America and West Indies: December 1637 | 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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December 1637



Dec. 9. Brooke House.	Minutes as above. Financial business. Resolved to move Lord Holland to obtain leave from the King for the Deputy [Henry Darley] and John Pym to stay in town at Christmas to attend to the Company's affairs. Discussion upon Capt. Bell's demands deferred. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., p. 308.]
Dec. 11. Brooke House.	Minutes as above. Debate upon Capt. Bell's propositions concerning his services when Governor in the island, for upwards of five years. He alleges that he had received near 25 servants short, about the value of 1,250l. Exceptions. The Sec. ordered to deliver them in writing with statement of his accounts. Finance. News brought that Capt. Newman was off the coast, John Woodcock sent to the Downs with letters of instruction. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 308–10.]
1637?	78. Memorial from "the Customer of London" [to the Privy Council?] concerning passes and passengers out of the kingdom. The oath of allegiance is administered by statute to all passengers, and the names certified to the Exchequer yearly. Describes the practice that has since been followed, until last year, when there was a proclamation to prohibit all passengers, but under six of the hands of the Privy Council. Mayhew then procured the grant of Clerk of all passes, and a new commission was directed to the officers of the Custom House. A proclamation is now made restraining the disorderly passing out of the kingdom into America, and commanding that none of the King's subjects be permitted to go, without licence from the Commissioners for Plantations, and a certificate that they have taken the oaths of allegiance and of conformity to the discipline of England; returns to be made every half year to the Commissioners. The memorialist desires to know whether wives, children, and servants are to be permitted to go with those who bring these certificates for America; how and where the returns are to be made; whether Virginia is restrained to the same limitations, because most of those who go thither have ordinarily no habitations, can bring no certificates, and are better out than within the kingdom; and from whom their Lordships expect an exact account of all their directions, the Customer of London holding himself liable only to see the oath of allegiance administered.
1637?	79. Petition of Eleanor Babb, wife of Thos. Babb, of Wapping, mariner, to Algernon Earl of Northumberland, Lord High Admiral. About four years since her husband contracted in New England with Edward Trelawny, then residing there, for goods to the value of 200l.; but, having returned to England, he refuses to pay the money. Her husband has since obtained sentence in the Admiralty Court against Trelawny, who brought an action at common law against her husband to avoid it, and obtained a verdict for 200l. Prays for protection, her husband being absent on a voyage to the Streights, and for maintenance of the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty.