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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Senate of that City against our Company But after some reasoning thereupon and considering how far your Lordship 's frank Undertaking when last in Scotland as well as the Station you are in doth engage your best Endeavours to procure the Company Justice and vindicate the Kingdom 's Rights in this matter They have ordered us the Court of Directors to transmit the said Copies to your Lordship and expect your Lordship's Answer to this our late Petition to his Majesty before they remonstrate any further with relation thereunto This is in presence and by Warrant of the said Court of Directors from My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant Sic Subscribitur John Shaw P. To the Right Honourable the Viscount of Seafield Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland The Secretary's Answer Whitehall Decemb. 13. 1698. SIR I Received a Letter from you as President of a Committee of the East-India Company which relates to Accounts they have had from their Correspondent at Hamburgh with the Copys of two Letters they have received I shall take the first convenient Opportunity I can have to represent this Matter to the King But I cannot as yet expect to have it for his Majesty is very much imploy'd in the Affairs of his Parliament here This is all the Answer I can give at present and which you may signify to those concerned I am SIR Your most faithful and humble Servant Sic Subscribitur SEAFIELD To Sir John Shaw of Greenock c. A Letter from the President of the Court of Directors in answer to the Secretary Edinburgh Jan. 13. 1699. My Lord SIR John Shaw of Greenock having some time ago signified to the Court of Directors of our Company the Contents of a Letter which he received from your Lordship bearing date at Whitehall the 13th of December last intimating that your Lordship would take the first convenient opportunity of representing to his Majesty the Company 's Petition with relation to the Parliament's Address as also the Contents of the Company 's Letter to your Lordship bearing date the 24th of November last But in respect we have not all this time heard any further from your Lordship concerning that Matter this is by order of the said Court of Directors to put your Lordship in mind of the Premisses not doubting but you have had before this time a convenient opportunity to represent the same to his Majesty and in expectation of your Lordship's speedy and satisfactory Answer I remain My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble Servant Sic Subscribitur Archibald Mure. To the Right Honourable the Viscount of Seafield Secretary of State The Secretary's Answer Whitehall Febr. 7. 1699. SIR I Have presented to his Majesty the Petition of the African Company and I am commanded by him to let you know That there being accounts that the Ships belonging to the Company are arriv'd upon the Coast of America And the particular Design not being communicated to his Majesty he therefore does delay to give any Answer until he receive certain Information of their Settlement This you may signify to the Council or Directors of the Company as being by his Majesty's Command I am To Sir Archibald Mure of Thornton c. SIR Your most humble Servant Sic subscribitur Seafield A Letter from the Company to his Majesty giving an Account of their Colony's arrival at Darien May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects the Council General of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies having by express receiv'd an Account from the Council of our Company 's Colony in America that they arriv'd safe at their intended Port within a League of Golden Island on the Coast of Darien and after having treated on board of our Ships with the Natives who were always own'd to be the only Proprietors of that part of the Coast our Men did at the request and with the consent of the said Natives land on the 4 th of November last and take possession of an uninhabited Place never before possess'd by any European whatsoever and that in pursuance of the said Treaty the chief Men and Leaders of the said Natives have join'd with and taken Commission from the said Council We thought it our Duty at our very first Meeting to give your Majesty an account thereof and likewise that by Letters from our said Council bearing date at New Edinburgh in Caledonia being the Name given to our present Settlement the 28th day of December last we are positively informed that the French have a Design upon all that Coast or at least to make a Settlement somewhere thereabouts And we humbly conceive that the firm Settlement of our Colony in those Parts may be the means of preventing or at least lessening the evil Consequences that may arise to your Majesty's Kingdoms and Dominions every where by the Settlement of any powerful foreign Neighbour in upon or near any part of that Coast. And we are always bound thankfully to acknowledg your Majesty's Goodness for granting us these Privileges mentioned in the Acts of Parliament and your Majesty's Letters Patent by which our said Company is established So we do now in all humility confidently expect your Majesty's Royal Favour and Protection as having in all the Steps of our Conduct through the whole Course of this Affair strictly observed the Conditions required by the said Acts of Parliament and Letters Patent And referring this together with the Contents of our last Petition to your Majesty's Royal Consideration to give such Directions therein as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet and expedient This is in Name Presence and by Warrant of the said Council-General Signed by May it please Your Majesty Your Majesty's most faithful most dutiful most humble and most obedient Subject and Servant Sic-Subscribitur Tweeddale Edinburgh the 31st day of March 1699. The Company 's Letter to the Lord Carmichael Secretary of State My Lord THIS being the first Opportunity that we have had to address your Lordship since your Advancement to that eminent Station and Place of Trust wherein you are We must account it a Happiness that upon Receipt of the late welcome News from our Colony's Company in America we can transmit an Account thereof to his Majesty by the hands of one so much devoted to the Honour and Interest of our Country and Company as your Lordship has upon all Occasions shewn your self and who being often Witness to our Company 's Proceedings from time to time can give a juster Account thereof than any other that has no Interest in our Stock nor has ever been amongst us Inclosed you have our Council-General's seal'd Letter to his Majesty which we doubt not your Lordship will carefully deliver together with an exact Copy thereof for your Lordship 's better Information to which we refer but shall for your further Information enlarge a little upon the several Heads therein mention'd As to our place of Settlement it is so