First Read then weepe when thou art hereby taught, That Warner lyes interr’d here, one that bought, With losse of Noble bloud Illustrious Name, Of A Comander Greate in Acts of Fame. Trayn’d from his youth in Armes, his courage bold, Attempted braue Exploites, and vncontrold By fortunes fiercest Frownes, hee still gaue forth Large Narratiues of Military worth. ----ritten with his sword’s poynt, but what is man -------the midst of his glory, and who can ----------this Life A moment, since that hee -------------by Sea and Land, so longe kept free -----------al, Mortal Strokes at length did yeeld ------------ace) to conquering Death the field, fini Coronat. The black lines shew where the marble is broken, or the letters from some other cause are quite obliterated. CHAPTER II. History of the island continued—Sir Henry Hunks—Descent of the Caribs—Legend of Ding-a-ding Nook—Arrival of the Ship Nonsuch— Sir Thomas Modiford—Earl of Warwick, Captain-General—Captain Edward Warner—Colonel Rich—Colonel Lake—Mr. Everard—Sir George Ayscue—Colonel Christopher Reynall—Invasion by the Caribs— Dissensions among the inhabitants—Copy of Colonel Reynall’s letter to Cromwell—Attack upon St. Domingo and Jamaica— Major-General Poyntz—Grant of Antigua to Lord F. Willoughby. We will now return to the history of Antigua, which we shall hereafter pursue, as closely as possible, in chronological order. In 1639, Sir Henry Hunks paid Antigua a visit. This gentleman (who was nephew to Lord Conway, Secretary of State) was the first governor of Barbados with a regular commission; but upon his arrival at that colony, Henry Hawley, the then acting commander-in-chief, would not resign the government, and raised so formidable a party, that Sir Henry Hunks quietly retired to Antigua, where he remained from June to December; at which latter period, he was installed in his government, according to the instructions which he received from England. In 1640, the English settlers were disturbed in their possessions at Antigua by the Caribs, who made a descent upon the island, pillaging it, and destroying everything that fell in their way. After many lives being lost on both sides, the English were enabled to repel their invaders; who, however, succeeded in carrying away the governor’s wife and her two children. It is maintained by some authors, that the after fate of this unfortunate woman was not known; but that everything the worst might be imagined from the character of the Caribs, goaded on as they were by the loss of their country.