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A71306	Purchas his pilgrimes. part 4 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 20509_pt4; ESTC S111862	1,854,238	887

should seeme vnto me alwayes a greater care and respect how to keepe themselues from all kinde of great heate the how to prouide for any store of great roste It had in it by report of them that should know best it some foure thousand and moe of very good able fighting men and sixe hundred horsemen at the least No question but that they were well furnished of all things appertaining thereunto especially so many good ships lying there and being so well stored with all manner of munition shot and powder as they were Of what wealth this towne should be I am not able to resolue the asker but as it should appeare by the great pillage by the common Souldiers and some Marriners too and by the goodly furnitures that were de●aced by the baser people and thereby vtterly lost and spoiled as not worth the carrying away and by the ouer great plenty of Wine Oyle Almonds Oliues Raisins Spices and other such Grocery wares that by the intemperate disorder of some of the rasher sort were knockt out and lay trampled vnder feet in euery common high way it should appeare that it was of some very mighty great wealth to the first owners though perchance not of any such great commodity to the last subduers for that I iudge that the better part was most riotously and intemperately spent and consumed The Wednesday Thursday and Friday following the Lords Generall spent in counsell about the disposing of all matters as well touching the towne and prisoners as also concerning all other matters thought meete of them in their honourable wisdomes and in all that meane while did shew such honourable bounty and mercy as is not able to be expressed For not onely the liues of euery one were spared but also there was an especiall care had that all the Religious as well men as women should be well and fauourably intreated whom freely without any manner of ransome or other molesiation they caused to be safely transported ouer to Port Saint Mary a Towne in a manner as faire as Cadiz but at that time as the case did stand certainely knowne to be of no wealth in the world and it was some sixe or seuen miles distant ouer against Cadiz in a manner as Paules is against Southwarke on the other side of the Bay in a part of Andaluzia subiect to the territorie of the Duke de Medina Sidonia Moreouer at the same instant they did appoint that worthy Knight Sir Amias Preston and some others in some conuenient Barkes to transport ouer to the said Towne safely and in good order a hundred or moe of the better sort of ancient gentlewomen and merchants wiues who were suffered to put vpon themselues some of them two yea some three suites Apparell with some conuenient quantitie of many Iewels Chaines and other ornaments belonging to their estate and degree Vpon Saturday being the six and twentieth Sir Iohn Winkfield knight was buried in honourable and warlike manner so farre forth as the circumstances of that time and place could permit At whose funerals the Nauie discharged a great part of their Ordnance in such order as was thought meete and conuenient by the Lords Generals command The seuen and twenty day being Sunday in the Abbey the diuine Seruice was had and a learned Sermon was made there by one Master Hopkins the right honourable Earle of Essex his Preacher a man of good learning and sweete vtterance and euen there the same day something before the Sermon was made these worthy Gentlemen following were Knighted by the Lord Generall And here I am to signifie by the way that two of these were Knighted three or foure daies before and some three or foure moe were Knighted after that time vpon certaine occasions but yet I hold it best and I trust without offence to recite their names in this place altogether SIr Samuel Bagnal Sir Arthur Sauage The Earle of Sussex The Lord Harbert The Lord Burke Count Lodowick Sir William Howard Sir George D'Eureux Sir Henry Neuel Sir Edmund Rich. Sir Richard Leuen Sir Peter Egomort Sir Anthonie Ashley Sir Henry Leonard Sir Richard Leuison Sir Horatio Vere Sir Arthur Throckmorton Sir Miles Corbet Sir Edward Conway Sir Oliuer Lambert Sir Anthony Cooke Sir Iohn Townesend Sir Christopher Heydon Sir Francis Popham Sir Philip Woodhouse Sir Alexander Clifford Sir Maurice Barkley Sir Charles Blunt Sir George Gifford Sir Robert Crosse. Sir Iames Escudamor Sir Urias Leigh Sir Iohn Leigh alias Lee. Sir Richard Weston Sir Richard Wa●●man Sir Iames Wootton Sir Richard Ruddal Sir Robert Mansfield Sir William Mounson Sir Iohn Bowles Sir Edward Bowes Sir Humfrey Druel Sir Amias Preston Sir Robert Remington Sir Iohn Buck. Sir Iohn Morgan Sir Iohn Aldridg Sir Iohn Asshindon Sir Mathew Browne Sir Iohn Acton Sir Thomas Gates Sir Gilly Mericke Sir Thomas Smith Sir William Pooley Sir Thomas Palmer Sir Iohn Stafford Sir Robert Louel Sir Iohn Gylbert Sir William Haruie Sir Iohn Gray Don Christ. Prince of Portugall Sir Iohn Vanderfoord Admirall of the Hollanders Sir Robert Dudley 8. August Being in Cadiz attending vpon my most honorable good Lord I talked with certaine of the Religious men such as I found learned whereof indeede there were some though not very many I talked also with the Bishop of Cusco there a graue aged comely man and being of late chosen to that Bishopricke he was as then to haue gone to the Indies had not we then taken him prisoner and so staied his iourney for that time It pleased the Lords generall to deale exceeding fauourably with this said Bishop of Cusco for it was their good pleasure to giue him his free passage without any ransome and therewithall to let him to vnderstand that they came not to deale with Church-men or vnarmed men or with men of peace weaklings and children neither was it any part of their meaning to make such a voyage for gold siluer or any other their wealth and riches c. But that their onely comming was to meet with their dishonorable practises and manifold iniuries and to deale with men of war and valour for the defence of the true honour of England and to let them to vnderstand that whensoeuer they attempted any base-conceited and dishonorable practise to their soueraigne Queen their Mistresse that it should be reuenged to the vttermost c. In this meane space while the Lords generall continued at Cadiz there came to them certaine poore wretched Turks to the number of eight and thirty that had bin a long time gally-slaues and either at the very time of the fight by Sea or else immediately thereupon taking the opportunity did then make their escape and did swim to land yeelding themselues to the mercy of their most honorable Lordships It pleased them with all speede to apparell them and to furnish them with mony and all other necessaries and to bestow on them a Barke and a Pilot to see them freely and safely conueied into

PVRCHAS HIS PILGRIMES IN FIVE BOOKES The sixth Contayning English Voyages to the East West and South parts of America Many Sea and Land Fights Inuasions and Uictories against the Spaniards in those parts and the Spanish Ilands and Coast Townes on this side Plantations in Guiana and many strange aduentures of English-men amongst the Americans The seuenth Voyages to and about the Southerne America with many Marine Obseruations and Discourses of those Seas and Lands by English-men and others The eighth Voyages to and Land-Trauels in Florida Virgina and other parts of the Notherne AMERICA French Plantings Spanish Supplantings English-Virginian voyages and to the Ilands AZORES The ninth English Plantations Discoueries Acts and Occurrents in Virginia and Summer Ilands since the Yeere 1606. till 1624. The tenth English Discoueries and Plantations in New England New-found-land with the Patent and Voyuges to New Scotland Relations also of the Fleets set forth by Queene ELIZABETH against the Spaniards The Fourth Part. Unus Deus Una Veritas LONDON Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose 1625. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD GEORGE Lord Archb. of Canterburie His Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and Metropolitan One of HIS MAIESTIES most HONORABLE PRIVIE COVNCELL His very good Lord. HAuing brought vnto your Grace the Sheafe of my first Fruits to bee waued before the Lord I am bold now also to offer not after 7. but aboue 77. weekes these waue loaues for my haruest that both may bee hallowed by the same Priestly hand in which respect your Graces Name which first honored my Pilgrimage hath the last place in these Pilgrime-Volumes that my All might be blessed by your gracious embracing the Alpha and Omega of my Dedications and might bee by your Fatherly benediction commended to vulgar vse The sutablenesse of the former worke to your Graces Place and recreations caused the former presumption but now the Author by frequent Dedications knowne and graciously acknowledged Yours how vnprofitable a seruant soeuer is guiltie not of single boldnesse beautifying the Frontispice with His Highnesse Name vnto your Graces entertainment especially in this time so many wayes Festiu●ll that your Graces Name and entertainment might so much more Entitle and Endeare the same to His Highnesse The authorising of Books in iustest order belongeth to your Grace as doth the Author also whose mistie conceits of ignorance or smokie vapours of ambition suffering the exhaling rayes of Princely heat and Highnesse hope in the Middle Region of your Gracious and vertuous moderation to be so mildly attempered that they shall neither fall short in vanishing dewes nor be reiected after a short blaze as falling Starres nor transcend into combustious Comets nor fall downe in furious Stormes but gently descend as fresh and fruitfull Showers on the thirstie Candid Readers Pardon farre-fetched similitudes to a Historie of farre-fetched rarities and the Elements of the world borrowed to patronise our world of literate Elements not being as the commendable labours of Others a Booke of Voyages and Trauels in the world but the World historised in a world of Voyages and Trauels Wherein our Ship hath beene longer in her Circum-Nauigation then any of the World-Compassers here related often in danger to be ouerset whiles the Authors impotent and impatient Genius filled all her sailes to the Top and Top-gallant beyond the proportion of her balast whereby some leakes of vnwitting errors happening in so new a course thorow so various Seas implore your Graces indulgence to the Ship and Pilot. Sir Francis Drake a Ministers sonne after a happy inuironing of the Globe feasted Queene Elisabeth aboord his Argo and then laid her vp at Deptford deuoting her Carkasse to Time Her or rather his exploits to Fame and Eternitie An English Minister beginneth and endeth his more then Circling Nauigation with the glorious Name of His Maiestie in poore but his best entertainment and returning thus manned and freighted humbly sueth to bee laid vp in the Liberties and Libraries of Saint Iames Yorke-house Westminster and Lambith Here also the Pilot further petitioneth that his Body being more leakie then his Ship your Grace to whom principally the promise was made will accept this Part of payment in satisfaction of the whole debt of his Europaean Peregrination and Christian Visitations But a long Epistle were injurie to your Graces more necèssarie imployments for the Church and State My selfe am the Epistle this Worke the Seale this Epistle but the Superscription these Pilgrimes all humble Sutors for your Gracious fauour to the worst of Your Graces SAMVEL PVRCHAS ENGLISH VOYAGES TO THE EAST WEST AND SOVTH PARTS OF AMERICA MANY SEA AND LAND FIGHTS INVASIONS AND VICTORIES AGAINST THE SPANIARDS IN those parts and the Spanish Ilands and coast Townes on this side plantations in GVIANA and many strange aduentures of Englishmen amongst the AMERICANS THE SIXTH BOOKE CHAP. 1. A briefe Relation of the seuerall Voyages vndertaken and performed by the Right Honorable GEORGE Earle of Cumberland in his owne person or at his owne charge and by his direction collected out of the Relations and Iournals of credible persons Actors therein THe first Voyage of this Right Honorable Earle was intended to the South Sea and begun from Grauesend Iune 26. 1585. with three Ships and a Pinnace the Red Dragon Admirall of 260. Tunnes with 130. men commanded by Captaine Robert Widrington the Barke Clifford Vice-admirall of 130. Tunnes with 70. men commanded by Captaine Christopher Lister he had beene taken prisoner in Barbarie at the battell of Alcassar in which King Sebastian was slaine the Roe Rere-admirall commanded by Captaine Hawes the Dorothee a small Pinnace of Sir Walter Raleighs This voyage being published at large in Master Hakluyts printed voyages I will here but briefly runne ouer Septemb. 7. they fell with the Coast of Barbarie haling in with the Road of Santa Cruce after that they anchored in Rio del Oro and searched vp the Riuer finding it fourteene or fifteene leagues vpward as broad as at the mouth some two leagues ouer The last of September they resolued for Sierra Leona from whence they departed the seuenth of Nouember The fourth of Ianuarie they fell with the American shoare in 30. degrees and 40. minutes South latitude the weather temperate Ian. 10. they tooke a little short of the Riuer of Plate a small Portugall ship and in her Abraham Cock of Leigh neere London married in that Country who was brought home by the Admirall They learned that in that Riuer were fiue Townes each of seuentie housholds or more Buenos Aeres fiftie leagues vp the Riuer the rest fortie or fiftie aboue each other Tuccaman the vppermost 230. leagues from the entrance In which was store of Corne Cattell Fruits but neither Siluer nor Gold In this Barke were fiue and fortie Negroes The next day they tooke another in which were fiue and thirtie Negro women foure

to Coruo the Englishmen at times had taken at the least twenty ships that came from Saint Domingo India Brasillia c. and all sent into England Whereby it plainly appeareth that in the end God will assuredly plague the Spaniards hauing already blinded them so that they haue not the sence to perceiue it but still to remaine in their obstinate opinions but it is lost labour to striue against God and to trust in man as being foundations erected vpon the sands which with the winde are blowne downe and ouerthrowne as we daily see before our eyes and now not long since in many places haue euidently obserued and therefore let euery man but looke into his owne actions and take our Low-Countries for an example wherein we can but blame our owne sinnes and wickednesses which doth so blinde vs that we wholly forget and reiect the benefits of God continuing the seruants and yoke-slaues of Sathan God of his mercy open our eyes and hearts that wee may know our onely health and Sauiour Iesus Christ who onely can helpe gouerne and preserue vs and giue vs a happy end in all our affaires By this destruction of the Spaniards and their euill successe the lading and shipping of the goods that were saued out of the ship that came from Malacca to Tercera was againe put off and therefore wee must haue patience till it please God to send a fitter time and that we receiue further aduise and order from his Maiestie of Spaine All this being thus past the Farmers of Pepper and other Merchants that had their goods in Tercera which were taken out of the lost ship that came from Malacca seeing that the hope of any Armada or any ships in the Kings behalfe to be sent to fetch it was all in vaine they made request vnto his Maiesty that he would grant them licence euery man particularly to ship his goods in what ship he would at his owne aduenture which in the end after long suite was granted vpon condition that euery man should put in sureties to deliuer the goods in the Custome-house at Lisbone to the end the King might be paied his custome as also that the goods that should be deliuered vnto them in Tercera should all be registred whereupon the Farmers of Pepper with other Merchants agreed with a Flushinger to fetch all the Cloues Nutmegs Mace and other spices and goods that belonged vnto them the Pepper onely excepted which as then the King would not grant to lade The same Ship arriued in Tercera about the last of Nouember and because it was somewhat dangerous being the latter end of the yeare we laded her with all the speede we could for as then the coast was cleare of Englishmen To be short this Flushinger being laden with most part of the goods sauing the Pepper that was left behinde we set saile for Lisbone passing some small stormes not once meeting with any ship but onely vpon the coast where we saw ten Hollanders that sailed with Corne towards Ligorne and other places in Italie and so by Gods helpe vpon the second of Ianuary Anno 1592. we arriued in the Riuer of Lisbone being nine yeares after my departure from thence and there I staied till the month of Iuly to dispatch such things as I had to doe and vpon the seuenteenth of the same month I went to Sentuual where certaine Hollanders lay with whom I went for Holland The end of the eight Booke ENGLISH PLANTATIONS DISCOVERIES ACTS AND OCCVRRENTS IN VIRGINIA AND SVMMER ILANDS SINCE THE YEERE 1606. TILL 1624. THE NINTH BOOKE CHAP. I. Part of the first Patent granted by his Maiestie for the Plantation of Virginia Aprill the tenth 1606. IAMES by the grace of God c. Whereas our louing and well disposed Subiects Sir Thomas Gates Sir George Summers Knights Richard Hakluyt Clerke Prebendary of Westminster Edward Maria Wingfield Thomas Hannam Rawleigh Gilbert Esquires William Parker George Popham and di●ers others of our louing Subiects haue beene humble Suitors vnto vs that we would vouch safe vnto them our License to make Habitation Plantation and to deduce a Colonie of sundry of our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia and other parts and Territories in America either appertayning vnto vs or which now are not actually possessed by any Christian Prince or people situate lying and being all along the Sea Coast betweene thirtie foure degrees of Northerly latitude from the Equinoctiall Line and fortie fiue degrees of the same latitude and in the mayne Land betweene the same thirtie foure and fortie fiue degrees and the Ilands thereunto adiacent within one hundred miles of the Coast thereof And to that end and for the more speedie accomplishment of the said intended Plantation and Habitation there are desirous to deuide themselues into two seuerall Colonies and Companies the one consisting of certaine Knights Gentlemen Merchants and other Aduenturers of our Citie of London and elsewhere which are and from time to time shall be ioyned vnto them which doe desire to beginne their Plantations and Habitations in some fit and conuenient place betweene thirtie foure and fortie one degrees of the said latitude all alongst the Sea Coast of Virginia and Coast of America aforesaid And the other consisting of sundry Knights Gentlemen Merchans and other Aduenturers of our Cities of Bristoll and Exeter and of our Towne of Plymmouth and other places which doe ioyne themselues vnto that Colonie which desire to beginne their Plantations and Habitations in some fit and conuenient place betweene thirtie eight and fortie fiue degrees of the said latitude all alongst the said Coast of Virginia and America as that Coast lyeth We greatly commending and graciously accepting of their desires to the furtherance of so Noble a worke which may by the prouidence of Almightie God hereafter tend to the glorie of his Diuine Maiestie in propagating of Christian Religion to such people as yet liue in darknesse miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God and may in time bring the Infidels and Sauages liuing in those parts to humane ciuilitie and to a settled and quiet gouernment doe by these our Letters Patents graciously accept of and agree to their humble and well intended desires And doe therefore for vs our Heires and Successours grant and agree that the said Sir Thomas Gates Sir George Summers Richard Hakluyt and Edward Maria Wingfield Aduenturers of our Citie of London and all such others as are or shall be ioyned vnto them of that Colonie shall be called the first Colonie and they shall and may beginne their said first Plantation and Seate of their first abode and Habitation at any place vpon the said Coast of Virginia or America where they shall thinke fit and conuenient betweene the said thirtie foure and fortie one degrees of the said latitude And that they shall haue all the Lands Woods Soyle Grounds Hauens Ports Riuers Mynes Minerals Marishes Waters Fishings Commodities and Hereditaments

made three or foure thousand pounds worth of Oyle they preferred it before Greenland Whale-fishing and purpose the next winter to fish for Whale here for Cod we assaied but found none there is good store no doubt in their season Neither got we anie fish all the time we lay there but some few little ones on the shoare We found great Mussles and verie fat and full of Sea Pearle but we could not eate them for they made vs all sicke that did eate as well sailers as passengers they caused to cast and scoure but they were soone well againe The Baie is so round and circling that before we could come to anchor we went round all the points of the Compasse We could not come neere the shoare by three quarters of an English mile because of shallow water which was a great preiudice to vs for our people going on shoare were forced to wade a Bow shoote or two in going aland which caused manie to get colds and coughs for it was manie times freezing cold weather This day before we came to harbour obseruing some not well affected to vnitie and concord but gaue some appearance of faction it was thought good there should be an association and agreement that we should combine together in one bodie and to submit to such gouernment and Gouernours as we should by common consent agree to make and choose and set our hands to this that followes word for word IN the name of God Amen We whose names are vnderwritten the loyall Subiects of our dread Soueraigne Lord King Iames by the grace of God of Great Britaine France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Hauing vndertaken for the glorie of God and aduancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Countrie a Voiage to plant the first Colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia doe by these presents solemnely and matually in the presence of GOD and one of another couenant and combine our selues together in a ciuill bodie politike for our better ordering and preseruation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid and by vertue hereof to enact constitute and frame such iust and equall Lawes Ordinances acts constitutions offices from time to time as shall be thought most meete and conuenient for the generall good of the Colonie vnto which wee promise all due submission and obedience In witnesse whereof we haue here vnder suscribed our names Cape Cod eleuenth of Nouember in the yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King IAMES of England France and Ireland 18. and of Scotland 54. Anno Domino 1620. The same day so soone as we could we set ashoare fifteene or sixteene men well armed with some to fetch Wood for we had none left as also to see what the Land was and what Inhabitants they could meete with they found it to be a small necke of Land on this side where we lay is the Bay and the furthest side the Sea the ground or earth sand hils much like the Downes in Holland but much better the crust of the earth a Spits depth excellent blacke earth all woodded with Oakes Pines Saffafras Iuniper Birch Holly Vines some Ash Walnut the Wood for the most part open and without vnder-wood fit either to goe or ride in at night our people returned but found not anie person nor habitation and laded their Boate with Iuniper which smelled verie sweete and strong and of which wee burnt the most part of the time we lay there Munday the thirteenth of Nouember we vnshipped our Shallop and drew her on land to mend and repaire her hauing bin forced to cut her downe in bestowing her betwixt the decks and she was much opened with the peoples lying in her which kept vs long ther for it was sixteene or seuenteene daies before the Carpenter had finished her our people went on shoare to refresh themselues and our women to wash as they had great neede but whilest wee lay thus still hoping our Shallop would be readie in fiue or six daies at the furthest but our Carpenter made slow worke of it so that some of our people impatient of delay desired for our better furtherance to trauaile by Land into the Countrie which was not without appearance of danger not hauing the Shallop with them nor meanes to carrie prouision but on their backes to see whether it might be fit for vs to seate in or no and the rather because as we sailed into the Harbour there seemed to be a Riuer opening it selfe into the maine Land the willingnesse of the persons was liked but the thing it selfe in regard of the danger was rather permitted then approued and so with cautions directions and instructions sixteene men were set out with euery man his Musket Sword and Corslet vnder the conduct of Captaine Miles Standish vnto whom was adioyned for counsell and aduise William Bradford Stephen Hopkins and Edward Tilley Wednesday the fifteenth of Nouember they were set a shoare and when they had ordered themselues in order of a single File and marched about the space of a mile by the Sea they espied fiue or six people with a Dogge comming towards them who were Sauages who when they saw them ran into the Woods and whistled the Dogge after them c. First they supposed them to be Master Iones the Master and some of his men for they were a shoare and knew of their comming but after they knew them to be Indians they marched after them into the Woods least other of the Indians should lye in Ambush but when the Indians saw our men following them they ran away with might and maine and our men turned out of the Wood after them for it was the way they intended to goe but they could not come neere them They followed them that night about ten miles by the trace of their footings saw how they had come the same way they went and at a turning perceiued how they raune vp an hill to see whether they followed them At length night came vpon them and they were constrained to take vp their lodging so they set forth three Sentinels and the rest some kindled a fire and others fetched Woods there held our Randeuous that night In the morning so soone as we could see the trace we proceeded on our iournie and had the tracke vntill wee had compassed the head of a long creake and there they tooke into another Wood and we after them supposing to finde some of their dwellings but we marched thorow Boughes and Bushes and vnder Hils and Vallies which tore our verie Armour in peeces and yet could meete with none of them nor their houses nor finde any fresh water which we greatly desired and stood in neede off for we brought neither Beere nor Water with vs and our victuals was onely Bisket and Holland Cheese and a little Bottell of Aquauite so as we were sore a thirst About ten a clocke we came into a deepe Valley full of

between Sagadahoc and it From the Iland vpward the water is fresh abounding in Salmons and other fresh-water fish Some thirteene or fourteen daies iourney from the entrance in the North-east branch there is a little arme of a Riuer that runneth East some daies iourney which hath at the entrance foure fathoms water Vpon this arme there is one ouer fail which standeth halfe a daies iourney aboue this braneh vpon this arme there are foure Townes The first is called Kenebeke which hath eightie houses and one hundred men The Lord whereof is Apombamen The second is Ketangheanycke and the Sagamos name is Octoworthe who hath in his Towne ninetie housholds and three hundred and thirtie men This Towne is foure dayes iourney from Kenebeke and eight dayes iourney from To the Northward is the third Towne which they call Naragooc where there are fiftie housholds and one hundred and fiftie men The chiefe Sagamo of that place is Cocockohamas And on the small branch that runneth East standeth the fourth Towne named by M●ssakiga where there are but eight housholds and fortie men Vpon the Northwest branch of this Sound stand two Townes more The first is called Amereangan and is distant from Kenebeke sixe dayes iourney In this place are ninetie housholdes and two hundred and sixtie men with two Sagamoes the one called Sasu●a the other Scawas Seuen daies iourney hence there is another Sagamo whose name is Octowor●kin and his Townes name Namercante wherein are fortie housholds and one hundred and twentie men A dayes iourney aboue Namercante there is a downefall where they cannot passe with their Cannoes but are inforced to carrie them by Land for the space of a quarter of a mile and then they put them into the Riuer againe And twelue dayes iourney aboue this Downfall there is another where they carrie their Boates as at the first and sixe dayes iourney more to the North is the head of this Riuer where is the Lake that is of eight dayes iourney long and foure dayes broad before mentioned In this Lake there is one Iland and three dayes iourney from this Lake there is a Towne which is called Buccawganecants wherein are threescore housholds and foure hundred men And the Sagamo thereof is called Baccatusshe This man and his people are subiects to the Bashabez of Mawooshen and in his Countrey is the farthest limit of his Dominion where he hath any that doe him homage To the Westward of Sagadahoc foure dayes iourney there is another Riuer called Ashamabaga which hath at the entrance sixe fathoms water and is halfe a quarter of a mile broad it runneth into the Land two dayes iourney and on the East side there is one Towne called Agnagebcoc wherein are seuentie houses and two hundred and fortie men with two Sagames the one called Maurmet the other Casherokenit Seuen dayes iourney to the South-west of Ashamabaga there is another Riuer that is sixe fathoms to the entrance This Riuer is named Shawakotoc and is halfe a myle broad it runneth into the Land fiftie dayes iourney but foure dayes from the entrance it is so narrow that the Trees growing on each side doe so crosse with their boughes and bodies on the other as it permitteth not any meanes to passe with Boates that way for which cause the Inhabitants that on any occasion are to trauell to the head are forced to goe by Land taking their way vpon the West side At the end of this Riuer there is a Lake of foure dayes iourney long and two dayes broad wherein are two Ilands To the North-West foure daies iourney from this Lake at the head of this Riuer Shawakatoc there is a small Prouince which they call Crokemago wherein is one Towne This is the Westermost Riuer of the Dominions of Bashabez and Quibiquisson the Westermost To the Reader I Haue thought good to adde to the English Plantations in New England those in the neighbour Countrey of New-found-land This was first discouered Ann. 1497. by S. Sebastian Cabot set forth by King Henry the seuenth the Voyages followed of M. Rut Albert de Prato M. Hore and others Ann. 1583. actuall and formall possession was taken in the right of Queene Elizabeth of glorious memory and her Successours by that memorable Knight Sir Humfrey Gilbert see sup lib. 4. ca. 13. And in the yeere 1609. M. Iohn Guy of Bristoll did write a Treatise to animate the English to plant there a written Copy whereof I haue A. 1610. It pleased his most excellent Maiestie to grant a Patent for a Plantation part whereof the whole might seeme too long for our purpose we haue inserted CHAP. VII The beginning of the Patent for New-found-land and the Plantation there made by the English 1610. deliuered in a Letter dated thence from M. GVY to M. SLANY Also of the weather the three first Winters and of Captaine WESTON with other remarkable Occurrents IAMES by the Grace of GOD of Great Brittaine France and Ireland King Defendour of the Faith c. To all people to whom these Presents shall come greeting Know yee whereas diuers Our louing and well disposed Subiects are desirous to make Plantation to inhabite and to establish a Colony or Colonies in the Southerne and Easterne parts of the Countrey and I le or Ilands commonly called New-found-land vnto the Coast and Harbour whereof the Subiects of this our Realme of England haue for the space of fiftie yeeres and vpwards yeerely vsed to resort in no small numbers to fish intending by such Plantation and inhabiting both to secure and make safe the said Trade of Fishing to Our Subiects for euer And also to make some commendable benefit for the vse of mankind by the lands and profits thereof which hitherto from the beginning as it seemeth manifest hath remained vnprofitable And for better performance of such their purpose and intentions haue humbly besought Our Regall Authoritie and assistance Wee being well assured that the same Land or Countrey adioyning to the foresaid Coasts where Our Subiects vse to fish remaineth so destitute and desolate of inhabitance that scarce any one Sauage person hath in many yeeres beene seene in the most parts thereof And well knowing that the same lying and being so vacant is as well for the reasons aforesaid as for many other reasons very commodious for Vt and Our Dominions And that by the Law of Nature and Nations We may of Our Royall Authoritie possesse our selues and make graunt thereof without doing wrong to any other Prince or State considering they cannot iustly pretend any Soueraigntie or Right thereunto in respect that the same remaineth so vacant and not actually possessed and inhabited by any Christian or other whomsoeuer And therefore thinking it a matter and action well beseeming a Christian King to make true vse of that which God from the beginning created for mankind And therefore intending not onely to worke and procure the benefit and good of many of Our Subiects