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Sept. 17.
Hampton Court. |
84. H.M. Warrant for Robert Jenny, Clerk, to be Chaplain
to the Four Independent Companys of Foot at New York.
Countersigned, J. Addison. [C.O. 324, 33. pp. 114, 115.] |
Sept. 17.
Boston. |
85. Archibald Cumings to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Acknowledges letter etc. of 12th Dec. last. Continues:
I must humbly represent that if such seizures of wooll [transported
from one Colony to another] doe not ly to be tryed in the Court
of Admiralty here it will be difficult ever to condemn such seizures
in the Courts of Common Law because both Judges and Jurys
are generally parties concerned and things of this nature being
destructive to the woolen manufactures here it cannot be expected
to have that justice in the Common Law Courts as in the Court
of Admiralty where all other seizures upon the breach of the
Acts of trade are cognoscible. Acknowledges letter of 2nd March
etc. and refers to enclosure. Continues:— Wee have had imported
this year to this time about 1,400 pipes of Azores wines, Madera,
and Canary wines into this port and about 1,500 hhds. of rume
from our own Islands besides a vast deall of suger and molosses
here was built in this Colony last year from Aprill to Aprill last
about 160 saill of vessels computing one with another att 50
tun each makes 8,000 tun of shiping and the preceding year
about 148 saill: wee have exported since Christmas to Midsummer
for Great Brittain 5,041 brls. tarr, 4,934 brls. turpentine and
3,617 brls. of pitch from this port but for your Lordships more
particular information refers to the quarterly accounts transmitted of the imports and exports from each Collector's district
to the Commissioners of the Customes etc. I have sent your
Lordships a draught of the Brittish Empire in North America
by which your Lordships will see its scituation and the inconveniencies these Colonies may be exposed to by the French
settlements upon our backs (in case of another warr) if timely
care be not taken by putting all the Colonies upon an equal foot
of Government and protection, etc. Signed, Archd. Cumings.
Endorsed, Recd. 4th, Read 6th Dec., 1717. Addressed. 1 p.
Enclosed, |
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85. i. Imports of foreign and enumerated commodities imported into Boston in New England, 1714. Molosses,
1,074 hhds., 55 barrels, 937 teirces; Sugar, 53 hhds.,
35 barls., 59 teirces; Logwood, 1,434 tuns; Rum,
29 hhds., 20 barls., 44 teirces; Cocoa, 6; Cotton wool,
32. 1715, Molosses, 900 h., 119 b., 745 t.; Sugar, 3 h.,
186 b., 48 t.; Logwood, 803 tuns; Rum, 19 h., 5 b., 26 t.;
Cocoa, 66; Cotton wool, 9. 1716, Molosses, 800 h.,
137 b., 778 t.; Sugar, 4 h., 521 b., 116 t.; Logwood,
275 tuns; Rum, 23 h., 25 b., 28 t.; Cocoa, 98; Indigo,
4½ Cotton wool, 9. 1717, (half year to Midsummer),
Molosses, 388 h., 328 b., 645 t.; Sugar, 215 b., 12 t.;
Logwood, 60 tuns; Rum. 12 h., 8 b., 6 t.; Cocoa, 7;
Indigo, 7; Cotton wool, 63. Signed, Archd. Cuming,
Surveyor and Searcher, 1 p. [C.O. 5, 866. Nos.
128, 128 i.; and 5, 915. pp. 65–68.] |
| Sept. 18. |
86. Sir Alexander Cairnes and James Douglas to the Council
of Trade and Plantations. Details of proposed settlement in
Nova Scotia of 200 persons within three years in case there be no
war with France or Spain, etc. (No. 3 i.) Undertakers first intend
to build a small town stockaded round for securing the settlers
they shall send over to be employed in making naval stores, etc.
As this country is cold and not fit for any manufacture the
settlers must have their whole supplies from Great Britain etc.
If at any time hereafter H.M. shall think it necessary to erect
a fort on that coast, the place pitched upon by H.M. shall be
assigned for that end, if not already built upon. The undertakers do not desire to hinder any persons from fishing in the
seas of the said districts. They desire to be under such form of
government as H.M. shall hereafter be pleased to appoint and
establish there. As this country is a meer wilderness, 'tis hoped
all due encouragement will be given to the undertakers, who
are ye first proposers for the settlement thereof, in doing of which
they must lay out considerable sums of money. (v. Aug. 2).
Signed, Alex. Cairnes, James Douglas. Endorsed, Recd., Read
18th Sept., 1717. 2½ pp. [C.O. 217, 2. No. 35; and 218,
1. pp. 330–333.] |
Sept. 18.
Whitehall. |
87. Council of Trade and Plantations to the King. Representation on Mr. Barwick's petition (v. Aug. 29th and Sept.
12). The time of his absence from Barbados without your
Majesty's leave will be two years at Michaelmas next so that
according to your Majesty's Instructions to the Governors of
that Island his place in the Councill is become vacant. But (for
reasons given Sept. 12) we have no objection why your Majesty
may not restore him to his place and precedency therein, and
further to allow him to continue here so much longer as may
be necessary for the affairs which brought him hither, etc. [C.O.
29, 13. pp. 395–397.] |
| [Sept. 18.] |
88. Bishop of London to Governor Lowther. Reply to May 17,
No. ii. q.v. As to Dominick Langton, (v. No. 68 i.) I take it the
House of Commons of Ireland did inflict all the punishment they
thought proportionable, nothing being mention'd of his exclusion
from preferment in any other Church. Major Mason of the
Tower assured me you had promised to provide for him, which
I think you told me also, etc. As to Acourt, if he have again
lost his senses. I shall be oblig'd to you for not employing him
etc. As to my appointment of a Commissary, by the terms you
quote I have so exactly guided myself by the tenour of the Article
in your Instructions that it is impossible there should be room
for any cavil. etc. If Mr. Gordon have so far mistaken himself
as to pretend to erect such a Court and exercise such a Jurisdiction as you very amply explain, he has done it without any
advice or direction from me, and in case it be inconvenient,
it is in your judgment how far it shall be permitted, yet so as
that you countenance and support him in the exercise of such
jurisdiction as his predecessors have used or even with such
farther enlargements as the state of Religion in the Island shall
require consistently with the peace of it. For I have not from
any other Colony so melancholy an account of the state of
religion as from yours, especially if it be true, that not long ago
a presentment was prepared by your Grand Jury to complain
of the Clergy as a nusance to the Colony. I am indeed perswaded
the attempt was as malicious as unheard of among Christians;
nevertheless it may possibly have some such foundation, as to
render it necessary to have a careful inspection into the behaviour
of the Clergy with you, and it is therefore the more my duty to
do my part in the method hitherto practised. which is by appointing a Commissary. Your demanding of me to produce Letters
Patents to authorize me to exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is
more proper for the consideration of H.M. and his Ministers, than
mine, who can best judge whether it is fit that you obey H.M.
Instructions or no. I can assure you no Governor in the other
Colonies, in which there are seven Commissarys make any such
demand or the least objection. As to the hard words you give
Mr. Gordon, they are very contrary to the accounts I have had
and still have of him; however I send him a copy of your letter,
and leave him to answer for himself. Copy, without date or
signature. Endorsed, Recd. (from the Bishop of London), Read
18th Sept., 1717. 2¼ pp. [C.O. 28, 15. No. 15.] |
Sept. 18.
Whitehall. |
89. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Addison. Reply to July 19th. The Receiver-General of Jamaica
has been oblig'd to pay the £620 out of his own stock to John
Chaplin the Receiver appointed by the Jamaica Additional Duty
Act, wch. we think a very great hardship and injustice to H.M.
Patent Officer, and an incroachment upon the Prerogative. And
therefore we are humbly of opinion, that H.M. be graciously
pleased to give an Instruction to His Governor now going over,
that he move the Assembly in H.M. name that they take care
to reimburse the said Knight the said sum, with the usual interest
of the Island for the same. Cf. A.P.C. II. No. 1283. [C.O.
138, 15. pp. 296–298.] |
Sept. 18.
Whitehall. |
90. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Addison. Enclose following to be laid before H.M. in obedience
to Order of July 31st. Annexed, |
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90. i. Draught of H.M. Additional Instruction to the Governors of Plantations. Whereas by Our Instructions to
you, you are required not to pass any law of an extraordinary or unusual nature and importance, whereby
our Prerogative or the property of our subjects may be
prejudiced without having either first transmitted
unto us the draught of such a bill or bills and our having
signifyed our Royal pleasure thereupon or that you
take care in the passing of any Act of an unusual and
extraordinary nature that there be a clause inserted
therein suspending and deferring the execution thereof
untill our pleasure be known concerning the said Act
etc. It is our further will and pleasure, that you do
not for the future pass any Act which may any ways
affect the Trade or Shipping of this our Kingdom,
without a clause expressly declaring that the said Act
shall not be in force untill it be approved and confirmed by us, our heires and successors and you are to
signify our pleasure herein to the Council and Assembly of
our Province of — under your Government. And to
take care that the same be punctually observed for
the future, upon pain of our highest displeasure. [C.O.
324, 10. pp. 134–136.] |
Sept. 18.
Whitehall. |
91. Council of Trade and Plantations to the King. Commissions having been issued by his late Majesty King William
for trying pirates in America etc. pursuant to the Act for the more
effectual suppressing of piracy, which was revived by subsequent
Acts, and by the Act in the first year of your Majesty's reign
to prevent disturbances by seamen etc. is to continue in force for
five years from 29th Sept. then next ensuing etc.; and we having
received advice of some pirates being already seized in New
York and in the Bermuda Islands are humbly of opinion that it
may be necessary that the like Commissions be renewed etc.
[C.O. 324, 10. pp. 136, 137.] |
| Sept. 18. |
92. John Mills to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Proposal for settling, planting and peopling the late French part
of St. Christophers. 300 poor families to be granted about
8 acres each near the sea. The remainder to be granted at £5
per acre to John Mills, who will re-sell the same to the present
possessors at that price, plus so much pr. acre as they shall agree
to allow him for his charge, trouble and pains etc. under certain
conditions. Signed, Jno. Mills. 10 pp. [C.O. 152, 12. No.
39.] |
| Sept. 19. |
93. Same to same. Corrects preceding, proposing 10 acres
for each poor family. At the first establishment of Barbados
and the Leeward Islands 10 acre men were established, and by
that means the inhabitants became very numerous and trade
very much increased. But the rich men were too powerfull
for the poor, they purchas'd their plantations and soon turn'd
them out of possession, which in a great measure depopulated
those Islands, and render'd them incapable to withstand the
enemy. The 10 acre men must have no power to sell or dispose
of their land etc. Signed, John Mills. Endorsed, Recd., Read
19th Sept., 1717. 2 pp. [C.O. 152, 12. No. 40.] |
Sept. 19.
Whitehall. |
94. Mr. Popple to Governor Hunter. Encloses, for his
observations thereupon, copy of Samuel Mulford's petition,
15th Aug., 1717. [C.O. 5, 1123. p. 453; and (rough draft)
5, 1079. No. 94.] |
| Sept. 19. |
95. Mr. Solicitor-General to Mr. Popple. I have considered
the Act to enable William Anderson etc. (v. 4th Sept.). As the
debt for which the land is to be sold was contracted by his wife
when sole, it seems reasonable that so much of her estate should
be disposed of to pay it and though this estate would come to
the infants after the death of Wm. Anderson, yet as he parts
with his estate for life in the premisses to wch. he is entitled as
tenant by the curtesie towards the satisfaction of this debt
thus contracted, I think the infants will have no reason to complaine, the remainder being limited to them absolutely. Signed,
Wm. Thomson. Endorsed, Recd., Read 17th Oct., 1717. ¾ p.
[C.O. 5, 1051. No. 32; and 5, 1123. p. 455.] |
Sept. 19.
Whitehall. |
96. Mr. Popple to Mr. Solicitor-General. Encloses, for his
opinion in point of law, Acts of Jamaica, (i.) for the more easy
serving of constables. (ii.) for the effectual discovery of all persons
disaffected to H.M. and to prevent all such persons holding office.
(iii.) to prevent fraudulent trade to Hispaniola, etc. (iv.) to oblige
several inhabitants to provide themselves with a sufficient number
of white people and to maintain such as shall come over. (v.) to
encourage the bringing over and settling of white people. (vi.) for
repealing an Act for the better securing the estates and interests of
orphans etc. (vii.) to secure the freedom of elections etc. (viii.) for
granting a further relief in relation to proving of wills and testaments
and granting letters of administration etc. Particularly upon the
last mention'd Act the Council of Trade and Plantations desire
to know whether it do's not any ways interfere with the Governor's
Instructions. [C.O. 138, 15. pp. 298–300.] |
Sept. 19.
Hampton Court. |
97. Mr. Secretary Addison to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Refers following for their report. Signed, J.
Addison. Endorsed, Recd. 24th, Read 26th Sept., 1717. Superscribed, |
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97. i. Petition of Edward Pennant and Anthony Swymmer,
of Jamaica, to the King. Upon your Majesty's warrant,
H.E. Peter Heywood has granted to Edward Nichols
the escheated estate of the late Anna Williamina
Bernarda Kupius, previously granted by Governor Lord
A. Hamilton to petitioners. Pray for relief etc. (v.
A.P.C. II. 1284 etc.). Signed, John Moore. The whole,
1 p. [C.O. 137, 12. Nos. 65, 65 i.; and 138, 15. pp.
310–315; and (French version of petition only) 137,
46. No. 10.] |
| Sept. 19. |
98. Memorandum of previous correspondence relating to
the estate of Mrs. Kupius. 1 p. [C.O. 137, 12. No. 66.]. |
| [Sept. 20.] |
99. Mr. Solicitor-General to Mr. Popple. I am humbly of
opinion that the Act of St. Christophers to impower the Surveyors
etc. (v. 4th Sept.) is proper to be pass'd as it is commodious to
the publick and as the persons whose private properties would
be affected thereby are provided for. I don't apprehend any
inconvenience from the said Act but as the usual method in such
cases in England is that the value of the land of private owners
should be appraised by a jury upon oath it seemes reasonable at
least that the two appraisors in the Act menconed should be
upon their oathes unless the method of that country is otherwise
and that the appraisors being chose one by the Surveyors and
the other by the proprietor should be thought a sufficient provision
to secure the property of the owners of the land so converted to
the publick use. Signed, Wm. Thomson. Endorsed, Recd.
20th Sept., Read 12th Oct., 1717. ¾ p. [C.O. 152, 12. No.
46; and 153, 13. pp. 112, 113.] |
Sept. 20.
Maryland. |
100. Governor Hart to Mr. Secretary Addison. Acknowledges
letter of July 8th, signifying that H.M. had receiv'd advice from
the Court of France, of the revolt of the Island of Martinica from
the French Government, and sent away ye Governor and Intendant thereof, and that it was H.M. pleasure (in regard to the
friendship and amity subsisting between H.M. and the Crowne
of France, and to the good correspondence which H.M. is always
willing to maintain with the Regent) that the rebellion shou'd
intirely be discouraged and discountenanced by giving the
persons concern'd in it, no manner of protection or assistance,
from H.M. adjacent Islands or other Dominions etc. In all
dutifull obedience to his Sacred Majesty's commands, I immediately on the receipt of yr. letter, laid it before the Council of
this Province, who advis'd me to publish a Proclamation, to
declare H.M. pleasure, concerning this Rebellion etc. Signed,
Jo. Hart. Endorsed, R. 1st Feb., 1717. 1½ pp. Enclosed, |
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100. i. Proclamation by the Governor of Maryland. Annapolis,
13th Sept., 1717, forbidding assistance to the rebels of
Martineca, etc. [C.O. 5, 720. Nos. 25. 25 i.] |
Sept. 24.
Pensilvania. |
101. Deputy Governor Keith to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Refers to letter of 26th (?=27th) June. Continues:
Having already travelled above 500 English miles this summer
in visiting this Government, etc., I found great plenty of iron oar
in many places. which oar blacksmiths with their common furnaces work up to a great advantage and in such quantities as
thereby to discourage the importation and lower the price of
European iron; I have therefore sent several paterns of this
oar to some merchants in London, with a description of the places
where it is found, and if any proposals are offered to your Lordships for encouraging an iron manufactory there I hope your
Lordships will be inclineable to promote a design which if pursu'd,
in my humble opinion cannot fail to prove very advantagious
both to the trade and navigation of Great Britain. I have
many reasons to perswade myself that the Crown will soon find an
advantage and conveniency either by purchase or some other
agreement to take the Dominion of this Colony into it's own
hands, and it is with this view that I would humbly offer
it to your Lordships as an useful thought, so to order matters
in the mean time as that both sides of De La Ware River and
Bay vizt., the West Jerseys, this Province, and the three Lower
Counties may be brought under one Governmt. the number of
Quakers that are settled in West Jersey seems to make such an
union very natural, and the continual jarrings between the
people of West Jersey and New York, of which I believe there
are many instances now lying before your Lordships, will not
a little contribute towards the same end. Signed, W. Keith.
Endorsed, Recd. 4th, Read 12th Dec., 1717. 1¼ pp. Enclosed, |
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101. i. Minutes of Council of Pennsilvania, held at Cannistogo,
19th July, 1717. Present, the Lt. Governor and Council
and the Chiefs of the Cannistogoe or Mingoe Indians,
the Delawares, the Shawanois, and Gunawoise, all
inhabitants near the River Susquehanna. Capt. Christopher Smith, instructed by Lt. Governor Spotswood,
showed that some Senequa Indians had confessed to
having murdered some Cattabew Indians near Fort
Christianna, not knowing them to be in amity with
Virginia. He was informed that some Shawanois
Indians were concerned in this murder, and demanded
an enquiry etc. The Shawanois admitted that six
of their number had accompanied that party of the
five Nations who had committed the fact, but were no
way concerned in the attack. They had only one
Cattawbra prisoner, taken many years ago etc. Capt.
Smith proposed that he might have liberty to treat
with those Indians, in order to make a league with them
in behalf of the Government of Virginia etc. The
Governor answered that he did not conceive it to be
necessary or useful that any persons whatsoever should
be permitted to treat with Indians except the Government of that Colony to which the Indians respectively
belonged. If Collo. Spotswood desired to make any
treaty with the Indians who lived under the protection
of this Government, for establishing a peace between
them and the Indians under the protection of Virginia,
the Governor himself with the advice of his Council,
would heartily endeavour to accomplish a treaty upon
such reasonable terms as Collo. Spotswood might propose, etc. and that in the mean time he would (as it
had been usual in this Province) insist upon our Indians
friendship to all the English Colonies, with their dependent Indians, and Virginia in particular. Addresses
the Indians accordingly. Copy. 6 pp. |
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101. ii. The Address of Lt.-Governor Keith to the Assembly of
Pennsilvania, 20th Aug., 1717, with their reply etc.
Copy. 5¼ pp. [C.O. 5, 1265. Nos. 88, 88 i., ii.; and
(without enclosures) 5, 1293. pp. 132, 133.] |
Sept. 25.
Whitehall. |
102. Mr. Secretary Addison to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Enclosed I transmit to your Lordships, by H.M.
command, the copie of a Memorial presented to the King by
Monsieur d'Iberville the late French Envoy, etc.: that your
Lordships may fully inform your selves of the state of this affair,
and draw up such a report upon the same, as may be laid before
H.M. Signed, J. Addison. Endorsed, Recd. 26th Sept., Read
6th Nov., 1717. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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102. i. Memorial of M. d'Iberville to the King. London,
July, 20/9, 1717. The undersigned Envoy Extraordinary
of France has received fresh orders to repeat to his
Britannic Majesty the humble prayer, which has already
been made several times, for the necessary directions
to be given to oblige the inhabitants of Nevis to fulfill
the capitulation made by them the 4th of April, 1706,
etc. Signed, D'Iberville. Copy. French. ¾ p. |
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102. ii. Memorial concerning the Capitulation of Nevis. The
officers and inhabitants of the Island seeing themselves
unable to resist the forces of M. d'Iberville, and wishing
to avoid total disaster, asked to capitulate in the
redoubt (deodan) (which was about to be taken by
force). M. d'Iberville granted their request, to the
prejudice of the considerable advantage which he would
inevitably have gained from the capture and complete
pillage of this Island. Conditions of Capitulation
quoted. v. C.S.P. 1706. Nos. 357 iii. (a), 357 v. Continues: All the negroes not having been surrendered,
as required by the 7th Article, but on the contrary
several of the inhabitants having caused them to seek
refuge in the redoubt contrary to their plighted faith,
M. d'Iberville prepared to reduce them by force a second
time within this redoubt, but the principal officers and
inhabitants proposed to him a new Treaty in order to
avoid a worse misfortune, which was signed 19th April.
Quote, C.S.P. 1706. No. 357 vi. Continues: M. d'Iberville religiously performed everything he had agreed to
by these Treaties. But of all the conditions to which
the officers and inhabitants agreed, they have fulfilled on
their part only that relating to the hostages, and they
have taken so little care to redeem them, that they have
not even provided them with what is necessary for their
subsistence, these four hostages having consumed more
than 20,000 livres for their keep at Martinique.
Demands payment with interest and fulfillment of terms of
Capitulation, April 4 and 19, (1,400 negroes or 140,000
piastres) from the Company established in England for
the Trade with Nevis. Also 100 francs for each prisoner
not released in exchange as agreed, = 170,000 livres.
French. Copy. 6¾ pp. [C.O. 152, 12. Nos. 50, 50 i.,
ii.; and 153, 13. pp. 149–158.] |
| [Sept. 25.] |
103. Agents of Barbados to the Council of Trade and Plantations. The Legislature of Barbados having past an Act for
laying a duty on all foreign sugars etc. that are not the produce
of H.M. Plantations which shall be imported thither, we enclose
following, not doubting but that you will recommend it for H.M.
approbation. Signed, Jo. Micklethwaite, John Lloyd, Geo.
Bampfield. Endorsed, Recd. 25th, Read 27th Sept., 1717.
¾ p. Enclosed, |
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103. i. Reasons for the above Act. The French and Dutch have
the advantage of a newer soil and consequently can
sell their sugars far cheaper than the Planter of Barbadoes
can, who hath a soil almost worn out, etc., for a plantation
of 200 acres in any of the French colonies may be cultivated with 30 or 40 negroes and few cattle or horses,
because their land is fresh and rich, which in Barbadoes
would require 150 negroes, with 50 or 60 head of cattle
and a dozen horses, and they cannot buy a good beast
fitt for work under £20, and horses are dearer, etc. This
law is to putt the planter upon an equal footing with
the importer of foreign sugars etc. (v. Oct. 14). 1¼ pp.
[C.O. 28, 15. Nos. 16, 16 i.; and 29, 13. pp. 397–402.] |
Sept. 25.
Whitehall. |
104. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Addison. Enclose following to be laid before H.M. Annexed, |
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104. i. Council of Trade and Plantations to the King. Representation in reply to 15th Nov., 17–16, q.v., and the
Marquis de Monteleon's Memorial concerning H.M.
subjects cutting logwood in the Bay of Campechy. Althô'
we did humbly propose such methods as we esteem'd
proper and necessary to support the cutting of logwood
in the West Indies, when Mr. Methuen was on departure
for Madrid, yet on this occasion, when a Trade of so
great importance to our Navigation and the American
Colonies is in danger of being lost, we have again
carefully perus'd the books and papers in our Office,
and receiv'd from the merchants and others the fullest
informations we can hope to obtain, which hath taken
up much time; and we do now humbly crave leave to
lay before your Majesty the past and present state of
this Trade, with the arguments that formerly engag'd
your Majesty's Royal Predecessors to protect and
support the same, to which we shall add some observations, and the reasons that induce us to conclude,
your Majesty's subjects have now as full and ample
right to this trade as to any other liberty or priviledge
that has been allow'd by the Crown of Spain, and
enjoy'd by them by vertue of any Treaty whatsoever.
In the first place therefore, it must be observ'd, that
logwood is one of the products of the Province of
Yucatan, which extends itself into the North Sea in
form of a Peninsula, about 100 leagues in length,
the Spaniards are possess'd, of San Francisco de Campechy, it's capital town and port, which has been thrice
taken by the English, and besides they have two other
inland towns, Merida and Valladolid, of no great
importance having few inhabitants, but the rest of
the Province before the logwood cutters were setled,
was in a manner wholly desolate and uninhabited.
Nevertheless it must be allow'd that the Spaniards
had from time to time cut wood in several places near
their own settlements, but during the hostilities that
were committed in the West Indies before 1667, they
deserted that imployment, being frequently interrupted
by the privateers, both by sea and land, who by degrees
becoming acquainted with the coast and with those
parts where the wood grew, that were most remote from
the Spaniards, they at last fell into the trade, and
laid the foundation of their future establishment.
Their first settlements were near to Cape Catoche,
but upon (if not before) the publication of the Treaty
concluded at Madrid in 1667, by the Earl of Sandwich,
they likewise setled near Suma Sunta, adjacent to the
Laguna de Terminos and to Trist and Beef Islands,
which being the most convenient place for cutting of
wood, and a tolerable harbour for their ships and
vessels, the whole trade soon center'd there, for notwithstanding the aforesaid Treaty was principally
intended to adjust and settle our commerce with his
Cath. Majesty's Dominions in Europe etc. (quoted),
it was concluded that the Peace extended to America
as well as Europe; whereupon many of the British
privateers that had before us'd those seas, to the great
interruption of commerce were then induc'd to quit
their former course, and to settle with the logwood
cutters in the Laguna de Terminos; so that in 1669
their numbers were considerably increas'd, and great
quantities of wood were transported both to Jamaica
and New England. The American Treaty for restraining
depredations in those parts, being afterwards concluded
by Sir William Godolphin in July, 1670, added to their
strength by encouraging several others of the privateers
or seamen to fall in with this employment of cutting
wood, to which it was now generally suppos'd they
had a right by the said Treaty. And as the logwood
trade was of the greatest importance to Jamaica,
on the 10th of March, 1671 (2), Sr. Thomas Lynch,
then Governor of that Island, not having receiv'd any
orders how to govern himself in this affair, transmitted
to the Lords of the Council the reasons that induc'd him
to encourage the same under proper regulations: 1st
That the English had done so for divers years. (2) It
was in desolate and uninhabited places. (3) That this
seems a possession granted by the American Treaty.
(4) It might give us a right to seclude the Dutch and
the French, if we shou'd break with Spain. (5) The
Spaniards had not to that time made any complaints
of it. (6) This employ makes the reducing of the privateers more easy. (7) That it will employ 100 sail
annually, and bring in more to H.M. Customs and the
Nation's trade than any Colony the King hath. Whilst
there arguments were under consideration, the Earl of
Arlington laid before the Lords of the Committee a
letter from Sr. Thomas Modyford, the late Governor
of Jamaica dated the 16th of May, 1672, wherein,
after he had given an acct. of the great extent or compass
of the country in which the logwood grows, how meanly
the Spanish towns on the foresaid tract of land were
peopled, and of the places frequented by the English,
he adds, "That they have us'd this trade for three
years past, at first finding it by the seaside, but afterwards being forc'd to go four or five miles up into the
country for their refreshment, they had planted Indian
provisions, and built houses there, to keep themselves
and their provisions from the sun and rain, that in
generall they had affirm'd to him, never to have seen
any Spaniard or other person in all the time of their
working, althô' they had gone 6 or 7 miles further into
the country, to kill deer etc. This possession," he
says, "in the West Indies, is held the strongest that
can be, vizt. falling of wood, building of houses and
clearing and planting the ground." Sr. Thomas Lynch,
to confirm what he had before asserted, and to justify
his proceedings, in Nov., 1672, sends home the copies
of several depositions he had taken from the masters of
ships and others concern'd in the logwood trade, and of
a Proclamation he had issued out for the better regulation
and security thereof. (Quoted, v. C.S.P. 1672. Nos.
954, 954 i., ii.) Continue: In January following,
the Secretary of the Lords of the Committee advises
him that their Lordships did altogether allow of the
cutting of logwood etc. (quoted, v. C.S.P. 1673. No.
1015). This allowance of carrying on the trade as
aforesaid, gave fresh vigour to those engag'd in it,
tho' about this time the Spaniards began to interrupt
them in the prosecution thereof, and to dispute their
right to that liberty they had so long quietly enjoy'd.
For we must insist on it, as an undoubted and uncontested fact, that from the publication of the Treaty in
1667, until about two years after the conclusion of the
American Treaty, the logwood cutters had never been
in the least disturb'd or molested in their employment,
either directly or indirectly, nor dos it appear that
the Spanish Govrs. took any umbrage at or made any
complaint about it, much less did they pretend to an
exclusive right, or that it was contrary to the laws of
their commerce, or an infringment of the Treaty.
Nay so far were they from expressing any resentment
on this acct. or making it a pretence to justify the
first hostilities they committed, in violation of the
Treaties both of 1667 and 1670, that when Sir Tho.
Lynch sent to Don Fernando Francisco Descavado, the
Governor of San Francisco de Campechy, to demand
satisfaction for two English ships which had logwood
on board, and were taken by some Spanish men of war;
in his answer to that charge, on the 6th of April, 1672,
he takes no notice of our cutting logwood, or that those
ships had any on board, or that we had setled on the
Laguna de Terminos, nor had he any other complaint
to make by way of retaliation, save that an English
vessel had taken a Spanish bark at the Laguna de
Terminos bound to Tobasco, which is the more remarkable, because the said Laguna was at that time and had
been several years actually in our possession. It must
likewise be further urg'd, that before the Queen Regent
of Spain had publish'd a Royal cedula bearing date
the 22nd of June, 1672, which orders, "that such as
shou'd make invasion, or trade without license in the
ports of the Indies, should be proceeded against as
pirates" etc., it dos not appear that cutting of logwood was esteem'd by the Spaniards to be an invasion
and trading without licence, but by vertue of this
cedula it was at length carry'd to that height that if
our ships had but any logwood on board, they were
confiscated without remedy. Upon this subject the
Earl of Arlington on the 19th of March, 1674, wrote to
Sir William Godolphin, then Embassador at Madrid,
as follows, "In a word, H.M. is so sensible of the
sufferings of his subjects in this particular, that you must
endeavour by all the skill you have, to procure some
liberty for the cutting of logwood in those remote parts
where the Spaniards have none, and H.M. subjects
have had long abode and residence, and the rather, for
that we find by all the replys we have seen, they justify
themselves by that single point of cutting logwood nay
even of finding it on board our vessels. wch. to us appears
very unreasonable." Quote Sr. Lionel Jenkins v. C.S.P.
1675. No. 693 end. Continue: Thus by a Spanish
Auto or a decree of that Court, which was inconsistent
with, and made (ex post facto) after the ratifications
of a publick and solemn Treaty, it was manifestly
intended not only to debar the British subjects of that
liberty they enjoy'd before the said Treaty was made,
but in some measure to deprive them of the common
right of all Nations; whereas if your Majesty's subjects
did actually hold and possess the Laguna de Terminos
and the parts adjacent at the time of the conclusion of
the American Treaty, as hath been already prov'd,
the last clause of the 7th Article will determine to
whom the same belongs. Quote Article 7, "The King
of Great Britain shall hold and keep … all the
lands etc. in any part of America … which he and
his subjects now hold and possess etc." And as long as
the 8th Article of the same Treaty subsists, it will
appear very extraordinary that the Spaniards shou'd
pretend to any dominion or power in those ports and
havens where they neither had fortifications nor magazines, or in those places which were not possess'd by
them, because these descriptions are undoubtedly laid
down by the Treaty, as the sole and distinguishing
marks of the sovereignty of the Crown of Spain in those
ports and places, from which only we were to forbear
sailing to and trafficking in, whilst all other ports and
places were left open and free. But notwithstanding
the said Treaty was so strong in our favour, the Spaniards
having thereby compass'd the two main ends they
propos'd to themselves, vizt.: (i.) The securing their
West India Trade to themselves, by excluding us, and
consequently all other Nations from trafficking with
them, a point which could never be before obtain'd,
tho' it was strenuously insisted on in the reign of King
James the 1st and afterwards in 1630. (ii.) The disdispersion of the privateers, who had long miserably
harrass'd and distress'd the Spanish Settlements, and
notably check'd the encrease both of their power and
trade in those parts, but were now entirely reduc'd by
the great care of the English Governors, and by their
entring into the Logwood Trade. Yet the only advantages Great Britain aim'd at by the Treaty, vizt. that
her subjects might carry on their trade without interruption, and peaceably enjoy those places they then held
and possess'd, were in a great measure absolutely
defeated. For after the publication of the aforesaid
Royal cedula, many of our ships were made prizes
under that pretence, sometimes by Spanish men of
war, at other times by English pirates seduc'd by the
Governors into the service of Spain, and afterwards
by the Biscayneers that were sent to cruize in those
seas. And upon the same pretence in April, 1680,
several ships under the command of Don Philippo de
Varedda Villegas arriv'd at the Island of Trist and the
Laguna de Terminos, attack'd our logwood cutters,
whilst seperated from one another, and dislodg'd them
from thence. Moreover the Spanish Govrs. encourag'd
by this success, and little regarding the just right of
your Majesty or your subjects even to Plantations still
more distant from their Dominions, did soon resolve
upon another Expedition, and in 1682 surpriz'd New
Providence one of the Bahama Islands. But these
places were again soon repeopled, and the trade from
Trist and the Laguna in 1682 was greater than ever.
The rise and progress of the logwood trade from about
1667 to 1682, being thus stated, we presume, it would
be too tedious and not very material to the point in
question, to enter into the particulars, how and in what
manner it was afterwards constantly carried on, and
how it has been from time to time interrupted and
supported until the year 1713, when the adjustment
and settlement thereof was again under consideration
both at Madrid and Utrecht. But since the Spanish
Ambassr. insists on it, that by the Treaty of Peace
made at Utrecht, in which (he says) it is stipulated that
the lands or other places, which had been taken in the
Indies during the war, should be evacuated, your Majesty
is engag'd to oblige your subjects who are come to the
Lake de Terminos, to leave it immediately, we most
humbly take the liberty to represent further to your
Majesty; That if his Excellency would hereby insinuate
that your Majesty's subjects are but lately, or during
the war come to the Laguna de Terminos, this is a
mistake in fact, for it appears by the aforementioned
depositions sent by Sr. Tho. Lynch, as likewise by the
several representations from Sr. Thomas Lynch and Sr.
Thomas Modiford, that they were there in 1669, and
for some time or years before; and it is well known to
the Spaniards that they have been ever since possess'd
of that part of the country, except for two or three
months after the aforesaid assault in 1680. Neither will
what the said Embassador asserts from the Treaty,
answer the end, for which it was produc'd. By the
8th Article, it is indeed agreed by his Cath. Majesty
"not to alienate any of his territories in the West Indies
to the French or to any other Nation, and upon this
condition her late Majesty engages that she will give
assistance to the Spaniards, that the ancient limits of
their Dominions in America be restor'd etc., if it shall
appear that they have in any manner been broken
into, and lessen'd in any part since the death of King
Charles II," but to argue from hence that the Laguna
de Terminos, in possession of the English before 1670,
must be evacuated when this Treaty has only reference
to what has pass'd since the demise of the said King
Charles II. is very extraordinary. But if the Ambassador
refers to the Memorial on the Affairs of Commerce
that was sign'd at Madrid 13th July, 1713, by the Lord
Lexington and the Marquis de Bedmar, we must confess
that the Article relating to the Logwood Trade, propos'd
therein by his Lordship, had not then its effect. But
we are assur'd, it was from thence, among other things,
referr'd to the discussion of the Plenipotentiaries at
Utrecht. What pass'd particularly on this affair at
Utrecht, doth not appear to us, but by the Treaty of
Commerce concluded the 28th of November following
(of which the said Ambassador takes no notice in his
Memorial) and wherein the several interests of the two
Crowns and their subjects with respect to commerce
were more particularly under consideration, it is manifest, that the rights and liberties insisted on by the British
subjects in the West Indies were adjusted by the Lords
Plenipotentiaries, and that a clause in the Treaty which
determines this contest relating to the cutting of logwood
beyond all possibility of dispute for the future, was
then agreed upon and concluded, it being expressly
stipulated in the first Article after the confirmation
and ratification of the American Treaty in 1670, as
follows, Without any prejudice however to any liberty or
power which the subjects of Great Britain enjoy'd before,
either thro' right, sufferance or indulgence. If therefore
this comprehensive clause (which relates only to the
West Indies) confirms, secures and re-establishes those
liberties which the subjects of Great Britain enjoy'd in
America before the Treaty in 1670, it necessarily follows,
that they having then enjoy'd the liberty of cutting
logwood without any interruption (as hath been fully
prov'd) either thro' right, sufferance or indulgence;
they are again entituled by this Treaty to the same
liberty in as plain and express words as can be us'd or
imagin'd. And that your Majesty may be more fully
appriz'd of the importance of this Trade, the same will
be effectually demonstrated by the following acct. of
the quantities of logwood imported since the war,
vizt., 1713–1716, in four years 4,965 tuns, that is, communibus annis 3,741 tuns, which cannot be computed
at less than £60,000 pr. annum; tho' the price is
at present reduc'd from £40 to £16 the ton, whereas
before your Majesty's subjects were setled there, it
was worth £100 the ton. Nor is this trade less necessary
than beneficial to your Majesty's Dominions, by reason
of the great incouragement it gives to our seamen
and shipping, which at all times require a particular
attention, but now especially when it's daily observ'd
that very many British mariners, either thro' defect of
the Laws, for want of imployment at home or in hopes
of greater advantage abroad enter themselves into
foreign service. Upon the whole therefore we are
humbly of opinion. that the subjects of this your
Majesty's Kingdom, for some years before as well as
after the conclusion of the American Treaty in 1670, did
enjoy an uninterrupted liberty of cutting logwood in
the Laguna de Terminos and in other places not inhabited by the Spaniards in the Province of Yucatan,
either thro' right. sufferance or indulgence: That the
said American Treaty did establish a right in the Crown
of Great Britain to the Laguna de Terminos and the
parts adjacent, those places at the time of the Treaty,
and for some years before, being actually in possession
of the British subjects. That the Royal cedula issued
out by the Court of Spain, was a violation of the aforesaid Treaty, forasmuch as the carrying on the Trade
to the Laguna de Terminos, was thereby interpreted an
invasion, and the logwood cutters accounted pirates.
And that your Majesty's subjects having been (at least)
suffer'd to enjoy the liberty of cutting logwood as aforesaid, before the conclusion of the American Treaty
(althô' your Majesty should not insist on your said
right to the Laguna de Terminos) yet, that the same
liberty is absolutely granted and confirm'd by the
Treaty of Commerce made at Utrecht. And we do
further think it our duty to represent to your Majesty,
that altho' the said Spanish Ambassador seems to declare
in his Memorial, that no attempt should be made to
dislodge your subjects setled on the Laguna de Terminos
in a less time than eight months from the date of his
said Memorial, yet they were dislodg'd and taken
prisoners in the same month the Memorial was deliver'd,
as appears by several affidavits sent to this Board by
General Hamilton your Majesty's Governor of the Leeward Islands. 21 pp. [C.O. 137, 46. No. 27; and
389, 26. pp. 144–168.] |
Sept. 26.
Whitehall. |
105. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Addison. Representation upon petition of Sir A. Cairnes etc. for
a grant of land in Nova Scotia etc. (v. 2nd Sept.). We have
enquired how far they would engage for the making such settlement. Quote proposal of Sept. 18. Conclude: This undertaking
appearing to us to be for H.M. service in peopling the place and
for the benefit of this Kingdom by laying the foundation for
a trade from thence, we have no objection why H.M. may not
grant petitioners request upon the conditions aforementioned.
[C.O. 218, 1. pp. 334–337.] |
Sept. 26.
Whitehall. |
106. Mr. Popple to Mr. Lowndes. Reply to 22nd Sept.
The Council of Trade and Plantations are of opinion that, as it
is H.M. undoubted right to make leases of land belonging to the
Crown, Mr. Attorney General or some of H.M. Council at Law
are the proper Judges, whether the draught of the lease be in
due form. Enclose copy of preceding and suggest that the leases
be under conditions. etc. [C.O. 218, 1. pp. 338, 339.] |
| Sept. 26. |
107. Mr. Solicitor General to Mr. Popple. I am humbly of
opinion that the Act of Barbados to dock the intail of certain lands
etc. (v. Sept. 4) is very proper and is only to supply the place of
fines and recoverys by which according to the law of England
these partys in whom the fee simple of these estates are now
vested might if the estates were in England have effectually
settled it as by this Act and barred all remainders, etc. Signed,
Wm. Thomson. Endorsed, Recd. 26th Sept., Read 11th
Oct., 1717. ¾ p. [C.O. 28, 15. No. 18; and 29, 13. pp. 406,
407.] |
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108. Same to same. Reply to Sept. 19th. I have no objections to the laws [of Jamaica] therein mentioned only I find in
Nos. iii., iv., v. and vii., where forfeitures are treated the King's
prerogative of entering non vult ulterius prosequi is taken away.
Not that I presume any one would advise the King to make use
of that power to the prejudice of the publick especially where a
part of the forfeiture is given to an informer. But as cases may
happen where the exercise of that prerogative may be necessary
and commendable, I never mett with any Act before that takes it
away but if it has obtained in this Island in many other instances,
it may not be thought so considerable as to create alterations in
these Acts. In the Act to prevent the trade to Hispaniola there
is a forfeiture of £500 on every master of a ship who shall not take
the oath therein mentioned one moiety to him who will sue seize
and informe for the same. I think the word seise should be
struck out as improper at that place, 'tis mark'd with a cross in
the margent against the word and towards the latter end the
word his is wanting before the word Majesty. As to the Act
about probates of wills, it does interfere with the Governour's
Instructions for that the power of granting probates is made
subject to the Supreme Court of Judicature where before the
Appeal from any supposed wrong lay only to the King in Councel.
I cannot say that this law is unreasonable or seemes to be attended
with any inconvenience to the subjects the contrary theire
appeale will receive a speedyer and cheaper determination and
in cases of small vallue the want of that must oblige persons to
beare theire wrongs rather than appeal to England. But it is
certainly abridgeing the present power of the Governour by making
his probates liable to be repealed there, which are not so now
and this is in some measure impairing the King's prerogative.
Signed, Wm. Thomson. Endorsed. Recd., Read 26th Sept., 1717.
1 p. [C.O. 137, 12. No. 64; and 138, 15. pp. 307–309.] |
Sept. 26.
Whitehall. |
109. Mr. Secretary Addison to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Encloses following for their report. Signed, J.
Addison. Endorsed, Recd., Read 27th Sept., 1717. 1 p.
Enclosed, |
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109. i. Memorial of Lord Archibald Hamilton to the King.
Complains of the behaviour and disaffection of several
of the Council and the Deputy Secretary Page.
Although expréssly commanded by H.M. Instructions,
in case of any complaint against their Governor, to
give him a copy of the charge, the party opposed to
him in the Assembly, knowing there was no just cause
for any accusation, collected a large sum of money
and remitted it to Great Britain, to sollicite the affairs
of the Island, a preceeding without president and
contrary to H.M. Instructions, and at their instigation
Page, a person unquallified and of an ill character whom
Lord Archibald had refused to admit into the office of
Deputy Secretary, left the Island without licence,
contrary to law, and procured wilful and perjured
affidavits charging against Lord Archibald etc. with
encouraging and being concerned in fishing upon the
Spanish wrecks and robbing them etc. Your Majesty
was pleased to recall him, and appoint Mr. Heywood to
succeed him, whom he had some months before by the
unanimous advice of the Council removed from the
Council and from being Chief Justice. The new
Councillors appointed with the said new Governor were
those whom your Majesty had before at the instance of
Lord Archibald thought fitt to displace, and others
the most violent men in the Assembly, who then
became the majority of the Council, etc. Far from
complying with your Majesty's Instructions, the new
Governor and Councillors, in the enquiry made by them,
acted in the most arbitrary, partiall and injustifyable
manner, denying Lord Archibald the common right of
the meanest British subject vizt. a copy of their charge
or by any means to give him any knowledge of what
they had to alledge against him, thereby greatly abusing
the trust reposed in them, the measures they took having
been with the only view of aspersing him by screening
the guilty against your Majesty's just and royall intention
of making restitution to the Spaniards. Thus unheard,
ignorant of his charge, did Mr. Heywood and new
Councillors seize his person, and at a day's warning
sent him a prisoner to Great Britain, having granted
a very extraordinary if not illegall warrant for his
commitment, and all this by a majority of one only,
and those new Councillors, the rest protesting. Lord
Archibald since his arrivall here has continued many
months under bail to appear and answer his charge
having in the mean time made frequent applications
to have the said accusation brought to a hearing. The
Governour and Councillors conscious of the injustice
of their proceedings, have entirely dropt their charge,
and have chose rather to disobey H.M. Royall commands
than appear any further in the matter. By all which
it appears that the complaint was raised thro' their
malice without any just foundation, merely to procure
his recall. Prays for the removal of the said Councillors
and the Deputy Secretary, as well for restoring his
injured reputation as for discouraging such evil practices
for the future, etc. 2½ pp. |
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109. ii. Samuel Page to Governor Lord A. Hamilton. On
board the Diamond, March 6th, 1715. Announces that
he has left Jamaica, without H.E.'s consent, and deputes
Avery Wagstaffe to execute the office of Secretary etc.
Copy. 1 p. |
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109. iii. Mr. Bernard to Lord Archibald Hamilton, Jamaica,
June, 1717. In the Secretary's Office I was astonished to
see the entry of a ticket from Lord A. Hamilton to
Samuel Page to go off this Island. Page's impudence
is surely unparallelled. I very well remember preceding
letter, etc. Copy. ½ p. |
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109. iv. Copy of license for Samuel Page to depart etc. referred
to in preceding, and purporting to be Signed, A. Hamilton. Copy. ½ p. |
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109. v. Copy, in French, of No. 1. |
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109. vi. Copy, in French, of H.M. Letter to Governor Lord A.
Hamilton, 10th April, 1716. q.v. [C.O. 137, 12.
Nos. 67, 67 i.–vi.; and (covering letter and enclosure
i. only) 138, 15. pp. 315–325.] |
Sept. 27.
London. |
110. D. Harris to Mr. Popple. Here being a clamour att
ye Jamaica Coffee house about making one Caillard of Jama. a
Councellour there, I think fitt to acquaint you that he was
bookkeeper to a factory house established by Mr. Way and
myselfe, etc. I have now a fair demand on him for £800 for wch.
I must sue him etc. Signed, D. Harris. Endorsed, Recd. 28th
Sept., Read 10th Oct., 1717. Addressed. Postmark. 1 p.
[C.O. 137, 12. No. 73.] |
Sept. 27.
Hampton Court. |
111. H.M. Additional Instructions to Lt. Governor Bennet.
As No. 90 i. Signed, George R. The like Instructions were sent
to Governors Hunter, Shute, Lowther, Hamilton, and George
Earl of Orkney. [C.O. 324, 33. pp. 102, 103.] |
Sept. 28.
N. York. |
112. Governor Hunter to Mr. Pople. Encloses following
for Bampfield, etc. Continues: If no mark of discountenance
or discouragement be put at home on these men, I mean Cox,
Bustill, Mulford and Sonmans, I believe the Ministry will be
troubled with addresses from both Provinces very speedily
relating to these enemys to their countrey and all that is good.
I have not had the honor of any commands from the board of a
long time. Only I beg that in my name you'll be pleased to recommend to the Council of New York Francis Harrison Esq. it is true
there is no vacancy but a necessity of a supernumerary several
Councelors living at a distance some such as Col. Schuyler,
Renslaer and Heathcot, not attending one day in a year so that
I am frequently at a losse for a Quorum. Our Council in the
Jerseys dwindles. Mr. Huddy and Mr. Parker are dead. I
desire in ye room of the former, Peter Fretwell, and of the later
John Parker son to the deceas'd. I hope the justice of my
clame will make amends for ye want of my personal solicitation
in parliat. this session and I beg it may be brought on unlesse you
be ordred otherwise as before. I need not excite you to act
for your friend, I have experienc'd too uncommon a generosity
from you to doubt it and am with a warm heart intirely yours,
Signed, Ro. Hunter. Endorsed, Recd. 16th, Read 26th Nov.,
1717. Holograph. 2⅓ pp. Enclosed, |
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112. i. Extract from Journal of Assembly of New York, 13th
Sept., 1717. The Committee appointed to consider of a
memorial, entitled a Memorial of several aggreivances and
oppressions of H.M. subjects in the Colony of New York,
reported that they are of opinion the same is a most
false, malitious and scandalous paper, reflecting upon the
Governour and Government and the wholl Constitution
of this Colony, and of pernicious consequence. They conceive, that the thanks of this House ought to be returned
H.E. for communicating the same, and that he be
address'd to use his interest at the Court of Great Britain,
to find the author, in order to be brought to justice, and
in the mean time H.E. would please to acquaint the
Indians of the five Nations, that we utterly abhor and
detest that suggestion in the said paper or lybell, of
reducing the Indians by force and possessing their lands,
for the steadiness of those Indians to the interest of Great
Britain, all the last warr with France, it is, that we owe in
a great measure our present security, etc. Address
ordered accordingly. Copy. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 971. Nos.
24, 24 i.; and 5, 995. pp. 360–363.] |
Sept. 28.
[London.] |
113. Copy of the Daily Courant, No. 4974, recording the
presentation to H.M. by Mr. Secretary Addison of the Address
of the Grand Jurors of New York, June, 1717, etc. Endorsed,
Recd. (from Mr. Philips), Read 12th Feb., 1717/18. Printed. 2 pp.
Torn. [C.O. 5, 1051. No. 53.] |
| Sept. 29. |
114. Petty expences of the Board of Trade, postage,
stationery etc. from Midsummer to Michaelmas, 1717. 4 pp.
[C.O. 388, 77. Nos. 32, 34, 36.] |
