22 TIMEHRI. 
the better Government of the sayd Province ; in such 
manor as hee and they should think meete.* 
The sayd PHILLIP, Earle of Pembrooke, etc., by an 
Indenture of bargaine and sale, beareing date the ninth 
day of Aprill, Anno 1638, bargained and sold unto 
RosBerT, Earle of Warwick, his heires and Assignes all 
and singular the said Mountgomery Islands, called by the 
_ severallnames aforesaid, wth. all their Rights, Prerogatives 
and Privilliges, etc.T 
THE FIRST COLLONIE. 
ROBERT, Earle of Warwick, in order to the ends 
designed by his Matie, vizt: The expe€tacions of the 
English Monarchy, etc. Did first Commissionate Capt. 
ROBERT MARSHAM, Anno 1639, Lieut- Governor under 
his Lordship, of all the said Province of Montgomery, 
* 7628.—On February 25th, at Westminster. Grant to Philip, Earl 
of Montgomery, Lord Chamberlain, of certain islands between 8 and 13 
degrees of North Latitude, called “ Trinidado, Tabago, Barbudos and 
Fonseca,” with the Islets belonging to them within 10 leagues of their 
shores, and all customary royalties and immunities, reserving a rent of 
a wedge of gold of a pound weight, when the King, his heirs, or suc- 
cessors shall come into those parts. Latin. [Sign Manual, Car. f, 
Vol. 5, No. 22. See also Docquet 1628, Feb. 1). Domestic, Car. /.] 
1628.—Feb. 25. Abstraét of Patent to Philip, Earl of Montgomery 
containing a grant as above, he having acquired those islands at great 
expense with the good intention to transport thither a colony of English. 
1628.—Feby. 25. Minutes of the above. (Colonial Correspondence. 
1607, (? 1627) Jany. 9, and 1628, Feby. 11]. 
Calendar of State Papers—Colonial, 1574 to 1660. pp. 87, 88. 
+ Robert Rich, the ‘Stout Earl’ of Warwick of the Civil War, was a 
great promoter of Colonies, He received a Commission as Governor-in- 
Chief and Lord High Admiral of all the Plantations in America, in 
1643, by an Ordinance of the Parliament. He proposed at one time to 
go out himself as Governor of Old Providence Island, off the Mosquito 
Coast, 
