ABSTRACT
The Guiana Company itself, however, seems to have been unable to fulfil its patent and support any more colonizing initiatives to Guiana. The merchant George Griffith, despite having suffered ‘greate losse by sending men into the greate River of the Amazons and planting on the Coaste of Guiana’ was, in 1638, still anxious to see the business go forward. The old Irish planters may have had better luck than James Duppa and his partners. Sousa de Macedo’s correspondence indicates that he was also aware that Irishmen still had hopes of being allowed to settle on the Amazon. The rebellion in Ireland in 1641 had adversely affected the Irish on St Christophers. The heretic English planters had begun to oppress the Irish catholics harshly. The only solution was to remove them to the protection of a catholic monarch.
