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1636
Feb. and March. |
174. Notes by Edward Nicholas, of business to be transacted by
the Lords of the Admiralty:— |
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Feb. 11.—To give directions concerning a ship to transport
Sir John Harvey to Virginia. [Dom. Chas. I., Vol. 313, No. 84.] |
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Feb. 17.—To know his Majesty's pleasure concerning a ship
to transport Sir John Harvey to Virginia. [Ibid., Vol. 314,
No. 13.] |
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Feb. 18.—To consider of Sir John Harvey's letters to have the
Mary Rose with 50 or 60 men to transport him to Virginia, he
will pay the charges of victuals and wages. Margin, Sir John to
repair to the officers of the Navy. [Ibid., No. 19.] |
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Feb. 29.—Warrants for the Black George to transport Sir John
Harvey to Virginia, and to appoint what vessel shall be set forth
in her place. Margin, respited. [Ibid., No. 108.] |
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March 7.—Sign Warrants for the Black George to transport Sir
John Harvey to Virginia, and to appoint what ship shall be added
to the fleet in her place. [Ibid.] |
March 20.
Weymouth. |
175. List of 106 persons "bound for New England" from the
port of Weymouth. This list is headed with the names of Joseph
Hall [sic? Hull] of Somerset, minister, aged 40, Agnes his wife
aged 25, seven children and three servants. Then follow Musachiell
Bernard of Batcombe, clothier, Mary his wife, and two sons;
Richard Persons, salter, and servant; Fras. Baber, chandler,
Joseph Joyner, Walter Jesop, weaver, Timothy Tabor of Batcombe,
Jane his wife, three daughters and servant; John Whitmarck, Alice
his wife, and four children: Wm. Read of Batcombe, Susan his
wife, two daughters; Rich. Adams, his servant, Mary his wife and
child; Zachary Bickwell, Agnes his wife, son, and servant; George
Allen, Katherine his wife, three sons and a servant; Henry Kingman, Joan his wife, five children and a servant; William King,
Dorothy his wife, and four children; Thos. Hoibrook of Broadway,
Jane his wife, and four children; Thos. Dible, husbandman, and
Frances his sister; Robt. Lovell, husbandman, Eliz. his wife, and
five children and servant, Alice Kinham; Angell Holland, Katherine
his wife, and two servants; Rich. Joanes (sic) of Dinder, Robt.
Martyn of Badcombe, Joan Martyn, Hump. Shepheard; John
Upham, Elizabeth his wife (?) and five children (? not stated but
all Uphams); Rich. Wade, Eliz. his wife, Dinah his daughter, and
two servants; John Hoble and Robt. Huste, husbandmen, John
Woodcock and Rich. Porter. Signed by John Porter, Deputy
Clerk to Edward Thoroughgood. 7 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. 32, No. 5.] |
April 2.
Westminster. |
176. Commission from the King to Sir John Harvey, Governor,
and to such as are or shall be appointed Councillors of Virginia.
Whereas by Letters Patent of 26 March 1629, his Majesty nominated said Sir John, by the name of John Harvey, Esqre.,
Governor, and divers persons the Council of said Colony, which
commission his Majesty absolutely revokes by these presents;
nevertheless, for better ordering the affairs of said Colony until
his Majesty shall find means to give more ample directions for the
same his Majesty by these presents nominates said Sir John
Harvey, and such others as his Majesty has named or shall hereafter name, to be the Governor and Council of said Colony, with
power to execute the authorities incident to a Governor and
Council of Virginia, as amply as any Governor and Council there
at any time within 10 years last past, nevertheless, according to
such instructions as they do now or shall hereafter receive from
his Majesty, his Privy Council, or the Lords Commissioners
for Plantations for the time being; with power to grant commissions for the discovery of the country, and finding out what
trades shall be most advantageous, and to send out forces for
subduing the Indians, and make war and peace with them, keeping
always sufficient forces for holding the places now enjoyed. With
power to the greater part of said Council, upon the death or in the
absence of the Governor, to elect one of said Council to be present
Governor; and to the Governor, on the death or discontinuance of
any of said Council, to give notice thereof to his Majesty and
Commissioners of Plantations. Also power to Sir John Harvey
and to Richard Kemp, who have already taken their oaths, to
administer the like oath to said Councillors. This commission to
continue in force until by some other writing under the Signet,
Privy Seal, or Great Seal of England, his Majesty shall signify his
pleasure to the contrary. 1¾ membs. [Patent Roll, 12 Car. I.,
pt. 21, No. 1.] |
April 29.
Whitehall. |
177. Lords of the Admiralty to Sir Henry Marten. Edward
Cason and other merchants of London, Adventurers for the increase
of trade in the West Indies, have prepared the Hopewell of London
of 200 tons, carrying 16 pieces of ordnance, with a pinnace, the
Hope, of 30 tons, for discovery of that part of the Continent
betwixt Virginia and Canada and the Islands thereof, and likewise to fish amongst the French, to make corr-fish upon the Grand
Bank in the ocean not fished by any English, and to repair to the
eastward of New England and Canada to seek and trade for seahorse teeth and other merchandize. They have desired a commission against pirates and sea rovers who haunt those fishings to
be granted to Richard French, captain of the ship and pinnace;
which is to be issued according to the usual form, 2 pp. [Dom.
Chas. I., Vol. 130, p. 30.] |
| May 19. |
178. Warrant to the Sheriffs and Keepers of the Gaols in Kent.,
Sussex, Essex, and Herts. To deliver William Savage, John
Richardson, Thomas Browne, alias Anderson, Richard Martyn,
John Skeete, and George Garrett, condemned prisoners in said
gaols, to William Drysdell to be transported into his Majesty's
Plantation of Virginia, with proviso that they return not without
the King's special license. [Dom. Chas. I., Docquet.] |
June 12.
Hampton Court. |
179. Lords of the Admiralty to William Smith, captain of the
Black George, appointed to transport Sir John Harvey and his
company, servants, and followers to Virginia. To receive Sir John
at Portsmouth and to proceed in a straight course to Virginia, to
land Sir John, who was his Majesty's Governor of that Plantation,
at such port as he should direct, and to attend to take aboard and
bring from thence such persons, goods, and provisions as Sir John
should appoint to be brought for England. To apply himself to
such directions as Sir John shall give for his Majesty's service, and
on his return to shape his course for Chatham, where the Black
George is to be moored for the next winter. 3 pp. [Dom. Chas. I.,
Vol. 157, fol. 47.] |
Aug. 17.
God's House in Portsmouth. |
180. Edward, Viscount Wimbledon, to Sec. Sir Francis Windebanke. For Sir John Harvey's letter, he will be careful to give it;
for he is so far from being gone, that his people there cannot hear
of him. Wishes he were departed, for there come daily so many
from London to go with him that it is feared they may bring that
ill (the plague), which as yet they are clear of. For haste of the
journey, they see little. This day they are unloading the ship to
search for a leak, being a most crazy old ship. Extract. [Dom.
Chas. I., Vol. 330, No. 44.] |
| Sept. 24. |
181. Examination of John Dunton of London, mariner. In a
small ship of London, called the Little David, set out by Mr. Armitage,
a woollen draper, at the sign of the Beads in Cannon St., with
50 men and boys and 7 women, bound for Virginia, John Hogg,
Master, they were all taken by a Sallee man 35 leagues beyond the
Land's End; they were all taken to Sallee and sold for slaves, amongst
whom was a son of examinant about nine years of age. Was sold
to one Aligolant, who having the greatest part in this bark, and
having never a Christian slave but examinant that could take
charge of a ship, commanded him to go Pilot to the English Channel
for taking English women, being of more worth than other. Coming
on the English Coast they took a fisher boat with intention to make
a party against the Moors, according to a previous resolution. At
a certain time they called to the Dutch and English to stand up for
their lives and liberties, whereupon they drove the Moors into the
hold, hoisted up a white flag and hung the Turks' Colours over the
stern into the water, and brought their bark into the first port,
[Dom, Chas. I., Vol. 332, No. 30 V.] |
