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clamour tlierefor ralfed againfl this new project by the weavers, info- 

 much that the king was obliged to permit the exportation of a limited 

 quantity of white cloths: and a few years after, (viz. in 1615) for 

 quieting the people, he found himfelf neceflitated to annul! Cockayne's 

 patent, and to reftoi-e that of the merchant-adventurers, who Teem to 

 have gained over the lord chancellor Bacon to their fide, who, in a 

 letter to King James (printed in his Refufcitatio) concerning Cockayne's 

 new company, complains, ' that they at firfl; undertook to dye and 



* drefs all the cloths of the realm ; yet foon after they wound themfelves 



* into the trade of whites. This feeding of the foreigner,' (meaning the 

 Dutch) fays that great man, ' may be dangerous. For, as we may think 

 ' to hold up our clothing by vent of whites, till we can dye and drefs ; 



* fo the Dutch will think to hold up their manufactures of dying and 



* drefling upon our whites till they can clothe *! T confefs, I did ever 

 ' think, that trading in companies is moft agreeable to the Englifh na- 

 ' ture, which wanteth that fame general vein of a republic which 



* runneth in the Dutch, and ferves them inflead of a company ; and 

 ' therefor I dare not advife to adventure this great trade of the king- 



* dom, which hath been fo long under government, in a free or loofe 

 ' trade.' And thus, merely by proceeding too precipitately, an art, 

 which afterward was gradually brought to abfolute perfection in Eng- 

 land, was now deemed impra6licable. 



King James entered into a new defenfive treaty with the ftates of the 

 United Netherlands ; engaging to defend them againli all invalions and 

 injuries, and to aflift thern with twenty fhips of war, from 3C0 to 600 

 tons burden ; and alio with 6000 foot and 400 horfe ; they on the other 

 fide engaging to alhfl; him with 4000 foot and 3C0 horfe. But this 

 treaty was not to take place till after the peace now treating of between 

 Spain and the ftates. 



Another treaty of this fame date concerns the arrears of debt due to 

 King James by the flates, and alfo concerning commercial privileges. 



' i) The dates acknowlege L8i8,4o8 Sterling to be due to the king, 

 ' of which fum he will exped nothing for the fi-rft two years after the 

 ' peace, that they may have time to eftablifli their affairs ; and after- 

 ' wards he will be content with annual payments of L6o,ooo until all- 

 ' be paid off. 



' II) The Englifli merchant-adventurers fhall enjoy all their wonted' 

 ' privileges in the feven provinces, for the mutual advancement of the 

 ' commerce of both nations.' \_F(jed£ra, V. xvi, p. 667.] 



Captain Hudlon made fundry difcoveries in North-Virginia, as it was 

 then called, where he alio gave name to Hudfon's. river. He is faid to 

 have made a foimal fale of lands lying on that river in the year 1608, 



* la tills \\\i loidHiip was a true prophet, t'lough in what he adds we may fon-.ewha. iliiRnt from 

 him. 



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