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PROCLAMATIONS, COMMISSIONS, and GRANTS

    
     [The following entries, (pp. 155---168*), relating to Proclamations, Commissions, and Grants of Offices, Land, &c., in different parts of America and elsewhere, are taken from the Indexes to the Patent Rolls in the Public Records Office, commencing in 1606 (4 James I.), and ending in 1702 (14 William III.). There are several entries of the appointment of Commissioners to administer oaths to persons desirous of passing beyond the seas, (officers being stationed for this purpose at the ports of London, Harwich, Weymouth, Kingston - upon - Hull, the Cinque Ports, &c.); and the student will find among them valuable hints upon which to base more detailed researches, These entries must embody very many memoranda throwing light upon questions of settlement in America. We may add, that licenses were necessary, on leaving England, not only for civilians, but also for soldiers, whether under command, or going singly to join their regiments. Reference to Roll and Part is given at the end of each paragraph.]
    
    

      

    

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OMMISSION granted to Sir Henry Billingsley and Sir William
Romney, Knights, and others, to minister an oath to 
all women and persons under the age of One - 
and - twenty years, that shall desire to go over the 
seas, at our port of  London, &c. (Pat. 4 Jac. I. part 12.)
     
Commissions granted to the Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull; the
customer and Comptroller of the Haven of Harwich;
the port or haven of Weymouth; to administer an oath
to all persons under the age of One-and twenty who
are desirous to pass the Seas from the said ports;
also to Henry, Earl of Northampton, to appoint 
Deputies to administer an oath to all persons of
convenient age who pass the seas at the Cinque 
Ports. (4 Jac. I. p. 12.)
     
Proclamation licensing all manner of persons under the age of 
One and twenty years upon due examination of them
to pass beyond the Seas.  (Pat. 4 Jac. I. p. 12.)
       
10 April.   Grant to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Knts.
and others, special license to make habitation and
plantation, and to deduce a Colony of people into
that part of America called Virginia.  (Pat. 4 Jac. I. p. 19.)
     
Commission granted to Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Lord 
Chancellor of England, to award Commissions to
divers men for examination of all such persons
as go out of the kingdom at any of the Ports of
London, Harwich, Weymouth, and Kingston - 
upon- Hull. (Pat. 4 Jac. I. p. 24.)
     
20 July.   Grant to Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor
of England, of a special Warrant for licensing such
as go beyond the Seas. (5 Jac. I. p. 22.)
    
29 July    Grant to Henry, Earl of Northampton, of a special 
license to appoint deputies for ministering the oath
of Allegiance to such as pass beyond the Seas.
(5 Jac. I. p. 22.)

 

   

   
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21 May.    Grant to Henry, Earl of Northampton, Commission
special, by his Deputies, to examine all such as shall
pass from the Cinque Ports beyond the Seas,
&c.  (6 Jac.  I. p. 20.)  Another of the 10th Oct.
(same year), p. 30.
    
7 October.  Grant to Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Commission
special, to seal several Commissions directed to
several persons for the Port of London, licensing
persons going beyond the Seas.  (6 Jac. I. p. 30.)
    
1 May.      Grant to Sir Thomas Crompton, Sir Thomas
Smyth,  Knts., and others, Commission special,
 to minister an  oath to all passengers that desire
to pass over the Seas  at the Port of London,
and to examine them.  (6 Jac. I. p.  37.)
    
23 May.    Grant to Robert, Earl of Salisbury, Thomas, Earl 
of Suffolk, Henry, Earl of Southampton, William,
Earl of Pembroke, and divers others, to plant and
inhabit in Virginia, and to incorporate by the name
of Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and
Planters of the City of London, for the first 
Colony in Virginia.  (7 Jac. I. p. 8.)
    
2 May       Grant of Incorporation, by the name of the
Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and 
Planters of the City of London and Bristol, for
the Colony and Plantation in Newfoundland.
(8 Jac. I. p. 8.)
   
12 March.  Grant to the Treasurer and Company of 
Adventurers  and Planters of the City of London,
for the first Colony in Virginia, all the Islands in
any part of the Ocean,  bordering upon the Coast
of the Colony in Virginia, &c.,  to  their heirs and
successors; with full power for keeping  a
Lottery.  (9 Jac. I. p. 14.)
    
28 August.     Grant to Robert Harecourt, Esq., Sir Thomas 
Challoner, Knt,. and John Rovenson, Esq., and to
the  heirs of the said Robert, all that part of Guiana
or  continent of America lying between the River
of  Amazons and the River of Dessequebe, et alia.
 (11 Jac. I.  p. 9.)
   
9 Aug.      Commission to Edward Lord Zouch, Lord Warden
of the Cinque Ports, concerning the examining 
and licensing of passengers, with Instructions 
touching the same.  (13  Jac. I. p. 16.)
   
29 June.     Incorporation of the Governor and Society of the
City of London, for planting of the Summer Islands,
&c.  (13 Jac.  I. p. 19.)
   
3 November.    The King grants, ordains, establishes and
confirms that Lodowick, Duke of Lenox, George,
Marquis of Buckingham, and divers others, be the
 first modern and present Council established
at Plymouth in the county  of Devon, for the plant-

  

   

   

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ing, ruling and governing of New England in America,
and that they shall elect and choose others to the 
number of forty persons, and no more, to be of
that  Council, and that they shall be incorporated
by the name  of the Council established at
Plymouth for the governing  of New England
in America.  (18 Jac. I. p. 16.)
    
24 January.    Grant to Francis, Lord Verulam, Warrant
special, to make out divers Commissions to such
Justices, Officers and Ministers, and to such ports
of this Realm as he shall think convenient, for the
 taking of an oath of all such as shall pass beyond
the Seas.  (The form of oath is recited  in this
patent.) (18 Jac. I. p. 16.)
   
31 Dec.    Grant to Sir George Calvert, Knt., of Newfoundland.
(20 Jac. I. p. 14.)   Similar grant made to the said
Sir George Calvert, on the 7th April.  (21 Jac. I. p. 19).
   
Proclamation against irregular and disobedient persons 
and disorderly trading into New England,
in America.  (20 Jac.  I. p. 16.)
   
Commission directed to the Supervisor General of the
Customs in the port of London, to examine such
persons as pass beyond the Seas, and to minister
unto them an Oath. A similar Warrant granted
to John, Bishop of Lincoln.
 (21 Jac. I. p. 19, in dorso.)
   
Commission directed to Sir William Jones, Sir Nicholas
Fortescue, Knts., and others, to view, peruse
and consider all Charters, Letters Patent, 
Proclamations and Commissions concerning
the Colonies or Plantations in  Virginia.
(21 Jac. I. p. 19.)
    
Commission directed to Henry, Viscount Mandeville,
William, Lord Paget, and divers others, giving
them power and authority to take into their
considerations the state of the Colony and
Plantation in Virginia, and to Consider of all
matters concerning the people's safety, their
strength  and government.  (22 Jac. I. p. 1.)
   
20 December.    Grant to George, Duke of Buckingham,
Lord  Warden of the Cinque Ports, Commission
special, for  him, or his Deputies, to examine
upon oath all  passengers going beyond the
Seas from those Ports,  and to grant them
licenses; with instructions.  (22 Jac. I.  p. 14.)
   
26 August.     Grant to Sir Francis Wyatt, Knt., Francis
West, Sir George Yardley, Knt., and others, 
Commission special, for the better government
of the people in Virginia.  (22  Jac. I. p. 17.)
   
18 September.     Commission, appointing Sir George
Yardley, Knt., Governor in Virginia.  (22 Jac. I. p. 17.)
   
9 November.    The King constitutes Edward Dichfeild
and others  to be his officers to search and see
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into this Kingdom from foreign parts, except from
Virginia and the Summer Islands.  (22 Jac. I. p. 4.)
    
Proclamation for the settling the Plantation of Virginia.
(1 Chas. I. p. 4)
   
13 September.    Grant to Thomas Warner, and others, the
Custody of the Islands of St. Christophers, 
the Barbadoes and "Moncerat" [Mountserrat] 
in the Continent of America.  (1 Chas. I. p. 6.)
   
19 May.    Grant to George, Duke of Buckingham, William,
Earl of Pembroke, Phillip, Earl of Montgomery, 
James, Earl of Carlisle, and divers others, that 
they shall be one body politic and corporate of
 themselves, by the name of Governor and
Company of Noblemen and Gentlemen of
England, for the Plantation of Guiana; and
 that they shall have perpetual succession.
 (3  Chas. I. p. 5)
   
26 March.    Grant to John Harvey, Francis West, and
divers others, Commission special, to be present
Governor and Council for the Colony and
Plantation in Virginia.  (3 Chas. I. p. 3.)
   
4 March.    Grant to Samuel Aldersey, Thomas Adams,
and others, all that part of New England, in
America, lying and extending between the bounds
and limits in an Indenture expresses, with divers
liberties, jurisdictions and royalties, to them and
their heirs for ever. ----(4 Chas. I. p. 11.)
   
20 September.    Grant to George Archbishop of Canterbury,
and others, Commission special, to reprieve
and stay from execution such persons as stand
convicted,. or hereafter shall be convicted, for
small offences, who for strength of body or other
ability shall be thought fit to be employed in foreign
discoveries, or other services beyond the Seas. 
 (4 Chas. I. p. 23.)
   
4 Feb.      Grant to Sir William Alexander, Knt., and others
of a Commission special, to make a voyage into 
the Gulf and River of Canada and the parts
adjacent for the sole trade of Beaver Wools, 
Beaver Skins, Furs, Hides and Skins of Wild
Beasts.   (4 Chas. I. p. 34.)
    
25 May.    Grant to Patrick Craford and Mathew Byrkynhead,
the office of clerks for the writing and entering
of licences and passes granted by any 
Commissioners to persons going beyond the seas
from the ports of Bristol, Beaumaris, Chester
and Liverpool.  (6 Chas. I. p. 5.)
    
19 Nov.    Commission special directed to all Mayors, 
Recorders, Customers and other Officers within
all port towns, ports and havens to examine and
minister an oath to all passengers beyond the
seas, except merchants and their factors. 
(6 Chas. I. p. 6, in dorso.)

    

   

   

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4 December.   Grant to Robert, Lord Brooke, and others, 
to incorporate by the name of the Governor and
Company of Adventurers of the City of Westminster,
for the plantation of the Island of Providence,
Henrietta, and the adjacent Islands lying upon
the Coast of America.  (6 Chas. I. p. 1.)
   
Proclamation forbidding the disorderly trading with the
"Salvages" in New England in America, especially
the furnishing of the Navies in those and other
ports of America, by the English, with weapons
and habiliments of war.   (6 Chas. I. p. 11.)
   
19 Nov.    Grant to Edward Thorowgood, the office of
Clerk for writing of licences and passes to be 
granted by Commissioners to any person going
out of this Realm, for 21 years.   (6 Chas. I. p. 6.)
    
22 June.  Grant to Robert, Earl of Warwick, and others,
Governor and Company of Adventurers of the
City of Westminster, for the plantation of the
Islands of Providence, Henrietta, and the adjacent
Islands not formerly granted unto them,
beginning at 6 degrees from the Equinoctial
line towards the North, and extending from
thence to 24 in Latitude towards the Tropic
of Cancer, and between the degrees of 290
and 310 of Longitude, and Meridian distance
through all the said Latitude, as the said
degrees are in common computation reckoned
and accompted in this Kingdom, to their heirs
and successors.   7 Chas. I. p. 14.)
    
27 June.    Grant to Edward, Earl of Dorset, Henry, Earl
of Denbigh, and others, Commission special, to
consider how the Virginia Plantation now
standeth, and to consider what commodity may
be raised in those parts.   (7 Chas. I. p. 20.)
    
11 May.      Grant to Sir William Alexander, and others, 
to collect Beaver Skins, &c., similar to the Grant 
made 4 Feb., 4 Chas. I. p. 34,  (which see).
(9 Chas. I. p. 7.)
    
23 September.     Grant to Thomas Younge, gent.,
Commission special to discover, find out, 
and search what parts are not yet inhabited
in Virginia and America, and other parts
thereunto adjoining.   (9 Chas. I. p. 1.)
    
3 April.     Grant to Robert, Earl of Warwick, Henry,
Earl of Holland, William, Lord Say and Sele,
Robert, Lord Brooke, and others, Merchants
Adventurers of the City of London, trading
into the parts of America.    (11 Chas. I. p. 8.)
    
Commission Special, directed to the Recorder of the
City of London, Sir Paul Pynder, Knt., and others,
for the taking of oaths of such persons as shall
desire to go beyond the seas, and for the doing
of many other things, such as in discretion shall
seem meet to them.  (11 Chas. I. p. 9.)

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2 April.    Grant to Sir John Harvye, Knt., Commission special, 
to be the present Governor of the Colony and Plantation in Virginia, with several powers and authorities therein mentioned.   (12 Chas. I. p. 21, in dorso.)
    
10 April.   Grant to William, Archbp. of Canterbury, Thomas, 
Lord Coventry, Keeper of the Great Seal, and others, Commission special, for the government of all persons within the Colonies and Plantations beyond the seas, according to the Laws and Constitutions there; and to constitute Courts as well Ecclesiastical as Civil for the determining of Causes there.  (12 Chas. I. p. 21, in dorso.)
     
10 May.    Grant to Thomas Mahewe, the office of clerk of the
passes and licences in the Outports, and the writing and registering of same, and of the names of all those that shall go out of this Kingdom beyond the Seas, for 21 years in reversion.  (12 Chas. I. p. 14.)
     
13 November.    Grant to James, Marquis of Hamilton, Henry, 
Earl of Holland, and others, all that whole Continent, Island or Region commonly called Newfoundland, bordering upon the Continent of America, to them and their heirs.   (13 Chas. I. p. 32.)
     
Proclamation against the disorderly transporting his Majesty's 
subjects to the plantations within the parts of America.   (13 Chas. I. p. 15.)
    
11 January.   Grant to Sir Francis Wyatt, Knt., Commission 
special, to be Governor of the Colony and plantation in Virginia during pleasure.    (14 Chas. I. p. 29.)
    
29 March.    Grant to Richard Morison, Esq., the office of  
Captain or Keeper of the Castle of "Poynte Comfort, " within the Lordship of Virginia, during pleasure, in reversion.    (14 Chas. I. p. 38.)
    
Proclamation to restrain the transporting of passengers and 
provisions to New England without licence.   (14 Chas. I. p. 6, in dorso.)
    
16 December.    Grant to Henry Ashton, Esq., Peter Hay, Esq.,  
and others, Commission special, to declare in his Majesty's name, in all public assemblies and places of the Islands and province of Barbadoes, against Henry Hawley, to be Governor or Lieutenant General of the said Island; and to charge and require him and his Deputy or Agents, under his and their Allegiance, forthwith to yield up the said office and place of government, and all the incidents thereunto, unto Henry Hunckes, or to such person or persons as the Earl of Carlisle shall appoint.   (15 Chas. I. p. 23, in dorso.)
    
    

      

      

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