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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![f. 293. “ The conveniences that will aryse are Many as.” (Then follow first, secondly, thirdly; related to the considerations above.) ff. 294^295. “ Concerning a supply of shipping and provisions to Jamaica.” f. 296. Letter from Mr. Povey concerning natural products of Vir¬ ginia in behalf of the Royal Society. March 4, 1660/1. (Chiefly regarding the raising and manufacture of silk in Virginia. Speaks of the king as having ordered a “ Gardin for plants and simples ”.) f. 297. “ The paper of Inquiries from Gresham College to Virginia.” (These are the queries referred to in Povey’s letter, f. 296, “concerning those several kind of things which are reported to be in Virginia and the Bermudas, not found in England ”.) f. 299. Report of Council for Foreign Plantations, concerning en¬ croachments of the Massachusetts Colony. April 8, 1661. (Ordered that the report be amended “by Mr. Kendall and Mr. Nowell.” Petitions of Lionel Copley, John Gifford and others, Archibald Henderson and Gyles Silvester, here referred to, may be found in Cal. Col. 1661-1668, §50, 5L 52> and that of Copley in N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., XXXVIII. 378-379 ) f. 301. Overtures for the better providing for Jamaica before the Lord [Thomas] Windsor’s going away governor of that place. June 10, 1661. f. 303. Letter from Col. Wm. Watts, governor of St. Christopher, June 19, 1661, to Mr. Povey; endorsed, “Received August 29, 1661 ”. f. 305. “ A copy of the letter to the Secretary of State, from Barba- does, July 10, 1661.” f. 307. “ A Draught of a letter for his Majesty’s signature, to Barba- does, 1661.” To be sent to Lord Willoughby and to inhabitants of Barbadoes, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat and other Caribbee Islands. f. 308. Letter to John Kirke from Charles Hill, Ferryland, Sep¬ tember 12, 1661, “ concerning Ld Baltemores interest in Newfound¬ land ”. f. 309. Testimony of Wm. Wrixon and others concerning the same, f. 310. The Lord Baltemore’s Case, concerning the Province of Avalon in New-Found-Land, an Island in America. Printed broadside. ff. 311-328. Copies of papers relating to Nova Scotia, ff. 311-313. “Indenture, made before Josue Mainet, Royal Notary living in London, 30 April 1630, between Sir William Alexander .... on the one part .... and Sir Claude de Saint Estienne Knight Lord of la Tour .... and .... his son on the other part.” (Translated into English, February 1, 1655.) ff. 3i3b-320. Indenture made 20 Sept 1656, between de la Tour of the one part and Thomas Temple and William Crowne, Esq., of the other part. (Entered and recorded in the book of records for the county of Suffolk in N. E.) f. 320. Test, of Robert Howard, Not: publ: Massachusitt: Coloniae novae Angliae:, Boston 1 August 1678.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31346650_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)