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1624.The SpanielMatch bro-ken.

1624. Was sent over one Captain Cannon, who ving explained the pretended Reasonsmay be called the first Governour, the for a Breach of the Spanish Match, pre-Rest of the Colony having been under fen ted an Address to His Majesty, tohis Direction: The first Adventurers advise him to discontinue theTreaty be-were, however, soon forced to aban- gun with &'pain, as well for the Resti-

don their Settlements, or hold them of tution of the Palatinate, as for the Mar-

the Earl of Carlisle, who begged the riage, which the King consenting to,

Property of the Island of King James, and the Prince and Duke having beforeand obtained the Grant of it; But not contrived another Project of Marriage -And a Tree-

of this King, for he died in the Interim, with Henrietta Maria , the King r t g

and his Son, Charles I. granted it to Frances Sister, to which the King had $ 00t , JJames, Earl of Carlijle, in the first given his Approbation, a Treaty was

set on Foot accordingly.

The Parliament being prorogued, Rapin, withafter having granted the King a con- Findal’ssiderable Aid, and nothing but a War ° m 'being now thought of, or at least talk-ed of, the King, tho’ he did not de-sign to raise an Army proportionable tothe Supply given him, ordered fix Thou-sand Men to be transported to Holland, Troops sentunder the Command of the Earls of t0 IlolJand 'Southampton, and Essex, and

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Year of his Reign.

The firs} Settlement of a Colony atSt. Christopher’^.

The Preparations for this new Set-tlement were made at the Charge ofMr. Ralph Marifield, and his Associ-ates, who committed the Managementof it to one Captain Warriner (or War- Oxford,

ner ) a Man of Worth and Industry. Robert Bertie, Lord Willoughby. TheseHe arrived there, the eight and twen- were to serve in the Army of the States,tieth of January, 1624. as it is said, under the Command of the Prince ofwith fifteen Persons only; viz. William Orange, and Twelve Thousand otherFes ed, John Rhodes, Robert Bims, JVil- Troops were levied in England, fox And othersHam Benifield, Sergeant Jones, Mr. Count Mansfield, who was, during th q raised toWare, William Ryle, Rowland Graf Winter, to open himself a Passage in-^TA^ ^cock, Mr. Bond, Mr. Langley, Mr. to the Palatinate. In the mean Time, 3 atmate 'Weaver, Edward Warriner, the Cap- the Treaty of Marriage for the Princetain’s Son, Sergeant Hplon, one Sailor, of Wales, with the Princess of France,and a Cook. was carried on with Success.

At their Arrival, they found three While these Things were in Tran-saction, the King was seized, about theMiddle of March , with a TertianAgue, of which (it is said) he died,on the seven and twentieth of the sameMonth, at Eheobalds, not without a

At least, thewas afterwards

on

Frenchmen, who sought to oppose Captain Warriner, and set the Indiansthem ; But they all soon becameFriends,and lived with the Indians a Month.

They then built a Fort, and a House;

And planted Fruits. By September, Suspicion of Poisonthey had a Crop of Tobacco ; But the Duke of Buckingham

1625.

nineteenth of that Month a Hurricanecame and blew it all away. All thiswhile, they lived upon Cajfado-B read,Potatoes, Plantans, Pines, Turtles,Guanes and Fish Plenty

impeached by the Commons, tho’ notdirectly for poisoning the King, yet fordaring to apply Remedies, without theAdvice of His Physicians. The Duke’sDeclining in the King’s Favour ; A Pro-The eighteenth of March, 1625, spect of the Earl of Bristol, his mortalarrived Captain Jefferoon, with three Enemy, being set up in his Room, or,Men Passengers, in the Hopeweil of Lon- as Bishop Burnet intimates, Sommersetdon, with some Trade for the Indians, being restored; His Indiscretion (if noand then they had another Crop of To- more) of applying Plaisters, and givingb acco. In the mean Time, the French the King two Draughts, with his ownhad planted themselves in the other Hands, in the Absence of his Physicians,End of the Isle. With this Crop, Cap- and Dr. Craig, one of them, being dis-tain Warner returned to England, leav- graced, for saying, he believed theing his Colony, here. An Account of King was poisoned, were the chief Cir-the farther Progress of this Plantation, cumstances upon which this Suspicion

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I shall defer ’till the next Reign.

In the Year, 1624. the Parliamentthen assembled, upon Buckingham’’ s ha-

was grounded. King James died, in the59thYear of his Age, after having reign-ed two and twenty Years in England.

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