5o8 A. D. 1662. 



well fupplied with negroes from the African coaft as they wifhed for, fince 

 the trade thither had been laid open, a third exclufive Englifli African or 

 Guinea company was this year incorporated for that end, at the head of 

 which was the duke of York, joined with many perfons of rank and 

 diflindion, who undertook to fupply our Weft-India plantations with 

 3000 negroes annually. If this new company's accounts ai'e to be re- 

 lied on, it feems, that while the trade was laid open in the times of the 

 late civil wars, our forts on the Guinea coaft were demoliflied by the 

 Dutch and the Danes, by which, and by the capture of fhips belong- 

 ing to the company, and to feparate traders, to the value of L300,ooo, 

 the ftock of the fccond company was ruined. 



This new company, fupported by the king's brother, &c. and know- 

 ing the king's inclinations to make war againft the Dutch, afterwards 

 got Sir Robert Holmes to be fent out with a fquadron of fourteen (hips 

 to the coaft of Guinea, to attack the Dutch forts, &c. prior to a formal 

 declaration of war ; of which more in its place. 



Toward the clofe of this year. King Charles fent Admiral Lawfon to 

 Algiers, who obliged that piratical ftate, and alfo thofe of Tunis and 

 Tripoli, to fign articles of pacification, which they kept juft as long as 

 they ftood in fear of our fliips of war in the Mediterranean. 



The Dutch, according to fome authors, had taken Formofa from the 

 Portugueie in the year 1635. The ports of that ifland were extremely 

 commodious for their China and Japan trades : yet Candidius, a Dutch 

 clergyman (in his account, in Churchill's voyages) fays, ' the Dutch 



* had built a fort in one of the iflands called Pehou, near the mouth of 

 ' the great river Chincheo in China, from whence they intercepted the 

 ' Chinefe trading to the Philippines. This obliged the Chinefe tCK 

 ' agree with the Dutch to grant them the harbour of Togowang in 



* Formofo, in lieu of the other, where they might build a fort, whence 

 ' they traded with the Chinefe, who, however, this year drove them out 



* of the ifland.' 



The firft wire-mill in England was fet up by a Dutchman at Sheen 

 near Richmond. 



Connecticut, a province of New-England, had its firft charter dated 

 23d April 1662. It was one of the fix charter colonies of the continent 

 of Britifli America. 



1663. — We have exhibited under the year 1629 fome fruitlefs efforts 

 (from England) to plant the country then named Carolana, now Caro- 

 lina ; but the fucceeding difcontents in England, and the confequent 

 civil wars, occafioned Carolina to remain unplanted till now, that the 

 king granted his firft charter (dated the 24th day of March 1662-3) ^^ 

 the Lord-chancellor Clarendon, the duke of Albemarle, Lord Craven, 

 Lord Berkley, Lord Afliley chancellor of the exchequer, Sir George 



