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| Dec. 8. |
2,159. Minutes of Council of New England. Order for Wait Winthrop, Simon Lynd, Benjamin Bullivant. Isaac Addington, and Edmund Randolph, to be a Committee to receive the records from Edmund Rawson. Order fixing the price of grain: wheat five shillings the bushel, rye and pease four shillings, Indian corn and oats two shillings. The maintenance of the ministry at Malden referred to a Committee. Order as to Hadley school and Hopkins' school. Order empowering the hamlet of Muddy river to erect a school. Table of fees to the King's wine-cooper fixed. Sundry minor business and orders for payments. [Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXIV., 1 p. 91–95.] |
| Dec. 15. |
2,160. Minutes of Council of New England. Order for sundry payments. The complaint of certain inhabitants of Charlestown as to trespasses to be heard by a committee. |
| Dec. 16. |
The Deputy-President and Mr. Wharton presented their report as to the ministry of Malden. Copy of the report. [Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXIV., pp. 96–99.] |
| Dec. 20. |
2,161. Minutes of Council of New England. Sir Edmund Andros's Commission published. He and the Council sworn, and the warrant for the new great seal produced. Officers confirmed in their places. The Governor resolved to write to Rhode Island and New Plymouth as to their inclusion in his government. |
| Dec. 21. |
Order for repair of the castle and for Mr. Gibbs's house on Fort Hill to be made ready for the soldiers. [Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXIV., pp. 107–108.] |
| Dec. 30. |
2,162. Minutes of Council of New England. The Governor and Council of Rhode Island informed the Governor that, owing to bad weather, their charter had not yet arrived. The Councils of Rhode Island and New Plymouth sworn. The Governor took the oath to observe the Acts of Trade. Proclamation ordered, to confirm all officers in their places for the present. New commissions to be prepared. |
| Dec. 31. |
Messrs. Dudley, Stoughton, Wharton, Hinckley, Walley, Clarke, and Coggeshall appointed a Committee to report the methods for administration of justice at next Council. [Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXIV., pp. 109, 110.] |
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2,163. Representation by Edward Randolph of the obstruction offered to him in the execution of his duty as Collector by Captains George and St. Loe, R.N. 2 pp. Copy. Undated. [Col. Papers, Vol. LXIV., No. 157.] |
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2,164. A collection of depositions taken before the Court of Admiralty in London as to the capture of the vessel Perpetuana, freighted by the Hudson's Bay Company, by the French, in 1685. [Board of Trade. Hudson's Bay I., pp. 225–332.] |
