V* 



A M E%.l C A. 



Chap. VII. 



Hefor de 

 Catce taken 

 P.iloner. 



Grxvt Mau- 

 rice deiir'd by 

 the States and 

 mfUIndi* 

 Company to 

 continue in 

 his Govern- 

 ment of Mra- 



The T^eopolitan Field. Marfhal Hetlor de la Cake, fetcing Sail from theHavcn Todos 

 los Santlos with an old Ship carrying fix hundred Men, was fore'd to run aground 

 in the Haven oiparayba, where he and the chief Commanders were taken Prifoners 

 whileft the Common Soldiers by rcafon of the fcarcity of Provisions, were fet at 

 liberty. 



Houte-been and Lichthart weigh'd Anchor with twenty four Ships, carrying two 

 thoufand Soldiers and feven hundred Seamen to Havana, to Cruife for the Plate- 

 Fleet, but the Spanifr Ships keeping within their Harbors, and their own being dif- 

 pers'd and fcatter'd by ill Weather, their Voyage prov'd in vain. 



Not long after Grave Maurice fent fome Ships under Uchtharts Command to 

 Cruife before the River Januarius, and others for the fame purpofe tcxjngola '. but 

 he effe&ed little, for he onely took two Ships, one whereof being laden with Wine 

 was fold for 9400 1. Sterl. 



The news of the Portuguefe Crowning the Duke of Sragancia, and caftingoff the 

 Caftilian Yoke, which very much chang'd the face of Affairs in Bra/ile, was about this 

 time brought over by the Jefuit Francifco filbent, and the Under-Field-Marflial <Pcter 

 CoreradeGama, who were by Bragancia fent to St. Salvador, not onely to bring the 

 tidings of the Portugueses Revolt, butalfo to take the Oath of Allegiance from 

 Montalvan to the new King, which he made no fcruple of ; fo that from thence- 

 forth all but the Cajiilian and Neopolitan Soldiers, caft off their Obedience to the 

 Crown of Spain. Whereupon Montalvan defir'd Grave Maurice to allow a Ceffation of 

 Arms, till fuch time as they might both receive information what Trijlan Mendo^a y 

 in the hew King of Portugal's Name, had Treated with the States of the United Ne* 

 tberlands about; and to make the Requeft fcem the fairer, fcwcvzl Dutch Prifoners 

 were fet at liberty, and the Companies with which Paulo Acunbas was marching to 

 Pernambuco, were call'd back. 



Grave Maurice defiring in his Letters to be released from his Employment in 

 (Brafile, receiv'd for Anfwer from the States, " That it would be very difadvanta- 

 " gcous for the States for him to come home, now he throughly underftood the In- 

 C£ treagues of the Nn» World, in Which he might do much good, efpecially fince the 

 " Portuguefe being revolted,, would in all probability aflift them in deftroying the 

 "Kingof^yWe's Forces . therefore it was now the moft proper time to prepare 

 " for Adion. / 



To this Requeft of the States was added that of the Weft-India Company, who 

 alio fent earneft Letters to the fame purpofe-, which made Maurice defer his Re- 

 turn, and prepare himfelf for fome grand Undertaking : And firft he joyn'd the 

 Province of Seregippe Del <]{ey to the Netberland Brafile, built a Fort and Armory in 

 the fame, and buik a Wall about the Town ; which Work was the more follow'd, 

 becaufe Seregippe, which border'd upon the Province of Todos los Santlos, fed abun- 

 dance of Cattel, and gave great hopes, of Silver-Mines. 



Grave Maurice likewife obferving what great Profit proceeded from the Angolan 

 Negro's, and that the S'panijh Sugar-Mills could not work without them, undertook 

 to ingrofs that Trade wholly into the Weft.India Companies hands . to which purr 

 pofc LoandoSt. Paulo being judgd a fit Place for a Faftory, Houte<been was fent thi- 

 ther with twenty Ships, Mann'd with nine hundred Seamen, two thoufand Land- 

 Soldiers, and two hundred Srafilians : the Land-Men were Commanded by Hinder* 

 fon, who arriving with the Fleet on the twenty fourth of Jugufl\6^o. before to ando 

 St. Paulo, ran in between the Enemy's Caftles, St. Crux, !Bento y Sibylla, Vincent, Velho, 

 andagainft five Batteries alongthe Water fide, all full of Guns, and fir'd fo vehe- 

 mently upon the Enemy, that being fore'd to leave his Works, he made room 



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