Chap. IL 



AMERICA. 



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of Law they were nekher bound by, nor oblig'd to take notice of the Rules which 

 were made oncly to Govern our own People, and had at juft Prices bought what 

 they car ry'd away; fuchisthe Honefty of Men, whole Principles not being cor- 

 rupted with Learning and Diftinftion, are contented to follow the Dictates of 

 right Reafon, which Nature has fufficicntly taught all Men for the well ordering 

 of their.A&ions, and enjoyment and prcfervation of humane Society, who do not 

 give themfelves up to be amus'd and deceiv'd by infignificant Terms, and minding 

 what is juft and right, feeknot Evafions in the Niceties and Fallacies of Words. 



The fame is to be faidof the firft Difcovery of this Countrey, as hath been for- CA „ lina 

 merly faid of Virginia and Florida, of both which it partakes . but as to the prcfent 5S£?5 

 Intercft and Propriety, the Englifh, befides all Virginia intirely, have alfo fo much S^ 

 of Florida as makes up thisconfiderable Province of Carolina, which foon after the ^^ 

 happy Reftauration of His prefent Majefty King Charles II. from whom it receives ' 

 Denomination, was granted by Patent to Edward Earl of Clarendon, L. Chancellor 

 of England, George Duke oi Albemarle, William Earl of Craven ,John Lord Berkley , Anthony 

 Lord Afhley, Sir George Carteret, Vice-Chamberlain of His Majefty 's Houfhold, Sir 

 William (Berkley, Knight and Baronet, and Sir John Colleton, Knight and Baronet. ' 



The Lords-Proprietors of this Countrey, for the better Settlement of it accord- 

 ing to their Patent granted unto them by His Majefty, and for the enlargement of 

 the King s Dominions in thofe parts of America, have been at great Charge to fecurc 

 this fo rich and advantageous a Countrey to the Crown of England, to whom of an- 

 cient Right, by the Difcovery of Sir Sebaftian Cabottm the time of Henry the Seventh, 

 it doth belong,and for its Situation, Fertility, Neighborhood to our other Plantati- 

 ons and feveral other Conveniences, of too valuable confideration to be negligently 

 loft : By the Care therefore and Endeavors of thofe Great Men, it hath now two Their « r e 

 confiderable Colonies Planted in it, the one of Albemarle, on the North fide, border. ^S. 

 ing on Virginia, where are fomc hundreds of Englifh Families remov'd thither &&£ 

 from New England, and fomeof our other Plantations in the Weft-Indies 5 and ano- 

 ther towards the middle of the Countrey, at Charles-Town, ot'Ajhley^iver, a Settle- 

 ment fo hopeful, for the healthinefs of the Land, and convenience of accefs by a 

 large deep Navigable River, and fo promifing in its'very Infancy, that many of 

 the rich Inhabitants of Barbados and Bermudas, who are now crowded up in thofe 

 flouriftiing Iflands, and many in our other American Plantations, are turning their 

 Eyes and Thoughts this way, and have already remov'd part of their Stock and 

 Servants thither. Nor is it to be doubted, but that many, following the Example 

 of thofe who went to Albemarle, will be drawn to this better Plantation at Ajhley* 

 <$jyer, from TS(ew.England, where the heat of their Zeal, and the coldnefs of the Air, 

 doth not agree with every Man's Conftitution 5 and therefore it is to be thought, 

 that many well tempcr'd Men, who are not much at eafe under fuch Extreams, will 

 be forward to remove hither. 



The Lords*Proprietors, for the comfortable fubfiftence, and future enrichment ** ifcmi 

 of all thofe who (hall this Year 1671. Tranfport themfelves and Servants thither, S&& 

 allow every Man a hundred Acres per Head, for himfelf, his Wife, Children and^l™^ 

 Servants, he carries thither, to him and his Heirs for ever, paying onely one Penv 

 an Acre, as a Chief. Rent • which Pcny an Acre is not to be paid thefe nineteen years ; 

 and thofe Servants who go along thither with their Matters, fliall each alfo have 

 a hundred Acres upon the fame Terms, when he is out of his Time. But though 

 thefe Conditions are very advantageous, and the Countrey promifes to the Planter 

 Health, Plenty and Riches at a cheap Rate, yet there is one thing that makes this 

 Plantation more-valuable than all thefe, and that is the fecure pofleffion of all thefe 



things, 



