Chap. III. of the ENGLISH in AMERIC A. 
Law, Reafon, Juftice, and the King’s own Senfe of the 
Thing, as he afterwards teftified under his Hand. 
But, however, though by this barbarous Meafure our 
great Difcoverer loft his Head, yet the Title of the 
Crown of England^ to his Difcovery, remained abfolute- 
ly unimpeached, as appears clearly by King Jameses, 
granting a new Commiffion to Captain Reger North j 
for fettling in Guiana a Year after RakigRs Death j which, 
however, he afterwards recalled by a Proclamation, and 
fent the Lord Norths who was at the Expence of that 
Expedition, to the Fleets for making too much Dif- 
patch in it. Such a Flubluation of Councils there muft 
always be, where a foreign Intereft is regarded, as the 
Cafe was then, when the Politics of Britain were diftated 
by Spain. Yet even this did not put an End to all 
Thoughts of maintaining the Rights of the Crown of Eng- 
land to this valuable Country, where the People ftill re- 
membered, and enquired after. Sir Walter., when he had 
been many Years in his Grave. 
The Accounts we have, however, of thefe Expedi- 
tions are fo imperfeeft, that we can fay very little with Cer- 
tainty till after the Reft'oration ; when the Lord Willoughby ^ 
who was Governor of Barbadoes., obtained a Grant from 
King Charles II. of this Country, and ablually made a 
confiderable Settlement on the River of Surinam.^ where 
they might have continued much longer than they did, 
if it had not been for their own indiferetion. For when 
die firft E)utch War broke out, in which the French 
took Part with the Republic againft us, both thefe Nations 
would have confented to a Neutrality in thofe Parts •, but 
our People were bent upon a War, which turned to 
their Ruin. For the Coaft of Guiana.^ from Cape Orange 
to near the River Oronoco., was, about the Year 1666, 
poftefted by three European Nations ; The Dutch were 
about the River Aproague \ the French had the Hand of 
Cayenne., and the Rivers of Ovia, Corrou., and Sinamary •, 
this laft is about twenty-five Leagues North-weft from 
Cayenne., and fifty-three Eaft from Surinam •, and the En- 
glijld had a fmall Colony and Redoubt on the River Ma- 
ronny ; their chief Settlement being then at Surinam River, 
which is fo good and deep, that Ships of three hundred 
Tons run twenty Leagues up it. The Zealanders were 
poftefted of the River Berbichc, and had repulfed the 
Englijh, who attacked them there, with confiderable 
Lofs. 
The fame Year, i66d, the States of Zealand htin^ 
provoked at the Englijh having invaded and taken from 
them all the Lands they had been pofTefred of in Ame- 
rica., except the River Berbiche., fent thither Commodore 
Creijfen, v.hth four Men of War, and three hundred Men 
to attack Surinam. He failed from Zealand at the latter 
End of January ; arrived at Cayenne in M.arch \ went 
thence for Surinam \ fiiiled up the River under Englijh 
Colours, and came to the Fort of Paramorbo., three 
Leagues up the River, without being taken for an Ene- 
my j but being difeovered there for want of Signals, the 
Fort began to fire on his Ships, wTich he anfwered 
with Broadfides from all the Veftels, and immediately 
landed his Forces. The Englijh., who had lived long in 
profound Security, found themfelves too weak, and the 
Fort in no pofture of Defence on the Land-fide, and 
their Habitations being uifperfed along the River for 
thirty Leagues up, the Fort could not be fuccoured but 
by Water, where the Zealanders were Mafters : Upon 
which Confideration they furrendered it, capitulating for 
the Inhabitants of the River of Surinam, and thofe of 
Kamomioequey ftipulating that all thofe v/ho ftiould take 
the Oath of Fidelity, to the States of Zealand, fhould en- 
joy their Eftates peaceably ; the Habitations of fuch 
as abfented themfelves, and thofe belonging to the Lord 
Willoughby, fhould be forfeited to the faid States j all 
Foreigners who had no Eftates there, fhould remain Pri- 
foners of W ar ; and all the Englijh to be obliged to de- 
liver up tneir AriTis. When the Capitulation was execut- 
ed, Creijjen put aboard a Fly-boat he had taken in the 
River, the ^moft valuable Part of the Booty he found in 
the Places tnat were confifeated, and the Prifoners aboard 
a Man of War j and after caufing the Fort to be repaired, 
and put into a pofture of Defence, and leaving it in the 
VoL. II. Numb. 86. 
Hands of Sieur de Rome with one hundred and fifty Me'iij? 
he failed for the Hands. 
Afterwards, when the Peace was made at Breda^ it 
was agreed, That the Dutch fhould keep Surinam, and 
that in return we fhould keep New Fork, which was then 
called the New Netherlands. Thus we have traced this 
Point fairly, from beginning to ending ; from the firft. 
Settlement, nay from the very firft Thoughts of a Set- 
tlement, to the giving, up of all the Settlements We then 
had, and which might be ftyled the Legacy of Raleigh to 
this Nation, into the Hands of the Dutch. It may not 
be amifs, however, before I quk the Subjedf, to obferve 
that the Dutch have fucceeded very happily in a Plantation 
that was not very beneficial to us ; and that if ever we 
fliOLild be inclined to try our Fortunes again upon this 
Coaft •, for without queftion our Ceffion of Surinam- 
does not preclude us from vifiting the reft of Guiana j if 
this, I fay, fliould ever be attempted, it muft be 
either by the South Sea Company, or under their Licence, 
lince all this great Country, as well as many other valu- 
able Places, lye within their Charter, which covers them 
from all the reft of this Nation, and leaves them open 
only to all the World befides. 
15. We are now to pafsto the Mother- Colony of that 
which we mentioned laft, the famous Hand of Barba- 
does, which may be juftly efteemed the faireft, beft peo- 
pled, and beft cultivated Spot of Ground, not m. America 
only, but in the whole known World ; When, or by 
whom, it was firft difeovered is a Point not eafily fettled, 
and, in my Judgment, cannot be determined at all, far- 
ther than by Conjefture. The Portugueze were certainly 
the firft Difeoverers of Brazil, and it is not very probable 
that they ftiould make many Voyages thither, or at leaft 
ftiould eftablifti a regular Commerce with that Country, 
without falling in with this Hand, which lies fo much in 
the Way. It is the more probable that they were the firft 
Difeoverers, from the Name by which this Country has 
been always known ; Barbadoes having apparently a 
Portugueze Termination, but what it fignifies is very 
doubtful. Some fay the Hand was fo called from its 
barbarous Inhabitants ; to prove which they fhould have 
ftiewn us that it was inhabited at all, which in thofe Times 
undoubtedly it was not ; but however, it is not impolTible 
that the Thing might be fo, fince the Caribbees certain- 
ly vifited that Hand from St. Vincent, which is within 
fight, and the Portugueze might polTibly land when they 
were upon it, and fright them off this Hand, whence 
they might from thefe People give it the Name of Bar- 
badoes, which it has ftill retained, and is fo called, v/ith- 
out any Variation at leaft that I know of, in all the 
Languages of Europe, 
The firft Englijhmen that landed here, it is faid, were 
fome of Sir William CurteeAz Seamen, that were cruizing 
in thefe Seas in the latter End of the Reign of King 
Jamesl. who reporting, at their Return to England^ that 
the Soil was fruitful, fome Adventurers went thither with 
Intent to plant it ; but finding the Hand covered with 
Wood, and fcarce any other Animals upon it than Hogs, 
it did not anfwer their Expedlations a great while. The 
Property of this Hand was afterwards granted by King 
Charles I. to James Earl of Carlife, in the firft Year of 
his Reign ; of whom feveral Adventurers purchafing 
Shares, tranfported themfelves thither, and firft fell to 
planting Tobacco ^ which not thriving here as they eX- 
pefted, they proceeded to try Cotton and Indko, which 
yielded them a confiderable Profit but they made little 
Sugar till 1647 ’ when Colonel Modiford, Col. Drax, Col. 
W ulrond, and feveral other Cavaliers, finding there was no 
living with any Satisfaeftion in England under the Ufurper, 
converted their Eftates into Money, and tranfported them- 
felves to Barbadoes, with fuch Machines and Implements 
as were proper to carry on Sugar- Works there. Colonel 
Drax, it is faid, in a few Years acquired an Eftate of 
feven or eight thoufand Pounds per Annum, and married 
the Earl of Carlijle s Daughter, then Proprietor of the 
Hand and the Adventurers fixing their principal Settle- 
ment on the great Bay in the South- Weft Part of the Hand, 
gave it the Name of Carlijle Bay, in honour of their Pro- 
prietor, which it ftill retains. 
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