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Quid eniin laboro nisi verita.\\nm omni queetione illustretur.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cic. Tuse. Quas. lii, 20.\\n1840.", "height": "3379", "width": "2174", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "AN\\nEXAMINATION\\nOF\\nBEAUCHAMP PLANTAGENET S\\nDESCRIPTION\\nOP THE\\nPROVir^CE\\n6f\\nNEW ALBION.\\nBY JOHN PENINGTON.\\nNura fingo? num mentior? cupio refclli. Q,uid enim laboro nisi Veritas\\nin omni queetione illustretur.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cic. Tuse. Quas. iii. 20.\\n1840.\\nr", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTION\\nPROVINCE\\nNEW ALBIOJV.\\nWheiv people get up in the world they become tenacious\\nof the honour of their ancestry. As with individuals, so\\nwith nations; the progress of the latter in refinement, is\\nalso accompanied by a propensity to elevate the characters\\nof their founders. Brigands and pirates dimly discerned\\namid the mist of ages, became endowed in the vivid imagi-\\nnations of the Greeks, their descendants with the attributes\\nof demi-gods and heroes, and through that medium so flat-\\ntering to national vanity; the Romans with less fancy, but\\nequal pride, regarded reverentially as the founders of the\\neternal city, a band of out-laws and vagabonds. This\\nyearning after ancestral fame is not confined to the ancient\\nnations of Europe, there are symptoms of its existence on\\nthis side of the Atlantic, among communities whose histories\\nhave commenced too recently to receive any adscititious\\nembellishment, without rendering both annals and annalists\\nridiculous, whose records time has not vet covered with his", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 DESCRIPTION OF\\nvariegated coating of stains and moss, and hung round with\\ntfiose mythic festoons that fall so gracefully from the his-\\ntoric monuments of the old world. They stand out coldly\\nand distinctly with their angles still sharp and unbroken,\\nand with the nature of their materials and workmanship\\nplainly discernible, the very antipodes to the historic pic-\\nturesque.\\nThe Virginians boast of their descent from the cavaliers,\\nthose gallant gentlemen who so freely expended their blood\\nand treasure in support of the royal authority, and who\\nwhen resistance was vain, sought a refuge among the wilds\\nof America. Some take what is regarded as still higher\\nground, and pique themselves upon a certain dash of Indian\\nblood derived from Pochahonlas. Whatever may have\\nbeen the virtues and merits of the individual, those of her\\nrace are by no means so strikingly developed as to reflect\\nany additional honour upon these claimants of affinity with\\nit. The difference between an Indian princess, and a\\nNegro princ^ess, is about that between tweedle dum, and\\ntweedle dee; but the parlies who boast of their descent from\\nthe royal stock of Powhattan, look down with great con-\\ntempt upon the corn hoeing, and tobacco picking members\\nof the blood royal of Guinea. From which, it appears, that\\nin Virginian heraldry gules is a more honourable tincture\\nthan sable.\\nThe most vociferous for the honour of their forefathers\\nare our brethren of New England. The claims the first\\nsettlers of that section of our confederacy have upon the\\nveneration of their descendants, do not strike us in this\\nlocality as being quite so clearly made out as they are\\nstrongly asserted. I cannot, however, unite with those\\nwho urge against the emigrant puritans, the charge of in-\\nconsistency, protesting against persecution, until, in the\\ncourse of events, they had it in their power to persecute.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION.\\nTheir avowed rule of action, religious, civil, moral, and mili-\\ntary, vi^as the Old Testament. They never scourged, mu-\\ntilated, or hung a Babtist, or Quaker of either sex; they\\nnever destroyed in cold blood Indian prisoners of war, or\\nconsigned them to more protracted deaths by laborious\\nslavery in their own, or in a foreign country, without quoting\\nchapter and verse as their warranty. It would be irre-\\nlevant here to adduce instances of the consistency of these\\nsoi-disant, dear saints of God. They are recorded by\\ntheir own contemporary historians with a complacency\\ntruly Mephistophelique, but with apparently such perfect\\nconsciousness of rectitude of motive, that charity induces\\nreaders, out of New England, to apply to the cases the lines\\nof Pope,\\nFor virtue s self may too much zeal be had,\\nThe worst of madmen is a saint turned mad.\\nThe annually recurring chorus of Pilgrim Fathers, ex-\\ncited in time the envy of the neighbouring New Yorkers,\\nwhich feeling was allayed by Mr. Verplank, pointing out to\\nthem the rich mass of ancestral dignity, embodied in the\\ncharacter of their Dutch forefathers. This was, indeed,\\nopening a hitherto unworked mine of honour, the existence\\nof which had never been even suspected. In an anniversary\\ndiscourse, delivered several years ago, before the New York\\nHistorical Society, among the reasons why the audience\\nshould not blush for their Dutch progenitors, Mr. Verplank\\nassigns the circumstance of the latter, amazing the world\\nin the seventeenth century, by an exhibition of tiie wonder-\\nful effects of capital and credit, and their shaming the poor\\nprejudices of their age out of countenance by a high\\nminded and punctilious honesty. Among those, who at\\nthis period, were amazed at an exhibition of Dutch mer-\\ncantile spirit, shaming the poor prejudices of the age, was", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTION OF\\nthe Count D Estrades. As the general reader is doubtless\\nfamiliar with the occurrence that excited this emotion, so\\nrarely evinced by the practised diplomatist, it is not worth\\nwhile to recount it here. But the Count s amazement,\\nwas exceeded by that of the English; when after read-\\ning the harrowing details of the massacre of their country-\\nmen at Amboyna, they encountered the closing passage.\\nThey had prepared a clothe of blacke velvet for Captaine\\nTowerson, his bodie to fall upon, which being stained\\nwith his bloud, they afterwards put to the account of the\\nEnglish Company. (Purchas Pilgrims, vol. i. Lib. v.\\nSoon after this item was posted in their books, and which,\\nI suppose, is now-a-days to be regarded as an illustration of\\ntheir high-minded and punctilious honesty; the Hollanders,\\nin the same spirit of commercial jealousy which formed\\nthe main spring of the Amboyna movement, alleged to the\\nJapanese, that the overthrow of their government was me-\\nditated by the Portuguese traders. The latter, in revenge\\namazed the natives by informing them the Dutch were\\nChristians With the same fierce unscrupulous determina-\\ntion to prevent a competition in trade, they guided in win-\\nter their whilom guests, the English puritans, who left Hol-\\nland with the expectation of settling at the mouth of the\\nHudson, to a bleak and distant shore, with the fair pro-\\nspect of the extinction of a rival establishment before\\nspring.\\nMr. Verplank says something of the Dutch at this period,\\nserving the cause of freedom and reason. What they\\ndid to serve the cause of reason, does not occur to me; their\\nservices in the cause of freedom, are somewhat equivocaly\\nset forth in the fact, that under Dutch auspices, African slavery\\nfirst made its appearance in this country. When Mr. Ver-\\nplank reproaches the descendants of this people, with their\\ndegeneracy and comparatively lax commercial morality,", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION.\\nit is incumbent on him to show, that the Dutch practice was\\nthe standard of mercantile ethics in the seventeenth century.\\nThe colonial establishments in North America, of Spain,\\nFrance, England and Sweden, were all connected with ex-\\nertions, individual and legislative, to Christianize the natives.\\nAre there any records or traditions of similar efforts made\\nby the Dutch? there are no records, and the traditions\\nwould be of little weight with those who hold the emphatic\\nopinion of the annalist Chalmers (p. 571,) The traditions\\nof no country merit much regard, but those of such a\\npeople, are worthy of none. The relations of the natives\\nof North America, with all their transatlantic brethren, are\\nchequered webs, in some of which the bright, and in others\\nthe sombre tints prevail, but with this nation that so much\\namazed its contemporaries of the seventeenth century,\\nthey form a tissue whose uniform darkness presents to the\\nphilanthropist no enlivening diversity of the Indian bene-\\nfited, and the Dutch thereby honoured.\\nSome of the contributors to the history of our own state,\\nin gratifying their longing after a more brilliant epoch in its\\nannals, that the arrival of Penn have had recourse to a\\nrare tract in 32 pages 4th, with this title (note 1.) A de-\\nscription of the province of New Albion, and a direction\\nfor adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and\\ngood land freely: and for gentlemen, and all servants,\\nlabourers, and artificers, to live plentifully. And a for-\\nmer description reprinted of the healthiest, pleasantest, and\\nrichest plantation of New Albion in North Virginia,\\nproved by thirteen witnesses. Together with a letter from\\nmaster Robert Evelin, that lived there many years shovv-\\ning the particularities and excellency thereoff With a\\nbriefe of the charge of victual and necessaries, transport\\nand buy stock for each planter and labourer, there to get\\nhis master 50/. per annum or more, in twelve trades and", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 DESCRIPTION OF\\nat 10/. charges onely a man. Printed in the year 1648,\\non the next page are The order Medal and Riban of the\\nAlbion Knights, of the conversion of 23 kings, their sup-\\nport, illustrated by three small engravings. The Medal\\npresents the effigies of a coronetted personage, whose costume\\napproaches to that of the time of the Heptarchy, with the\\nlegend EDMUNDUS COMES PALATINUS ET GUBER\\nN. ALBION. On the reverse are armonial bearings Two\\ncoats impaled. The dexter, a hand dexter issuing from the\\nparti line grasping a sword erect, surmounted by a crown.\\nThe sinister is the coat of arms, born by the present Plow-\\nden family of Shropshire England a fesse dancettee with\\ntwo fleurs de lis on the upper points- Supporters, two\\nbucks rampart gorged with crowns. Crest a ducal coronet.\\nMotto VIRTUS BEAT SIC SUOS. The order is formed\\nby the achievement just described, encircled by twenty-\\ntwo heads couped and crowned, held up by a savage kneel-\\ning: the whole surrounded with the legend, DOCEBO INI-\\nQUOS VI AS TUAS ET IMPII AD TE CONVERTEN-\\nTUR, which is the vulgate version of the 15th verse of the\\n50th Psalm. This page is farthermore garnished with sun-\\ndry other scraps of Latin and English, of no ver y particular\\nbearing upon the matter in hand.\\nOn the recto of the second leaf This epistle and preface\\nshows Catoes best rules for a plantation. To the Right\\nHonourable and mighty Lord Edmund, by Divine Pro-\\nvidence, lord proprietor, Earl Palatine, Governor and\\nCaptain General of the Province of New Albion, and to\\nthe Right Honourable, the Lord Viscount Monson of Cast-\\ntemain, the Lord Sherard Baron of Letrim and to all\\nother, the Vicounts, Barons, Baronets, Knights, Gentle-\\nmen. Merchants, Adventurers, and Planters of the hope-\\nfull company of New Albion, in all forty-four undertakers\\nand subscribers, bound by indenture to bring and settle", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 9\\nthree thousand able trained men, in our said severall\\nplantations in the said Province. Beaucharnp Phinlagenet\\nof Belvil in New Albion Esquire, one of the company,\\nwisheth all health and happiness, and heavenly blessings.\\nThe epistle and preface thus terminates, at the eighth\\npage And since according as other Palatines, as he of\\nChester and Duresme, made their Barons and Knights as\\ntherein many are yet living, you my lord have begun to\\nhonour first your own children, I tender my best respects\\nunto your sonne and heir apparent Francis Lord Ployden,\\nBaron of Mount lloyall, Governour, and to Thomas Lord\\nPloyden Baron of Roymont High Admiral: and to the\\nLady Winefrid Baroness of Uvedale, the pattern of mild-\\nness and modesty and to the Lady Barbara Baronesse of\\nRitchneck, the mirror of wit and beauty, and to the Lady\\nKatherine Baronesse of Prince t, that pretty babe of\\ngrace, whose fair hands I kisse, hoping on your Lordships\\ninvitation, C. C. T. and your two baronets L. and M. to\\nget them as they promised to goe with us. I hope to get\\nyour knights and two hundred planters, on this side ready.\\nAnd thus with tender of my service to your Lordships,\\nand all the company, 1 rest\\nMiddleboro this 5 of Your humblest servant\\nDecember 1648 Beauchamp Plantagenet.\\nThis description is classed among the historical mu-\\nniments of Pennsylvania; its claims to be continued there, it\\nis my present purpose to investigate.\\nJuliet was more influenced by her feelings than by her\\njudgment, when she came to the conclusion that as a rose\\nunder any other name, would smell as sweet, there was\\nnothing in a name. The chronicler of the Palatinate of\\nNew Albion signs himself Beauchamp Plantagenet. The\\njunction of these two magnificent surname?, savours strongly\\n2", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 DESCRIPTION OF\\nof the adventurer. Like the plebian alias of Altamont\\nMortimer Montmorenci, he has found out where a com-\\nmodify of good names was to be bought, and has made\\nthe common mistake in such cases of purchasing too largely.\\nThe suspicion excited by his name is increased by a notice\\nof the former grandeur of his family, abruptly introduced\\ninto the midst of an inflated account of the state of the\\ntimes. Then perusing my old evidences, I found my aun-\\ncester Sir Richard Plantagenet had Chawton, Blendworth,\\nClanfield and Catrington in Hampshire. But in those civil\\nwars in Henry the Sixth s time, much like those of the\\nGuelfs and Gibellines in Italy, all was lost.\\nSome of the histories of the counties of England, are so\\nample in detail, that in the deduction of manorial property\\neach fee is pursued throughout from the Doomsday Lord\\nto the then proprietor, and so comprehensive as to give\\ngeneological notices of all who make any pretensions to\\ndistinction. It is probable, therefore, that in Warner s col-\\nlections for the history of Hampshire, in 6 vols. 4to, there\\nare full historical notices of these four places. This work\\nI never saw, but from other sources have gleaned some\\nfacts, which rather invalidate the old evidences of Mr.\\nPlantagenet s family importance. Clenfield or Clanfield,\\naccording to the Notitia Monastica of Tanner, (p. 1G2 edit.\\n1744,) was granted by Edward II. in the year 1313, to the\\nChurch of St. Mary, at Southwyke, and at the suppression\\nof the religious houses by Henry VIII. was given to John\\nWhite. So it appears, that for upwards of a hundred years\\nboth before and after the civil v^ ars in Henry the Sixth s\\ntime Clanfield was not in possession of a Plantagenet. Again,\\namong the parochial notices in The Annual Hampshire\\nRepository Winchester, 1799\u00e2\u0080\u00941801, it is stated that at the\\ncommencement of the civil wars a part of Kateryngton or\\nCatrington, was released by Henry Kewyk to William Port", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 11\\nSir Richard Plantagenet s ownership thereof, not being in\\nthe sh ghtest degree alluded to. The name does not appear\\nin Berry s folio of Hampshire pedigrees, nor among the mag-\\nnates of the same county, in the 12th year of the reign of\\nHenry VI., a list of whom is preserved in Fuller s Worthies\\nof England.\\nI have marveled that when on the subject of his lineage,\\nMr. Plantagenet did not inform his readers of the royal\\nblood in his veins. Of this interesting circumstance the\\nworld would probably have remained ignorant, had it not\\nbeen announced in the Sketches of the primitive settle-\\nments on the river Delaware, by James N. Barker,\\nthat the historian of New Albion was a descendant of\\nkings! The really pleasant and ingenious writer of these\\nsketches, seems to be a gentleman for whom a flight of fancy\\nhas stronger charms than the severity of historical research,\\nand who finds the simplicity of early American annals insi-\\npid without a dash of the melo-drama. He would greatly\\nhave enhanced the gratification arising from his conclusion\\nhad he communicated the geneological data, by which he\\narrived at it. But with some historians an assumption on\\nthe strength of fancy, is a more congenial and much easier\\nemployment than that of knocking the dust off of old books\\nin verifying facts. To the familiar story told by Peck,\\n(Desiderata curiosa VH. 15.) Mr. Barker must have ima-\\ngined a sequel that honest Richard not inheriting the am-\\nbition of his crooked back sire, soberly settled down, begat\\nsons and daughters, and thus the name and the line were\\ncontinued to the representative of both in 1648, Beauchamp\\nPlantagenet of Belvil. In history, fancy on fact seems to\\nbe canonical, but fancy on fancy is as heterodox, as colour\\non colour, or metal on metal in heraldry. The contribu-\\ntion to Peck s book, as may be learned from Master s re-\\nmarks on Walpoles Historic doubts on the life and death of", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1% DESCRIPTION OF\\nRichard III. in the 2d vol. of the ArchcElogia, was a literary-\\nhoax, drawn up and communicated to a Dr. Warren, who\\nwas Peck s informant, in order to see how far his credulity-\\nwould carry him, and to expose the absurdity of the anti-\\nquaries of the day. The Spartam nactus es, hanc onna\\nwould, I think, have authorized Mr. Barker so to extend the\\ndramatic license he had assumed, as to include and endow\\nwith interest, some of the fellow subjects of Plantagenet\\nthere s a Master Evelin for instance, who could have been\\nbrought forward as A Knight Templar in disguise, whilst\\nCaptains Brown and Claybourn might have figured as Eng-\\nlish barons exiled by the tyranny of King John, previously\\nto the signing of Magna Charta. These embellish-\\nments which are deemed appropriate, are suggested to Mr.\\nBarker, in the event of his fine epopee as the historian\\nNiebuhr would have termed it, attaining to a second edi-\\ntion.\\nAfter the ancestral flourish just noticed, Mr. Plantagenet\\nreceived from a company intending to emigrate, a com-\\nmission to examine the different English plantations. His\\nchoice fell upon New Albion, in which, after an exploratory-\\ntour, he obtained from the Lord Governour under the Pro-\\nvince seal, a grant of the manor of Belvil, containing ten\\nthousand acres. He then returned to Holland, where most\\nhappily, the second time meeting his lordship, and perusing\\nby his noble favour, all his lordship s cards and seamen s\\ndraughts, seventeen journall books of discoveries, voiages,\\nhuntings, tradings, and several depositions, under seal of\\nthe great Bever, and fur trade, rich mines and many\\nsecrets, and rarities, he concocted this description. The\\ntopographical knowledge of the two, enables them thus\\nboldly to strike out the boundaries of their teritory, Our\\nsouth bound is Maryland north bounds, and beginneth at\\nAquats on the Southermost, or first Cape of Delaware Bay,", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 13\\nin thirty-eight and forty minutes, and so runneth by or\\nthrough, or including Kent Isle, through Chisapeack Bay\\nto Pascatway, including the falls of Pawtomecke, over to\\nthe head or northmost branch of that river, being three\\nhundred miles due west, and the?ice northward io the head\\nof Hudsons river fifty leagues, and so down Hudsons river\\nto the ocean, sixty leagues, and thence by the ocean and\\nisles across delaware Bay to the south cape fifty leagues\\nin all seven hundred and eighty miles. Then all Hud-\\nson s river, Isles, Long Isle or Pamunke, and all Isles\\nwithin ten leagues of said province being. (p. 26.) Tis\\nan easy matter to go three hundred miles due west, from\\nthe southermost cape of Delaware, but when at that point\\nwhich is in Virginia, beyond t!ie Alleghany mountains, sur-\\nveyors, excepting those of New Albion, would be puzzled\\nto strike the head of the Hudson by running a north line,\\nand that of fifty leagues only. Several pages are devoted\\nto particular descriptions of nine choice seats for Eng-\\nlish: but one or two of these can be recognised; thus The\\nsixt is an He called Palmer s He, containing three hundred\\nacres, half mead halfe wood: in it is a rock forty feet high,\\nlike a towr fit to be built on for a trading house, for all\\nthe Indians of Chisepeack Gulfe; it lieth a mile from\\neach shore, in Susquehannocks river mouth, and there four\\nBackers will command that river, and renue the old trade\\nthat was; it lieth in forty degrees and twelve minutes it\\nis most healthy, but cold neer the hils, and full as all the\\nseventeen rivers there of eleven sorts of excellent fresh\\nfish the Indians instead of salt doe barbecado or dry and\\nsmoak fish to each house, a reek or great pile, and ano-\\nther of sun dried on the rocks, Strawberries, Mulberries,\\nSymnels, Maycocks and Horns like Cucumbers. (p. 25.)\\nThis renewing the old trade with four sakers was continu-\\ning the same system of commercial relations with the na-", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 DESCRIPTION OF\\ntives, that was commenced forty years before, for the be-\\nginning of trade on the Chesapeake, according to Thomas\\nStudley, the first cape merchant in Virginia, was in the\\nway of barter exchanging for corn, stores of sakre and\\nmusket shot, (Smith s Virginia, Chap. II.) (Note 2.) The\\ncurious inquirer who is led by his interest in our early his-\\ntory to attempt applications of these several descriptions to\\nlocalities within the bounds of New Albion will be sadly\\nperplexed, particularly with the ninth called Mount Ploy-\\nden the seat of the Raritan King, on the north side of this\\nprovince, twenty miles from Sandhay sea, and ninety\\nfrom the ocean next to Amara hill, the retired Paradise of\\nthe children of the Ethiopian Emperor, a wonder for it is\\na square rock two miles compasse fifty foot high,\\n(the height cannot be ascertained from the copy before me,\\nas two letters have been cut away from the page by the\\nknife of the binder) a wall-like precipice a strait entrance\\neasily made invincible, where he keeps two hundred for\\nhis guard, and under it a flat valley, all plain to plant and\\nsow, (p. 26.)\\nThe conclusion seems unavoidable, that though kings can\\ndo no wrong in England, their descendants can tell lies in\\nHolland. That this brace of Palatines, never visited the\\ncountry they affected thus accurately to describe, is placed\\nbeyond question, both by the internal evidence of their\\nDescription, and by a passage in Winthrop s History of\\nNew England, noticing the arrival at Boston, in 1648, of\\none Sir Edmund Plowden, who had been in Virginia about\\nseven years. He came first with a patent of a county\\nPalatine for Delaware Bay; but wanting a pilot for that\\nplace, he went to Virginia, and there having lost the estate\\nhe brought over, and all his people scattered from him; he\\ncame hither to return to England for supply, intending to\\nreturn and plant, Delaware, if he could get sufficient", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "NEW ALEION. 15\\nstrength to dispossess the Swedes. (ii. 325, edit. 1825.)\\nNow Plantagenet, repeatedly speaks (pp. 8. 13. 22.) of his\\npatron s knowledge of the country, derived from his seven\\nyears personal observation, and that he was (p. 8.) a tried\\nand seasoned man, and excellent pilot in all this land and\\nseas to trade and settle us, that (p. 19.) the plantation\\nhad been commenced several years before the date of this\\nvisit to Boston, whilst at Watcessit, were seventy English,\\nas master Miles deposeth, he swearing the ofFicers there to\\nhis majesty s allegiance, and to obedience to your Lord-\\nship as Governour. (p. 23.)\\nInto one map only have I found this Province admitted,\\na Mapp of Virginia discovered to ye Hills, and its latt:\\nfrom 35 deg: and 1-2 ncer Florida, to 41 deg: bounds of\\nNew England. Domina Virginia Farrer Collegit. Are\\nsold by I. Stephenson, at ye Sunn below Ludgate, 105 1.\\nThe details of this curious production, harmonise in some\\nmeasure with the data, furnished by the Description of New\\nAlbion. Lord Delewar s Bay and river, are laid down\\nwith the remark, This river the Lord Ployden hath a\\npatten of, and calls it New Albion, but the Swedes are\\nplanted in it, and have a great trade of Furrs. The Dela-\\nware and Hudson are made to form in their courses sen--\\nments of circles, whose chords are nearly East and West\\nlines: again, on the other hand there are some material devia-\\ntions from the description, a West line, three hundred miles\\nfrom the Southermost Cape of Delaware, extends a consi-\\nderable distance into the Pacific Ocean, or as it here called,\\nThe Sea of China, and the Indies. These and other\\ngeographical capricios, authorize the observer to attribute\\nboth mapp and description to the imaginations of their\\nrespective authors. (Note 3.)\\nloost Hartgers, a contemporary writer, in his Beschrij-\\nvinghe Van Virginia, Nieuw Ncdcrlandt, lc., Amst, 1051,", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 DESCRIPTION OF\\nsays a certain Englishman, who called himself, Sir Ed-\\nmnnd Ployden, and gave himself the title of Earl Palatine\\nof New Albion, pretended that the country on the West\\nside of the North River, as far as Virginia, was his pro-\\nperty under a grant from James, King of England; but\\nremarked, he would have no misunderstanding with the\\nDutch, but was much offended with, and bore a grudge\\nagainst John Prins, the Swedish Governor in the South\\nRiver, in consequence of receiving some affronts, which\\nare too long to record, but which he would take an op-\\nportunity of resenting and possessing himself of the South\\nRiver. As nothing is said to the contrary, it must be in-\\nferred that Sir Edmund s pretensions were set up at the\\nsafe distance of Virginia; for this braggadocio attitude could\\nnot well be assumed in a country under Dutch control,\\nwithout both claim and claimant running some danger of a\\nsimultaneous extinction. The Swedish establishments on\\nthe Delaware evidently existed by the sufferance of the\\nHollanders, and the tenure by which they were held seemed\\nto have been to keep out interlopers of other nations. In\\n1643, a party from New England under Lamberton, whilst\\nendeavouring to obtain a footing on the river, was at the\\ninstigation of the Dutch Resident seized by the Swedes, and\\ncame very near forming the dramatis personae of a second\\nrepresentation of the Amboyna tragedy. The threat in this\\ncase prevented any competition in the trade for beaver\\nskins, as effectually as the performance twenty years before\\nsecured the monopoly of cloves. In 1G55, soon after the\\nNew Haven people had abandoned their intentions of set-\\ntling their purchased lands on the Delaware, the Dutch find-\\ning no farther necessity for their Swedish feudatories,\\nejected them from their fief. As confirmatory of this view\\nof the colonial relations existing between these two nations,\\nthe fact may be adduced that their bloodless squabbles", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 17\\nwere always intermitted when the EngHsh appeared in the\\nriver.\\nIn this account of the healthiest, plcasantest, and rich-\\nest plantation in North Virginia, proved by thirteen vvit-\\nnesses, are misrepresentations and inaccuracies, which 1\\nproceed briefly to notice. The reader is told (p. 7) of\\ntwenty-three Indian Kings, under the command of this\\nour Lord Royal, the origin doubtless of the bordure of\\ncrowned heads that occurs in the order of the Albion\\nKnights. So perfect was the subordination of the natives,\\nthat any without his lordship s stamped badge, approach-\\ning within twenty miles of his plantation, or ten of his cat-\\ntie were killed, and that valiant Captain Freeman lately\\nkilled three Indians so without badge encroaching, (p. 23.)\\nOne is at a loss which most to admire, the brilliancy of this\\nsystem of Indian relations, or the boldness by which it was\\nmaintained, when, as has been before remarked the whole\\nforce of the Palatinate amounted to but seventy men. This\\naccount of the effectiveness of the Indian bureau of the go-\\nvernment, was intended to produce a favourable impression\\nupon adventurers; but it is as much the coinage of Mr.\\nPlantagenet s brain, as his description of Mount Ployden or\\nthe evidences of the grandeur of his ancestor Sir Richard.\\nThe sovereignty of the country at this time was in the Iro-\\nquois. Offsets of this warlike and imperious people, under\\nthe name of Minquas will be found in the contemporary\\nmaps dotted through this section to bridle, perhaps, the con-\\nquered tribes of the race, known to the early French writers\\nas the Algonquin and recently most affectedly called Algic\\nby Mr. Schoolcraft. Would the Iroquois endure in their\\nown or permit upon the persons of their tributaries, this ex-\\nercise of authority, backed by seventy men only?\\nAt page 17, two thousand Indians, armed with guns,\\nincluding the Mohawks, drove in the Dutch boors from their\\n3", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 DESCIPTION OF\\nout settlements to their forts on the North River. The\\nMohawks were never engaged in hostilities with the Dutch,\\nbut when the latter were waging war with the surrounding\\nAlgonquin tribes, a few years before the date of this de-\\nscription, made their appearance as peace makers not war-\\nriors. Their interference was so effective, that a general\\npacification was the result, (note 4.) In the same page it\\nis asserted that at this period Manhattas contained more\\nEnglish than Dutch! and at page 28, that peaches were so\\nabundant at this early stage of the plantation, that hogs\\nwere fed with them one man having an orchard of ten\\nthousand trees. The proverbial improvidence of the In-\\ndians becomes questionable, when settlers are assured p. 21,\\nthey may have from them two thousand barrels of corn,\\nat twelve pence a bushel in truck. Many in our com-\\nmunity are descended from the Swedish emigrants to the\\nbanks of the Delaware; Mr. Plantagenet s lucid account of\\nthe first appearance of their forefathers in this region, will\\nbe to them both novel and interesting. In the year 1640,\\nthe Dutch in their West-India Fleet, battered by the Span-\\nish Armado, brought home forty Swedish poor soldiers;\\nand hearing that Captain Young and Master Evelin had\\ngiven over their Fort, begun at Eriwotneck within Dela-\\nlaware Bay, there halfe starved and tottered, they left\\nthem, p. 17.\\nMr. Plantagenet is rather loose in statistical matters;\\nthus, although one hundred thousand English had died in\\nVirginia, the number in 1648, was eight hundred thousand.\\nThis estimate exceeded the actual number, by about seven\\nhundred and seventy-five thousand. Again two thousand\\nIndians armed with guns, at p. 17, are reduced to eight\\nhundred naked and unarmed at page 20, but then at page\\n22, the naturals rally in great force, for nearly three\\nthousand are mustered and told off by kingdoms, among", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "NFW ALBION. 19\\nwhom figures the King of Ramcock, with a hundred men,\\n(note 5.) Five of his Lordship s sixe good free-holding\\ntowns in Long Isle, are enumerated at page 23. In ad-\\ndition to occupying a respectable space in the general his-\\ntories of North America, this Island has been made the sub-\\nject of two special publications a sketch, brief, but of great\\nmerit, by Silas Wood, and recently a somewhat volumi-\\nnous history, by Benjamin F. Thompson, but no where is the\\nslightest allusion made to his Lordship, or to his rights,\\nmanorial or proprietary.\\nThis tract has now, it is presumed, been sufficiently ana-\\nlyzed to show that it is not an authentic document, although\\nit has been so regarded at different periods by historical\\nwriters of various merit; (note 6) a few words will express\\nmy conception of what it is, the joint production, with the\\nobject of raising money of a decayed actor, and a broken\\ndown pettifogger. I write the history of this transaction\\nnot from data, but as an ingenious German lately wrote a\\nhistory of Rome from long meditation on the subject.\\nThe pettifogger is identified in the self-styled die hem liet\\nnoemen, as Hartgers justly words it) Sir Edmund Ployden,\\nEarl Palatine of New Albion, the actor in Beauchamp Plan-\\ntagenet of Belvil, Esq. The former contributed the legal\\nand genealogical matter, and also, to him the description\\nowes the faint tint of topographical knowledge that per-\\nvades it; the result, probably of occasional gossip with the\\nNew Amsterdam skippers that frequented Jamestown.\\nWhether his residence in Virginia was voluntary or not, it\\nis impossible to say. The climate of that country ^r seven\\nyears, was the usual prescription in those days by the Old\\nBaily doctors, for that degree of morbidness of the moral\\nsensations, which leads the patient to confound the diffe-\\nrence between the meum and tuum. But let that pass.\\nThis man had obtained some knovvledore of the existence of", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 DESCRIPTION OF\\na patent for New Albion, or perhaps, had purloined the in-\\nstrument itself, assumed the name of the patentee, and with\\nthe assistance of his comrade, the ex-actor, whose profes-\\nsional propensity for rant and fi stian is distinguishable\\nthroughout, set forth his pretensions in the pamphlet under\\nexamination. This view is countenanced by a passage in\\nthe colonial records of Maryland, printed in the collections\\nof the New York Historical Society, III. 379. The Dutch\\nmaintained, in 1659, that Lord Baltimore had no more\\nclaim to the Delaware than Sir Edmund Ploythen in for-\\nmer time, would make us believe he hath unto, when it\\nafterward did prove, and was found out that hee only subup-\\ntiff and obreptiff hath something obtained to that purpose\\nwhich was invalid.\\nThis scheme was favoured by time, place and circum-\\nstance. At the close of the year 1648, Holland was the ral-\\nlying ground of fugitives from England, both Royalists and\\nPresbyterians. The expectations of both at home had been\\ncrushed by the decided ascendancy of the Independants.\\nAmerica had become the asylum of many, and more were\\ndoubtless revolving in their minds the chances of the Vir-\\nginia voyage when this enterprize was announced. Territo-\\nrial grants with jura regalia to the grantees were known to\\nhave been made. With that of Nova Scotia to Sir William\\nAlexander, afterwards Lord Stirling was connected a here-\\nditary order of Baronets, whose orange tanny ribbon is\\nstill displayed on days of court ceremony. But to make\\nthis feature of the scheme more imposing, a chapter is de-\\nvoted to Counts or Earls created, and County Palatines,\\nand our Province and County Palatine, Liberties, and\\nthe ancient family twelve hundred years of our Earle Pa-\\nlatine from the Saxons in England, his pedigree and alli-\\nance. In the course of this curious chapter, the names\\nof Selden, Coke, Davis and Bracton are put in requisition", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "NEAV ALBION. 21\\nto maintain tlie pretensions of Mr. Plowden to regal juris-\\ndiction in America. Selden had better been let alone; far\\nfrom upholding, he seems inclined to show but little counte-\\nnance to this degree of English nobility. The whole tenor\\nof his observations on the subject, is that of coldness and\\ndistrust. (Titles of honour. Part. II. S. VII.) Still more\\nunfortunate are the copious quotations from Coke and Sir\\nJohn Davis, as what is extracted from these ancient authori-\\nties, has reference only to the Palatine dignity, as it existed\\nbefore the severe curtailment of its attributes by the statute\\nXXVII, Henry VIII.\\nThe prospectus of Plowden and Plantagenet, appealed to\\nthe associations of the cavaliers through an accomplished\\nleader, high descended and with noble connexions, the dis-\\npenser of orders, medals, and ribands; to the prejudices of\\nthe roundheads, by a declared preference of the Calvinist\\nform in the ecclesiastical polity of the Palatinate, and to the\\npolitical predilections of both by asserting, p. 27. For the\\nPolitique and Civill Government, and Justice, Virginia and\\nNew England is our president. It held out to all security\\nof person and property, no Indians neer; eight hundred\\nthousand Virginians on one side, on the other eight thou-\\nsand English, in sight five towns on the Connecticut, and\\nNew Haven being populous; all former patents in-\\neluding Maryland being examined and found void, and\\npreserving a most discreet silence upon the strength of the\\nDutch and Swedish establishments in the very heart of the\\nterritory. It described a region whose products were so\\nrich and varied, that he that is lazy and will not work,\\nneeds not fear starving where the soldier and gentle-\\nman wanting employment, and not born to labor without\\ngoing to war to kil Christians for five shillings a week in\\nthe mouth of the roaring cannon, or in a siege threatened\\nwith famine and pestilence; and ten together against a", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 DESCRIPTION OF NEW ALBION.\\nfew naked savages, may like a devout apostolique soldier\\nwith sword and the word to civilize and convert them to\\nbe his Majesty s lieges, (note 7) and by trading with them\\nfor furs, get his ten shillings a day, and at home intermix-\\ning sport and pleasure with profit, store his parks with\\nelks and fallow deer are fit to ride, milke, or draw the\\nfirst as big as oxen, and bringing three a year and five\\nhundred turkeys in a flock, got by nets in stalking, get his\\nfive shillings a day at least. In fine it threw out the com-\\nmon lure of the day to adventurers to America gold and\\nsilver.\\nIt cannot now be ascertained if any were swindled out\\nof the pittance, the civil wars had left them through this\\nimpudent fabrication. I am inclined to believe that it incon-\\ntinently made its projectors the laughing stock of their coun-\\ntrymen in Middleburgh, instead of elevating them as it has\\nsince done to the rank of founder and analist of a colony.\\nIf thus early this printed trash became the materials of\\nhistory, it is not surprising, that narratives ivriiten twenty\\ncenturies ago of events that occurred six hundred years\\nbefore, were regarded by a modern German manufacturer\\nof ancient Roman history as of less value than old songs.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "IT T E S.\\nNOTE I.\\nSo rare is it that besides the copy in the Philadelphia Library,\\nI have met with notices of but three others. One is enumerated\\nby Bishop Kennet in his Bibliothecse Araericanse Primordia (p. 244)\\namong the donations to The Society for the propagation of the\\nGospel in Foreign parts, another in the collection of Mr. Aspin-\\nwal, American Consul in London, and the third in the catalogue\\nof the curious library of the Hon. Mr. Nassau, sold some years\\nago in London. These two last notices may refer to the same\\ncopy.\\nNOTE IL\\nThis Island no longer retains the name of Palmer. There is\\nan interesting piece of local history connected with it, which I\\ntranscribe from Fuller s Worthies of England, (L 387 4 to edit.)\\nEdward Palmer Esquire, (uncle to Sir Thomas Overbury,) was", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 DESCRIPTION OF\\nborn at Limington, in this county (Gloucester) where his ances-\\ntry had continued ever since the conquest.\\nHis plentiful estate offered him opportunity to put forward\\nthe ingenuity impressed in him by nature, for the public good;\\nresolving to erect an academy in Virginia, in order whereunto\\nhe purchased an Island called Palmer s Island unto this day,\\n(about 1660;) but in pursuance thereof, was at many thousand\\npounds expense, (some instruments employed therein not dis-\\ncharging their trust reposed in them with corresponding fide-\\nlity.) He was transplanted to another world, leaving to poste-\\nrity the memorial of his worthy but unfinished intentions.\\nThis Edward Palmer died in London, about the year 1625.\\nIt must be to this island that Captain William Clayborne, who\\nmade so prominent a figure in the early annals of Maryland, al-\\nludes when he petitions the king in 1638 for redress of grievances,\\nhe alledges to have endured from Lord Baltimore s people, And\\nthe petitioner having likewise discovered (and established) a\\nplantation and factory, upon a small Island in the mouth of a ri-\\nver at the bottom of the bay, in the Susquehannock s country, at\\nthe Indians desire and purchased the same of them; by means\\nwhereoff they are in great hopes to draw thither the trade of\\nbeavers and furs, which the French now wholly enjoy in the\\ngreat Lake of Canada, which may prove very beneficial to your\\nmajesty, and the commonwealth; but by letters sent him thence-\\nforth, your petitioner is advised that the Lord Baltimore s agents\\nare gone with forty men to supplant the petitioners said plan-\\ntation, and to take possession thereof and seat themselves\\nthereon.\\nBozman s Maryland, p. 332.\\nNOTE HI.\\nThis map maker s ignorance of the breadth of North America,\\nwas countenanced by high authority And now all the question", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 25\\nis only how broad the land may be to that place from the bead\\nof James River above the falls; but all men conclude if it be not\\nnarrow, yet, that there is and will be found tlie like rivers issu-\\ning into a south sea or a west sea, on the other side of those hills,\\nas there is on this side when they run from the west down into\\na east sea after a course of one hundred and fifty miles; but of\\nthis certainty Mr. Hen. Briggs, that most judicious and learned\\nmathematician, wrote a small tractate and presented it to the\\nmost noble Earl of Southampton, then Governor of the Virginia\\nCompany in England anno. 1623, to which I refer for a full in-\\nformation, (A perfect description of Virginia 1649 4to., reprinted\\nin II. Trans. Mas. Hist. Soc. IX. 115.) Thus it would seem that\\ngrants of territory extending from sea to sea, were made upon tlie\\npresumption, that the seas were nearer three hundred than three\\nthousand miles apart.\\nNOTE IV.\\nThe Dutch made strong and repeated professions of friendship\\nfor the Irquois, the value of which is clearly indicated in Le voy-\\nage et naufrage du P. Crespel, p. 55. Les Hollandois avoient\\nun fort Ji peu de distance, des terres des Agniez, (Moliawks)\\nand ce fort etoit situe sur une riviere nommee Maurice, dont le\\ncours tendoit au sud. Les Francois and les Hollandois cntre-\\ntenoient une bonne intelligence. Les deux nations etoient unies\\nau point que les Francois lorsqu ils avoient guerre avcc les Ir-\\nquois etoient avertis par les Hollandois des mouvemens, and des\\nprojets de ces peuples qui venoicnt a. leur connoisance. This\\ncurious piece of information is derived from the Relations an-\\nluielles du Canada.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 DESCRIPTION OF\\nNOTE V.\\nIt is to be regretted that Mr. Heckevvelder is not alive to give\\nthe meaning of this choice specimen of aboriginal euphony. In\\nhis time he w^as regarded as universal referee and prime autho-\\nrity in these matters, and it is but doing justice to the worthy old\\ngentleman s obliging disposition, to say that all inquirers were an-\\nswered. Mr. Heckewelder may have been a philologer of acumen,\\nand, moreover, au fait in the niceties of the language of his favourite\\ntribe; but some of his solutions strike the general reader, myself\\namong the rest, as not being particularly happy. But the present\\nis not the proper occasion on which to point out those infelicities.\\nNOTE VI.\\nThis list I believe embraces them all:\\nThe history of the Colony of Nova Caesarea or New Jersey, by\\nSamuel Smith, Burlington, 1765, 8vo.\\nAn examination of the Connecticut claim to lands in Pennsyl-\\nvania, Philadelphia, 1774. This writer makes the grant to Ploy-\\nden, the foundation of the Duke of Yorks grant in 1 664.\\nBoth the editions of the Annals of America by Abiel Holmes,\\nD. D., 1805 and 1829, 2 vols. 8vo.\\nIn an address to the associated members of the Philadelphia Bar\\nby William Rawle, in 1824, the probability is expressed, that Wil-\\nliam Penn on reaching the shores of the Delaware found a few\\nremnants of Sir Edmund Ployden s colonists.\\nHistory of the State of New York, by Joseph W. Moulten,\\nPart II., Novum Belgium New York, 1826, 8vo.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 27\\nSketches of the Primitive Settlements on the River Delaware,\\nby James N. Barker, Philadelphia, 1827, 8vo.\\nHistory of Pennsylvania, by Tliomas F. Gorden, Philadelphia,\\n1829, 8vo.\\nHistory of New Jersey, by the same, Trenton, 1834, 8vo.\\nHistory of the Colonization of the United States, by George\\nBancroft, Boston, 1837, 8vo.\\nNOTE vn.\\nThis junction of the sword and the word, though more conso-\\nnant with the missionary sympathies of another church, and of\\nan earlier period, had a few years before the date of this sugges-\\ntion, an advocate in a prebendary of the Church of England better\\nknown, however, by his geographical than by his theological la-\\nbours. In The Epistle dedicatorie prefixed by Richard Hak-\\nluyt, to his Virginia richly valued by description of the Maine\\nland of Florida, her next neighbour, London, 1609, 4to, occurs\\nthis sentence. To handle them (the natives) gently, while gentle\\ncourses may be found, it will be without comparison the best;\\nbut if gentle polishing will not serve them, Ave shall not want\\nhammerous and rough Masons enow; I meane our old soldiours\\ntrained up in the Netherlands to square and prepare tliem to our\\npreachers hands.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "PARERGON.\\nThe impression that there was a grant of this description\\nmade but not acted upon, is formed by encountering notices\\nof the subject entirely unconnected with the printed labours\\nof Beauchamp Plantagenet. Heylyn, a contemporary writer\\nnoticing in his Cosmography, the Dutch occupancy of a\\nportion of North America claimed by England: adds, but\\nwithout giving his authority, Complaint whereof being\\nmade unto King Charles, and by him represented to the\\nStates of Holland, it was declared by the said States in a\\npublic instrument, that they were no ways interested in it;\\nbut that it was a private undertaking of the West Indian\\nCompany of Amsterdam, and so referred it wholly to his\\nmajesty s pleasure. Which being declared, a commission\\nwas forthwith granted to Sir George Culvert to plant the\\nSouthern parts thereoff, which lie next to Virginia, by the\\nname of Maryland, the like not long after to Sir Edmund\\nPloyden for planting and possessing the more Northern", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTION OF NEW ALBION. 29\\nparts, which He towards New England, by the name of New\\nAlbion. (Lib. IV, p. 90, edit., 1G69.) This is repeated\\nin a pocket commentary of the first settlement of New Jer-\\nsey. New York, 1759, 4to.\\nIn Burke s History of the commoners of Great Britain\\nIreland, occurs this passage. The second son of Francis\\nPlowden, of Plowden in Shropshire, was Edmund of\\nWansted in Hampshire, styled in his will 29 July, 1655;\\nSir Edmund Plowden, Lord Earl Palatine Governor,\\nand Captain General of the Province of New Albion,\\nin America. (III. 253.) Berry in his work before refer-\\nred to, makes no mention of Plowden of Wansted in Hamp-\\nshire.\\nIt is probable that Beverly alludes to this subject, when\\nremarking, that the precedent of my Lord Baltimore s\\ngrant was hint enough for other courtiers (who never in-\\ntended a settlement as my Lord did) to find out some-\\nthing of the same kind to make money of. (Hist, of Vir-\\nginia, pi. I. 49.)\\nIn the year 1784, a certain Charles Varlo announced\\nhimself in this city as agent for the Earl of Albion. He\\nproduced as his credentials, a pamphlet containing among\\nother documents, A true copy of the grant of King Charles\\nthe First, to Sir Edmund Plowden, Earl Palatine of Albion,\\nof the Province of New Albion, in America, June 21,\\nA.D. 1634. This instrument is obnoxious to several\\nobjections: The style is not that of the period assigned\\nto it.\\nEdmund Plowden holds his dignity of Earl Palatine of\\nNew Albion, in America, from Charles I., as of our crown\\nof Ireland in capite, depends upon our royal person and\\nimperial crown as King of Ireland, and the document\\nseemingly emanates from the deputy general of Ireland at", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 DESCRIPTION OF\\nDublin. It is true, that James I.,^as King of Scotland,\\ngranted Nova Scotia to Sir William Alexander, to be\\nheld as a fief of the Scottish crown. This anomalous\\nprocedure, so regarded by civilians, of James, indicated\\nhis desire to elevate the dignity of Scotland, but no\\nsuch views with regard to Ireland have been imputed to\\nhis son.\\nAbsolute precision in American geographical statistics\\nwas not to be expected in 1634, but as the grantee had\\nformerly discovered at his own great charges and ex-\\npenses a certain island and region, and amply, and co-\\npiously peopled the same with five hundred persons,\\nsomething less vague than the following description might\\nhave been looked for; all that entire island near the con-\\ntinent, or Terra Firma of JVorth Virginia, called the Isle\\nof Plowden, or Long Island, and lying near, or between\\nthe thirty-ninth and fortieth degree of North latitude, to-\\ngether with part of the continent in Terra Firma aforesaid,\\nnear adjoining, described to begin from the point of an\\nangle of a certain promontory called Cape May, and from\\nthence to the Westward for the space of forty leagues,\\nrunning by the River Delaioare, and closely following its\\ncourse by the North latitude, unto a certain rivulet there,\\narising from a spring of the Lord Baltimore s, in the lands of\\nMaryland, and the summit aforesaid to the South, where\\nit touches, joins, and determines in all its breadth; from\\nthence takes its course into a square, leading to the\\nNorth by a right line for the space of forty leagues; and\\nfrom thence likewise by a square, inclining towards the\\nEast in a right line, for the space of forty leagues to the\\nriver, and part of Readier Cod, and descend to a savan-\\nnab, touching and including the top of Sandheey, where\\nit determines; and from thence towards the South by a", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 31\\nsquare stretching to a savannah which passes by, and\\nwashes the shore of the island of Plowden aforesaid, to\\nthe point of promontory of Cape May above mentioned,\\nand terminates where it began. This suspiciously misty\\noutline contrasts strongly with the clearness and precision,\\nwith which the boundaries of Maryland were laid down two\\nyears before.\\nLastly, This instrument, slightly altered, is as close a\\nversion of Lord Baltimore s grant, as could be effected by\\na very indifferent Latin scholar. The translator, not fa-\\nmiliar with the construction of the language of the original\\npaper, sometimes makes several English sentences out of\\none Latin, at others, reverses this process and the destruc-\\ntion of all sense and meaning is the result. Some of his\\nverbal renderings are curious as a specimen, Insulas et\\nInsululas natas vel nascendas, become Islands and isles\\nfloating, or to float. I may remark here, that the char-\\nter for Maryland, as it appears in Hazards State Papers L\\n327, is defective, abruptly terminating with the first four\\nwords of a sentence Eo quod expressa mentio. This defi-\\nciency is partly supplied in the Varlo contribution to the\\nsame vol., p. 1G9. I say partly, because the additional sen-\\ntence is without meaning as it now stands.\\nOne of the documents in the pamphlet is Registered in\\nSt. Mary in Maryland, along with many other deeds con-\\ncerning Albion. Rather an odd place of deposite for\\nthem, an infant settlement in another jurisdiction. I\\nwonder whether Mr. Varlo was aware, that the papers\\ndeposited in St. Mary were removed by Clayborne and\\nLigle, and that most of them were lost 1 if so, he was pre-\\npared to account for the non-appearance of the archives\\nof New Albion among the colonial documents of Mary-\\nland.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 DESCRIPTION OF\\nThe only copy of Varlo s tract I ever met with was in\\nthe possession of his legal adviser, the late William Rawle,\\nEsq. It was reprinted with the exception of the fourth\\nchapter in Hazard s Collection. The portion omitted there\\nis here supplied.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe address of the Right Hon. Lord Earl Palatine of Albion,\\nto the public.\\nTrue and lawful heir of Sir Edward Plowden, created\\nEarl Palatine of Albion, to whom the charter was granted,\\ndid, in the late war, with great grief of heart, behold his\\nterritories invaded, his people harrassed, butchered and\\nplundered, and others who had not resolution enough to re-\\nsist temptation, persuaded by a ministry who (to say no\\nworse) had more their own than their country s interest at\\nheart, to imbrue their hands in the blood of their kindred,\\nfriends, and countrymen, and instead of keeping up the\\ndignity of the crown, to trample under foot, all charters,\\ngrants, and laws, which ought to be kept sacred by all ho-\\nnest and true men to their king and country.\\nWhat faith can be expected amongst men, if those to\\nwhom they look up for protection, be the first who set an\\nexample of perfidy?\\nThe Earls predecessors bled for and conquered his terri-\\ntories, and at great expense and trouble, peopled, settled,\\nand planted the Christian religion therein, as appears by the\\nleases he granted to Sir Thomas Danby, Lord Monson,\\nMr. Price, Captain Claybourne, c. c., wherein he bound\\neach to find a number of men, to assist in that laudable\\nundertaking.", "height": "3379", "width": "2130", "jp2-path": "examinationofbea00peni_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "NEW ALBION. 33\\nThe situation of Lord Albion was very precarious at the\\nbreaking out of the late war, for though he detested the\\n(language held out by the ministry) of being brought to un-\\nconditional submission, well knowing, that tyranny must\\nfollow such haughty ideas; yet he could not follow the dic-\\ntates of his own heart without breaking allegiance with\\nthe king, and which the charter forbids, therefore was\\nobliged to stand neuter and wait the event, which by the\\nassistance of the King of Kings, his worthy countrymen suc-\\nceeded to his wish.\\nWhen King Charles granted the charter, he seemed to\\nhave a true idea, how necessary it was for a colony or state\\nto be governed by their own laws and members, (for says\\nhe) much mischief may ensue from waiting the tedious pro-\\ncess of law, carried on at so great a distance from the\\nmother country; neither can people at such a distance be\\nso proper judges of its constitution as those who reside on\\nthe spot, as they certainly must know best how to enact\\nlaws for the good of a state, who assists in the vineyard, to\\nbear the burden thereoff.\\nTherefore, Lord Albion will always think himself very\\nhappy in concurring with, and assisting congress, and his\\ncountrymen, in planning and maintaining every act that\\nmay be passed for their ease, peace and welfare, so long as\\nhe has the honour of signing\\nAlbion.\\nAnd now I suspect that critics in historical literature will\\nplace in the same category, the productions of Plantagenet\\nand Varlo. 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