378 TiMEHRI. 



taine Holland Shippes, and had flung over boord all the 

 men that were with them.' 



25. In conne6lion with the first attempt to found an 

 English colony in the Island of Grenada, a glimpse is 

 given of Trinidad, in 1609, in the following statement 

 extra6led from the Sloane MSS., 3662^ folios 52, 5J .• — 



" This Island (Grenada) was first attempted to be 

 settled by some Merchants of London, Anno. 1608. The 

 chiefe undertakers were Mr. GODFREY, Mr. HALL, Mr. 

 Lull, Mr. Quarles and Mr. ROBINSON in behalfe of 

 themselves and Company. They equipped and sett to 

 sea the good ships named the DtanUy Penelope^ and 

 Endeavour ; who arrived in the Great Bay of this Granada 

 the first of April! 1609, and soone after landed 208 men 

 who were often disturbed by the Indians, nor indeed 

 were they persons fitt for the settling of planta^ons, 

 being the greater part the people of London, noe way 

 inured to hardship and soe not capeable of encoun- 

 tring the difficulty that attends new plantacions in the 

 West Indies, these ships having landed their passengers 

 in pursuance of their orders sayled thence to the river 

 Caroone, in Trinidada, to settle some trade wth. the 

 Spaniards, in vvch. they did not onely faile but were de- 

 layed, Don Sanches DEMENDOZA,theGovernorofTrini- 

 dada, untill he found a way to distroy the English Colonie 

 begun at that Island Granadas : the Spaniard never likeing 

 the English neighbourhood. By his heightning the jeal- 

 ousies of the Indians, which did by some Fryers that 

 spake the Indian language sent thither from Trinidada, 

 while they were treateing w^h the English about a trade. 

 At lenth Capt. Mendosa advised the English merchants 

 aboard the ships to take care ot theire new CoUonie in 



