jjj_ Chap. IV. from the I. os James I. to the Revolution. 409

1605. however, murmured at it, and many “ but retire yourself into your Loun- 1605,6 ° 5 ' took Occasion to compare the King’s " try, where you may expect the E-

Indolence, with Elizabeth's Spirit, which " vent in Safetie. For tho there bewould hardly have let her be so easy un- " no Apparence of any Stirre, yet,der such an Affront. " say, they/hall receave a terrible Bow

I must not entirely pass by in Si- " this Parliament, and yet they J al mtTheG . le nce one Occurrence of this Year, tho’ “ fee who hurts them. This Conceit ispwder- n no Way coherent with this History, as " not to be contemned, bicaue ytT/eafon- being one of the most remarkable of " may doe you good, and can. oe youlot ’ this Reign ; I mean the Gunpowder- " no Harme ; For the Danger is paj Jo• Treafon-Plot , the Circumstances of “ foone as you burns this Letter. Anwhich are, however, too well known " I hope God will give you the Graceto need a Repetition here. I shall only " to make good Use of yt: To wholein general observe, that the Design was " Holy Protection I commend you.no less than to blow up the King,

Prince, and both Houses of Parliament, The two Expressions, they shall re-by Means of this mischievous Compo- ceive a terrible Blow, &c. And, Lorsition j And add a Copy of the remar- the Danger is past, &c. railed the Sul-kable Letter, by which it was disco- picion, which discovered the wholevered, written, as it was supposed, by Plot. From the latter, the Lord Sa-Psrcy, a Conspirator, and one of the lisbury , who read the Letter to theBand of Gentlemen-Pensioners, to the King, would infer it was written byLord Mont eagle. some Fool or Madman : But His Ma-

jesty interpreted it, in as Jhort a Spaceas you Jhall take to burn the Letter, andMy Lord, comparing this Sentence with the for-

f~\ ^ V of the Love I beare to mer, he concluded that some hidden" some of your Frends, I have Blow was preparing by Means of Gun-" a Care of your Preservation. There- powder ; And this occasioned theSearchfore I would advise you, as you ten- which made the Discovery. Some willder your Life, to devise some Ex- have it, however, that the Letter was no" cose to shift off your Attendance at more than an Artifice of Cecil* s, and" this Parliament. For God and Man that the first Discovery of the Plot was" have concurred to punish the Wic- from the King of France, to whom (say** kednesse of this Time. And thincke they) the Jesuits had revealed it.not slightly of this Advertisement,

CHAP. IV-

The first Attempts for a thorough Discovery of, and a Settlement in,

New England.

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The firstDiscovererspf New En-gland.

H E Province which goes bythe Name of New England, isPart of the Continent discover-ed by Barlow wcAAmidas, sent out, forthat Purpose, by Sir IValter Raleigh,and, by Queen Elizabeth, called Vir-ginia. The first Englishman who land-ed on this Part of the Continent was SiiFrancis Drake, when he returned fromJVeft-Indies, in the Year, 1586. Htstaid two or three Days on the Coastand traded with the Natives for whahe wanted > During whichTime, one othe Indian Kings submitted to Queei

Elizabeth ; As the Reader has alreadyseen. Page 216.

Captain Bartholomew Gofn0 1 /,WhoseVoyage to the Northern Parts of Virgi-nia the Reader has already seen, Chap.LX VII. of the Second Book, was the-firstEnglishman who made any considerableStay in this Country: He was very welltreated by the Savages, and traded inthe Latitude of forty-three, where hemade Land near Pise at aw ay -River ;But not liking the Weather he metwith there, he stood more to the South-ward.

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1606.