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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