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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00963	An encouragement to colonies. By Sir William Alexander, knight..	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 8-1640.; Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer.	1625 (1625)	STC 341A; ESTC S125341	33,437	53

for a time onely angling their affections by this meanes to draw a supply from them for as soone as hee was setled in his gouernment that hee found himselfe strong enough by Catholikes and others of his friends that he had with him to doe as hee thought what he would straight remouing the maske that hypocrisie had put vpon him he discharged all exercise of the reformed religion which no man with more feruency had professed then himselfe commanding all to conforme themselues to the orders that he had set downe but in place of feare which he purposed to giue receiuing hut contempt this base kind of carriage did quite ouerthrow and they making a partie amongst themselues did remoue with their Minister Iohn de Lerie which diuision of their Colonie in two was the was cause that neither could subsist so that Villagagnon abandoning that Countrey all after many seuerall designes returned vnto France hauing found no impediment to so good a purpose but the peruersenesse of such mindes as they had earried with them Monsieur De Larauerdier a very worthie Gentleman did of late enterprise the like course in the same bounds and was crossed in the same manner by the difference of Religion disputations quickning them to contrauert who will not be conuerted that distracted his companie with seuerall opinions yet at this time a long continuance making that lesse strange amongst the French then it was wont to be the Gentleman did command with such judgement and discretion that what euer priuate dislike was it neuer bursted forth in any open insurrection And for the space of foure or fiue yeeres being befriended by the Natiues though continually opposed both by the Spaniards and by the Portugals yet he alwaies preuayled liuing as himselfe told me with more contentment then euer he had done in his time either before or since hee could neuer discerne any Winter there by the effects seeing no stormy weather at all and finding a continuall greennesse to beautifie the fields which did affoord such abundance and variety of all things necessary for the maintaynance that they were neuer in any danger of famine but in end finding no more people comming from France and fearing that time should weare away them that were with him then being flattered with the loue of his natiue soyle longing to see his friends and tempted by the hope of a present gaine which as he imagined might the better enable him for some such purpose in an other part he capitulated with the Spaniards to surrēder the place hauing assurāce giuen him for a great summe of money which should haue beene deliuered in Spaine but comming to receiue the same it being more easie to pay debt by reuenging a pretended injurie then with money which some would rather keepe then their Faith he was cast in prison where hee remayned long till at last he was deliuered by the mediation of our Kings Ambassadour and came here where I spake with him of purpose to giue his Majestie thankes I heare that for the present he is now at Rochell with a hope to repaire his error ready to embarque for some such like enterprise This is all that the Frenchmen haue done in the South parts of America and now I will make mention of their proceedings in these parts that are next vnto vs. Francis the first of France a braue Prince and naturally giuen to great things after the Voyage made by Iohn Verrizan Chabot hauing discouered the Continent for Henry the seuenth did send forth Iames Quartier one of Saint Malo who by two seuerall Voyages did discouer the Riuer of Cannada and by his relation doth commend it exceedingly as being fertile in variety of Fishes and bordered with many pleasant meadowes and stately woods hauing in sundry parts abundance of Vines growing wilde chiefly in one Ile which he hath called by the name of the I le of Orleans This man neuer made any Plantation at all but onely discouered and traffiqued with the Sauages neither was there any further done by Roberwall who did liue one Winter at Cape Breton The Marquesse De la Roche by a Commission from Henry the fourth intending a Voyage for Cannada happened by the way vpon the I le of Sablon which is now comprehended within the Patent of New Scotland and there trusting to the strength of the place where there are no Sauages at all landed some of his men till hee should haue found a conuenient place within the maine Land fit for habitation promising then to returne for them but it was his fortune by reason of contrary winds neuer to finde the maine Land being blowne backe to France without seeing of them where he was in the time of the ciuile warres such is the vncertainty of worldly things producing vnexpected effects taken prisoner by the Duke of Mercoeur and shortly after died so that his people whom hee had left at Sablon furnished but for a short time had quickly spent their prouisions and tooke for their maintaynance onely such things as the place it selfe did without labour freely affoord which hath a race of Kowes as is thought first transported thither by the Portugals that haue long continued there and sundry roots fit to be eaten with abundance of Fishes Fowle and Venison And hauing no meanes to liue but by sport as for their apparell they clothed themselues with the skinnes of such creatures as they could kill by Land or Sea so that liuing there for the space of twelue yeeres when they were presented to Henry the fourth who had hired a Fisherman to bring them home as I haue heard from them that did see them at first before the King they were in very good health and looked as well as if they had liued all that time in France But hauing beene abused by the Fisherman who cunningly concealing that he had beene directed by the King did bargaine with them to haue all their skinnes for transporting them home which were of great value some of them being of blacke Foxes which were sold at fiftie pounds sterling a piece and aboue for the recouerie thereof they intended a processe against him before the Court of Parliament at Paris wherein by the equitie of their cause or by the compassion of the Iudges they preuayled gayning by that meanes a stocke wherewith to traffique in these parts againe Monsieur De Montes procuring a Patent from Henry the fourth of Cannada from the 40. degree Eastward comprehending all the bounds that is now both within New England and New Scotland after that Queene Elizabeth had formerly giuen one thereof as belonging to this Crowne by Chabots Discouerie did set forth with a hundred persons fitted for a Plantation carried in two ships of small burthen which parting from France on seuerall dayes did appoint their meeting at the Port of Campseau but the ship wherein Monsieur De Montes had placed himselfe going first and fearing the huge Mountaines of Ice that dissoluing from the farre Northerne