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AMERICA. 



Chap. II. 



About the fame time (two of the Natives being recover'd, Erpenow of Capawtck, 

 that had efcap'd from Captain Hobfon, and Jjfacumet of <Pemma q u,d, one of thofe 

 that had been taken Prifoners with Qhahmg) Captain Harly, with NecefTanes con- 

 venient for Inch a Voyage, was difpatch'd away by Sir Ferdinand* Gorges,the Earl of 

 Southampton favouring the Defign, and furnilhing him with fome Land-Sold.ers 

 under the Command of Captain Hobfon, who not difcourag'd with his former ill 

 Succefs, refolv'd upon a fecond Adventure. 



In the Year 1615. Sir (Richard Hakings undertook a Voyage into thofe Parts by 

 authority of the Council of the fecond Colony, but by reafon of the great Wars 

 among the Natives, his Obfervations could not be fuch as might give any farther 

 light than what had been already receiv'd. 



Soon after which Captain Dormer coming for England from Not -found. Land, and 

 Landing at Plymouth, apply *d himfelf to the Governor, by whom he was difpatch'd 

 away, with Direction to meet Captain Rocroft, fent away a little before . but %o- 

 croft being dead by that time Dormer could come after him to Virginia, where he 

 heard he was, he returning to Qapawick, was there fet upon by Erpeno-», the fore- 

 mention'd Salvage, and other Indians that were Confpirators with him ; and withiit 

 a fliort while after at Virginia, whither he went to be cur'd of the Wounds he re. 

 ceiv'd in that Aflaffination, he fell fick and died. 



About the Year 16x3. Captain Robert Gorges, newly come out of- the Venetian 

 War, was employ *d by the Council of New Englands Affairs as the Lieutenant- 

 General, to regulate the Abufes of divers Fiflier.men and other Interlopers, who 

 withoutLicenfc frequented thofe Coafts : for which Service he had affign'd to him 

 all that part of the main Land fituate upon the North-Eaft fide of the Bay of the 

 Meffachafets. 



By thefe feveral Colonies fent fo thick one after another, both a full Difcovery 

 of the Countrey came to be made, and a large gap open'd to the free poffeflion 

 thereof ; yet in regard of the many difappointments and misfortunes the feveral 

 Companies fent over met with, and counting the vaft Charges their fetting forth 

 coft the Undertakers, which would have been (till increas'd by the need of conti- 

 nu'd Supplies, in all probability Ne» England would have been but thinly peopled 

 to this day, had not a great Tide of People, poffefs'd with an averfion to the 

 Church- Government of England, and fled into Holland for Liberty of ' Confcience, ea- 

 gerly taken hold of this opportunity to make themfelves Mailers of their own 

 Opinions, and of a Place where they might ered a Government fuitable there- 

 unto : and though at firft there were fome Exceptions taken, as if this Countrey 

 was to be made a Receptacle of Sectaries, and fuch as condemn'd the Ecclefiaftical 

 Government of the Nation, infomuch that Sir Ferdinando Gorges, to whom they ap» 

 ply'd themfelves, defiring him to mediate for them to the Council of ^w Englands 

 Affairs, when they perceiv'd the Authority they had from the Virginia Company, 

 could not warrant their abode there, had enough to do (notwithftanding his 

 Apology, That thefe things hapned contrary to his expectation) to wipe away the jea- 

 loufie which was entertain'd of him, it being Order'd, that no more mould be fuf. 

 fer'd to pafs into Hew England,b\it fuch as mould take the Oaths of Allegiance and 

 Supremacy : yet at laft there was little notice taken who went, perhaps upon con- 

 sideration, that the vaft refort of People thither would be of greater advantage to 

 the Plantations, than their different Opinions, at fo remote a diftance, could be pre. 

 judicial, fo long as they acknowledg'd Obedience to the King and Civil Power : 

 However, Sir Ferdinando, to clear himfelf the better, mov'd thofe Lords that were 

 the chief A&ors in the Bufinefs, to refign their Grand Patent to the King, and pafs 



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