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A34145	The original papers and letters, relating to the Scots Company, trading to Africa and the Indies from the memorial given in against their taking subscriptions at Hamburgh, by Paul Ricaut, His Majesty's resident there, to their last address sent up to His Majesty in December, 1699 : faithfully extracted from the Companies books.	Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing C5598A; ESTC R4714	23,387	56

Royal Feet most humbly beseeching that as it had its beginning so it may continue to have its Being and Support from the happy Influences of your peculiar Bounty and Grace So with our earnest Prayers to Almighty God for the long and happy preservation of your Royal Person and continuance of your Glorious Reign and most humble tender of our Lives and Fortunes to your Majesty's Service and Disposition We beg leave to subscribe our selves Most Gracious Soveraign Your Majesty's most Loyal most Dutiful and most Obedient Subjects and Servants Sic subscribitur Daniel Mackay Robert Pennecook William Paterson Colin Campboll Samuel Vetch Charles Forbes Thomas Drummond This Address was delivered to the Secretaries of State about the middle of September together with a Memorial concerning the French Ship commanded by Capt. Duvivier Thomas which was Shipwrack'd near Caledonia Harbour on the 24th of December 1698. By the Honourable Sir William Beston Kt. His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over this his Island of Jamaica and other the Territories depending thereon in America and Vice-Admiral of the same A PROCLAMATION WHereas I have received Commands from his Majesty by the Right Honourable James Vernon Esq one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State signifying to me that his Majesty is uuacquainted with the Intentions and Designs of the Scots fettling at Darien And that it is contrary to the Peace entred into with his Majesty's Allies and therefore has commanded me that no Assistance be given them These are therefore in his Majesty's Name and by Command strictly to command his Majesty's Subjects whatsoever that they do not presume on any prtence whatsoever to hold any Correspondence with the said Scots nor nor to give them any assistance of Arms Ammunition Provisions or any other Necessaries whatsoever either by themselves or any other for them or by any of their Vessels or of the English Nation as they will answer the Contenpt of his Majesty's Command to the contrary at their utmost peril Given under my Hand and Seal of Arms this 8th day of April 1699. and in the 11th Year of our Soveraign Lord William the Third of England Scotland France and Ireland King and of Jamaica Lord Defender of the Faith c. WILLIAM BEESTON Barbadoes By his ECCELLENCY A PROCLAMATION WHereas his Majesty has been pleased to signify his Pleasure to me by Mr. Secretary Vernon that he hath been advertised that several Ships of Force fitted out of Scotland were arrived at the Island of St. Thomas with an Intention as they declared to settle themselves in some part of America Their Design being unknown to his Majesty and least the same should derogate from the Treaties his Majesty hath entred into with the Crown of Spain or be otherwise prejudicial to any of his Majesty's Colonies in the West-Indies These are therefore in his Majesty's Name by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council strictly to command all his Majesty's Subjects inhabiting within this Island that they forbear holding any Correspondence with or giving any Assistance to any of said Persons And that no Provisions Arms or other Necessaries whatsoever be carried to them as they shall answer the same at their peril Given under my Hand this 13th of April 1699 and in the Eleventh Year of his Majesty's Reign R. GRAY By his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont Captain General and Governour in chief of his Majesty's Province of New-York and Territories depending thereon in America and Vice-Admiral of the same A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS his most excellent Majesty hath received Advice That several Ships of Force fitted out of Scotland were designed to settle themselves in some parts of America and lest the same should derogate from the Treaties his Majesty hath entered into with the Crown of Spain or be otherwise prejudicial to any of his Majesty's Colonics in America his Majesty has been pleased to signisy his Royal Pleasure to me That I should strictly forbid all his Majesty's Subjects or others inhabiting within the Districts of my Government that they forbear holding any Correspondence with or giving any Assistance to any of the said Persons while they are engaged in the aforesaid Enterprize and that no Provisions Arms Ammunition or other necessaries whatsoever be carried from hence to them nor be permitted to be carried either in their own Vessels or any other Ship or Vessel for their Use. In pursuance of his Majesty 's said Royal Will and Pleasure I have thought fit by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council of this Province to publish and declare his Majesty's Pleasure and by these Presents do strictly charge and command all and every of his Majesty's Subjects and others within this Province and Territories depending thereon in America That they for bear holding any Correspondence with or giving any assistance to such Person or Persons who have been sitted out of Scotland in manner aforesaid and are said to have settled in a certain place which they have called Caledonia That no Provision Arms Ammunition or other necessaries whatsoever be carried either in their own Vessels or in any other Ship or Vessel for their use from this Province or any part thereof And his Majesty's Collector and Receiver General and all other Officers of Majesty's Custom-House are hereby required to take notice hereof accordingly And I do futher strictly charge command and forbid by and with the Consent of his Majesty's Council as aforesaid all his Majesty's said Subjects and others within this Province That they neither by themselves nor by any other Persons authorized by them contrary to his Majesty's Royal Pleasure as aforesaid hold any Correspondence or give any Assistance or enter into any Traffick or Commerce with such Persons as are said to be settled in Caledonia aforesaid And if any Person of Persons within this Province by themselves their Factors or Agents shall contrary to and against the true intent and meaning of this his Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure singnisied unto me as aforesaid hold any Correspondence or give any Assistance or enter into any Traffick or Commerce in manner aforesaid then all such Person or Persons so acting as aforesaid shall incur such Pains Penalties and Forfeitures as by Law in such Cases are provided And all his Majesty's Subjects and others within this Province are hereby required to take due notice hereof and to observe his Majesty 's said Royal Will and Pleassure in all and every of the Premises as they will answer the contrary at their peril Given at Fort William Henry in New-York the 15th day of May 1699. and in the eleventh year of his Majesty's Regin Bellomont By Order B. Cose Cl. Concilii God save the King Printed by W. Bradford Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty in New-York 1699. By his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont Captain General and Governour in chief of his Majesty's Provinces of the Massachusetts-Bay New-York c. in America and of the Territories

Protection We do therefore in all humility and earnestness beg of your Majesty's fartherly Care of our said Company in particular and of the Nation in general That your Majesty would be graciously pleased to take off the force and effect of these Proclamations which have been so prejudicial to us and to signify your Royal Pleasure to the Governours of these your Plantations that we may be supply'd in the common and ordinary way of Commerce As also That your Majesty may allow your Parliament to meet at the day appointed in November next or as soon as possibly can be that your Majesty may have the Advice and Assistance of the Great Council of this Nation in such a weighty and general Concern which we hope God will bless with an happy issue to his Glory the Honour of your Majesty the Credit of your Parliament the Interest of the Nation and the Good of our Company and Colony Sign'd at Edinburgh the 19th day of October 1699. in Name Presence and by Order of the said Council General by May it please your Majesty Your Majesty's most Faithful most Dutiful most Humble and most Obedient Subject and Servant Sic Subscribitur Belhaven I. P. C. G. To which his Majesty was pleased to give the following Answer WILLIAM R. RIght Trusty and Well-beloved We greet you well Your Petition has been presented to us by our Secretaries and we do very much regret the Loss which that our antient Kingdom and the Company has lately sustained We will upon all Occasions protect and encourage the Trade of the Nation And we will also take care that the Subjects of our Kingdom shall have the same freedom of Trade and Commerce with our English Plantations as ever they had formerly Our current Parliament is adjourn'd to the 5th day of March next and we will order that the Parliament shall meet when we judge that the Good of the Nation does require it And so we bid you heartily farewel Given at our Court at Kensington the 2d day of November 1699. and of our Reign the 11th Year By his Majesty's Command Sic Subscribitur Seafield To our Right Trusty and well-beloved The Council General of the Company of our Antient Kingdom of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies To the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor and remanent Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council The humble Address of the Conncil-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies May it please your Lordships WE think it needless to trouble your Lordships with a repetition of the many Steps Difficulties and Discouragements that we met with all along both abroad and at home since the beginning of this Undertaking the most considerable of them being already particularly known to your Lordships But maugre all those Difficulties we have with a great deal of Trouble and vast Expences settled a Plantation in one of the most valuable and impregnable Places in all America situated on the North-side of the Isthmus of Darien called by us Caledonia As no Nation in Europe ever begun any such Settlement with so considerable a Strength of Men Ships and other Necessaries as we did so no instance can be given of any Settlement ever heretofore made that had so hopeful an Aspect in so short a time as our Plantation aforesaid But to our and the Nation 's inestimable Loss we have very surprizing Advices of our Peoples having deserted the said Settlement by reason of Proclamations issued forth in all his Majesty's Plantations of America strictly forbidding all his Majesty's Subjects to hold any manner of Correspondence with our said Colony and that no manner of Provisions Arms Ammunition or other necessaries whatsoever should be transported or carried to them either in their own Vessels or any other Ship or Vessel for their use and that under the utmost Pains Penalties and Forfeitures mentioned in the said Proclamations The certain Nature whereof could not but have put them in a desperate Condition especially none of our Advices having come to their hands tho we wrote to them at several times by the several ways of Jamaica Barbadoes Antegoa new-New-England c. And sent them likewise an illimited Credit for buying of Provisions till our own Ships and Recruits should come up to them We have taken such further measures as seem'd most reasonable to us upon this unexpected Emergency but have too good ground to fear that not only what we have already done but even all that we are able to do must prove ineffectual if the King and his Parliament of this Kingdom do not give some encouraging Mark of their Favour and Protection to our said Company and Colony Wherefore we have in all humble Duty petitioned his Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to take off the Force of the said Proclamations and allow his said Parliament to meet at the day appointed in November next or as soon as possibly may be to give their Advice and Assistance in such a weighty and general Concern Your Lordships very well know the great Losses both of Men and Treasure that we have already suffered by the unaccountable Proceedings of the Enemies of our Company and Colony Nor can gainst us unless his Majesty and the Great Council of the Nation fall upon proper and effectual Measures for supporting so valuable an Undertaking May it therefore please your Lordships to take the whole Premises into your most serious consideration and do us all the good Offices with his Majesty that in your profound Wisdoms you shall think most expedient for supporting our Company and Colony's Interest and give him an account of our present hard Circumstances and how much the Honour and Interest of Nation stands concern'd Sign'd at Edinburgh the 20th day of October 1699 in Name Presence and by Order of the said Council-General By > May it please your Lordships Your Lordships most humble Servant Sic subscribitur Basil Hamilton J. P. C. G. FINIS