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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… wrote me, gives me the greatest encouragement to proceed in doing my utmost to pursue my instructions with fidelity … I think myself could I write of many things frequently in a more agreeable way than those ties will allow me to do, … that are very great, but I am sorry to say it is in lying and thieving wherein he has outdone any of his rank …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… then Colonel Basse has published a counter-proclamation in the Jerseys, copy enclosed. He has also written me several … a ship was seized there by Mr. Randolph and tried in the Admiralty Court here; but some time since, two pirates … but there is an opportunity for sending some by a ship now lying in the Downs, which will sail for Bermuda in two or …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1623 July 2. 34. Answer of the Virginia Company, assembled in General Court, to the Privy Council. Have taken their … supply, and desire respite until Friday to advise thereon in a full court Suggest that some course be taken that those indebted to the Company pay in their subscriptions. July 2. Whitehall. 35. Lord President …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… submit to the King's Government or to expel them. Printed in New York Documents, III., 46. p. [ Col. Papers, Vol. XIV., … forth the great expense incurred by him and his friends in supporting his Majesty's right to the waste lands and … the Island of Barbudo, or Barbuda, one of the Caribbees, lying in 17 N. lat., about eight or ten leagues from Antigua, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… whom they desired that the Agnieronnons [Mohawks] may come in all safety. The letters they brought were of considerable … to respect whatever his directors interest themselves in, which is confirmed by the fact that he has now a very … resolved to send M. Le Chevallier de Grand Fontaine, Capt. in the regiment of Carignan, in a frigate to seek the letters …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Certificate by John Fenn that there is no money remaining in the hands of Sir George Carteret upon account of a Privy … peace or two good regiments at least. Never man was so out in his judgment as Sir John Colleton, who named Sir John … Prays for a warrant for the prize ship Convertive lying in Scotland in a ruinous condition. 1 p. [ Col. Papers, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… July 1/11. Colombe. 1778. Earl of St. Albans, Ambassador in France, to Sec. Lord Arlington. Has delivered his … an account of the state of the matter as it is represented in Lord Willoughby's despatch. "He told me he did not use to … answer on Saturday, and the cause for which he may say in advance has given as much displeasure here as in London, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Council for Plantations to the King, with marginal notes [ in brackets]. Upon consideration of several letters, … and complaints concerning his Majesty's plantations in America, they have resolved to offer the following … transport them, but when they heard of a ship of 30 guns lying there and a small fort found that backwardness in the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… bound from Barbadoes to England, but forced to leeward. In his last gave account of two years' receipts of the … reported taken by two capers of 34 and 36 guns that lie in the Bay of Matanza and cruize off Havanna; but of neither … out from Havanna and taken eight or ten Jamaica vessels in the bay, and also Cooke, and hanged one of his company, an …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a long time groaned under." What Bacon has done has been in defence of his Majesty's interest (by a power derived from … imagine compulsion otherwise than a ridiculous evasion. In taxing Bacon contrary to the tenor of his Commission … passion that he hath involved himself and this poor Colony in such a labyrinth of ruin that he well knows he never can …