A. D. 1629. 361 



degrees of lon9:itude, herein named by the king the province of Car He, 

 and the Carhfle iflands, And in December following, the earl appoint- 

 ed Hugh Lamy, a French proteflant of Normandy, to receive, during 

 life, all the rents and revenues of the iflands, upon his undertaking to 

 carry colonies of his countrymen thither, and to fortify and improve 

 the iflands, allowing him the twentieth part of the revenues. All which 

 was confirmed by Kuig Charles, in the fime manner as they had been 

 granted two years before to the earl of Marlborough, as we have noted 

 under the year 1627. [Foedera, V. xvs., pp. 127, 128.] 



King Charles confirmed the appointment made by Sir Robert Heath, 

 his attorney-general, to the above mentioned Hugh Lamy, of the of- 

 fice of receiver-general of the revenues of the province of Carolana, and 

 the adjacent ifles of Bahama, lying between the 31ft and 36th degrcvjs 

 of north latitude, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, 

 Carolana, with the Bahama ifles, had been graiited, on the 30th of Odo- 

 ber 1629, by King Charles to Sir Robert Heath, and to his heirs, and 

 was the fame country (exclufive of the ifles) now named North and 

 South Carolina, and Georgia, together with the ufurped French colony 

 behind them, called Miffifippi or Louifiana. Sir Robert afterwards con- 

 veyed his province of Carolana to the earl of Arundel, who was at the 

 expenfe of planting fundry parts of it : but the war which broke out in 

 Scotland, (in which that lord was the king's general) and the fubfequent 

 civil war in England, prevented his farther progrefs therein. The five 

 Indian nations of the Iroquois, who have been fo long the voluntary 

 vafllils of the Englifli crown, and who had lately conquered all the lands 

 from their own original country behind New-York as far as the Millifippi 

 and beyond it, made a furrender and fale of all thofe conquefts to the 

 governor of New-York, in King James IPs reign. [^Feeder a, V. xix, p. 

 128 Cox's Defcriptlon of Carolina, pp. 109, 113, 116, Sifr.] 



It is commonly laid, that about this fame year the Englifii began to 

 plant on the ifland of Providence, the chief of the the Bahama ifles, till 

 then quite uninhabited. King Charles I, after the conclufion of peace 

 with Spain, confirmed his grant of thofe ifles ; and England has con- 

 tinued to keep up her right to them as the firfl occupiers, although they 

 have fcarcely planted in any of them, excepting this of Providence ; 

 and even it is planted to very little purpoi'e, any firrher than for a re- 

 treat in cafe of ftorms, and to prevent pirates and foreign nations from 

 poQefruig it. Tortuga alfo is juftly claimed by Great Britain, becaul'e 

 of our having early reforted thither for fait, though not as yet properly 

 planted by us. 



King Charles iffued the following proclamation, in behalf of the Eafl- 

 land company, viz. 



' Whereas the Eaftland company have, by the fpace of fifty years at 

 ' leaft, had a fettled and confi:ant poiTeffion of trade in the laid Eaflland 



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