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A54990	A description of the province of New Albion and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely, and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : with a briefe of the charge of victuall, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master 50 l. per annum, or more in twelve trades, and at 10 l. charges onely a man.	Plantagenet, Beauchamp.; Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2378; ESTC R10729	28,128	32

Honour For an Earl by his Charter carrieth his Honour with him in all places and that is his true name as above is adjudged and is not to be sued or sue is adjudged without it and so the nine learned Civilians and Serjeants have certified and Nova Scotia is so annexed to Scotland Adam de Valentia and Marshall Earle Palatines of Pembroke by Conquest in the kingdome or Principality of Wales then out of England was a Peer to the English Parliament and so the three Irish Conquerours Palatines recited and how absurd a conceit it is that our Earl Palatine in Albion and he of Pembroke in Wales and the rest having all Regalities and Powers Lordship Honour and Titles and power to give Honours and make Barons coming out of their Countries into England should here bee un-Lorded and debased unto Esquires without Lordship Honour or Precedency And note all these and Earl Fitz Allen in his locall Earldome of Arundel by Writ being called to Parliament is not there by an Earl for to be called by Writ is onely to be a Lord or Baron and so the Earle of Arundels Title and Precedency was adjudged him after long debate by Parliament To conclude the Earl Palatines of Chester and Pembroke and Montgomery or de Belesmo in Shropshire were the greatest Princes of England and by their Conquests and so in Ireland by their Hazard and Conquests that kingdome and Wales is gotten to this Crown And so the now Lord five Proprietors that now conquer on Indians and convert Pagans and civilize them and bring them to the obedience of our Soveraign and at their own charges have made an entrance and sure way with the other Colonies of America to make our Soveraign an Emperour of America having now neer two hundred thousand to defend his Empire and therefore deserve all Honour and Encouragement amongst which our Earl Palatine having adventured in person seven years with so much hazard and charges is chiefly to be advanced and honoured according to his worth Now for the pedegree and ancient Family of our Earl Palatine of 1200 years descent being in England and borders of Wales I finde onely a letter in the name changed in each Age and Conquest or change of Nation for in Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmsbury his Chronicles of all the Saxon Princes that here arrived and seated and conquered the Britains this family descending of a daughter came with those Princes into Britany and I find that in lower Saxony neer Hamboro and Holstein a member of the Empire and in all Maps there is still in that harsh language Ployen a wall'd City by a lake and Plowen a walled Castle of Count Plowen a Count of the sacred Empire in Grimstons and other Histories mentioned Now the Welch make and turn the vowel u into i or y as from Brutus to Britons so Plowden to Ployden as all Maps write it In Deeds and the Bishop of Herefords Records I find Anno Domini 904. an Exchange pro decem manlis vocat Ploydanes place super quas Episcopus aedificaturus est Castrum called Bishops Castle in which Town the Ploydens have much lands and tenements having Ployden Manor Ployden Hall Longvili Castle and thirteen Townes about it to this day and at the coming in of H. the seventh were Commanders of that country and Constables or Chastellains of that Fort of Bishops Castle now Ployden and Ployden is all one Forest of Danes for Denc the Norman pronuntiation which name of Ployden signifieth kill Dane or wound Dane and Pleyden by Ry in Sussex was of this house and signifieth in French hurt Dane and this Pleyden sent his sons and conquered in Normandy where are five families yet and the heir of Pleyden wanting issue made it an Hospitall now held by the Earle of Thanet Lord Toston So Plowen Ployen Ploydane Ployden Plowden and Pleyden is all one for the change of time and severall Nations pronunciation Saxons Danes English Welch and Normans And note to this day an Esquire in France of 300 yeares standing of Coat Armor shall take place and precedency of any Earle Vicount or Baron which is not so ancient of Coat Armor they not allowing the King by new creations to bar their inheritance and precedency And for their greatnesse and pedegree I finde Ployden maried the daughter of John de Monte Gomerico now called Mount Gomery Earl of Salopshire in William the Conquerours reign and in Edward the thirds time maried the daughter of that great and rich Knight Burley Conquerour in France Humphrey Ployden in H. the sevenths time maried the daughter and heir Stury of Stury Hall daughter of Corbet of Morton Corbet by whom the Lacons Laytons Bromlees Purcelswollascot of Wollascot and the two Baronets Lee and Corbet Knights for the County of Salop to this Parliament are of his kindred And of the daughters of Iohn Ployden Lord Blany of Ireland and of the other daughter maried to Hardwick grandmother to that great Thin of Clause Castle the third daughter maried to Walcot of Walcot Close to Ployden yet men of great possessions the Countesse of Bristoll being a Walcot and so her sons the Lord Digby and Sir Lewis Dives and Vicountesse Chichester or Belfast and the other Ladies her daughters are descended and are his kindred Our Earl Palatines mother being sister of Sir Richard Fermor of Somerton and cousen of Sir George and Sir Hatton Fermor descended of the Knightlies and so the Lord Vicount Say and Seal the Countesse of Thomond a Fermor and her children and Vicount Wenman marying Sir Hatton Fermors children the Baronesse of Aborgenny and her sister maried to Baronet Gage are his Neeces his mother the Lady Penel●pe daughter to the Lord Darcy Vicount Colchester Earl River● but his branches for three last descents are so many and at least fifty Baronets Knights Esquires of 1000 l. per annum at least and their numerous issue but for heirs males of the name his first is Ployden of Wansteed Ployden of Shipplacke Ployden of Askon Ployden of Ployden and Ployden of Lee and Doctor Ployden late of Lambeth And for his now wife Countesse Palatine daughter and heir to two worthy families Neece of Sir George and Sir Hambden Paulet deceased in that pedegree 300 from the Marquesse of Winchester Lord high Treasurer of England are allied All which I have more fully published that all of his kindred may any ways poor or oppressed the sooner be preferred advanced and transplanted to this most rich and pleasant Province and to great possessions and honours there as great Strongbow did 1200 of his to Wexford and Lemster in Ireland CHAP. II. NOW for the full and ample satisfaction of the Reader of his Majesties just title power to grant enjoy possesse these countries as well against Aliens as Indians which this forty years hath not been by print declared You may read at large Master Hacluits Voyages and Discoveries Master Purchas and Captain Smiths for

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW ALBION And a Direction for Adventurers with small stock to get two for one and good land freely And for Gentlemen and all Servants Labourers and Artificers to live plentifully And a former Description re-printed of the healthiest pleasantest and richest Plantation of New Albion in North Virginia proved by thirteen witnesses TOGETHER WITH A Letter from Master Robert Evelin that lived there many years shewing the particularities and excellency thereof With a briefe of the charge of victuall and necessaries to transport and buy stock for each Planter or Labourer there to get his Master 50 l. per Annum or more in twelve trades and at 10 l. charges onely a man Printed in the Year 1648. The Order Medall and Riban of the Albion Knights of the Conversion of 23 Kings their support Non arma nec Indi feroces Non Immensi Tremor Oceani DOCEBO INIQVOS VIAS TVAS ET IMPII AD TE CONVERTENTVR EDMVNDVS COMES PALATINVS ET GVBER N ALBION SIC SVOS VIRTVS BEAT Ploydens Arms True virtue mounted aloft on Honour high In a Serene Conscience as clear as skie Albions Arms All power on life and death the Sword and Crown On Gospels Truth shines Honour and Renown This Epistle and Preface shews Catoes best rules for a Plantation To the Right Honourable and mighty Lord Edmund by Divine Providence Lord Proprieter Earl Palatine Governour and Captain Generall of the Province of New Albion and to the Right Honourable the Lord Vicount Monson of Castlemain the Lord Sherard Baron of Letrim and to all other the Vicounts Barons Baronets Knights Gentlemen Merchants Adventurers and Planters of the hopefull Company of New Albion in all 44 undertakers and subscribers bound by Indenture to bring and settle 3000 able trained men in our said severall Plantations in the said Province Beauchamp Plantagenet of Belvil in New Albion Esquire one of the Company wisheth all health happinesse and heavenly blessings May it please your good Lordships and fellow Adventurers HAving been blasted with the whirlwind of this late unnaturall and civill English war seeing the Storm more likely to encrease then to calm I recollected my former Journall and Manuall notes of my Travails by Land and Sea forty years since in Italy France Germany Poland and Belgia and finding Omne solum forti patria ut piscibus aequor I perused all the books of any English Colonies and by often conferences of the traders and resident planters of the present state condition numbers enemies bad neighbours aire health government fortification and saftety religion quietnesse profit and returns shipping for supplie and vent of the growing commodities I conferred with my fellow patients 7 Knights and Gentlemen my kindred and neighbours and reporting the true state of all our Colonies and whiles thus musing I stood at a maze unresolved the storm grew far more tempestuous with thunder and lightning black and terrible gusts and spouts that made the rivers rise and my friends to hide for the roaring Cannon beat down their wals and houses the Musqueteers Dragoons and Pistold horsemen swept all Cattell and their goods afore them the Pikemen in their inclosures and retreats left them no beds pots or pans their silver plate was turned into earthen dishes New names and terms like an unknown language and like to strange people unheard of in all the Globe as far as our Antipodes called Cavalleers Presbyters Independents Roundheads and Malignants like the Gothes Huns and Vandalls and Alans that invaded and conquered Italy Spaine and France and like the Saxons Jutes and Angles that conquered Britanny These having plundered and put upon us new Laws and Ordinances called Contribution Excise Quartering and Sequestrations my friends were now and rightly by Gods Providence made light and not troubled or incumbred with much stuffe to travel with nor Farms Tenements or Copyholds and for our sins our pride abated our hearts humbled our afflictions made us pray heartily and call to God to direct us to infuse contrition and true sorrow and purpose of amendment to follow his calling Wee found this storm and heavy judgement had likewise afflicted Scotland Ireland Man Jarsey and Garasey Isles Then perusing my old evidences I found my Auncestor Sir Richard Plantagenes had Chawton Blendworth Clanfield and Catrington in Hampshire But in those Civil-wars in Henry the sixth time much like these or that of the Guelfs and Gibellines in Italy all was lost I resolved to be a Newter in this quarrell not to kill English men and Christians but with Christ to fly into Egypt and like the Apostle Paul to fly out of one City into another and get out of the fire At last my seven Knights and Gentlemen imployed me the oldest and boldest Traveller to see all English Plantations by warrant to buy land in the healthiest and best for us eight and for a hundred servants and twenty of our old tenants and families But in my private instructions I was on a full and deliberate counsell directed to follow old Catoes rules in seating of the Romane Colonies begun to be seated to save charge of Garrisons in new Conquests First to seat in a healthy pure aire else after all the hazzard charge and building past their people die and their posterity extinguish and their children inherit ficknes weaknesse Secondly to sit down in a fresh navigable river for trade and supply where there was stone neer to build and not to build on wood subject to firing of enemies negligence of servants or treachery of slaves and apprentices for this reason I on my view of Virginia disliked Virginia most of it being seated scatteringly in wooden clove board houses where many by fire were undone and by two massacres in an instant fired without any forts there or retreats of safety in time of danger and seated amongst Saltmarches and Creeks where thrice worse then Essex and Tenet and Kent for agues and diseases brackish water to drink and use and a flat Country and standing waters in woods bred a double corrupt air so the elements corrupted no wonder as the old Virginians affirm the sicknesse there the first thirty years to have killed 100000 men And then generally five of six imported died and now in Iune Iuly and August chiefly one in nine die imported absent a year and returning though much land more now is cleared and victuall and cattell mendeth the diet Thirdly Catoes and the third Romane rule was to seat in rich land so that the richnesse of the place and neernesse of husbandry may continue the Colony with plenty and safety this also Virginia for the most part wanteth they living in salts and most of their lands after two crops is a light hot earth which kils barley with the hot ground and Sun in May Thus instructed I viewed Barbadoes and Saint Christophers Bermudoes New England and Virginia and Maryland Saint Christophers I finde worne out two parts full of French aliens subject to

Belgium by 5 years living an Officer in Ireland and this last 7 years in America his studie and suits at home and abroad enabling his impartiall and infallible judgement of Judicature and certainly his perfect knowledge of his 23 Indian Kings under the command of this our Lord Royall as of his good and bad neighbours their power wealth and weaknesse English Aliens and Indians appears by his notes and books where none of their treacheries plots conspiracies haltings and villanies their Antagonists their numbers and abilities the advantage of our armes and fights and stratagerns are as Greek phalanges and they as Romane Manuples and enemies to side with and how to quiet and regain kill or surprise them is not expressed What Port Bay and soundings Creek river rock quarries of stone slat Iron mines Gum-Dragoon Lead Gold and Silver Alablaster Terras Bolarmack red soap earth Terra-lemnia Diers ware Hearbs and Plants and their use Ocar Rudle Cinnaber for quicksilver and Vermilion is not in particular Cards by compasse and scale in books with the trials and witnesses recorded What land and sea profit fishing place for salt Potas Dies Fruits Hearbs and Plants clear Fields great Plains fine and thick Grasse Marshes necks of land rich black moulded countries for Tobacco Flaxe Rice choice Trees and Timber for Shipping and Pipestaves Masts Yards Pitch Tar sheltred places for Grapes and Fruits Cotten in Cotten river invincible places by nature others by a little charge and fort to be made impregnable is not in this huge and waste Province being 1000 mile compasse delineated and what Law or Policy and summary Justice Courts of Law Equity Appeals Awards or references fit to compose differences reconcile debates to unite hearts to settle the factious and seditious in any other English Colonies or Countries and fit for our Justice is not explained Therefore my good Lords and Adventurers since I speak of knowledge by view and certain reports of wise and knowing men I shall joy and congratulate with you all in so able sufficient and honourable a Governour happily to rule to defend and doe us justice a tried and seasoned man and excellent Pilot in all this Land and Seas not afeard in person as a true Captain Generall by Land and Sea to leade and settle us by Boat Horse or Foot as able and willing as any of the meanest and therfore I think at first it most materiall to expresse the Law Statutes and Judgements and Acts of Parliament of Counts and Count Palatines and County Palatines and of our Province and County Palatine Liberties and the ancient family 1200 year from the Saxons in England of our Earl Palatine his pedegree and alliance And since according as other Palatines as he of Chester and Duresme made their Barons and Knights as therein many are yet living you my Lord have begun to honour first your own children I tender my best respects unto your Lps sonne and heir apparant Francis Lord Ployden Baron of Mount Royall D. Governour and to Thomas Lord Ployden Baron of Roymont High Admirall and to the Lady Winefrid Baronesse of Vvedale the pattern of mildnesse and modesty and to the Lady Barbara Baronesse of Ritchneck the mirrour of wit and beauty and to the Lady Katherine Baronesse of Princeport that pretty babe of grace whose fair hands I kisse hoping on your Lordships invitation C. C. T. and your two Baronets L. and M. to get them as they promised to goe with us I hope to get your Knights and 200 Planters on this side ready And thus with tender of my service to your Lordships and all the Company I rest Your humblest servant BEAUCHAMP PLANTAGENET Middleboro this 5 of Decemb. 1648. THE CONTENTS OF THE severall Chapters Chap. 1. OF Counts or Earls created and County Palatines and of our Province and County Palatine Liberties and the ancient Family 1200 years of our Earle Palatine from the Saxons in England his pedegree and alliance Ch. 2. His Majesty and his Auncestors just title and actuall possession of these Countries of some Aliens and Pirats in landing and disinheriting the English Crown and of bad English and Fugitives to them adhering the just cause and excuse to expel them Ch. 3. The Description of Master Robert Evelin and 13 witnesses printed 7 years since and now re-printed Ch. 4. The more large and exact Description and Declaration of many things these last seven years the bounds of all to it adjoyning of Virginia Maryland New England and Answer to Objections of bounds The number of the present inhabitants and their Cattell in this Province 1000 miles compasse the number of Indians Ch. 5. What Cargason is necessary to transport for the Lord of a Manor or to trade or truck with the Indians Ch. 6. Our present staple commodities how oft a man transported and stockt to make of his 100 acres 50 or 70 per annum CHAP. I. FOr the first creation of Earls in the Saxons time and since by the Norman Kings in England I refer you to that learned Antiquary Master Selden his Book who writeth at large in his Book of Titles and Honours as well of this as of forain Nations But there you shall finde Records cited and Earls made both by Privy Signet and Privy Seal without the Great Seal And they were not then meerly titulary and nominall without Interest Power and Judicature as now they are commonly all except the Earle of Arundell who still is a locall feodall Earl by possession of the Castle and of some Rapes or Liberties for the Lord Lumley not long since for some yeares being possessed thereof was for such time Earle of Arundell and that Earledome is confirmed and so adjudged with his honour and precedency by the house of Peers entred both in the Parliament and Court of Honour Rols and the Royall Grant was Do tibi Comitatum tertiam partem profitucrum unde Comes est And he made the Sheriffe or his Vicount or Deputy and the County Court was his and it was an honour and office both with the County and assignable the assignee enjoying the County honour and office as in Master Seldens Booke is cited in their Patents and was not so many large words for his Title and Peerage as is now used But in the Reports 9 Iacobi of Sir Iohn Davis in the case of the County Palatine and in the Fourth Part of the Institutes of Sir Edward Coke of Jurisdiction of Courts of the three County Palatines yet in England you may see Acts of Parliament Judgements and full matter shewing That there were Comites Palatini of the first and higher ranke which had in their Territories absolute command in Martiall civill and criminall matters with all Royalties and Regalities which the second order of titulary or nominall Earls had not both in the Saxons and Normans time long before the title of Duke Marquesse or Vicount were here granted Secondly Comes Palatinus was Comes Palatii being a chief Councell and

Companion to the Emperour or King Comes Curarum Par extans Curis solo diademate dispar That in Chester Durham Lancaster and Pembroke were made Earl Palatines and County Palatines and in Ireland in Lemster Earl Strongbows Sir Hugh de Lacy in Meth to Sir Hugh de Lacy the younger in Vister That William Marshall marying Earl Strongbows daughter had by her five daughters So as the Province of Lemster descending to them it was divided into five Counties to each of them one County Palatine That Bracton the ancientest of Lawyers averres Earl Palatines have regall power in all things saving Liegance to the King Hugh Lupus by the Conquerour was made Earl Palatine of the County of Chester as free to the sword as the King to the Crown and the Palatine of Chester made Barons the Baron of Haulton the Baron of Malbanck the Baron Malpas the Baron of Kinderton and in Lancaster the Baron of Walton in Durham the Baron of Hilton and in Meth Magnates and Barons Baron de Streene Baron de Nuven Baron de Baltrim Baron de la Narrow Baron de Rheban in Kildare the Baron Idrone in Caterlogh the Baron of Burn-Church in Kilkenny Baron of Nevill in Wexford Baron of Loughmo in Tiperary Baron Misset and Baron Savage in Vlster That these Earles Palatines had Parliaments made tenures in Capite and grand Serjancy and the tenants sued out Licence of Alienations and all Writs and Pleas Officers Chancelours Judges and that none of the Kings Officers could enter there or that the Kings Writs neither at Law or Chancery did lie or run there and that the County Palatine was thereby absolutely severed from the Crowne That the County Palatine of Lancaster was created by that of Chester and to Chester was annexed his conquered small County of Flint in Wales and made besides the four above foure other Barons Vernon of Saybrook Hammond de Massi Baron of Durham and the Barons of Hawardin and Stockport and in other Antiquities Cornwall Baron of Burford in Shropshire That any Manors or Lands lying out of the County Palatine if held thereof and the pleas of the inhabitants there arising shall bee tried within the County Palatine Thomas and Hugh Count Palatines both and both Bishops pleaded and returned to the Kings Writs I am a Lord Royall here the Kings Writs doe not run here The eldest sisters son by descent after her mother was Earl Palatine of Pembroke And the Law Reports and Abridgements shew they made Knights and as Knights were to be impleaded Divers statutes shew Durham and the Earle Palatines Mints Durham pence yet extant The Earl Palatines had in their Counties Iura Regalia as the King had in his Palace c. In the Lord Lovels Case the name or title of a Baron is no name of dignity or addition 8 H. 6. 10. but Earl is parcell of his name and of the substance of his name and if it be left out of the Writ the Writ shall abate 39 E. 3. 35. the case of Gilbert Vmfrevill Earl of Angus and 14 E. 3. Brief 278. the case of Hugh de Audley Earle of Gloucester yet note Master Burlacy for not calling the Lord Mohun Lord but Mohun was committed to prison and note in a Star-chamber Bill the Lord Verulam his widow marrying Sir Iohn Vnderhill was called and charged as my Lady Vnderhill the late wife of Vicount Verulam and not being called Vicountesse the Bill was cast out and a Fine for dishonour imposed Now there be four other Lord Proprietors that have Palatine jurisdiction granted and Provinces in the West-India Isles Florida and Maryland and as free as the Bishop of Durham had but none have a speciall creation of an Earle Palatine but ours of New Albion nor have they the words with such Additions Titles Dignities and Priviledges as either Durham or any other had nor any speciall grant to coin money in that of Maryland speciall Resort or Soveraign Dominion which is a Court of Appeal as in the case of King E. the third and his son E. in Aquitany with free fishing and wood for houses and to set up fishing stages is reserved Else all the Lord Proprietors have all the like Royalties and Regalities and all these 11 H. 6. in a long Roll particularly expressed are confirmed by Parliament to the Bishop of Durham and so thereby to all the Lord Proprietors And all of them have a speciall clause to give to the well deserving inhabitants in those Provinces Titles Honour and Dignities so as they be not the same used in England Now though some question is made whether the other four Lord Proprietors can make Barons or any Knights in their Provinces because such Honours and Titles of Barons and Knights are used here but there is no question or doubt in the Province of New Albion our Lord being an Earle Palatine 16 years standing as free as Chester and Pembroke or Lacy OF Strongbow in Ireland by that second power according to the judged cases in Law and in Parliament may make Provinciall locall and fewdall Barons as the 19 above named and make Knight Batchelours though here used to have precedency as others have had heretofore though his intended order of Knights of the Conversion of Albion is more proper And for our Earle Palatines Honour and Peerage in Ireland and to make his Proxy in his absence in that House of Peers there with all suh Honor and Titles Precedency to him his Countesse and children in all places as an Irish Earl the speciall Decree and Clauses in the Charter doth fully warrant it All the Civilians Pleaders in the Court of Honour and two Serjeants of the Coife at Law nine in number have certified it and enrolled on record and is exemplified under the seal the Baronets of Nova Scotia being President for the like case And note both the King of France and this our King have made Barons and Knights Hollanders that have precedency there before other the subjects there But to answer an Objection of some not truly informed and mistaken conceiving that our Earle Palatine might in his Countrey onely and no where else have his Honour Title and Precedency I answer that our Soveraign Lord King Charles as Emperour of England under his Privy Signet signed with his Royall hand so granted and created him which alone had been sufficient as others have been made in Master Seldens Book Records and Presidents mentioned but being farther with speciall Clauses and Decree and speciall Creation so made and particularly granted that both by Tenure and Dependency and that this Province shall be of the Liegance of Ireland and all there born to be free Denizens thereof and under his Majesties Great Seal there is no doubt or question thereof For he is no Alien Earl made by an Alien King as Copply by the French King Duke Dudley and Count Arundell by the Emperour but by our own King the fountain of