528 Charles I. Naval Expeditions, &c. of the Englisli, Book In-

1640. of it’s being dissolved again, on the six-Jnd dijfolv- ceenth ( Clarendon fays the sixth) ofed ’ (/) with as little done as in the

former, the King still insisting upon theSubsidy being granted before he wouldgive any Ear to a Redress of Grievances.The King published a Declaration, toshew the Causes of this Proceeding, andthen continued levying of Mony by ex-traordinary Methods as before. TheWar with the Scots continued, and theThe Scots Year following they defeated the EngUJhtake New- on fi' ine , and took Newcastle . (g)ca e ‘ The King being now reduced to thegreatest Streights, the Scots advancingupon him daily, without Mony to sub-sist his Troops, and all his Projects toraise any failing him, summoned theGreat Council of the Peers to meet atA fifth Par - York ; But before their Assembly, uponliamentsum- a Petition from the City of London, andmoited. another from some Lords, summoned afifth Parliament to meet on the third ofNovember .

Virginia affairs .

Br. Emp. in The Reader has already heard, thatAmerica, Ring Charles, , soon after his Accession to

240. Hfi. s/the Crown, dissolved the Virginia Com-Virginia, pany, and took the Colony into his im-

p. 48- mediate Direction. He ordered the fu-

ture Form of its Constitution to be, by

a Governour, a Council of twelve Gen- 1640.tlemen, and the Assembly, consisting of New FormRepresentatives deputed by the several ^ ove ^ menTowns and Counties in the Colony. SirJohn Harvey, the first Goyernoijr ap-pointed by the Ring, was very severein his Extortions and Exactions, in Finesand Forfeitures, proud and turbulentin his Councils, and so unjust and arbi-tary, that the Gentlemen in theColony,not being able to endure his Tyranny,seized him, and sent him Prisoner, in a Tyranny ofShip, to London ,in theYear,l6zp» Theydeputed two of their Members to ac- *company him, and exhibit their Grie--vances to King Charles, who was so farfrom redressing them, that he would not Ccuntenatr igive Ear to these Complaints ; But im- cedbythe !mediately ordered Sir John Harvey to King ‘return to his Government; He was,however, soon recalled, and the wor-thy Sir John Berkley ordered to succeed j neW Go-

him. vernout-

The Differences between the Cover- „ , mj \

nour and the Colony had occasioned so fiacre \much Confusion, that the sub.tl elndians,who watch’d all Opportunities to fallUpon the English., seing them uneasy,and disunited among themselves, sur-prized them again, and cut off fiveHundred, Men, Women and Chil-dren. , •

Oppecancanough, who was Powha- The Ct>€tan’s Successor, so resented the Encroach- the lln,

ans taM*

ments

“ otherwise he should have just Cause of Com-“ plaint, to all the World, ot so manifest an In-“ jury.

“ This Letter being delivered to the EngUJh“ Admiral, Van Tromp bore up to the Spaniards ,“ in fix Divisions, and charged them so furiously“ with his Broadsides, and his Fire-ships, as for-“ ced them all to cut their Cables, and being" three and fifty in Number, three and twenty« run asooar and stranded in the Dawns , where-“ of three were burnt, two funk, and two pe-te rished on the Shoar; One of which was a great" Gfaliion (the Vice-Admiral of Galicia) com-et manded by Antonio de. Castro , and mounted“ with two and fifty Brase-Guns. The Remain-" der of the three and twenty, which were" stranded? and deserted by the Spaniards, were“ manned by the English , to save them from the" Dutch. The other thirty Spanijh Ships, with" Don Antonio de Oquendo , the Commander in« Chief, and Lopez , Admiral of Portugal , got“ out to Sea, and kept in good Order, 'till athick Fog arising, the Dutch took Advantage“ thereof, interposed between the Admirals and“ their Fleet, and sought them valiantly 'till the« Fog cleared up, when the Admiral of Portu-“ gal began to flame, being fired by two Dutchu Ships fitted for that Purpose, which d Oquemo,‘‘"perceiving presently stood away for Dunkirk,« with the Admiral of that Place, and some lew

“ Ships more : For, of these thirty, five were“ funk in the Fight, eleven taken and sent into“ Holland, three perished upon the Coast of“ France, one near Dover, and only ten efcap.

“ ed-

“The first Hostility committed by the Spa-“ niards was a Plea the Dutch made Use of in“ their Justification to us, and, at the sameTime,

“ a sufficient Argument to defend the Conduct of“ the EngUJh Government , which otherwise“ would have appeared oppugnant to the Laws“ of Nations, in suffering one Friend to destroy“ another, within its Chambers. -

(/) The Lord Clarendon lays the Blame on Clat^Sir Henry Vane, and the Sollicitor-General, who(he fays) made a worse Representation of the Hu-mour and Affection of the House than it deserv-ed : And particularly told him, if they met again,they would pass such a Vote against Ship-mony, aswould blast that Revenue, &c. Let their Motivesbe what they would, they two, and they only,wrought so far with the King, &c.

(<?) Clarendon calls this Defeat, an infa- Qlaft^mous Rout, for which he blames Lord Conway,

But, in Vindication of the Englijh adds, that fromthis infamous Defeat, to the last entire Conquestof Scotland , by Cromwell, the Scots were’alwaysbeaten by the EngUJh, tho' with great Inequalityof Numbers.