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Feb. 3.
Aboard the
Diamond, Cagway
Harbour,
Jamaica.
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221. Captain Richard Whiting to the Principal Officers of his
Majesty's Navy. Has safely arrived with passengers from Barbadoes,
though fewer than expected, by reason of the great rains,
and the President's averseness from serving his Majesty in the
settling of Jamaica. Knows not how long they will tarry, but fears
they will want provisions, unless some recruits be sent out of
England. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 12.]
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Feb. 6.
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222. Minutes by Sec. Nicholas concerning New England. The
inhabitants of Connecticut desire a charter to incorporate them.
Those of the Massachusetts from Boston desire a confirmation of
their corporation. There are four colonies in New England all
joined, viz., Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Haven, and Connecticut.
Those of the Isle of Rhodes desire a charter of incorporation. Corn
and fish now coming in two ships from New England ; they maintain
and supply the plantations of Barbadoes and Jamaica. 1 p.
[Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 13.]
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Feb. 7.
Westminster.
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223. Patent of incorporation of the Company for Propagation of
the Gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America.
Whereas by several discoveries and successful plantations of his
Majesty's subjects, his Majesty's dominions have been augmented
upon the main lands and islands of America, trade increased, and by
the pains of certain English ministers of the Gospel and others residing
in or near New England, who have attained to speak the language
of the heathen natives, many of them have been brought from the
kingdom of Satan to the knowledge of the true God and profession
of the Protestant religion. Yet unless provision be made for educating,
clothing, and civilising the poor natives and supporting the
ministers, schoolmasters, and other instruments employed in this so
Christian a work, the same may be discouraged, those planters who
began it being unable to bear the whole charge thereof. And
whereas his Majesty resolves not only to seek the outward
prosperity of those colonies, but more especially the salvation of
their immortal souls, and the publishing of the most glorious Gospel
of Christ among them ; his Majesty of his princely piety constitutes
Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England,
Thomas Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer of England,
John Lord Robartes, Lord Privy Seal, George Duke of Albemarle,
James Duke of Ormond, Edward Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain
of the Household, Arthur Earl of Anglesey, William
Viscount Say and Sele, Francis Warner, Alderman of London,
Erasmus Smith, Esq., Henry Ashhurst, Richard Hutchinson, Joshua
Woolnough, George Clarke, Thomas Speed, Thomas Bell, John
Rolfe, citizens of London ; Robert Boyle, Esq. ; Sir William Thompson,
Sir William Bateman, Sir Anthony Bateman, Sir Theophilus
Biddolph, Sir Lawrence Bromfield, Knights ; Tempest Milner,
William Love, William Peake, Aldermen of London ; Thomas Foly,
Thomas Cox, John Micklethwaite, Edmund Trench, Doctors in
Physicke ; Charles Doyley, Thomas Staynes, John Jurian, William
Antrobus, John Bathurst, Harman Sheafe, Thomas Gillibrand,
James Hayes, John Benbowe, Lawrence Brinsley, Barnabas Meares,
John Acrod, John Dockett, Edward Boscowen, and Martin Noell,
citizens of London, to be, with their successors, a body corporate
and politic by the name of the Company for Propagation of the
Gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America, to have
continuance for ever. With power to meet from time to time
within the city of London, to purchase and hold lands, hereditaments,
&c., so as the same exceed not the yearly value of 2,000l., and also
all manner of goods and sums of money, and to dispose of the same,
and do any other lawful act, plead and be impleaded, &c., in as
ample manner as any other person or corporation, and have a common
seal. And his Majesty appoints the aforesaid Robert Boyle to
be the first Governor of the Company during good behaviour, with
power to summon courts or meetings ; and on the death or removal
of the Governor, who for evil government or other reasonable cause
may be removed by the Company or any 13 of them, the Company
or any 13 of them may elect any other member of the Company in
his place. And in the absence of the Governor the treasurer shall
summon meetings, and appoint one of their members to supply the
place of the Governor. And it shall be lawful for any 13 or more
of the Company (of whom the Governor to be one) to remove any
persons from being members of the Company and admit any others
in their stead, so as the whole number of members exceed not 45 ;
and to choose a treasurer or treasurers, and other officers ; with
power to make or ordain orders, instructions, &c. for the managing of
their lands, goods, money, stock, &c., so as the same be not repugnant
to the laws of England ; also to appoint Commissioners in New
England to contract and agree with such ministers, schoolmasters,
and others for the employment aforesaid, and for clothes, books,
tools, &c., for civilising, employing, educating, or placing out the
natives or their children that shall profess the Protestant religion in
English families and with English masters, giving accounts in
writing to the Company of their proceedings. And that a supply
of foreign coin may not be wanting for the purposes aforesaid, his
Majesty grants licence to the Company to ship in any English ship,
in any port of England, any quantity of Spanish or other foreign
silver coin not exceeding the value of 1,000l. in any one year, without
any custom, so as the quantity and value thereof be first
entered in the custom house of said port. His Majesty also ordains
that the Company shall yearly, if required by order of the Chancellor
or Keeper of the Great Seal, the Treasurer of England, and the
Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, or any two of them, deliver
a perfect account of all the goods and stock of the Company, and of
the profits of all their lands and tenements, &c., and of all sums of
money received and paid by or for them ; which account, as also
those of all employed by the Company, his Majesty requires the
said Chancellor or Lord Keeper, Treasurer, and Chief Baron, or
any two of them, to hear and determine, and if they find just cause
to ratify and sign, and deliver to the Remembrancer of the Exchequer
to remain of record without any fee otherwise than for the
entry and writing thereof. And these Letters Patents shall be construed
most beneficially for the said Company, any law, statute,
proclamation, matter, or thing to the contrary notwithstanding. 6
membs. [Pat. Roll, 14 Chas. II., Part 11, No. 17.]
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Feb. 7.
Whitehall.
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224. Order of the King in Council, directing the Committee for
Foreign Plantations to meet on the 10th inst. and take into consideration
the interests of the several pretenders to Nova Scotia, and
all business relating thereto, that all persons concerned do then and
there attend, and that said Committee report to this Board their
sense of the whole matter on the 14th inst. 1 p. [Col. Entry Bk.,
Vol. LX., p. 17.]
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225. "Claim by the French Ambassador in Council," for the
restitution of Acadia. The Ambassador in the name of the King
his master represents, that in 1654 some private subjects of England,
under pretence of reprisal upon the French, possessed themselves
of Ports Royal, St. John, and Pentagouet, in New France,
with the countries thereupon depending. Complaints were made
in 1658, as also of the violences of one Temple, calling himself
Oliver Cromwell's Lieutenant in America, in the house of one
De la Have ; upon which it was ordained that for regulating the
differences of both nations, and doing justice upon said usurpations,
Commissioners should be named ; which remained without effect by
reason of the uncertain posture of Government in England. Now
that all things are re-established in a lawful Government, the
Ambassador represents that said usurpations were made in full
peace, and therefore his Majesty cannot refuse to command a present
restitution of said forts and houses usurped. And forasmuch as it
may seem that the said restitution should be examined by Commissioners,
with clear accounts of depredations and reprisals mutually
suffered by both nations, because it was so pretended by the late
Richard Cromwell ; the Ambassador acknowledges that the losses
suffered in the taking of those forts by carrying away moveables,
arms, ammunition, merchandise, &c., may be referred to Commissioners,
but as to the forts and countries usurped, being pure rights
of sovereignty not contested, he thinks that the King of Great
Britain will make no difficulty to command them to be forthwith
restored. See No. 241. 2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 14.]
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Feb. 7.
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226. "Answer to the Ambassador of France, or rather Mons.
Le Bourne, his claim to Acadia and Nova Scotia." The claims of
England to Pentagoet, St. John's, Port Royal, and La Have, as first
possessed by the subjects of that King, and granted to Sir Wm.
Alexander and La Tour. The hostile proceedings of Le Bourne in
August last, in forcibly taking possession of La Have ; his barbarous
usage of the English, turning them upon an island to live upon grass
and wade in the water for lobsters to keep them alive, and imprisoning
them at Rochelle. That Nova Scotia is of great importance to
his Majesty, and as it borders upon New England it would be
neither safe nor honourable to give it up, for that would enable the
French to invade and infest New England at their pleasure. And
since Le Bourne has surprised our plantation and fishing vessel, we
may use the Ambassador's words, and hope for that natural justice
common to all nations (as he calls it) Spoliatus ante omnia restituatur.
Signed by Tho. Breedon. Indorsed, "Received 19 Feb.
1661-2. read in Council 19 Feb. Mr. Thos. Eliot concerning Nova
Scotia." 2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 15.]
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[Feb. 7.]
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227. Copy of the preceding. Indorsed by Williamson, "Answer
to Le Bourne's pretensions." 3 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI.,
No. 16.]
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Feb. 8.
Whitehall.
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228. The King to Lord Windsor, Governor of Jamaica. On
petition of William Borton, formerly of London, woollendraper, his
Majesty, reflecting on petitioner's present condition, occasioned by
his faithful endeavours for his Majesty's service, is pleased to recommend
him to Lord Windsor for such employment in the army there,
or otherwise, as his Lordship shall think him capable of. p.
[Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., No. 13, p. 50.]
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[Feb. 12.].
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229. Petition of John Winthrop in behalf of the colony of Connecticut
to the King. That since inhabiting the more westerly parts
of that wilderness, petitioners have not had any opportunities, by
reason of the late sad times, to seek for Letters Patent from his
Majesty to encourage them to go on through all difficulties and
expenses in so great a work of plantation in a place so remote from
the Christian world, and a desert so difficultly subdued and far
separated from the other English plantations, not only by the vastness
of the mountains of a dismal wilderness, but also by the habitations
of the greatest nations of the heathen Indians of these parts,
and where besides is much that hath been expended by their fathers
and some of their associates yet surviving, for purchasing, building,
culturing, and improving the place of their present abode. Petitioners
have also laid out a very considerable sum for purchasing the
grants of the estates and patent rights of those patentees who had
possessed and planted the lower part of Connecticut river, with
which grant his Majesty's poor subjects have contented themselves
in all those afflicting times, not seeking to [from] any of the late
rebellious powers for further privileges, but now, upon his Majesty's
happy restoration, petitioners address themselves to their liege prince
and sovereign. May it therefore please his Majesty to confirm to petitioners
the like powers, liberties, and privileges to his colony of Connecticut,
bounded on the east by Narragansett river (where the bounds
of New Plymouth end), on the north by the line of Massachusetts, on
the south by the ocean, and in longitude as the line of Massachusetts
runneth from east to west with the islands adjoining, possessed by
petitioners, as were formerly granted to the other plantations of
New England, to be held of his Majesty by virtue of a charter to be
granted to petitioners, John Mason, Samuel Willis, Henry Clarke,
Matthew Allen, Nathan Gold, Richard Treat, Richard Lord, Henry
Woolcott, John Talcot, Daniel Clarke, John Ogden, Tho. [? Jo.] Tappen,
Thomas Wells, Obadiah Brewen, John Clarke, Anthony Hawkins,
John Denning, and Matthew Camfield, being principal persons of
said colony. With reference to the Attorney-General to advise and
certify what powers, privileges, estates, and interests he thinks fit
for his Majesty to grant. Whitehall, 1661-2, February 12. Also Report
of Attorney-General Sir Geoffrey Palmer that he has considered
the papers annexed, and conceives the powers therein contained may
be granted as desired, saving only as to freedom from customs, the
consideration whereof is proper for the Lord Treasurer. The Charter
for Connecticut is dated 23rd April 1662, see No. 284. 1 pp.
[Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 17.]
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Feb. 15.
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230. Report of Robert Mason, John Exton, G. Sweet, W. Turner,
and Sir Rich. Ford, Doctors of Laws, to the King. On petition of
Robert Mason, proprietor of the province of [New] Hampshire, and
Edward Godfrey, late Governor of the province of Maine, according
to the King's reference of 17th Nov. 1661. That John Mason, grandfather
to Robt. Mason, one of the petitioners, by virtue of several
grants, and Edw. Godfrey, have been in actual and quiet possession
of several great tracts of land in New England, and that said John
Mason laid out very large sums of money in settling plantations
there. That Godfrey lived there for twenty [four] years, having
discharged the office of Governor of Maine with much reputation,
but he hath not only been turned out of his place of Governor, but
hath been utterly despoiled of his lands and estate in that country,
which the inhabitants of Massachusetts have seized and detain from
him to his very great loss and ruin. That the corporation of the
Massachusetts rested content with the division agreed to by their
Governors about 30 years since, until 1652, when they stretched above
80 miles beyond their known and settled bounds, and have thereby
not only invaded and encroached upon the plantations and inheritance
of the petitioners, but by menaces and armed forces have
compelled them to submit to their usurped and arbitrary government,
which they [of the Massachusetts] have declared to be independent
of the Crown of England. It appears further that the
colony of the Massachusetts have for many years past endeavoured
to model themselves into a free state without any relation to the
Crown of England, issuing writs in their own names, imposing
oaths to be true to themselves contrary to that of allegiance, coining
money with their own stamp and signature, exercising arbitrary
power, and allowing no appeals to England. Some have publicly
affirmed they would oppose any Governor sent by the King, and
rather than submit any appeal to England would sell their colony
to the King of Spain. That said Robt. Mason has been damnified
to the value of 15,000l. Do not presume to offer any opinion in a
business of so high importance. With mem. that the original was
delivered to Sec. Sir Wm. Morrice. 2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI.,
No. 18.]
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Feb. 17.
Whitehall.
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231. The King to Edward Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain
and Governor of the Bermudas. Inclining to grant to Henry
Killigrew and Robt. Dongan the estates of Owen Rowe, Cornelius
Holland, and Sir John Danvers, become forfeit in the Bermudas
upon attainder of the horrid murder of his Majesty's late
dear Father, his Majesty's pleasure is that the Council forthwith
certify to his Majesty an exact account of all the possessions and
rights whereof any of the said Rowe, Holland, or Danvers were
possessed in 1648, or at any time since. Countersigned by Sec.
Nicholas. 2 pp. Two copies. [Col. Entry Bk., No. 17, fly-leaf and
pp. 47-48.]
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Feb. 17.
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232. Duplicates of the preceding. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II.,
No. III., p. 25 ; also No. IV., p. 95.]
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Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
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233. Order of the King in Council. On consideration of a
memorial exhibited by Thomas Lord Windsor, Governor of Jamaica,
that the Frenchman who is Governor of Tortodoes and was commissioned
by Colonel D'Oyley, then Governor of Jamaica, at the recommendation
of the then Council of State, hath since refused to
obey his orders, and hath imprisoned Colonel Arundell, sent to
supersede him, and that the Plantation is of great consequence to the
security of Jamaica, as it may interrupt all passage between
England and the Windward Isles, ordered that Lord Windsor use
his utmost endeavours to reduce said Frenchman and said island
to obedience. 1 pp. Two copies. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., Nos.
19, 20.]
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Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
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234. Draft of preceding order with corrections. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XVI., No. 21.]
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Feb. 19.
Whitehall.
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235. Another copy of the above order in Council. [Col. Entry
Bk., No. 92, pp. 31, 32.]
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Feb. 20.
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236. Warrant to pay to James Earl of Marlborough 1,000l. of
the King's free gift and bounty to him for and towards the preparation
and personal provisions he is to make for his intended voyage
to the [West] Indies. [Dom., Chas. II., Vol. L., No. 71, Cal.,
p. 279.]
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Feb. 20.
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237. Warrant to pay to Henry Stubbs, the King's physician for
Jamaica, 200l. for preparations and provisions for his Majesty's service
in those parts. [Dom., Chas., II., Docquet.]
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Feb. 22.
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238. John Shaw to Joseph Williamson. John Mann, a son of his
kinsman, has obtained Letters Patent as Surveyor of the island of
Jamaica, but the present Governor has refused to allow him anything
towards his charges ; desires him therefore to draw up a letter
to Lord Windsor, for his Majesty's signature, requiring his Lordship
to acknowledge John Mann as Surveyor-General of the island, with
the usual allowances for that office and Registrar. Has spoken with
Secretary Nicholas on the subject. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI.,
No. 22.]
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Feb. 24.
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239. Petition of Cicely Dowager Lady de la Warr to the King.
Her deceased husband, Thomas Lord de la Warr, had, by the expense
of his and her estate, advanced the plantation and trade of Virginia,
when it yielded nothing, to the great advantage and benefit of the
nation and the crown, but to the impoverishment of his wife and
children ; in consideration whereof King James I. on Sept. 20 in
the 17th year of his reign granted to petitioner, her executors,
administrators, or assigns, an annuity of 500l. for 31 years payable
out of the customs, subsidies, and duties, and all merchandise whatsoever
imported from Virginia ; since the year 1640 petitioner has
received nothing, and now prays that the pension may be granted
to her for the natural life of her daughter Jane West. See No. 249.
[Dom., Chas. II., Vol. LI., No. 12, Cal., p. 283.]
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[Feb. 26.]
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240. Petition of Thomas Temple to the King and Privy Council.
Has for divers years past remained in Nova Scotia, and arrived
thence, but on Thursday last. Was utterly ignorant of what hath been
pretended to Nova Scotia by the French Ambassador, or any other,
and is not yet able to understand what their pretences are. Doubts
not to prove, not only a sufficient title to the premises to be held
under his Majesty, and that petitioner came lawfully to the acquisition
and right thereof, with the expense of vast sums of money, but
also that the conservation of Nova Scotia to his Majesty's crown is
of vast concernment. Prays to be allowed a competent time to look
up all his evidences and instruct counsel, and for a copy of what the
French or any other did offer. Indorsed, "Read in Council ye
26th Feb. 1661-2. To be heard 7th March next. Read in Council
the 7th March 1661-2." 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 23.]
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1662?
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241. "Answer to the French Ambassador's claim to the forts and
countries in America (Nova Scotia), exhibited in the behalf of the
Lord La Tour, Temple, and Crowne, Proprietors." In 1654 Cromwell
took said forts and countries from the Lord La Tour, not as
reprisals from the French, but as holding under the Crown of Scotland,
as by grant of 40 years date will appear ; nor are they any
part of New France as his Excellency affirms, nor lieth near by 200
leagues, but said forts lye in New Scotland, and the sovereignty
belongs as properly to his Majesty as Old Scotland doth ; nor were
they ever in possession of the French, but when they got them from
the English, except Port Royal, and that belonged to the Scotch
originally. They never heard of any complaints in 1658 of violence
committed by Temple in the house of one De La Have, neither is
there any such man in the land, but there is a place so called, which
Temple purchased from La Tour and where he built a house ;
but one M. Leborny, two or three years since by force took it, so
that the violence was on Leborny's part, who by the King of France's
commission was not to meddle with the English. Neither do they
know that any persons were ordained for regulating said differences,
but in the league of 1656 there was such an article and a time fixed
to perfect it, wherefore they conceive the country was taken as
belonging to Scotland, for Cromwell restored it to La Tour. And
La Tour is condemned in France as a traitor, for constant adhering
to the English. In Richard Cromwell's time the French offered to
give up all claim to the country, so as they might enjoy from La
Have northward to New France (or Canada). And the King of
France by proclamation at Rochelle prohibited his subjects to come
near them in New Scotland. As to losses, they conceive none have
lost but La Tour, for he had arms, ammunition, and merchandise
taken away, and the soldiers demolished Port Royal and burnt the
chief house. Pray that his Majesty's subjects may not be delivered
to any foreign Prince or their country be taken from them ; that there
may be a commission to examine witnesses, and La Tour and Temple
sent for over, that they may in person make their just defence.
There is not a person that holds any land there under the Great
Seal of France, or ever did, but under Scotland. 1 p. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XVI., No. 24.]
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242. The title of the English to Nova Scotia, and the commodities
it yields. Nova Scotia, or Acadia (as the French call it),
was discovered by the English to the river Canada in the reign of
Henry VII., and further discovered in 1585. "See Hakluyt's 3rd
Volume, and Purchas his Pilgrimage, 8th Book." In 1627 and 1628
there happened a war with France, and Sir Lewis Kirke, John
Kirke and partners, and Sir Wm. Alexander, surprised Port Royal,
Fort Quebec, Cape Breton, and other places. On 24th April 1629,
acts of hostility were to cease, and all taken to be restored, to
the great damage of the Kirkes. On March 29, 1632, by an Article
of Agreement, Acadia, Canada, Port Royal, Quebec, and Cape
Breton were to be delivered to the French, and the French King
to pay 4,436l. to Sir Lewis Kirke by Du Cape, but protected by
the French King he could not be compelled to pay the same. The
11th May 1633, our Sovereign, in consideration of 50,000l. charges
the Kirkes had been at in surprising Quebec, granted to Lewis
Kirke the sole trade in the river, gulfs, lakes, and adjacent islands
and continent, for 31 years. In Feb. 1633-4, Kirke sent out the
Good Fortune to the River Canada, there being peace with France ;
the Boncontempt [sic.] overpowered her and brought her to Dieppe,
where she was confiscated. For this ship, worth 12,000l., and the
4,436l., no redress was granted. In 1654 Cromwell seized Port
Royal, Fort St. John, Pentagouet, &c. ; and November 3rd, 1655, the
French referred that and other differences to arbitration. 1. "Acadia
lies between 42 and 45 north lat. including the Great River
of Canada, which contains the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which at the
entrance is 22 leagues broad, and extends itself 800 miles west by
south into many great lakes lying on the backside of the English
Plantations ; it may therefore concern his Majesty to keep the
places demanded by the French Ambassador, and to plant colonies
up and down Canada and Nova Scotia." 2. It is fertile in corn
and pasturage. 3. It is stored with pitch, tar, hemp, masts, timber,
furs. 4. The reducement of it under his Majesty's dominions, will
divide America with the Spaniard, and unite all the plantations,
between which the French now interpose, and may be able to destroy
the fishing and navigation of the English in those seas, and perchance
arm the Indians against them. 3 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI.,
No. 25.]
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243. Opinion of [Sir] W[adham] W[yndham]? upon the case
between the King of France and Col. Thos. Temple for himself and
the King of England, as to the title of the lands and fortresses in
Nova Scotia, claimed by the French Ambassador. Under three
heads. First, the representation of the French Ambassador, who
prays for the restitution of those places. Secondly, the title of
the King of England ; it being contended that all these lands and
forts in Nova Scotia are distant from Nova Francia many hundred
leagues and were never held part of it. Thirdly, the rights of Col.
Temple for himself and the King of England ; explanation of the
treaty of 1632 for restitution ; treaty between Louis XIV. and
Cromwell in 1655 ; no commissioners named by the French King,
forts derelict by desertion ; Col. Temple takes possession by patent
and now holds these places. Lastly, quotations from legal authorities
on both sides, and discussion on the arguments pro and con. The
opinion is in favour of the right of King Charles. Latin and French.
40 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 26.]
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Feb. 26.
Whitehall.
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244. Orders of the Privy Council. Directing that all persons who
have any commissions from those in New England interested in the
affairs of that plantation, or who can give any account in reference
to the King's service and the benefit of those parts, attend the Board
on 6th March, and particularly that Col. Thomas Temple and Mr.
Mentrope [Winthrop] and such as they shall advise be summoned to
attend. 1 p. [Col. Entry Bk., No. LX., pp. 5, 6.]
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Feb. 27.
Westminster.
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245. The King's Commission appointing the Duke of York, High
Admiral of Dunkirk, Tangiers, and all foreign possessions in Africa
and America, and General of the fleets there, with all rights and
emoluments belonging to said office during life ; with power to
examine causes and hold Courts of Admiralty and to receive from
the Royal Treasury 100 marks per annum. Latin. 14 pp. [Col.
Entry Bk., No. V., pp. 74-87.]
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Feb. 28.
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246. Warrant to prepare a bill for a Charter of Incorporation
for Connecticut. John Winthrop, John Mason, Samuel Willis,
Hen. Clarke, Mat. Allen, Jo. Tappen, Nat. Gold, Rich. Treat, Rich.
Lord, Hen. Woolcot, Jo. Talcot, Dan. Clarke, Jo. Ogden, Tho. Wells,
Obadiah Brewen, Jo. Clarke, Anthony Hawkins, John Denning, Mat.
Camfield, "being principal persons in our colony of Connecticut,"
are to be granted and confirmed freemen of said colony, with
the privileges therein set forth. The Charter is dated 23rd April
1662. See No. 284. 2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 27.]
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1662?
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247. Petition of Col. Thos. Temple, Governor of Nova Scotia, to
the King. Thos. Breedon has fraudulently obtained a commission
for the government and trade of Nova Scotia. Apprehends that as
Breedon is now returning thither, he will seize upon the petitioner's
trading houses, vessels, and goods. Prays for a warrant to prohibit
Breedon from doing anything to the petitioner's prejudice. 1 p.
[Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 28.]
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Feb. 28.
Whitehall.
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248. The King's warrant suspending Thos. Breedon from the office
of Governor of Nova Scotia, who "did lately by surprise and indirectly
obtain from us our Letters Patent and Commission, to the
wrong and prejudice of Thos. Temple, Esq., who is in present possession
of the same." See ante, No. 189 ; also No. 274. [Dom.
Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. V., p. 189.]
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Feb. 28.
Southampton
House.
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249. Report of Lord Treasurer Southampton to the King. On
petition of the Dowager Lady De La Warr [see ante, No. 239].
That his Majesty by his reference of 24th inst. signified that having
a particular regard to the worth and good deservings of the petitioner
and that family, the Lord Treasurer should certify what he conceives
fit to be done for his Majesty's service and the petitioner's satisfaction.
The sense he has of the present necessities of the Crown
makes him a very unfit judge of the merits of any person, and
therefore in all times he has declined certificates of this nature, but
has complied with whatever the King has commanded in grace to
any single persons or families as far as his Majesty's public occasions
would permit, which he hopes is as much as his Majesty will expect
from him in the quality he serves him. Indorsed by Sir Ed. Nicholas,
"Warrant for a privy seal for a pension of 200l. to Mrs. Jane West."
See No. 258. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 29.]
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