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Chap. XIV. during the Reign of §tyeen Elizabeth.

sbq. They represented it as a Scene laid openfor the good and gracious Queen Eliza-beth, to propagate the Gospel in, andextend her Dominions over : As if pur-posely reserved for Her Majesty, bya peculiar Direction os Providence, thathad brought all former Adventures, inthis Affair, to nothing: And to give afarther Taste of their Discovery, theytook with them in their Return for Eng-land, two Men of the Native Indians,who went by the Names of fVancheseand Manteo.

Her Majesty accordingly took theHint, and espoused theProject, as far asher prefontDifterences with Spain wouldallow. She was so well pleased withthe Account given, that, as the greatestMark of Honour she could do the Dis-ir ginia, covery, lhe called the Country by the7 f° cal- Name of Virginia ; as well because itwas first discovered in her Reign, as aVirgin Queen; as because it did stillseem to retain the Virgin Purity andPlenty of the first Creation, and thePeople their Primitive Innocence : Forthey seemed not debauched nor corrup-ted with those Pomps and Vanities,which had depraved and enslaved theRest of Mankind, neither were theirHands hardned by Labour, nor theirMinds corrupted, by the Defire ofhoarding up Treasure: They were

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without Boundaries to their .Land; with-out Property in Cattle, and seemed tohave escaped, or rather not to havebeen concerned, in the first Curse, Ofgetting their Bread by the Sweat of theirBrows: For by their Pleasure alone,they supplied all their Necessities; thatis by Fishing, Fowling and Hunting;

Skins being their only Cloathing, andthese laid afi.de, by far the greater Partof the Year; Living without Labour,and only gathering the Fruits of theEarth when ripe, or fit for Use, Norfearing present Want, nor sollicitousfor the future; But daily finding suf-ficient a fresh for their Sustenance,

This Report was backed, nay muchadvanced, by the vast Riches and Trea-sure mentioned in several MerchantsLetters from Mexico and Peru, to theirCorrespondents in Spain ; which Letterswere taken, with their Ships and Trea-sure, by some of ours; of which theReader has already had many Instances.

There was now Encouragement e- Encourage-nough for a new Adventure, and Peo- ffjff """pies Invention was set at Work, ’till rers%they had satisfied themselves, and madesufficient Essays for the farther Disco-very of that Country ; The Account ofwhich lhall be the Subject of my nextChapter,

CHAP. XIV.

Sir Richard Greenvilst Voyage to Virginia, with some other Occurences

of the Tear, 1585.

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-1 IR Richard Greenvil, who hadbeen the Chief of Mr- JValter Ra-leigh’s, Associates, in the foregoingExpedition, was now resolved to be anEye-Witness himself to the Discoveriesand Advantages to be made in a se-cond.

To this End, having obtained sevenSail of Ships, well laden withProvisions,Arms, Ammunition, and spare Men tomake a Settlement, he departed withthem from Plymouth, on the ninth of-April.

- The Ships appointed for this Expedi-tion were; The Tyger, of one Hun-dred and forty Tuns; A Fly-boat calledthe Roebuck of the fame Burden ; The

Lion, of about a Hundred Tuns; The 1484.Elizabeth, of Fifty Tuns, and the Do- T'heirNamesrothy, a small Bark, to which were ad- and ^ urdcn ^ded, for any sudden Expedition, twosmall Pinnaces. The chief Persons inCommand, with him, were Mr. Ralph Commander*Lane, Mr. Thomas Candijh, Mr. John Names,Arundel, Mr, Stuckly, Mr. Bremige,

Mr. Vincent , Mr. Heryot, and Mr.

•John Clark-, Whereof some were Cap-' tains, and others for Council, or Alfis-• stants. I chuse to mention the Namesyof Officers in these private Expeditions,which were as so many Schools for train-ing up Officers for the Publick Service;

Because we shall, in the Sequel, foemost of them advanced to Posts in the3 F Royal