i82 A, D. 1586. 



' ried to the Spaniards or their allies, &c. had like to have marred all 

 ' the advantages which the fall of Antwerp had brought to Holland, 

 ' had not the French, Scots, Danes, and Vandalic Hanfe towns, inter- 

 ' pofed, whereby that edid was fruflrated. Neverthelefs, the bare ter- 

 ' ror of its being to take place made very many trading people leave 

 ' the Netherlands, who fettled at Hamburgh, Bremen, Embden, Staden, 

 ' &c.' The later edid, Thuanus [L. Ixxxv.] thinks, was in order to 

 raife money for carrying on the war, by obliging all nations to pur- 

 chafe free navigation at high prices. Great, however, as thofe two au- 

 thors are, it maybe confidered that the later was a Frenchman, and the 

 Other ftrongly frenchified, and a violent republican, and foe to Eng- 

 land *. 



1587 Sir Walter Raleigh had his mind fo intenfely fet upon a 



plantation in North America, that he again fent out three fhips and i 50 

 perfons of both fexes. Thefe planters Raleigh's fuperintendant fettled 

 on the ifland of Roanoke, where he found the fecond colony had been 

 deftroyed by the natives. He rebuilt the fort and houfes, calling the 

 place the city of Raleigh ; and leaving 1 1 5 men in his new fettle- 

 ment, he returned home, where he remained about three years before 

 he could obtain the neceflary fupplies which he had promifed to bring 

 in the year after he left the colony. When he arrived in 1590, with 

 fupplies of men and (lores in three fliips, he found that fuch of the colo- 

 ny as remained alive had removed to a place on the continent called Cro- 

 atoan, that word being carved on the trees. To this place they intend- 

 ed to fail in fearch of the colony ; but a florni unfortunately arifing, 

 the fliips loft their anchors and cables, and provifions alfo failing, they 

 agreed to return home, leaving that miferable colony to perifli, to the 

 ihame of that age ; for though Raleigh was in trouble about this time, 

 yet furely the queen and nation fhould have had compafiion on thofe 

 poor men, left amongft lavages in a wildernefs. 



Thus was this fcheme of a plantation in Virginia quite laid afide dur- 

 ing all the reft of Qiieen Elizabeth's reign; and all the great expenfe of 

 Raleigh and the other adventurers utterly thrown away, befides the lols 

 of many mens lives. 



A law was made in Scotland, whereby the legal interefl; was not for 

 the future to exceed Lio, or an equivalent of five bolls of vidua), for 

 Lioo by the year, thus valuing five bolls equal to Lio Scots, [iitb 

 Pari J a. VI, c. 52.] f 



The law made in the reign of King James I, for fending deputies or 

 commiflioners to parHament, to reprefent the lefler barons or freehold- 



* C.tn'.dui's account of Lciccftcr's condiicSl is f Coiitrafts innde before the date of this law 



nearly the fame with ihule uf the .foreign authors were to remain vah'd. M. 

 here quoted. M. 



