310 A. D. 1621. 



was not to be altered. Servants to have no filk on their clothes, ex- 

 ceptmg buttons and garters ; and to wear only cloth, fuftians, and can- 

 vas, and fluffs of Scottifh manufacture. Hufbandmen and labourers of 

 the ground to wear none but gray, blue, white, and felf-black cloth of 

 Scottifli manufadure. Neither wet nor dry confections were to be ufed 

 at weddings, chriflenings, nor feafts, except they be made of Scottifh 

 fruits. Alfo no clothes fhall be gilded with gold. [AB 25 o/" 23 pari. 

 "Ja. VI.'\ This is probably the lafl fumptuary law that ever will be made 

 in Great Britain. Such reftraints do not fo well fuit a free, and more 

 efpecially a commercial, country, wherein certain private follies and ex- 

 travagances prove often national advantages. 



This year Sir William Alexander, fecretary of flate for Scotland, (af- 

 terwards created earl of Stirling) obtained from King James a grant of 

 a diftrid: in America, between the 42d and 46th degrees of north lati- 

 tude, to which the king had given the name of Nova Scotia, to be held 

 of the crown of Scotland: and in the year following, he and his part- 

 ners lent out a number of people from Scotland with an intent to fettle 

 there. It feems Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who then had the diredion of 

 the New-England colonies, had advifed Sir William to this undertaking. 

 Eut the Scottifh embarkation went no farther that year than New- 

 foundland, where they wintered : and next year (1623) they did no 

 more than furvey the coafts of Nova Scotia *, and returned home with- 

 out forming any fettlement. 



The exclufive jurifdidion on the river Elbe, claimed by Hamburgh, 

 induced King Chriftern IV of Denmark, to place fome fhips of war in 

 that river : yet the emperor, having granted a charter to that city con- 

 nrming their claim, the court of Denmark ereded a toll-houle at Gluck- 

 fladt, where, by way of reprifil, they made all Hamburgh fliips pay the 

 toll. This brought on open hoflilities, whereby that city was a great 

 lufferer; and was, in the end, obliged to fubmii: to King Chriftiern, to 

 pay him 1,120,000 livres, and to drop their pretenfions. 



A treaty of hereditary league was concluded between James I, king 

 of Great Britain, and his brother-in-law Chriftiern IV, king of Den- 

 mark ; the commercial and nautical articles of which are the follow- 

 ing : 



Article IV) In cafe either prince be invaded, the other fhall fupply 

 him with eight fliips of v/ar, four of which to be of 1 50 or 200 tons {" Idf- 

 tariun fiauticaruin'') , and to have 150 or 200 men, with 20 cannon in 



"_ They gave the name of Nova Cahdon'm to th.e /;,/, which, I'.owevcr, was not pevfciled till the year 



peiihifula on tlie fuuth-eaft lide of the bay of Fun- 1625. Ami fo foou <'.s that year the names of 



dy, and that of Ni^va /sL'>.anJna to the northern Nova Cilcdoiiia and Nova Alexandria feem to 



f)ait. \_lhylhi's Cofntogrtiphy, p. 1024.] As an have been forgotten; at kail, they are not once 



ailillance to Hir VViTiiam Alexander in the fettle- mentioned ii the very prolix charter of King 



inent of his colony, Kir.g James gave him a tjcot- Charles I in th.at year to Sir Robei't Gordon, 



thh patent for advancing a number of gentlcmea the i'\x[\ of the baronets of' the kingdom and dor 



io the hereditary dignity of buroneli cf Nova Scj- ininioii of Nova Hcotia. ill. 



