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16. i 6z 6’ Women, and flew six and twentyFrench, 1626;
f eo f five English and three Indians. Affairs 0]' Virginia and Barbaddes. Bjt.ofV ir-
on I Tiie next Day, came in Capt. Charles Zmiz, x. 44.
Saltonjlal , a young Gentleman, Son to Several Complaints having beenSir Samuel Saltonjlal, who brought with made of the Male-Administration of
nt Mother vi 0 him'good Store of all Commodities to the Virginia- Company, and the Confe-
xtie le,lt ttnrri- relieve the Plantation ; But some Dutch, quences which attended them, to the
them Ca *e. and others, having been there just before Prejudice of His Majesty’s Subjects, the
ry ' him, and carried away all the Tobac- King, this Year, dissolved that Com-
co, he was forced to fell his Commodi- pany, and reduced the Country and Go~ties upon Trust, ’till the next Crop. In vernment into his own immediate Di-the mean Time, he resolved to stay rection, appointed the Governour andthere, and to employ himself and his Council himself, and ordered all Pa-Company in Planting Tobacco; But be- tents and Processes to issue in his own
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w* ricane split his Ship.
This Gentleman, notwithstanding^ his first Voyage proved a losing Voyage,
iff thirty returned in 1629. ^sth a Ship of threeh on e ^ e f s Hundred Tuns, near two Hundred Peo-r- pie, and all Manner of Commodities fitfor a Plantation. Captain Prinn,Stone anddivers others came in about Christmas ;So that they had that Year about thir-ty Sail of Ships, Englijh, French andDutch ; And having that Year, like-?h e j wife, forced the Indians, who had been
ver 7 mischievous, all out of the Island,hem- * ie l fie. U we may from that Time date the pea-
ceable and flourishing Settlement of thatColony ; Excepting that this fame Yearthe Spaniards endeavoured to root them. out, and, being too - powerful for them,ccrrj* carr i ec * oss fix Hundred Men; But af-SVf- $u ni f’ eat ter ^bir Departure, those who remained
>eS " gY V tallied, and carried on their Settlement,
Siih. which became so numerous, that whentheir first Governour died, in 1637,
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Rent of two Shillings for every Hun-dred Acres of Land.
About this Time it was, that the ® r ' ^
King granted the Island of Barbadoes, 6 ,
to James, Earl of Carlisle ; Uponwhich all who transported themselvesthither, to settle, were obliged to pur-chase their Lands of him j And the
Rates being easy, and the Country plea-sant, the Colony soon began to growpopulous, no other Settlement thrivingso fast.
The first Corners made Choice of the
Bottom of the Bay, where the Bridge-Town now stands, to inhabit; Andthereabouts, and all along the Leeward
Shoar, were the first Settlements.
This Year, likewise, the Earl of ColamnaWarwick, with three Frigats only, at- Rostrata,tacking a Fleet oi Spaniards of forty-g 4 ; ^Sail, bound tor Dunkirk, with two lish FrigatsThousand Soldiers on Board, funk five, disperse sot*and dispersed and drove back the Rest, £ , /,^ ,anisll
there were between twelve and thirteen whereof few arrived in Spain, most ofThousand English on the Island. them perishing by Storm.
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