontack his Servant who was afterwards brought into England yet after this Powhatan treacherously contrived the Murder of sixteen of of our Men which was happily prevented by Captain Smith who seized another of their Kings and thereby obtained Peace with them upon his own Terms This Emperour had about thirty Kings under him his chief Treasure consisting of Skins Copper Pearls Beads and the like all which were kept in store against his Burial being reserved on purpose against that time his House being fifty or sixty Yards long frequented only by Priests at the four Corners stood four Images as Centinels one of a Bear another a Dragon the third a Leopard and the fourth a Giant He hath as many Women as he pleases whom after he is grown weary of he bestows upon his Favorites His Will with the Custom of the Country are his Laws punishing his Malefactors by broiling to death inclosed about with fire with several other Tortures About ten Miles from James-Town one of their Kings made a Feast in the Woods the people being most monstroully painted some like black Devils with Horns and their Hair loose of variety of colours they continued two days dancing in a Circle of a quarter of a Mile about four in a rank in two companies exercising several Antick Tricks the King leading the Dance all in the midst had black Horns on their Heads and green Boughs in their Hands next whom were four or five principal Men differently painted who with Clubs beat those forward that tired in the Dance which held so long that they were scarce able either to go or stand they made a hellish noise and throwing away their Boughs ran clapping their Hands up into a Tree and tearing down a Branch fell into their order again After this fifteen of their proper Boys between ten and fiften years old painted white were brought forth to the people who spent the Forenoon in sporting and dancing about them with Rattles then the Children being fetched away the Women wept and passionately cried out providing Moss Skins Mats and dry Wood making Wreaths for their Heads and decking their Hair with Leaves after which they were all cast on a heap in a Valley as dead where a great Feast was made for all the company for two hours they then fell again into a Circle and danced about the Youths causing a Fire to be made on an Altar which our Men thought was designed to sacrifice them to the Devil but it was a mistake and the Indians deluded our Men by false stories one denying and another affirming the same thing being either ignorant or unwilling to discover the devilish Mysteries of their Religion but a King being demanded the meaning of this Sacrifice answered That the Children were not all dead but the Okee or the Devil did suck the Blood from their left Breast till some of them died but the rest were kept in the Wilderness till nine Moons were expired during which they must not converse with any of these were made Priests and Conjurers They think these Sacrifices so necessary that if omitted they believe their Okee or Devil their other Gods would hinder them from having any Deer Turkies Corn or Fish and would likewise make a great Slaughter among them They imagine their Priests after Death go beyond the Mountains toward the Sun-Setting and remain there continually in the shape of their Okee having their Heads painted with Oyl and finely trimmed with Feathers and being furnised with Beads Hatchets Copper and Tobacco never cease to dance and sing with their Predecessors yet they suppose the common People shall die like Beasts and never live after Death Some of their Priests were so far convinced that they declared our God exceeded theirs as much as our Guns did their Bows and Arrows and sent many Presents to the President intreating him to pray to his God for Rain for their God would not send them any By Break of Day before they eat or drink the Men Women and Children above ten years old run into the Water and there wash a good space till the Sun arise then they offer Sacrifice to it strewing Tobacco on the Land and Water repeating the same Ceremony at Sun-Set George Casson aforementioned was sacrificed as they thought to the Devil being stript naked and bound to two stakes with his Back against a great Fire after which they ript up his Belly and burnt his Bowels drying his Flesh to the Bones which they kept above ground in a Room many other Englishmen were cruelly
Complexion Stature Customs Dispositions Laws Religion Apparel Diet Houses c. are much the same with those of Virginia already treated of being likewise many different Tribes or sorts of People and each governed by their particular King There are many strange Rites and Ceremonies used by the Native Indians Their Religion they believe there are several Gods which they call Mantaac but of different sorts and degrees yet there is but one absolute God from all eternity who when he made the World created other Gods to be as a Means and Instrument used in the Creation and that the Sun Moon and Stars are petty Gods out of the Waters they affirm all the variety of Creatures were made for Mankind that Woman was made first who by the assistance of one of the Gods conceived and brought forth Children but know not how long it was since this was done having no Arithmetick nor Records but only Tradition from Father to Son they make the Images of their Gods in the shape of Men placing one at least in their Houses or Temple where they worship sing pray and make Offerings They believe that after this Life the Soul shall be disposed of according to its Works here either to the habitation of the Gods to enjoy perpetual happiness or to a great Pit or Hole in the furthest part of their Countrey toward Sun-set which they count the furthermost part of the World there to burn continually which place they call Popogusso and relate that one that was buried was the next day seen to move upon his Grave whereupon his Body was taken up again who when he was revived declared that his Soul was near entring into Popogusso had not one of the Gods saved him and suffered him to return and warn his Friends to avoid that terrible place another being taken up related that his Soul was alive while his Body was in the Grave and had been travelling in a long broad way on both sides whereof grew delicate Trees bearing excellent Fruits and at length arrived at most curious houses where he met his Father that was dead before who charged him to go back and shew his Friends what good they were to do to enjoy the pleasures of this Place and then to return to him again Whatever Tricks or Subtilty the Priests use the Vulgar are hereby very respectful to their Governors and careful of their actions though in criminal Causes they inflict punishments according to the quality of the Offence they are great Negromancers and account our Fire-works Guns and Writing to be the works of God rather than Men. When one of their Kings was sick he sent to the English to pray for him Some of them imagine that we are not mortal men nor born of Women but say we are an old Generation revived and believe that there are more of us yet to come to kill their Nation and take their places who are at present invisible in the Air without Bodies and that at their intercession they cause those of their Nation to die who wrong the English Their Idol they place in the innermost Room of the House of whom they relate incredible Stories they carry it with them to the Wars and ask counsel thereof as the Romans did of their Oracles they sing Songs as they march towards Battel instead of Drums and Trumpets their Wars are exceeding bloody and have wasted the people very much Once a year they hold a great Festival meeting together out of several Villages each having a certain Mark or Character on his Back whereby it may be discerned whose Subject he is the place where they meet is spacious and round about are Posts carved on the top like a Nuns Head in the midst are three of the fairest Virgins lovingly embracing and clasping each other about this living Image and artificial Circle they dance in their savage manner Their chief Idol called Kiwasa in made of wood four foot high the Face resembling the Inhabitants of Florida painted with flesh-colour the Breast white the other parts black the Legs only sported with white with Chains and Strings of Beads about his neck This Idol is the Keeper of the dead Bodies of their Kings which are advanced on Scaffolds nine or ten foot high this Kiwasa or Guardian being placed near them and underneath liveth a Priest who there mumbles his Devotions night and day This Province of Mary-Land His Majesty King Charles the First in Anno 1632. granted by a Patent to the Right Honourable Caecilius Calvert Lord Baltemore and to his Heirs and Assigns and by that Patent created him and them the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of the same saving the Allegiance and Sovereign Dominion due to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors thereby likewise granting to them all Royal Jurisdictions both military and Civil as Power of enacting Laws martial Laws making of Warand Peace Pardoning Offences conferring of Honours coyning of Money c. and in acknowledgment thereof yielding and paying yearly to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors two Indiâ—n Arrows at Windsor-Castle in the County of Berks on Easter-Tuesday together with the fifth part of all the Gold and Silver-Oar that shall be found there The Lord Baltemore hath his Residence at Mattapany about eight miles distance from St. Maries where he hath a pleasant Seat though the general Assemblies and Provincial Courts are kept at St. Maries and for the better inviting of People to settle here his Lordship by the Advice of the General Assembly of that Province hath long since established a Model of good and wholsom Laws for the ease and benefit of the Inhabitants with toleration of Religion to all sorts that profess the Faith of Christ which hath been a principal motive to many to settle under that Government rather than in another where Liberty of Conscience was denied them NEW ENGLAND And NEW YORK by Rob Morden i Charles Towne k Cambridg l Water town m Naâ—ton n Dabham o Medfeild p Chensford q Ballerica r Sudbury a Roxbury b Deâ—byster c Miltem d â—â—ymouth e Bâ—â—â—bry f Malden g Wiâ—â—sunt h Farmington The Inhabitants being in number about 16000 have begun the building of several Towns which in few years 't is hoped may come to some perfection as Calverton Herrington and Harvey-Town all commodiously seated for the benefit of Trade and conveniency of Shipping but the principal Town is St. Maries seated on St. Georges River being beautified with divers well-built Houses and is the chief Place or Scale of Trade for the Province A DESCRIPTION Of NEW-YORK ADjoyning to Mary-Land Northwards is a Colony called New-York from our present Gracious Sovereign when Duke of York the Proprietor thereof by Grant from His Majesty and is that part of new-New-England which the Dutch once possessed it was first discovered by Mr. Hudson It s Discovery and sold presently by him to the Dutch without Authority from his Sovereign the King of England in 1608. The Hollanders in 1614. began to
several of which being capable to harbour five hundred Sail of Ships from the rage of the Sea and Winds by reason of the interposition of several Isles to the number of about 200 which lie about this Coast The Account of the Worship and Ceremonies of the Indians hath been much perfected by the Industry and Voyages of Capt. Gosnold Capt. Hudson Capt. Smith and others the last of which gives a very large Account this Captain being taken Prisoner by the Natives and while he stayed among them observed their Magical Rites three or four days after his being seized seven of their Priests in the House where he lay each with a Rattle making him sit down by them began about Ten in the Morning to sing about a fire which they encompassed with a Circle of Meal at the end of every Song which the Chief Priest begun the rest followed in order they laid down two or three Grains of Wheat then the Priest disguised with a great Skin his Head hung round with little Skins of Weasles and other Vermine and a Cornet of Feathers painted as ugly as the Devil at the end of every Song he used strange and vehement Gestures throwing great Cakes of Deer-Suet and Tobacco into the fire thus these howling Devotions continued till Six a Clock at Night and held so three days This they pretended was to know of their God whether any more English should arrive and what they intended to do in that Country They sed Capt. Smith so high that he much doubted they would have sacrificed him to their Chief Deity the Image of whom is so deformed that nothing can be more monstrous the Women likewise after he was freed and President of the Company made him a very odd Entertainment thirty of them came out of the Woods only covered before and behind with a few green Leaves their Bodies painted of different colours the Commander of these Nymphs had on her Head a large pair of Stag's Horns and a Quiver of Arrows at her Back with Bow and Arrows in her hand the rest followed with Horns and Weapons all alike they rushed through the Streets with hellish shouts and crys dancing about a fire which was there made for that purpose for an hour together then they solemnly invited him to their Lodging where he was no sooner come but they all surrounded him and crying Love you not me after which they feasted him with great variety cook'd after their mad fashion some singing and dancing all the while and at last lighted him home with a Firebrand instead of a Torch to his Lodgings And although this Country is seated in the midst of the Temperate Zone yet is the Clime more uncertain Temperature as to the heat and cold than those European Kingdoms which lie Parallel with it and as to Virginia this may be compared as Scotland is to England The Air The Air. is found very healthful and agreeable to the English which makes them possess many Potent Colonies being very numerous and powerful When they design to make War they first consult with their Priests and Conjurers no People being so Barbarous almost but they have their Gods Their Religion Priests and Religion they adore as it were all things that they think may unavoidably hurt them as Fire Water Lightning Thunder our Great Guns Muskets and Horses yea some of them once seeing an English Boar were struck with some terror because he bristled up his Hairs and gnashed his Teeth believing him to be the God of the Swine who was offended with them The chief God they Worship is the Devil which they call Okee they have conference with him and fashion themselves into his shape In their Temple they have his Image ill-favouredly Carved Painted and Adorned with Chains Copper and Beads and covered with a Skin The Sepulchre of their Kings is commonly near them whose Bodies are first Imbowelled dried on a Hurdle adorned with Chains and Beads and then wrapped in white Skins over which are Matts they are afterwards Intombed orderly in Arches made of Matts their Wealth being placed at their feet But for their common Burials they dig a hole in the Earth with sharp Stakes and the Corps being wrapped in Skins and Matts they lay them in the Ground placing them upon sticks and then cover them with Earth the Burial ended the Women having their Faces painted black with Cole and Oyl sit Mourning in the House twenty four hours together howling and yelling by turns The Natives are cloathed with loose Mantles made of Deers Skins and Aprons of the same round their Middle Their Cloathing all else being naked of Stature like to us in England They Paint themselves and their Children and he is most Gallant who is most deformed The Women Imbroider their Legs Hands and other Parts with several Works as of Serpents and the like making black spots in their Flesh Their Houses are made of small Poles round and fastened at the top in a circle like our Arbours covered with Matts twice as long as broad they are exact Archers and with their Arrows will kill Birds flying or Beasts running full speed One of our Men was with an Arrow shot through the Body and both the Arms at once Another Indian shot an Arrow of an Ell long through a Target that a Pistol Ballet could not pierce their Bows are of tough Hazle and their Strings of Leather their Arrows of Cane or Hazle headed with Stones or Horn and Feathered Artificially They soon grow heartless if they find their Arrows do no execution They say there is Men among them of above two hundred years of Age. Though the Planting of this Country was designed by several of the English yet it lay much neglected 'till a small company of Planters under the Command of Captain George Popham and Captain Gilbert was sent over at the charge of Sir John Popham in 1606. to begin a Colony upon a Tract of Land about Saga de hoch the most Northernly part of New-England but that design within two years expired with its Founder Soon after some Honourable Persons of the West of England commonly called the Council of Plymouth being more certainly informed of several Navigable Rivers and Commodious Havens with other places sit either for Planting or Traffick newly discovered by many skilful Navigators obtained of King James the First a Patent under the Great Seal of all that part of North America called New-England from forty to forty eight Degrees of North Latitude This vast Tract of Land was in 1612. Cantoned and divided by Grant into many lesser Parcels according as Adventurers presented which Grants being founded upon uncertain and false Descriptions and reports of some that Travelled thither did much interfere one with another to the great disturbance of the first Planters so that little profit was reaped from thence Nor was any greater Improvement made of those Grand Portions of Land saving the erecting some few Cottages for Fishermen
through O as the line G O H shall be a true Meridian line upon which the Hour line of XII of your Dial must be placed and the Dial so fixed truly Horizontal shall constantly give you the true Hour You may make more Circles than one upon the Plain lest the Sun upon the same day should not be seen exactly at the same time of both parts of the day as the Figure plainly shews Place this at the end of the Astronomicall Tables Books Printed for and Sold by Dorman New-man at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey Folio POol's English Annotations 2 Vol. Causin's Holy Court. Clelia a Romance Reynolds of Murther and Adultery Bentivoglio's Wars of Flanders Sir Robert Stapleton's Translation of Juvenal Hugh's Exposition on Genesis and Exodus Viguola's Architecture Davis of Uniformity in Churches The Exact Polititian or Compleat Statesman Ambroses his Looking to Jesus War with Devils Communion with Angels Bentevolio and Vrania Bishop Reynold's Works Rea's Flora Cemes and Pomona Sir James Melvil's Memoirs Esq Marvil's Poems The State and Wars of new-New-England in 3 Parts Bailii Operis Historici Chronologici Twiss de Scientia Media Scotiae Illustrata per Dom. Robert Sibbald Tryal of Henry Baron Delamere Bachanalia or a Discription of a Drunken Club. Lower's Relation of the King's Voyage to Holland Collection of Loyal Addresses Quarto GAles Court of the Gentiles Sir Henry Vanes Meditations Crofton of Infant Baptism Caryl on Job Durham on the Canticles On the Commandments Brook's Golden Key Paradice Opened Case's Mount Pisgah Firmin's Real Christian Leybourn's Penorganon Alexander's Jesuitico-Quakerism Burrough's Gospel Remission Baxter's Apology for the Nonconformists Northern Lass a Comedy Rollo or the Bloody Brothers a Tragedy Scornful Lady a Comedy Elder Brother a Comedy Dutchess of Malfey a Comedy Leslii Historia Scotorum Flavel's Husbandry spiritualiz'd Strangii de Voluntate Dei Mather on the Types Dr. Owen On Justification Baxter's Saints Rest The Man of Sin Light foot in Lucam Dr. Charlton's Enquiry into Human Nature Boy 's Sermons Behn's Remains Manly of Usury Brown against the Quakers Quaker's Spiritual Court Proclaim'd Warning to Souls to beware of Quakerism Answer to Mr. Read's Case Call to the Shepherds of Israel Seven Champions Poor Robin's Perambul from Saffronwalden to Lond. Dr. Beyfields Treatise of Consumptions and Rules for Health Sermons Dr. Meggot before the Artillery Company Mr. Ryther at Mr. Janeway's Funeral Mr. Williams on the Fifth of November On the Late Rebellion Mr. Grey on the Rebellion Mr. Blake at Mr. Sharp's Funeral Mr. Nicholet at Mr. Bernard's Funeral a Sermon Preach'd at Sea Dr. Sudbury before the King Mr. Pearson at Dr. Hatfield's Funeral Mr. Claget's Assize Sermon at Bury Mr. Hollingsworth before the Lord Mayor The Case of Lay-Communion Case of Hearing Scandalous Ministers Roma Mendax Discourse of the East-India Company Trade of England Revived Quakerism Subverted Sea Mirrour Derbishire Damosel Large Octavo BIshop Taylor 's Contemplations Duty of Man 2d Part. Turenne's Life and Actions Smith's Gramatica Quadrilinguis Doctrine of Devils Nalton's twenty Sermons Ferguson's Interest of Reason in Religion Heywood's Life in God's Favour Derridon agninst Atheism Engl. Tesmarii Rhetorica Ryther's Morning Seeker Swinock of Sins of Omissions Esq Polhil against Dr. Sherlock Present State of Russia Basil Valentine of Antimony History of the Treaty at Nimuegen Conold of Schism Homer Burlesque Dr. Manwaring of Health and long Life Synopsis of Vocal Musick Pool's Nullity of the Romish Faith Wilson of right Interpretation of Scripture Durham of Scandal Dr. Trapham's State of Jamaica Sclater of Grace Flavels two Treatises of Fear c. Janeway's Works Dr. Duveile's Explanation on the Acts. Brucher's Rudiments of Latine Grammar Dr. Bates's Sermon on the Sovereignty of God's Grace Marirner's Everlasting Almanack Synopsis of Quakerism Quakers Cannons Robert's Tree of Life Lockier's Sermons Catalines Conspiracy Small Octavo and Twelves COrahs Doom in Answer to the Contempt of the Clergy Janeway's Legacy Guthry's Tryal of a Saving Interest in Christ London Jests Helvicus Colloquies Quintus Curtius Flavel's Saint Indeed Token for Mourners Simpson's Philosophical Dialogue Medela Medicorum Treatise of Feavers Diversity of Salts and Spirits maintained by Matthew Mackaile of Aberdeen Ness his Christian Walk Sherly of the Gout Tachmas Prince of Persia a Novel Adamite or Loves of Father Rock a Novel Amours of the Pallas-Royal Viz. Madam de la Valliere Madam de Ollonne Madam de Chastillion Madam de Savigny c. Madam Lavallier's Devotions Baysied Exercitationes Annatomici Trimmer or Life and Death of Moderation Life and Death of the Queen-Mother Wits or various Poems Dutch Grammar and Dictionary Call to Prayer Smith's Weaned Christian Sir George Downing against the Dutch Dr. Rebotham's Sermons Seven Wise Masters History of St. Patrick History of the Twelve Apostles History of Jewels Roma Restituta Curious Distillatory Manly's History of Jopan and Syam Looking-glass for Children Hugh's Disputationes Grammatica Vertues of Tunbridge-Wells Morland's Doctrine of Interest Miltoni Logica Sydenham's Works Soloman's Remenbrancer Manning's Catholick Religion Golden Chain Du Moulin's Devotions Whip for the Devil Protestant Prayer book Protestants Resolution Shelton's Zeiglography Tachygraphy Present State of Scotland Rapin's Observations on Homer Virgil Plato c. Frambesarius's Art of Physick Engl. Scotch Psalms Starr of the Eastern Sages Bunnian's Holy War Doolittle's Call Dr. Beyfield on the Spaw Waters Mercury-Gallant or French-Mercury Blood for Blood Small Twelves and Twenty-fours JAneway's Token for Children in two Parts Wadsworth's Legacy Crown and Glory of a Christian Milk for Babes Likewise the Pictures of King Charles II. his Statue on the Royal-Exhange Sir Roger L'Estrange Count Staremberg Method of His Majesties Curing the Evil. The Elephant The Spanish Inquisition The late Blazing-Star Where is also to be had in large quantities or small the following Medicines rightly Prepared by the first Authors Viz. Daffey's Elixir Salutis Bateman's Spirit of Scurvy-Grass Golden and Plain Matthew's Pills Dr. Fletcher's Powder Thomson's Pill Spirit of Salt Pearse's Lozenges Natures Familiar Balm An Excellent Balsom for Wounds Balsomum Apoplecticum The Extract of Liquoras FINIS
plant there and called it New-Netherland but Sir Samuel Argal Governour of Virginia routed them after which they got leave of King James to put in there for Fresh-Water in their Passage to Brazile and did not offer to plant till a good while after the English were setled in the Countrey In 1664. His late Majesty King Charles the Second sent over four Commissioners to reduce the Colony into bounds that had been encroached upon by each other who marched with three hundred Red-Coats to Manhadees and took from the Dutch the chief Town then called New-Amsterdam now New-York and Aug. 29. turned out their Governour with a Silver Leg and all the rest but those who acknowledged Subjection to the King of England suffering them to enjoy their Houses and Estates as before Thirteen days after Sir Robert Car took the Fort and Town of Aurania now called Albany and twelve days after that the Fort and Town of Arasapha then Delaware-Castle manned with Dutch and Swedes so that now the English are Masters of three handsom Towns three strong Forts and a Castle without the loss of one man The first Governour of these Parts for the King of England was Colonel Nicols one of the Commissioners It is a Countrey of a rich and fertil Soyl It s Fertility well watered with Rivers as in Mary-Land already spoken of and is found to produce the same Beasts Birds Fish Fruits Commodities Trees c. and in as great plenty and it is reported that one Bushel of European Wheat has yielded an hundred in one year The most considerable Town is that of New-York It s Situation being well seated both for Trade Security and Pleasure in a small Isle called Manahatan regarding the Sea made so by Hudson's River which severeth it from Long-Island which said River is very commodious for Shipping being about two Leagues broad The Town is large containing about five hundred well-built Houses built with Dutch-Brick and the meanest not valued under one hundred Pounds to the landward it is encompassed with a Wall of good thickness and fortified at the entrance of the River so as to command any Ship which passeth that way by a Fort called James-Fort and for Civil Government it hath a Mayor Alderman Sheriff and Justices of the Peace for their Magistrates The Inhabitants are most English and Dutch who have a very considerable Trade with the Indians for the Skins of Elks Deer Bears c. also for those of Beaver Otter Racoon-skins with other rich Furs and are supplied with Venison and Fowl in the Winter and Fish in the Summer by the Indians at an easie price This Province formerly contained all that Land which is seated in the North part of America betwixt England and Mary-Land the length toward the North being not fully known the breadth is about 200 Miles The chief Rivers are Hudson-River Raritan River and Delaware-Bay and the principal Islands are the Manahatan-Island Long-Island and Stater-Island Manahatan-Island so called by the Indians lieth within land betwixt forty one and forty two Degrees of North Latitude and is in length about fourteen Miles and two broad New-York is seated on the West-end of this Island having a small Arm of the Sea which divides it from Long-Island on the South Long-Island runs Eastward above a hundred Miles and in some places eight twelve and fourteen Miles broad inhabited from one end to the other having a rich Soil for all English-Grain the Fruits Trees and Herbs very good in May you may see the Woods and Fields so richly bedecked with Roses and variety of other delightful Flowers as equal if not excel many Gardens in England This Country is also possessed with sundry sorts of People Its Inhabitants not much unlike the Indians of Virginia being well-proportioned swarthy black-haired very expert in their Bow and Arrows which are their chief Weapons of War they are very serviceable and courteous to the English being of a ready Wit and very apt to recieve Instruction from them but there are now but few Indians upon the Island being strangely decreased since the English first settled there for not long ago there were six Towns full of them which are now reduced to two Villages the rest being cut off by Wars among themselves or some raging mortal Diseases They live principally by Hunting Fowling and Fishing their Wives tilling the Land and planting the Corn they feed on Fish Fowl and Venison likewise Pol-cats Turtles Racoon and the like they build small moveable Tents which they remove three times a year chiefly quartering where they plant their Corn besides their Hunting and Fishing-Quarters Their principal Recreation are Foot-ball and Cards at which they will play away all they have except a Flap to cover their nakedness they are very great lovers of Strong-drink so that without they have enough to be drunk they care not to drink at all if their company be so great that they have not enough to make them all drunk they usually chuse so many as are proportionable to that quantity and the rest must be spectators if any happen to be drunk before he has taken his share which is ordinarily a quart of Brandy Rum or Strong-waters to shew their Justice they will pour the rest down his Throat in which debauches they often kill one another which the Friends of the dead revenge upon the Murtherer unless he purchase his Life with Money which is made of Periwinkle-shell both black and white strung like Beads They observe several Ceremonies in their Reigious Rites Their Religion and are said to Worship the Devil which usually they perform once or twice a Year unless upon some extraordinary occasion as the making of War or the like when their Corn is ripe which is usually about Michaelmas The day being appointed by their Chief Priest or Pawaw most of them go a Hunting for Venison when they are all assembled if the Priest wants Money he then tells them their God will accept no Offering but Money which the People believing every one gives according to his ability the Priest takes the Money and putting it into some Dishes sets them upon the top of their low flat-roofed Houses and so falls a calling upon their God to come and receive it which with many loud hollows and out-crys striking the ground with sticks and beating themselves is performed by the Priest and seconded by the People After being thus wearied a Devil by his conjuration appears amongst them sometimes in the shape of a Fowl a Beast or a Man which so amazeth the people that they dare not stir the Priest improves the opportunity and stepping out makes sure of the Money and then returns to lay the Spirit who is often gone before he comes back having taken some of the company along with him but if at such times any English come among them it puts a period to their proceedings and they will desire his absence saying Their God will not come till