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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1860.

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'America and West Indies: April 1639', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660, ed. W Noel Sainsbury( London, 1860), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol1/p293 [accessed 29 November 2024].

April 1639



April. 3. Westminster.	Grant to Sir Ferdinando Gorges of certain lands in New England to be hereafter called the province or county of Maine. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. LIX., pp. 61–92.]
April 3.	Abstract of the above. [Colonial Corresp., 1620, Nov. 3.]
April 3.	Minute of the above. [Ibid.]
April 4. James City.	19. Richard Kemp, Sec. of Virginia, to Robert Reade, secretary to Sec. Windebank. The colony is assured by constant reports that Virginia affairs are reduced under the old form of government by a Company. Sir Francis Wyatt, the newly-elected Governor, daily expected. Desires "to be spared from his employment," and leave to repair to England; also his furtherance in the payment of his fees and allowance, which by order of the Lords were lately suspended. Geo. Reade, his brother, wished to have some servants sent over; but has advised him to attend this change before he engaged himself further upon the place, "for if their former courses in government be pursued, miserable will be the terms of the planters."
April 23.	News-letter [from Edmund Rossingham]. Last week a proclamation was issued to suppress 27 patents of monopolies; but the patent to Lord Stirling for making knight baronets of New Eng-England [Nova Scotia?] is left out. It is said these knights shall have no other place than the law allows them, and there was no need, therefore, to put it in the proclamation. [Extract from DOMESTIC Corresp. Car. I.]