Chap. XII. from the I. of James I. to the Revolution

1614. This done, Sir William returned,aSS; havin g encompassed his Majesty’s three' Kingdoms of England, Scotland andIreland, meeting only with this oneAdventure, and came to the Downs,the tenth of August*

Payton’i and Keeling’i Voyage to theEast-Indies.

I n the Beginning of the Year i6i£,Harris ’sCoi. were fitted out,by the joint Stock of thePurchas, 1 East-India Company, the Ship calledV0l.Lp.c03. the Expedition, under the Command ofCaptain Payton ; together with the Dra-gon, Lion, and Pepper Corn, under theCommand ot Captain Keeling* being thesecond Voyage, I find, for this Ac-count.

With this Fleet went over Sir Tho-mas Roe, Ambassadour fromKing James,to the Great Mogul. (<s) I find no-thing farther related of this Voyage,worthy the Reader’s Notice, exceptingthat the English established a Factoryat Crangalor, {e) pursuant to an A-greement made by Captain Keeling ,with the Great Samorin, or King ofCallecut, by Virtue of which he grant-ed them certain Privileges.

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with two Ships: But, having sprunghis Masts, in the largest Vestel, in foul CaptainWeather, was forced to return to Ply- s . mmouth again, whilst the smaller Vessel Voyage* £pursued her Course; And returned, af-ter a prosperous Voyage. Here, ratherthan lose all, and being eagerly set onthe Voyage, he presently put to Seaagain only with a Bark, of sixty Tuns,and thirty Men. But now this braveMan was to have his Share of Misfor-tunes, as well as others; For sailing inamongst eight or nine French Men ofWar, (or rather Pirats, or, at best,Privateers) his little Bark was taken',but made a Shift to escape again out ofthe Enemy’s Hand, while the Captainhimself was left aboard them, and car-ried Prisoner into France, (jj) Not-withstanding the Captain’s personal Mis-fortune, a certain Ship (one of four thatwas intended for him) went that Voy-age, and came Home again very well

He is takenPrisoner bythe Frenchi

Smith’! Gen.History ofVirginia, p.205 and 221.Harris ’j Col.P. I. p. 851.British Emp.in America,Vol.I.p. 28.

A Voyagewith fourShips toNew Eng-land.

Several Voyages to New England.

Capt. Smith having been so success-ful in his Voyage, the foregoing Year,to New England, the next Dispatch thisYear was of four good Ships, by theVirginia Company, which CaptainSmithnot undertaking, ( /') they employedthe Men who had been, with him theformer Voyage, and understood the Bu-siness. These returned also within sixMonths, with a profitable Loading ofFith, Train-oil, and Furs.

The fame Year, Captain Smith setout a second Time for New England ,

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laden, with an advantageous Cargo.

Greenlan d -Fijhery.

This Year, the Company suffered Turchas,the Dutch to carry it with a high Hand Vol. HI. p°in Greenland, where they had fourteen 4<J<5 *large Vessels, and among them threeMen of War, while the English hadonly two Ships and two Pinnaces there.

TnisYefir, also, thcDanes made theirfirstVoyage to Greenland-, with the Assi-stance of a Vagabond Englishman, andhad the Assurance, being back’d bythree Men of War, to demand a Tollof the English, for fishing there: Butbeing refused it, they departed very 1apeacebly, without insisting on theirDemand.

This Year, likewise, another At- Ibid. p.tempt was made for finding a North-West-Passagey But with no more Suc-cess than the former, for which Reason:

I omit giving any Account of it. *

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Smith s GenHistory ofYrg. &c.

(d) As the Transactions and Occurrences ofthis Ambassy were too extensive for me to at-tempt an Abridgment os them here, I shall referthe Reader, to his own Account of them, inHarris, P. I. p. 136. or the Collection of Voyages,Vol. I. p. 696.

(e) See this Agreement, with an Account of

the first Proceedings of this Factory, in Harris,P. I. p. 153. .

(/) The Reason of Captain §-mrh's not un-dertaking this Voyage, which he reckons one a-mong his many Misfortunes, was his putting into

Plymouth , at . his Return from his last Voyage?where he engaged with some Persons, who de-ceived him, tho’ he had refused his Service to theLondoners , on their Account, n- , -

(.g-) According to his own Accounts in hisGeneral History of Virginia, &c. he was not car-ried Prisoner thither ; But, after several Adven-tures with them the whole Summer, being off ofRochel, he made his Escape in a Boat, all alone,in which he endured a Storm, wherein manyShips foundered and were cast awav ; But he gotsafe afhoar, .