Chap XVI. from the I, os James
1618. " the King’s Council patient, but not• <<r insensibly neglecting, nor yielding to" Imputations laid against him inWords.
And now, at his last, when Death“ was presented before him, he look-“ ed upon it without Affrightment," striving to vindicate his Actions, by" taking off the Veil which false Re-“ port had cast upon them (especially" the Imputation of his Glorying and
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" Rejoycing in the Fall, and at the i6i8»
" Death, of the Earl of Essex, and this" new Miscarriage of Keymis\ of a la-t ‘ ter Date, imputed to him) For hav-" ing prepared himself privately for“ Heaven, clearing his Accounts with" God, before he came to the Scaf-" fold, he publickly, at last, reckoned" with Man, and so made an End.
CHAP. XVI.
Naval Expeditions and ‘transactions of the English, with some other Occurrences 3
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Affairs of New England andVirginia.
O Ships having been sent toNew England, in the Year1617. by the Company, theYear following, 1618. fourstout Ships were fitted out from Ply-mouth ; But by Reason of some Disa-greement among the Proprietors, theSeason was so advanced, that only twowent. One, being of two HundredTuns, made a prosperous and profita-ble Voyage , in five Months, and re-turned well freighted to Plymouth. Theother, which was of fourscore Tuns,went to Bilboa, with dried Fish, to agood Market.
In the Year, 1618. the Lord Dela-ware was again sent to Virginia, withtwo Hundred Men more, for the Set-tlement, and all Necessaries suitable ;But thirty of them died by the Way,of whom the Lord Delaware him-self was one. This Year died, like-wise, the Virginian King Powhatan ;But this made no Alteration to the En-glish, his Successor having renewed thePeace with them.
Governour Argall , having no Oc-casion of Fear or Disturbance from theIndians, sought new Opportunities ofencouraging the Plantation. To thisEnd, he intended a Coasting-Voyageto the Northward, to view the Placeswhere the English had so often landed ;And, if he missed them, to reach theFilheries on the Banks of Newfound-land, and to settle a Trade or Corres-pondence, with the one or the other.Touching at Cape Cod, he was inform-
ed by the Indians , that some white Peo- j 8.pie, like him, were come to inhabit tothe Northward of them, upon the Coastof their Neighbouring Nations. Cap-tain Argall, not having heard of anyEnglish Plantation, that Way, was jea-lous that it might be (as it proved) thePeople of some other Nation; And be-ing very zealous for the Honour andBenefit of England, he resolved to makeSearch, according to the Information hehad received, and see who they were.Accordingly, he found a Settlement,and a Ship riding before it, belongingto some Frenchmen, who had fortifiedthemselves upon a small Mount, on theNorth of New England. He soon tookthe Ship, and then went to the Fort,the Garrison of which fled to theWoods: But, the next Day, they notonly surrendered themselves, but deli-vered up the Patent, which had been-granted them by the King of France ,into Captain Ar galls Hands, to be can-celled.
A Jesuit, who was among theFrench , offered Captain Argall, to be aTraitor to his Country, and, telling himof another French Settlement, at PortRoyal, in Canada, to pilot him thither.
The Captain accepted of his Offer, andbeing come thither, dispossessed themof that Settlement, likewise, (wherethey had not only sowed and reaped,but built Barns, Mills, and other Con-veniences) with as much Ease as he haddone the other.
The Report of these Exploits soon Distihed inreached England ; And were probably England,,not well approved of there; For in A-pril, 1619, a small Vessel arrived at
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