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Representation from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

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    A General Report concerning the State of his Majesty's Plantations on the Continent of America Made by the Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations the 8th September 1721 :

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    Fair copy of the report prepared by the Board of Trade for George I. The report includes the Introduction, chapters dealing with Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Carolinas; "The Consequence of the Plantation Trade, Account of the French Settlements, "Some Considerations for enlarging and improving his Majesty's American Dominions, by Preventing Encroachments, cultivating a good Understanding with the Indians," and by "putting the Government of the Plantations upon a better Foot."

    mssHM 221

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    Documents relating to Edmond Prideaux and his imprisonment by Lord Jeffreys on a charge of high treason

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    HM 80339 -- Edmond Prideaux, -1702. To the Honorable Knights, Citizens & Burgesses in Parliament Assembled: Petition of Edmund Prideaux [imprisoned by Lord Jeffreyes on a charge of high treason], [before 1703], Document, Contemporary copy.

    mssHM 80339-80340

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    Nevis. Council. To the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations : Application against Sir John Knight

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    This collection contains correspondence and documents primarily accumulated by English civil servant William Blathwayt (1649-1717) in his capacity as a British government official in such roles as Surveyor and Auditor General of Plantation Revenues and Secretary and member of the Lords of Trade. The bulk of the papers date from 1660 to 1709 and chiefly relate to the British colonies in North America and the West Indies .

    BL 358

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    Names of members of the Convention Parliament: manuscript

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    This is a list of the members of the Convention Parliament in 1688.

    mssHM 699

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    Norfolk Commissioners of Sewers manuscript compendium

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    Volume contains a table of contents and transcriptions of orders of decrees by the Commissioners of Sewers pertaining to state projects for the management of fens, marshes, and waterways in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. These decrees were compiled and are copies. They range in date from approximately 1601 to approximately 1638. In the inside cover is a dead ladybug that was found in the manuscript; it is now encapsulated in mylar.

    mssHM 84000

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    Hudson's Bay Company. Representation to the Commissioners

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains correspondence and documents primarily accumulated by English civil servant William Blathwayt (1649-1717) in his capacity as a British government official in such roles as Surveyor and Auditor General of Plantation Revenues and Secretary and member of the Lords of Trade. The bulk of the papers date from 1660 to 1709 and chiefly relate to the British colonies in North America and the West Indies .

    BL 22