Compter, who on one of his voyages had served with Sir Francis 1620, October 7. Certificate by the Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House, that William Locke of Ratcliffe, mariner, was in a ship cast away at Greenland in 1611, and afterwards in another ship also cast away in Greenland, and afterwards taken by Turkish pirates in the Straights, and lost his wages, apparel and adventure; that he has a wife and 4 children, the eldest sick. Pp. 239b-240a. 1621, May 26. Petition by the Master, etc., of the Trinity House to the Privy Council. They have received the collection for the £1,000 per annum, according to the rates presented to the Council, and mentioned in their letter of July 7, 1620 to the Custom House, towards the charge of the ships at sea against the Turkish pirates. But one Ralph Freeman, a merchant of London, who lately farmed the killing of whales in Greenland and on those northern coasts, has set forth 8 ships for the same voyage and refuses to pay the imposition. They pray that the Council will call Freeman so that he may be subject to the rate. P. 240b. 1621, August 1. A note of the particular losses sustained by John Links of Limehouse, mariner, in several voyages at sea, in 1563 coming from Newfoundland, etc. Certificate that the above is true, his losses amount to £795, and he and his old wife are in distress. P. 240b. 1625, January 3. Certificate by Thomas Gataker, parson of Redriffe, and others, that Michael Fletcher, husband to the bearer, was on his return from New England, not many leagues from Plymouth, taken prisoner by a Sallee man-of-war, and taken to Sallee and kept prisoner. He has lost all; the ransom demanded is £300. P. 242a. 1630, last of September. Council letter to the bailiffs and aldermen of Yarmouth that herrings, pilchards and Newfoundland fish are to be exported only in English bottoms. P. 246a. 1630, Sept. 29. Council Order to the same effect. Other letters about the matter. P. 246a. 1631, November 4. Council Order that the inhabitants of the Western parts shall have license hac vice to sell their Newfoundland fish and pilchards to strangers, to be carried away by them in their own vessels. P. 246b. 1632, November 3. Calculations of the charges of a ship of 250 tons for a voyage of seven months, victualled and manned with 70 men, for fetching home 100 soldiers from the fort of Rebeck (sic) in the river of Canada. P. 246b. 1614, October 17. The Master, etc., of the Trinity House to the Privy Council. Beginning of a petition about the restraint of the exportation of herrings from Yarmouth and pilchards from Newfoundland. P. 246b. 1631, November 4. Council Order. License hac vice for the inhabitants of the Western parts using the fishing of Newfoundland to sell their Newfoundland fish and pilchards to strangers to be carried away in their own vessels. Petition by the Master, etc., of the Trinity House to the Earl of Portland, Lord High Treasurer, against foreign ships taking off the The same to the Privy Council; on the same business. The same to Lord Cottington; on the same business. P. 247a. 1650, September 13. Council of Trade. What convoy is necessary for the Southern and Levant trades, and what commodities are most fit to be exported and imported in English bottoms only, to be taken into consideration Friday, September 20. The Trinity House to have notice and be desired to attend the Council. P. 247a. 1650, September 20. Committee of Trade. The Masters of the Trinity House are desired to draw up something to offer to this Council about what goods are fit to be exported and imported only on English bottoms. Report thereon by the committee appointed by Parliament for the affairs of the Trinity House. P. 247a. 1633, November 13. Star Chamber. Order, on the petition of the Masters, etc., of the Trinity House, against exporting herrings, pilchards and Newfoundland fish and all other native commodities by stranger shipping. They refer the matter to the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of Dorset, Lord Cottington, Mr. Treasurer, Mr. Comptroller, Secretary Cooke and Secretary Windebank. The Master, etc., of the Trinity House to the Council Board. Report by them of the tonnage and costs of ships employed in fishing. Sir John Wolstenholme's narration to the Council Board concerning the fishing. P. 247a. 1652, May 24. H. Vane, President of the Council, to the [Trinity House]. They have ordered 30 ships and men to be imprested. Tells the Trinity House to direct the 10 ships in the river ready to sail for Newfoundland to go to the Downs and join the General of the Fleet, in order to do the state service, in which case they shall be satisfied for the time they are employed. P. 248a. 1673, October 9. The Trinity House to [the Commissioners of the Admiralty]. They think that at present there is no want of shipping to manage a trade to the northward, the Straits, East Indies, West Indies, etc.; and if so, it will be prejudicial to our navigation to buy or make free any foreign-built ships. P. 255b. 1680, December 28. Letters about the Golden Lyon, a Virginia ship, having been cast away on Scilly; Mr. Hoskins, the keeper of the light, was inattentive to it, and had plundered some of the goods of the ship. P. 257b. 1715, March 6. Petition of Thomas Coram read, proposing a new settlement in some uninhabited part of N. America, and praying a certificate from the corporation of his being well affected to his Majesty and the government, and of his skill in naval affairs, which was ordered to be given under the seal of the corporation, Thomas Coram being a younger brother. P. 260b. GUILDHALL. KING STREET, E. C. The Archives of the City of London are for the most part in the custody of the town clerk, but records are preserved in the several departments of other officers of the corporation, e. g., the city chamberlain, the comptroller, remembrancer, etc., while copies of many original MSS. preserved in the Public Record Office and elsewhere and bearing upon the city's history are also preserved in the Guildhall Library. Application for permission to search the city's records should in the first instance be made in writing to the Town Clerk, Guildhall, E. C. Since it is necessary for the Court of Common Council and the Library Committee to consider such applications, they should be made some time in advance. The applicant may be summoned before the Library Committee to explain the object of his search. The permission expires with the end of the legal year. CORPORATION RECORDS. The corporation records are accessible to authorized searchers from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. except on Saturdays. They contain two principal series of records that include documents relating to American affairs: 1. the Journal of the Common Council; 2. the Common Hall Books, or minutes of the meetings of the mayor, aldermen and liverymen of the several companies of the city of London. Since it was not practicable to examine these numerous MS. volumes page by page, the following list was compiled from the indexes to the volumes and from the references in the valuable work of Dr. R. R. Sharpe, London and the Kingdom (3 vols., Longmans, 1894-1895). Many of the addresses noticed below are printed in a work entitled Addresses, Remonstrances, and Petitions to the Throne, presented from the Court of Aldermen, The Court of Common Council, and the Livery in Common Hall assembled: Commencing the 28th October, 1760, with the answers thereto. (Privately printed. London, 1865.) This is referred to below as Addresses. JOURNAL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 30. f. 374b. Petition of many citizens for taking up of vagrant boys and girls and transporting them to Virginia approved and committee appointed to report thereon. July 31, 1618. f. 396. Action on report of committee on transporting children to Virginia. September 24, 1618. 31. ff. 122 (125)-123 (126). Action of council upon petition of Virginia Company praying that court "would furnish them with 100 children for the next spring for the better supply . . . . of their colony." December 18, 1619. (See Letter Book, G G, ff. 96, 98, 208; H H, f. 172 et seq.; Remembrancia, pp. 361-362.) 32. ff. 66-67. Grant of £500 towards the transporting of 100 children to Virginia. July 19, 1622. 45. f. 89. Entry of royal proclamation prohibiting the growth of tobacco. April 6. 1661. f. 161b. Petition of merchants touching the regulation of traffic, and deploring (162-162b) that "the most part of the trade of exporting the commodities of our native growth and manufacture has fallen into the hands of aliens." February 27, 1662. (See Letter Book, U U, ff. 92-93.) 57. f. 278. Motion in the Common Council against the bill in the House of Commons for repealing subsidies and on account of tobacco in the British Plantation. 58. ff. 167-168b. Address on capture of Porto Bello in November, 1739. March 25, 1740. 61. ff. 113-115. Instructions to representatives in Parliament on the state of the nation, referring to losses in N. America. October 28, 1756. ff. 281-283. Address on taking Cape Breton, etc. August 24, 1758. 62. ff. 36-38, 139-140, 158. Congratulatory addresses on military successes in America, October 18, 1759; October 14, 1760. ff. 237-238. Address upon the conquest of Belle Isle, June 16, 1761. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 3, 4.) ff. 330b-334b. Address on capture of Martinique. April 6, 1762. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 5-6.) 63. ff. 14-15. Address to king upon the conquest of Havana. 1762. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 8-9.) October 1, 66. ff. 104-105. Petition to Parliament against the Quebec Bill. June 3, 1774. ff. 105-106. Petition to king against the Quebec Bill. June 18, 1774. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 31-33.) ff. 170-172. Letter to Alderman Bull from Francis Maseres, agent to the Protestant settlers in Quebec, etc. January 31, 1775. ff. 177-179. Answer to Baron Maseres's letter. February 10, 1775. ff. 179, 181, 182, 185. Various resolutions in behalf of American colonies. February 10, 13 and 21, 1775. ff. 188-190. Petition to House of Commons against "Bill to restrain the Trade and Commerce of Massachusetts Bay ", etc. February 23, 1775. . 191-192. Petition to House of Lords against Massachusetts Bay Bill. March 14, 1775. ff. 236-238. Letter from the general committee of the association for the city and county of New York, May 5, 1775, praying that the city of London will exert itself to restore union. June 23, 1775. I. 239-240. Address to the king for cessation of hostilities, July 7, 1775. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 44-45.) f. 241. Motion to send a reply to a letter from New York. Lost in Common Council. July 21, 1775. ff. 259-260. Petitions to Lords and Commons for reconciliation with colonies. October 25, 1775. ff. 296-297, 299. City address on war in America and king's reply. March 14, 22, 1776. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 45-47.) ff. 296, 354. Thanks and freedom of the city to Dr. Richard Price for his publication of Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty. March 14, 1776; July 23, 1776. 67. f. 42. Petition of House of Commons against bill to empower king to secure persons charged with high treason committed in N. America, etc. February 14, 1777. f. 107. Resolutions against countenancing the American war. January 16, 1778. ff. 126-128. Address to king on America, praying for conciliatory measures. March 4, 1778. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 49-53.) 68. f. 217. Petition to the House of Commons that they will recommend to his Majesty that such terms of accommodation and reconciliation may be offered to the American colonies as may have a tendency to bring about an honorable peace. February 27, 1782. f. 230. Address to king congratulating him on the late glorious success of his Majesty's arms. May 30, 1782. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 67-68.) f. 239. Motion that freedom of the city be presented to Admiral Lord Hood and Admiral Sir Francis Samuel Drake for their conduct in the engagements with the enemies' fleets in the West Indies. June 20, 1782. f. 257. Motion that an entertainment be provided at the Mansion House for Lord Rodney on account of his victory over the French fleet in the West Indies negatived. October 29, 1782. ff. 265, 290-291. Thanks to Lord Rodney for his victory over the French fleet in the West Indies on April 12, 1781. October 31, 1782; December 19, 1782. ff. 307b, 310. Address to king on conclusion of provisional treaty with America. February 20, 1783. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 68-69.) COMMON HALL BOOK. 8. ff. 186b-188. Address to king against the measures adopted with respect to America and proceedings upon the same. April 5, 1775. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 34-36.) ff. 191-192. New address to king on American war and Proceedings. June 24, 1775 (Printed in Addresses, pp. 40-42.) f. 193. Letter of thanks from Continental Congress [July 8, 1775]. September 29, 1775. (Printed in Ford's Journals of the Continental Congress, II. 170-171.) ff. 194-195. Address to the electors of Great Britain on the American war. September 29, 1775. f. 228. Address to king, December 6, 1781, urging him to end the Ameri can war. (Printed in Addresses, pp. 60-63.) The few references given below to the letters embraced in the collection of correspondence known as Remembrancia are drawn from the Analytical |