14 yi Defence of the Scots 



They were authorized by an A£l of Parlia- 

 ment, and the King's Letters Patent, to plant 

 Colomesin Afia, Africa, or Amtnc^^upon Pla- 

 ces not inhabit edy or any othtr Place, by confent 

 of the Natives^ not pojfeji by any European 

 Prince or State. Being provided wich this 

 Authority, than which there cannot be a 

 Greater, or one more duly and honeftly limit- 

 ed, they equipped their Siiips, and landed on 

 the North fide of the IJlhmus of Darien in No- 

 <uewber 1698. where the Spaniards, as has been 

 fully provM, never had any Poffeffion, and no 

 other European Prince or State pretends any 

 Claim to ir. Being arrived there, they fairly 

 obtained the confent of the Princes and People 

 of the Country, and particularly of Capt. Jf/i- 

 dreas^ who is the chief man in that Tradt ; and 

 after a folemn Treaty and Alliance deliberatly 

 made, and wrote in Spanifb, becaufe the faid 

 Prince underftands that Language, they peace- 

 ably enter upon their new Colony, without ei- 

 ther Force or Fraud. So that they have re- 

 Jigioufly kept to the Conditions of the Aft and 

 Patent, which is a plain demonftration that 

 they have a juft and legal Title to their 

 Settlement, and a Right to the Proteftion 

 of the Government, againft the Attempts of 

 the Span-^ardsy or any other People what- 

 foever. 



The next Topick to be infifted upon, is the 

 Advantage or Difadvantage that mav redound 

 to Enda/jd from thi^i Settlement. We fiiall be- 



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