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A53222	America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the new vvorld containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither, the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru and other large provinces and territories : with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions, their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the arctick region : collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures / by John Ogilby ...	Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683. Nieuwe en onbekende weereld.	1671 (1671)	Wing O165; ESTC R16958	774,956	643

same Person who how they were surpris'd and destroy'd by the Natives was discover'd at large to the Supply that was sent over in the Year 1587. by Mr. White A Party of those that went over with Captain Bartholomew Gosnol Captain John Smith c. were by the Indians set upon as they were raising a Fort near Cape Henry where they Landed seventeen Men hurt one slain and all in danger to have been utterly destroy'd had not a Shot happily made from the Ships by chance frighted away the Salvages Another small Party under Captain Smith going down the River to Keconghean were very fiercely assaulted by sixty or seventy Indians but their Musquet-shot did such Execution amongst them that they fled into the Woods and left behind them the Image of their God which had been carried before them as their Standard and not long after sent one of their Queiongcasocks to offer Peace and to redeem their Okee which Smith granting on condition six onely of them would come unarm'd and load his Boat with Provisions and promising moreover to become their Friend and furnish them with Beads Copper and Hatchets They accepted the Condition and brought him Venison Turkies wild Fowl Bread and what else they had Singing and Dancing in sign of Friendship till they departed In his Return he discover'd the Town and Countrey of Warraskayock and the People of Chickahamania In his next Voyage for the discovery of the Head of Chickamahania River he was through neglect of his Sea-men who were sent to watch the Booty taken Prisoner in which condition he was kept a whole Moneth then being released he got Provisions for the People in James-Town which had they not timely receiv'd they had all abandon'd the Place and return'd to England While Affairs stood thus in a mean condition Captain Newport arriving there with a Ship and sixty Men to strengthen the Plantations he went to Weromocomoco where King Powhatan kept his Court King Powhatan and found him sitting on a Bed of Mats and an Embroider'd Leather Cushion Cloth'd in Deer-skins at his Feet fat a young Maiden and on each side of the House twenty Concubines his Head and Shoulders were painted red and a Chain of white Beads hung about his Neck Newport to oblige him gave him an English Youth in requital whereof he receiv'd Powhatan's bosom Friend Mamontak with whom returning he found a sad Accident for the Fire had not onely burnt the Houses of the new Planters but also the Pallisado's about James-Town made for a Defence against the Enemies Assaults James-Town burnt and most of their Store which was so much the worse because it hapned in the Winter and indeed had prov'd very fatal had not a Ship which was suppos'd to be lost happily arriv'd there with a considerable quantity of Provisions Smith's Voyage Whilst the Town was rebuilding Smith set Sail in an open Barque with fourteen Men and discover'd two Isles before Point Charles to which he gave his Name then ran into the Inlet Chesapeack in the midst of which lay several Islands His remarkable Exploits by the Sea-men call'd Russels Before the River Wighcomoco they found a disturbed Sea and more Northerly a Bay with fresh and hot Water and at last he met with two Virginians which conducted the English along a Creek to Onawmoment where some hundreds of them lay in Ambuscade according to Powhatan's appointment to cut off Smith who leaping forth on a Hidden appear'd like Devils all painted but the Bullets flying about made them all run away Smith whose Design was onely to discover the Countrey and the Silver Mine of Patawomeck ten Leagues up into the Countrey found the Metal to be of little value so that he return'd with little Success being newly cur'd of a poysonous Wound in the Arm which was given him by a Fish not unlike a Shark whilst he lay aground near Toppahanock A while after being inform'd of Powhatan's Design to destroy the English though he had been lately Presented by Newport with a Silver Basin a rich Chair Bed and Furniture belonging to it with other things of value he to prevent him chose forty eight out of two hundred Men which were Garrison'd in James-Town then going to Werowocomoco Landed with much trouble the River being frozen above half a Mile from the Shore A German Soldier amongst Smith's Company giving private notice to Powhatan of the Design of the English made his Escape by flight But Smith going on to Pamaunke found King Opechancangough with seven hundred Men in Arms threatning a fierce Battel but Smith making directly up to him set his Pistol on his Breast and forc'd him to lay down his Arms. Powhatan by this time provided with Swords and Musquets by two Dutch-men also began to bestir himself afresh but his Intentions being too soon known he was again quieted and forc'd a second time to send Smith a String of Pearl after which a Peace was concluded between all the Natives and the English Many other Quarrels and Encounters there were in the Infancy of the Plantation between the Indians and the English wherein it would be endless to recount all the Treacheries and Ambuscades of the Salvages some of which had prov'd very pernicious to the Planters had they not been betray'd to Captain Smith by Pocahonta King Powhatan's Daughter who upon all occasions shew'd her self a great Friend to the English having sav'd the Captain 's Life when being her Father's Prisoner he was just brought to Execution This Lady was afterwards brought into England Christned by the Name of Rebekah and Married to one Mr. Rolf and died at Gravesend in an intended Voyage back to her own Countrey Nor did their Cruelties and Treacheries end when the Plantation came to be more setled for on the two and twentieth of March about the Year 1621. in the time of Sir Francis Wyat's Government they generally combin'd to destroy all the English there and carried on this devilish Design with such dissimulation and dexterity that in one day they cut off seven hundred Men Women and Children there being at that time not above fifteen hundred in the Countrey Since which time in the Year of our Lord 1643. there hapned another bloody Massacre wherein near five hundred English were in one Night miserably butcher'd by those barbarous and perfidious Salvages whose Blood the present Governor Sir William Berkley nobly and justly reveng'd the Year following utterly destroying most of them and taking Prisoner their chief Emperor Opichancono who died not long after in Prison Having given but a small hint in its proper place of the Story of Captain Smith's Imprisonment by Powhatan and his deliverance from Death by Pocahonta we have thought not improper to reserve the Story of it being very remarkable for a particular Relation before we conclude our Description of Virginia since otherwise we should have interrupted the Series of our former Discourse The Relation of Captain Smith's being taken Prisoner by Powhatan

extent mention'd in the beginning The first Colony to be undertaken by certain Knights Gentlemen and Merchants in and about the City of London The second to be undertaken and advanc'd by certain Knights Gentlemen and Merchants and their Associates in or about the City of Bristol Exon Plymouth and other parts At the first Colonies Request in the seventh year of the same King a second Patent was Granted to several Noblemen and Gentlemen including Sir Thomas Gates and some of his former Fellow-Patentees bearing Date May 23. 1610. whereby they were made a Corporation and Body Politique and stil'd The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony of Virginia And by this Patent there was Granted to them their Successors and Assigns two hundred Miles to the Southward from a Cape of Land in Virginia call'd Point Comfort and two hundred Miles to the Northward of the said Cape along the Sea-shore and into the Land from Sea to Sea And on March 12. 1612. the said King in the ninth year of his Reign Grants them a third Patent of all Islands lying in the Sea within two hundred Miles of the Shore of that Tract of Land on the Continent granted to them by the said former Patent Jac. 7. In the Year 1615. Captain Smith procur'd by his Interest at Court and the King's Favor a Recommendation from His Majesty and divers of the Nobility to all Cities and Corporations to Adventure in a standing Lottery which was erected for the benefit of this Plantation which was contriv'd in such a manner that of 100000. Pounds which was to be put in 50000. onely or one half was to return to the Adventurers according as the Prizes fell out and the other half to be dispos'd of for the Promotion of the Affairs of Virginia in which though it were three years before it was fully accomplish'd he had in the end no bad Success In the eighteenth Year of the said King's Reign at the Request of the second Colony a Patent was Granted to several Noblemen and Gentlemen of all that Tract of Land lying in the parts of America between the Degrees of forty and forty eight of Northerly Latitude and into the Land from Sea to Sea which was call'd by the Patent New England in America For the better Government whereof one Body-Politick and Corporate was thereby appointed and ordain'd in Plymouth consisting of the said Noblemen Gentlemen and others to the number of forty Persons by the Name of The Council establish'd at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting Ruling Ordering and Governing of New England im America The Patent of Virginia made void The Miscarriages and Misdemeanors of the aforesaid Corporation for the first Colony of Virginia were so many and so great that His said Majesty was forc'd in or about October 1623. to direct a Quo Warranto for the calling in of that former Patent which in Trinity Term following was legally Evinc'd Condemn'd and made Void by Judgment in the Court of the then Kings-Bench as also all other Patents by which the said Corporation claim'd any Interest in Virginia Thus this Corporation of the first Colony of Virginia was dissolv'd and that Plantation hath been since Govern'd and Dispos'd of by Persons Constituted and Impower'd for that purpose from time to time by immediate Commissions from the Kings of England The Patent of Mary-land granted to the Lord Baltem re In the Year of our Lord 1631. the Right Honorable George Lord Baltemore obtain'd a Grant of King Charles the First of Great Britain c. of part of that Land to the Northward which is now call'd Mary-land but this Patent of Mary-land was not perfected till 1632. as you may understand more fully by the precedent Discourse of Mary-land which by express words in the said Patent is separated from and thereby declar'd not to be reputed for the future any part of Virginia The Patent Carolina granted to several Noble Persons And in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second of Great Britain c. on March 24. 1663. Edward Earl of Clarendon then High-Chancellor of England George Duke of Albemarle William now Earl of Craven John Lord Berkley Anthony Lord Ashley Sir George Carterett Knight and Baronet Sir William Berkley Knight and Sir John Colleton Knight and Baronet obtain'd a Patent from His Majesty of the Province of Carolina which lies to the Southward of Virginia in which is included some part of that Land which formerly belong'd to the said dissolv'd Company of Virginia So that Virginia at present extendeth it self onely and is situated between thirty six and thirty seven Degrees and fifty Minutes or thereabouts of Northern Latitude and is bounded on the North by Mary-land on the South by Carolina on the East by the Ocean and on the West by the South-Seas The Entrance by Sea into this Countrey is the same with that of Mary-land between Cape Henry and Cape Charles plac'd on each side of the Mouth of the Bay of Chesapeak Rivers of Virginia on the West side whereof you first meet with a pleasant and commodious River call'd James-River about three Miles wide at its Entrance and Navigable a hundred and fifty Fourteen Miles from this River Northward lies York-River which is Navigable sixty or seventy Miles but with Ketches and small Barques thirty or forty Miles farther Passing hence to the North you discover a third stately River call'd Rappahanock which is Navigable about a hundred and thirty Miles from whence following the Shore to the North you enter into Patomeck-River which is already describ'd in the precedent Discourse of Mary-land to which Province this River belongs whose Southerly Bank gives Bounds to that part of Virginia and Mary-land To these Rivers many other Inland Branches and Rivulets are reduc'd the chief of which are hereafter specifi'd Nature of the Countrey The Countrey is generally even the Soil fruitful the Climate healthful and agreeable with English Constitutions especially since the increase of Inhabitants and accommodation of good Diet and Lodging which the first Planters found great want of heretofore For many years till of late most New-comer● had the first Year in July and August a Disease which is call'd A Seasoning whereof many died like to what is mention'd before in the Description of Mary-land though more mortal and common than in Mary-land because Virgina is a lower Countrey and somewhat hotter insomuch that formerly divers ill of that Distemper have come purposely from Virginia to Mary-land to recover their Health but now since the Countrey is more open and clear from Wood few die of it and many have no Seasonings at all This Countrey affordeth generally all such Roots Herbs Gums and Balsoms as are express'd before in the Relation of Mary-land All sorts of Trees for Building and Husbandry Trees Fruit-Trees Vines c. are found in both Countreys equal in goodness

whose Principles not being corrupted with Learning and Distinction are contented to follow the Dictates of right Reason which Nature has sufficiently taught all Men for the well ordering of their Actions and enjoyment and preservation of humane Society who do not give themselves up to be amus'd and deceiv'd by insignificant Terms and minding what is just and right seek not Evasions in the Niceties and Fallacies of Words Carolina granted by Patent to several Noble Persons by His Majesty The same is to be said of the first discovery of this Countrey as hath been formerly said of Virginia and Florida of both which it partakes but as to the present Interest and Propriety the English besides all Virginia intirely have also so much of Florida as makes up this considerable Province of Carolina which soon after the happy Restauration of His present Majesty King Charles II. from whom it receives Denomination was granted by Patent to Edward Earl of Clarendon L. Chancellor of England George Duke of Albemarle William Earl of Craven John Lord Berkley Anthony Lord Ashley Sir George Carteret Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold Sir William Berkley Knight and Baronet and Sir John Colleton Knight and Baronet The Lords-Proprietors of this Countrey for the better Settlement of it according to their Patent granted unto them by His Majesty and for the enlargement of the King's Dominions in those parts of America have been at great Charge to secure this so rich and advantageous a Countrey to the Crown of England to whom of ancient Right by the Discovery of Sir Sebastian Cabott in the time of Henry the Seventh it doth belong and for its Situation Fertility Neighborhood to our other Plantations and several other Conveniences of too valuable consideration to be negligently lost By the Care therefore and Endeavors of those Great Men Their care for Setling and Improving of this Plantation it hath now two considerable Colonies Planted in it the one of Albemarle on the North side bordering on Virginia where are some hundreds of English Families remov'd thither from New England and some of our other Plantations in the West-Indies and another towards the middle of the Countrey at Charles-Town or Ashley-River a Settlement so hopeful for the healthiness of the Land and convenience of access by a large deep Navigable River and so promising in its very Infancy that many of the rich Inhabitants of Barbados and Bermudas who are now crowded up in those flourishing Islands and many in our other American Plantations are turning their Eyes and Thoughts this way and have already remov'd part of their Stock and Servants thither Nor is it to be doubted but that many following the Example of those who went to Albemarle will be drawn to this better Plantation at Ashley-River from New-England where the heat of their Zeal and the coldness of the Air doth not agree with every Man's Constitution and therefore it is to be thought that many well temper'd Men who are not much at ease under such Extreams will be forward to remove hither Fair Terms propos'd to whomsoever shall remove thither The Lords-Proprietors for the comfortable subsistence and future enrichment of all those who shall this Year 1671. Transport themselves and Servants thither allow every Man a hundred Acres per Head for himself his Wife Children and Servants he carries thither to him and his Heirs for ever paying onely one Peny an Acre as a Chief-Rent which Peny an Acre is not to be paid these nineteen years and those Servants who go along thither with their Masters shall each also have a hundred Acres upon the same Terms when he is out of his Time But though these Conditions are very advantageous and the Countrey promises to the Planter Health Plenty and Riches at a cheap Rate yet there is one thing that makes this Plantation more valuable than all these and that is the secure possession of all these things with as great certainty as the state of humane Affairs and the transient things of this Life are capable of in a well continu'd Form of Government wherein it is made every Man's Interest to preserve the Rights of his Neighbor with his own and those who have the greatest Power have it limited to the Service of the Countrey the Good and Welfare whereof whilest they preserve and promote they cannot miss of their own the Lords Proprietors having no other aim than to be the greatest Men in a Countrey where every one may be happy if it be not his own fault it being almost as uncomfortable and much more unsafe to be Lord over than Companion of a miserable unhappy and discontented Society of Men. With this Design the Lords-Proprietors who are at great Charge for carrying on this Plantation have put the framing of a Government into the Hands of one whose Parts and Experience in Affairs of State are universally agreed on and who is by all Men allow'd to know what is convenient for the right ordering Men in Society and setling a Government upon such Foundations as may be equal safe and lasting and to this hath a Soul large enough to wish well to Mankind and to desire that all the People where he hath to do might be happy My Lord Ashley therefore by the consent of his Brethren the rest of the Lords Proprietors hath drawn up to their general satisfaction some fundamental Constitutions which are since by their joynt approbation confirm'd to be the Model and Form of Government in the Province of Carolina the main Design and Ballance thereof according to the best of my memory having had a Copy thereof in short is as followeth The Model drawn up by the Lord Ashley for the Government of Carolina 1. EVery County is to consist of forty square Plots each containing twelve thousand Acres Of these square Plots each of the Proprietors is to have one which is to be call'd a Signiory Eight more of these square Plots are to be divided amongst the three Noble-men of that County viz. a Landgrave who is to have four of them and two Casiques who are to have each of them two apiece and these square Plots belonging to the Nobility are to be call'd Baronies The other twenty four square Plots call'd Colonies are to be the Possession of the People And this Method is to be observ'd in the Planting and Setting out of the whole Countrey so that one Fifth of the Land is to be in the Proprietors one Fifth in the Nobility and three Fifths in the People 2. The Signories and Baronies that is the hereditary Lands belonging to the Proprietors and Nobility are all entirely to descend to their Heirs with the Dignity without power of alienation more than for three Lives or one and twenty years or two Thirds of their Signiories and Baronies and the rest to be Demesne 3. There will be also some Mannors in the Colonies but none less than three thousand Acres in a Piece which like the

Canada which if the English had again in their possession as they had in the Years 1628. and 1632. they might give a Law to all foreign Kings and People interested in any of the parts of America and a Protection to all the English Plantations upon that Continent whereby great security comfort and profit would arise to the Nation and People of it whereas on the contrary if the French Spanish or Dutch should possess themselves of the said Plantation they would not onely deprive this Nation of all the Advantages aforesaid but would also derive to themselves so great a Power to prejudice all the Plantations of the Coasts of America belonging to this Nation that the Inconveniences thereof are scarce to be imagin'd or express'd ●●ppa AESTIVARVM Insularum ●●●s BARMVDAS dictarum ad Ostia Mexi●●i astuarij jacentium in latitudine Graduum 32 Minutorum 25. Ab Anglia Londino Scilicet versus Libonotum 3300 Miliaribus Anglicanis et a Roanoack qui locus est in Virginia versus Euronotum 500 Mill. accurate descripta Nomina fortunae bona submittentium in quaestus Virginiani alea A. j622 quam fieri potuit accuratissims expressa numeris corum portiones quam proxime in agrorum divisione referentibus quae portiones illic Separatim distinguntur in regione ipsa quemadmodum hic lineis ob oculos ponuntur Hammilton alias Har rington Tribe 1 To Lord Marq. Hammilton Shares 6 1 Si. Edward Harwood Shares 4 2 M. Iohn Delbridge Shares 3 3 M. Iohn Dike Shares 3 4 M. El. Robert Shares 2 5 M Rob. Phipps Shares 2 6 M Ralph King Shares 2 7 M Quicks heires or assignes Shares 2 8 M ●illiam Canning Shares 4 8 M. Will. Canning Shares 1 8 M. Will. Webb● Shares ● 9 M. Iohn Barnard Shares 2 10 Si. Tho. Huggia Shares 2 11 M. Iohn Gearing Shares 2 12 M. Cleoph Smith Shares 2 13 Robert Earle of Warwick Shares 4 14 M. Tho. Cowell Shares 3 15 M. Greenwels heires or assig Shares 1 16 M. Cley Shares 1 17 M. Poulson Shares 2 18 M. Iohn Dike Shares 1½ 19 Common ground Shares 13 acres 20 M Iohn Dike Shares 1½ 21 M. Geo. Thorpe Esquire Shares 1 Smiths Tribe 1 Si. Dudley Digge Since M. Geo. Sandys or his assig Shares 2 2 M. Rich. Edwards Shares 2 3 M. Will. Payne Shares 4 4 M. Rob. Smith Shares 2 5 M. Geo. Berkleys assignes Shares 5 6 Si. Sam. Sandys Shares 7 7 M. Autho. Pennistone Shares 4 8 Si. Edwin Sandys Shares 1 9 Si Tho. Smith Shares 5 10 M. Rich. Morer Shares 4 11 M. Henry Timberly Shares 4 12 Rob Iohnson Alderman Shares 5 13 M. Iohn Wroth Shares 3 14 M. George Smith Shares 4 Devonshire Tribe 1 M. Antho. Pennystone Shares 2 2 M. Iohn Dike Shares 1 3 M. Iohn Dike Shares 1 4 M. Iohn Barnard Shares 2 5 Robert Earle of Warwick Shares 2 6 M. Francis West Shares 2 7 Will. Lord Cavendish Shares 3 8 The said W. Lord Cavandish Shares 2 8 Will. Earle of Devonshire Shares 5 9 M. Edw. Lukin Shares 5 9 M. Edward Ditchfield Shares 1 10 M. Edw. Ditchfield Shares 4 11 M. Will. Nichols Shares 2 12 M. Edw. Ditchfield Shares 1 13 M. Iohn Fletcher Shares 2 14 M. Gideon Dolawne Shares 2 15 M. Anthon. Pennistone Shares 3 16 M. Best Shares 2 17 M. Edw. Lukin Shares 2 18 M. Rich. Rogers Shares 2 19 M. Will. Shares 4 Pembroke Tribe 1 M. George Smith Shares 4 2 Gleabland Shares 2 3 M. Nicholas Hide Esquire Shares 1 4 Si. Laurence Hide Shares 2 5 M. Thomas Ladwin Shares 2 6 William Earle of Pembroke Shares 10 7 M. Richard Edwards Shares 1 8 M. Harding Shares 1 9 M. Richard Edwards Shares 1 10 M. Ward Shares 1 11 M. Richard Edwards Shares 2 12 M. Iacobson or his assign Shares 1 13 M. Iohn Farrar Shares 1 14 M. Iohn Farrar Shares 1 15 M. Nichol. Farrar Shares 1 16 M. William Canning Shares 2 17 M. Richard Martine Esq Shares 2 18 M. Morris Abbot Shares 2 19 M. Rich. Caswell Shares 1 20 M. Rich. Caswell Shares 2 21 M. Rich. Caswell Shares 1 22 M. Rich. Edwards Shares 2 23 M. Rich. Edwards Shares 2 24 M. Rich. Caswell Shares 2 25 M. Rich. Edwards Shares 2 26 M. Geo. Sandys or his Assig Shares 2 27 M. William Payne Shares 2 Pagets Tribe 1 M. Iohn Chamberlaine Esq Shares 5 2 M. Thomas Ayres and Shares 4 2 M. Rich. Wiseman Shares 4 3 Rich. Wiseman Shares 1 4 William Lord Paget Shares 10 5 M. William Palmar Shares 4 6 M. Bagwell Shares 5 7 Iohn Ball Shares 1 8 M. Thomas Wheatley Shares 1 9 M. Christopher Barron Shares 4 10 M. Iohn Woodall Shares 1 11 M. Iohn Woodall Shares 1 12 M. Lewes Shares 2 13 M. Geo. Etheridg Shares 4 14 Incognira Shares 2 15 Si. William Wade Shares 1 16 M. Iohn Bernard Shares 1 Warwick Tribe 1 Captains Daniel Tucker Shares 1 2.3.4.5.6 M. Ioseph Man Shares 5 7 M. Step. Sparrow Shares 1 8 M. Francis Meuerell Shares 1 9.10 M. Sam. Tickier Shares 2 11.12.13 M. George Smith Shares 5 14.15 M. George Smith Shares 5 16.17.18 Robert Earle of Warwicke Shares 5 19.20 Robert Earle of Warwicke Shares 5 21 M. William Felgate Shares 1 22.23 Capt. Daniel Tucker Shares 2 24.25 M. Rich. Wheatly Shares 2 26 Capt. Daniel Tucker Shares 2 27 Iohn Faucet Shares 1 28 Doct. Anth. Hun. ton or his Assign Shares 2 29 Doct. Anth. Hun. ton or his Assign Shares 2 30 M. Francis Meuerell Shares 1 31 M. Rich. Poulson Shares 1 32 M. Mathew Shepheard Shares 1 to 42 M. Geo Tucker Shares 10 43 M. Christ Cletheros Shares 1 44 M. George Swinhow Shares 2 45 M. George Swinhow Shares 2 46 M. Richard Tomlins Esq Shares 1 47 M. Francis Meuerell Shares 1 48.49 Sir Iohn Walter Shares 2 50 M. Martin Bond Shares 1 Southampton Tribe 1 Capt. Tucker Shares 1 2 Capt. Tucker Shares 1 3 Capt. Tucker Shares 2 4 M. Iohn Britton Shares 1 5 M. Rich. Chamberlaine Shares 3 6 M. Leo. Harwood or his assig Shares 1 7 M. Iohn Bankes Shares 1 8 Sir Nathaniell Rich. Shares 12 9 Robert Earle of Warwich Shares 3 10 M. Rich. Morer Shares 6 11 M. George Scot Shares 6 11 M. Edmund Scot Shares 6 11 M. Antho. Abdy Shares 6 12 Heary Earle of Southamton Shares 4 12 M. Arch. Bromefield Shares 2 13 M. Henry Timberly Shares 2 14 S. Thomas Hewet Shares Shares 2 15 M. Peirces Shares 1 16 S. Ralgh Winwood Shares 2 Refiduum Quid hoc Refiduum sit et cor hic apposition apparet libro Geodesae Societati exhibito 1 Captaine Tucker Parts 3 2 Gleabe-land Parts 2 1 Sandys Tribe Parts 2 Sandys Tribe 3 M. Geor Barkley or his heires Shares 5 4 S. Edwards Sandys Shares 5 5 M. Ierom Heydon Shares 10 6 M. Tho. Melling et M. Iohn Cusse Shares 2 7 M. Rich. Chamberlaine Shares 2 8 M. Abraham Chamberlaine Shares 2 9 M. George Smith Shares 2 10 M.

all places to pay their Devotions because they say the Sun and Moon came out of the said Cave to lighten the World Their absurd Opinion of the Deceased Much after the same absurd rate is their Opinion of the Deceased for they suppose that they range through Woods and Forrests in the Night eat of a Fruit call'd Guannaba and steal to the Embraces of Women in Moon-shiny Nights A Traveller say they if he be frighted at the appearance of a deceased Person great inconveniences will certainly attend him but if he goes stoutly towards it then the Goblin vanishes These Delusions are made great Mysteries amongst them and contain'd in Songs which their Priests Boiti Sing to a kind of Tabor made of a piece of hollow Wood pretending that they have familiar Conversation with the Zemes concerning future things Their Ceremonies about their Sick Their Ceremonies about their sick especially if Persons of Quality are likewise very remarkably odd and conceited First they chew a strong kind of Herb call'd Cohobba with which having sufficiently intoxicated their Brains they foam at the Mouth and run with a Stone and a piece of Flesh in their Mouths to the sick Person whose Family they drive all out of Doors except one or two whose presence the Patient requires then the Boiti walks four times about the sick Person 's Bed making strange Gestures pinching his Lips and Nose blowing upon his Forehead Throat and Temples and sucking several parts of his Body alledging that thereby he draws the Distemper out of the Veins after that he chafes and rubs his Shoulders Thighs and Legs and ties his Hands and Feet together then running to the Door proclaims That the Sick in a short time shall be restor'd to his former Health which said he returns with his Arms stretch'd out towards the sick Person takes the piece of Flesh out of his Mouth which he gives him backwards saying You shall rise and go forth in Health for I have taken away your Sickness But if he judges the Distemper not curable he makes the Sick believe that Zemes is displeas'd with him because he did not build a House for him or consecrate a Garden to him or in some respect or other did not worship him as he ought to have done When the Soul departs out of the Body they conjure the Body with many Adjurations to reveal whether it died according to God's decree or through neglect of the Boiti as not having sanctifi'd himself enough by Fasting when he went first to the Sick or not prescrib'd sufficient Medicines wherefore if as they say the Devil answers them from the Mouth of the Deceased that the Boiti did not perform his due Office then the nearest Friends revenge themselves on the Boiti but if otherwise then they are highly esteem'd amongst them The Women taking the Stones which the Boiti kept in his Mouth wrap them up in a fine Cloth as a holy Relique supposing that they will much facilitate their Child-birth Their manner of Consulting with their Zemes. The Casiques desirous to know future Events of War or whether the approaching Years will be fruitful go into a Chappel consecrated to the Zemes and snuff the intoxicating Herb Cohobba up their Nostrils whereupon they break out into loud Exclamations and some kind of strange extravagant Actions till the power of the Cohobba begins to decay and the Frenzie cease then coming again to their Senses they bow their Heads and lay their Elbows on their Knees in which posture they sit for a considerable time then lifting up their Eyes they yawn as if they they came from sleep then they mutter to themselves whilest their Retinue which stand about them for no common Person is suffer'd to be there thank them with a loud Voice for the pains they have been at in discoursing with the Zemes then the Casiques begin to declare what hath been reveal'd to them viz. whether they shall be fortunate in the Wars or not whether it will be a fruitful or unfruitful healthy or sickly Year Moreover Gossipping at the Birth of the Casique's Children the neighboring Governors visit the Women in Child-bed and every one gives the Child a peculiar Name from whence it happens that one Man hath oftentimes forty Names and is highly incens'd if any one of them chances to be forgot in any Writing directed to him Manner of Succession Their manner of Succession in Government is not unremarkable for not the eldest Heir-male of the Family but first the King or Casique's Brother if he have any and after his Decease the eldest of the Sisters Inherits the Realm or Seigniorie if the Sisters have no Male-issue then the Brothers Sons Inherit and in case they have no Male-heir then the next of Blood whether Male or Female but if the Prince or Casique dies without Children Nephews or other near Relations the next in Power in the Countrey Inherits and Marries as many Wives as he pleases of which she that he loves best is burn'd alive in her best Apparel with her Husband when he dies and near the Corps stands a Cup of Water and some of the Bread Cazabi There are several Languages in Hispaniola Languages but differing from each other for in the Province Bainoa they have a different both Pronunciation and Dialect from that in Caizimu In the said Province of Caizimu is a very remarkable Rock or vast Stone to be seen at the Foot of a high Mountain and underneath the said Stone is a great Cave into which they go through a large Passage not unlike a Temple Door near which conjoyn many deep Rivers with such a Noise and Foam that they lose both their Sight and Hearing whoever approach the same An Example of the Bainoan Language Of the Language of the Province Bainoa Peter Martyr gives us this Specimen The Wife of a Casique says he went to Prayers in a Chappel which was built by the Spaniards at her Return from whence her Husband desiring to enjoy her she refusing said Teitoca teitoca techeta Cynato guammechina that is to say Be contented Be contented God would be highly incens'd to which the Casique answer'd Gnaibba Cynato machabucha guamechyna that is What care I if God be angry Since the Spaniards had first possession of this Island The taking of St. Domingo by Sir Fran. Drake it hath been twice Invaded by the English the first time under the Conduct of Sir Francis Drake who took the Town of San Domingo staid in it a good while and could if he had pleas'd have totally dispossess'd the Spaniards the second time under Colonel Venables sent thither by Oliver Cromwell during his usurp'd Dominion at which time it might as easily have been taken as at first had not the Business been rashly and indiscreetly manag'd as shall presently be declar'd more at large The first Expedition of Sir Francis Drake hath been already hinted but for the memorableness of that bold Exploit we shall give a particular Account of it from a late Writer who hath set forth the Life of that brave English Heroe In the Year of our Lord 1580.

Wedding which occasion'd a murmur as if Cortez had poyson'd him to rid himself of a Partner in his Government Cortez his Ambition for it had been generally observ'd that his Ambition suffer'd no Equal The Americans fell all down before him all were Servants alike The Court which he kept swarm'd with Attendance on which he spent vast Sums of Money yet his Incomes were able to bear such excessive Disbursements He kept in constant Pay five thousand Soldiers and several Ships ready rigg'd and prepar'd on all occasions to hold in awe the enslav'd People or else for the Discovery of New Countreys Yet after all these extraordinary Charges defray'd to shew his Wealth and Greatness he caus'd a Piece of Cannon to be cast all of massie Gold for the Kings which formerly acknowledg'd Montezuma for their Sovereign gave him a yearly Revenue most of which were valu'd to be worth twenty three Tun of Gold for so much the King of Tescuscus a stately City paid whose Houses Plaister'd with White-Lime seem'd afar off to be rather a Chalky Hill or Mountain cover'd with Snow Full as much did the King pay which reigned in Otumba notwithstanding he had receiv'd with his Christianity the Name of Ferdinand Cortez yet others gave less The King Guacinalgo with his Mother and some Slaves bringing Gold came to present it to Cortez and entring the Palace through a Guard of five hundred Horse and four Hundred Foot which were always ready Arm'd for fear of Insurrections he fell down prostrate on the Ground Thus all things even out-went whatever he could desire hope for or imagine And Alvaredo one of his Commanders being sent Eastwardly brought great Treasures back with him which the conquer'd Kings were forc'd to raise His Misfortunes But Fortune who seldom continues her Favors long at last began to frown for Cortez having sent an unvaluable Treasure of Gold and Pearls to the Emperor Charles the Fifth Floryn the French Pyrate met with and took it which went so much to his Heart that for a considerable time he sent no Advice to the Spanish Court which made them grow jealous of him doubting that he intended to make himself King over New-Spain and this Suspicion was not a little augmented by his Enemies During the time that the Spanish Officers had these Civil Broyls one against another Lodowick Pontaeus a Man well experienc'd in the Law came from Spain to America there in the Emperors Name to settle all things in good order having also particular Instructions to shew great kindness to Cortez and to make him a Knight of the Order of St. James that by that means the Emperor might be the more esteem'd for his Noble Subjects and Servants amongst the Mexicans who are themselves of a proud and ambitious spirit and chiefly the Nobility which doth manifestly appear by their Apparel more gorgeous than the meaner sort of Americans and though the Slaves go stark naked having onely a Cloth tied about their Privities and with a Bowe and Arrows walk before their Lords Mexicans Apparel yet the Better Sort go very costly Habited for about their Necks they wear Strings of Pearl on their Heads a Cap from whence hang down two Scarfs one longer than the other then a party-colour'd Cotton Coat covers their whole Bodies to their Knees under which they wear a Vest girt about their Middle But at last after all these Services Cortez disagreeing with the Vice-Roy Don Antonio Mendoza being about that time sent over went male-contented into Spain SECT XI Diego Gottierez his Expedition ANno 1540. Gottierez being chosen Governor of New Carthage weigh'd Anchor from Cadiz and sailing to Nombre de Dios upon his Landing clash'd with Roderick Contreras Gottierez contests with Contreras in whose Place he was sent to succeed Two Years he spent without effecting any thing but at last coming to Agreement with Contreras he took the Governorship upon him having first forewarn'd him not to depend too much upon his Authority for the Countrey being full of Woods and Mountains might hide many of his Enemies But he not regarding the Advice went a Journey from New Granada and having march'd fifty Leagues Easterly he cross'd into the River Suere with sixty Spaniards and was presented by the Princes of the Countrey with as much Gold as amounted to seven thousand Duckets Here he spent some Weeks effecting little but now all things growing scarce though he was very earnest with the Natives for Provisions yet he could get little which kind of Life the Soldiers disliking and growing weary of went away in the Night to Nicaragua Is forsaken of all Gottierez thus left alone got into a Boat with intent to follow them and being just put off from the Shore was met by Captain Barjanto who brought new Forces and fresh Provisions with him This wrought upon him to stay there Not long after Alphonso de Pisa went with twenty seven Men from Nombre de Dios to the same River Suere but it being then very rough at the Entrance he was necessitated to pass on to a small uninhabited Isle where whilst he lay at an Anchor the Weather began to grow worse and worse the Gusts of Wind Great Tempest mix'd with Showres of Rain Thunder and Lightning seem'd to threaten a general Destruction for in the Ship two Spaniards and one Moor were kill'd by the Lightning In seventy two Days the Sun did not shine four Hours At last weighing Anchor he sail'd over to the Main Land where he saw nothing but vast Mountains and Wildernesses Here for a time they liv'd upon Cockles found on the Shore and wild Fruits in the Woods At length coming to Gottierez he sent him with his People in five Boats to fetch new Forces from Nombre de Dios. In his way thither he saw a House built of Canes cover'd with Palm-leaves forty five Paces long and built after an Oval fashion Round about it stood several lesser Hovels all which making up a Village the Spaniards nam'd Francisco because they came thither on St. Francis Day Village Francisco About half way they met with the Lords of Suere and Chiuppa going to attend Gottierez to whom being admitted and sitting with him at Table he gave them as a Dainty rosted Chickens and fresh Pork but they gave it to their Servants Strange manner of eating not delighting in the taste of such Victuals Gottierez by means of an Interpreter told them concerning the Christian-Religion at which they bow'd their Heads without making any Answer But how little mind they had to embrace it quickly appear'd for not long after they set their Villages on fire and all the Provisions which they could not carry with them they spoil'd and so retiring hid themselves upon inaccessible Mountains Another Incentive leading them to this Fight was because the Governor Camachiren and his Deputy notwithstanding he had given Gottierez as much Gold when he came first into the Countrey as amounted

himself to Avalon to inspect his Concerns there in Person from whence returning the same year he Embarqu'd himself again together with his Lady and all his Family except his eldest Son for Avalon the year following at which time there being then War between England and France he redeem'd above twenty Sail of English Ships which had been taken there that year by French Men of War whereof one Monsieur De la Rade had the chief Command and shortly after took six French Fishing Ships upon that Coast and sent them the same year with a great many French-men Prisoners into England Coming thence he left a Deputy there and continu'd the Plantation till his Death which was in April 1632. After whose Decease it descended of right to his Son and Heir Cecil now Lord Baltemore who thereupon sent one Captain William Hill as his Deputy thither to take possession thereof and to manage his Interest there for him Captain Hill according to his Commission shortly after repair'd thither and liv'd some years at the Lord Baltemore's House at Ferryland above mention'd In the thirteenth Year of King Charles the First of England c. about the Year of our Lord 1638. Marquess Hamilton Earl of Pembroke Sir David Kirk and others under pretence that the Lord Baltemore had deserted that Plantation obtain'd a Patent of all New-found Land wherein Avalon was included and shortly after dispossess'd the Lord Baltemore of his Mansion House in Ferryland and other Rights there and during the late Rebellion in England kept possession but His now Majesty King Charles the Second immediately after his most happy Restauration in the Year 1660 upon the now Lord Baltemore's Petition thought fit to refer the whole Matter to be Examin'd by Sir Orlando Bridgeman then Lord-Chief Justice now Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England and others to report the true state thereof to His Majesty together with their Opinions thereupon The Referrees accordingly upon full hearing of Council on both sides certifi'd That they conceiv'd the said Patent to Sir George Calvert to be a good Patent in force and not avoided by the later to Sir David Kirk and others and that the Title and Interest to the said Province did therefore belong to the Lord Baltemore Whereupon His Majesty on the twentieth of March in the same Year Order'd the Possession thereof to be re-deliver'd to his Lordship which was accordingly executed Since which time his Lordship has peaceably enjoy'd the possession thereof and continues the Plantation to this day by deputing Lieutenants there from time to time for the better Government of that Province the rest of New found Land remaining still to the aforesaid Proprietors claiming by the Patent of 13 Car. 1. The Commodities that are either by Art or Nature produc'd there are the same with those of the remainder of New-found Land The Winter there is extream cold the Summer very hot but withal pleasant and during that Season there is great plenty of Pasture for Cattel The Coast of this Province is very safe and as well furnish'd with variety of bold and pleasant Harbors as any other part of New-found Land where the English likewise Fish for Cod the lesser sort whereof is call'd Poor-John which is there caught in great abundance especially at Ferryland and in the Bay of Bulls Besides these two there are divers other excellent Harbors on the Eastern Shore of Avalon as Capling Bay Cape Broyle Brittus Isle of Spears Barrom Cove Whitburns Bay and Petit Harbour above mention'd On the West are the Bay of Placentia and several other good Harbors There are no Indians in Avalon and but few English by reason of the excessive Cold in Winter though Sir David Kirk and his Lady and also his Family liv'd in the Lord Baltemore's House at Ferryland for the space of ten years and upwards The Soil seems to promise great store of Mines which probably may in time be disover'd The late Lord Baltemore took accidentally a piece of Oar up that lay there upon the surface of the Earth and brought it with him into England which was found upon trial to yield a greater proportion of Silver than the Oar of Potosi in the West-Indies but hitherto no Mine of it hath been discover'd there The Trade of Fishing being of so great concernment to the Nation of England the same if it be well manag'd in this Island of Terra Nova will employ every year above two hundred Sail of English Ships and ten thousand Mariners besides the great benefit which may accrue unto the Nation by Imposition upon Strangers there which would amount to several thousands of Pounds per Annum with which those Coasts may be Guarded and Ships Trading thither secur'd besides the great Customs by the Ships call'd The Sacks being commonly in great numbers every year who carry Fish from New-found Land into the Straights France Portugal and Spain and who bring their Returns into England as Bullion and all other native Commodities of those Countreys If the Island were well fortifi'd we might Command all those of other Nations that come to Fish in New-found Land to pay Contribution in Fish or otherwise for their Priviledge to Fish there the said Island being first Planted by English and pertaining to the Kingdom of England or if occasion should require they might be utterly debarr'd of Fishing there The Trade of Fishing is of so great concernment to France Spain Portugal the Straights and other Parts that they cannot well be without that yearly Supply in Fish which comes from that Island Neither can the Hollanders Spaniards or Portuguese well set any Ships to the West-Indies without New-found Land Fish there being none that will endure to pass the Line sound and untainted but the Fish of that Countrey salted and dry'd there And so long as the Act continues still in force That no Fish be Transported from the said Island but in English Bottoms it will contribute very much to our encrease of Shipping there and by consequence of the employment of Mariners and the Fishing of that part of the Island will be solely appropriated to the English Nation to whom of right it belongs which will prove the greatest Ballance of Trade in that part of the World and that whereas above two hundred Sail do Trade thither yearly to Fish if a thousand Sail come if there be but Fisher-men enow they may all have Fraughtage there The French if once the Island be fortifi'd will be depriv'd of their Nursery of Mariners this being the onely place besides Canada and one or two adjacent Coasts where they come for supply of Fish with which that Nation cannot be furnish'd so well from other Parts By well Planting and Fortifying New-found Land the Trading to Virginia New England and those Parts would be much encourag'd New England having had of late great Traffick with New-found Land where they vend the Growth of their Plantation Besides New-found Land is a Key to the Gulf of