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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to hear from London of a contract with the Royal African Company, acknowledging (as is true) that the negro-trade …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… scandalous papers concerning it. He was not only of civil company, but is given to debaucheries of drinking, so that … conflicting reports of them. I concluded that the whole company was so far gone in drink that none could remember … to Captain Charles Talbot, H.M.S. Falcon. You will go in company with H.M.S. Drake, to the easternmost end of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 98.] May 13. Hudson's Bay House. 1,246. The Hudson's Bay Company to [the English Treaty-Commissioners?] You have … No. 48.] [May 18.] 1,257. Petition of the Hudson's Bay Company to the King. The ports and places within Hudson's Bay … (7.) In 1670 the King gave a charter to the Hudson's Bay Company and made over the territory to them. (8.) In 1673 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 477. No. 9.] May 13. 116. Memorial of the Hudson's Bay Company to the King. 1. For Commissions under the royal sign … with them. 3. For particular commission to two of the Company's Captains just about to sail, to attack French ships … Captain George Geyer, in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. Countersigned, Sunderland. 30 May, 1688. Copy of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… had a difference with him while acting for the late Company and was condemned unheard. He has converted … on their report ( No. 150). Petition of the Hudson's Bay Company read ( see No. 116). The Lord President was asked to … take the country lately granted to the French West India Company, when being possessed of our best ports and harbours …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and proclaimed the same at the head of every troop and company. ( Marginal note. Sir Francis Watson and Colonel … the more importunate for the maintenance of Captain Ball's company there, in order to put a stop to Jacob Milborne's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… One of the officers appointed by Phips was hooted by his company, which had chosen another captain. The Salem deputies … with 200 men, took the fort, disbanded the established company, put new magistrates in place of the old, and follows … of the money gathered for the ransom of the slaves in Turkey. You would wonder to hear the lies spread against the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The merchants and certain members of the African Company attended. The 15th of August fixed for the sailing of … them in the fort. I therefore sent him together with his company, with orders that Leisler's men should lay down their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… As to the Indian trade I believe that the formation of a Company, as suggested, would be greatly for the profit and … security of the country. But the methods whereby such a company should be governed I must leave to their Lordships. … to be the King's, though I understand that the Company had about a fifth part of the whole. In the accounts …