_Nicholas Durande_ a _Frenchman_ set Sail from _Havre de Grace_, at the same time when _Stade_ came thither. This _Durande_ having lost a Castle in _Brittain_, to the great prejudice of the _French_, out of a pretence of advancing their Affairs, and to fill up their almost exhausted Treasury, reported, That the _Spanish_ and _Portuguese_ Forces were driven out of _India_, where they had gather’d so much Wealth; and it would certainly redound to the Honor and Profit of _France_, if they could become Masters of the Gold and Silver Mines. King _Henry_ the Second approving of the Proposal, and the more because the Admiral _Gasper Coligni_ was also very earnest, looking upon it as a safe Retreat for the Protestants, at that time cruelly persecuted: and _Durande_, sensible of the Admirals thoughts, privately inform’d him, That in his _American_ Design he chiefly aim’d to plant a True Church of God in _America_, where the Professors might enjoy themselves peaceably. This Report being spread amongst those that call’d themselves _Protestants_, (fled from _Switzerland_ in great numbers to _France_) made many of them venture upon the Design; who having fitted themselves, and setting sail with three Ships, after some time arriv’d on the Coast of _Brasile_, and landed on the _Rock-Island_, in the Haven _Januario_: Here _Durande_ built several Watch-houses, and the Fort _Coligni_, which he fortified with a considerable number of Guns: Not long after he writ to _John Calvin_, That he would please to furnish this new Plantation in _Brasile_ with good and able Teachers of the Gospel; which Request being immediately taken into serious consideration by the Classes, one _Philip Corguileray_, a Gentleman near _Geneva_, set Sail out of the Haven _Honfleurs_, with three Ships, freighted with some Provisions, several Persons of divers Trades, and two Ministers, _Peter Richer_, and _William Chartier_: But he had scarce made _Africa_, when they began to have a scarcity of Victuals; wherefore they turn’d their Design of setling the Gospel in _America_, to Pyracy, where they made small scruple or difference, whether Friends or Foes, but made Prize of all they could light upon, though indeed their Ministers both preach’d and perswaded the contrary, amongst whom a Controversie happening, put other Business into their Heads; for one _John Cointak_, formerly a _Parisian Sorbonist_, was also amongst those that remov’d from _Geneva_, who pretended that _Coligni_ had promis’d him a Ministers place, so soon as he landed at _Brasile_; but _Richer_ and _Chartier_, not satisfied that there was any such Promise, and consequently thinking themselves not obliged by his bare Assertion, told him, That themselves being able, under God, to perform the Work, they needed no such Coadjutor: This bred so great a Rancor between them, that _Cointak_ accus’d them for teaching false Doctrine, and chiefly that they did not mix the Wine at their