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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

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

his Neck This Idol is the keeper of the dead bodies of their Kings which are advanced on Scaffolds nine or ten foot high this Kiwasa or Guardian being placed neer them and underneath lives a Priest who there mumbleth his Devotions Night and Day The Countrey is generally plain and even the soyl rich and Fertile naturally producing all such Commodities as are found in New-England as to Fish Fruits Plants Roots c. The chief Trade of the English there is Tobacco which is not inconsiderable since an hundred sail of Ships have in one year traded thither from England and the neighbouring English Plantations It is divided into ten Counties in each of which a Court is held every two months for little Matters with Appeal to the Provincial Court at St. Maries which is the principal Town seated on St. Georges River and beautified with several well built Houses This Province is granted by Parent to the Right Honourable the Lord Baltimore and to his Heirs and Assigns with many Civil and Military-Prerogatives and Jurisdictions as conferring Honours Coyning money c. paying yearly as an acknowledgment to his Majesty and his Successors two Indian Arrows at Windsor Castle upon ●aster Tuesday The Lord Baltimore hath his residence at Mattapany about eight miles distant from St. Maries where he hath a pleasant seat though the General Assemblies and provincial Courts are kept at St. Maries And for incouraging People to settle here his Lordship by advice of the General Assembly hath long since established a Model of excellent Laws for the ease and security of the Inhabitants with Toleration of Religion to all that profess Faith in Christ which hath been a principal Motive to many to settle there CHAP. IX A Prospect of Virginia with the Discovery Plantation and Product thereof THis Countrey with the other adjoining Coasts was first discovered by Sebastian Cabot with his English Mariners in 1497. And may therefore be justly claimed by England it was afterward visited by Sir Francis Drake and called Virginia by Sir Walter Rawleigh in honour of his Virgin Mistress Queen Elizabeth In 1603. some Persons at Bristow by leave from Sir Walter Rawleigh who had the Propriety thereof made a Voyage thither who discovered Whitson-Bay in forty one Degrees the People used Snakeskins of six Foot long for Girdles and were exceedingly ravished with the Musick of a Gittern Boy dancing in a ring about him they were more afraid of two English Mastives than of twenty Men In 1607. Sir John Popham and others setled a Plantation at the mouth of the River Sagahadoc the Captain James Davis chose a small place almost an Island to set down in where having heard a Sermon read their Patent and Laws and Built a Fort they Sailed to discover further up the River and Countrey and encountred with an Island where was a great Fall of Water over which they haled their Boat with a Rope and came to another Fall shallow swift and unpassable they found the Countrey stored with white and red Grapes good Hops Onions Garlick Oaks Walnuts and the Soil good the Head of the River being in about forty five Degrees they called their Fort St. George Captain George Popham being President the People seemed much affected with our Mens Devotions and would say King James is a good King and his God a good God but our God Tanto a naughty God which is the name of the evil Spirit that haunts them every new Moon and makes them Worship him for fear he commanded the Indians not to converse nor come near the English threatning some to kill them and to inflict Sickness upon others if they disobeyed him beginning with two of their Saga●nors or Kings Children affirming he had power to do the like against the English and would execute it on them the next new Moon The Natives told our Men of Cannibals near Sagadohoc with Teeth three Inches long but they saw them not In January they had in the space of seven hours Thunder Lightning Rain Frost and Snow all in abundance they found a Bath two Miles about so hot they could not drink of it One of the Savages for a Straw-hat and Knife stript himself of his Clothing of Bevers Skins worth in England 50 s or 3 l. to Present them to the President leaving only a Flap to cover his Nudities About this time Captain Gosnold set Sail for Virginia and arrived there after long contending with furious Storms and Tempests and soon after by the Industry of Captain Smith James-Town was Built the Savages supplying their necessities which were sometimes very extream the Winter approaching the Rivers afforded them plenty of Cranes Swans Geese Ducks wherewith they had Pease and Wild Beasts as Bevers Otters Martins and black Foxes upon which they daily Feasted but in the discovery of Chickahamine River George Casson was surprized and Smith with two others beset with two hundred Savages his Men Slain and himself in a Quagmire taken Prisoner but after a Month he procured not only his Liberty but was in great esteem among them being extreamly pleased with his Discourses of God Nature and Art and had Royal Entertainment from Powhatan one of their Emperours who sat in State upon his Bed of Matts his Pillow of Leather imbroidered with Pearl and white Beads attired with a Robe of Skins as large as an Irish Mantle at his Head sat a handsom young Woman and another at his Feet and on each side the Room twenty others their Heads and Shoulders painted red with a great Chain of white Beads about their Necks and a Robe of Skins large like an Irish Mantle before these sat his chiefest Men in their Orders in this Palace or Arbour one Newport who accompanied Captain Smith gave the Emperour a Boy in requital whereof Powhatan bestowed upon him Namontack his Servant who was after brought into England yet after this Powhatan treacherously contrived the Murther of sixteen of our Men which was happily prevented by Captain Smith who seized another of their Kings and thereby procured Peace from them on his own Terms This Powhatan had about thirty Kings under him his Treasure consisted of Skins Copper Pearls Beads and the like kept in a house on purpose against the time of his Burial this House was fifty or sixty Yards long frequented only by Priests at the four Corners stood four Images as Centinels one of a Bear another a Dragon a third a Leopard and the fourth a Giant he hath as many Women as he please whom when he is weary of he bestows upon his Favourites his Will and the Customs of the Countrey are his Laws Malefactors are punished by broiling to death incompassed with Fire and divers other Tortures Mr. White relates that about ten Mile from James-Town one of their Kings made a Feast in the Woods the People were monstrously painted some like black Devils with Horns and their Hair loose of divers Colours they continued two days dancing in a circle of a Quarter

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

again to Sea and making for the Cape of Good Hope which is the utmost Point of Africk Southward they sailed upon that vast Atlantick Ocean before they could reach the Cape almost nine weeks running a Course of at least eighteen hundred and fifty Leagues without touching Land it being reckoned to be full 2000 Leagues from the Islands of Java to the Cape of Good Hope There lies about forty or fifty Leagues short of the Cape a certain Foreland called Cabo Falso because it is usually at its first discovery at Sea mistaken by Mariners for the true Cape From hence by June 18. 1588. they fall in sight of the Island of St. Helena which lieth in the main Ocean and as it were in the middle way between the Coast of Africk and Brasil in fifteen degrees and forty eight minutes of Southern Latitude distant from the Cape about six hundred Leagues It is a pleasant Island well stored with Oranges Lemons Pomegranats Pome-citrons Dates and so proper for Figgs that the Trees bear all the year long so that there are blossoms green and ripe Figgs at all times on the same Tree It affords also store of wild Fowl Partridges and Pheasants a kind of Turkies black and white and as big as ours in England great plenty of Goats and such abundance of Swine fat and large that they live in Herds upon the Mountains and are not to be taken but by hunting and that with great pain and industry From hence by August 24. they discover Flores and Corvo two of the Azores or Tercerae Islands and Sept. 9. having first suffered a terrible Stormupon the English Coast which carried away all their Sails and ind●ngered the loss of all they had got yet at last by the mercy of God and favour of a good Wind they arrived safely at Plymouth X. The Right Honourable George Lord Clifford Earl of Cumberland had made several Voyages and Adventures against the Spaniards in and toward the parts of America in 1586. 89 92 and 94 with various success but in 1597. He more publickly and avowedly in his own Person undertook an expedition with eighteen or twenty good Ships and about a Thousand Men being himself Admiral and Commander in Chief He set out from Portsmouth March 6. 1597. with design at first to attend the coming out of the Carracks which go yearly from Spain to the West Indies but being disappointed of them through some Intelligence that the Spaniards had gotten of his Lordshitps being at Sea he Sailed on for the Coast of America resolving by the way with the consent of the Principal Commanders with him to make an attempt upon St. John de Porto Rico the Principal Town and Port of the Island of that name in nineteen Degrees of North Latitude a place where a few years before Sir Francis Drake had received some loss Sir Nicholas Clifford the Earls Brother being slain by a shot from one of the Platforms as he sat at Supper with the General in the Ship called the Defiance The Town stands in a Peninsula by it self yet closely joined to the main Island toward the North being a place very well seated and fortified with two strong Castles one for defence of the Haven the other of the Town about three or four Leagues off lies a fair sandy Bay or Beach which the Sea washeth on one side over which the English at their landing marched directly to the Town through a thick Wood and upon a Cawsey of some length but of breadth only to admit three Persons to march abreast at the end thereof was built a strong Bridge of Wood which reached from one Island to the other and joined them both together having also some Barricado's to defend it and a Block-house with Ordnance on the further side of the Water They were informed that at low Water they might pass the Bridge on either side the Cawsey whereupon waiting till two a Clock next Morning when the Ebb would be they attempt the Passage but could not gain it because the Great Guns played so directly against the Cawsey retreating with the loss of about Fifty Men killed and wounded Next day the General ordered another Fort standing upon the Principal Island should be attackt by Sea the place was of dangerous access yet by the help of some Musketeers that were gotten upon certain Rocks within the Island so near that they could play upon them in the Fort within an hour the Spaniards that kept it quitted the place and those from Sea entred it in Boats though the Ship that brought them near was her self cast away upon the Rocks at the first ebbing of the Water as it was at first feared she would The Spaniards who quitted the Fort with the chief of the Town who were not already fled retired to another Fort called Mora giving the English leave to enter the Town and block up the Fort wherein they were so that in few days they surrendred upon discretion and the English were Masters of all The General designed to have kept it but the English by the intemperature of the Air and their own intemperance especially in eating many strange and luscious Fruits contracted such sickness so many dying of the Calenture bloody Flux and other hot diseases that after ten weeks possession and 600 of his men dead his Lordship was forced to return for England doing no further hurt to the Town save only bringing away 80 pe●●●s of Ordnance the Bells of their Church and some quantity of Sugar and Ginger sustaining no other loss in the Voyage than of sixty men slain upon taking the Town the six hundred dying of the Flux and other diseases the Ship Pegasus wrackt upon Goodwin Sands an old Frigot lost upon V●hant on the Coast of Normandy with 40 men in them add a Bark lost by Tempest about Bermudas The Admiral at his return left Sir John Barclay behind with some Men and Ships to compound with the Spaniards for the Town but they seeing the General gone and the English by reason of sickness not like to continue long after him made no great hast to compound but delayed so long that at last the English were forced to leave it to them without burning or doing them any other mischief as the Admiral had left Order who sought Honour more than Spoil by this expedition as the Spaniards happily experienced XI Captain John Oxenham who had formerly been Servant Souldier and Mariner with Sir Francis Drake and together with him had sustained some loss by the Spaniards in the Port of Sir John De Vllua was resolved to recover that by force which he complained was by force taken from him and having by his former Adventures gained competent skill in Maritime Affairs being particularly acquainted with the Coast and Commodities of the West Indies in 1575 he got to be Captain of a Ship of an hundred and forty Tuns burden carrying seventy men with whom he sailed for America arriv●d at the Sound of