592 Charles II. Naval Expeditions , &c. of the Engiisli, Book lH-

1667.

The first Discovery of the Iste of Pro-vidence.

Br.Emp.in About this ^ Time it was, that theAmerica, Island of Providence was first discoveredVol. 11. p. by Captain William Say le, who was af-34 ^' terwards Governour of Carolina. He

was driven thither by a Storm, FS hewas on a Voyage to the Continent: Andfrom him it was then named Sayle\ I-stand. At his Return to England, a-bout 1667. he gave his Employers, whowere the Proprietors of Carolina, anAccount of hisDifcovery ; And some ofthem, hereupon, procured a Grant forthis and all the Bahama-lf\cm&$. TheExtent of their Grant reaches from two

and twenty to seven and twenty De- 1667.grees, North Latitude. (*) The Nameof the Istand of Providence was given itby Captain Say le, after he had beendriven upon it, a second Time, whenhe was bound for the Continent. It liesin five and twenty Degrees, North Lati-tude, is eight and twenty Miles long,and eleven Miles broad, where it isbroadest, in the Center of four or fiveHundred Islands, some a Hundred andsixty Miles in Length, others no biggerthan little Blocks, rising above Water.

The first Colony was driven out of itby the Spaniards, after which it lay un-inhabited ’till about the Time of theRevolution ; ’till when I shall defer anyfarther Account of it.

C H A P. XL.

Naval Expeditions and Lranfafiions of the English, with some other Occurrences,from the Conclusion of the fir [I Dutch War, to the Breaking out of the secondDutch War.

1667. ^ c ^ e one and twentieth of Ju-

Rapin- I » ly, the Peace between England,Rennet. Holland and her Allies, was

Bp. Bumet. signed at Breda : By the nine-

Rostrata! teenth Article of which (I mean withHarris* Col. the Dutch, for there were three fepa-Peacewith rate Treaties made) they again confirm-Holland!” kd the Honour of striking the Flag, andThe Honour lowering their Sails, to the Ships of Warof the Flag, belonging to the King of Great Britain,&c. confirm- * n Britannick Seas. It was ratified atLondon and the Hague, the four andtwentieth of August.

Before the Conclusion of this Year,The Earl of the Lord Clarendon, who hitherto hadClarendon* a £|- e( j as prime Minister, became an Un-ijgrace. Easiness to the King, by his regular andsevere Manners, and more for his fre-quent Reproaching him with the Dis-orders of his Life. He was therefore,made a Sacrifice, partly to the King’sDebauchery and Libertinism, and theInstruments thereof, and partly to theComplaints and Resentment of the Peo-ple, who laid several Mismanagementsof the Court to his Charge, but more,perhaps,by the private Intriegues of the

(®) The Patent was granted to George, Dukeof Albemarl, William, Lord Craven, Sir George

Popish Faction. The King first took 16&Tthe Great Seal from him, for which he The Gr^had the Thanks of the Parliament. Onthe twelfth of September,he was impeach-^” 2ed by the Commons of High Treason, atthe Bar of the House of Lords : But theEarl plainly seing, that he was theMark of the Commons Rage, and know-ing, that the King and the whole Courtwere his Enemies, thought it advisableto withdraw into France, leaving anApology behind, addressed to the Lords.ThisApology, the Commons voted scanda-lous and malicious, and ordered it to beburnt by the Hand of the common .Hangman. And soon after he was for- p fmally banilhed by Act of Parliament, pJl'ta^ e>lThus this great Man, who from a privateGentleman and Lawyer, by his inviola-ble Attachment to King Charles I. andCharles II. raised himself to the Dignityof Earl, Lord High Chancellor, andPrime Minister of State, and from whoseDaughters proceeded two great and glo-rious Princesses, successively Queens ofEngland, was obliged to spend the lastseven Years of his Life, as a poor Re-ward

Carteret, John, Lord Berkley, Anthony, LordAshley, and Sir Peter Colhton.