Chap. XIX, from the 1 of James I. to the Revolution.

1622. found to be three Hundred and sevenand forty, most of them falling by theirown Instruments and Working-tools.This Massacre had been more general,had not the Plot been providentiallydiscovered to the Englijh, by a faithfulIndian, to his Master, Mr. Face, in theNight before the fatal Morning; Bywhich Means, James-town, togetherwith such Plantations thereabouts, ascould receive Notice,Time enough, weresaved. From this Time, the Englijhwere so enraged at the Natives, thattheynever gave over warring with them,still they had almost wholly extirpatedthe Nations, that were concerned in theMassacre.

The firji English at Carolina.

X Imp. inh'tterica,‘’^•p.329.

After the Massacre in Virginia, se-veral Englijh Families, retiring fromthence, were driven on the Coasts ofCarolina, and settled in the Province ofMallica, near the Head of the River ofMay, where they acted the Part of Mis-sionaries among the Mallicans, and Apa-lachites • And the King of the Countryis said to have been baptized. Uponthis Occasion it was, that the first Eng-lijh made any Thing of a Settlement onthis Part of the Continent: But we mustlook a great many Years forwarder, be-fore we fee any regular trading Colonysettled there.

Before the Conclusion of this Year, 1622.the Elector Palatine was entirely divest- Rapin withed of all the Remainder of his Domini- sons, and obliged to retire, with his -.phe Electorwhole.. Family, to the Hague, King PalatineJames having been all the while th qNJPjJ 0 ! .Dupe or the limperour and opain, and onsan( i xy 1& .so amused and led by the Nose by Gon- nities.demar the Spanijh Ambassador, that hebecame the Jest and Ridicule of all hisNeighbours, on that Account. TheEm-perour, in the mean Time, went to theDiet of Ratisbon, where he invested theDuke of Bavaria with the Electoral Dig-nity, and the Upper Palatinate, notwith-standing the Opposition made by severalPrinces of the Empire, who foresaw itmight one Day be their own Cafe. Thus,by King James 's amazing Negligence,was the Protestant Religion entirelyrooted out of Bohemia, the ElectoralDignity transferred from the PalatineFamily, and the Liberty . of Germany,overthrown. All this was chiefly thro'Gondemar ’s artful Management; And -this crafty Minister, in one of his Let-ters to the Duke of Lerma, wrote him :

" That he had lulled King Jams so fast" asleep, as he hoped neither the Cries" of his Daughter, nor her Children,

" nor the repeated Sollicitations of his(( Parliament and Subjects, in their Be-" half, should be able to awaken him.

CHAP. XIX.

Thf Cruelties of the Dutch at Amboyna,

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H E Beginning of this Year, avery cruel Scene was acted atAmboyna, one of the Sindœ (I-slands, lying near the Moluccas )in the Eaf-Indies. A Treaty had beenstbbe'i y u - concluded in 1619. between Englandihe Dutch c ^ e United Provinces, whereby, a-

8cc. mong other Things, it was agreed ;jA^ er ’ s That in Regard of the great Blood-fhedssorn.XVn ant ^ Cost, pretended to be bestowed byP- 170. ' the j Dutch, in winning the Trade of the

Hies of the Moluccas, Panda and Amboy-na, from the Spaniards and Portugueje,the Dutch should enjoy two thirds of thatTrade, and the Englijh the oth^r third.

In Pursuance of this Agreement,Englijh Factories were placed at theMoluccas, Banda and Amboyna, the lastof which is the principal Place in theEaf-Indies, where Nutmegs, Mace ,Ginamon and Cloves grow. Here theEnglijh had been settled but about twoYears, when the Dutch, in Order todepri ve them of their Share of the Spice^Trade, pretended a Plot was formedbetween .the Englijh and the Natives, toget Possession of the Dutch. Fort, and toexpel them the Island, tho’ they hadbut twenty Men upon it, and .the Dutchabove tw v o Hundred Garrifon-Soldiers

1623.