America and West Indies: January 1634 | British History Online

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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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January 1634



Jan. 24. Star Chamber.	1. Order of the Court of Star Chamber. Upon petition of merchants, and owners of ships of Plymouth, Dartmouth, Barnstaple, and others who use the fishing trade in Newfoundland, complaining of abuses; approving the report of Attorney General Noye, appended, who certifies his opinion as to the remedies to be applied; and directing that copies be forth with published as well in several of the western parts of England as in Newfoundland. [Copy. On 29 Jan., upon another petition from the same persons, the Privy Council ordered that merchants and owners of shipping, and all others that benefit by the fishing trade in Newfoundland, should contribute equal proportions to the great charges that will be incurred in carrying out these laws. [See Council Register.]
Jan. 24.	Another copy of the proceding. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. LXV., pp. 28–31.]
Jan. [24.]	2. Attorney Gen. Noye to the Privy Council. The King may give laws to Newfoundland. Submits some that may serve for the present, with power to certain mayors of towns, to execute them. [Extract from the report above mentioned, where these laws are recited at length.]
January 27.	Minutes of a Committee for Association Island. Capt. Hilton's accounts. Debt from Lieut. Buckley. Being informed of Capt. Hilton's intention to desert the island and draw most of the inhabitants along with him, ordered that Lieut. Buckley be entrusted with a declaration to be publicly read to the planters, assuring them of the care and protection of the Company, and dissuading them from changing certain ways of profit already discovered for uncertain hopes suggested by fancy or persuasion. Debt from Abrah. Chamberlayne. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 120, 122.]