i^o The Hiflory of B o o k LI. 



fame time, which was in the year One thoufand fix hundred 

 twenty and five : Monfieur Defnambuc, a French Gentleman, 

 of the ancient Houfe of Vauderop, and a Captain under the 

 King of France in the Weftern Seas, and Sir Thomas Warner, an 

 Englifh Gentleman, joyntly took pofieffion of the Ifland of 

 S. Chrifiophers on the fame day, in the names of the Rings of 

 France and Great Britain , their Mafters , that they might 

 have a place of fafe retreat, and a good Haven for the recepti- 

 on of fuch Ships of both Nations as mould be bound for Ame- 

 rica that Ifland being furnifh'd with all the advantages 

 whereof we have given a full account in the Chapter parties 

 larly defign'd by us for the defcription of it 5 upon which fcore 

 it was vifited by the Spaniards , who often put in there for re- 

 frefhments, both as they were inward and outward bound in 

 their long Voyages : Nay fometimes they left their fick there 

 to be look'd to by the Caribbians, with whom they had made 

 a peace upon thofe terms. 



Thefe two Gentlemen therefore confidering with them- 

 felves, that if they were poflefs'd of that Country they might 

 the better incommodate their common enemy in America, the 

 Spaniard, and have withall a convenient and fecure habitation, 

 in order to the eftablifhment of the Colonies they intended for 

 thofe Iflands, became Mafters of it, and left men therein to 

 keep it: But before they parted thence, having fome grounds 

 to fear that there might be fome fecret intelligence between the 

 Indians and the Spaniards, or that in their abfencethey might 

 execute the refolution, which by the perfwafion of certain Sor- 

 cerers (a fort of people in great efteem among the Indians') 

 they had undertaken, which was to put to death all the Strang- 

 ers who were come int|o their Country, they in one night rid 

 their hands of all the moft factious of that Nation, and not 

 long after fore'd all the reft, who had got together into feve- 

 ral Bodies, and intended to ftand upon their guard, to retire to 

 fome other places, and to leave that to their difpofal. 



Things being thus order'd, Defnambuc returns into France^ 

 and Sir Thomas Warner into England, where their conqueft and 

 all their proceedings thereupon were approved by the Kings 

 their Mafters 3 and having obtained a permiffion to carry over 

 fome recruits of men, they came back to the Hiand in the qua- 

 lity of Governours and Lieutenants, under the Kings of France 

 and Great Britany. 



But Defnambuc before he went over to cultivate and profe- 

 cute his conqueft imagined to himfelf , that the moft likely 

 way to have a powerful fupport in France, fuch as fhould con- 

 cern it felf in the prefervation of that Ifland, and fo to fecure 

 and promote hisdeflgns, would be to get together a Company 

 of perfons of Authority, which fhould have the direction and 

 figniory of the faid Ifland, and what others might afterwards 



