one And in the end of his Government Land was risen to five times the value it was at in the beginning Col. Tassel and Mr. Rogers at his command run a Chain round the Island An exact Mapp and Survey was sent home by my Lord Vaughan in his time were abundance of Cattel Imported from Cuba which brought down their Price from 12 to 14 l. per Head to 4 and 5 l. In his time Fairs and Markets were Erected at St. Jago Liguania Port-Royal c. Sir Thomas Linch remitted to the Kings principal Secretary of State a large and exact State of the Government of Jamaica of the Church the Laws the Militia and Revenue which was in brief thus His Majesty is Soveraign Lord and Proprietor of this Island in all Writs Commissions and Grants He is stiled King of England c. and Lord of Jamaica the Governour Represents His Person and is invested with his Power being enabled by his Commission under the Great Seal and directed by his Instruction how to Govern and it is alwaies during his Majesties pleasure Here 12 Councellours are chosen by the Governour and Constituted in all Emergencies and Causes like the King's Councel here the which they Resemble and the House of Lords because they Sit with the Assembly the Governour cannot suspend them without giving Advice to the Principal Secretary of the Cause This Government by practice as well as order from His Majesty is Assimulated as near as possible to that in England which renders it grateful to the People who believe they ought to enjoy their Property and Native Right where they are under the King's Dominion so nothing be inflicted on them but by the course of Law nor taken from them but by Acts themselves have consented to Therefore they have by His Majesties Order in Jamaica Assemblies that consist of 32 Persons chosen indifferently by the Freeholders of the 14 Parishes In these Assemblies the Governour has a Negative Voice he Calls Prorogues and Dissolves them at pleasure the Governour the Councel and the Assembly are invested with the Legislative Power and are Convened to make some little Municipal Laws proper to the usage of the Island about Governing Servants Slaves Officers High-waies Church Militia but chiefly to raise Money for the support of the Government What Laws they make are to be sent into England and to be of force but for two years unless the King consent then perpetual unless Revoked as they were made There is but seven Churches in the Island that is one at St. Davids Liguania Port-Royal St. Jago St. Johns and Vere The Governour seems to be the King's Deputy or Bishop of London's Suffragan for he Presents and Inducts and the Parsons being admitted every Parish is bound to allow 100 l. per annum at the least Pot-Royal 200 l. St. Jago 130 l. by Act of the Assembly made in Sir Thomas Linch his time when only these Parishes above-named were supply'd The Governours Residence was at St. Jago more within the Land and easier for People to apply themselves to him he named or appointed all the Officers only such as the King made under the Great Seal of England as the Secretary of the Island that makes all the publique Dispatches keeps the Office of Inrollment And the Marshal who is the Executive Officer of Justice in the nature of a Sheriff Usher of the Black-Rod and Jaylor for the Administration of Justice and better Government of the Parishes There is Sessions of the Justices Quarterly held at Morant Liguania Port-Royal St. Jago St. John Clarendon St. Elizabeth every of these Precincts have a particular Custos Rotulorum appointed who with the Justices and other Officers Present Reform Examine and punish all Crimes Disorders and Misdemeanors that are within their Cognizance by the Laws of England or those of the Island All Pleas of the Crown and Civil Causes are heard and Determined in the Grand Court that Sits Quarterly at St. Jago and thither Errours and Causes are brought from the Inferiour Courts this being like the Kings-Bench Court of Exchequer and Assizes in England In some extraordinary Cases the Governour Grants Commissions of Oyer and Terminer The Governour is Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal of the Island which the King sent by Sir Charles Littleton to my Lord Windsor It 's a Cross charged with four Pines the Reverse his Majesty in his Throne an Indian kneeling and presenting him All publique Commissions and Grants are seal'd with this Seal To every Planter the Governour Grants Thirty Acres per Head for which he gives his Warrant then the Surveyor of the Precinct within which it lies runs it out and returns it to the Clerk of the Pattents which draws the Grant so 't is held of the King in Common and pays for what Sir Thomas Modyford Granted 25 s. per 1000. for what Sir Thomas Linch Granted a half penny per Acre By an Act of the Assembly an Office of Inrollment is Erected and kept by the Secretary where the Pattent and all Deeds and private Writings are Recorded to prevent Law-suits and fraudulent Conveyances and is in the nature of a Registry All Actions at Law between Neighbours are tryed in the Inferiour Courts which are in the nature of Court Barons here There 's one at Morant Liguania Port-Royal St. Johns Clarendon St. Elizabeth and the North side each Court has its Judge 12 Assistants Clerk Marshal and any person may plead his own Cause They hold Pleas of any sum under 20 l. and of greater sums when they take a Justicias out of the Chancery which the Governour grants of course and here all Appeals with the assistance of some of the Councel that sit as the Probate of Wills Licences for Marriages c. are dispatch'd in the Secretarys Office and the Governour seems to be in the nature of Judge of the Prerogative Court At Port-Royal is establisht a Naval Office that takes care of the Entrys dispatches of Vessels and the observance of their Acts of Navigation The Governour is Vice Admiral to his Royal Highness and has a Commission to Command all his Majesties Ships that come to the Island and likewise a large Commission to Erect Courts of Admiralty and exercise all those Maratime powers his Royal Highness hath so there 's at Port-Royal a Judge-Admiral with all the needful Officers that proceed in the Court according to the forms of Admiralty used here and in other parts The Militia is Commanded by the Governour according to the power he Reigns from His Majesty and the Laws of the Country for there 's a particular Act that appoints the time of Mustering the Persons the Arms aad the Places of Rendezvous Here 's no Souldiers paid by the King all the Officers are made by the Governour At St. Thomas and St. Davids is one Regiment another at St. Andrews Port-Royal St. Catherines St. Johns Clarendon St. Elizabeth and North side and in every one of these Regiments is one Troop of
about seven Leagues from Port St. Thomas as far from Port Royal there is several Ale-Houses and Store-Houses At Liguania the in-side of the Harbour opposite to Port Royal about two Leagues is several Houses some of them very handsom and well Built which place in time is like to become a pretty Town Port Royal is Situate on the extream Point of Land that makes the Harbour It runs about Twelve Miles from the Main off the Land Westernly It has to the South the Sea to the North the Harbour which is the largest safest and most convenient in America This Neck of Land is exceeding narrow and nothing but a loose Sand that has neither Grass Stone Water nor Trees But being so Commodious for Ships that they are Secure all Weathers and can unload a Float at the Merchants Key It is the most Populous place for Trading in the Island and there only Ships enters and are dispatch'd In the Spaniards time there was no Houses the Sea-men of Cromwel's Fleet begun the Town by Building Store-Houses and called it Cogway as we judge corruptly from the Spanish word La aguia Col. Doyly caused it to be laid out as a Town but not very Regularly In Sir Char. Littleton's time it was called Port Royal from the Excellency of the Harbour It now contains above 1500 Houses there is a House though none of the best belonging to the King And in the Earl of Carlile's time a fine New Church Built partly by Liberal Subscription of divers Gentlemen Inhabiting the Island and partly by an Assessment laid upon the Inhabitants of the Port. Going from Port Royal to St. Jago de la Vega People Land at Passage where a Fort was in Col. Doyly's time and there is about Thirty Houses that are Store-Houses Ale-Houses and Horse-keepers and Hackney Coaches this being the greatest Passage in the Island it is two Leagues from Port Royal by Sea and six Miles from St. Jago by Land St. Jago de la Vega is Situated in a large Plain by a River that is called pro de Cabre as having a taste of that Metal or coming out of those Mountains in Liguania where the Spaniards told us they found of it This Town was almost quite Deserted when Sir Tho. Lynch came to the Government but in his time about Forty Houses were Built and Repaired about one Hundred more The Grand Court is holden Quartâ—rly in this Town and a Fair was Erected in Sir Tho. Lynch his time it has one Spanish Church and Gentlemens Houses that made it look well during the time the Governour Lived there but since that time it is much increased in Number of Beautiful Buildings and Inhabitants At Old Harbour about seven Miles West from St. Jago are about Thirty Houses for the Uses and Accommodation of Vessels and Store-Houses for Planters Goods this being esteemed the best Harbour excepting Port Royal in the South side By the Spaniards it was more Frequented At Withy Wood Twenty Miles to the West is about forty or fifty Houses for the Accommodation of Vessels that Road being more frequented than any other on the South side there being good Land many Settlements and a Pleasant Countrey all about it At the Extensive Point of Port Royal was Built a Round Tower by Cromwel's Sea-men in 1656 in 1657 and 1658 Col. Doyly laid the Foundation of a more Regular one which Sir Charles Littleton near Finished in 1664 and Sir Tho. Modyford in his time which was to the Year 1671 quite finished and Mounted in it about 36 Guns Employing the Round Tower only as a Store-House for Ammunition Besides this he Built a Breast-work of stone that run from the Harbour to the Sea about 200 Yards this was to Defend the Town from any surprize by Land as the Castle was to Defend the Mouth of the Harbour It was Named by Sir Charles Littleton Charles Fort in Honour of His Majesty In Sir Tho. Lynch his time was Built a Fort called James Fort Built by Sir Thomas and the Voluntary Contribution of some Gentlemen On the Island Point of the Town to flank the Ships at turning into the Harbour and Batter them when at Anchor in it which the Castle cannot He likewise made a slight Work for that purpose at Prison Point where six Guns were Mounted and at Port Morant four Guns and a Breast-work raised to Defend the Port. Another likewise at Old Harbour which was done in Sir Tho. Lynch his time but many more were added in the time of the Earl of Carlisle The Commodities the Countrey produces are Excellent Sugars Cocoa Cotton Hides Ginger Tobacco Tortoise shell Indico Primento Fustick Brazilletto Lignum Vitae Granadilla Ebony besides some Gums Achot Drugs c. This Island abounds with Cattle and the Islands of Spaniola Portico and Cuba do the like so does many Parts of the Main the first Breed being brought out of Europe for before the Discovery there was none of our Cattel great or small in the West Indies In Jamaica they Multiplyed so exceedingly that when the English took the Island a Cow was not worth above a Piece of Eight and a Horse half as much But the Army destroy'd them so that in the Year 1671 when Sir Tho. Lynch came to the Government a Cow was worth Twelve or Fourteen pounds but by the goodness of the Pasture and the Cattle Sir Thomas Imported from the Spaniards they increased so that in the Year 1675 they were worth but four pounds per Head one with another Besides here is plenty of good sprightly Horses some Mules and Asnegroes abundance of Hogs Goats and Sheep whose Wool is hairy the Flesh not generally so good as in England they breed often but live not well unless about Alligater Ponds Rabbets live well enough but there 's no Hare nor Deer in the Island In this Countrey is Hens Turkeys and Ducks bred better and are better flesh than in England Geese are but rare there 's abundance of Excellent Wild Fowl as Guiny Hens Flemingoes Teale Ducks Curlews with great variety of Pidgeons Turtles Parrots Maces and other Birds whose Flesh is good and Feathers finely coloured There is store of Fish both in the Sea and divers Rivers not much common to England but a King of Lobster Craw-fish Eels Mullers and Spanish Mackrael with abundance of all sorts of Admirable Fish proper to those Seas Tortoise are taken much on this Coast but chiefly at the Island Cay Manos 30 Leagues to the West of this Island whither the Vessels go May June and July to Load of their Flesh that they Pickle in Bulk and take them in that Season when they come on shore to lay their Eggs which they do and cover them with Sand that hatches them and then by instinct they crawl to the Sea where they Live and feed on Weeds that grows in the bottom or floats In many Rivers and Ponds of Jamaica there 's vast Numbers of Crocodiles or Allegators that is an Amphibious Creature and
are hereby protected until furthe Order of which the Provost Marshal is to take notice of at his peril C. Atkinson Cl. C. Sir Thomas Modyford Baronet Governour of His Majesties Island of Jamaica Commander in Chief of all His Majesties Forces within the said Island and in the Islands thereunto Adjacent Vice Admiral to his Royal Highness James Duke of York in the American Seas To Admiral Henry Morgan Esq Greeting WHereas the Queen Regent of Spain hath by her Royal Shadula dated at Madrid the 20th of Apr. 1670. Commanded her respective Governours in the Indies to publish and make open Wars against our Soveraign Lord the King in these Parts And whereas the Col. Pedro Baijonaii billa uneba Captain General of the Province of Paragnay and Governour of the City of St. Jago de Cuba and its Province hath executed the same and lately in a most Hostile and barbarous manner landed his men on the North side of this Island and entred a small way into the Country firing all the Houses they came at killing or taking Prisoners all the Inhabitants they could meet with and whereas the rest of the Governours in these Parts have granted Commissions for executing the like Hostility against us and are diligently gathering Forces together to be sent to St. Jago of Cuba their General Rendezvous and place of Magazine and from thence as the most opportune place to be transported for a thro Invasion and final Conquest as they hope of this Island for prevention of which their mischievous Intentions in discharge of that great trust which His Gracious Majesty hath placed in me I do by vertue of full Power and Authority in such Cases from his most Excellent Majesty and his Royal Highness James Duke of York His Majesties Lord High Admiral derived unto me and out of the great confidence I have in the good conduct courage and fidelity of you the said Henry Morgan as also of your great Experience you have in Marshal Affairs both by Land and Sea and by the advice and consent of His Majesties Council constitute and appoint you the said Henry Morgan to be Admiral and Commander in Chief of all the Ships Barques and other Vessels now fitted or hereafter shall be fitted for the publick Service and defence of this Island and also of the Officers Souldiers and Seamen which are or shall be put upon the same requiring you to use your best endeavours to get with the Vessels into one Body or Fleet and cause them to be well Man'd fitted arm'd and victualled and by the first opportunity wind and weather permitting to put to Sea for the Guard and Defence of the Coast of this Island and of all Vessels trading to or about the same and in order thereunto to use your best endeavours to surprize take sink disperse and destroy all the Enemies Ships or Vessels which shall come within your view and also for preventing the intended Invasion against this place You are hereby further Authorized and required in case you and yout Officers in your Judgment find it possible or feazable to Land and attain the said Town of St. Jago de Cuba or any other place belonging to the Enemies where you shall be informed the Magazine and Stores for this War are laid up or where any Rendezvous for their Forces to Imbody are appointed and there to use your best endeavour for the Seizing the said Stores and to take kill and disperse the said Forces And all Officers Souldiers and Seamen which are or shall be belonging to or Embarque upon the said Vessels are hereby strictly enjoyned both by Sea and Land to obey you as their Admiral and Commander in Chief in all things as becometh them and you your self are to observe and follow all such Orders as you shall from time to time receive from His most Excellent Majesty his Royal Highness or my self Given under my Hand and Seal of Arms this 22d of July and in the 22d year of our Soveragin Lord King Charles the Second Anno Dom. 1670. By Command of his Excellency Thomas Modyford Cary Helier Regist of the Admiralty Instructions for Admiral Henry Morgan Esq delivered him the 2d of July 1670. together with his Commission 1. YOU will with these Instructions receive my Commission which you are enjoyned with all Expedition to publish and put in due Execution according to the full extent and import of the same for the accomplishing whereof you shall have all the assistance this Island can give you 2. You are to make known unto me what strength you can possible make what your want may be that on a due Calculation of both we may supply you with all possible speed 3. You are to take notice and advise your Fleet and Souldiers that you are upon the old pleasing Account of no purchase no pay and therefore that all which is got shall be divided amongst them according to accustomed Rules 4. In case you shall find it prudential as by your Commission you are directed to attain St. Jago of Cuba and that God blessing you with Victory you are hereby directed in case you do it without any considerable hazards to keep and make good the place and Country thereabout until you have advised me of our success and received my farther Orders touching the same lest your sudden quitting and their as sudden returning beget us new work and put us on new charges and hazards for the second defeating 5. In order to this you are to proclaim mercy and enjoyment of Estates and liberty of Customs to all the Spaniards that will submit and give assurance of his Loyalty to His Majesty and Liberty to all the Slaves that will come in and to such as by any good service may deserve the same you are to give notice to their fugitive Masters Plantations to be divided amongst them as rewards for the same make them sufficient Grants in Writing both for their Liberties and Estates reserving to the Crown of England the fourth part of the produce to be yearly paid for the yearly maintenance of such Forces as shall defend these parts 6. In case you find that course to take approveable effect you are then as much as will stand with the same to preserve the Houses Sugar-works and Canes but if otherwise it appear to you that in reason you cannot make good the place for any long time and that the Spaniards and Slaves are deaf to your Proposals you are then with all Expedition to destroy or burn all Habitations and leave it as a Wilderness putting the Men-Slaves to the Sword and making the Women-slaves Prisoners to be brought hither and sold for account of your Fleet and Army such of the men also that cannot speak Spanish Or any new Negro you may preserve for the same account or if any Ships present to carry them for New-England or Virginia you may send them all on the same Account 7. You are to enquire what usage our Prisoners have had and
Prince and Major John Morris they being in number 300 men the body containing 600 the Right wing was led by the Gen. and the left by Col. Ed. Collier the rear-ward of the 300 was Commanded by Col. Bledry Morgan after having viewed our men and a little encouraged them the G. commanded the Officers every man should repair to his Charge the Enemy being drawn at such advantage they still kept their Station although often provoked yet would not stir from their Ground which we presently perceived and gave order that our men should wheel their bodies to the left and endeavour to gain a Hill that was hard by which if gained we should have forc'd the Enemy to fight to their disadvantage by reason he could not bring out of his great body more men to fight at a time than we could out of our small body and likewise that we should have the advantage both of Wind and Sun The Officers putting this Command in execution and the Hill and a dry Gut accordingly gained the Enemy was forced to fight upon their long March having not room to wheel his Battel by reason of a Bogg that was drawn behind on purpose as he thought to entrap us but we taking another ground in the end proved a snare to himself whereupon one Francisco Detarro gave the Charge with his Horse upon the Vant Guard and so furiously that he came upon the full speed we having no Pikes gave order that they should double their Ranks to the Right and close their Files to the Right and Left inward to their close order but his career could not be stopt till he lost his life in the front Rank of our Vant-Guard upon which the Horse wheel off to the Right and their Foot advanced to try their Fortunes but it proved like their fellows for we being ready with the main Battel to receive them gave them such a warm welcom and pursued so close that every one thought it best to retreat but they were so closely plyed by our left Wing who could not come to Engage at first by reason of the Hill that the Enemies retreat came to plain running Although they did work such a Stratagem that hath been seldom or never heard of that is when the Foot Engaged in the Flank he attempted to drive two Droves of Cattel of 1500 apiece into the Right and Left Angles of the Reer but all came to one effect and helped nothing for their flight to the City where they had 200 fresh men and two Forts one with six Brass Guns the other with eight and the Streets Barricadoed and great Guns in every Street which in all amounted to 32 brass Guns but instead of fighting he commanded the City to be fired and his chief Forts to be blown up the which was in such hast that he blew up forty of his Souldiers in it we followed into the Town where in the Market-place they made some resistance and fired some great Guns killed us four men and wounded five At three of the Clock in the afternoon we had quiet possession of the City although on fire with no more loss on our side in this daies work than five men killed and ten wounded And of the Enemy about 400 where we were all forced to put the fire out of the Enemies Houses but it was in vain for by 12 at night it was all consumed that might be called the City but of the Subburbs there was saved 2 Churches and about 300 Houses thus was consumed that famous and antient City Panama which is the greatest Mart for Silver and Gold in the whole World for it receives all the Goods into it that comes from old Spain in the King 's great Fleet and likewise delivers to the Fleet all the Silver and Gold that comes from the Mines of Peru and Potazi Here in this City we stayed 28 daies making daily Incursions upon the Enemy by Land for 20 Miles round about without having so much as one Gun shot at us in anger although we took in this time near 3000 Prisoners of all sorts and kept likewise Barques in the South Seas crusing and fetching of Prisoners that had fled to the Islands with their Goods and Families Feb. 14. we began our March towards our Ships with all our Prisoners and the next day came to Venta Cruce about 2 in the afternoon which is from Panama five English Leagues where we stayed refreshing our selves till the 24th the 26th we came to Changra where the Plunder was divided amongst the Souldiers and Seamen which amounted to about 30000 l. The sixth of March we fired the Castle spiked the Guns and began our Voyage for Jamaica where some are arrived and the rest daily expected The reason that there was no more Wealth was because they had two Months notice of us and had Embarqued most of their Treasure into Ships and sent them to Lima in Peru one Ship wâ—s laden with Gold Silver and precious Stones that contained 700 Tuns and one of 300 Tuns Jan. 31. 1671. By Command John Peeke Secretary At a Council held at St. Jago the 31 of May 1671. Present His Excellency Sir Tho. Modyford Baronet Governour Lieutenant Col. John Cope Lieutenant Col. Robert Brindlos Lieutenant Col. William Ivy Major Cha. Whitfield Major Antho. Collier Capt. Henry Molesworth Admiral Henry Morgan gave the Governour and Council a Relation of a Voyage to Panama who gave him many thanks for the Execution of his late Commission and approved very well of his acting This is a true Copy of the Record Cha. Atkinson C. C. The Deposition of John Peeke Gentleman aged 30. years or thereabouts taken before the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Linch Knight Governour of Jamaica this 3d day of April 1682. The Deponent saith that he was Secretary to Admiral Henry Morgan all the Panama Voyage and that he wrote all his Letters and saw those that were sent to the said Admiral from Sir Thomas Modyford or any other person in Jamaica that he was present when the two Spaniards Marcus de Cuba and Lucas Perez were sworn on board the Satisfaction and that upon their deposition it was resolved by the Commanders that they would attain Panama and that Sir Thomas Modyford had knowledge of the Design by a Ship that was sent on purpose and that Col. Bledry Morgn Came to the fleet in a Sloop that departed from Jamaica ten days after the arrival of the said Ship and that Sr. Thomas Mudyford in his Letter which he sent by the Sloop gave no Countermand at all And this deponent further saith that this is a true Copy of the Journal which was delivered to the Council the 13 of May for which they gave him thanks and ordered it should be recorded And this deponent further remembers that the Sloop which came to them and brought Sr. Thomas Mudyfords letter in answer to these which were sent upon the advice they gave of their resolutions for Panama arrived three days before we
marched for the City and further this Deponent saith not Sworn Coram this 3 day of April 1672. John Peeke Tho. Lynch A short account of the Life of Christopher Collumb or Collumbus the first Doscoverer of Jamaica COllumbus was born at Cugnero or as some say at Nervi in the Territory of Genoa he was a Mariner from a Child and traded into Syria and other parts of the East After this he became a Master in making Sea Carts and went to Portugal to Learn their Navigations on the Coast of Affrica The Spaniards who Envy the Honour of the Discovery of the New World to a stranger Report that a certain Caravel sailing in the Ocean by a strong East Wind long continuing was carryed to a Land unknow which was not expres'd in the Mapps and Cards it was much Longer in Returning than in Going and arriving had none left alive but the Pilot and three or four Marriners the Rest being Dead of Famine and other Extremeties of which also the Remnant perish'd in fews days leaving to Collumbus then the Pilots Host their papers and some grounds of this Discovery the time place Country and name of the man is Uncertain some Esteem this pilot an Andaluzian and that he traded at Madera when this befel some a Biscaine and that his traffick was in England and France and some a Portugal that traded at the Mina some say he arrived in Portugal others at Madera or at one of the Azores all agree that he Died in the house of Christopher Collumbus it is most Likely at Madera This Relation as it hath no witness to prove it the whole company being dead nor any good circumstances so the most look on it to be a fable and Spanish trick envying a foraigner and Italian that Glory to be the first Finder of the Indies and the most Juditious and sincere of the Spaniards themselves esteem but a tale as appears by the Testimony of Gorsalo Fernando De Omedo in his Summary and more fully in his General History of the Indies they shew and and so doth he which then Lived in the Court of Spain Peter Martir another Cause that mov'd Collumbus to this Discovery and not that Pilots paper or Reports for he being a Mariner used to Sea from his youth and sailing from Cales to Portugal observed that at certain seasons of the year the winds used to blow from the West which continued in that Manner a long time together and believing that they came from some Coast beyond the Sea he busied his mind so much therewith that he Resolved to make some tryal and proof thereof When he was now forty years old he propounded his purpose to the Senate of Genoa undertaking if they would lend him Ships he would find a way by the West unto the Island of Spices but they Rejected his proposals as Idle fancies Columbus frustrate of his hopes at Genoa yet leaves not his Resolution but goeth to Portugal and Communicates this Matter with Alphonsus King of Portugal but finding no Entertainment to his suit he sends his Brother Bartholomew Collumbus to King Henry the seventh of England to sollicit him in the Matter while himself passed into Spain to Implore the Aid of the Castillian herein Bartholomew in his Voyage to England unfortunately fell into the hands of Pirates which Robbed him and his company and forced him to sustain himself with making of Sea Cards and having gotten somewhat about him presents a Map of the World to King Henry with his Brothers offer of Discovery which the King Gladly accepted and sent for him into England But he had speed of his suit before in Spain and by that King and Queen was employ'd according to his Request for coming from Lisbon to Pallos di Moguer and then conferring with Martin Alonso Pinzon an expert Pilot and Frier Jo. Perez a good Cosmographer he was Counsel'd to aquaint these with his project the Duke De Medina Sidonia and of Medina Celi which yielding him not Credit the Frier Counsel'd him to go to Court and wrote in his Behalf to Fryer Fernandi Di Telavera the Queens Confessor Christopher Collumbus came to the Court of Castile Anno 1486. and found cold welcome to his suit at the hands of the King and Queen busied with Hot Wars in Granada whence they expel'd the Moores and thus remain'd he in Contempt as a Man meanly Cloathed without other patron then a poor Frier save that Alonso Di quintalignia gave him his Diet who also at the last procured him Audience of the Bishop of Toledo by whose Mediation he was brought before the King and Queen who gave him favourable Countenace and promis'd to Dispatch him when they had ended the wars of Granada which also they performed Thus Collumbus is set forth with three Caravals at the Kings charges who because his treasure was then spent in the Wars Borow'd 16000 Duckets of Lavis De Sanct Angelo and on Fryday the 3 of August in the year of our Lord 1492 in a Ship call'd the Gallega accompanied with the Pinta and Ninna in which the Pinzors Brethren went as pilots with the Number of 120 persons or thereabouts set sail for Gomera one of the Canary Islands and having there Refresh'd himself followed his Discovery after many Days he Incountered with an Herby Sea which looked like a green Field so thick that he could scarce see the water which not a little amazed the Spaniards and had caused their Return had not the sight of some Birds promis'd them Land not far of He taught the Spaniards to observe the Sun and Pole in their Navigation which till this voyage they had not used nor known But the Spaniard after three and thirty days sailing Desperate of success Mutined and threaten'd to cast Collumbus into the Sea disdaining much that a stranger a Genois had so Abused them but he pacified their Enraged fury with Mild Speeches and Gentle promise On the eleventh day of October one Rodrigo De Triana espied and cryed Land Land the best Musick that might be Especially to Columbus who to satisfie the Spaniards Importunitie had promis'd the day before that if no Land appear'd in 3 Days he would Return One the Night before had Descried fire which Kindled in him some hope of great Reward at the Kings Hand when he Returned into Spain But being herein frustate he Burn'd into such a flame as that it consumed Both Humanity and Christianity in him and in the Agony of Indignation made him Leave his Country and Faith and Revolt to the Moors But Collumbus how can I but Remember but Love but Admire sweetly may those Bones Rest Sometimes the pillars of that Temple where so Divine a spirit Resided which neither want of former Example nor publique Discouragements of Domestique and forreign states not private Insultation of proud Spaniards nor length of time which generally Devoureth the best Resolutions nor the unequal plains of Huge unknown Seas nor Grassy Fields in Neptunes Lap nor