328 TlMEHRI. 
which Sr. Wm. Curteene was owner, and that this 
Examinate did set out of England purposely for the Bar- 
badoes to plant there, that he landed forty men there, 
and then went to Deseeubee, from whence he brought 
two and thirty Indians about 6 months after, and all 
plants (Indigo excepted) which are nowe upon the Island 
and saith, that Sr. Wm. Curteene did send two shipps 
more the same yeere with neere a ioo men, all English, 
to plant that plantacion. And further saith, that Sr. 
Wm. CURTEENE and his brother went in Joint Stocke, 
and that the Chardge of the Voyadge for the shipp was 
about £8,000* 
James Astrey, justefyeth all to be true that Capt. 
POWELL hath testifyed, yet saith himself was not there. 
* " Sir William Courteen being informed by his correspondents in 
Zealand that some Dutch men-of-War sent out upon private Commis- 
sions against the Spaniards had put into this island and found it unin- 
habited, and very fit for a plantation, did thereupon at his own charges 
sett forth two shipps provided with men,, ammunition, and arms, and 
all kinds of necessaries for planting and fortifying the country. Landed 
and entered into possession of the same in the month of February 
1626, and called it the Barbadoes, setting up His Majesty's colours in 
the first fort that was raised there. And afterwards in the same year 
sent Captain Powell thither with a further supply of servants and provi- 
sions, who in 1627 fetched several Indians from the Main Land, with 
divers sorts of seeds and roots, and agreed with them to instruct the 
English in planting Cotton, Tobacco, Indigo, &c." 
From Sloane MS. 2,441, An account of Barbados and the Governments 
thereof, with a Mapp of ye Island. Sir Richard Dutton, Governor-in- 
Chief, i68f. 
Among the Domestic State Papers is one, which has thus been calen- 
dared by Mr. Noel Sainsbury. (See Calendar, Colonial, Vol. 1)— 1627, 
April 5, the Council to Buckingham. Pray and require him to give 
order that Captain Powell may proceed in his voyage to the West 
Indies in the Peter, notwithstanding the restraint. 
