376 A. D. 1632. 



European merchandize for thofe ends. Some have made its white in- 

 habitants to amount to 5 or 6000, and its negroes to 15,000. 



While Sir Thomas Warner was goverxaor of St. Chriftophers fome 

 Englifli famihes in or about this year ventured to fettle on the ifland of 

 Antigua, in that neighbourhood, though it was for fome time reckoned 

 uninhabitable, becaufe it has no frefh water brooks, or fcarce any other 

 but rain water preferved in ponds or cirterns. And, for that reafon, it 

 was foon after deferted by them, and remained in a deferted condition 

 (as we (hall fee) till after the reftoration of King Charles IT. 



1633. — In 1633, Lord Baltimore carried two hundred perfons to his 

 new colony of Maryland, moftly papifts. This colony had in the beginning 

 a verv great advantage in being in the neighbourhood of that of Virgi- 

 nia already planted, from whence they fupplied themfelves at firft with 

 flefh-meat, poultry, &c. infomuch that Maryland, being quickly and 

 t^afily fettled, became in a few years flouridiing and populous. It has 

 therefor at length became a large and noble eftate to Lord Baltimore. 

 In this province, as well as in that of Virginia, the j^aniers live moflly 

 in feparate lltuations and not in towns, for the conveniency of the great 

 number of rivers, and of creeks and inlets ot the great bay of Chefa- 

 peak, whereby they fo eafily convey their tobacco to the flnps ; fo that 

 in neither of thofe colonies are there as yet any towns of confiderable 

 bulk or importance. For the greater planters have generally florehoufes 

 within themfelves, for all kinds of neceflaries brought from Great Bri- 

 tain, not only for their own confumption, but likewife for fupplying the 

 lefTer planters and their fervants, &c. And, whilft that kind of eco- 

 nomy continues, there can be no profpe6l of towns becoming confider- 

 able in either province, v/hich is fo far a benefit to their mother country, 

 as without towns (wherein home manufadures and handicrafts are 

 generally firft propagated) they muff continue to be fupplied from Bri- 

 tain with clothing, furniiure, tools, delicacies, &c. 



The tobacco of Maryland, called oroonoko, being flronger than that 

 of Virginia, is not fo generally agreeable to the Britifli tafte as the fweet 

 fcented tobacco of the later colony ; but the northern nations of Eu- 

 rope are faid to like it better, and they are thought to raife about as 

 much tobacco, and to emply near as many fhips as Virginia does. Its 

 foil is in general extremely good, being moflly a level coimtry. 



This year the parliament of Scotland reduced the intereft of money 

 froiTi I o to § per cent, being nine years after it had been lb reduced in 

 England. 



by the management of cardinal Richlieu, prime miniffer to the French 

 king Louis XIII, a fubfidy treaty was concluded between France and 

 Sweden, whereby Louis agreed to pay Queen Chrifliana of Sweden o.ic 

 million of livres annually, for the d'fence of their common friends, for 

 fecuring the Ocean and Baltic fea, and for obtaining lafting peace in the 



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