A. D. 1642. 421 



and merchandize, as has been granted to the flates of Holland, &c. by 

 treaty in 1640. 



XV) The Englifh fliall not be liable to imprifonment, nor to feizure 

 of their perfons, goods, books of accounts, &c. in the fame manner as 

 has been or fhall be granted to the fubjeds of any other potentate. 



XVII) The Englifh in Portugal fhall not be diflurbed on account of 

 confcience or difference of religion, provided they give no fcandal to 

 the natives, Sic. [Fcedera, V. xx, p. 523 *.] 



The great Cardinal Richlieu, who had brought the commerce, colo- 

 nies, and manufactures, of France to a confiderable height, and had laid 

 a folid foundation for much greater improvenients to be made by his 

 fucceffors, died this year He left France poflelTed of 100 vvarlike fliips 

 and galleys, with fuitable naval flores in the royal arfenals. He raifed 

 the crown revenue to 70,000,000 of livres annually, whereas at his ac- 

 ceffion to the miniftry it had been reckoned but at 35,000,000. And 

 he alfo ereded a company for the trade to the Weft-India ifles. 



The laft conftitutional ad of parliament enaded by King Charles, to- 

 gether with the lords and commons, was in this year [c. 37] which 

 confirmed the grant of 2^ millions of acres of lands in Ireland forfeited 

 by the rebels there, and granted by two former ads {^cc. ^^ and 35] to 

 all perfons and corporations in England who fliould pay down certain 

 fums ; and is now extended to all perfons, EngUfh, Scottifli, Irifh, and 

 Dutch, being proteftants. And fuch as fhould by this laft ad fubfcribe, . 

 fhould have acres of a larger meafure than Englifh ftatute ones, viz. each . 

 to be 160 poles of 21 feet, inftead of 16^ feet each. 



Towards the clofe of this year, 1642, the war between King Charles 

 and his lords and commons commenced, to the no fmall interruption . 

 of commerce and manufadures, as may eafily be imagined. 



The French author of the Hiftory of the Caribbee ifles (Paris, 1658) • 

 fays, that about this year a company of traders of the province of Zea- 

 land firft planted on the ifle of Tobago in the Weft-Indies, by fending 

 200 men thither, and gave it the name of New Walcheren ; but it feems 

 the natives murdered Ibme of the Dutch, and forced the reft to defert • 

 it. Yet in 1650 the Zealanders from Flufliing replanted that ifle, which, 

 lying the moft foutherly of all the Caribbee ifles, and neareft to the 

 continent, feemed very conveniently fituated for a contraband trade 

 with the Spanifh province of New Andalufia, and alfo for the growth 

 of fugar-canes, cotton, and ginger. Yet the Dutch made nothing con- 

 fiderable of that promifmg fpot, although it has the conveniencies of 



* We now take our leave of the FoEDtRA An- follow the FaJera, as authentic dociimeiUs of our 



GLi^, the noblell collcdtion of authentic records commercial hiltory in the liiccccdint; times : and 



thai any age or country, at leafl in Europe, can great afTiftance is afforded by a vail variety of ttm- 



boaft of. 7hurloe's Stale papers (in feven volumes potary publications, profeffedly upou commerciai- 



ioYw) the Treatlei of peace and commen I ef\\.trtdi'\Rto fubjefts. ji. 

 with foreign powers, and the ASt of pniliamenlf 



