500 Charles I. Naval Expeditions, &c. oj the English^ Bqok 'III*

1626. End of O Hob er) that they could not besent out again 'till next If eat. (5)

Rapin. "so all the other Disappointments,

which the King had this Year met with,an unexpected Event was no small Ad-dition. The King of Denmark , hisUncle, whom he had engaged in a Warwith the Emperour, was defeated, onthe seven and twentieth of August-, byCount ‘Tilly, with the Loss of all hisBaggage and Train of Artillery. ThisAccident obliged King Charles to findMpny to support His Uncle (tho’ hewas in great Streights himself) whowas in in a very ill Situation, and wouldotherwise have been under a Necesfityof making Peace with the Emperour.Harris' j Col. This Year, likewise. Sir Thomas Her -,

^rVhoSas hert > Baronet, began his Voyage, withHerbert'! five Ships, to Goa, in the Eaft-Indies.Voyage to \y e find - a particular Account of it inoa ‘ Harris's Collection, to which, as it con-sists more in the Description and Histo-ry of those Parts, than in Action, I shallrefer my Readers.

1627. Against thenext Year, was preparedRapin. a more considerable Fleet for the Service,Whitlock consisting of above a Hundred {Whit-The Duke of took, fays a Hundred) Sail of Ships, tenBuckingham of them the King’s Men of War, andjent to re- t p e re st pressed or hired from the Mer-chelers. chants, with a Body or six or levenThousand ( Rapin fays seven Thousand)Land-Soldiers; The whole to be com-manded by the Duke of Buckingham,both as Admiral and General; But theSuccess was very unworthy the Great-ness of the Preparations; As the Rea-der will fee below.

Continuation of the Affairs ofSt. Christophers.

Br. Ernp. inAmerica,

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222.

Vol' 11 V ° y ' The four and twentieth of Augufl,3sir.' ' P ' of this Year, Captain Warriner , who

left St. Christopher's, in Septemb. 1625 1626.

to carry their first Crop of Tobacco into EncreafeofEngland, returned thither with near a the Colcn I‘Hundred People.

They then fell to Planting, as be-fore ; But, on the fourth of September, a violenta Hurricane blew down all their Houses Hurricaneand Tobacco, drove two Ships ashoar, r educe*the#and did other considerable Damages .*° ^ er ^'

All their Provisions being thus lost, theylived very miserably, upon what theycould get in the wild Woods, ’till theTutties came in, about June, of the Yearfollowing.

The thirteenth of May, 1627. Cap- Boundariestain Warriner (by some called Sir Tho-f et betweenmas Warriner ) the Englijh Governour,and the French Governour, to prevent French.Differences among their People, aboutthe Limits of their Territories, signedArticles of Division. They then setthose Boundaries to their several Divi-sions, which remained ever after, withthis particular Proviso, that Fishing andHunting should be equally free to theInhabitants of both Nations; That theSalt-ponds, and most valuable Timber,

IhouH also be in common, togetherwith the Mines and Havens. Allo, a tween them-League offensive and defensive was con-cluded between them, against all theirEnemies. After which they set them-selves to work, each in his Station, toadvance his Settlement.

The six and twentieth of 0 Slob er, of J srejh Sufi'that Year, came in Captain William I 1 ! arr ‘ ojeS 'Smith, in the Hopewell, with someOrdnance, Shot and Powder, from theEarl of Carlife , with Captain Pelhamand thirty Men ; About the same Timecame the Plough, a Ship of Briftol, withCaptain Warriner' s Wife, and six or se-ven Women more.

The five and twentieth of Novem- Severalher, the Indians set upon the French, FrenCjfl aJl gon Account of some Injury offered their m '

Women,

Redress of Grievances, and particularly with theAccusation and Impeachment of the Duke of Buck-ingham , the King thought fit, on the fifth of June ,to dissolve this Parliament likewise. By this has-ty Dissolution, the King having again lost the Sub-sidies, which the Commons had voted him, he wasforced, to supply his Necessities, and to enableRymer's him to carry on the War, to have Recourse toFoedera, several irregular Methods,which were all so manyTom. XVIII. Steps to the Troubles which ensued.p. 721. This Year the King raised the Sailor’s Wages

from fourteen Shillings a Month to twenty.

Rapin. f c \ Rapin places the Event of the Queen’s Do-

mesticks, with the Declaration of War which en-sued, both in the Year 1627. and takes no Notice

of this Fleet, sent out under the Earl os Den-bigh.

The Duke os Buckingham is reasonably sup-posed to have been the Author of this War ; ei-ther out of Revenge, for having been excepted a-gainst by Lewis XIII. when he was appointed togo Ambassadour to France-, or on Account ofsome Affronts put upon him by that Court, whenhe was sent to bring the Queen over. For, fromthat Time, “ he took all the Ways he could to CIarena“ undervalue, and exasperate the Court andNa-“ t i° n ; an( l omitted no Opportunity to in cense" Charles against France , and even a gainst

" His Queen, and behaved himself very rudely" to her.' • /