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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

that a Hare came into their Countrey and made the first men and after preserved them from a great Serpent and two other Hares coming thither the first killed a Deer for their entertainment which was then the only Deer in the World and strewing the hairs of that Deers hide every Hair proved a Deer Virginia after the first discovery cost no small pains and experience before it was brought to perfection with the loss of many Englishmens lives In the Reign of King James the first a Patent was granted to certain Persons as a Corporation who were called The Company of Adventurers of Virginia But upon several misdemeanors miscarriages in 1623 the Patent was made void it hath been since free for all his Majesties Subjects to trade to It is Scituate South of Mary-land and hath the Atlantick Ocean on the East The Air is good and the Climate so agreeable to the English especially since the cleering it from Woods that few dy of the Countrey disease called Seasoning The Soil is so fruitful that an Acre of ground commonly yeilds 200 Bushels of Corn and produces readily the Grain Fruits Plants Seeds and Roots which are brought from England besides those that are natural to this Countrey and the rest of America They have plenty of Beasts Fish and Fowl some of their Turkeys being affirmed to weigh six stone or 48 pound The Mockbird is very delightful imitating the notes of all other Birds The Produce of this Country are Flax Hemp Woad Madder Pot-ashes Hops Honey Wax Rape-seed Annise-seed Silk if they would make it since Mulberry Trees grow here in so great plenty several sweet Gums and excellent Balsoms Allum Iron Copper divers sorts of Woods and Plants used by Dyers together with Pitch Tar Rozin Turpentine and sundry sorts of rich Furs Elk-skins and other Hides but above all Tobacco which is their principal Commodity and the Standard whereby all the rest are prized This Countrey is well watered with many great and swift Rivers that lose themselves in the Gulf or Bay of Chesapeak which gives entrance into this Countrey as well as Mary-land being a very large and Capacious Bay and running up into the Countrey Northward above two hundred Miles The Rivers of most Account are James River navigable a hundred and fifty miles York River large and navigable above 60 miles and Rapahanok Navigable above a hundred and twenty miles Adjoining to these Rivers are the English setled for the conveniency of shipping having several Towns the chief whereof is James-Town commodiously seated on James-River very neat and well beautified with Brick Houses where are kept the Courts of Judic●●ure and all Publick Offices which concern the Countrey Next to James is Elizabeth Town well built and seated on the mouth of a River so called Likewise the Towns of Bermuda Wicocomoco and Dales-Gift The Governour is sent over by his Majesty who at present is the Right Honourable the L. Howard of Essingham the Countrey governed by Laws agreeable to those of England for the better observing therof those Parts possessed by the English are divided into the Counties of Caroluck Charles Glocester Hartford Henrico James New Kent Lancaster Middlesex Nausemund Lower Norfolk Northampton Northumberland Rappahanock Surrey Warwick Westmoreland the Isle of Wight and York In each of which Counties are held petty Courts every Month from which there may be Appeals to the Quarter Court at James Town They have great store of Wild Beasts as Lyons Bears Leopards Tygers Wolves and Dogs like Wolves but bark not Buffelo's Elke whose flesh is as good as Beef Likewise Deer Hares Bevers Otters Foxes Martins Poulcats Weasels Musk-Rats Flying Squirrels c. And for tame Cattle Cows Sheep Go●ts Hogs and Horses in great plenty CHAP. X. A Prospect of Carolina with the Scituation and Product thereof CArolina so called from his late Majesty King Charles the Second of Glorious memory is a Colony not long since established by the English and is that part of Florida adjoining to Virginia between twenty nine and thirty six degrees of Northern Latitude On the East it is washed with the Atlantick Ocean and is bounded on the West by Mare Pacificum or the South Sea and within these bounds is contained the most fertile and pleasant part of Florida which is so much commended by the Spanish Authors Of which I cannot give a more ample Account than has been done already by an Englishman who has lived and was concerned in the settlement thereof and shall therefore repeat what he has deliveted in his own words This Province of Carolina was in the Year 1663. Granted by Letters Patents of his late Gracious Majesty in Propriety unto the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon George Duke of Albemarl William Earl of Craven John Lord Berkely Anthony Lord Ashly now Earl of Shaftsbury Sir George Carteret and Sir John Colleton Knights and Baronets Sir William Berkely Knight by which Letters Patents the Laws of Eagland are to be of force in Carolina but the Lords Proprietors have power with the consent of the Inhabitants to make By-Laws for the better Government of the said Province So that no Money can be raised or Law made without the consent of the Inhabitants or their Representatives They have also power to appoint and impower Governours and other Magistrates to Grant Liberty of Conscience make Constitutions c. With many other great Ptiviledges as by the said Letters Patents will more largely appear And the said Lords Proprietors have there setled a Constitution of Government whereby is granted Liberty of Conscience and wherein all possible care is taken for the equal Administration of Justice and for the lasting Security of the Inhabitants both in their Persons and Estates By the care and endeavours of the said Lords Proprietors and at their very great charge two Colonies have been setled in this Province the one at Albemarle in the most Northerly part the other at Ashly River which is in the Latitude of thirty two Degrees od Minutes Albemarle bordering upon Virginia and only exceeding it in Health Fertility and Mildness of the Winter is in the Growths Productions and other things much of the same nature with it Wherefore I shall not trouble the Reader with a particular Description of that part but apply my self principally to discourse of the Colony at Ashly-River which being many Degrees more Southward than Virginia differs much from it in the Nature of its Climate and Productions Ashly-River was first setled in April 1670. the Lords Proprietors having at their sole charge set out three Vessels with a considerable number of able Men eighteen Moneths Victuals with Clothes Tools Ammunition and what else was thought necessary for a new Settlement and continued at this charge to supply the Colony for divers years after until the Inhabitants were able by their own Industry to live of themselves in which condition they have been for divers years past and are arrived to a very great Degree

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him Prisoner to Mexico While this was doing one of Cortes his Captains at Mexico resolved to perform something in his absence which might render the Spaniards dreadful terrible to the Indians a policy they often used it happened that the Nobility Commons of the City used all kind of sports recreations to divert their Captive King and none more than dancing and revelling all night long in the streets in which divertisements they brought forth all their Wealth Richest Garments and whatever they esteem'd precious The Nobility and Princes of the Royal-Bloud exercised themselves herein near the Houses where their King was confined there being above Two Thousand youths even the flower of the Nobility ingaged therein The Spanish Captain came with a small party of Souldiers as if to be Spectators sending more Troops into other parts of the City giving them Command to be ready at a certain signal and then leading the way he himself cryed out aloud St. Jago let us fall upon them The watchword thus given the Souldiers began to cut and mangle those noble and delicate youths with such fury that they left not one alive and their rich Garments and Jewels were made a prize by the Spaniards The Indians beholding this unheard of cruelty and injustice having long endured with patience the imprisonment of their King who had charged them to be quiet now fly all to arms and falling upon the Spaniards wounded many and pursued others at length putting a dagger to the breast of their King Montezuma they threatned to kill him unless he would look out atth Window and Command his Subjects to lay down thei Arms But they contemning his Orders chose themselves a Captain when Cortes returned again in good time to relieve his men and Montezuma being again commanded by his Spanish Guardians to speak to the People he was wounded on the Temples by a stone whereof he died 3 daies after Cortes had some Thousands of Taxallans to assist him and yet was forced to fly out of Mexico privately by night with all his Spaniards and Indians which yet was not unknown by the Mexicans so that an alarm being raised they cut off their Bridges and made a great slaughter among them the Spaniards losing most of their ill got Treasure And their number increasing to two hundred thousand they pursued them with all speed but Cortes having the good fortune to kill their Standard-bearer the Indians forsook the Field The Taxallans raising an Army of fifty thousand men joined with Cortes and took in divers places and then building several Frigots or Brigantines he soon took all the Indian Canoes upon the Lake Quabutimoc who succeeded Montezuma being incouraged from the Devils Oracle made all possible defence for saving Mexico sometimes conquering and being other while beaten by the Spaniards who fired a great part of the City One day the Mexicans having gotten an advantage against the Spaniards they thereupon celebrated a Feast of Victory The Priests going into the Temple made a Perfume of sweet Gums and then sacrified forty Spanish Prisoners opening their breasts plucking out their hearts and sprinkling their bloud in the Air their companions looking on unable to revenge it the Mexicans mean while dancing beating their drums drinking themselves drunk and using all manner of expressions of Joy At length Rage Revenge and Disdain had so filled the Spaniards breasts that having hitherto been more careful of ruining the City which they hoped to preserve for their own use they now resolved utterly to destroy it to which the dreadful Famine and Pestilence within did as much contribute as their Fury without so that after three months Siege Mexico is taken and rased to the ground with the loss of Fifty Spaniards and Six Horses but of the Mexicans an hundred thousand besides those who died of the Plague and Hunger the King himself being taken Prisoner and that mighty City and State utterly subverted this happened Aug. 13. 1521. which day is kept as a yearly Festival by the Spaniards to this day Mexico was afterward rebuilt with an hundred thousand Houses fairer and stronger than before Thus fell the Great Montezuma and his mighty Empire with him Thus fell he who was honoured as a God whom it was death for any of the Common People to look in the face who never set his foot on the ground abroad but was carried upon the shoulders of Noblemen in a Chariot of pure Gold and if he happened to alight trod upon rich Tapestry He who never put on one Garment twice never us'd any Vessel or Dish though of Gold but once and yet all these Magnificences were so far from procuring him happiness that they were the chief incentives to covetous and ambitious Spirits to contrive his Ruin Yet was not this general Devastation without some prodigous forerunners of the same The King of Tescuco a great Magician and divers other Sorcerers confirmed the declaration of the Idol Cholola That a strange People should come and possess his Kingdom These Sorcerers being imprisoned by the King immediately vanished away But a stranger thing happened by report to a poor man who was taken up by an Eagle and carried into a certain Cave where being set down the Eagle pronounced these words Most mighty Lord I have brought him whom thou hast commanded There he saw one like Montezuma lying asleep who uttering several dreadful threatnings against the King the man was again carried away by the Eagle and set down in the place where he had been first seized Strange voices were likewise heard with Earth quakes and overflowings of Rivers A prodigious Bird of the bigness of a Crane was taken having on his head as it were a Glass representing armed men which being brought into the Kings presence instantly disappeared and was never seen after The King endeavoured to have appeased his Gods by Sacrifice and would therefore have removed a great Stone which yet he could not possibly do by any strength or other means he used which was thought to be an Ominous presage that his Deities were not to be reconciled These things were certainly told by the Indians which if true may be accounted the Illusions of the Devil whereby he somtimes forwarns his Votaries III. Neither ought Americus Vespusius a Florentine to be forgotten who was Second to Columbus in the glory of this grand and successful enterprize of discovering the New World who at the charge of Emanuel King of Portugal undertook the business He had been one of Columbus his Companions in the first expedition and consequently did now but trace the way that Columbus had before shewed him yet had he this happiness and Honour above his Predecessor to give his name unto the discovered Country the whole continent of the New World being ever since from him generally called America this man at the charge of King Emanuel in 1502. with a competent number of Ships and men crossed the Equinoctial Line and discovered the Coasts of

Guiana and Brasil beyond the Tropique of Capricorn to 32 degrees of Southern Latitude where having stay'd some time and taken possession of the Countrey after their usual Formalities they held on their course beyond the River of Plate to 52 degrees to the height of the Streights of Magellane but being here taken with foul weather and their Ships much impaired by Storms they were forced to return homeward by the Coast of Africa The year following he attempted another Voyage directing his course for Insula Real in the Country of Brasil but having passed Cape Verde and Sierra Liona upon the Coast of Guinney by great misfortune the Ship which carried their Provisions was sunk and 300 Hogsheads of Victuals and other necessaries for the Company were utterly lost by which disaster they were forced again to turn homeward how long he lived and what expeditions he made after this are not remembred in History IV. Francis Pizarro a Person of very mean birth and Education was likewise very fortunate in discoveries for going from Sivil in Spain where he was born to the Indies he went in company of Almagro and others to discover the South-sea in 1526. Pizarro offering to land his men was wounded and forced to retire to his Ships Almagro in another place had better success the Indians using him kindly and presenting him three thousand Duckets of Gold but endeavouring to land in that place of Pizarro's misfortune he was set upon by the Indians and lost one of his eyes in the encounter At length they met at Panama and having cured their wounds and recruited their Forces with two hundred men and many Slaves they set sail and landed at another place but are beaten back to their Ships and forced to an Island called Gorgon six miles from the Continent where Pizarro stay'd while Almagro went back for greater supplies but both he and his company were almost starved before Almagro's return being refreshed and strengthned they once more attempt the Indian Shore but were again repelled both from thence and the Island so that they resolved to go further coursing this Land and their ill fortune and having sailed five hundred miles they came to Chira a Province in Perue and having Intelligence by some of the Natives of the great wealth of this Countrey Pizarro sent one Peter a Candian on shore who was kindly treated by the Governor by whom he was shewed a Temple dedicated to the Sun wherein were inestimable riches whereupon it was agreed among the Partners in this Enterprize that Pizarro should return to Spain and get a License for this Conquest which he did accordingly but yet only for himself absolutely leaving his Companions out of the Grant and returning with Letters Pattents to Panama with his four brethren Hernando Gonzalo John and Martin de Alcantara his brother by ●he Mothers side his Partners were much disturbed ●hereat however after much quarelling Pizarro and Almagro agreed to make an equal division of their booty Pizarro goes before with an hundred and fifty Souldiers ordering Almagro to follow with all the strength ●e could make and Lands in Peru a River so called which gave name to those great and wealthy Provinces ●hey went by Land enduring much misery by the way ●ill they came to Puna where they were well received of the Governor till by abusing their Wives they provoked the Indians to take Arms but were soon defeated ●nd thereby their Riches became a prey to the prevail●ng Spaniards The Governor of this Island to satisfy his Jealousy ●ut off the Noses Privy Members and Arms of his Eunuchs Here Pizarro heard first of Atabaliba for the Governor taking part with Guascar Atabaliba's Brother who were at that time at War about the Soveraignty of the Kingdom he had taken six hundred of his Enemies Prisoners who now coming into Pizarro's hands ●e freely sent them to Tumbez a great Indian Town be●onging to Atabaliba and three Messengers with them to ●emand peace and safe entrance but notwithstanding ●heir Captives were so generously restored they ingratefully delivered the three Spaniards to their bloudy Priests to be sacrificed to the Idol of the Sun Upon this Pizarro took Tumbez and plunder'd the Temple and City From thence he marches toward Guatimala where Guascar sent some with great promises to desire his aid against his Brother Soon after others came from Atabaliba with a peremptory command that he should return back to his Ships Pizarro answered That he came thither not to hurt any but for their good as his Lord and Emperour had given him in charge nor could he now return without much dishonour being an Ambassador from the Pope and Emperor who were Lords of the World before he had seen King Atabaliba 's Royal Person and bad communicated to him such wholsome Counsels and Instructions as might be good both for his body and Soul Pizarro passed forward and as he went through the Province of Chira the Lords thereof provoked him against Atabaliba who had lately conquered their Countreys these Civil distractions did much facilitate the Spaniards Victories on the River Chira he setled the Colony of St. Michael for securing his Spoils and then marcht on to Guatimala sending Messengers on Horseback to give notice of his coming the Indians having never before seen an Horse were extreamly surprised but Atabaliba was little moved thereat though very much concerned that those Bearded Men afforded him such small Reverence and Respect he sent Pizarro a Pair of Shoes cut and Gilded under pretence of distinguishing and knowing him from others though it was judged a design to seize and kill him The next day the King was carried in Solemn Triumph upon the Shoulders of his Nobility in great Pomp and Magnificence Guarded with Twenty five Thousand Indians when Vincent a Dominican Frier coming before him with great Reverence holding a Cross in one hand and his Breviary or as some say a Bible in the other he blessed him with the Cross and said Most Excellent Prince it much concerns you to believe that God in Trinity and Vnity Created the World out of nothing and Formed a Man of the Earth whom he called Adam of whom we had all our beginning that Adam sinned against his Creator by disobedience and in him all his Posterity except Jesus Christ who being God came down from Heaven and took the flesh of the Virgin Mary and to save and redeem Mankind dyed upon a Cross like to this in my hand for which cause we worship it After his death he rose again the third day and after forty days ascended into Heaven leaving for his Vicar on Earth St. Peter and his Successors which we call Popes one of whom hath now given the most Puissant King of Spain Emperor of the Romans the Monarchy of the World Obey the Pope therefore worthy Prince and receive the faith of Christ which if you will believe to be most Holy and your own most false you shall do well but know that if you do

their Division the French more of the plain Country fit for Tillage The English exceed the French in number but the French have four Forts and the English only two and to prevent differences between the two Nations each of them have a Guard upon the Frontiers of their Division which is renewed every day There is a fine Salt Pit in the Island and some conceive there is a Silver Mine but because the Salt Pits Woods Havens and Mines are common to both People it is not regarded besides the great stock and multitude of slaves which such an enterprize would require The true Silver Mine is Sugar This Island may be easily incompassed by Land but one cannot pass through the midst of it by reason of several great and steep Mountains between which are dreadful Rocks Precipices and springs of hot Water yea some springs of Sulphur which causeth one of them to be called the Sulphur Mountain The Island seems to descend gently toward the Sea and is divided into several Stages from the uppermost whereof a man may take a very pleasant Prospect of all the Plantations from thence downward There are many gallant Houses built both by the English and French and the English have also erected five fair Churches well furnished within with Pulpits and Seats of excellent Joyners work of precious wood The Ministers being sent thither by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury The French and English Colonies had their beginning at the same time for in 1625. Monsieur Desnambuck a French and St. Thomas Warner an English Gentleman jointly took possession of St. Christophers on the same day in the names of the Kings of Great Britain and France their Masters that they might have a place of safe retreat and a good Haven for the Ships of both Nations bound for America as being well furnished with Provisions and therefore often visited by the Spaniards who sometimes left the sick there to be look'd to by the Caribeans with whom they had made a peace upon those Terms These two Gentlemen having thus taken possession of the Island left some men therein to secure it and returned for the further establishment of these Colonies to their respective Countreys But before they parted hence suspecting some private Intelligence between the Indians and Spaniards for destroying all the English and French in their absence they in one night rid their hands of the most factious of that Nation and soon after forced all the rest who were got together in several Bodies and stood upon their Guard to retire to some other Islands and leave that to their disposal After this they both returned home where their Conquests and Proceedings being approved of by the Kings their Masters they returned with recruits of men in the quality of Governors and Lieutenants under the Kings of Great Britain and France and having divided the Island according to their first Agreement and the English having plentiful Provisions from London prospered much more than the French who wanted necessary assistance In 1629. a powerfull Fleet from Spain under Don Frederick de Toledo had received order from that King that before he fell down to the Havana he should touch at St. Christophers and force thence all the English and French who had planted themselves there for some years before This Navy consisted of twenty four great Ships of Burden and fifteen Frigots who first seized some English Ships lying at Anchor near the Isle of Mevis And then came and cast Anchor in the Road of St. Christophers in the French Division and the Forts of both Colonies being not in a condition to stand out a Siege unfurnished with Ammunition and Provisions nay all the Forces of the Nations in Conjunction not being able to have opposed so great an Army it was a great discouragement to them yet resolving the Enemy should not boast they had compassed their designs without blows they made a very Vigorous opposition but being over powered by number the French forsook the Island ●●snam●u● Imbarquing all his Men in certain Ships which chanced to be in the Haven The Quarters of the English upon this Intelligence were in great disorder and in continual expectation that the Spaniards would fall upon them Some endeavouring to escape by Sea or shelter themselves in the Mountains while others somewhat more couragious sent Deputies to Don Frederick to propose an accommodation But all the answer they received was an express command immediately to depart the Island or to be treated with that Rigour which the Law of Arms permits to be used toward those who wrongfully possess what belongs not to them and to speed their departure he ordered those English Ships taken at Mevis should be restored to them wherein they should Imbarque Instantly for England and because it was impossible those Vessels should contain so great a number he permitted the rest to continue in the Isle till they had opportunity of Transportation These things dispatcht Don Frederick weighed Anchor but as soon as the Fleet was out of sight the English who were left behind began to rally and took a resolution couragiously to carry on the Settlement of their Colony During these Transactions at St. Christophers the French who went to Sea having suffered many inconveniences were forced to put in at the Islands of St. Martin and Montserrat but looked on them as Desarts in comparison of the place they had left and being desirous to be informed of the condition of the Spaniards there sent one of their Ships to St. Christophers who returning gave them an account the Enemy was gone and the English couragiously imployed in Re building Planting and repairing Desolations This unexpected good News revived their decayed hopes and persuaded them to a speedy return The English Colony with constant supplies from London from that time grew very powerful peopling not only this place but sending new Plantations from hence to Barbuda Montserrat ●ntego and Barbadoes which are grown very numerous and famous for the Trade of the rich commodities they are furnished with as well as this curious Island whose chiefest Trade is Sugar Tobacc● Cotton Ginger with several other sorts of Fruits and Provisions The Rocquet is a pretty Animal in this Isle their skin is of the colour of a withered leaf marked with little Yellow or blewish Points they go on four feet those before being highest their Eyes lively and sparkling their heads always lifted up and so active that they leap up and down perpetually like Birds when they make no use of their Wings their Tails are so turned up toward their back that they make a Circle and an half They love to look upon men and are constantly staring on them When they are pursued they open their Mouths and put out their Tongues like little Hounds There is a large Bird in the Carribees called the Eagle of Orinca much like an Eagle in shape All his Feathers are of light Gray marked with black Spots save that the ends of

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