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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 17, 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

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'Addenda: March 1690', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 17, 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698, ed. Cecil Headlam( London, 1908), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol17/pp608-609 [accessed 29 November 2024].

March 1690



March 13. Whitehall.	1,191. Order of the King in Council. Referring the petition of the Hudson's Bay Company to Lords of Trade and Plantations for report. Signed, John Nicolas. ½ p. Annexed,
	1,191. I. Petition of the Hudson's Bay Company. Our factories through the loss of two of our ships are left destitute. We beg protection for one hundred seamen for two of our ships, that they may be able to prosecute their voyage, or ruin lies before us. ¾ p. The whole endorsed, Read 26 March, 1690. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXV., Nos. 83, 83 I.]
March 13.	1,192. Order of the King in Council. Referring a second petition of the Hudson's Bay Company to Lords of Trade and Plantations for report. Signed, John Nicolas. ½ p. Annexed,
	1,192. I. Petition of the Hudson's Bay Company. Praying that, in consequence of their heavy losses, the King will grant them a small fourth-rate frigate as convoy for their ships. ¾ p. The whole endorsed, Read 26 March, 1690. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXV., Nos. 84, 84I.]
March 15.	1,193. Depositions of Thomas Savage and Amice Dumaresq, and of James Young. Testifying that owing to the want of provisions in Hudson's Bay the Governor in September had shipped home as many men as possible, and placed the rest upon short allowance. Each deposition 1½ pp. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXV., Nos. 85, 86.]
March 24.	1,194. Jno. Coode to the Principal Secretaries of State. 3 pp. Same as Cal. 1690. No. 792. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXVI., No. 108.]
March 24.	1,195. Representation of the Governor and Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company. We have slaughtered fifty oxen and one hundred hogs, and bought enormous quantities of flour and other provisions for our garrisons, without which they must perish. The miscarriage of our ships last year makes it urgently necessary to send more ships this year. The voyage even to the East Indies is not so urgent as this, because (1) owing to ice the voyage to Hudson's Bay is possible only at certain seasons. (2) The East Indies are in no danger of perishing from starvation. (3) The East Indian fleet will want many men and will be absent eighteen months; we want only one hundred men, and the voyage, going and returning, occupies only five months. We have suffered more from the French than any other Company, being exposed to invasion. Last year it cost us £5,000 to set out our ships; this year it will cost us £5,000 more to fit out our ships and provision our garrisons, which expense will be wholly lost unless our voyage be permitted. 1½ pp. Endorsed, Recd. 24 March, Read 26 March, 1690. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXV., No. 87.]
March 26.	1,196. Report of Lords of Trade and Plantations to the King. Upon the petitions of the Hudson's Bay Company, it is absolutely necessary that their garrisons must be victualled from home, and we therefore recommend that protection be granted to them for one hundred seamen for their ships. Draft. 2 pp. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXV., No. 88.]