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A54990	A description of the province of New Albion and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely, and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : with a briefe of the charge of victuall, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master 50 l. per annum, or more in twelve trades, and at 10 l. charges onely a man.	Plantagenet, Beauchamp.; Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2378; ESTC R10729	28,128	32

Companion to the Emperour or King Comes Curarum Par extans Curis solo diademate dispar That in Chester Durham Lancaster and Pembroke were made Earl Palatines and County Palatines and in Ireland in Lemster Earl Strongbows Sir Hugh de Lacy in Meth to Sir Hugh de Lacy the younger in Vister That William Marshall marying Earl Strongbows daughter had by her five daughters So as the Province of Lemster descending to them it was divided into five Counties to each of them one County Palatine That Bracton the ancientest of Lawyers averres Earl Palatines have regall power in all things saving Liegance to the King Hugh Lupus by the Conquerour was made Earl Palatine of the County of Chester as free to the sword as the King to the Crown and the Palatine of Chester made Barons the Baron of Haulton the Baron of Malbanck the Baron Malpas the Baron of Kinderton and in Lancaster the Baron of Walton in Durham the Baron of Hilton and in Meth Magnates and Barons Baron de Streene Baron de Nuven Baron de Baltrim Baron de la Narrow Baron de Rheban in Kildare the Baron Idrone in Caterlogh the Baron of Burn-Church in Kilkenny Baron of Nevill in Wexford Baron of Loughmo in Tiperary Baron Misset and Baron Savage in Vlster That these Earles Palatines had Parliaments made tenures in Capite and grand Serjancy and the tenants sued out Licence of Alienations and all Writs and Pleas Officers Chancelours Judges and that none of the Kings Officers could enter there or that the Kings Writs neither at Law or Chancery did lie or run there and that the County Palatine was thereby absolutely severed from the Crowne That the County Palatine of Lancaster was created by that of Chester and to Chester was annexed his conquered small County of Flint in Wales and made besides the four above foure other Barons Vernon of Saybrook Hammond de Massi Baron of Durham and the Barons of Hawardin and Stockport and in other Antiquities Cornwall Baron of Burford in Shropshire That any Manors or Lands lying out of the County Palatine if held thereof and the pleas of the inhabitants there arising shall bee tried within the County Palatine Thomas and Hugh Count Palatines both and both Bishops pleaded and returned to the Kings Writs I am a Lord Royall here the Kings Writs doe not run here The eldest sisters son by descent after her mother was Earl Palatine of Pembroke And the Law Reports and Abridgements shew they made Knights and as Knights were to be impleaded Divers statutes shew Durham and the Earle Palatines Mints Durham pence yet extant The Earl Palatines had in their Counties Iura Regalia as the King had in his Palace c. In the Lord Lovels Case the name or title of a Baron is no name of dignity or addition 8 H. 6. 10. but Earl is parcell of his name and of the substance of his name and if it be left out of the Writ the Writ shall abate 39 E. 3. 35. the case of Gilbert Vmfrevill Earl of Angus and 14 E. 3. Brief 278. the case of Hugh de Audley Earle of Gloucester yet note Master Burlacy for not calling the Lord Mohun Lord but Mohun was committed to prison and note in a Star-chamber Bill the Lord Verulam his widow marrying Sir Iohn Vnderhill was called and charged as my Lady Vnderhill the late wife of Vicount Verulam and not being called Vicountesse the Bill was cast out and a Fine for dishonour imposed Now there be four other Lord Proprietors that have Palatine jurisdiction granted and Provinces in the West-India Isles Florida and Maryland and as free as the Bishop of Durham had but none have a speciall creation of an Earle Palatine but ours of New Albion nor have they the words with such Additions Titles Dignities and Priviledges as either Durham or any other had nor any speciall grant to coin money in that of Maryland speciall Resort or Soveraign Dominion which is a Court of Appeal as in the case of King E. the third and his son E. in Aquitany with free fishing and wood for houses and to set up fishing stages is reserved Else all the Lord Proprietors have all the like Royalties and Regalities and all these 11 H. 6. in a long Roll particularly expressed are confirmed by Parliament to the Bishop of Durham and so thereby to all the Lord Proprietors And all of them have a speciall clause to give to the well deserving inhabitants in those Provinces Titles Honour and Dignities so as they be not the same used in England Now though some question is made whether the other four Lord Proprietors can make Barons or any Knights in their Provinces because such Honours and Titles of Barons and Knights are used here but there is no question or doubt in the Province of New Albion our Lord being an Earle Palatine 16 years standing as free as Chester and Pembroke or Lacy OF Strongbow in Ireland by that second power according to the judged cases in Law and in Parliament may make Provinciall locall and fewdall Barons as the 19 above named and make Knight Batchelours though here used to have precedency as others have had heretofore though his intended order of Knights of the Conversion of Albion is more proper And for our Earle Palatines Honour and Peerage in Ireland and to make his Proxy in his absence in that House of Peers there with all suh Honor and Titles Precedency to him his Countesse and children in all places as an Irish Earl the speciall Decree and Clauses in the Charter doth fully warrant it All the Civilians Pleaders in the Court of Honour and two Serjeants of the Coife at Law nine in number have certified it and enrolled on record and is exemplified under the seal the Baronets of Nova Scotia being President for the like case And note both the King of France and this our King have made Barons and Knights Hollanders that have precedency there before other the subjects there But to answer an Objection of some not truly informed and mistaken conceiving that our Earle Palatine might in his Countrey onely and no where else have his Honour Title and Precedency I answer that our Soveraign Lord King Charles as Emperour of England under his Privy Signet signed with his Royall hand so granted and created him which alone had been sufficient as others have been made in Master Seldens Book Records and Presidents mentioned but being farther with speciall Clauses and Decree and speciall Creation so made and particularly granted that both by Tenure and Dependency and that this Province shall be of the Liegance of Ireland and all there born to be free Denizens thereof and under his Majesties Great Seal there is no doubt or question thereof For he is no Alien Earl made by an Alien King as Copply by the French King Duke Dudley and Count Arundell by the Emperour but by our own King the fountain of

blast it and winds blowing away Cotten wanting victuals and no store of land Barbadoes hath some rich men having Sugar mils Indico Ginger Suckets of Oranges and Lemmons and bad Tobacco but their usuall bread is of Cassada roots whose juice is poyson so the negligence of a servant or slave in the right making of it may cost the whole family a poysoning the servants usuall food is some Pease Potatoes Roots and those boyled make their drink called Mobby and Plantana roots some rich have Poultry and Hogs and Cows tied up to trees for there are few Raunges and Inclosures These two last yeares the plague as I am informed killed 10000 brave people and there are many hundred Rebell Negro flaves in the woods here was no store of land for our 120 men and their families here wants the English mans grasse and so the English mans Beef Mutton Milk Butter and Cheese and they want rivers to turn their Sugar mils so that New England sendeth Horses and Virginia Oxen to turn them at excessive rates and their keeping is there chargeable and at Barbadoes they buy much Beef and Meal and Pease and Fish from New England and other places yet this Isle is full of gallant people very civill and well governed and now no fear of the Spaniard being so populous Then I touched at Bermudoes an Isle twenty miles long and two miles over and in some places more guarded with Rocks and Isles difficult in accesse full of Figs Oranges Lemmons Pomcitrons Potatoes and Plantans Mays wheat for bread excellent Fish Tobacco and Pease healthy it is and quiet in government But this Isle being but a pretty prison was not for my Companies use Thence I sailed to New England where I found three months snow hard winter but lean land in generall all along the Sea coast well peopled Towns the people very thristy industrious and temperate their fish carried to Bilbao and Saint Sebastans their Pipe-staves to the Isles and Spain and the corn of the floated river of Connectacute is transported and the Beaver trade is their best subsistence Still hoping for a richer and more temperat soile I went to Virginia passing 310 miles along the shoars and Isles of New Albion by Manhatas Isle by Long Isle Cape May and the two Capes of Deleware Bay by the lesser and southermost being by our Sea-mens observations just in 38 degrees and 40 minutes and so by Chingotto and Fe●z Isles in Maryland to Virginia to Newports News where receiving kind entertainment at Captain Matthews at Master Fantleroys and free quarter in all places finding the Indian war ended first by the valour courage and hot charge of Captain Marshall and valiant Stilwel and finished by the personall and resolute March and Victory of Sir William Berkley Governour there taking the old King Ope Chankino prisoner I wandred all over finding no place for the reasons aforesaid fit for our Company I went to Chicacoen the North part of Virginia on Pawtomeck river dividing it and Maryland which I found healthier and better then Virginia but then it was in war both with the Sasquehannocks all the Eastern Bay Indians and a Civill war between some revolters protestants assisted by 50 plundered Virginians by whom M. Leonard Calvert Governour under his brother the Lord Baltamore was taken prisoner and expelled and the Isle of Kent taken from him also by Captain Clayborn of Virginia yet I viewed Kent Isle too wet and plashy having bad water but there and at Chicacoen and at Accomack in Virginia and chiefly in New England they related of the excellent temper and pure aire fertility of soile of hils that sheltered off the North-west windes and blasts vallies of grapes rich mines and millions of Elkes Stags Deer Turkeys Fowl Fish Cotten rare fruits Timber and fair plains clear fields which other Plantations want this excelling all others finding it lay just midway between Virginia too hot and aguish in the blasted plains on one side and the cold New England on the other and in the same elevation of Naples the Garden of Europe after one hunting voiage and view 60 miles on one side of Albion and 310 miles on the other side and Long Isle finding the countries better and pleasanter then related I made my addresses to the Lord Governour of Albion and having obtained under the Province Seal my grant of my Manor of Belvill containing 10000 acres on a navigable river having in it and neer Alablaster Terras for plaister of Paris Building and Slatstone store of Timber clear Fields Meads and Woods and no Indians neer and Vines I resolved to return to Holland and to transport my friends where most happily the second time meeting his Lordship and perusing by his noble favour all his Lordships Cards and Seamens draughts 17 journall books of discoveries voiages huntings tradings and severall depositions under seal of the great Bever and fur trade rich mines and many secrets and rarities In fourteen days having with the two former books printed of Albion 1637 and 1642. made a full abstract and collection agreeing with my own view in the Depositions and M. Evelins and other the traders of Virginia New England I thought it most necessary for the good of all the Company and many Voluntiers in Holland distressed in England and noble Knights Gentlemen that with a little stock may gain fair and rich possessions and live in peace and quiet to print and publish this my labour under all your Lordships Protections most humbly craving your Lordships gentle acceptance And because it conduceth much for a General a Leader to be known of his Commanders and Soldiers his abilities and vertues and excellent parts drawing more men of honour and valour to follow him it contenting much men of honour and dignity to be led and commanded by a better and more honourable and more sufficient then themselves and not their inferiour the meaner and poorer sort expecting all encouragement justice and protection and all the Company the Adventures and strangers to us all may more freely and chearfully goe on and set out their men and expect the more and better returns contentment under his government in whom Pietic Religion Honor Justice Learning Valor Judgement Temperance and Policie shines hope without offence or imputation of flattery to affirm his virtues more then the gems of the Coronet of this our Earl Palatine doe adorn his noble parts Since to me conscientiamea mille restes I have had the honour to be admitted as his familiar have marched lodged and cabbined together amongst the Indians in Holland have seen so many of his Manuscript Books and most excellent Rules and Observations of Law Justice Policy I found his conversation as sweet and winning as grave and sober adorned with much Learning enriched with sixe Languages most grounded and experienced in forain matters of State policy and government trade and sea voiages by 4 yeares travell in Germany France Italy and

Belgium by 5 years living an Officer in Ireland and this last 7 years in America his studie and suits at home and abroad enabling his impartiall and infallible judgement of Judicature and certainly his perfect knowledge of his 23 Indian Kings under the command of this our Lord Royall as of his good and bad neighbours their power wealth and weaknesse English Aliens and Indians appears by his notes and books where none of their treacheries plots conspiracies haltings and villanies their Antagonists their numbers and abilities the advantage of our armes and fights and stratagerns are as Greek phalanges and they as Romane Manuples and enemies to side with and how to quiet and regain kill or surprise them is not expressed What Port Bay and soundings Creek river rock quarries of stone slat Iron mines Gum-Dragoon Lead Gold and Silver Alablaster Terras Bolarmack red soap earth Terra-lemnia Diers ware Hearbs and Plants and their use Ocar Rudle Cinnaber for quicksilver and Vermilion is not in particular Cards by compasse and scale in books with the trials and witnesses recorded What land and sea profit fishing place for salt Potas Dies Fruits Hearbs and Plants clear Fields great Plains fine and thick Grasse Marshes necks of land rich black moulded countries for Tobacco Flaxe Rice choice Trees and Timber for Shipping and Pipestaves Masts Yards Pitch Tar sheltred places for Grapes and Fruits Cotten in Cotten river invincible places by nature others by a little charge and fort to be made impregnable is not in this huge and waste Province being 1000 mile compasse delineated and what Law or Policy and summary Justice Courts of Law Equity Appeals Awards or references fit to compose differences reconcile debates to unite hearts to settle the factious and seditious in any other English Colonies or Countries and fit for our Justice is not explained Therefore my good Lords and Adventurers since I speak of knowledge by view and certain reports of wise and knowing men I shall joy and congratulate with you all in so able sufficient and honourable a Governour happily to rule to defend and doe us justice a tried and seasoned man and excellent Pilot in all this Land and Seas not afeard in person as a true Captain Generall by Land and Sea to leade and settle us by Boat Horse or Foot as able and willing as any of the meanest and therfore I think at first it most materiall to expresse the Law Statutes and Judgements and Acts of Parliament of Counts and Count Palatines and County Palatines and of our Province and County Palatine Liberties and the ancient family 1200 year from the Saxons in England of our Earl Palatine his pedegree and alliance And since according as other Palatines as he of Chester and Duresme made their Barons and Knights as therein many are yet living you my Lord have begun to honour first your own children I tender my best respects unto your Lps sonne and heir apparant Francis Lord Ployden Baron of Mount Royall D. Governour and to Thomas Lord Ployden Baron of Roymont High Admirall and to the Lady Winefrid Baronesse of Vvedale the pattern of mildnesse and modesty and to the Lady Barbara Baronesse of Ritchneck the mirrour of wit and beauty and to the Lady Katherine Baronesse of Princeport that pretty babe of grace whose fair hands I kisse hoping on your Lordships invitation C. C. T. and your two Baronets L. and M. to get them as they promised to goe with us I hope to get your Knights and 200 Planters on this side ready And thus with tender of my service to your Lordships and all the Company I rest Your humblest servant BEAUCHAMP PLANTAGENET Middleboro this 5 of Decemb. 1648. THE CONTENTS OF THE severall Chapters Chap. 1. OF Counts or Earls created and County Palatines and of our Province and County Palatine Liberties and the ancient Family 1200 years of our Earle Palatine from the Saxons in England his pedegree and alliance Ch. 2. His Majesty and his Auncestors just title and actuall possession of these Countries of some Aliens and Pirats in landing and disinheriting the English Crown and of bad English and Fugitives to them adhering the just cause and excuse to expel them Ch. 3. The Description of Master Robert Evelin and 13 witnesses printed 7 years since and now re-printed Ch. 4. The more large and exact Description and Declaration of many things these last seven years the bounds of all to it adjoyning of Virginia Maryland New England and Answer to Objections of bounds The number of the present inhabitants and their Cattell in this Province 1000 miles compasse the number of Indians Ch. 5. What Cargason is necessary to transport for the Lord of a Manor or to trade or truck with the Indians Ch. 6. Our present staple commodities how oft a man transported and stockt to make of his 100 acres 50 or 70 per annum CHAP. I. FOr the first creation of Earls in the Saxons time and since by the Norman Kings in England I refer you to that learned Antiquary Master Selden his Book who writeth at large in his Book of Titles and Honours as well of this as of forain Nations But there you shall finde Records cited and Earls made both by Privy Signet and Privy Seal without the Great Seal And they were not then meerly titulary and nominall without Interest Power and Judicature as now they are commonly all except the Earle of Arundell who still is a locall feodall Earl by possession of the Castle and of some Rapes or Liberties for the Lord Lumley not long since for some yeares being possessed thereof was for such time Earle of Arundell and that Earledome is confirmed and so adjudged with his honour and precedency by the house of Peers entred both in the Parliament and Court of Honour Rols and the Royall Grant was Do tibi Comitatum tertiam partem profitucrum unde Comes est And he made the Sheriffe or his Vicount or Deputy and the County Court was his and it was an honour and office both with the County and assignable the assignee enjoying the County honour and office as in Master Seldens Booke is cited in their Patents and was not so many large words for his Title and Peerage as is now used But in the Reports 9 Iacobi of Sir Iohn Davis in the case of the County Palatine and in the Fourth Part of the Institutes of Sir Edward Coke of Jurisdiction of Courts of the three County Palatines yet in England you may see Acts of Parliament Judgements and full matter shewing That there were Comites Palatini of the first and higher ranke which had in their Territories absolute command in Martiall civill and criminall matters with all Royalties and Regalities which the second order of titulary or nominall Earls had not both in the Saxons and Normans time long before the title of Duke Marquesse or Vicount were here granted Secondly Comes Palatinus was Comes Palatii being a chief Councell and