Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Vol. 1 of 2 While he refolved to go in perfon to France, Spain ands/portugal, he fent his brother Bartholomew to England; which nation had now feen an end of her bloody civil wars, and begun to encourage trade and naviganon. But Bartholomew, in his pafl'age, was unfortunately taken by pirates, and robbed of all he had; and, -to augment his diltrefs, was feized with a fever after his arrival, and reduced to great ...
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Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Vol. 1 of 2 While he refolved to go in perfon to France, Spain ands/portugal, he fent his brother Bartholomew to England; which nation had now feen an end of her bloody civil wars, and begun to encourage trade and naviganon. But Bartholomew, in his pafl'age, was unfortunately taken by pirates, and robbed of all he had; and, -to augment his diltrefs, was feized with a fever after his arrival, and reduced to great hardlhips. After his recovery, he fpent fome time in drawing charts and maps, and felling them, before he was in a condition to appear at court. At length, bemg intro duccd to the king, he laid before him. His brother's propofals for failing to the weft on a voyage of difco very. King Henry, who was rather a prudent mana ger of the public treafure, than an encourager of great undertakings, as fome hiftorians fay, rejected his pro pofals: but others of equal credit affirm, that the king entered into an agreement wub Bartholomew, and (mi: him to invite his brother to England and that the nanon 1n general were fond of the proieft, either from motives of mere curiofity or profpet'fts of commercial advantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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