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1620. of England ) thereby enabled them tochoose a Governour, Council,, and Ge-neral Court, in Manner of a Parlia-ment, who should have full Power ofAdministration, Execution, &c°

A brave AElion at Sea.

P Urc3i I must not conclude the Nayal Tran-

V°i jy’ factions of theYear, 1620. without men-' tioning a brave Action of an EnglishI{f’ S Gen - Ship, called the Margaret and John ,ginia^^g' of one Hundred and sixty Tuns, and' eight Guns, with two Spanish Men ofWar, of three Hundred Tuns, and six-teen or twenty Brass Guns each.

This Ship, commanded by one Cap-tain Chef er , was bound for Virginia,with about eighty Passengers, and theirLuggage, and consequently not in thebest Condition to fight; However,meeting with these two Spanijh Ships,off of the Isiand of Dominica , who,notwithstanding the Peace , attackedthem, they behaved themselves sobravely, that after a six Hours sharpEngagement, in which they were seve-ral Times boarded, the Spvnijh Shipswere so disabled, that it was not with-out great Difficulty, and the Loss ofthe best Part of their Men, they gotoff. And tho’, after having resitted,they came up with the English again,the next Day, they had not the Cou-rage to renew the Eight, but sufferedthem to pursue their Voyage.

A Voyage to the River of Amazons.*

lo this, I shall add a Word or two4 -/V ir . of a Voyage to the River of Amazons,p. ^ ^PP- by Captain Roger North, Brother of theLord Dudlev North, who had accom-panied Sir JValter Raleigh , in his lastunfortunate Expedition. His Designnow was not so much to go in Searchof Gold Mines, as to settle in the Coun-try, and make Returns of such Com-modities as it afforded. To this End, heobtained a Patent, and erected a Sort ofCompany, tho’ Har court's Patent wasyet in Force.

He set Sail from Plymouth, the last 1620.of Aprils accompanied with a Hundredand twenty Gentlemen and others, hav-ing one Ship, a Pinnace, and two Shal-lops. They arrived there, in sevenWeeks, and run some Hundreds ofLeagues up the River, where they foundboth the Country and People very muchto their Satisfaction. Having finishedhis Trade, the Captain left a goodNumber of his Company there , andcame back himself, with such a Quan-tity of Commodities, as would havemade this a profitable Voyage, had notKing James been again deluded by theSpanijh Ambaffadour, Count Gondemar,to imprison this Gentleman twice in theTower, and to detain his Goods, ’tillthey were spoiled; Which, tho’ someof his Company staid there several Years,put an End to the Project, ’till Northresumed it, some Years after, as weshall see below.

This Year, likewise, the ElectorPalatine, the King’s Son in Law, now a^AhI sentcrowned King of Bohemia y being at- to the Pala-tacked on that Account by the Empe- tInate -rour and the King of Spain, and inDanger of losing even his hereditaryDominions, Kin g J ames, having longlooked patiently on, was at Length,with much to do, (c) prevailed upon,to suffer a Regiment of two Thousandtwo Hundred Men to be raised, mostly at the Charge of some Lords, whichwas transported under the Command ofSir Horatio Vere, with whom went theEarls of Oxford and EJfex, command-ing each a Company of Gentlemen-Volunteers, consisting of two and fifty,and fifty Men raised by EJJex, at hisown Charge.

On the seventh of Novembers was Ne Battlefought the famous Battle of Prague , °f Pra S ue -in which the Elector Palatine's Armywas entirely routed, and he, with hisElectress and Children obliged to quitthat City, leaving all his Baggage andMoriy behind him; And this was fol-lowed by the Loss of the Upper Pala-tinate : Notwithstanding which, theKing would not be persuaded heartilyto espouse his Cause, tho’ he demand-ed a Benevolerice of his Subjects to that

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CO " Is it reasonable (said the King) I should “ out so much as asking my Advice.” He like-

“ softer myself to be drawn by a Son in Law’s •- wife used to say: “ The Bohemians made Use oi

" Ambition and Humour, into a War against the “ the Palsgrave , as the Fox did of the Cat’s" House oi Austria, who have done me noWrong. " Tail, ( or rather the Monkey of the Cat’s

" Must I alter all my Projects, all my Mea- " Foot) to pull the" Apple out of the Fire, for

" sores, because the Elector Palatine has been “ his own Eating,

“ pleased to accept the Crown of Bohemia, with