1605. King of G. Britain, James I.-France, Henry IV.-Spain, Philip I II December 10. Dr. Bancroft bishop of London, translated to the archbishopric of Canterbury, Hs who drives on conformity very fiercely through all his province. (Fuller)

December 18. Archbishop Bancroft writes a letter to the bishops of his province; wherein he calls the Puritan ministers disobedient, obstinate &c.; requires that none be admitted to ecclesiastical functions without subscription to the Canons ; and to deprive those who are in the church, unless they will both conform and also subscribe according to the Canons. bn

March 31, 1605. Lord's Day, captain George Weymouth, with twenty-nine persons, sails from the Downes, (Purchas) being employed by the earl of Southampton, and lord Arundel of Wardor, for the discovery of a northwest passage to the East Indies. But falling short of his course, (F. Gor) Tuesday, May 14, descries land in fortyone degrees and thirty minutes north, in the midst of dangerous rocks and shoals; upon which he puts off to sea; the wind blowing hard at S. S. W. and W. S. W. many days, Friday, May 17, descries land again; the next day, finds it an island, anchors on the north side, lands and calls it George's Island; whence he sees the main land and many other islands. Lord's Day, May 19, weighs and sails to another island, three leagues nearer the main; goes into an excellent harbor, which he calls Pentecost Harbor; and the next day goes ashore in the shallop. Thursday, May 30, sails in a shallop up a great river, and the next day returned.* Tuesday, June 11, goes up the river in his ship,

F. Gor. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, governor of the island and fort of Plymouth in England, in his narration, &c.

*This seems to be Sagadehock; and sir F. Gorges doubtless mistakes in calling it Pemaquid river.

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twenty-six miles; says it is half a mile wide, for forty miles into the country. Thursday, June 13, sails in his shallop or pinnace, twenty miles into the western branch of the river, and sets up a cross. Friday, June 14, the ship goes down the river; upon a rock in the midst of the harbor, he finds the latitude forty-three degrees, twenty minutes, and the variation eleven degrees, fifteen minutes, west. Lord's Day, June 16, sets sail; and Thursday, July 18, arrives at Dartmouth. (Pur.)

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April 8. Mr. John Stow, being eighty years old, a laborious writer of the English Annals, for forty-seven years, is buried, and Howes continues them. Hs

July 2. Tuesday, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland meeting at Aberdeen, the king's commissioner presents them a letter from the lords of the Council requiring them to dissolve, without appointing another assembly; however, according to custom, they appoint another to meet on September 24, and then dissolve; for which the Council sends Mr. John Forbes the moderator, and thirteen other ministers, to several prisons. Cal. and Petrie.

October 13. Lord's Day, Beza dies at Geneva, cc ml aged eighty-six years, three months, and nineteen days. ml+

November 1. The names being taken of the Puritan ministers deprived, under admonition and denied admittance, for not subscribing, amount to above 270; and yet of eight bishoprics no account

* Sir F. Gorges, says, captain Weymouth brought thence five natives; and happening to put into Plymouth, sir Ferdinand, then governor there, received three of them, viz. Manida, Shetwarroes and Tisquantum, and kept them full three years.

cc Continuatio Calvisii.

ml Melch Adamus.

+ Petavius mistakes in saying October 25; and Alsted, in placing his death in 1600.

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is given.* Some had preached in the church ten, some twenty, some thirty years, some more; and till now, in some churches, the ceremonies had / been disused for ten years, in others twenty, in others thirty, in others more. cr

November 5. Tuesday, at three this morning, the Gunpowder Treason plot discovered to have been executed this day by the Papists, by blowing up the Parliament, who were to meet this day, with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder laid under the house, (ds Speed and Howes,) and when the blast was made, it was to be charged on the Puritans. bh November 9. Saturday, king James comes to Parliament, and makes a speech; (Howes) wherein he cautions them against judging rashly of the Roman Catholics in general; says that many among them may remain good and faithful subjects; but detesting and thinking the cruelty of Puritans worthy of fire, that will admit no salvation to any Papist. kj

January 10, 1606. Though it was commonly thought the deliverance from the popish powder plot, would have moved the king to desist from troubling minsters in England for nonconforming to the ceremonies, and ministers in Scotland for standing to their confirmed liberty; yet this day, by the king's command, the moderator and five other of the imprisoned ministers in Scotland, are arraigned of treason at Lithgow for declining

* Dr. Dayton says, that from June 25, 1604, to November 5, 1605, there were 400 ministers ejected, silenced or suspended by virtue of these canons. cr A quarto tract, entitled Certain Reasons why the Preachers who refuse to subscribe, should not be removed or inhibited to preach. Printed in those times.

de Discourse of Treason, quarto, printed by the king's printer, at London, 1605. Calvisius wrongly places the Gunpowder Treason in 1606.

bh Benjamin Hubbard's Sermo Secularis printed in quarto, at London,

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kj King James's speech printed in quarto, at London, 1605.

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the jurisdiction of the Council in ecclesiastical matters; and after a deal of tampering, flattering, threatening, &c. the major part of the court brings them in guilty; upon which they are ordered into closer ward, and none allowed access to them; Cal. pt and February 5, a proclamation at Edinburgh, that none speak against the proceedings of of the king, Council, or court, in trying and punishing them, or against any other proceedings of the king, Council, or state, past, present or to come, upon pain of death. Cal.

Sir John Popham, lord chief justice of the King's Bench, prevails on many lords and others, to petition king James for the settling two plantations on the main coasts of America; upon which, (F. Gor.)

April 10. King James, by patent divides Virginia into two colonies; the southern called the first colony, between thirty-four and forty-one degrees north, he grants to the London Company; the northern called the second colony, between thirty-eight and forty-five degrees north, he grants to the Plymouth Company; forbidding both to plant within a hundred miles of each other; and giving each colony, a Council of thirteen, to rule, coin, &c. Pur.

May 21. King James writes to Mr. James and Andrew Melvin and six other principal Presbyterian ministers in Scotland, to come to him before September 15, to treat with them for the peace of the church there; this being the pretence; but the event proves that the policy is to detain and confine them, that by their absence, Episcopacy may be advanced in Scotland. Cal.

July b. Parliament of Scotland meets at Perth, which, against the protestation of the commissioners

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of the presbyteries through the kingdom, restores the state of bishops to their ancient dignities, prerogatives, tythes, rents, thirds, &c.; contrary to the constitution and doctrine of the church of Scotland, preached these forty-six years, and contrary to the confession of faith sworn and subscribed in 1581, and 1590, by the king and his household, &c. Cal.

July. Sir Edward Coke made lord chief justice of the Common Pleas in England. Hs

August 12. Tuesday, lord chief justice Popham, sir F. Gorges, and some others of the Plymouth Company, send captain Henry Challons, (Purchas) a brave gentleman, pc from Plymouth, in a ship of fifty-five tons, twenty-nine English, with Mannido and Assecomoit, two of the five savages brought last year from a goodly river thrice discovered by him in North Virginia, in forty-three degrees, twenty north; to make a further discovery of these coasts, and if occasion offers, to leave as many men as he could spare, in the country; but sailing to Madeiras, St. Lucia, Porto Rico, and thence towards North Virginia, on November 10 he is taken (Purchas) by the Spanish fleet (F. Gor) of eight ships, (Purchas) coming from the Havana, (F. Gor) who carry him into Spain. (Pur. and F. Gor.)

Shortly after captain Challon's departure from Plymouth, the lord chief justice sends another ship from Bristol, F. Gor under Thomas Hanam commander, and Martin Prinn master, with more supplies to second captain Challons; but not

pc President and Council's relation of the discovery and plantation of New England, printed in quarto, London, 1622.

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