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1565. — Admiral Coligny pcrfuaded ChcirlesIX, king of France, again 

 to attempt the fettlement of a colony in 1 lorida ; for v/hich purpofe 

 Laudonier was fent tlnther in three (hips, with people and neceilaries ; 

 and he ereded fort Caroline at the mouth of the river May. The next 

 year Ribault was fent thither ; but fix large fliips, purpofely fitted out 

 from Spain for the deftrudion of the French fettlement, coming upon 

 the coaft, the French fliips got to fea, and efcaping the Spaniards, re- 

 turned back to their fettlement, and prepared to attack the Spanifli 

 fhips : But a fudden fl:orm defl:roying or difperiing all the French ftiips, 

 encouraged the Spaniards to attack, and finally to deflroy the fort, 

 where Laudonier was left with a few men, mofl of whom the Spaniards 

 flew. Laudonier, with a few more, efcaped to France by the way of 

 England. 



It appears that the maritime ftrength of the Turks was at this time 

 very confiderable ; for although they failed in their attempt againfl: 

 IMaka (being forced this fame year to raife the fiege of it), they had in 

 that expedition 160 galleys, 20 great {hips, fuch as we commonly call 

 men of war, and a great number of fmaller veflels. [Meterani Hiftoria 

 Belgica, Z.. i.] 



The firfl; new projed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is her exclufive 

 grant to Armigill Wade, Efq. and William Herle, Gent, for the fole 

 making of brimftone for thirty years ; and alfo for the fole making or 

 extrading from certain herbs, roots, and feeds, an oil proper to be ufed 

 for wool, and for drefling woollen cloth ; they having, with great la- 

 bour and application, and not a little expenfe, found out the faid fe- 

 crets. \YKdera, V. xv, p. 650.] Thefe are the firft new and exclufive 

 projeds found in the Foedera ; yet if none had been in the pradice of 

 either of them before in England, we cannot fo properly term them 

 monopolies, the proper definition of which is an exclufion of all others 

 from what they had been in the pofl^eflion and pradice of till that ex- 

 clufion took place. 



Sir John Hawkins, in his voyage to the Spanifli Wefl;- Indies, forced 

 a traffic with the people of thole parts, and did much miichief to the 

 Spaniards. 



In the fame year, Queen Elizabeth, after reciting that ftie had hereto- 

 fore granted licences to certain Dutch or Germans to dig for alum and 

 copperas, as well as for gold, filver, copper, and quickfiiver, in feveral 

 counties, granted two exclufive patents to Humphreys and Shute (who 

 had brought into England upwards of twenty foreign workmen) to dig 

 and fearch for thofe metals, and alio for tin and lead, and to refine the 

 fame in England, and within the Englifli pale in Ireland ; and this is 

 known to this day by the name of the charter for the mines-royal. She 

 alfo in the fame year granted them the fole ufe of the calamy ftone, or 

 lapis calaminaris, for compofition of a mixed metal called latten, and all 



