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A31221	A short discoverie of the coasts and continent of America, from the equinoctiall northward, and the adjacent isles by William Castell ... ; whereunto is prefixed the authors petition to this present Parliament for the propagation of the Gospell in America, attested by many eminent English and Scottish divines ... ; together with Sir Benjamin Rudyers speech in Parliament, 21 Jan. concerning America.	Castell, William, d. 1645.; Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1231; ESTC R20571	76,547	112

us of a more than ordinary protection and direction That hitherto we have been lesse successefull in our voyages that way we way justly impute it to this that as yet they have not been undertaken with such a generall consent and with such a full reference to Gods glory as was requisite And so your Petitioner having delivered his apprehension herein more briefely than so weighty a matter might well require he submits all the premises to your more full deliberation and conclusion which he humbly prayeth may be with all convenient speed the only best way under God to make it the better successefull WEE whose names are here under-written having been upon occasion acquainted with a motion intended to be made by Master William Castell Parson of Courtenhall in the County of Northampton to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament now assembled concerning the propagation of the glorious Gospell of Christ in America As we do well approve of the motion so we do humbly desire his reasons may be duly considered And so good a work furthered their wiser judgements may resolve upon to which we humbly submit the same Iohn Moseley D. D. Ra● Brownricke D. D. Thomas Bambrig D. D. Robert Sanderson D. D. Richard Alleyne D. D. Daniel Featly D. D. Matthius Styles D. D. Edmond Stanton D. D. Stephen Denison D. D. Edw. Williamot D. D. Ionathan Brown D. D. Iasper Fisher D. D. Hanniball Potter D. D. Anthony Clapton D. D. Thomas Drayton D. D. Iohn Grant D. D. Ministers of London George Walker Iames Palmer Edward Malbury Ioseph Caryll Edmond Calamy Adoniram Byfield William Price Richard Maden Iames Batty Matth. Griffeth Ephr●im Paget Robert Pory William Ianeway Nathaniel Barry Ministers of severall other Counties Iohn White Dorsetshire William Ford Iohn Pyns , Somersetshire Zachery Caudry Leistershire Henry Paynter Devonshire Stephen Marsholl Samuel Ioyner Essex Iohn Ward Suffolke Ier. Buroughes Northfolke Iohn Rawlinson Darby Moses Capell William Rhet Kent Francis Charliot Richard Gifford Buck. William Englesby Hertford Other worthy Ministers of the Diocesse of Peterburrough where the Petitioner liveth Daniel Caudery Ieremy Whittaker Iohn Barry Iames Cranford Samuel Craddock David Ensme Edmond Castell Samuel Male Daniel Rogers Benjamin Tomkins Richard Cook Richard Trueman Iohn Guderick William Spencer Edmond Iames Iohn Baynard George Iay Francis Presse Miles Berket Francis Atturbury Ieremy Stephens Iohn Ward Peter Fawtract William Malkinson THe motion made by Master William Castell Minister of the Gospell for propagating of the blessed Evangell of Christ our Lord and Saviour in America we conceive in the generall to be most pious Christian and charitable And therefore worthy to be seriously considered of all that love the glorious Name of Christ and are zealous of the salvation of soules which are without Christ and without God in the world wishing the opportunity and fit season the instruments and meanes and all things necessary for the prosecution of so pious a worke to be considered by the wisdomes of Churches and civill powers whom God hath called and enablad with Piety Prudence and Policy for matters of publick concernment and of so great Importance And beseeching the Lord to blesse all their consultations and proceedings for the advancing and establishing the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Alexander Henderson Robert Blare R. Bailly M. Gallaspie N. Smyth M. Borthrick AN ORDINANCE Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Whereby Robert Earle of Warwicke is made Governour in Chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those I●ands and other Plantations in●abited planted or belonging to any his Majesties the King of Englands Subjects within the bounds and upon the Coasts of America And a Committee appointed to be assisting unto him for the better governing strengthning and preservation of the said Plantations but chiefly for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion and farther spreading of the Gospell of Christ among those that yet remaine there in great and miserable blindenesse and ignorance WHereas many thousands of the Natives and good Subjects of this Kingdome of England though the oppression of the Prelates and other ill affected Ministers and Officers of State have of late yeares to their griefe and miserable hardship been inforced to transplant themselves and their families into severall Ilands and other remote and desolate parts of the West Indies and having there through exceeding great labour and industry with the blessing of God obtained for themselves and their families some competent and convenient meanes of maintenance and subsistance so that they are now in a reasonable well setled and peaceable condition But fearing least the outragious malice of Papists and other ill-affected persons should reach unto them in their poor low but as yet peaceable condition and having beene informed that there hath beene lately procured from his Majesty severall grants under the Great Seale for erecting some new Governours and Commanders amongst the said Planters in their afore-mentioned Plantations Whereupon the said Planters Adventurers and Owners of land in the said forreign Plantations have preferred their Petition unto this present Parliament that for the better securing of them and their present estates there obtained through so much extreame labour and difficulty they might have some such Governours and government as should be approved of and confirmed by the authority of both Houses of Parliament Which Petition of theirs the Lords and Commons having taken into consideration and finding it of great importance both to the safety and preservation of the aforesaid Natives and Subjects of this Kingdome as well from all forraigne invasions and oppressions as from their owne intestine distractions and disturbances as also much tending to the honour and advantage of his Majesties Dominions have thought fit and do hereby Constitute and Ordain Robert Earle of Warwick Governour in chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those Ilands and other Plantations inhabited planted or belonging to any his Majesties the King of Englands Subjects or which hereafter may be inhabited planted or belonging to them within the bounds and upon the Coasts of America And for the more effectuall speedier and easier transaction of this so weighty and important a businesse which concernes the well-being and preservation of so many of the distressed Natives of this and other his Majesties Dominions the Lords and Commons have thought fit that Philip Earle of Pembrooke Edward Earle of Manchester William Viscount Say and Seale Philip Lord Wharton Iohn Lord Roberds Members of the House of Peeres Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight and Baronet Sir Arthure Haselrig Baronet Sir Henry Vane junior Knight Sir Benjamin Rudyer Knight Iohn Pym Oliver Cromwell Dennis Bond Miles Corbet Cornelius Holland Samuel Vassall Iohn Rolles and William Spurstow Esquiers Members of the House of Commons shall be Commissioners to joyn in aide and assistance with the said Earle of Warwick chiefe Governour and Admirall of the said Plantations which chiefe Governour together with the said Commissioners or any four of them shall hereby have power and authority

in the same longitude with Porto Rico though many degrees distant to the North in regard of latitude I must either here insert or leave out It lyeth within a degree and a halfe of South Virginia not so easie to be come unto in regard it hath but one and that none of the best Ports to land in Besides it is as much if not more then any other place infested with most tempestuous fearfull winds called Huracans The soyle and temperature is farre inferiour to any part of Virginia and yet is it inhabited no lesse then with a thousand English Who no doubt when the wisedome of the Kingdome shall thinke convenient to send a strong Navy into America will be forward to remove and improve their pla●●●●ion into a more convenient and richer soyle Caribb Islands TO the the East of Porto-Rico begin the Carib or Caniball Islands so called for that the Natives are men-eaters for the most part they fall one within another sometimes in a double sometimes in a threefold squadron from the degree of eighteen and a halfe to somewhat more then the sixteenth degree of latitude I will onely mention them as they lye in their severall ranks from East to West Anegado and Virgines Angotllo and Virgin Granda Saint Martin Saba and Crus Saint Bartoline and Saint Estasio Barbada Nieves and Saint Christopher Antigua and Monserata Desseada and Gnadalupe Mary Glande Sanco and A●stin From whence the Carib Islands Dominica Martimno Saint Lucia Saint Vincent Beria and Granada fall downe to the twelfth degree of latitude by a proportionable bending much like a bow towards the West from Anegado to Gr●●ada Onely Barbados lyeth to the East more then twenty leagues out of the foresaid bow-bending figure Of these Barbados Saint Christopher and Nieves now in possession of our Countrymen are most spatious and in all respects fitter for plantation except Dominica Matinino and Granada which though they be not inhabited by Spaniards yet beside the sustaining of 1000. Savages either of them affordeth the Spanish Navy in its yeerly voyage to the South Continent of America good stone of provision at very small rates foure Porkets and six Hens for one hatchet I say no more of these Islands but this though they be thought scarce worth looking after by the Spaniards yet would they sustaine 20000 men I might here passe Westward againe with the Islands of Margarita Cobana Coetz and many more which lye upon the matter directly Westward not farre remote from Gran●da Andalusia and Veneuella the neerest part of the continent Southward by coasting whereof to Martha Nicuragua and so to Nova Hispania I might more perspicuously and conveniently have concluded this my present discovery of the North America but then I must leave out two great Islands of good note and which is of twenty times more concernment the most spatious Guiana by our judicious Countryman Sir Walter Raleigh and others most admired and applauded for health wealth and pleasure Though therefore it be somewhat out of my way and doe a little obscure my proposed method by the Mediterranian sea of America yet I may not by any meanes leave them out as falling many degrees on the North side of the equinoctiall unlesse it be one part of Guiana which to the South-east goeth over the line somewhat more then a degree taken up onely with severall branches of the great River Amazon and many small Islands dispersed in them of no great worth The Islands between Granada and Guiana to the South-west are Tabago and Trinidado I shall quickly have done with them and from thence begin in a second Booke my discovery of Guiana and the rest of the Continent taking it according to the severall regions thereof as I shall find them neerest agreeing to the Sea-coasts so farre as the Mediterranian will permit us that is as farre as Nava Hispania Tabago now in possession of the Dutch lyeth to the South-east full thirty leagues from Granada and upon eight miles to the East of Trinidado It hath many good harbours but the comming in unto them especially toward the West is dangerous by reason the seas there are very boystrous and not free from sands and shelves It is constantly reported by the Dutch who should best know it as having many yeeres possest it to afford many rare fruits and hearbs variety of Fowles and Fish and not to be utterly destitute of foure-footed beasts wholesome for nourishment as having good store of Indian Hogs and Armadillos both which afford good food Trinidado now possessed as is credibly reported by the Forces of the present most illustrious Admirall of England the Earle of Warwicke lyeth according to the severall farre distant parts and corners thereof betweene the eighth and tenth degree of latitudge For though Sir Walter Raleigh a judicious Traveller place point Curiapan which the Spaniards call Punco de Gallo the most Northerne part but in the eighth degree yet the Dutch according to Oviedus upon more exact calculation found it to come neere to the tenth degree Besides this about fifteene miles to the South there is another convenient Haven called Point Blanco after which directly to the South betweene the Island and the falling of foure or more branches of the great River Oronoque from Guiana there is a very shallow narrow sea not above three miles over and not above 11 or 12 foot deepe howbeit by reason of foure or five Islands which come between them that sea is heady and rough This Island is according to Herea his observation two hundred leagues from Hispaniola sixty from Granada In length according to Oviedus it is twenty five in breadth twenty leagues Concerning the fertility of the soyle Authors agree not Herea reporteth it to be barren in the generall but Sir Walter Raleigh acknowledgeth it to be so onely in that part which is next adjoyning to Curiapan but the rest of the Island to be sufficiently fruitfull especially of Indian graine and such Roots as the Americans usually make their Bread and Beere of besides great store of Deere and Hogges and other wilde Beasts of which the Inhabitants may feed plentifully Good probability there is that some Golden Mine● may be found there but as yet what hath beene digged there is acknowledged by the said Sir Walter Raleigh and by another of our Countrymen Sir Robert Dudley to be but Marca●ite which though it shine like Gold yet it it of no value The onely great Towne in all Trinidad is Saint Ioseph the Merchantable Commodity there is Tobacco The second BOOKE GVIANA AND now being to proceed with Guiana I know no better course than to follow those who have gone before me who by ascending and descending the grand Rivers I meane Oronoque to the North Amazon to the South as also many others which fall betweene them into the east Ocean have made the onely discovery which have as yet beene made thereof And no marvaile for those great Rivers doe on every side inviron Guiana