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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1675 February 1675 Feb. 12. Whitehall. 1,118. Order of the King in Council. Referring the petition of William … of ballast into them. Great abuses are committed by fishing out of season, for want of a Governor and … (1) Many men in those parts subsist by letting out money at bottomry at 25 or 30 per cent. for the voyage, and, if the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… February 1677 February 1677 [Feb. 16.] 1,140. Petition of the Newfoundland fishing traders to the King. Proposing that, though copies of … Recd. 16 Feb., 167677. Read 21 Sept., 1677. Read at the Committee, 13 December. Also inscribed, Order in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1687 Jan. 17. Rouen. 2,166. Extract from a letter to the Hudson's Bay Company. A captain just returned from cod fishing off Canada reports that the French had made two several expeditions against the forts at Hudson's Bay, had captured two and besieged the third. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… merchants trading to New Jersey. Within a year from the arrival of the first ship after the passing of our … procure workmen to produce these goods to be delivered at such prices as their Lordships shall think fit, as also … in Charles I.'s time, who made the French pay toll for fishing; but afterwards the place became vicious and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… By a ship just arrived from Virginia we hear that the French have drawn down the Indians upon the East of New England, and destroyed … to be the late Secretary of New England, on board a fishing boat. p. [ Board of Trade. New England, 5. No. 22A.] …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… as to New York, St. Christopher's, Newfoundland and the African Company, as desired. Signed, Tankerville, Ph. … and New England, for the use of the Plenipotentiaries at the Hague. Signed, J. Bridgewater, Tankerville, Ph. … the French in Jamaica during the present war is computed at 450,000. Our own attempt upon Hispaniola in 1695 had …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Rawson be examined concerning this paper. An address to the King resolved on; Mr. Mason to present it. The Treasurer … import and excise duties to be published, that the land at Pojebscot be made over to Richard Wharton, that sugar imported from the West Indies and at once re-exported be allowed an abatement of duty. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Addenda March 1655 March 1655 March 1. 1,974. Commission of the Commanders of the West Indian Expedition to Thomas … for the Commissioners of the Prize Office erected at Barbados, 1 March 16545. Fourteen articles. Signed, R. … is short to complete 7,170 men. There is an overplus at Portsmouth, but much has been spoiled by dampness, leaks, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1675 March 1675 March 1. 1,124. Sir Robert Southwell to the Vice-Chamberlain. Desiring him to obtain, if possible, information from St. Malo as to the French trade at Newfoundland, the number and tonnage of ships engaged in … and as to whether the planters do not interfere with the fishing, but leave it to be wholly managed by the shipping. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1669 February 1669 May 5. Whitehall. 1,133. Order of the King in Council. Upon the report of the Lords of Trade … they took ships and goods from the English. Certified at Boston, 17 May, 1675. See previous volume of this … and Captain Carter of H.M.S. Swan. You are to convoy the fishing fleet to Newfoundland, and return with them at the …