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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	james_n	john_n	sir_n	63,767	5	6.8706	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89825	America: or An exact description of the West-Indies: more especially of those provinces which are under the dominion of the King of Spain. / Faithfully represented by N.N. gent.	N. N.	1655 (1655)	Wing N26; Thomason E1644_1; ESTC R209078	208,685	499

their Neighbours especially when they are fairly dealt withall and not provoked into distemper by rough handling The Countrie on the Sea side replenished with very good Havens They report that in the space of 70 miles there are no less than twenty or twenty five good and secure ports some of them capable of five hundred or a thousand sail of ships and fenced from the fury of windes and Sea by the interposition of certain Islets which to the number of two hundred at least are said to lye scattered up and down upon that Coast The places where the English have chiefly seated themselves are 1. St. Georges Fort where the first Plantation was setled at the mouth of the River Sagahadoc in a kinde of Peninsula or half-Island 2. New-Plimouth seated no less commodiously upon a large and spacious Bay called by the Natives Patouxet It consisted at the first building but of nineteen Families only but is now improved into a handsome Town 3. New-Bristoll upon the Sea side also but lying more Northerly than Plimouth 4. Barstable 5. Boston And lastly Quillipiack which by the name seems to have been some old Town of the Natives who upon a great mortality happening among them are said to have diserted these parts of the Countrie but a few years before the English came thither It lyeth upon a Bay called the Bay of the Massachousetts and is at present possessed by the English This part of Virginia was first discovered by Captain Gosnold in the year 1602. Four years after that King James granted it by Letters Patents unto a Corporation of certain Knights Gentlemen and Merchants to be planted by them and managed to the best advantage of the Publique In which Sir John Popham Lord chief Justice of the Common-Pleas being one of the principall by his encouragement and chiefly also at his charge a Colony was sent thither in the year 1607 under the Presidencie of Captain George Popham and Mr. Raleigh Gilbert but the President Popham dying the next year after and not long after him the Lord chief-Justice likewise who was the chief Patron of the work the Colonie returned home and though afterwards it was attempted several times yet never could they finde success in their endeavors nor be setled in any form till the year 1620 When by the building of New-Plimouth and some more particular care had of the business by several incouragements sent from thence to bring on others and by reason of some domestick motives which perswaded many people to leave their Countrie and goe that way it is grown at last to a very probable and hopefull condition of good subsistence for the future being for many temporal respects worthy of all favour and cherishing by the State 3. Novum-Belgium or Niew-Nederlandt hath on the North-East New-England on the South and South-West Virginia properly so called taking its name from the Netherlanders or Dutchmen who began their Plantation there about the year 1614 The Countrie as they said being then void and therefore free for any body that would take possession of it Notwithstanding which pretence they were scarse warm in their Quarters when Sir Sam. Argall Governour of Virginia having first spoyled the French in Accadie as we said disputed the possession with these also And although they pleaded Hudsons right who by Commission from King James and upon an English account had lately discovered those parts and pretended they had not only bought all his Cards and Maps of the Countrie but all his Interest and Right also and had fully contented him for all his pains and charges in the discovery yet the said Hudson being an English man and acting all that he did by Commission from the King of England upon debate it was concluded That the Land could not be alienated after discoverie without the King of Englands consent especially it being but a part of the Province of Virginia already possessed by the Subjects of England So that they were forced to wave that title and the Dutch Governor submitted his Plantation to his Majestie of England and to the Governor of Virginia for and under him Upon which Terms for a good while they held it Afterwards upon confidence it seems of a new Governour sent from Amsterdam they not only failed to pay the promised contribution and tribute but fell to fortifie themselves and to entitle the Merchants of Amsterdam to an absolute Propriety and Dominion of the Countrie independent of any other building Towns as New Amsterdam raising Forts as Orange Fort neer that branch of the Nordt River which they call Hell gates Complaint whereof being made to King Charles and by his Embassador represented to the States they disown the business and declare by publique instrument that they were not interessed in it but that it was only a private undertaking viz. of the West Indian Company of Amsterdam Whereupon a Commission was granted to Sir George Culvert made Lord Baltimore in Ireland to possess and plant the Southern parts thereof lying towards Virginia by the name of Maryland and to Sir Edmund Loyden to plant the Northern parts towards New-England by the name of Nova-Albion Which makes the Dutch the second time seem willing to compound and for the summe of two thousand and five hundred pounds they offer to be gone and leave all they had there But by advantage of the troubles in England which then began to appear and soon after followed they not only goe back from their first Propositions and make higher demands but also most mischievously and wickedly as some report they furnish the Natives with Arms and teach them the use of them as it may be thought expecting to use their help upon occasion against the English An Act questionless of very pernicious consequence not only to the English Adventurers who have since been much damnified and prejudiced by the said Natives in their Plantations but also to the Dutch themselves who as 't is reported were the first or with the first that smarted by it The Savages being thus arm'd and train'd first of all falling foule upon them destroying their Farm-houses and forcing them to betake themselves to their Forts and Fastnesses So that at present there is but little good account can be given further of the State of this Countrie As to the nature and quality of the soil it differeth not much from the parts about it the temperature of the aire and commodities of the Country being generally the same which New-England or Virginia yeeldeth And as for Towns and places of abode it doth not appeare that either the English or Dutch have as yet set themselves much to building in this Country What the English had done before our late troubles at home it may be feared is wholly ruined by the misfortunes which befell them there And for the Dutch although they make large reports of the Country and challenge a huge Circuit of land under the name of the New-Netherlands and title of the States yet I