422 A. D. 1642, 



water, foil, and climate ; and they have long fince abandoned it. This 

 author takes no notice of the duke of Courland's fettlement in Tobago. 



Sir Jofiah Child (in his chapter on plantations, p. 196) endeavours to 

 account for the fmall fuccefs the Dutch have had compared with Eng- 

 land in planting remote colonies : ' ift, they have not had thofe caufes 

 ' for peopling colonies which England has had, viz. the perfecution of 

 '■ the puritans in the reigns of King James and Charles 1 : 2dly, King 

 ' Charles's party after the battle of Worcefler, and the Scots being rout- 

 ' ed there, helped to plant Barbados and Virginia ; 3dly, at the reftora- 

 ' tion the royalifts getting into all employmenrs and offices, and the 

 ' army being difbanded, &c. many of the commonwealth party with- 

 ' drew to New England, &c. : 4thly, the lownefs of the interefl of mo- 

 ' ney in Holland, as well as of the cuftoms on merchandize, together 

 ' with their toleration of all religions, and their other encouragements 

 ' given to trade, occafions employment for all their own people at 

 ' home, as alfo for multitudes of foreigners wIk) come to fettle there.* 

 And indeed we may add, that, for the moft part, none that can live 

 comfortably, and that have full employment at home, will care to go 

 into either violently hot, or extremely cold, or unufual climates, to work 

 at the painful employments of new plantations. Moreover, the Dutch 

 have fcarcely had one other great means which we had for the firfl: 

 peopling of Virginia and Barbados, viz. picking up many loofe and va- 

 grant people, chiefly in the ftreets of Londoia and Weflminfter, and 

 other idle and dilTolute perfons, who, by merchants and mafters of Ihips, 

 were for many years fpirited away (as they then termed it) to thofe co- 

 lonies. As to what the Dutch have done in the Eafl-Indies in the way 

 of colonies, it was either by war or for traffic, by ereding ftrong forts 

 on the fea-coafts, where, as at the Cape of Good Hope, and in the ifles 

 of Ceylon, Java, &c. they have moflly made ufe of the natives for plan- 

 tation and cultivation. And this has alfo been partly the cafe with the 

 Spanilh and Portugnefe greater colonies in America ; but not in any 

 great degree in thofe of France, from which laft populous kingdom im- 

 menfe numbers of people have been fent to their colonies in America. 



The following extrad: from an account printed in 1642 of feveral na- 

 val charges and equipments of the years 1640, 41, and 42, by order of 

 parliament, will in part {how the immenfe difference both in refpedt to 

 flrength and expenfe between our Englifh navy then and now, viz. 



1. Imprimis, the charge of 10 of the king's fliips and 10 merchant 

 Ihips employed on the narrow feas, a/iw 1641, 



2. Ordinary of the navy for the ytar 1640, 



3. ■ for the year 1641, 



4. for the year 1642, 



5. Charge for the victualler of the navy for the ordi- 

 nary expenfe of the year 1642, - - 7'^55 17 9 



