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Provisions, not having learnt to gatherFood, as the Indians did, nor havingConveniencies, like them of taking Fishand Fowl: Besides, being now at openVariance with the Indians, they fearedto expose themselves to their Contemptand Cruelty ; Because they had not re-ceived the Supply they had boasted of,and which they had depended uponearly in the Spring.

W e have in Hackluyt and Smith amore particular Account of all theirTransactions with the Natives, and anatural History of the Country ; bothtoo long to be inserted in this History.

Here I lhall, therefore, leave them,almost in Despair of the promised Re-cruits, and looking out continually tothe Seaward, if happily they might findany Means of Escape, or Relief: Defer-ring the Manner of this Event to theensuing Chapter.

Before I proceed to Sir FrancisDrake’s Expedition to the Wejl-Indies,in this, and the following Year, whichsi to be the Subject of an ensuing Chap-ter, it will be necessary to say a Wordor two of the Motive which induced theQueen to take that Step.

The same Year, 1585, the Affairsof the United Provinces were in so di-stressed and dangerous a Situation, thatthe States found they were no longerable to withstand the King of Spain,without some powerful Assistance fromabroad. They had already offered theSovereignty to Henry III. King ofFrance , who had refused it. QueenElizabeth, to whom they now madethe same Offer, refused it likewise, forFear of engaging in a very trouble-some Affair. She was sensible, if Sheaccepted of the Sovereignty, She wouldnecessarily be obliged to a chargeableWar with Spain, for the Maintenanceof it; and not have it in Her Power toget out of it again, at her Pleasure. Shetherefore chose rather to give the Kingof Spain a Diversion, by affording theStates a powerful Aid, and taking theUnited Provinces, into her Protection.

To this End, ssie entered into aTreaty, with them, which being con-cluded, ssie, soon after, thought fit topublissi a Manifesto, wherein ssie al-ledged her Reasons, for assisting theConfederate Provinces.

The Reasons ssie alledged, amongothers, were, that the Alliance betweenthe Kings of England, and the PrincesOf tsie Netherlands, was not To much

between their Persons, as between their I §8^,respective States. Thence ssie inferred,that, without Breach of this Alliance,stie might assist the Inhabitants of theLoiv-Countries, oppressed by the Spa-niards,

In the Phoenix Britannic us, No. IV,we have the Queen’s Declaration, onthis Account, with the Addition to it,at large, dated at Richmond, the first ofOftober, 1585. a curious Piece; Biittoolong to be inserted here.

By this Treaty, She engaged to fur- SubJlaweo fnissi them with five Thousand Foot, the Treatyand a Thousand Horse, under theCommand of an Englijh General. Shepromised to pay these Troops duringthe War, upon Condition to be repayedafter the Conclusion of a Peace, in cer-tain Terms, stipulated in the Treaty.

For the Security of this Payment, theStates engaged to deliver into herHands, Flushing and Rammekins inZealand, and the Briel in Holland . TheGovernours, which the Qgeen shouldthink fit to appoint in these Places, wereto exercise no Authority over the In-habitants ■? And when the Mony wasrepaid, these Places were to be restoredto the States, and not to the King ofSpain . The English General, and twoothers, whom the Queen was to name,were to have Session in the Council ofState, and no Peace or Truce was to bemade without a mutual Consent. If the <

Queen should think fit to send a Fleetto Sea, the States obliged themselves tojoin it with an equal Number of Ships,under the Command of the Englijh Ad-miral* And lastly, the Ports were tobe open and free to both Nations.

The Zealander s were fo overjoyed at Medalsthis Alliance, that they caused Medals struck en this,to be struck in Memorial of it; On the Gcca fi on -Face of which was the Arms of Zea-rland on the one Side, being a Lion ris-ing out of the Sea, and the Inscription,

Lull or ctf emergo: And on the Reverse,the Arms of the Towns of Zealand withthe Inscription, Aujfore Deo, FaventeRegina.

Mr. Walter Raleigh, speaking of the Raleigh'.?Rise of the Dutch, says, they set so -" aySlgreat a Value on the Queen’s Favourand Assistance, that the Prince of Q-range desired him to fay to the Queen,

From him. Sub Umbra Alarum tuarumprotegimur ; And certainly, continuesour illustrious Author, phey had wither-ed in the Bud, and funk jn the Begin-ning of their Navigation^, hsid not Her

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