The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America ... with new maps of every place : together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands, from the year 1686 to 1700 : also a table by which ... you may know what hour it is in any of those parts, and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.

Proposals for further Encou∣ragement.

First, THose that are desirous to concern themselves in the said Island, shall and may have as much Land as they themselves please, either by Lease or Purchase, only they are to put upon every Fifteen Acres of Land, one White Man, and so in proportion to the rest; and this to be done in three Years time.

Secondly, All Persons that are desirous to tran∣sport themselves to the said Island, in the quality of Servants, shall have better Encouragement from my self and Company than has been yet pro∣pounded by any of his Majesties Subjects in any Settlement in the American Plantations.

Thirdly, And, for a further encouragement, all those Persons and Planters that are any way con∣cerned in the Premises, shall have Credit given unto them from Crop to Crop, as the Factory is stored, for what they shll stand in need of; for which the said Company will erect a Bank or Fa∣ctory of Credit in the said Island, the Debtor al∣lowing only two and a half per Cent.

Fourthly, All Merchants and others, that shall import any Negroes, or other Merchandize, into the said Island, shall have their Goods and Debts insured, and disposed of for two and a half per Cent. with Facto••age Storage, Wharfage, &c. and exported again for two and a half per Cent. more.

And all Tradesmen and others, that contract any Debts against themselves, shall have Credit given them out of the Bank or Factory, from Crop to Crop, for two and a half per Cent. And the Proprietors to engage their whole Interest for the true performance of the foresaid Pre∣mises.

Fifthly, All Merchants and others, that have Goods fit to accommodate the said Island, and have not ready Money to purchase Land, nor to pay for their own or servants Passage, such may Barter with Goods in lieu of Money: Always this implies only such Persons as Contract with the Proprietors, or some of them, before the first Shipping departs out of the River of Thames, to Ship off, as above, their proportion of Goods or People, as is already sufficiently above ex∣pressed.