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1619.
Feb. 3. |
100. Fra. Lord Russell to Sir Clement Edmondes. Prays the
aid of his favour in reference to one Harry Reade now prisoner in
Newgate for a robbery on the highway. Has proposed to Sir
George Calvert the scope of his intentions which were well allowed
of by the Lord Chancellor, to get a certificate from the Lord Mayor
and the Recorder of the offences Reade stood charged with and
then to beg a letter from the Privy Council for sending Reade to
Virginia. Sir George answered that there was an Order from the
Board for that purpose for some offences of that kind and that
robbery by the highway was a thing the Lords would be sparing
in to grant though not excepted in the order which makes Lord
Russell importune Sir Clement's favour therein. 1 p. [Dom.
Jas. I., Vol. 105, No. 75.] |
| Feb. 26. |
101. Court Minutes of the East India Company. Leave to the
Virginia Company to sell by the candle 1,000 weight of tobacco in
rolls, lately brought from the Somers Islands. [Court Min. Bk.,
Vol. 4, p. 304.] |
March 1.
Jacatra. |
102. Sir Thomas Dale to Sir Thomas Smythe, Governor, and
the Committee of the East India Company. A long letter of
fourteen pages, describing his narrow escape from drowning;
"a cruel bloody fight" with the Dutch, which lasted from eleven
till three, and in which 3,000 great shot were fired; and the Company's affairs. Also, that he should be glad to hear how Virginia
prospers, and his own business goes forward there. [East Indies,
Original Correspondence, Vol. 6, No. 767.] |
| March 5. |
103. Court Minutes of the East India Company. Virginia
wheat, called maize, much commended for an excellent strong meat,
and hearty for men at sea, and more wholesome than beef; the
Virginia Company to be desired to procure some for trial by the
next shipping. [Court Min. Bk., Vol. 4, p. 306.] |
| March 12. |
104. Court Minutes of the East India Company. Alderman
Johnson desiring to borrow four mynions for the use of the
Virginia Company, acknowledged they owe for four demi-culverins
which have been long due. If they may have these, both Mr.
Governor (Sir Thos. Smythe) and himself will use the best means
to procure satisfaction for the old from the Virginia Comp., and
undertake for the satisfying of these latter four. Ordered that
Mr. Salmon deliver them four mynions, if this Company have any
to spare. [Court Min. Bk., Vol. 4, p. 312.] |
July 17.
Madrid. |
105. Sir Fras. Cottington to [Sec. Sir Robt. Naunton]. The
Spanish Secretary in England has advertised hither that one Capt.
North is arming certain ships to go into the West Indies of which
he says he hath complained without any remedy; his despatches
are gone down to the King to Lisbon and is sure he shall hear of
it from thence, in the meantime has seen copy of his despatch to
the Conde de Gondomar. See 1st Vol. of this Calendar, p. 21.
[Extract, Corresp., Spain.] |
| Aug. 6. |
106. Court Minutes of the East India Company. Captain Tucker
and Captain Argoll, who have been employed to the Somers Islands
and Virginia, were both recommended to be considered of [for
employment by this Company] when convenient time shall be.
[Court Min. Bk., Vol. 4, p. 392.] |
Sept. 18.
Mudrid. |
107. Sir Fras. Cottington to [Sec. Naunton]. Capt. North's design
being only as your honour tells me, I make no doubt but that I
shall be able to give them satisfaction here, and have done it
already to some of these great Ministers with whom I have been
since the receipt of your letter. [Extract, Corresp., Spain.] |
Dec. 30.
Westminster. |
108. Proclamation to restrain the planting of tobacco in England
and Wales. "It is not unknown what dislike we have ever had of
the use of tobacco, as tending to a general and new corruption
both of men's bodies and manners; nevertheless it is of the two
more tolerable that the same should be imported amongst many
other vanities and superfluities which come from beyond seas than
permitted to be planted here within this realm, to abuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful kingdom." Reasons for making
the prohibition general; English tobacco is more crude, poisonous,
and dangerous for the bodies and healths of our subjects than what
comes from hotter climates; the colonies of Virginia and the
Somers Islands are proper and natural climates for that plant, and
receive much comfort by the importation of it into this kingdom,
and it tends to the increase of our Customs. Printed. 2 pp.
[Proclamations, Jas. I., No. 74.] |
