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April 2.
Whitehall.
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1454. Warrant for the ship Antonio Guiseppe di Venetia, of 150
tons, manned with Italians, Antonio Dura, master, belonging to
English merchants, of London, to sail to New England for fish, &c.,
and thence to Cadiz or Malaga and back to England. 1 p. [Dom.
Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. XXV., p. 3.]
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April 2-5.
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1455. Minutes of the Council of Barbadoes. Act for payment of
the charges of the Assembly read and passed 27 March. Particulars
of round shot to be provided for the island to be presented to the
Assembly. Ordered by the Assembly that Capt. Egginton send for
half of same from New England.
April 3.—Proclamation that no persons to whom press warrants
have been granted presume to press any more persons by virtue
thereof. Request of the Assembly that Capt. Morris' ship be ordered
to sea, to the end ships trading hither may not be terrified to abandon
the trade by the evil success of such as have within four hours been
taken within sight of the island. Capt. Morris' instructions.
April 5.—Warrant to search suspected places for seamen. 6 pp.
[Col. Entry Bk., No. XI., pp. 157-162.]
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April 4.
Jamaica.
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1456. Gov. Sir Thos. Modyford to Sec. Lord Arlington. Sends
copies of his last letters, since which has only received his Majesty's
despatch of Nov. 15, with his Lordship's of the 24th of Nov. What
his Lordship has written touching Gov. Modyford's brother's coming
is not at all intimated by himself or any other, so is infinitely obliged
for the knowledge of it. The French have had success on Montserrat
and upwards of 600 of their inhabitants have come hither this month,
extremely plundered, even to their very shirts, so that many would
have perished, had they not been relieved by the charity of the
planters, who are in great plenty of provisions, whereby the burthen
will be the easier borne. Expects with much impatience the arrival
of his only brother. ½ p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXI., No. 31.]
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April 7.
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1457. Ri. Watts to Williamson. Yesterday at Dover saw a
letter from a merchant in Middleboro' to a merchant in Dover
assuring him it was there strongly reported the Spaniards had
entered on Jamaica and possessed themselves of it, and massacred
men, women, and children of the English. [Dom., Chas. II., Vol.
CXCVI., No. 121, Cal., p. 17.]
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April 11-16.
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1458. Minutes of the Council of Barbadoes. On consideration of
letters from Col. Russell, Gov. of Nevis, to Lieut.-Gen. Henry Willoughby
that his presence is expected and will be a reviving to the
inhabitants and a security to his Majesty's interest, ordered that he
depart forthwith to Nevis and conduct the forces there, and that
Col. Wm. Willoughby be received to supply his place in the Government,
which resolves are to be laid before the Assembly. Order
to Colonels Wm. Willoughby, Hugh Powell, Wm. Sharpe, and Rich.
Bayley to discharge the guards of their regiments at the seaport
towns, care having been taken for the guard of the island by sea.
Warrant to Col. Wm. Willoughby and Fras. Tyrwhitt to pay certain
charges of the meetings of the Governors, Council, and Assembly
out of the account of 4½ per cent.
April 12.—Orders : To Major Bate to deliver 500 matchlocks and
1,000 lbs. of match on board the Norwich frigate for the Leeward
Isles ; to William Byrdall to sell the 500 muskets to the inhabitants
of Nevis, and deliver the match and shot to Col. Russell ; to Capt.
Robert Worden of the Norwich, to sail forthwith for Nevis and follow
the orders of Capt. Berry, and to Col. Wm. Willoughby, the treasurer,
to pay 8,700 lbs. of sugar to Elizabeth Barnes, for the accommodations
of her house. Answer of the Assembly to the resolutions of the
Governors and Council of the 11th inst. concerning the administration
of the government during the absence of Gov. Henry Willoughby.
April 16.—The Assembly are desired to take into consideration
the further fortifications of the island and to pass an Act to that
purpose. 6 pp. [Col. Entry Bk., No. XI., pp. 162-168.]
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April 12.
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1459. Warrant for the ship Charity of 60 tons, manned with
foreign seamen, Edward Kerton, master, to make a voyage to New
England and thence to Bilboa. ½ p. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II.,
Vol. XXV., p. 5.]
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[April 19.]
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1460. Petition of Sarah, relict of Capt. John Whitty, to the King
in Council. Petitioner with other planters in Virginia are owners
of the ship America built in Virginia by Capt. Whitty. Prays for
a license for said vessel with six mariners to proceed to Virginia.
Indorsed, Received 19th April 1667. ½ p. [Col. Papers, Vol.
XXI., No. 32.]
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April?
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1461. Private instructions [from Col. Nicolls] to [Robt.] Needham,
[Thos.] Delavall, and Mr. Van Ruyven [appointed by a Commission
dated 16 April 1667] Commissioners to Esopus. 1. To examine first
the papers of complaints and make choice of the most notorious.
2. To read their commission in the hearing of all the people at Esopus
attended by a file of soldiers ; Wm. Fisher to be first tried because
a man was killed, and witnesses to be examined whether there was
malice or former grudges ; whether knives were drawn against him
when the quarrel began ; considering the testimonies of the doctor
and surgeons Nicolls conceives the Commissioners will find him
guilty of manslaughter, and they will let the people know that the
laws of England direct them so, for if the Dutchman ran upon the
sword to assault Fisher it may have happened in his own defence.
3. When they examine the rising in arms they will find that
Broadhead only offered to fling a dish at the brewer but did not,
and also to draw his sword but could not ; that the brewer
made the first assault, and that the King's officer is not of so
mean a quality as to be struck by a burgher. They will then
call the most violent actors and promotors of the riot before them,
and open the case by telling them that the rising in arms against
an established garrison of his Majesty's is by the laws of England
no less than treason ; to admit of no reasonings, but to tell them
that Nicolls once forgave some of the inhabitants the same crime,
and their names are upon record in the town book. They are to call
these double offenders to an account for all the rest, and the most
notorious, not exceeding six to sentence guilty of a treasonable and
malicious riot, the final sentence of punishment to be remitted to
Nicolls, to be sent with a guard of Musqueteers to the Redout
prisoners and brought in the sloop with the Commissioners. 4.
They will find Broadhead hath broken Nicolls' instructions several
times, so they will suspend him from his employment for keeping
the brewer in prison after being ordered to release him, the rest
will be committed to Nicolls. 6. Needham may best speak what
deserves to be sharply resented against the soldiers, Delavall and Van
Ruyven [against] the burghers. 7. Nicolls looks upon Albert Heymans
and Anthony D. Elba as great incendiaries and disaffected live
persons ; if their words be proved they shall not be suffered to
in this Government ; if actors in this riot pitch upon them for ring-leaders
and secure their estates. The lieutenant headed the men, he
cannot be excused. 8. Leaves it to their discretion to alter instructions
formerly given to Broadhead, "because the alteration of men's
humours may require some alteration of instructions." 9. Engage
as little as may be in slight matters ; discourage not the soldiers
too much in public lest the Boors insult them ; appear favourable
to most of the latter but severe against the principal incendiaries,
and tell them freely that Nicolls will proceed against every man
as shall lift arms against his Majesty's garrison, as rebellious subjects
and common enemies. 10. As they are not tied to carry on a commission
by jury, they will avoid much trouble by admitting very
few where they sit, two witnesses to one matter are as good as 20.
11. As it is impossible for Nicolls' to direct them in many things,
much latitude is left to their discretion and good conscience. To
govern themselves in this Commission by the main vote, whereunto
the third dissenting is to acquiesce. Draft with corrections in
Nicolls' hand. Printed in New York Documents, III., 149, 150.
3½ pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXI., No. 33.]
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April 20/30
Quebec.
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1462. Gov. Tracy to the Capt. and Commissaries of Albany. Has
written so full an answer to their Governor-General as also to themselves
that it will not be necessary to make repetition thereof. Will
endeavour to acknowledge the civil respect they seem to bear him
as far as the [French] King's service will permit him. Should be
sorry they should think he could believe they had either directly
or indirectly a hand in the murder of those gentlemen by the
Iroquois, and must confess that the French have been obliged to the
Dutch for having withdrawn many of them out of the Indians'
hands ; but the Dutch gave them the just acknowledgment that
the French have hindered the Algonquins from making war on the
Dutch. Since their Governor-General orders them not to interpose
in the French affairs with the Iroquois they'll do prudently to obey
him. Could have desired they had never made any proposition on the
subject, for they would have been less sensitive of Tracy's displeasure
at the death of those gentlemen. The Dutch bastard has no commission
further than to deliver these present. French, 1 p. [Col
Papers, Vol. XXI., No. 34.]
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April 20/30
Quebec.
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1463. An English translation of the preceding, in which the
Iroquois are called the Maquaes, Printed in New York Documents,
III., 150, 151. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXI., No. 35.]
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April 20/30.
Quebec.
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1464. A Dutch translation of the above. [Col. Papers, Vol.
XXI., No. 36.]
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April 20/30.
Quebec.
May 2/12.
Montreal.
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1465. M. De Tracy to M. Corlart [Arendt Van Curler]. Has
received his letter of 14 Feb with those of his Governor-General and
Commissaries, and sends his answers. Will send the news when the
expected ships arrive from Europe. The news of the great victory
the Dutch have gained over the English is confirmed ; it came from
Amsterdam, where they do not puff out victories of smoke or wind.
Has offered such reasonable conditions to the Annies [Mohawks] and
all their tribes, as he doubts not they will accept peace, and has
given them till the 16/26 June for their resolution. The Bastard
Fleming ought to return, and will be treated favourably for Curler's
sake ; has had him accompanied by Frenchmen of consideration to
the head of Lake Champlain ; and he has also Tracy's passport to
the end of June next, which will serve him to go and return. Is
obliged to his Governor-General and himself for their kindness to
the Sr. des Fontaines. If he can come to Quebec this summer he
shall be entertained with all his power, Tracy having great esteem
for him, though personally unknown. The Bastard Fleming says
that he has given some presents which have not been responded to ;
will inquire into the truth from the Peré Chamonot, who is at Quebec.
Corlart can tell the Annies that at their return they shall receive
full satisfaction. Printed in New York Documents, III., 151, 152.
French, 2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXI., No. 37.]
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April 20/30.
Quebec.
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1466. Gov. Tracy to [Col Nicolls]. In answer to his of the
31st August last, will tell him that M. de Courcelle, Governor-General
of this country, signifying a desire to make some inroad on the Iroquois,
Tracy gave him permission to take as many soldiers as he
thought fit ; whereupon he advanced within 15 or 20 leagues of the
villages of the Annies [Mohawks], but his guides conducting him a
wrong way he did not meet with them till he surprised some in two
small huts near the village. M. de Courcelle had no intention to infringe
the peace, for understanding that he was on Dutch lands (for till
then they had no intelligence that New Holland was under any other
dominion), he hindered his companies from falling into the village
or taking provisions, &c. The French nation is too much inclined to
acknowledge courtesies not to confess that the Dutch have had very
much charity in redeeming from the Iroquois divers who would
otherwise have been burnt. Is also persuaded that they had a sincere
intention for the conclusion of a firm peace between the French
and Iroquois, and they ought to believe that the French have always
forbidden the Algonquins to make war upon or kill them. By his
letter of 14th July last to the Dutch gentlemen, and his request to
the Reverend Father Bechefer, he will see his confidence in their
friendship. It is true the death of some gentlemen who went a
fowling in confidence of the letter of those gentlemen of 26th March
1666 (which was published in his garrisons) gave him a great deal of
discontent, and obliged him to change his design of adventuring the
persons of the Rev. Father Bechefer and others, but he never thought
of accusing those Dutch gentlemen of holding intelligence with the
Iroquois in so foul an action, but wrote only to oblige them to
counsel the Iroquois to deliver up the actors of that murder.
Tracy's letter of 22nd July to the Commissaries at Albany might
have informed him what the Sr. Cousture was, and he is very sorry
Nicolls took the pains of a voyage to Albany to have discourse with
an ordinary messenger. Nicolls' intention of embracing always the
interest of Europe against the Indians of America is very commendable,
as also the passion he expresses for the interest of his Majesty
of Great Britain. Returns thanks for his desires for mutual correspondence
of civility and respect. Has served the King in Germany
in the most considerable commands of his armies, when Tracy's son
(not himself) was known to Nicolls in Flanders, where he commanded
his Majesty's foreign cavalry, and had a very particular respect for
the person and the great merit of the Duke of York. Nicolls has no
reason to expect less services from him than he might have received
from his son. Nicolls must have heard from divers of his nation how
he has done them courtesies with passion ; has therefore cause to
complain that a ship of Boston took in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in
June 1665 (five months before the declaration of war) a barque
belonging to Tracy laden with strong waters, &c. from France, but as
he knows no interest but that of his Majesty, he will easily forget that
loss till the conclusion of peace. French, 3½ pp. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XXI., No. 38.]
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April 20/30.
Quebec.
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1467. An English translation of the preceding. Printed in New
York Documents, III., 152-154. 6½ pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXI.,
No. 39.]
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April?
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1468. Petition of James Ward to the King. His wife was convicted
at the Oxford quarter sessions of stealing goods value 3s. 4d. ; prays
for an order for stay of execution, and for her transportation to any
of his Majesty's Plantations. [Dom., Chas. II., Vol. CXCVIII., No.
15, Cal., p. 48.]
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April 26.
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1469. Warrant to permit the ship Scout, of 70 tons, manned with
foreign seamen, to make a voyage to his Majesty's Plantations in
America on giving security to return. ½ p. [Dom. Entry Bk.,
Chas. II., Vol. XXV., p. 6.]
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