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Merchant Adventurers of the City ofRrifol fitted out a Ship, called theHenrietta Maria, under the Commandof Captain ‘Thomas James, for the Dis-covery of a North-west: Passage into the , .. „ o

South Sea. We have a very large Ac- Offensive and Defensive, and France be- 'Tracts,

his Brother, Prince Rupert, or Robert , 1635,

to follicit their Uncle’s influence, for theRestoration of the Elector.

T h e League concluded between sir WilliamFrance and the Low Countries, being Monson’i'

f'Avery of count of this Voyage in Harris, and in ing thereby obliged to declare War a

th (r the Collection of Voyages in Six Volumes gainst Spain, the Consequences appear-

a M a S e - i n polio , which, however, contains lit- ed, or at least were represented dange- j Fleet senttie more than the Circumstances of the rous. His Majesty, it was said, had out, underinexpressible Hardships they endured,by just Cause to be suspicious of these In- th . e Earl °sbeing obliged to winter in those cold novations; He had Reason to weigh Llnd s ey ’

Regions; and the Voyage came to as these Things, and to consider why Hol-

little as most of the foregoing Northern land and France should so strictly leagueExpeditions. As a Remembrance, how- and combine together, both of themever of this Voyage, he gave Names to being Neighbours to him ; And why itseveral Places he discovered, as Cape should be now hastened more than in

former Times, when France and Eng-land gave an indifferent and sufficientRelief to Holland, by Consent.

The King, says my Author, seingalso the ambitious Enterprises of France,assisted and animated Dy Holland, todisturb the Christian and peaceableCommonwealth of Europe , and unjust-

j Henrietta Maria, Lord Wefon's Island,Earl of Brifol's Island, Sir ThomasRoc's Island, Earl of Dauby' s Island,and Charlton Island.

In 1633. the King made a Journy tof - a/#,. Scotland, where he was crowned, and

th Sa Jou r . held a Parliament, obtained a Subsidy,1^0 Scot ' ‘ *

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and endeavoured the Confirmation andfuller Establishment of the Espiscopal ly to seize upon his neighbouring TerChurch. For the Sake of the latter he ritories, without Cause given ; For Incarried Laud, then Bishop of Londonwith him, who, at the King’s Return,was, upon the Death of Abbot, madeArchbishop of Canterbury .

This Year likewise, on the thir-teenth of October, was born the King’ssecond Son, James, afterwards Duke ofYork, and King of England.

In the Year 1634. King Charles, bythe Advice and Instigation of Attorny-

stance the ancient State of Lorrain,which lay in his Way, to hinder hisunlawful Designs: These were suffici-ent Motives for the King to behold hisown Cafe with an Eye of Prevention.But especially,finding a Combination be-twixt France and Holland, to divide anddevour the Provinces of Flanders be-twixt them, and to possess the MaritimeTowns, as Dunkirk, and others oppo-

i^’P'mony General Nov, and the Lord Keeper site to England. This made His Maje->ed ' Coventry, fell upon that unhappy and sty think how to quench the Fire thatillegal Method of raising a Supply, might flame into his own House. Andwithout a Parliament, by Ship-Mony ; having Intelligence that they were bothAn Extortion which made him for ever of them to join in one Fleet, a Thinglose the Confidence of his People, and not usually done hj the French Andwas one of the principal Causes of his they making no Publick Declaration ofRuin. This Tax, which was laid under the Design of their Ships, His Majestythe Notion of providing and maintain- could not but be apprehensive, that theiring a certain Number of Ships to guard Intent was to deprive him of his ancientthe Seas, was imposed this Year, for the and allowed Right of the Dominion ofYear 1635, upon the maritime Towns the Narrow Seas, which it behoved himonly: But in 1635, the King sent his to defend as much as his Kingdom.Writs for Ship-mony, all over theKing- His Majesty, therefore, armed the fol-dom, for the Year 1636. AndtheRea- lowing Ships to Sea, to enquire Reason

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son, or rather Pretence, alledged forthis general Tax, was, that the KingdomWas in great Danger, onAccount of theLeague lately concluded hetweenFranceand the Low Countries .

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Ct niff 0t ^ er King’s Brother in Law, dy j ' n £ i n Nov.Wd. ° En g- 1632, Charles, his Son, the King’s Ne-phew, came this Year to England , with

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at their Hands; Not intending to in-jure any Nation, but to keep himselfand his Subjects from being injured, andto curb the Insistency and Pride of anyPeople who should go about to in-fringe His Royal Prerogative.

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