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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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February 1639



Feb. 12.	Minutes as above. Concerning Capt. Bells' proposition to refer his differences with the Company to the Earl of Holland. Resolutions on several letters received from Capt. Newman and Sir Balt. Gerbier concerning the imprisonment of the former. Commission to be made out for Mrs. Hart and her associates to send a ship to the West Indies, under Capt. John Dell. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 348–49.]
Feb. 14. Warwick House.	Minutes as above. Copy of Capt. Newman's commission to be sent to Dunkirk, read, with reasons why the Company sent forth ships to take Spanish goods. Ordered that the Earl of Holland should be entreated to move the King that Sir B. Gerbier be written to, in Capt. Newman's favour; heads of the letter. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 349–50.]
Feb. 15. Warwick House	Minutes as above. Instructions for better prosecution of the business in Holland against Capt. Diego are delivered to John Gossage, and 10l. on account. Order upon the suit of Mrs. Wells for tobacco belonging to her husband, in the Custom House. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 350–51.]
Feb. 16. Warwick House.	Minutes as above. Financial condition of the Company. Means of discharging the debts of the adventurers, their several proportions being in round numbers as follows:-The Earl of Warwick, 2,430l.; Lord Say, 2,660l.; Lord Mandeville, 2,280l.; Lord Brooke, 4,150l.; and John Pym, 3,185l. To encourage those who will pay in their debts and join in the future supply of the island, they are offered a share of the profits of a silver mine "found in an island within the Comp. grant," provided also that they contribute to the dispatch of a ship for that object. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 351–53.]
Feb. 16.	Licence to Henry Lord Maltravers and his assigns for 21 years to stamp farthing tokens, a distinction to be made in those to be used in England, Ireland, and Wales; with liberty "to utter the same" in all the King's foreign plantations, except Maryland; prohibition to circulate them or any other base coin upon pain of seizure, reservation of 10l. per annum to the King, and power to export them custom free. [Docquet. DOMESTIC Car. I.]