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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![ff. 320-32ib. Historical account of the “ Restitution of Acadie ”, by the ambassador of France. ff. 32ib-323b. “An answer to the French Ambassadours Claime to the Forts and Country in America Exhibited in the behalfe of the Lord La Tour, Temple and Crowne, Proprietors.” ff. 324-325. Extract from several pieces relating to title to Nova Scotia (ranging from 1606 to 1656). ff. 326-327. Account of Nova Scotia or Acadia. f. 328. Memorial of the French Ambassadors about the restitution of part of Acadia to Monsr le Borgne. Read in Council November 27, 1661. ff. 329-330. Draft of Lord Willoughby’s letter to the council of Barbadoes. (Povey’s handwriting.) f. 331. Lord Willoughby’s interest in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. (Neither date nor signature.) f. 332. “ The 16th article agreed and concluded upon the surrender of the Barbadoes and afterwards confirmed by Parliament (in haec verba) vizt.” f. 333. Letter from Council of Trade and Plantations to Barbadoes. f. 335. Letter from Council of Trade and Plantations to Virginia. (These letters are in the same handwriting though differing in content. That to Virginia is the longer of the two.) f. 336. Draft of clause in the above letters designed to encourage the colony to have agents in England “ because it will be difficult to make any certain judgment of affairs of such a variety at such a distance ”. (Many erasures and changes.) f. 339. Proposal for removing spices [ ?] and other plants from the East to the West Indies. 1661. (Endorsed “ Sir Richard Ford’s paper concerning fetching plants, etc. from the East Indies ”. Duplicate of this proposal follows without the endorsement.) f. 340. Minutes from the records of the Privy Council at Whitehall relating to Nova Scotia. February 26, March 7, 1661, and April 23, 1662. f. 342. Articles, accorded, concluded and made between the English and French nations on St. Christopher. July 29, 1662. (Also ff. 347-349-) f. 351. Order in Council regarding payment of military expenses in Jamaica. Accompanied by itemized and tabulated statement, en¬ dorsed “ Gen11 Abstract and Acco. of the Army in Jamaica and the Devident, 1662 ”. f. 354. Discourse and View of Virginia, by Sir Wm. Berkeley. (Apparently the same as Berkeley’s “ A Perfect Description of Virginia ” in Force, Tracts, II.) f. 360. Copy of Letter (to “Your Lordship”), James City, March 28, 1663, from Gov. Berkeley and others of Virginia protesting against grant to Lord Hopton and others of land lying between the two rivers of Potomac and Rappahanock. Also copy of lease](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31346650_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)