306 A. D. 1621. 



Dutch met with much difficulty in fubduing the Bandanefe, which at 

 lad was effefted ; and they were obUged to acknowlege the ftates-gene- 

 ral for their fovereigns, as before mentioned. 



The Enghfli company repUed to this, by recriminations, &c. Cer- 

 tainly at this diftance of time it is by no means likely we fhould be able 

 to clear up the truth ; neither is it indeed worth our while to attempt it. 



The judicious Mr. Munn [Difcourfe of Trade from England to Eafl- 

 India, p. 17] fays, ' that of all Europe this nation drove the moft pro- 

 ' fitable trade to Turkey, by reafon of the vaft quantities of broad cloth, 

 ' tin, &c. which we exported thither; enough to purchafe all the wares 



* we wanted in Turkey ; and in particular 300 great bales of Perlian raw 

 ' filk yearly : whereas a balance in money is paid by the other nations 

 ' trading thither. Marfeilles fends yearly to Aleppo and Alexandria at 

 ' lead L5oo,ooo Sterling, and little or no wares *. Venice fends about 

 ' L40o,ooo Sterling yearly in money, and a great value in wares be- 



* fide. The Low Countries fend about L50,ooo, and but little wares. 

 ' And Meflina L25,ooo in ready money. Befides great quantities of 

 ' gold and dollars from Germany, Poland, Hungary, &c. And all thefe 



* nations take of the Turks, in return, great quantities of camblets, 

 ' grograms, raw filk, cotton wool and yarn, galls, flax, hemp, rice, hides, 

 ' fheeps wool, wax, corn,' &c. 



What a fine account have we here of the Englifh trade to Turkey, in 

 thofe days, and how different from the prefent time, when the French 

 fo miuch go beyond us therein, and the Dutch have fo much improved 

 their own manufa6tures fent thither ? We would, however, hope that 

 our trade thither is ftill profitable to us ; at leaft, it is become now ab- 

 folutely neceflliry for our filk manufacture f, and for its drugs, dyeing 

 ftuflfs, &c. for our other manufadures. 



A very impolitic and unjufi:ifiab]e perfecution of the puritans or pro- 

 teftant diflenters at this time brought on the effedual fettlement of New- 

 England, much fooner and completer than otherwife could have been 

 effeded. Robinion, a Brownift minifter, and his congregation, had re- 

 tired into Holland, to avoid the perfecution of the high commiflion 

 courts, and other fpiritual judicatures; but, not liking their refidence 

 there, they fixed their thoughts on a fettlement in that new colony, 

 which they realbnably hoped might alio prove an alylum for all other 

 perfecuted proteitants. Among thofe adventurers there were fundry 

 gentlemen of good families, who, upon the fame motives, fold their 

 efi;ates in England, to enable them to fettle in America ; fuch as William 

 Bradford, Efq. of Yorklhire ; Captain Standifli of Lancafiiire ; Edward 

 Winflow, Efq. of Worcefterfhire, &c. Sir Robert Naunton, one of the 



* France had not then entered into tjie woollen territories in India has now rendered this country 

 manufafturc. in a great meafiire independent of the Turkifh do- 



\ The inrniortation of raw filk from the Britifh minions for the fupply of that raw material. M, 



