Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport.
- Charles McLean Andrews
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![6273. f. i. Letter from Robert Quary to the Board of Trade. June 16, I703- (Printed, N. Y. Docs., IV. 1045.) 6425. Establishment of guards, garrisons, etc., in England. 1679-1680. (Cf. P. R. O. War Office, 24, Establishments.) 6494. ff. i87b-i88. A kind of commonplace-book with notes on Bermuda, Newfoundland and navigation in Western Seas. (“A certain strange beast in New England which the natives call a Moss ”; and in Virginia “ a little beast of a strange incredible nature called the Apossume ”.) 6806. f. 188. “ How his Maj. may pay his forces (wth the 2 governors of Barbadoes and the Leeward Isds) wth the Duty of 4^2 per cent. wth an adition of £3823.10 more to it and save above £7000 per ann. Humbly offered per Jno. Thrale.” 6836. ff. 60 fol. Memorial from Charles Davenant regarding the gathering of statistics of trade, of exports and imports for the preceding 25 years. The Custom House officials did not approve of the plan and were doubtful whether such a state of the trade could be obtained. Davenant was at that time inspector-general of customs. Correspondence is dated May-September, 1704. 6922. f. 34. Hurricane on voyage to the West Indies. f. 38. Earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica. June 22, 1692. 7001. f. 297. Letter from John Fenwick to his wife, dated Bray, month 3, 15th, 1662. (Speaks of going into the malting business.) f. 299. [Copy of a] letter from the Duke of York to Col. Lovelace, rehearsing the terms of his grant to Carteret and Berkeley and stating that grants made by Nicolls in New York were void in law. n. d. (On same page is a copy of the king’s letter to Capt. John Berry regarding disaffection in New Jersey, December 9, 1672; and of another to the county of Navesink containing instructions for election of delegates to the assem¬ bly, December, 1675.) f. 300. Letter from William Penn to John Fenwick, London, 20th, 11th, 1674, followed by “ Heads of my answer to W. P.”; letter of Penn to Fenwick, dated 30th, 11th, 1674, in which he speaks of Fenwick’s arrest at the hands of Berkeley; letter dated 13th, 12th, 1674. “ A Copie of William Gibson’s letter from Gravesend, 5th, 2mo, 1677”. (Incomplete.) f. 301. “ The State of the Case between John Fenwick, Esq. and John Elridge and Edmund Warner ”; including, on f. 302, Maul- sen’s oath. 7006. ff. 178-179. Copy of King Charles’s letter to the corporation of Rhode Island, attested, John Sanford, Recorder, made by John Fones, February 12, 1678/9. 7007. f. 139. Letter from Robert Tindall, gunner to Prince Henry, to the prince. James Towne in Virginia, June 22, 1607. (Printed, Brown, Genesis, I. 108. See Cottonian, Augustus 1., vol. II., no. 46.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31346650_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)