British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations , 1622-1675 Part 16

_April 2._

Report concerning the general state of the Leeward Is. and the differences depending between the English and French at St. Christopher.

(_Cal._, -- 850.)

_April 9._

About Logwood (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 709, 742, 777, 825), and the defence of Barbadoes and the Leeward Is. (_Cal._, -- 799.)

_April 15._

Commission and instructions for Lord Willoughby and a report on his proposals. (_Cal._, -- 850.)

_April 16._

Letter from Sir Charles Wheeler read. (_Cal._, -- 748.)

"Sat in Council, preparing Lord Willoughby's commission and instructions as governor of Barbadoes and the Caribbee Islands." (Evelyn's _Diary_, II, p. 78.)

_April 19._

"At Council, preparing instructions for Colonel Stapleton, now to go Governor of St. Christopher's; and heard the complaints of the Jamaica merchants against the Spaniards, for hindering them from cutting logwood on the main land, where they have no pretence." (Evelyn's _Diary_, II, pp. 78-79.)

_April 26._

Archibald Henderson's case. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 775, p. 339, 806.)

_April 30._

Commissioners for New England named, etc. (_Journal_; _Cal._, -- 512.)

_May 7._

Case of Mark Gabry, exporter of wool. (_Cal._, _Dom._, 1671-1672, pp. 155, 156, 481.)

_May 10._

Case of the _James_ of Belfast (_Journal_; _Cal._, -- 813), and Wheeler letter (-- 775), containing a statement about Henderson.

Draft commission for Willoughby (-- 822).

Agreed that the commission for New England should be expedited (-- 512).

Report to the king upon the case of the _William and Nicholas_ (-- 850).

_May 14._

Proposals about the Leeward Is. formerly delivered by Lord Willoughby.

(_Journal_; _Cal._, -- 828.)

_May 17._

Case of the _William and Nicholas_, Logwood s.h.i.+p. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 823, 824.)

_May 27._

Letter from Sir Thomas Lynch read. (_Cal._, -- 777.)

_June 4._

Consideration of the Logwood trade. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 825, 837.)

_June 11._

Order regarding s.h.i.+p _William and Nicholas._ (_Cal._, -- 823.)

_June 13._

Surinam and Curacao. (_Journal_ has "Quarasao"; _Cal._, -- 879.)

_June 15._

Continuation of the Logwood difficulty. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 825, II, 879, 880.)

_June 21._

Case of the _Peter_ of London (_Journal_; _Cal._, -- 820; _Cal._, _Dom._, 1673, pp. 198-199.)

Pet.i.tion from Montserrat. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 859, 879.)

_June 25._

Jews in Jamaica. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 848, 879.)

Heads of a letter to Sir Thomas Lynch from the Council. (_Journal_; _Cal._, -- 943.)

Injuries from the French in the West Indies. (_Journal_; _Cal._, -- 805.)

About s.h.i.+p departure from Jamaica. (_Journal_; _Cal._, ---- 683, 910.)

_July 2._

Opinion and advice of the Council to the king upon a great variety of matters already discussed. Jews, logwood, Surinam, Jamaica defence, Curacoa, Leeward Is. and Wheeler, and Stapleton, defense of Montserrat, etc. (_Cal._, -- 879.) In addition the merchants seem to have made a report on the best time for s.h.i.+ps to depart from Jamaica. (_Journal._)

_July 3._

Pet.i.tion from the Long Islanders regarding the whale fishery and their relations with New Amsterdam read. (_Cal._, -- 875.)

_July 16._