The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton.

  • Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.
Date:
1928
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Credit: The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kingdom upon such juff and honourable designs in those parts of America, as their want of aCtion at home may neither be a burden to themselves nor the Kingdom. To your Excellency therefore I offer a New World.” Chaloner attempted to strike both a patriotic and a prophetic note: “ And though we now lie sunk in civil war, Yet you the worthy Patriots of this land. Let not your hearts be drowned in despair, And so your future happiness withstand. • ••••• Your Drums which us’d to beat their martial dance Upon the banks of Garonne, Seine and Soane, Whilsfl you trode measures through the Realm of France, • ••••• Now shall the tawny Indians quake for fear Their direful march to beat when they do hear; Your brave Red-Crosses on both sides display’d The noble Badges of your famous Nation, Which you yet redder with your bloods have made. And dy’d them deep in drops of detestation You shall advance with reputation And on the bounds of utmost Western shore Shall them transplant and firmly fix their Station, Where English Colours ne’er did fly before. Your well-built ships, companions of the Sun, As they were chariots to his fiery beams, Which oft the Earth’s circumference have run, And now lie moor’d in Severn, Trent and Thames, Shall plough the Ocean with their gilded Stems, And in their hollow bottoms you convey To Lands enrich’d with gold, with pearls and gems, But above all where many thousands Stay Of wronged Indians, whom you shall set free From Spanish yoke and Rome’s idolatry.” The attack upon the Spanish Indies that The English American was designed to promote had, however, to wait until Cromwell had brought Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies into subjection. Meanwhile our author continued his ministry at Acrise, but he was often in London1 and more than Cal. St. Pap., Dom., 1649-50, pp. 388, 437, 511. 1