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A28392	A Description of the island of Jamaica with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related ... : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places : illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.	Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Lynch, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684?	1672 (1672)	Wing B3208; ESTC R7437	42,330	208

care for the time to come He further saith that they are much addicted to Mirth and Dancing they are also much prone to Honour and Valour which they place above all other Vertues which doth occasion them to be so continually engaged against one another in Wars and that side which Fortune Crowneth with Victory Triumphal Jollaties are performed by them The Countrey he saith is divided into several petty Kingdoms and the People in the one keep no good Correspondence with those that border upon them and on the least occasion wage War one against another In this Countrey of Carolina he saith that there are several Indian Towns which are generally the Habitation of the King that commands the Territory The Proprietors of Carolina This Province or Countrey of Carolina was first Possessed by the English about the year 1660 and became a Proprietorship which his present Majesty K. Charles the Second granted by Patent to the Right Noble George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Moncke of Potheridge Peachampe and Teys Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter Captain General of his Majesties Land-Forces and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Viscount Cornbury and Baron Hide of Hendon c. The Right Honourable William Earl of Craven Viscount Craven of Uffington Baron Craven of Hamsted-Marshal Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex and Borouh of Southwark and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Right Honourable John Lord Berkley Baron Berkley of Stratton Lord Lievtenant of Ireland for his Majesty c. The Right Honourable Anthony Lord Ashley Baron Ashley of Winbourn St. Giles Chancellour of the Exchequor under-under-Treasurer of England one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Honourable Sr. George Carteret of Hawnes in Bedfordshire Baronet Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. Sr. William Berkley of in the County of Knight and Baronet and to Sr. John Colleton of London Knight and Baronet and to their Heirs and Successors And the said Lords proprietors having by their Patent power to establish a Government and make Lawes for the better Regulation thereof and the inviting of Inhabitants have formed a Model which by the general consent of all the Proprietors was drawn up by the Right Honourable the Lord Ashley a person of great Worth and Prudence whose knowledg in matters of State and the Settlement of a Government is sufficiently praise worthy by all perso●● Which said Model is so well fr●med for the good and welfare 〈◊〉 the Inhabitants that it is estee●ed by all judicious persons withou● compare but the said Model b●ing too long to be set down in th●● small Treatise I must be constra●ned to omit it The Settlements of the English Here are at present two considerable Settlements of the English for so short a time the one at Albemarle-River in the North and the other about the midst of the Countrey on Ashley River which is likely to be the Scale of Trade for the whole Countrey as being scituate very Commodious for Shipping and in a healthful place A DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA Its Bounds VIRGINIA particularly now so called hath for its Southern Limits Carolina for its Eastern the Atlantick Ocean for its Northern Mariland and for its Western that vast tract of Land which runneth into the South-Sea It s Name This Countrey was said to b● first discovered by Sr. Franc●● Drake as indeed all this Tract o● Sea-Coast and was so named by Sir Walter Rawleigh a great promoter of this discovery in honou● of Queen Elizabeth who the● Reigned The Settlement of the English Much time was spent in the discovery of this Countrey with vast expences in the setting forth of Ships and not without the great loss o● many a poor wretches life besore it could be brought to perfection but at length through the Industry of Captain John Smith and other worthy persons who took great pains for the advancement of these discoveries fortune began to smile ●n her and about the Reign of King James a Patent was grant●d to certain persons as a Corpora●ion and called the Company of Adventurers of Virginia Afterwards other Patents were granted to them for larger Extents of Land excluded in the former ●ut the said Corporation committing of several and frequent Misdemeanours and Miscarriages the said Patent about the year 1623 was made Nul since which it hath been free for all his Majesties Subjects to Trade into these parts It s Air and Temperature This Countrey is blest with a sweet aud wholesome Air and the Clime of late very agreeable to the English since the clearing o● Woods so that now few dyeth o● the Countreys disease called th● Seasoning The Soyl. It is every where interlaced with delectable Hills and rich Valleys and of a Soyl so Fertile that an Acre of ground commonly yieldeth 200 Bushels of Corn and is very apt to produce what is put therein as English Grains Roots Seeds Plants Fruits c. besides those appropriated to the Countrey and other adjacent parts of America Their Fruits Here are excellent Fruits in great abundance which may be compared with those of Italy or Spain as Apricocks Peaches Mellons Apples Pears Plumbs Cherries Grapes Figgs Pomgranates Quinces Maracocks Puchamines Chesnuts Walnuts Olives Straberries Rasberries Goosberries and Mulberries in great abundance Of their Apples they make Syder of their Pears Perry and of their Grapes Wine Their Roots and Herbs They have several sorts of Roots as Potatoes Carrets Turnips Artichoaks Onyons Cabbages Collyflowers Sparagus c. And most sort of Garden-herbs known to us in great plenty Their Fowles and Birds Here is great plenty of Fowle as wild Turkeys which usually weigh 6 stone Partridges Swans Geese Ducks Teal Widgeons Dotterels Heathcocks Oxeyes Brants Pidgeons Cranes Herons Eagles and several sorts of Hawkes And for small Birds innumerable quantities of sundry sorts as Blackbirds Thrushes Red-birds and above all the Mockbirds which counterfeiteth the notes of all Birds Their Wilde Beasts and Tame Cattle They have great store of wilde Beasts as Lyons Bears Leopards Tygers Wolves and Dogs like Wolves but brake not Buffeloes Elks whose Flesh is as good as Beef Rosconnes Utchunquois Deer Hares Bevers Ottors Foxes Martins Poulcats Wesells Musk-Rats Flying Squirils c. And for Tame Cattle Cowes Sheep Goats Hoggs and Horses in great plenty Their Fish Here is great plenty of Excellent Fish as well in the Sea and Bay of Chesopeack as in the Rivers viz. Cods Thornback Sturgeon Grampuses Porpuses Drums Cat-Fish Basses Sheepsheads which makes broath like that of Mutton Cony-Fish Rock-Fish Creey-Fish White Salmons Mullets Soles Plaice Mackrel Trouts Perches Conger-Eels Herrings Crabs Oysters Shrimps Cockles Muscles

but of late have much encreased And for the better Satisfying the Reader the Parts throughout the Island where the English have made their Settlements are Marked and distinguished in the Map by Cyphers I cannot certainely affirm the number of the English in this Isle but according to the last survey taken and returned into England some Yeares since by Sr. Thomas Modiford late Governour each Precinct or Parish contained as followeth A general Account of the Precincts or Parishes Families and Inhabitants in Jamaica taken by order of Sir Thomas Modiford then Governour as aforesaid Parishes Families Inhabitants Port-Royal 500 3500 St. Katherines 658 6270 St. Johns 083 996 St. Andrews 194 1552 St. Davids 080 960 St. Thomas 059 590 Clarindon 143 1430   1714 15298 Note that the Four Parishes on the North-side of the Isle to witt St. George's St. Maries St. Annes and St. James as also the Leeward most Parish called St. Elizabeth together with these two not named both adjoyning on St. Elizabeths the one Eastwards and the other Northwards was not as then so particularly surveyed by reason of their distance and new Settlements nevertheless they were found according to Calculation to amount to about 2000 Inhabitants But all these parts as also those seven aforenamed are now exceedingly encreased being supposed to be encreased to double if not treble the number And the great encouragement of gaining Riches with a pleasant life doth invite every year abundance of People to Inhabite here quitting their concerns at Barbadoes and other our American Plantations so that in a short time without doubt it will become the most potent and richest Plantation in the West-Indies And besides the aforesaid number of Inhabitants in the said 14 Precincts or Parishes there are reckoned to belong to the Island of Privateers Hunters Sloop and Boatmen which ply about the Isle at the least 3000 lusty and stout Fighting Men whose courage hath been sufficiently evidenced in their late exploit and attempt made against the Spaniards at Panama Their Lawes Their Lawes are assimulated as near as may be to those of England having their several Courts Magistrates and Officers for the executing of Justice on criminal Offenders and the hearing and determination of Causes or Controversies betwixt party and party Having thus made a short desscription of the Island as to its Scituation Fertility Commodities Harbours Towns and Precincts with an estimate of the number of its Inhabitants In the next place I shall give you the state of the Isle when the Spaniards were possessors thereof and wind up my discourse with some seasonable considerations relating to the English Affairs in America with reasons to justifie the first design in taking it and why his Majesty should keep and support it And of these in order The state of the Spaniards in this Island The Spaniards first setled on the North-west part of the Isle under the Conduct of Columbus and built the Town of Mellila but disliking the Scituation removed to Oristana and finding that also to be ill seated and unhealthful again removed and setled at St. Jago or St. Jago de la vega where with the assistance of the Indians they built a fair Town or City which I have already treated of And in this Town Inhabited all the Spaniards that were in the Isle at the Landing of the English keeping their slaves at their several small Plantations or Stanchas who failed not to bring them store of Fruits Provisions which they luxuriously spent in their houses never intending any thing but to live at ease and plenty For on this large and fertile Island there was no Manufacture or Commodity made except a little Sugar Tabacco and Cocao and those few Ships that came hither traded generally for Hydes Tallow Jamaica Pepper and Cocao but not to any considerable account And the number of Inhabitants did not exceed 3000 of which half if not more were Slaves And the reason why it was so thinly peopled was because the Spaniards generally desire to be in Nova Hispana or Hispaniola but chiefly because this Isle was held in proprietership by the heirs of the Duke of Veragua-Columbus who received the Revenues and placed Governours as absolute Lord of it And at the first it was planted by a kind of Portugals the society of whom the Spaniards abhors Upon the approach of the English-Army after their landing the Inhabitants of St. Jago deserted the Town and betook themselves to the Mountains pretending a Treaty with the English untill such time as they had secured their Women and Goods and then did they make several attempts and upon surprisals murthered many of the English but the Spaniards soon growing weary of that wild and mountainous course of Life perceiving small hopes of expelling the English divers of the Grandees got into Cuba who by the Vice-Roy of Alexico's order were commanded back with a promise of a speedy and considerable supply of men upon which they returned somwhat encouraged and dispersed themselves by Families that they might the better get provisions and avoid the being discovered by the English but this necessitous and unusual course of life killed many of them and discouraged the rest for that in all this time there came to their succour but too Souldiers and those refused to joyn with them as being so few and sickly so that they marched back to the North of the Island and at a place called St. Chereras did fortify themselves every day expecting a new body of Men to joyn with them But the English discovering their quarters marched against them Some few months after about 30 small Companies of the Spanish Forces arrives and immediately very strongly Fortify Rio Nova having Ordnance and great store of Ammunition yet were they speedily and succesfully defeated by the Valour of the English under the Conduct of Leiutenant General Edw. D'oyley And this grand disaster with many petty ill successes caused the Spaniards to dispair of regaining the Island and to ship off most of their Plat●● and Women and the Negroes finding the greatest part of their Masters to be dead killed the Governour and declined all obedience to the Spaniards appointing a Black for their Governour And such was the necessity of the Spaniards that instead of giving them fitting correction they were constrained to Court them for their assistance but all their policy would not prevail upon them for soon after did they submitt to the English Goverment and made discoveries of the Spaniards and Negroes that would not come in with them and did further assist the English in the taking of them in which they have been exceeding succesful In the year following the Spaniards quite deserted the Island except it were about 30 or 40 of their Slaves who betook themselves to the Mountaines but being afraid of a Discovery and to be pursued to Death for some Murthers they had committed built themselves Conoas and in them fled to Cuba and never since