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1603. e6 in the River of Thames, about theEnd of September.

The firs Voyage to Cherie Island.

Purchas gives us a short AccountVol^III n of a Voyage perform’d this Year,, upon£<5(5^ Discovery, to the Northward, with aShip called the Grace, of fifty Tuns,

commanded by Captain Stephen B fines,which failed as far as feventy-four De-grees, and thirty Minutes: But as thereis nothing remarkable in it, but, thatit was the first Voyage to Cherie-Island ,a Name they gave it from Mr. FrancisCherie, a Gentleman, at whose Expencethis Voyage was made, I shall enlargeno farther on it.

C H A P. II.

Naval Expeditions and Transactions of the English, with other memorable Oc-currences, of the Tear , 1604.

1604.RymerVFoedera,

P-579—596.

A Peacewith Spain.Opinions ofthe Peopleupon it.

Rapin.

A Monopolygranted.

But revoked-

I N the Year 1604. King James con-cluded a Peace with Spain, whichwas signed the eighth of August,and was double, there being oneTreaty relating entirely to Commerce.

The Opinions of the People werevery various concerning this Peace. Somefay Spain purchased it with large Sumsof Mony, distributed among the King’sMinisters. There was not one Courtierof Note but tasted of Spain' s Bounty,either in Gold or jewels, and amongthem none had so large a Share as theCountess of Suffolk ; But tho’ the Earlof Northumberland's Proportion of theseGifts was thought to be less than theCountess’s, yet he is said to have beenenabled thereby to build his nobleHouse in the Strand.

C t pon the Conclusion of the Peacewith Spain, the King granted a Mono-poly of the Trade with Spain and Ita-ly, to a Company of Merchants, andforbid all his Subjects, except such aswere authorized by this Company, totraffick in those Countries. But in thenext Session of Parliament, the Com-mons, taking into Consideration how de-structive to Trade such a Monopolywas, represented so plainly to the Kingthe ill Consequences thereof, that theCompany’s Patent was revoked, andthat Trade declared free, as before.

Sir Henry Middleton’s Voyage to theEast-Indies.

.Karris’; Col, Among

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foregoing Book,

other Transactions of thenear the Conclusion of theI gave an Account of

the Privilege granted by Queen Eliza-beth to the Eafi-India Company, andthe first Voyage made by Captain Lan-cajler, for the Account or that Compa-ny.

The second Voyage for their Accountwas under the Command of Sir HenryMiddieton, as Admiral, in the Red Dra-gon, the Hell or, Vice-Admiral, withthe Afcenjion and the Susan. ThisFleet, every Way equip’d for such aVoyage, set Sail from Graves end, thefive and twentieth of March, (some Ac-counts fay, the second of April.) Theykept Company to Bantam, where theyarrived the latter End of December, ina weak and sickly Condition, havingscarce fifty sound Men in all the fourShips. The last Day of the Year, theAdmiral delivered King James's Letterand Present to the King of the Place,by whom they were received with greatCeremony. This done, the Fleet se-parated, the HeIIor and the Susan wereleft there to lade Pepper, the Admiral,in the Dragon failed for the Moluccas,and the Asc ens on was sent to the Isles ofBanda.

I shall not detain the Reader withthe particular Circumstances of theseseveral Voyages: But shall contentmyself with mentioning, that the Admi-ral returned to Bantam in August, 1603.That the Dutch began to give severalInstances of their Baseness and Treache-ry to worm the English out of the Eaft-India- Trade, in which they afterwardssucceeded in several Places: But that,notwithstanding their scandalous Asper-sions, to the Prejudice of the English,they could not hinder the Kings of

Bantam ,

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Introd. toCol. of Vo-yages, p.29.

Sir HenryMiddleton’rVoyage to theEast- Indies.

The Fleetarrives atBantam.

They fepa-.rate for se-veral Voy-ages.

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