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being divided; Episcopius teaching for them, Polyander against them; and the contention grows to that pass, that few of the disciples of the one will hear the other. But Mr. Robinson, though he preaches thrice a week, and wrote sundry books, besides his other manifold labors, yet goes constantly to hear them both; whereby he is grounded so well in the controversy, sees the force of all their arguments, knows the shifts of the Arminians, and being himself otherwise very able, none is fitter to engage them, as appears by sundry disputes, so that he begins to be terrible to the Arminian party. Brad

Oct. 16. Parliament of Scotland meets; and still enlarges the king's and bishops' powers. Cal The same day, Frederick, prince Palatine of the Rhine, arrives at Gravesend, Hs and Bak and Lord's day, 18th, at Whitehall, to marry the princess Elizabeth, king James's only daughter. Hs

Nov. 6. Friday, the most hopeful Henry, prince of Wales, dies of a malignant fever, aged eighteen years, eight months, seventeen days. Hs. Bak. and Fuller says, he was never known to have uttered a profane oath. Ful

Feb. 14, 1613. Lord's day, the princess Elizabeth married to the prince Palatine, Hs. Bak. on which day are tilting and other royal entertainments of time; Hs at night, a mask of lords and ladies. Saturday, April 10, the prince Palatine and lady, set out from Whitehall for Heidelberg; Bak. and Howes says, that during the Palatine's abode in England, he behaved himself so nobly, that he won the hearts of the whole nation. Hs

March 27. Nicholas Guy's wife delivered of a son at Newfoundland; Pur which seems to be the first English child born there.

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June. Arrives from England at Bermudas, a vessel with sixty passengers: sometime after, another with forty; two months after, a third with 100; two days after, a fourth with 180; and fourteen days after, two frigates with 160. Sm

[Bermudas being thus settled I shall leave their history.]

The government of S. Virginia, hearing that the French had settled within our limits, send Capt. Argal to dislodge them; who sails to Sagadehock, and seizes their forts at Mount Mansel, St. Croix and Port Royal; and carries their ship and pinnace, ordnance, cattle and provision to Jamestown. Sm Pur.*

Oct. 25. Monday, lord chief justice Cook removed to the king's bench, and made lord chief justice of England. Hs

This year, Mr. R. Bates, a reverend preacher, dies in prison, having lain in the Gate House about twenty months, only for opposing the prelacy and ceremonies used in the church. bh. and Mr. Cotton says, he was a heavenly saint, suffered for the same cause, choaked in prison; nor could be released, though Dr. Hering a learned and beloved physician, earnestly solicited bishop Neal for his enlargement, as he tendered his life; but the physician's suit was repulsed with reproaches, and the life of his patient spilt by that rigor. cb

And about this year it seems, that Episcopius sets forth sundry Arminian Theses at Leyden, which he would defend in public against all opposers. Upon which Polyander and the chief

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Though neither the month, nor year of this expedition are certified, either by Gorges, Smith or Purchas, yet by comparing them together, it seems to be this year, and sometime between May and the following winter. cb Cotton's Bloody Tenet washed.

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preachers of the city, desire Mr. Robinson to dispute against him. But being a stranger, he was loath to engage. Yet the other telling him, that such was the ability and expertness of the adversary, that the truth is in danger to suffer, if he would not help them, are so importunate, as at length he yields; and when the day comes, he so defends the truth and foils the opposer, as he puts him to an apparent non plus in this great and public audience. The same he does a second or third time, upon the like occasions; which as it causes many to give praise to God that the truth had so famous a victory; so it procures Mr. Robinson much respect and honor from those learned men and others; and it is said by some of no mean note, that were it not for giving offence to the state of England, they would prefer him otherwise, if he pleased, and allow his people some public favor.' Brad

Jan. 21, 1614. Mr. James Melvin, having suffered seven years' exile at the king's pleasure, not convicted of any offence, dies at Berwick, the place of his confinement. He was one of the wisest directors of ecclesiastical affairs the church of Scotland had in his time; and the king being set upon advancing the state of bishops, called him to court, and never suffered him to return, lest he should hinder their designs. Cal

March 3. Capt. John Smith, with two ships, and forty-five men and boys, sail from the Downs, for N. Virginia, Pur to make trial of a mine of gold and copper; and if these fail, then to fish and trade; carrying Tantum an Indian with him. Sm April 30, arrives at the isle Monahigan, Pur in lat. 43, 30, N. Sm where he is to stay with ten men, to keep possession, if the whaling answers expecta

1614. King of G. Britain, James I.-France, Lewis XIII-Spain, Philip III. tion; but being disappointed he builds seven boats, in which thirty-seven men make a great fishing voyage, while with eight men in a small boat he ranges the coasts and trades with the natives Pur from Penobscot to Sagadehock, Acocisco, Passataquack, Tragabigzanda, called Cape Ann; the Massachusetts Isles, on which they say are 3000 . people, fights with forty or fifty of them, finds two French ships Sm* who had been here six weeks Sm and made a great voyage by trade. Sm Thence he sails to Accomack, where he also fights and kills some Indians; thence to Cape Cod, where he sets Tantum ashore. On the main against Monahigan, finds a ship of sir Francis Popham's which had many years used that port only. Sm 1. July 18, Capt. Smith sails for England Pur in the bark, and leaves the ship under Thomas Hunt master, to fit for Spain. Sm Aug. 5, Capt. Smith puts in at Plymouth, Sm 1 and in the end of the month, arrives at London, Pur draws a plat of the country, and first calls it New England. Sm After Smith left New England, Sm Hunt gets twenty Indians aboard him at Patuxit, M one of whom is called Squanto BM or Squantum or Tisquantum, B M W and seven more at Nausit, M and carries them to Malaga, and sells them Sm for slaves, at twenty pounds per man; M which raises such an enmity in the savages against our nation as makes further attempts of commerce with them very dangerous. pc B M. 69

[From this time therefore, we shall distinguish

*Smith's first account of New England, printed in 4to. London, 1616. M. Relation of the proceedings of the English plantation at Plymouth, in New England, published by G. Mourt, in 4to. London, 1622.

W Winslow's Good News from New England, printed in 4to. London, 1624. 69 F. Gorges, Esq. his America painted to the Life, printed in 4to. London.

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N. Virginia by the name of New England, and confine the name Virginia to the southern colony.]

March 4. A Proclamation at Edinburgh, commanding ministers and people to celebrate the Lord's Supper on Easter following, namely, April 24, the pretence being for trial of Popish recusants; but the wiser take it as a trial how the people will bear innovations; there being acts of the general assembly in force against them. Cal

April 5. The king's second parliament of England begins, Ech Sal complains of his admitting papists into his council, his silencing many watchful and diligent ministers, and his several treaties to marry the late prince Henry and present prince Charles, with the daughters of popish princes; all which disheartens protestants and encourages papists, Ech and the House of Commons beginning to question bishop Harsente and bishop Neal, for offensive speeches; to save them from the storm, is supposed the reason of the king's abrupt dissolving them Sal on June 7. Upon which the king imprisons several members, without bail or mainprise, for the freedom they had taken; and raises money on his subjects, by way of benevolence. Ech Sal

June. Some of the Plymouth Company, pc namely, sir F. Gorges with the earl of Southampton, commander of the Isle of Wight, send capt. Henry Harley and capt. Hobson,* commander of some land soldiers, in a ship F. Gor from Plymouth, Pur for the Isle of Capawick, F. Gor or Capawack, Sm lying southward of Cape Cod, F. Gor Sm carrying two

Ech. Echard. Sal. Salmon.

* Whether this be the Edward Harlie and Nicholas Hobson which Purchas mentions in 1611, and whether sir F. Gorges mistakes Henry for Edward, seems uncertain.