America and West Indies: May 1633

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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'America and West Indies: May 1633', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660, (London, 1860) pp. 165-166. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol1/pp165-166 [accessed 19 April 2024]

May 1633

May 11. Patent to Sir Wil. Alexander and others, for sole trade to the river and gulf of Canada, and all places adjacent, for beaver and all other skins and wool, for thirty-one years. [Minute. Colonial Corresp., 1607, Jan. 9.]
May 11.
Brooke House.		 Minutes of a Committee for Providence Island. Capt. Hart's offer for his son to be employed in the island, with 16 servants. Passengers and freight to go in the Falcon. Orders concerning the customs upon tobacco and goods exported. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 99, 100.]
May 14.
Brooke House.		 Minutes as above. Concerning alterations in the Golden Falcon for the better accommodation of passengers and lading; the Earl of Warwick desired to give such directions as he conceives fit [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., p. 100.]
May 18.
Brooke House.		 Minutes as above. John Collins appointed master of the Golden Falcon, John Wells, a mate, and Maurice Boynes an ordinary seaman, the latter undertaking to discover certain brass ordnance sunk at sea, which might easily be recovered. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., p. 100.]
May 22.
Brooke House.		 Minutes as above. Supplies for Capt. Bell and his wife; Capt. Sussex Camock to be commander of the passengers in the Golden Falcon, and director of a trade at Cape Gratia de Dios; his allowance. Ed. Williams and Nath. Marston appointed agents for the Company in matters of commerce, "in regard to their knowledge of those parts." Money engagements of the Company. Isaac Barton is entertained in the Company's service, and two servants allowed him, to be transported in the Falcon. Members to be appointed to view the goods and provisions previous to their being sent to the island. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 101–2.]
May 25.
Brooke House.		 Minutes of a Committee for Providence Island. Provisions for the Golden Falcon. Mr. Roote appointed one of the ministers of the colony; his entertainment. Five pounds, part of the wages of Rich. Field, gunner, ordered to be paid to his wife. Hump. Isham entertained one of the mates in the Falcon. Sir Edmund Moundford's adventure. Order for victualling the Falcon, and providing her with a magazine, the whole not to exceed 600l. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 102–3.]
May 27.
Brooke House.		 Minutes as above. Edw. Williams engages himself a servant for three years in the place of Lewis Morris, discharged from the Company's service; the master of the Falcon to teach him the art of navigation while at sea.
May 28. Payment of customs for goods outward. Mr. Hart to have the tobacco in the Company's warehouse, but not under 16d. per lb.
May 30. Various payments ordered. Mr. Punt's wages. Resolved to proceed with the charge against him in the Trinity House. Phil Trippett entertained a gunner in Providence.
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