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
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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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    weather and nautical observations; possibly, as the catalogue sug¬ gests, the journal from which the voyages and adventures of Capt. Bartholomew Sharp and others in the South Sea were published in 1684. (See 86, 3820.) 50 or 1070. [Journal] “ on board the James and Mary, Capt. Wm. Phips, commander, in company with the Henry, Capt. Francis Rogers, commander, from Samana Bay bound for the Wreck ”. September 11, 1686. (This journal is written on the back of another journal of a voyage to the East Indies—therefore, reversing the volume, Phips’s journal, beginning at folio 99b, occupies every right-hand page of folios 99b-9ob, 88b-67, 58b-58.) 54. “ The Voyage of William Ambrosia Cowley, marriner, from the Capes of Virginia to the Islands of Cape D’Verd ” and so on around the world. (A narrative of the voyage, probably collected from this journal, was pub¬ lished by Hack in 1699. Copy of this document, without the heading, is in Sloane 1050, and another in Bibliotheca Pepysiana 2826.) 79. ff. 193-199. Draft of government framed by William Penn, Anno 1682, for Pennsylvania and West Jersey. (Copy of Penn’s Frame of Government, containing the “Laws agreed upon in England”.) 159. ff. 1-6, 7-14. Charter of Avalon in Newfoundland, April 7, 1623, on parchment. In Latin, ff. 1-6; in English, ff. 7-14. (Printed. See Winsor, Nar. and Crit. Hist., III. 561, note 1.) ff. 20-21. “ Certaine overtures made by the Lord Willoughby of Parham unto all such as shall incline to plant in the Colonye of Saranam on the continent of Guaiana.” 1662-1665. 172. Relation concerning New England beginning: “For the perfect understanding of the state of New England these three things deserve consideration viz’1: (1) The Countrie; (2) The Comodi- tie; (3) The Inhabitants/’ (Written probably between 1635 and 1638. The “relation” is followed by list of the patents granted by the New England Council, nineteen in number. Other copies are in Sloane 3105, 3448, ff. 1-15, and the whole is printed in Jenness, Early Documents relating to New Hampshire, 21-25.) 363. ff. 72-76. Letter from Wm. Chillingworth to John Lewgar persuading him to return to the Church of England. (John Lewgar was the first secretary of Maryland. The letter which is wholly theological is printed in Chillingworth’s Works (1742), p. 391.) 379. ff. 22-26. Apparently accounts of a custom officer of the port of Lon¬ don. November 16, 1672-February 17, 1673/4. (Only one reference to the colonies. On p. 2 “ Visitting the Ketch Adventure of London Capt Ffrancis Steward, Mr ffrom Virginia, to London . . . . 001 ”.) 665. General state of Receipts and Issues of Public Revenue. 1702-1710. (Plantation duty.) 750. Materials for the History of the Bermudas, etc. (Printed, Hakluyt Society Publications (1882), ed. Lefroy, who believes that the work was written by Capt. John Smith.)