Addenda: October 1694 | British History Online

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: October 1694', 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/pp634-635 [accessed 29 November 2024].

October 1694



Oct. 4. Custom House, London.	1,325. Commissioners of Customs to Lords of Trade and Plantations. As to trade this year, the Virginia and Maryland merchants are preparing their ships, but beg that the date of sailing may be deferred from 20th to 31st inst., after which they are content that no ship not ready shall be allowed to sail. The merchants to Barbados and the Leeward Islands say that they will have no ships ready till January next, when they desire to have a competent number of seamen for twenty ships. Signed, Robert Southwell, C. Godolphin, Walter Yonge, Ja. Chadwicke, Samuel Clarke. [Board of Trade. Trade Papers, 13. pp. 30–32.]
Oct. 20.	1,326. Minute of Lords of Trade and Plantations. As regards next year's trade, the Newfoundland merchants say they cannot yet tell what number of ships will be sent out, but desire a convoy to go with their fishing ships from Plymouth by 15 February next, without which the fishery cannot be carried on by them, and another convoy for their seal-ships in May. The Barbados merchants said that, if they could get a convoy, they would send off ships enough at the end of January to require 400 seamen.
	The matter was referred to the Admiralty. [Board of Trade. Trade Papers, 13. pp. 38, 39.]
Oct. 24.	1,327. Minute of the Admiralty. Upon the Minute of the Lords of Trade of 20th inst. we have already reported that it is necessary to lay an embargo on all shipping (except to Flanders, Holland and the Elbe) on 1st December, and we do not think it should be raised until the fleet is manned. [Board of Trade. Trade Papers, 13. pp. 40, 41.]
Oct. 25.	1,328. Order of the Privy Council. Ordering the abstract of seamen required for the several trades to be referred to the Admiralty. The number of seamen required for Newfoundland is set down as uncertain, the number for Barbados at 400 and for Hudson's Bay at 150.
	N.B.—The Admiralty announced on the 30th that until the Royal Fleet was manned they could not recommend the allowance of these numbers. [Board of Trade. Trade Papers, 13. pp. 42, 43.]