290 



A. D. 1618. 



' rolls is hereby directed to coUedl; the contributions of the two Ser- 



* jeants-Inns. the four inns of court, and the eight inns of chancery *.' 

 \_Foedera, V. xvii, />. 119.] 



The king gave a patent for thirty-one years to David Ramfay and 

 Thomas WildgolTe, ' for the fole benefit arifing from their inventions, 



* for ploughing land without horfes or oxen, for improving barren 

 ' grounds, for raifing water from any low place to the houfes of noble- 

 ' men and gentlemen, and to cities and towns, and to make boats for 

 ' the carriage of burdens and pafTengers, to run upon the water as fwift 

 ' in calms, and more fafe in ftorms, than boats full-failed in great 

 ' winds.' \Fo£dera,V. xvii, ^. 121.] 



With refped to the whale-fifhing of the Hollanders, De Witt quotes 

 Lieven Van Aitzma, who fays, ' that the whale-fifhery to the north- 

 ' ward employs above 12,000 men at fea ;' which infers, that the 

 Dutch had probably near 300 fail of {hips employed in the whale-fifh- 

 ery about I GO years ago, at a time when England had none at all. 



The colony of Virginia went on increafing, and confiderable quanti- 

 ties of tobacco were raifed there, which now began to be well taken off 

 at home. Sir Samuel Argall, the governor, finding this colony in a 

 thriving way, began to have his eye on the French, who, about the 

 year 161 6, had croflcd the river of St. Laurence, and made a fettle- 

 ment in the country then named Acadia (now Nova-Scotia), and alfo 

 on part of what is now called New-England. He drove the French 

 from Port-royal (fince named Annapolis-royal), and from another fmall 

 fettlement of theirs, and took a fhip riding before it. We are here to 

 obferve, that the Englifh, from the very beginning of their planting 

 on the continent of America, had ever deemed Nova-Scotia to be a part 

 of North-Virginia, as Georgia, more lately, and before it took that 

 name, was undoubtedly deemed a part of South-Carolina, though not 

 then planted on. For at this tmie Virginia, being the mother Englifh 

 -colony on that continent, and its patent extending to the northernniofl 

 parts of America, all the fettlements to the northward of Cape Henry 

 were comprehended under the general appellation of North-Virginia. 



Sir Samuel Argall alfo diflodged lome Dutchmen, who, under pre- 

 tence of a purchafe from Captain Hudfon, had feated themfeives on 

 Hudfon's river, in what is novv called New-York, and which the Dutch 

 had then named New-Netherlands. Yet they again foon refettled and 

 multiplied there. 



Whether the Indians of Virginia had received bad imprefiions of 

 our firfl; Engllfli planters, fome of whom through rafhnefs might have 



* The houfes round Liiicoln's-Inn-fields, men- nicmhir the adjacent ground plots, tlien wade, be- 



tioncd in this commiflion, were erefted by Inigo ing liid out by the fame great archittdt. 

 Jones ; and fame of them on the fouth and weft ^lere, Jn what year did Mr. Andtrfon write 



lidea of the i'quare, and on the fouth fide of Qjieen- that peo|)le were ahve u;k> li.^d been coutempora- 



fh'eet, are Hill entire. Many people Hill akve ro ry with Jones, who died in 1651 ? M. 



