the reason so great a summ of Crowns in Money is diminished already or
retrenched from His Majesties Annual Revenue, and this general and
confused proof is sufficient (as they worthily conceive) to purge or
repress such great and hainous Crimes. And though they are but few,
are not verified as they ought to be, nor do they attribute and lay
upon them that stress and weight as they ought to do, for if they did
perform their Duty to God and the King; it could not be made apparent
as it may be, that these _German_ Tyrants have cheated and rob'd the
King of Three Millions of Gold and upward; and thus these Enemies to
God and the King began to depopulate these Regions and destroy them,
cheating his Majesty of Two Millions of Gold _per Annum_, nor can it be
expected, that the Detriment done to his Majesty can possibly be
retriev'd, as long as the Sun and moon endures, unless God by a Miracle
should raise as many Thousands from Death to Life, as have bin
destroy'd. And these are the Temporal Dammages the King suffers. It
would be also a Work worthy the inquiry into, to consider how many
cursed Sacriledges and Indignities God himself hath been affronted with
to the dishonour of his Name. And what Recompence can be made for the
loss of so many Souls as are now tormented in Hell by the Cruelty and
Covetousness of these Brutish _German_ Tyrants. But I will conclude
all their Impiety and Barbarisme with one Example, _viz._ That from
the time they entred upon this Country to this very day, that is,
Seventeen Years, they have remitted many Ships fraighted with _Indians_
to be sold as Slaves to the Isles of St. _Martha, Hispaniola, Jamaica,_
and St. _John_, selling a Million of Persons at the least, I speak
modestly, and still do expose to Sale to this very Year of our Lord
1542, the King's Council in this Island seeing and knowing it, yet what
they find to be manifest and apparent they connive at, permit and
countenance, and wink at the horrid Impieties and Devastations
innumerable which are committed on the Coasts of this Continent,
extending Four Hundred Miles in Length, and continues still together
with _Venecuela_ and St. _Martha_ under their Jurisdiction, which they
might easily have remedied and timely prevented.

_Of the Provinces of_ FLORIDA

Three Tyrants at several times made their entrance into these Provinces
since the Year 1510, or 1511, to act those Crimes which others, and two
of these Three made it their sol