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Nov. 1.
Whitehall. |
461. Mr. Popple to John Pery, Secretary of the Royal
African Company. Asks for several returns, including an account
of the number of negroes furnished by the Company to the several
Plantations, Michaelmas 1708–1710, at what rates and the
condition upon which they have been sold. [C.O. 389, 21. pp.
293, 294.] |
Nov. 1.
Whitehall. |
462. Same to Richard Harris. Encloses following to be
communicated to the separate traders for their answers.
Annexed, |
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462. i. Queries for the separate traders. (1) How much has
been paid to the company by the separate traders on
account of the 10 p.c. (to the South African Company),
Michaelmas 1709–1710? (2) How many ships have been
sent out on account of that trade by the private traders
within that time? (3) What number of negroes have
been imported into the Plantations by the private traders,
Michaelmas 1709–1710, and at what rates have they
usually been sold within that time? [C.O. 389, 21.
pp. 294, 295.] |
Nov. 1.
Virgenia. |
463. Col. Jenings to [? Lord Dartmouth]. Congratulations.
Continues: — An Assembly approaching, I have delayed my
intended [? return home] till the spring, etc. Signed, E. Jenings.
2 pp. [C.O. 5, 1337. No. 6.] |
Nov. 1.
Virginia. |
464. Col. Jenings to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Refers to letter of Aug. 19 q.v. The Assembly being mett, where
I hope I may be serviceable to H.M., I shall delay my voyage
till the spring, etc. Signed, E. Jenings. Endorsed, Recd. 4th,
Read 8th June, 1711. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 1316. No. 60; and 5,
1363. pp. 273, 274.] |
Nov. 2.
Hampton Court. |
465. Order of Queen in Council. Upon Representation
of Sept. 26 (q.v.), ordered that the Engineer at Jamaica be sent to
New Providence to make a survey and estimate of the charge of
fortifying it. The Lords of the Admiralty are to order his transport etc. (v. A.P.C. II., No. 1060). Endorsed, Recd. 24th, Read
27th Nov., 1710. 1½ pp. [C.O. 5, 1264. No. 104; and 5,
1292. pp. 233, 234; and (signed, William Blathwayt) 5, 11.
No. 57.] |
Nov. 2.
Barbados. |
466. Mr. Lillington to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Acknowledges letter of Aug. 29 and encloses duplicates of Minutes
of Council and Assembly sent by the Lusitaniah. The refusal
of the Councill to confer with the Assembly (after the Councill
had once before and since their appeal to H.M. confer'd with the
Assembly upon the like amendments to a former Bill) I humbly
submitt to your Lordships consideration. Signed, G. Lillington.
Endorsed, Recd. 8th, Read 23rd Jan., 17 10/11. Addressed. Per
ye Mattapony Gally. Postmark. 1 p. [C.O. 28, 13. No. 54;
and 29, 12. pp. 325, 326.] |
Nov. 2.
Whitehall. |
467. Mr. Popple to Col. Steward and Mr. Royle. H.M.
having by her Order in Council (Jan. 26, 1710) directed the Lords
Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to report to her what
they shall judge most requisite and proper to be done for
preventing any irregular proceeding in H.M. Courts of Justice
in Barbadoes, they desire you will consider thereof, and consult
with Mr. Waters and such other gentlemen as you may think
proper, and then let their Lordships have in writing an accot.
of such irregularities in the proceedings of the said Courts as
have fallen under your observation, as also that you would
propose to their Lordships what you think proper for redressing
the same. The paper that was read to you yesterday (? v). Oct.
26) being the private thoughts of a particular person, and only
read to open the matter to you, and let you see what it was their
Lordships enquired about, they do not think convenient to give
you copies of it. [C.O. 29, 12. pp. 315, 316.] |
Nov. 2.
Hampton Court. |
468. Order of Queen in Council. Repealing laws of Maryland, as recommended Oct. 26, q.v. Signed. Wm. Blathwayt.
Endorsed, Recd. Read Nov. 8, 1710. 4¼ pp. [C.O. 5, 717. No.
18; and 5, 727. p. 197.] |
Nov. 2.
Whitehall. |
469. Mr. Popple to Sir Robert Raymond, Solicitor General.
Encloses Laws past in Maryland 1706, 1707, 1708. The Council
of Trade desire your opinion in point of law upon 5 of these,
(1) An Act declaring several Acts of Parliament to be in force
within this Province; (2) An Act against forging and counterfeiting of foreign coines of gold or silver; (3) An Act confirming
and explaining the Charter to the City of Annapolis; (4) An
Act directing the manner of electing and summoning delegates
and Representatives to serve in succeeding Assemblies; (5)
An Act ascertaining fees to the Attorneys and Practitioners of
the Law. [C.O. 5, 727. pp. 199–201.] |
Nov. 2.
Hampton Court. |
470. Order of Queen in Council. The Lord Dartmouth is
to prepare an Instruction empowering the Governor of New
York to alter the covenant in grants of land as proposed Oct.
26 q.v. Signed, William Blathwayt. 1¾ pp. [C.O. 5, 1091.
No. 25.] |
Nov. 3.
Whitehall. |
471. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Earl of
Dartmouth. Having received from the President and Councill
of Maryland the three (enclosed) Addresses, we desire that you will
please to receive H.M. pleasure thereupon, that in case it be
thought requisite, Additional Instructions may be prepared
for Col. Corbett before his departure for Maryland. [C.O. 5,
727. pp. 194, 195.] |
Nov. 3.
Whitehall. |
472. Same to Same. Enclose draught of Instructions for
Col. Corbett, Governor of Maryland, "which are to the same
purpose as those that were given to Col. Seymour, or sent to him
as Additional Instructions except that we have added one clause,
No. 17, relating to the passing of Laws, which affect the property
of H.M. subjects residing in Great Britain, which clause we
humbly submit to H.M. And there being three vacancies
in the said Councill by the death of three of the Members thereof,
and Philemon Lloyd, Richard Tilghman and John Dorsey Esqs.
having been recommended to us as persons of good estates,
well affected to H.M. Government and well qualify'd to serve
H.M. in that station, we have incerted their names in the list
of Counsellors, and humbly offer that H.M. be pleased to constitute
and appoint them accordingly." Mem. Col. Corbet not going
over to Maryland his Commission and Instructions are not
entred. [C.O. 5, 727. pp. 195, 196.] |
Nov. 4.
Whitehall. |
473. Mr. Popple to William Penn. The Council of Trade
and Plantations having under consideration your proposal for
a surrender of your Government of Pennsylvania, and taking
notice that the expence you have been at, in the setling of that
Province, is among other things made a ground of your demand of
a sum of mony upon such surrender, wherefore in order to their
laying a full and clear state of this matter before H.M., their
Lordships judge it necessary to have plain and distinct answers
to the several following queries, vizt., (1) What are the profits
you have made of that Province, computing the yearly value
of quit-rents or other the property remaining in you? (2) How
the said profits have arisen, whether by fines, forfeitures, or
otherwise? (3) What benefit or advantages will the Crown
receive from that Colony by purchasing the Government, more
than it now hath, and how the same may arise? (4) What is the
annual charge of that Government? (5) What revenue is now
subsisting for the support of that Government, the yearly value
of such revenue, and for what time granted? (6) Whether you
have granted any priviledges and immunities, by Charter or
otherwise, to the city of Philadelphia, or other towns or Corporations in the Province of Pennsylvania, other than what are
granted by the Charter to the City of Philadelphia, dated Oct.
25, 1701, and by the Charter of Priviledges to the People of
Pennsylvania, dated Oct. 28, 1701? So soon as you shall have
given in your answer to the above queries (which you are desir'd
to do as fully, and as far as may be without reference to any
papers formerly deliver'd into this office or any former transactions
thereon), their Lordships will then proceed in the further
consideration of this affair, and confer with you as occasion shal
require, that the same receive all possible dispatch. [C.O.
5, 1292. pp. 229–231.] |
Nov. 4.
Maryland. |
474. President and Council of Maryland to the Council of
Trade and Plantations. As wee hold it an indispensable duty and
obligation on us in the absence of a Governour in chiefe continually by all occasions to correspond with your Honble. Board,
so wee shall allways endeavour to performe and discharge the
same as farr as in us lyes, etc. Acknowledge letter of Jan. 16.
In answer whereto wee have used our best endeavours to make
the Assembly which met Oct. 24 last sencible [of the advantage the
country reaps from the itinerant Judges], and perswade them to
settle such reasonable allowances as your Lordships may see
by the Journalls of the Councill and Assembly now transmitted,
but have not been able to prevaile with them, nay they are so
farr averse to that method of judicature, that they have absolutely
refused to make any satisfaction to the Gent. whome his late
Excellency Col. Seymour appointed to that service for the payns
they have already taken, having resolved in the House of
Delegates in their proceedings of Oct. 26, that the country ought
not to be at that charge, and that that Constitution is very ill
convenient to the Country, and imposed upon them against
their consent, and indeed the Province seems at present a little
to young and thin seated for that Constitution, as hath been
found upon the experience had for these two years, and the lawyers
living most of them at the seate of Governmt. upon the Assembly's
refusing to allow them fees for attending the Assizes, being
unwilling to make up their issues to the severall Countys, avoid
the same as much as in them ly's, and lay all their transitory
actions in Ann Arundell County where the Provinciall Court is
held, and often when concern'd in locall actions refuse to go to
the Assizes held in the remoter Countys, which wee must needs
say has been a great delay and hindrance of justice since this
Constitution has been sett on foot, and is generally complayn'd
of through the whole Province. Wee herewith transmitt the
number of men, women, children, servants and slaves within
this Province, and cannot but observe to you how great the
encrease of negroes is with us, and the miserable and deplorable
circumstances of many good planters, to whom their servts.
and slaves are become even burthensome by the low price of
tobacco's at home. The generallity of the Planters, especially
such as have shipped their tobaccos to their correspondents in
London, are become greately indebted to the merchants, and
very many of their plantations and stocks are wholy mortgaged
and forfeyted to them, and others dayly desert their abodes for
feare of being imprisoned, and repair to the Southern Colonys,
vizt. South or North Carolina or elsewhere, to seeke new settlemts.,
all manner of cloathing and English goods is and has been excessive deare all this warr, the country merchants advancing 200
p.c. on their comoditys, and refusing to deale for tobacco, when
at the same time the country produce both of tobacco and stocks
of cattle is extreame low, tobacco generally not above 4s. per
cent., and cows and yearlings rated at 30s. current, which used
to be £3 10s. and £4 sterl., by which your good Lordships may well
see how much land is likewise fallen, and the present distressed
circumstances of this Province, notwithstanding all which
oppression is still encreased by the insatiable avarice of many
creditors, who are very instant in renewing their debtors'
protested bills, refusing to take any other satisfaction than money
sterl. which cannot be had here, and threatning them with
imediate imprisonmt. in case they renew them not, with their
best friends endorsers thereon, so that many others besides the
principall debtors are become desperatly involved. Wee doubt not
but your Lordships are sencible the charge of this Governmt. is
supported and defrayed by an equall assessment in tobacco raysed
upon the severall taxable persons of this Province, and that by
speciall Acts of the Generall Assembly and not otherwise. For the
discharge whereof and for that severall necessary laws were
allmost expired, wee thought it advisable to convene the Generall
Assembly the 24th of Oct. last, who among other of their transactions this Session presented and earnestly insisted upon a
law herewith transmitted, for relieving the inhabitants from some
agrievances they lie under, and as wee knew it was our duty to be
very carefull of H.M. Prerogative in not lessning the jurisdiction
of the Provinciall Court, so wee were very unwilling to concurr
with the House of Delegates pressing instances. But being
throughly sencible of the deplorable circumstances of very many
of H.M. subjects here dayly arrested, and brought from the
remotest parts of the Province to the Provinciall Court, wee
were, though very much against our will, prevayled with to
agree to the passing of the said Bill for two years continuance,
hoping it may be some ease to the inhabitants, and prevent their
fears and deserting their settlements, for wee could not but be
sencible of the great oppression of the creditors and ill practices
of attorneys in suing the drawers of bills and endossers severally
to their manifest impoverishment and utter ruine. Wee assure
your Lordships that if wee had not thought this law was of the
greatest importance for H.M. service in easing the hardships and
fears of her subjects here, and preventing their desertion from
this her Province, where if it pleases God to send us an happy
Peace and the marketts open they may be most serviceable
to Her and her Kingdom of Great Brittain, wee should not have
ever adher'd thereto, for wee are not unapprehensive of the
many ill colours and misrepresentations of it that will be handed
to your Lordships. But when it is considered that speedy justice
is no ways prevented, the creditors having their spedyer remedy
in the severall County Courts (tho' it must be confest with a little
more payns in solliciting their suits by themselvs and agents
there), yet at the same time at farr less charge, wee hope the good
intent may well appologize for the unwilling essay wee have made
on this so pressing occasion, and that your Lordships will accept
our demeanour herein as candidly as wee have used it for H.M.
interest and service, etc. Signed, Edwd. Lloyd, Wm. Holland,
Will. Coursey, Tho. Ennalls, Saml. Young, Tho. Greenfield,
Jno. Hall, Cha. Greenberry. Endorsed, Recd. 16th July, Read
3rd Aug., 1711. 5 pp. Enclosed, |
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474. i. Census of Maryland, 1710; Masters and taxable men,
11,091. White women, 8294. White children, 15,411.
Negros, 7945. Examined by, W. Bladen, Cl. Concil.
Endorsed, Recd. July 16, 1710. 1 p. |
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474. ii. Minutes of the Committee of Accounts, Oct., 1710.
Endorsed as preceding. 26 pp. [C.O. 5, 717. Nos.
43, 43 i., ii.; and (without enclosures) 5, 727. pp.
295–302.] |
Nov. 9.
Hampton Court. |
475. Order of Queen in Council. Appointing Philemon
Lloyd, Richard Tilghman and John Dorsey Members of Council
of Maryland. Signed, William Blathwayt. 1¾ pp. [C.O. 5,
721. No. 9.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
476. Council of Trade and Plantations to Edward Lloyd,
President of the Council of Maryland. Enclose Order of Council,
Nov. 2, and repeat letter of Oct. 26. [C.O. 5, 727. pp. 198, 199.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
477. Mr. Popple to Mr. Lowndes. Representation on Mr.
Day's petition, Oct. 13 q.v. The Council of Trade have considered
Mr. Blathwayt's report etc. They find that by the proceedings
of the Court of Assize, Bermuda, Dec. 1701, the title to the land
in question is in the Crown; it contains about half an acre of
ground, and did formerly belong to the house appointed for the
Governor and called a garden, tho' we cannot learn it was ever
cultivated as such; it lyes at some small distance from the house
in which the present Governor now lives; the building the said
house on that ground is not any inconvenience to the said
Governor, and cost Mr. Day, as their Lordships have been
informed by the Petitioner, between 5 and £600. Their Lordships
observe that by virtue of an Act past in Bermuda in 1693, for
selling the Governor's old house and directing a new house to be built
for the entertainment and accommodation of the present and succeeding Governors, the said old house and land on which it stood
(which belonged to the Crown) were sold; but a new house not
having yet been built, the Assembly do rent a house for the
Governor at the rate of £40 a year, which is not so good or convenient a house as that built by Mr. Day. Wherefore their
Lordships, having discoursed with the Petitioner, who has
declared his readiness to dispose of the said house for £200 sterl.,
are of opinion that it would be for H.M. service that the Assembly
of Bermuda do purchase that house of the Petitioner for the
Governor's use, in lieu of the old one sold by them, and which has
not been rebuilt as aforesaid. But in case the Assembly shall
not comply herewith, then their Lordships have no objection
why H.M. may not graciously be pleased to grant the said
ground to the petitioner according to the prayer of his petition.
[C.O. 38, 6. pp. 492–494.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
478. Council of Trade and Plantations to Lt. Governor
Spotswood. Enclose letter from Mr. Burchett (Oct. 28, q.v.)
relating to guardships for Virginia, etc. [C.O. 5, 1363. pp. 224,
225; and 5, 1335. pp. 76, 77.] |
Nov. 9.
New Yorke. |
479. Mr. Bridger to [? Lord Dartmouth] the Principal
Secretary of State. Compliments on his appointment etc. I have
with the Governor (cf. July 26, Nov. 14) been up Hudson's River
at Albany and Schinectada, and have view'd several great tracts
of pitch pine proper for the making tar, pitch, etc. Those tracts
together with some more I have since seen will be capable of
producing a sufficient quantity for the Royal Navy, and if fully
supported at home enough for all Brittain; and this Goverment
together with those on this Continent will be capable of making
Great Brittain the mart or sale of all Europe for Naval Stores,
but unless fully supply'd this great and good designe must fall
entierly. This land proposed in the Maquas countrey for the
setlement of the Palatines is so far up into the country and no
pitch pine there renders it uncapable of that service; in order
therefore to lay this designe on a better and more sure foundation,
the Governor has purchased 6000 acres of land on Hudson's
River, etc. v. Nov. 14. The last spring was advanced so far
before the Palatines' arrival, that it was to late to prepare any
trees, by wch. a year is lost, etc. I am more than £500 out of my
own money above my salary for the past 5 years, having no
travailing charges, etc. Signed, J. Bridger. Endorsed, Sent
an extract to the Treasury. 2 pp. [C.O. 5, 1091. No. 26.] |
Nov. 10.
New Yorke. |
480. Same to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Duplicate of preceding. Signed, J. Bridger. Endorsed, Recd.
2nd, Read 22nd Jan., 17 10/11. 2 pp. [C.O. 5, 1050. No. 11; and
5, 1122. pp. 252–255.] |
Nov. 10.
Whitehall. |
481. Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Dartmouth.
An Act having been passed here in the 3rd and 4th years of H.M.
Reign for incouraging the importation of Naval Stores from
America, and there being no provision in it for preserving of
white pines, which are the only trees proper for masts, refer
to letter etc. Dec. 19, 1709 q.v. Not being informed whether the
same has been laid before H.M., we inclose copies thereof. [C.O.
5, 3. Nos. 39, 39 i; and 324, 9. pp. 447, 448.] |
