August 1612

CSPD James I

CSPD 1547-1603

Quarter Sessions records

CSP, Colonial

CSP, Milan

CSP, Venice

Cecil Calendar

America and West Indies
August 1612

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Institute of Historical Research

Publication

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 1: 1574-1660

Author

W. Noel Sainsbury (editor)

Year published

1860

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14

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'America and West Indies: August 1612', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 1: 1574-1660 (1860), pp. 14. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68941 Date accessed: 22 May 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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August 1612

August 1612

Aug. 2?Henry Earl of Northampton to the King. The Bermudas Company advertised of the safe arrival of their ships. The Spaniards, dismayed at the frequency of hurricanes, durst not adventure there, but call it Dæmoniorum insulam. The English merchants have sent home some amber and seed pearls, "which the devils of the Bermudas love not better to retain than the angels of Castile do to recover." The island abounds in swine, fowl, and fish, which moves our men to grow more confident in the safe possession of a place they inhabit so peaceably. [Extract from DOMESTIC, Corresp. Jac. I., Vol. LXX., No. 23, Cal. p. 140.]