Chap. XIV. from the I. of James, I. to the Revolution.

1616.

445

1616.

Great R e .speffi Jheivn

het.

I 71 her Re.twn dies at

Gravesend.

St r SamuelAr gall Go-vernour 0 fVl rgini a .

Balls, and other Publick Entertainments, accidentally or wilfully, or what cameand very respectfully received by all of her Crew, they could not learn,the Ladies about Court. She behaved W e have likewise, in Pure has, seve- ^^herksherself, upon all Occasions, with so ral Letters from th e Eajl-Indies, of this ^^vuicivmuch Decency, and shewed so much and the following Year, giving parti-Grandeur in her Deportment, that she cular Accounts of the Injuries done tomade good the brightest Part of the^ our Trade and Factories by the Dutch.

Character Captain Smith had given or I cannot undertake to give a particu-her. i ar Account of them here : They were

Every Body paid this young Ladyall imaginable Respect; and it was be-lieved, she would have sufficiently ac-knowledged those Favours,had she livedto return to her own Country, by bring-mg the Indtans to have a kinder Dispo-sition towards the Engiijh . But, uponher Return, she was unfortunately tak-en ill at Gravesend , and died in a fewDays after giving great Testimony, alle ime she lay sick, of her being aChristian. She left one Son,

, . Ross, whose Posterity is

is Day in good Repute in Virginia ,

and now hold Lands by Descent fromher.

The Year following, Sir Samuel Ar-gall was made Governour of Virginia ,who, upon his Arrival there, found theNumber of Engiijh reduced to littlemore than four Hundred, of which notabove half were fit for Labour. In themean while the Indians, mixing amongmem, got Experience daily in Fire-Arms, and some of them were instruct-6 ^f' ere in by the Engiijh themselves,and employed to hunt and kill Wild-°w for them. So great was their Se-curity upon the Marriage : But Gover-nour Argall, not liking these Methods,regulated them at his Arrival; And, byis Care, not only made the Colonynourish and encreale mightily, but keptthem m great Plenty and Quiet.

res.

^urchas,

Vl. J.p.606.

-A Sea-Fightwith the Ad-*”1 r al of the'-'arracks.

"Jhe Carrackburnt.

Child’.? Voyage to the East-Ind

Purchas has, in the Year, 1616.the Voyage of Alexander Child, fromEngland to Sur at, and from thence toJafquez, in Versa ; But makes no Men-tion whether it was for Account of theCompany, or private Traders. He re-lates nothing of this Voyage worthy ofthe Reader’s Notice, but an Engage-ment with the Admiral of the Portu-guese C arracks, which lasted three Days.The Night ensuing these three Days,she was aground between two very steepRocks, and set on Fire ; But whether

so many and so various, that they wouldrequire a Volume alone, I shall, there-fore, only observe, in general, that noTreachery, which Malice, Envy andJealousy could suggest, was left unprac-tis’d to worm us entirely out of thatTrade; And, as a Specimen, shall,when I come to the Year, 1623. givea brief Account of their Cruelties atAmboyna.

Affairs of the Sommers Islands.

Before I conclude the Naval Tran- z'vir'factions of this Year, I must not omit^h,p.i8zIone Event, as strange perhaps as we Rr. Emp. in

shall find in History. VoiXi^'

Mr. Moos s three Years Government^; 11 ' p *of the Bermudas being expired, Cap- Capt. Tuc-tain Daniel Tucker was sent over to sue-ceed him. This Gentleman much en- Bermudas,couraged the Improvement of the Soil,the Planting of Tobacco, and did ma-ny good Things for the Promoting ofthe Colony.

The Houses which were before Encreafebuilt of Palmeto Leaves, were, for the an( lImprove-most Part, taken down, and others of ^Colons. 6Stone raised in their Places, Fruit-treeswere planted, Fields and Wocds clear-ed of Rubbish, and a regular Form ofGovernment established. But the Se- ^ i e -^ erateverity of his Discipline was so grievous ato some licentious Persons, that five ofthem executed as desperate a Design,to escape from him, as Waters and hisCompanions had projected to get awayfrom the Island.

The chief Manager and Contriver ofthis Business was Richard Sanders ; Andhis. Confederates, William Goodwin, aShip-Carpenter; Thomas Harrison, aJoyner; James Barker, a Gentleman,and Henry Puett.

They knew the Governour wouldnot give them leave to go off, and there-fore invented this Contrivance to effectIf : Hearing Captain Tucker had a greatDesire to go a fishing out at Sea; Butwas afraid to do it, because several Fi-

sher-boats