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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

Company in particular do make our most humble and earnest Request to Your Majesty That You would be graciously pleased to grant us such a Declaration as in Your Royal Wisdom You shall think fit to render the Senate and Inhabitants of the said City of Hamburg and all others that are or may be concerned secure from the Treatnings and other Suggestions contained in the said Memorial as well as to render us secure under Your Majesty's Protection in the full prosecution of our Trade and free enjoyment of our Lawful Rights Privileges and Immunities contained in Your Majesty's said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent above-mention'd Sign'd at Edinburgh the 28th Day of June 1697 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 Yester P. His Majesty's Answer to the said Address By the Right Honourable John Earl of Tullibardin c. and Sir James Ogilvie Knight Secretaries of State My Lords and Gentlemen WE are impowered by the King to signifie unto you That as soon as His Majesty shall return to England he will take into Consideration what you have presented unto him And that in the mean time His Majesty will give Orders to the Envoy at the Courts of Lunenburg and his Resident at Hamburg not to make use of His Majesty's Name or Authority for obstructing your Company in the Prosecution of your Trade with the Inhabitants of that City Sign'd at Edinburgh the Second Day of August 1697. Sic subscribitur Tullibardine Ja. Ogilvie To the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies THE Company 's Letter TO THE Right Honourable the Earl of Tullibardin Secretary of State Edinburgh Sept. 28. 1697. May it please your Lordship IT is not unknown to Your Lordship in what Humour the Council General of our Company and most Part of the Nation were in with Relation to the Memorial given in to the Senate of Hamburg against our Company by the English Ministers there upon which ensued the Council-Generals late Address transmitted to His Majesty by your Lordship And your Lordship very well knows that at your Request and Desire only upon Premises of using your best Endeavours to procure a speedy and satisfactory Answer from his Majesty the said Council-General was prevail'd upon to suspend representing that Matter further to the Government till the second Day of August last past On which Day your Lordship did signifie his Majesty's Answer to the said Address Upon Receipt whereof the said Council General did resolve to supersede any further Proceeding therein till His Majesty's arrival in England as not in the least doubting but His Majesty would have in the mean time pursuant to his Answer given Orders to His Resident at Hamburg with Relation to the Subject Matter of the said Memorial But we are extreamly surprized to find by Letters of the 31st ultimo from our Company 's Agent in that City that he had according to our Order been to wait on the English Resident there and with all the Respect due to his Character intimated to him the Contents of the said Address and Answer Upon which the Resident declared That he was ready and willing to obey His Master's Orders but that as yet he had got none in that Matter We cannot imagine what should be the Occasion of this new Disappointment since we cannot suffer our selves to believe but that His Majesty has according to his Letter to your Lordship given Orders as aforesaid which makes us admire the more where the Neglect of that Matter doth now stand Yet we must needs say We are in some Measure afraid to acquaint the said Council-General with it lest they be more uneasie thereupon than we would wish till first we have your Lordship's Answer For which Cause we the several under-subscribing Directors of the said Company who are now in Town have thought fit in as quiet a Manner as possible to give your Lordship an Account thereof to the end you may in your Wisdom and Prudence advise His Majesty with Relation thereunto and doubt not but your Lordship will take such Care herein as may prevent our Calling another Council-General with Relation to the Premises which we are bound un avoidably to do if we have not your Lordship's timely Answer We are May it please Your Lordship Your Lordships most Obedient Humble Servants Sic Subscribitur Ad. Cockburn Fran. Montgomery Archb. Mure Geo. Clark Robert Blackwood James Balfour William Paterson To the Right Honourable the Earl of Tullibardin Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland Memorandum The Duplicate hereof was likewise sent at the same time to the Right Honourrable Sir James Ogilvie Knight c. To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Council-General of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies May it please Your Majesty BY a former Address of the 28th of June last we have humbly represented to Your Majesty how that Your Majesty's Envoy to the Courts of Lunenburg and Resident at Hamburgh did under Pretence of Special Warrant from Your Majesty give in a Memorial to the Senate of the said City of Humburgh contrary to the Law of Nations and expresly invading the Privileges contained in the Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent by which our Company is established Copies of which Address and Memorial we have for Your Majesty's better Information hereto annexed In answer to which Your MAJESTY was then graciously pleased to signifie by Your Royal Letter That upon Your MAJESTY's arrival in England You would take the Contents of our said Address into Consideration And that in the mean time You would give Orders to Your said Ministers not to make use of your Majesty's Name or Authority for obstructing our Company in the Prosecution of our Trade with the InhaDitants of the said City of Humburg In the full Assurance of which we rested secure and took our Measures accordingly till to our further Surprize and great Disappointment we find by repeated Advices from Hamburg That Your Majesty 's said Resident continues still Contumacious and is so far from giving due Obedience to Your Majesty's said Order that upon Application made to him for that Effect with all the Respect due to his Character he pretended that he had never as yet got any such Order on our Behalf which we thought fit in all Duty and Humility to lay before Your Majesty renewing withal our most humble and earnest Request That Your Majesty would be now graciously pleased to take the Contents of This and our said former Address into Consideration and in your Royal Wisdom order some speedy and effectual Redress of our Grievances therein mentioned and a just Reparation of the manifest Damages which our Company has already sustained by reason of the said Memorial And grant us a Declaration under Your Royal Hand

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

they have met with in the Prosecution of their Trade particularly by a Memorial presented to the Senate of Hamburgh by your Majesty's Residents in that City tending to lessen the Credit of the Rights and Privileges granted to the said Company by an Act of this present Parliament We therefore in all humble Duty lay before your Majesty the whole Nation 's Concern in this Matter and we do most earnestly entreat and most assuredly expect That your Majesty will in your Royal Wisdom take such Measures as may effectually vindicate the undoubted Rights and Privileges of the said Company and suppor the Credit and Interest thereof And as we are in Duty bound to return your Majesty most hearty Thanks for the gracious Assurances your Majesty has been pleased to give us of all due Encouragement for promoting the Trade of this Kingdom So we are thereby encourag'd at present humbly to recommend to more special Marks of your Royal Favour the Concerns of the said Company as that Branch of our Trade in which we and the Nation we represent have a more peculiar Interest Subscribed at Edinburgh the 5th of August 1698. in Name Presence and by Warrant of the Estates of Parliament Sic-Subscribitur Seafield I.P.D.P. To the King 's most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of the Court of Directors of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies Sheweth THAT whereas the Estates of Parliament have by their Address of the 5th of August instant been pleased to recommend the Concerns of the said Company to some Marks of your Royal Favour for supporting the Credit and Interest thereof which has already suffered in a great measure by reason of the several Obstructions which they have met with in the prosecution of their Trade particularly by a Memorial given in to the Senate of Hamburgh by your Majesty's Ministers there We are thereby encourag'd in all humility to lay before your Majesty That as the said Memorial was given in to the Senate of Humburgh in a most solemn and publick manner So your Petioners humbly conceive that the Effects thereof cannot be taken away but by some Intimation made to the said Senate that they may enter into Commerce with your Petitioners as freely and securely in all respects as they might have done before the giving in of the said Memorial That in consideration of the Damages sustain'd by the Company as aforesaid Your Majesty would be pleased for their Incouragement at present as a gracious Mark of your Royal Favour to bestow upon them the two smallest of the Frigots now lying useless in Brunti-land Harbour That in regard of the time already lost by reason of the Obstructions aforesaid Your Majesty would be graciously pleas'd to continue the Privileges granted by Act of Parliament to the said Company of being Custom-free for such longer time as your Majesty shall in your Royal Wisdom think sit In respect of all which may it please your Majesty to take the whole Premises into your Royal Consideration and give such Orders and Directions with relation thereunto as to your Majesty in your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet and expedient Signed at Edinburgh the 16th day of August 1698. in Name Presence and by Warrant of the said Court of Directors by May it please your Majesty Your Majesty's most loyal most dutiful most humble and most obedient Subject and Servant Sic-Subscribiur Geo. Clark I. P. C. D. Letters from Mr. Stevenson the Companys Agent at Hamburgh to the Company Hamburgh the 4th of October Much honoured Lords and Gentlemen I Wrote to you on the 26th past advising you of my going post to Hamburgh in pursuance of your Orders where I arriv'd the 2d Instant And the Day following I waited upon the English Resident and in the Company 's Name desired to know if he had yet received his Master's Pleasure ordering him no more to oppose the Transactions of the Indian and African Company of Scotland in this City which I pressing hard answered by his Character and Honour he never received any Orders from his Master that mentions the said Company since his giving in the Memorial against them So I have no further to add but that I am My Lords and Gentlemen Your most most faithful Servant to power Sic-Subscribitur Alexander Stevenson This was under Cover which containeth what followeth Much honoured Lords and Gentlemen BY this within-closed you have a full Answer as to what may be expected here for ever Since my parture from this I am informed that the English here did constantly assert that the Company would never be redressed and the Delay of the same after all your means has made an Impression upon the Minds of People that it will never be at least such as they might trust to Hamburgh the 18th of October Much honoured Lords and Gentlemen I Wrote to you of the 4 th current wherein I advised you of Sir Paul Rycaut English Resident at Hamburgh's Answer given me anent your Affairs to which refers Mr. Cresset Envoy at the Courts of Lunenburgh being returned from waiting upon his Majesty there I thought it my Duty to wait upon him and demanded in your Names to know if his Majesty had signified his Royal Pleasure anent removing off the stop put to the Company 's Affairs in this City through the Memorial given in to the Senate against them To which Answer he received no such Orders and was of the Judgment If the Memorial were yet to be given in it would be done I shall not enlarge what farther past but assure you he seems to insinuate that his private Orders from the Government of England was to act quite contrary to your Expectations This is all from To the Right Honourable the Court of Directors c. My Lords and Gentlemen Your obedient Servant Sic-Subscribitur Alex. Stevenson This was under Cover which contained what followeth Much honoured Lords and Gentlemen BY the within-closed you have an account what relates to your Affairs with respect to have the Merchants in this City concerned I cannot offer to speak to the Commercij about the same but those Merchants here that are Signers in the Books of Subscriptions are as cordial as ever were the Stop removed they doubt not things here would take the desired effect Letter from the President of the Committee of the Company to the Lord Seafield Secretary of State upon receipt of Mr. Stevenson's Letters Edinburgh Novemb. 29. 1698. My Lord THis is by order of the Council-General of the Indian and African Company of Scotland to cover the inclosed Copies of two Letters lately received from our Company 's Agent at Hamburgh Upon reading whereof yesterday at a meeting of the said Council-General they were not a little surpriz'd at the Contents thereof considering the many repeated Assurances given them formerly by Letters word of Mouth and even in Parliament that the King had already given Orders to his Ministers at Hamburgh with relation to the Memorial given in to the