EARLY ENGLISH COLONIES IN TRINIDAD, 28 
EDWARD DyYSON, SAMWELL LEADBEATER, THOMAS 
. THEOBOLDS, BERNARD TREMBLETT, SAMWELL EAMES 
and THO. COOPER, Gent. for and in behalfe of themselves 
and their Associats, vizt, 100,000 acres of land, in any 
part of the said Island, or Isletts, within four leagues of 
the Grand Island (alwayes provided they were not to 
settle within twenty miles of the Collonie, already planted 
by Serjant Major HATLEY) wth, all shoares, ports, creeks, 
havens, harbours, rivers, and the soyles thereof, and all 
woods, lands, grounds, mines, mineralls, Stru€tures, wild- 
beasts, fowles, profits, perquisetts, commodities and 
hereditaments, within the say¢ 100,000 acres of land, so 
to be taken. And all royall fishings, wrecks, fleatsum 
jatsan, lagan, waifts in all places, and at all times, to 
them their heires and assignes, forever, as was largely 
set’ downe in an Instrument beareing date y® 20 day of 
April in the twentieth yeare of CHARLES the First, by 
_ the grace of God, of England, Scottland, France and 
Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc., between 
ROBERT, Earle of Warwicke, Lord High Admirall of 
England, of the one part and Collonell JOHN HOLME- 
STEAD, and Associates, on the other part, who in pur- 
suance of the s4 Commission, did imbarque in severall 
ships, a great number of sober judicious people, bound - 
for the Island Trinidada, who landed there January, 
Anno 1644, but fortuned to sett downe in a fertile piece 
of ground, on the south syde of the Island, the Earth 
full of Springs w°h. sort of land, is alwayes unhealthfull at 
the first opening, being cloyed wth. undigested vapoures, 
besides it was the Leeward side of the Island, wch. Barred 
them the Injoyment of the naturall trade wind, or East, 
north-east breezes of those partes ; likewise that part of 
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