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June 6.
Brooke House. |
Minutes of a Court for Providence Island. Allowance to the wife of Mat. Harbottle, master of the Spy. John Peck admitted one of the clerks of the stores in the island. Capt. Bell's request to see the letters he had formerly written from Providence refused, "for that they be the Company's own evidences" in the matter before the Lord Keeper. Order concerning the payment of the seamen's wages of the Happy Return. Proposition of Wil. Claybourne; agreement that he and his associates shall have a grant of incorporation for settlement of an island by them discovered, within the Company's patent, to be called Rich Island, in honour of the Earl of Holland. Conditions. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 339–40.] |
June 10.
Brooke House. |
Minutes as above. The Earl of Warwick, Lord Mandeville, and Wil. Woodcock, declare they will share the charge of sending 200 men to Providence in exchange for negroes. Conditions for the purchase by W. Woodcock of the Company's goods in the Mary Hope. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 340–41.] |
| June 12. |
Petition of Sir John Harvey, Governor of Virginia, to the King. The colony in great want of arms and ammunition, and the merchants very unwilling to provide them. An allowance of 1,000l per annum from customs of goods imported from Virginia was granted to him, but is in arrear four years. Prays for warrant to the officers of ordnance to deliver to the petitioner 150 barrels of powder and 1,000 muskets out of the Tower, at the usual prices paid by the King, and that the amount may be deducted out of the arrears of 4,000l due to him. With reference to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Cottington, to certify their opinions, upon which the King will declare his further pleasure. Greenwich, 1638, June 12. [DOMESTIC Car. I., Entry Bk., Petitions, 1636–38, p. 310.] |
June 16.
Brooke House. |
Articles of agreement between the Company of Providence Island and Nath. Marston. He undertakes the place of surgeon in the Swallow, bound thither, at a salary of 30l per annum. After his arrival, when Capt. Axe employs the pinnace for prizes, to go upon shares. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. IV., p. 134.] |
June 18.
Brooke House. |
Articles of agreement between the Company of Providence Island and John Peck, appointed clerk of the stores in Providence. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. IV., p. 134.] |
June 18.
Brooke House. |
Articles of agreement between the Company of Providence Island and Capt. Wil. Woodcock, appointed Lieut. to Capt. Butler, the Governor-General there. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. IV., p. 135.] |
June 19.
Brooke House. |
Minutes of a Court for Providence Island. Concerning the raising of money due for 18 months' hire of the Mary Hope, now returned. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., p. 341.] |
| June? |
115. [Sir Ferdinando Gorges] to [the Privy Council]. Desires that the general restraint against the transportation of people to the foreign plantations may be limited to such only as are factiously or schismatically inclined, and who principally go to the Massachusetts Bay to strengthen that place, and assure their own ends. |
| June 20. |
116. Sir Ferdinando Gorges to [Sec. Windebank]. Reasons to prove the consequence of maintaining and supporting foreign plantations, with marginal remarks [in inverted commas] in Lord Cottington's hand. Points out that the Romans, Spaniards, &c. by these means, increased their territories. "Romans, Spanish, and Dutch did and do conquer, not plant tobacco and Puritanism only, like fools." Replies to objections against these designs, on seditious and schismatical grounds, and sets forth the honour the King is like to receive. "What honor, if no profit, but extreme scandal to the whole Christian world." Refers to the multitude of people going over and taking provisions and corn with them, but adds, the poorer sort always go provided only for the time of their voyage. "If they had stayed at home they would have labored in the Commonwealth for their sustenance, now we must labor for them." Means by which the refractory may be drawn to submit to a general Governor. |
June 27.
Mr. Pym's
House. |
Minutes of a Committee for Providence Island. State of accounts between the Company and Wil. Woodcock on the voyages of the Mary Hope and the Happy Return. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 341–42.] |
June 28.
London. |
117. William Clobery to Sec. Coke. Complaining of wrongs and oppressions which he and his partners suffer from Lord Baltimore's people in Maryland, who have wholly ruinated their plantatations. The Earl of Stirling will join his mediation with the King for their relief. |
