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A35222	The English empire in America, or, A prospect of His Majesties dominions in the West-Indies ... with an account of the discovery, scituation, product, and other excellencies of these countries : to which is prefixed a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards, and of the remarkable voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein : illustrated with maps and pictures by R.B., author of Englands monarchs, &c., Admirable curiosities in England, &c., Historical remarks of London, &c., The late wars in England, &c., and The history of Scotland and Ireland.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1685 (1685)	Wing C7319; ESTC R21113	146,553	216

which they hide a Mile asunder when the Indians hunt him which is commonly in Winter they run him down sometimes in half a day otherwhile a whole day but never give over till he is tired the Snow being usually four Foot deep and the Beast very heavy he sinks every st●p and as he runs breaks down the Trees in his way with his Horns as big as a Mans Thigh at last they get up and pierce him with their Lances upon which the poor Creature groans and walks on heavily till at length he sinks and falls like a ruined Building making the Earth shake becoming a Sacrifice to the Victors who cut him up and making a Fire near the place they there Boil and eat their Venison fetching their drink from the next Spring being unacquainted with any other till the French and English taught them the use of that cursed Liquor called Rum Rumbullion or Kill-devil stronger than Spirit of Wine drawn from the dross of Sugar and Sugar Canes which they love dearer than their lives wherewith if they had it they would be perpetually drunk though it hath killed many of them especially old Women Their Wars are with their Neighbouring Tribes but the Mowhawks especially who are Enemies to all other Indians their Weapons were Bows and Arrows but of late he is a poor Indian that is not Master of two Guns which they purchase of the French with Powder and Shot the Victors Flea the Skin off the Skull of the Principal slain Enemies which they carry away in Triumph their Prisoners they bring home the old Men and Women they knock on the Head the young Women they keep and the Men of War they Torture to death as the Eastern Indians did two Mowhawks whilst I was there they bind him to a Tree and make a great Fire before him then with sharp Knives they cut off his Fingers and Toes then clap upon them hot Embers to sear the Veins thus they cut him to pieces joint after joint still applying Fire for stanching the Blood making the poor Wretch Sing all the while when Armes and Legs are gone they Flea the Skin off their Heads and presently apply thereto a Cap of burning Coals then they open his Breast and take out his Heart which while it is yet living in a manner they give to their old Squa's or Women who are every one to have a bit of it These Barbarous Customs they used more frequently before the English came but since there are endeavours to Convert them to Christianity by Mr. Eliot and his Son who Preach to them in their own Language into which they have likewise Translated the Bible these go Clothed like the English live in framed Houses have Stocks of Corn and Cattel about them which when Fat they bring to Market some of their Sons have been brought up Schollers in Harward Colledge New-England is seated in the midst of the Temperate Zone yet is the Clime more uncertain as to heat and cold than those European Kingdoms which are in the same Latitude The Air is cleer healthful and Agreeable to the English well watered with Rivers having variety of Beasts both tame and wild with several sorts of Trees and excellent Fruits the Commodities it yeildeth are rich Furs Flax Linnen Amber Iron Pitch Tarr Cables Masts and Timber to build Ships with several sorts of Grain wherewith they drive a considerable Trade to Barbado's and other English Plantations in America supplying them with Flower Bisket Salt Flesh and Fish and in return bring Sugars and other Goods To England they trade for Stuffs Silks Cloath Iron Brass and other Utensils for their Houses The weights and measures are the same with England The English posesss many potent Colonies being very numerous and powerful and are governed by Laws of their own making having several Courts of Judicature where they meet once a mouth so they be not repugnant to the Laws of England every Town sends two Burgesses to their great and solemn General Court The Government both Civil and Ecclesiastical is in the hands of the Independents or Presbyterians The Military part of their Government is by one Major General and three Serjeant Majors to whom belong the four Countys of Suffolk Middlesex Essex and Norfolk They have several fine Towns whereof Boston is the Metropolis likewise Dorchester Cambridg beautified with two Colledges and many well built Houses Reading Salem Berwick Braintree Bristoll Concorde Dartmouth Dedham Dover Exeter Falmouth Glocester Greensharbour Hampton Harford Haverhill Weymouth Yarmouth New Haven Oxford Salisbury Taunton Southampton Newbury Springfield Sudbury Ipswich Li● Hull Sandwich Malden Norwich Roxbury Sandwich Wenham Rowley Hingham and others most of them having the names of some Towns in England The present Governor for his Majesty of England is Henry Cranfield Esquire CHAP. V. A prospect of New York with the Scituation Plantation and Product thereof New York so called from our present gracious Sovereign when Duke of York formerly namel● New-Netherlands being part of that new-New-England which the Dutch one possessed it was first discovered by Mr Hudson and sold presently by him to the Dutch withou● Authority from his Sovereign the King of England in 1608. The Hollanders in 1614. began to plant there and called it New-Netherlands but Sir Samuel Argall Governor of Virginia routed them after which they go● leave of King James to put in there for fresh water in their passage to Brasile and did not offer to plant till a good while after the English were setled in the Country In 1664. his late Majesty King Charles the Second sent over four Commissioners to reduce the Colonies into bounds that had before incroached upon each other who marching with 300 Redcoats to Manhadees or Manhataes took from the Dutch their cheif Town then called New-Amsterdam now New-York and Aug. 29. turned out their Governor 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 daies after Sir Robert Car took the Fort and Town of Aurania now called Albany and twelve daies after that the Fort and Town of Arosapha then Dela-ware Castle man'd with Dutch and Sweeds So that now the English are Masters of three handsome Towns three strong Forts and a Castle without the loss of one man the first Governor of these parts for the King of England was Colonel Nichols one of the Commissioners This Country is blessed with the richest soyl in all New-England I have heard it reported from men of Judgment saies my Author that one Bushel of European wheat hath yeilded an hundred in one year The Town of New-York is well seated both for Trade security and pleasure in a small Isle called Manahatan at the mouth of the great River Mohegan which is very commodious for Shipping and about two Leagues broad the Town is large built with Dutch Brick alla Moderna consisting of above 500 fair Houses the meanest not

themselves reasonably loaden and that their Ships had endured the Sea a long time they resolve to return for England by the Moluccae and Philippine Islands Sailing in this South Sea to forty degrees of Northerly Latitude where he landed and named it Nova Albion The Inhabitants presented him Feathers and Kalls of Network which he requited with other things the men went naked the Women had loose Garments of Bulrushes tyed about their middles They came a second time and brought Feathers and bags of Tobacco and after a long oration by one that was Speaker for the rest they left their bows on an Hill and came down to our men the women in the mean time remaining on the Hill tormented themselves tearing their flesh from their cheeks whereby it appeared they were about some sacrifice the news being further spread brought the King thither who was a very proper man and had the like to attend him two Ambassadours with a Speech of half an hour long gave an account of his intended coming when he appeared one went before him with a Scepter or Mace whereon there hung two Crowns with 3 Chains the Crowns were of knitwork wrought artificially with feathers of divers colours the chains made of bone The King was clothed in Cony-skins his Followers had their faces painted with white black and other colours every one even the Children bringing their Presents He that carried the Scepter made a loud Speech of half an hour repeating it from another who whispered to him which being ended with a Solemn applause they all came orderly down the Hill without their weapons the Scepter-bearer beginning a Song and dance and all the rest following him The King and several others made many Orations or Supplications to Drake that he would be their King and the King with a Song set the Crown on his head and put the Chains about his neck honouring him by the name of Hioh The Common sort leaving the King and his Guard mingled themselves among the English viewing them severely and offering thei● Sacrifices to those they best liked which were commonly the youngest weeping and rending their flesh with much effusion of bloud Our men misliked their Devotions and directed them to worship the Living God Every third day they brought their Sacrifice● till they found them displeasing yet at the departure of the English they very much grieved and secretly provided a Sacrifice They found Herds of Deer feeding by thousands and strange Conies with heads like ours feet like a Mole and the tail of a Cat having under their chains a bag lnto which they put their meat when their Bellies are full Sailing from hence they went back by the Cape of Good Hope And Nov. 3. 1580. which was the third year of their Voyage they safely arrived at Plymouth In 1585. This Gallant Seaman having been Knighted and much Honoured by Queen Elizabeth made another Voyage to America with a greater number of Ships in which besides other places of note he took and burnt a good part of St. Domingo in Hispaniola forcing the Inhabitants to redeem the other part with twenty five Thousand Duckets in Money he took also Car●hagena a Town upon the Continent and in it Alonso Bravo the Governour and after burning some Houses had eleven Thousand Duckets paid him by the Inhabitants to spare the rest he took likewise the Towns of St. Anth●ny and St. Helena but at last the English in the Ships falling Sick of the Calenture and many dying he was forced to return for England with what he had already got which was valued at threescore Thousand Pound Sterling of cleer Prize besides two hundred Pieces of Brass Ordnance and Forty of Iron In 1595. Sir Francis Drake made his last Voyage which proved not altogether so successful to him as the former by reason as was thought of some misunderstanding between him and Sir John Hawkins who was the other General joined in Commission with him for the Expedition they both died in this Voyage Sir John Hawkins first as soon as ever the Ship came in sight of Porto Rico after which Drake being Sole General made an attempt upon that place but could only Fire some Ships in the Haven receiving some loss himself yet he proceeded and took Rio de la Hacha Raucheria at that time a Wealthy Town by the Trade of Pearl Fishing and lastly Nombre de dios but found nothing so much Treasure now as he saw the first time from hence marching by Land he designed to surprize Panama but Sir Thomas Baskervile who commanded a party of seven hundred and fifty Souldiers for that purpose found the Passages over the Mountains so difficult and the passes so well guarded that he was forced to retreat not without loss of Men whom the Spaniards being acquainted with the Countrey and lying in the woods through which they were to pass killed in their return Hereupon they were forced to put to Sea again and not long after Sir Francis Drake himself fell sick and partly of a Flux and grief for his ill success having hitherto been acquainted with nothing but good Fortune and Victory he died within few days before Porto bello and the Fleet under Sir Tho. Baskervile return'd to England IX Another renowned worthy among the English Adventurers of America and especially for a prosperous and compleat circumnavigation of the Ocean was Sir Thomas Cavendish of Trimley in Suffolk who in July 1586 with three Ships and 120 Men set out from Plymouth for the West Indies and Aug. 25 following fell with the Point of Sierra Liona on the Coast of Guiny and from thence Sept 7 with the Isle of Madrabamba about Cape Verde a place very convenient for taking in fresh water and other necessaries for men at Sea but otherwise much subject to sudden claps of Thunder Lightning and storms especially in winter Their design was for the Streights of Magellan and the South sea therefore steering directly South by the latter end of October they dicover Cape Frio on the Coasts of Brasil and put in at an Harbour between the Isle of St Sebastian and the Continent where they stayed some time building a New Pinnace and supplying their Ships with necessaries Then sailing toward the Streights Jan. 6. they came to an Anchor at the Streights mouth not far from the place where the Spaniards intended a Town and Fort for commanding the Streights and securing the Passage into the South-Sea against all Nations but themselves But as it appeared that project took no effect for of 400 Men left there three Years before by Don Pedro Sarmiento to that purpose by order of the King of Spain there were scarce 20 remaining alive when Sir Tho Cav●ndish sailed that way the rest were either starved for want of necessary Provisions or destroyed by the Natives They had begun their Town which they named St. Philip upon the narrowest Passage of the Streights about half a mile broad in a place very convenient for their

her dark bowels could not keep From greedy hands lies safer in the deep Where th' Ocean kindly does from Mortals hide Those seeds of Luxury Debate and Pride And thus into our hands the richest Prize Falls with the noblest of our Enemies c. The Soyl of Jamaica is very fruitful the Trees and Plants being always springing and never disrobed of their Summer Livery every month being like our April or May there are many Plains which they call Savana's intermixt with Hills and Woods which they say were formerly Fields of Indian Maiz or Wheat but converted by the Spaniards to pasture for feeding their Horses Cows Hoggs and Asinego 's that they brought from Spain for breed afrer they had destroyed all the Indians which were reckoned above six hundred Thousand which Cattle increased exceedingly great herds of Horses Hogs and other kinds still running Wild in the Woods The Air is more temperate than any of the Caribees being constantly cooled with Eastern breezes and frequent rains and never troubled with these storms of wind called Hurricanes wherewith the adjacent Islands are disturbed sometimes so violent that Ships are forced out of the Roads and on Shoar their Houses blown down and provisions rooted out of the Earth The days and nights are almost equall all the year It produceth many excellent Commodities as Sugar very good Cocao Indico Cotton Tobacco Hydes Tortoise Shells curious Wood Salt Saltpeter Ginger Pepper Drugs of several sorts and Cocheneel with many others which if well improved this Isle will be the best and richest Plantation that ever the English were Masters of They have Horses so plentifull that a special one may be bought for six or seven pound Likewise Cows Asinego 's Mules Sheep Goats and Hog● in abundance With very rare Fish of several sorts and plenty of tame Fowl as Hens Turkies and some Ducks but almost infinite store of Wild-Fowl as Geese Turkies Pigeons Ducks Teal W●gens Ginny Hens Plovers Flem ngo's Snipes Parr●ts and Parac●etto's and many others whose names are not known With choice Fruits as Oranges Limes Pomegranats Coco-nuts Guavers Prickle-Apples Prickle-Pears Grapes Plantains Pines and s●veral more All manner of Garden Herbs and Roots as Beans Pease Cabbages Colliflowers Radish Lettice Pursly Melons and divers more They are sometimes troubled with Calentures which is generally occasioned by drunkenness ill Diet or Sloth also with Feavers and Agues but they seldom prove mortal This Isle abounds with good Roads Bays and Harbours the chief whereof is Port Royal formerly called Cageway very commodious for Shipping and secured by a strong Castle it is about twelve Miles from the chief Town of the Island called St. Jago Next is Port-Morant O●d Harbour Port-Negril and Port-Antonio with divers others The Town of St. Jago de la vega is s●ated six miles within the Land North-west When the Spaniards possest the Isle it was a large famous City of about two Thousand Houses with two Churches two Chappels and an Abbey which when the English took under Venables were destroyed all but five hundred its Churches and Chappels made fewer and the remainder spoiled and defaced But since the settlement of the English they begin to repair the ruinous Houses and it is like to be gr●ater than formerly Passage is another Town six mile from St. Jago and as many from Portugal where are about twenty Houses and a Fort to secure the English going thither In the Spaniards time here were several other Towns which are now disregarded as Sevilla on the North of the Isle once beautified with a Collegiat Church which had an Abbot Melilla in the Northeast where Columbus repaired his Ships at his return from Veragua when he was almost Shipwrackt Oristan toward the South Sea where Peter Seranna lost his Ship upon the adjacent Rocks and Sands and continued here in a Solitary Condition for three years and then had the company of a Mariner for four years more who was likewise Shipwrackt and only saved himself Though there are at present no more Towns yet the Island is divided into fourteen Precincts or Parishes namely Port Royal St. Catherine St. Johns St. Andrews St. Davids St. Thomas and Clarendon many whereof are well inhabited by the English that have there very good Plantations whose number is not certainly known but according to a survey taken and returned into England some years since there were above seventeen hundred Families and more than Fifteen Thousand Inhabitants in the forenamed fourteen Precincts And in the four Parishes on the North side of the Isle that is St. Georges St. Maries St. Anus and St. James above Two Thousand more all which are now extreamly increased even to double if not treble that number the Great Incouragement of gaining wealth and a pleasant life inviting abundance of People to transplant themselves from Barbadoes and other English Plantations every year so that in a small time it is like to be the most potent and rich Plantation in all America And besides the aforementioned number of Inhabitants there are reckoned to belong to Jamaica of Privatiers or Bucaniers Sloop and Boat-men which ply about the Isle at least Thirty Thousand stout fighting men whose Courage is sufficiently discovered in their dayly attempts upon the Spaniards in Panama and other places which for the hazard conduct and daringness of their exploits have by some been compared to the Actions of Caesar and Alexander the Great The Laws of this Island are as like those of England as the d●fference of Countreys will admit they having their several Courts Magistrates and Officers for executing Justice on Offenders and hearing and determining all Civil Causes between man and man The present Governor under his Majesty of Great Britain is Sir Thomas Linch FINIS There are lately published the four following Books all which together may be reckoned a very satisfactory History of England and the affairs thereof for above a thousand years past they are to be had single or all bound together of Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside 1. THE Second Edition of Englands Monarchs very much enlarged Or A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil and Military which have happened during the Reigns of the Kings and Queens of England from the Invasion of the Romans under Julius Caesar to this present Adorned with Poems and the Pictures of every Monarch from King William the Conqueror to our most gracious Soveraign King James the Second with his present Majesties Life Heroick Actions late gracious Declaration and other Occurrences to this time The Names of his now Majesties most Honourable Privy Council The Great Officers of the Crown A List of the Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscount Bishops Barons and Deans The Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter at Windsor and the Principal Officers Civil and Military in England The number of the Lord and Commons who have Votes in both Houses of Parliament and many other very