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1614. Then cutting'up a Piece of Earth, Icarried it aboard, and, in the Presenceof the Men, said to this Effect;.

" I take this Piece of Earth as a Sign" of lawful Possession oi King James ’.s" Newland, and of this particularPlace," which I name ffrssissy-Harbour, ta-" ken on Behalf of the Company of" Merchants, called the Merchants of“ New Trades and Discoveries, for the" Use of Our Sovereign Lord James,“ by the Grace of God, King of Great" Britain, France and Ireland, whose" Royal Arms are here set up, to the" End that all People, who shall here" arrive, may take Notice of His Ma-

jesty’s Right, and Title to this Coun-“ try, and to every Part thereof. God" save King James.

In the first of the fe Voyages, I do notfind that Fotherby was Commander ofany Ship himself; . He went out, pro-bably, an Officer in the Thomajine, oneof the Ships of the Greenland-FEet ;But, in the secondVoyage,he command-ed a Pinnace, of twenty Tuns, calledthe Richard of London.

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Sir William Monfonu Expedition inthe Narrow Seas.

His Majesty being, this Year, ear-nestly importuned by His Scotch Sub-jects to have the Assistance of some ofHis Ships to redress the. Spoils commit-ted by the Pirats on their Coasts. Hedispatched Sir William. Monson and SirFrancis Howard, with two Ships forthat Service.

They departed from Margate- Road,the fourteenth of May, and arrived atLeith, in Scotland, on the twenty-third.Having gotten all the Information theycould at Edinburg, and provided Pilots,at Leith, they set Sail for the Orknies.

The first of June, Sir William arri-ved at Sinclare-CÆs, the House of theEarl of Cashless, and the utmost Pro-montory of Great Britain. Here hewas surprized to find, that he had beenmifinformed, and that of twenty Pi-rats, which he had been told there wereon the Coast, he could hear of no morethan two, one of which having beenforced into that Service, took the firstOpportunity of leaving it, and had sur-rendered himself, and his Baric, to theEarl of Cathness, with whom .Sir Wil-liam found him, and took him awaywith him.

The other, whose Name was Clark, 161 A-having got previous Notice of Sir Wil- Another 1 ‘liam’s Coming, had quitted the Coa [\,s ca P es -and was retired to an liland, among theFishermen. Sir William having visitedthe Orknies, Shetland, and the He-brides, and hearing nothing either ofClark, or any other Pirats, in thoseSeas, directed his Course for Broad-ha- Sir Willisven, in Ireland, a Harbour frequented departs s 1by these Rovers, on Account of the Se- lreland -entity thereof, and the Relief theyfound by one Mr. Cor mat, a Gentle-man living in the Neighbourhood, whospared not his own Daughters to makethem Welcome.

The Pirat who had surrendered him- <77^ jJ-self, with his Companions, at Cathness, starts answas, with their Help, of great Service fNp-raPto Sir William. By their Means, pr Q-seized by 11tending to be a Pirat himself, he de- Stratagemcoy ed the Gentleman, with his Wifeand Daughters, and the Chief of theirAssistants and Abettors, among whomwere a Tradesman of London, a School-master, and a Merchant of Galloway,into the Snare, and then having secur-ed them, discovered himself. He thencaused a Gallows to be set up, design-ing to execute them all the next Morn-ing ; But, at the Entreaty of the wholeCountry, upon Promise of Amendment,and a clear Confession of all their pastPractices, he pardoned them.

The next Day, a Ship coming intothe Harbour, which Sir William, sup- A pirdposing her to be a Pirat, prepared to sized Agive a proper Reception ; But ssie was ^ trat W'then too cunning for him, and put outto Sea again. He followed her sixDays, in bad Weather, at Sea, in hisBoat; But ssie escaped him in a Fop-,and got to the Island of Enescey, fromwhence her Captain found Means toconvey a Letter to the converted Gen-tleman, Cormat, who honestly shewedit to Sir William. They contrived anAnswer to it, and pretending the King’sShip was a Londoner come from theIndies, who put in there in great Di-stress, with but few of his Men alive,and those sick, drew him into the Snare.

Sir William having, by this Means, se-cured the Ship and her Crew, broughther to Broad-haven, where he causedsome of the chief and most criminal a~mongst them to be executed, as a Ter-ror to the Rest, and the whole Country,which had been but too much involvedin these evil Practices.

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