Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/edwardrandolphin04rand THE |3ut)Ucattonfi of t|)e prince ^ocietp Eltablifhed May 25th, 1858. EDWARD RANDOLPH. 15oStoit: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY, By John Wilson and Son. 1899. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES. Edward Randolph; INCLUDING ms LETTERS AND OFFICIAL PAPERS FROM THE NEW ENGLAND, MIDDLE, AND SOUTHERN COLONIES IN AMERICA, WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING CHIEFLY TO THE VACATING OF THE ROYAL CHARTER OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 1676-1 703. WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MEMOIR BY ROBERT NOXON TOPPAN, A.M. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS, ETC. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. IV. Boston: PUBLISHED BY THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 1899. F^7 ' H/7 14 Jf. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, by The Prince Society, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ^fOSTON COCCEGE LlBKAKr i^iESTNUT HILL. MASS. MBR21 '69 41007.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 29 January, 16S4 ... i Abstract of Randolph’s Case. 1675-1684 6 Proposals of James Hodson relative to ihe Coal Trade of England. 1684-5 9 Randolph to Joseph Dudley. 9 January, 1684-5 12 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 16 February, 1684-5 • • ^4 Randolph to Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph. March, 1685 . 15 Court of Judicature wanted in New England. 5 May, 1685 . 18 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 9 May, 1685 19 Randolph’s Petition against Rhode Island and Connecticut. 15 July, 1685 Randolph’s Representation read. 15 July, 1685 22 Order in Council and Report for Quo Warrantos. 17 July, 1685 24 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 30 July, 1685 26 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell, i Auguft, 1685 .... 28 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 3 Auguft, 1685 .... 31 Randolph’s Proposals about Quo Warranto. 3 Auguft, 1685 . 32 Randolph’s Proposals about Five Writs of Quo Warranto. 3 Auguft, 1685 33 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 8 Auguft, 16S5 .... 34 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 17 Auguft, 1685 .... 35 Randolph’s Proposals about Quo Warranto. 18 Auguft, 1685 • 3^ Randolph’s Petition to be Secretary of New England. 26 Au- guft, 1685 38 VI Contents, Page Petitions of Randolph and Gove. 26 Auguft, 1685 39 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 29 Auguft, 1685 .... 40 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell, i September, 1685 ... 42 Randolph’s Memorial giving names for the Council. 2 Septem- ber, 1685 43 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 7 September, 1685 ... 47 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell, to September, 1685 ... 48 Commission to Edward Randolph. 21 September, 1685 .... 49 Commission of James II. for the Government of New England. 27 September, 1685 51 Docket of Randolph’s Commission. 0 (ftober, 1685 58 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 3 October, 1685 .... 59 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 14 06 lober, 1685 ... 61 Randolph’s Petition for Flags. 17 06 tober, 1685 62 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 23 Odtober, 1685 ... 63 Rev. Robert R\tcliff to be provided for. 30 0 ( 5 tober, 1685 . 65 List of Papers given to Randolph going to New England. 5 November, 1685 66 Randolph to be Post Master of New England. 23 November, 1685 67 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 10 November, 1685 ... 68 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 23 November, 1685 ... 69 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 27 November, 1685 . . 71 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell, ii January, 1685-6 . . 72 Walter Clarke to Randolph. 15 May, 1686 73 President Dudley and Secretary Randolph to the Committee. 16 May, 1686 74 Randolph to Fitz John Winthrop. 17 May, 1686 75 Reply of the General Court to the King’s Commissioners. 20 May, 1686 75 Order of the General Court for a Repository of Papers. 20 May, 1686 77 Randolph to Governor Treat and Council of Connecticut. 27 May, 1686 78 Custom House Fees allowed to Randolph. 28 May, 1686 . . 80 Account of Proceedings of the New Government, i June, 1686 80 Contents. vii Page Address from President and Council of New England. 26 July, 1686 83 President and Council of New England to the Commitiee. 19 June, 1686 85 Randolph to Governor Hinckley of Plymouth relative to Taxes for Supporting Ministers. 22 June, 1686 87 Randolph to the Archbishop of Canterbury. 7 July, 1686 . . 88 Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. 10 July, 1686 91 Letter from New England concerning Acts of Trade, Mr. Ratcliff, &c. 23 July, 1686 94 Order about Harvard College. 23 July, 1686 95 John Palmer to Randolph. 24 July, 1686 96 Randolph to William Blathwayt. 28 July, 1686 97 Randolph to the Committee. 28 July, 1686 100 Randolph to Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury. 2 Auguft, 1686 103 Case of John Gould, charged with Treason. 5 Auguft, 1686 . no Commissioners of Customs to Randolph. 7 Auguft, 1686 . . . 112 Randolph to the Lord Treasurer. 23 Auguft, 1686 113 Randolph to the Committee. 23 Auguft, 1686 . 116 Abduction by Pirates. 1686 119 Randolph to Fitz-John Winthrop. 25 Auguft, 1686 119 Randolph’s Petition for Fees as Secretary and Register. 28 Auguft, 1686 120 Establishment of Two Foot Companies in New England. 30 Auguft, 1686 122 Benjamin Bullivant to Randolph about the Records in Edward Rawson’s hands. II September, 1686 123 Petition respecting the Eleutherians. 15 September, 1686 . . 124 Randolph to the Governor of New York. 20 September, 1686 125 Randolph’s Answer to John Palmer. 27 September, 1686 . . 126 Randolph’s Complaint to the President and Council of the Dominion of New England. 2 i 06 lober, 1686 126 Letters from Randolph and the President and Council. 21 06 tober, 1686 129 Joseph Dudley to Randolph. 25 0 ( 5 tober, 1686 130 • • • Contents. vm Randolph to the Archbishop of Canterbury. 27 06 lober, 1686 Benjamin Bullivant to Samuel Greene. 29 November, 1686. . Order for the First Council Meeting under Sir Edmund Andros. 21 December, 1686 Randolph to Fitz-John Winthrop. 21 December, 1686. . . . Sir Edmund Andros to Rhode Island. 22 [21] December, 1686 Sir Edmund Andros to Walter Clark, Governor of Rhode Island. 22 December, 1686 Sir Edmund Andros to Governor Treat. 22 December, 1686 . Randolph to Governor Treat. 23 December, 1686 Randolph to John Pincheon. 28 December, 1686 Randolph protests against infringement of his Office by Presi- dent Dudley. 30 December, 1686 Council of Trade to Sir Edmund Andros. 12 January, 1686-7 • Table of Fees for the Secretary’s Office of New England. 10 March, 1686-7 Fees for the Custom House. 17 March, 1686-7 John Grant to Randolph. 10 March, 1686-7 Randolph to the Committee. 25 March, 1687 Randolph to the Earl of Sunderland. 25 March, 1687 . . . Lease of the Secretary’s Office by Randolph to John West. 3 May, 1687 Account of public Writings from the Secretary’s Office since 20TH OF December, 1686. 4 May, 1687 Randolph to William Blathwayt. 21 May, 1687 Randolph to John Povey. 21 May, 1687 Order of Governor Andros to Randolph to seize the Ship Samuel and Thomas. 24 June, 1687 Randolph’s Petition to James II. to be Secretary of all New England. 9 Auguft, 1687 Declaration of Indulgence to be published in New England by Sir Edmund Andros. 28 May, 1687 Randolph to John Povey. [Extract.] 25 Auguit, 1687 . . . Account of Articles from Ship Johanna delivered by Randolph. 5 September, 1687 Page 131 133 133 134 134 135 136 137 139 140 145 147 149 150 150 153 155 ^59 160 161 164 165 167 168 168 Contents. ix Page William Glanvile’s Letter of Attorney to Randolph. 31 Auguft, 1687 169 Letter from Andros, Towns refuse to pay Taxes. 28 September, 1687 170 Randolph’s Petition for Nahant Nfck. i Odober, 1687 ... 17 1 Proceedings against Rev. John Wise and others of Ipswich for Misdemeanors. Odober, 1687 171 State of the King's Revenue in New England. 10 Odober, 1687 183 Short Narrative of Randolph’s Proceedings and Voyages. 25 Odober, 1687 186 Certificate from Randolph. 22 December, 1687 190 Hats Shipped by Thomas Bradford to Randolph. 30 June, 1686 . 191 Joseph Dudley to Randolph. 15 December, 1687 192 Warrant to Arrest Rev. Increase Mather. 24 December, 1687 193 Randolph’s Suit against Rev. Increase Mather. 1687 . . . 193 TO Rev. Increase Mather. 1687 195 Rev. Increase Mather to Joseph Dudley. 24 January, 1687-8 . 196 Randolph to Mr. Povey. 24 January, 1687-8 197 Order of Governor Andros to Randolph to bring saved Treas- ure TO Boston. 20 February, 1687-8 200 Council Meeting. 3 February, 1687-8 201 Objections of Lynn to Randolph’s Petition. 7 March, 1687-8 . 202 Representation of Randolph to Governor Andros. 1687-8 . 205 Council Meeting. 3 February, 1687-8 206 Warrant for Cambridge Proprietors to appear and put in claims ADVERSE TO Randolph’s PETITION. 29 February, 1687-8 . . .. 207 Council Meeting. 6 March, 1687-8 208 Petition of Randolph to Governor Andros for payment. 1687-8 209 Order that the Records of Massachusetts Colony be put in Randolph’s hands. 6 March, 1687-8 210 Remonstrance of Cambridge to Randolph’s Petition for Land. 7 March, 1687-8 211 Reply of the Proprietors of Lands between Sanders Brook and Spy Pond. 28 June, 1688 213 William Blathwayt to Randolph. 10 March, 1688 216 VOL. IV. — b X Contents. Page Randolph’s Answer to the Cambridge Remonstrants. 17 March, 1688 218 John Povey to Randolph. 18 March, 1688 220 John Povey to Randolph. 25 April, 1688 221 Vouchers of the Treasurer’s Account from i July, 1687, to I January, 1688. 5 June, 1688 222 Vouchers from 4 January, 1687, to 5 June, 1688. 5 June, 1688 223 Randolph to John Povey. 21 June, 1688 224 Notice to Appear for Claimants of Land in Cambridge. 22 June, 1688 228 Council Meeting. 28 June, 1688 229 Examination of William Walton about Pirates at Rhode Island. 5 July, 1688 230 Randolph’s Testimony as to words spoken by Sir William Phips. 7 July, 1688 230 Oath of John West, as Deputy Secretary. 20 July, 1688 . . 231 Petition of Randolph for Land at Newport, Rhode Island. 26 July, 1688 231 Petition of Randolph in behalf of the Earl of Clarendon for Land in Rhode Island. 26 July, 1688 232 Order of Council in New York for raising money. 29 Auguft, 1688 233 Robert Livingston to Randolph, i September, 1688 234 Randolph to [Blathwayt?] 12 September, 1688 235 John Skeene to Randolph. 7 06 lober, 1688 238 Randolph to the Lords of Trade. 8 06 lober, 1688 .... 239 Randolph to John Povey. 19 06 tober, 1688 243 Francis Nicholson to Randolph. 21 06 lober, 1688 246 John Skeene to Randolph. 26 October, 1688 248 Randolph to William Penn. 9 November, 1688 250 Mathew Plowman to Randolph. 14 November, 1688 .... 251 Francis Nicholson to Randolph. 15 November, 1688 . . . . 252 S. V. Cortlandt to Randolph. 17 November, 1688 254 Francis Nicholson to Randolph. 3 December, 1688 255 S. V. Cortlandt to Randolph. 4 December, 1688 257 Printed Clearance. 18 December, 1688 257 Contents. XI Page S. V. CoRTLANDT TO RANDOLPH. 22 December, 1688 258 Sir Edmund Andros to Randolph. 26 January, 1688-9 • • • • 259 G. Muschamp to Randolph. 18 February, 1688-9 259 Robert Livingston to Randolph. 18 February, 1688-9 . . . . 260 Robert Livingston to Randolph. 22 March, 1688-9 .... 261 Council Meeting. 27 March, 1689 263 Recommendation of Joshua Downing by Randolph. 13 April, 1689 263 Speedy Settlement necessary. 26 April, 1689 264 Randolph to the Governor of Barbadoes. 16 May, 1689 . . 264 Randolph to Sancroft, the Archbishop of Canterbury. 28 May, 1689 268 Randolph to the Lords of Trade. 29 May, 1689 271 Petition of Sarah Randolph to William III. 22 July, 1689. . 282 Randolph to William Blathwayt. 2 2* July, 1689 283 Randolph to the Lord Privy Seal. 23 July, 1689 284 Randolph to Francis Nicholson. 29 July, 1689 286 Petition of Andros, Randolph, &c. to be sent to England. 29 July, 1689 289 Order for sending Sir Edmund Andros to England. 30 July, 1689 290 Presentment touching Randolph. 23 Auguft, 1689 291 Randolph to the Committee. 5 September, 1689 292 Randolph to the Committee. 15 0 < 5 lober, 1689 297 Abstract of Randolph’s Letters. 8-25 06 lober, 1689 . . , . 301 Randolph to the Bishop of London. 25 06 lober, 1689 . . . 305 Randolph to the Bishop of London. 26 06 tober, 1689 . . . 309 Index 313 '■■''v'fA: ■ V'' ■r ^ ‘ < IbB 'V' 'i I y^r *4 • »*•'•'*» .'■■■ ’., • ■'., ' , ' •■ ■' -.v- ' ,v' V ■#,' ■ ■ ■.’.{[■ <.i- /' ‘ ■ i-V' ■' , ^ ’ '*' ' '‘f-'-' - ■■ /“i ■ r#'^- V' iW.!«i;<. - , ,, Iw ‘ JSK- ♦ * ■}■•.. .-,' r.v. i . , , '4« . >A' - S' . - \L i-L' /i ■ii)f'.ii-i^f.-^ t ' "i .‘i«' DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colle£lion of the late Sir Thojnas PhilUpps^ Bart. Whitehall 29^*^ 1684 S: My long filence has been occafioned by variety of bufines & ab fence from London & by marriing to fupply the Ioffe I had of a very good wife in N. Eng? I am now to trouble you in this, with what would have been the fubjedl of many. Since my lafl I wrote upon my return from Holland. In- clofed is a paper which purfuant to your thoughts I prepared & addreffed to feverall of y® Lords of y® Council!. & attended my Lord Keeper L? P. Seale L? Clarendon & divers others of their LordP.® but I find them inclining to forbeare to referr the fucceffe of all to the Gov''^ manage. I have with the affiftance of my worthy freind Mr Blathwayt fuThd up my whole adventures & charges in my N. Eng'^ expedition in a Narrative which about 10 dayes ago I prefented to the Lords VOL. IV. — I of 2 Rdward Randolph. of y® Committee- (an abflra6l whereof I alfo inclofe) their Lordfp® reviewed it with a great fenfe of my paines. & the next Councill day reported to his Ma^‘® who was pleafed to give me a favourable recommendation to y® Treafury : I dayly expedl the iffue & hope it will paffe there, in regard I have not putt down halfe what I have expended, loft. & might very reafonably charge in fo great & tedious an undertaking. I make very little haft to take out my Com- miflion for Secretary fearing after my charge, the profitable part will be managed by y® Gov"® Se^y: befides I forefee that I am like to be very uneafy : for by letters lately received from my freinds in Bofton I am advifed that all the mif- cheifes which are expefted to befall them are all laid to my charge & what will not a difcontented people endeavour to bring upon a perfon who has little or no countenance from y® Gov" who to gratifye a freind may be induced to fide with my enemies : I heare the Boftoners have drawn up an ad- dreffe to his Maf^ & fent it to their Soliciter M! Humphreyes to prefent, but he has done nothing in it. they expreffe great Duty, would perfwade his Mat"® they have been all along mifreprefented. defire to know y® caufe & pray tyme to give his Ma^"® fatisfadlion. which they queftion not but to do to their great advantage. Some tyme fince I putt in the names of very honeft & the beft men of eftates in Bofton Colony, to be of y® Councill. I heare they are recommended to the Gov" who may either ad mitt or refufe them according to his own pleafure. I know none of them will come to heare divine fervice. which may be a fufficient ground to fett them afide : & I know not but that he will chufe in his officers & fuch Gen^ who go over in hopes of making their fortunes. Documents and Letters. 3 fortunes, in to places of truft & creditt & then you may ex- pedl to heare of difturbance or that the men of eftates will want the place. I difcourfe this as his opinion upon the Cafe of y® Corporation of Colchefter: who differing & arti- cling againft fome perfons lately putt in y® Magiftracy : upon a hearing lafl Councill Day : it did appeare that as well the complainants as y® defend‘d were equally guilty of Counte- nancing Conventicles upon which Cofi Kerk faid twould never be well till that town was governed by military men : That matter was referd to y® D. of Albemarl to compofe & all were continued in their places, except their Town Clerk: & twas neccefary it fhould be fo. in regard that whole town find with fadlious people. Complaints are ftill increafed from N. Hampfl'ieire of the mofl arbitrary nature that I have heard of, their Gov'' pre- tending to be very zealous to preferve that his Ma^'® Gom*: has imprifoned fome who mett together to execute the will of the deceafed & to difpofe of a confiderable eflate. but My Cranfeild charged them with confpiring ag^ y® Gom‘ & imprifoned them becaufe they would not purge themfelves by an oath which he tendred them : he has ruined My Mafon by getting him to fettle upon him 150^*^ a year to be paid out of the proffitts of his lands to fupport the Gom^ upon which My Mafon has made over his province for yeares. & unleffe My Cranfeild acquitting the place releive My Mafon. I know not but in tyme this charge may fwallow up My Mafons whole expedations : he writes me. that he has relieved him- felf from all publick bufines : & the little trade of vending boards from y® Saw mills in Pafcataqua River is clog’d with a duty of V p 1000 ffoot of Boards. & fome he forces to pay 4 Edward Randolph. pay 2 ^ y® thoufand foot : which now keepes out of that River fmall Boates. which trade only in Boards, as his other ex- a6lions has quite deflroyed that trade here which was carried on by fhipps & veffells of good Burthen : I heare hee intends to make ufe of the benefitt of y^ Order of Councill which permitts him to take care of his health, & removes to Barbados : There are feverall miners arrived in N. Eng^ who have undertaken y® lead mines & will make great benefitt of them : but how long they will be allowed without good confideration to y® Gov’’ is a great queflion : private perfons, who have a long tyme been endeavouring to gain their rights in Road Ifland & Connedlicutt Colony: fend over frefh complaints againft thofe Gom‘^ who ftill hinder juftice to be done them: Mr Smith of y® Narraganfett Country has greatly fufferd in his eflate by y® Road Iflanders : Mr Blath- wayt is of opinion they will furrender their charter upon his Ma‘'® letter to them. S’" you have heard of y® difference betwixt my L? Balta- more & Mr Penn about Boundaryes: they have been for fome tyme here & attended the Lords with their Councill : but yet no hearing. I have been told his Ma^® will revoake their patents & allow no more fuch independent Gom^® Mr Chriftopher Roufby Collecftor of his Ma^’®® Dutyes in Mary- land has fome tyme fmce charged my Lord Bal tarn ore with a debt to his Ma^ of 2500^ Start, for tobacco fhipd off & not accounted for: & now fmce my Lords leaving Maryland this Roufby was ftabd’ aboard the Quaker ketch then neer Maryland, by Collonell Talbott: the firff man in the Coun- cill there. Talbott is committed in Virginia, being carried theither Documents and Letters. 5 theither by Capt Allen command’’ of that ketch : This bufi- nes falls out unluckily for my Lord Baltamore who had fett up this Talbott to confront & to difturb Mf Penns people from planting in the lands under difpute. which my Lord Baltamore called N. Ireland. & made Talbott Gov’’ in cheife. who proceeded barbaroufly ag* the Quakers & threatned to roote out fuch Quaking fcifmaticks : Its thought his Ma”® will appoint a Gov’’ in Maryland in a little tyme. I could heartily wifh I was as well recom- mended theither as I am to Bofton. I have nothing to objedt but the ill aire : which perhaps I may better difpenfe with, than the worfe inclinations of bad men : who will not want opportunity to wrong me in eftate & perfon : without Gods goodnes prevent them. About 12 months ago the Comm’’® of y® Cuftoms fent one Dyre to Barbados Jamaica Leward Iflands & fo to N Eng*^ to infpedt the Cuflome houfe offices : he has been at Bofton for feverall months where his wife & family have been thefe 3 or 4 yeares. he is intended to fettle there & to that end has taken up reports from Mr Cranfield & fome other dif- contented perfons there that I have countenanced y® illegal trade in that Country: Its true: I have of late flackned my profecutions : i becaufe I never could obtain a caufe for his Ma! in the Courts at Bofton altho upon very juft grounds I made my feizures : & then I have never been allowed one penny towards all the charges & expences I have been at in profecuting fo that I was tyred out with tedious journeyes & no profitt which could not be expedted ffiould be otherwife till the Gom^ was altred’ & new lawes made there to prevent that trade complained of. Complaints 6 Edward Randolph. Complaints have been made ag^ Gen^ Kerk by the foul- diers who pretend they are not paid their full for their fer- vices at Tangeir: it has been before y^ K & Councill. I know not how ended. Sr I intreat you to pardon me for not paying my duty fo often as I ought by giving an account of our N. Eng^ pro- ceedings to which you were pleafed to lay y® foundation. This day by letters from Gov*" Bradftreet I find they expedl judgm^ ag^ their Charter yet are fo weake as to beleive that his Ma^i® will give them a pardon, & continue their Gom‘ to them with large powers : I heare not one word from Mr Ma- fon nor Mr Chamberlain Mr Trant & Mr Bridges putt out & S’* Phillip Ffloid & Mr Toll’ put in a new Commillion for y® Herth money I return my hearty thankes for all your favors : prefenting my humble fervice to Mr Southwell & to the young Ladyes in your family I remain Sr your mofl humble & moft obedient ferv! E. Randolph. [Enclofed in the Letter to Sir Robert Southwell.] Abflradl of Mr Randolph Cafe, as it is more at large fett forth in his petition to the Lords of the Committee for trade. Mr Randolph carried his MaP Letter to N. England requiring the Maffachufetts to anfwere Complaints brought againft them. He arrived at Bofton. At his Returne he prefented their LordP® with a Narrative of the State of their Countrey and Govm* and 167s 20 March 1676 10 June 10 Septemr Documents and Letters. 7 Decem*^ 1679 Septmr 30 Decmb'^ : 25 Janry. 1680 March i68i May 3. 17 Decemr. 1681 March. and Exhibited Articles of high Mifdemeanour againft the Maffachufetts. Agents arrive from N. England to make their de- fence 2 years after it appears they had ufurped the Govm^ of New Hampfheir, and beene otherwife Criminall to his Ma“® He goes to New England by way of New York and carrys over his Mat^ Commiiffion to Pafcataqua. Settles his MaP Govm^ in New Hampfheir. Loofes at Sea all his goods and houfehold ftuffe with his MaP Picture and Armes fent to New Hampfheir. Returns to Boflon feizs their fliips trading illegally is oppofed in his tryalls brought by him for his Mat'® in their Courts and put to great expence and arrefted for damages given againft his Ma‘i® No obedience being given to his Mat'®^ lawes or direftions by him, he returns to England and ob- tains larger powers The Lords of the Committee Reports an addition of 100* a yeare to his Sallary for his good fervice. He arrives againe in New England with his MaP CommifP under the Great Seal is ftill oppofed and put to great charges. A Law is revived in order to try him for his life for adling by his MaP Commiffion before it was allowed of by their Govm*: His Mat'® Commiffion not allowed to be read openly in the Court of Boflon. H is Deputy imprifoned for affifting in feizing for his Mar The 8 Edward Randolph. The Boflon Agents then in England ordred to procure larger powers. DeciHr He received orders from the Lords to returne to England to profecute a Quo Warranto againft the Boflon Chartr 1683 He arrives in England 13 June He is orderd to attend Mr Atturny Gen^^ with proofes ag^^ the Bofton Charter 20 July Orderd to carry a Quo Warranto to Boflon 17 October. He arrives in Boflon ferves the Quo Warranto and publifhes his Mat^ Declaration. i4Decemr Ships himfclfc againe for England. Has a daingerous Voiage his fhip fides carryed all awaye in a ftorme loofes all his goods his cheft being wafh’d overboard brought to very fhort allowance for three weeks. i4Ffebr5ry Hee arrives in Plymouth is command’ to attend and profecute the Boflon Charter. 23 0cfobt Judgement Enterd up for his Mat'® againft their Charter upon the whole matter M- Randolph 9 years in his Mat® fervice Loft at fea and expended in that time 4711b not yet repaid him Prayes their Lord^® to renew their report to his Mat'® for an addition of falary. Prayes alfo to be paid the fume of 471* expended by him to fattisfie a debt of 250^ and to enable him to attend his Ma^'®® further fervice in New England. All which is humbly etc. Part Documents and Letters. 9 Part of y® reference/ his being very well fatisfied with y® Petn’’® good fer- vices & gracioufly inclined to grant his requeft was pleafed to order that his cafe be & it is hereby recommended to y® R. Hon'"^® the Comm*'® of his Ma^® Treafury to give fuch order therein for y® Petn"® releife as their Lord^^ fliall think reafonable with confideration to y® Petn*^® meritts & fuffe rings. [Dndo^d] M*" Randolph’s cafe prefented to y® Lords of y® Treafury 29**" inftant. [December 1684]. Proposals of James Hodson relative to the Coal Trade of England. Majfachufetts Archives, Vol. LXL p. 285 [1684-5]. [In the handwriting of Edward Randolph.] To the King’s moft Excellent Majefly. The humble propofalls of James Hodfon Englifh Merc! in Rotterdam Relating to the Cole Trade of England. May it pleafe your Maj‘‘® Having lived in y® Port of Rotterdam divers yeares I have made it my cheife bufinefs to infpedl the Commerce & Trade of Coles imported from Nev Caflle upon Tine & Sunder- land, and alfo from your Ma^'®^ Kingdome of Scotland into the faid Port of Rotterdam and do humbly reprefent I. That in the yeare 1675 & 1676 there were imported from ^ According to a note fent to the edi- “ the above abftra6l is not in Randolph’s tor by Mr. Fenwick, who copied all the autograph only the portion beginning, Randolph letters in the Colle^ion of ‘Fart of y® reference.’ ” the late Sir Thomas PhilUpps, Bart., VOL. IV. — 2 lO Edward Randolph. from Newcaflle & Sunderland into Rotterdam 18000 Hood or Chaldron of Coles London meafure and at the tyme about 8000 Hood or Chaldron of Coles from Scotland was brought to Rotterdam. 2. That y® yeares 1683 & 1684 were imported to Rotter- dam from Scot'^ about 14000 chaldron and at that tyme not aboue 12000 chaldron from England as appeares by the Bookes of Excife in Rotterdam, from whence it may be ob- tained that in 7 yeares tyme the Englifh Trade for Coles is decayed one full third and ye trade of Scotch coles pro- portionally encreafed by which meanes i : that y' Ma^'®® Revennue upon coles exported is greatly impaired 2 : that the cole Trade being the nurfery of Seamen wilbe deftroyed 3 : that the Scotch will be maflers of y® whole Trade & Sole Importers of Cole to Rotterdam & other parts beyond the Seas hailing of late found out their pitts of Cole which in all refpedls anfwear the ends & ufes of New caftle cole and whereas the Englifh pay 8^ per chaldron for every Chaldron of cole exported from New Caftle & Sunderland etc, the Scotchmen pay but fix pence per chaldron for every Chal- dron exported from your Ma^‘®® kingdome of Scotland by which great difproportion in the dutyes impofed upon coles they can underfell your Ma**^® Englifh fubjedls trading in coles in all places beyond feas ffor prevention whereof for the future I humbly propofe that henceforth your Ma‘‘^ be pleafed by law to lay a Greater Duty upon all coles exported the kingdome of Scotland, whereby there may be a juft Ballance between your Ma^’^® Englifh & Scotch fubjeds in that trade which being carefully looked after will effedlually attaine the end, And whereas tis ufually obje(fted That the Export of Coles Documents and Letters. 1 1 Coles from New Caftle & Sunderland is as great now as it hath been for thefe 7 or 8 yeares laft pafl I anfwear tis very probable but it muft be confidred That fince the ffrench king has had fo great occafion for coles to make his workes & fortifications at Dunkerk there has been a great trade of coles to that town which has caufed the late confumption of coles, but as soon as thofe works are perfected twill then too late appeare that the Scotch have eat the Englifh out of that Trade & will inevitably mine the whole Export of Coles from Eng? Now if it be likewife confidered that every farthing paid by forainers is fo much clere gaine to England, Then the higher price coles are fold at abroad, the more advantage to your Revennew & to the poor Labourers who by reafon of the low Rates for coles are brought to great neceffi- tyes. But now the Scotchmen paying little duty for coles will underfell your fubjedls fo that the price in gen- erall is to the advantage of fforainers Butt your Revennew is thereby decreafed, Englifh fliippingdifcouraged & Seamen decay, to which likewife as another great caufe of the Ruine of Trade at home I humbly add the permitting fo many ffiy boats, ffin fcootes & other forain bottoms (which need little or no Ballaft & are fayled with a very few hands) to ufe the home cole Trade: which if difcouraged (befides the many hundred Carpenters who would be im- ployed in building fhipps for the trade of Newcafile) would encreafe your Ma‘'®^ cuftomes. 1. Every fliip built in England fpends plankes Ship tym- ber which increafes the wood farm 2 : Iron. 3 : Cordage, all which pay your Ma^’® a duty and 12 Edward Randolph. and muft be provided for all fliips built at home : whereas fforain built fliips are fitted abroad with all fuch neceffaryes before they are fayled into Eng^. ffurther a fforain built ffly boat etc. of 400 tun requires but 14 men to fayle her wheras Englifh built fhips which carry y® like Burthen are not fayled with fewer then 36 men : which if not confidered will by y® increafe of forain built fhips lay up our Englifh Shipping by y® walls & be deflrudfive to your Ma^^ nurfery of feamen, fo that in tyme of Warr your Ma*‘^ will want able men to ferve in your ffleet. All which is humbly fubmitted. Mr. Edward Randolph to Mr. Joseph Dudley. CollePUon of Papers., by Thomas Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 283. 9 January 1684-5. [Whitehall] Sir, I have yours of Sept. loth by me and am now to give you the news of your charter being vacated by judgment, for non-appearance. His Majeftie has chofen Coll. Kerke, late governor of Tangier, to be your governor. He is a gentle- man of very good refolution and I believe, will not faile in an}^ part of his duty to his Majefty nor be wanting to doe all good offices for your diftraded colony, if, at lafl, they will hear what is reafon and be governed. Here was fent over a mofl fcandilous paper, preached, as tis faid, by Mr. Moody and Mr. Mather; the Duke of Yorke hath a copy of it, and others have coppies alfo ; twill doe your country great preju- dice and put jealoufies into the minde of the councel here, as if the collony would not abide by the judgment againfl their Documents and Letters. 13 their charter, but ftand up to defend their liberties. My bufmefs has been and fhall be to ward off as much as I can. And if, by the iniquity and folly of your miniflers and mag- eftrates, you faile of what was expedted, the whole blame will reft upon themfelves. The King fent me over to Hol- land, to inquire after irregular traders; 3 or 4 had been there, and they were gone before my coming. I returned back a fortnight after judgment was given and would have been glad to have feen Sir Edmund Andrews in England, who is yet in Guernfey. I queflion not but you will have reports, as if a great fleet of fhips, with regements of horfe and foott, are coming againft you, but I know of no fuch thing, only, I believe a frigott or two will attend the gov- ernor, who is leftenant of one of his Majeflies regiments of guards and one of the bed chamber. I remember what you advife, that the government be, in the firfl place, tranfpofed and committed to the care of fitting perfons upon the place to prepare and accommodate affairs againft the artrval [arrival of the governor. I am not wanting to prefs for liberty of confcience and confirmation of all your rights and poffeflions, and have nominated, according to what was agreed betwixt you and myfelfe, perfons for the councill, and diffwade all I can from raifing any rates upon the peo- ple to fupport government, more than what has been ufual with you. The King has been pleafed to make me fecre- tary and regifter of new-England. I have nominated you for the King’s receiver-generall of all new-England, which will be a place of profit. I had other things to propofe on your behalfe, but that muft attend a farther opportunitie. Refpedts to the governor and his lady, madam Taylor, Mr. Stoughton, 14 Edward Randolph. Stoughton, Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Page and his lady, and all friends. Its yet very uncertain whether proceffe will iffue out againft Rhode Ifland and Connefticut collony to bring in both them before the governour come over, or to do that afterward in cafe they refufe to fubmit to a general govern- our, as yet nothing has been difcovered of it. A committee of Lords but [for?] Saturday next is appointed for that bufi- nes. Dr. Cox is well and fo is Mr. Boyl and all your friends, amongfl; whom I defire to be recorded, becaufe I am Sir, Your faithful friend, and engaged Servant &c. 9th. II. 84. W. H. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. CollePlion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps., Bart. Sy Whitehall: Ffeb. 16, 1684 This morning I received yours of y® 12* & am heartily glad to heare of your coming to town : in the meane tyme I take leave to entertain you at your lodgings with the fol- lowing account, his Ma*'® has putt away M? Sidley [Sedley] formerly a favourite & will difcountenance the late immor- ality in Court & Country. Yeflerday his Ma^'® was at y® Queenes Chappell in her lodgings in Whitehall : for y® King dos not leave his former appartm^ in Whitehall till y® Q. Dowager is removed to Summerfett houfe which will be about 3 weekes made ready : This morning his Mat'® about 1 1 or after went to that Chappell y® doores wide open & all who would prefent. y® Princeffe Ann is conffant at y® Chappell & yeflerday all the noblemen were there early & Documents and Letters. 15 & heard y® fermon: This morning her Highnes was at Chappell & will be very conftant. the Churchill gone this morning to Ffrance. My Lord Rochefter made Treafurer: & had y® white ftaffe. His Mat‘® was buried at Weftminfter Saterday about 10 at night & y® next morning new flaves were given to y® former Chamberlain. Nuport & L? Maynard, & L? Godolphin made Chamberlain to y® Queen: A pad to fitt y® 19^^ of May & this afternoon y® Heralds at y® Committee at Councill chamber were attend- ing to inform & receive diredions in order to y® Coronation which is thought will be about y® 23 of Aprill : Its faid y® D. of Ormond is coming for Eng? your letter from his Grace now at y® Plantation office will better inform you : at your arrivall which that it may be fafe & profperous to you is the fincere prayer of S*" your moft obliged & mofl dutyfull ferv^ Ed. Randolph Sir Jo Ernie is continued Chancellour. \^With fuperfcriptio 7 i\ To Sf Robert Southwell To be left for him at the Beare in Redding Redding Barkflieire. Edward Randolph to D"" Lloyd Bishop of Asaph. New Engla 7 id Hijlorical Ge 7 tealogical Regijter^ Vol. XXXVII. p. 268. Whitehall March 1685. My Lord In obedience to your LordT* defires I inclofe abftrafts of letters I lately received from the cheife of late magiftrates in Bodon, i6 Edward Randold)h. Boflon, they are all of good eftates at home & of known creditt at Court, by which you may eafily fee the unhappy condition that countrey are now brought into by the obfti- nate refolutions of fome few zealous perfons who have (by the artifice of 5 or 6 of their independent miniflers) lately gott the foie management of their Government turning out M" Stoughton, Dudley & Bulkley (mentioned in M*" Wharton’s letter) for perfuading y® people to fubmitt to his Dec- laration &c, and they moft juflly deferve to be difcounte- nanced & made uncapable of ever engaging in any publick bufmefs ; being fo like our late Sequeflrators in zeale & ignorance, that nothing but the tyme & place makes the difference. Thefe have been fo vilye arbitrary in abufing the Inhabitants that the worft of the ffrench Pefants have in comparifon lived eafily. And my Lord, the prefent ftate of that Country is in moft circumflances very like that of Eng- land at the tyme of his late Majeflies happy reflauration : and I can confidently aver, That the moft & befl part of the Inhabitants groaning under above 30 years oppreffion will as much rejoice upon y® hopes of liberty as wee did here. But in regard of the late Indian Warr & 3 great fires in Bofton by which New England has (fince my firft going over) loft over 150.000^ & with the decay of their trade ffirrs & ffifhing occafioned by the ffrench in our Neighbour- hood, they are generally miferably poor. So that whoever goes over Governor with expectation to make his ffortunes ; will dif-ferve his Majefiy, difappoint himfelfe and utterly ruine that Country. My Lord, this I fpeak upon my own knowledge and offer it the rather becaufe ’Tis the intereft of the Crowne to keep up thofe inhabitants after they have fubmitted Documents and Letters. 17 fubmitted to his Majefties regulation, for they are a Great body of people, fober & induftrious & in tyme of Warr able to drive the french out of all their American dominions and be a Good defence & releefe to all his Majefties forain Plantations. There is one thing has fallen out lately amongft them very unluckily for his fervice which is the fending over Cranfeild to be Governor of the Province of New Hampfliire, who by his arbitrary proceedings has so harraffed that poor people. That although they have caufe to complain of the hard ufage of the Bofton Governor (under whom they lately were) and pray’d his Majefty to take them from that yoak, yett they have greater reafon now to pray an alteration & with again to be under the Boftoners, for ]\P Cranfeild has quite ruined that place & his open im- morality as well in Boflon where he hired a houfe & told them he had affurance of that Gov^ upon the vacating their Charter; has rendred his Govern* very contemptible & was one great reafon why the Boftoners did not fubmitt upon my lafl going over, and fhould a Gov" go over who will tread in M" Cranfeild’s fteps or do worfe things, if .poffible, It will cool the inclinations of good men and make them take the firfl occalion to free themfelves, befides ’twill above all greatly refledl upon our church to have men of ill principle & debauch’d lives appeare as the promoters of that religion, they fo much difhonour in their Converfation. I am well affured that they will eafily upon Grant of a Generali Pardon, liberty of Confcience & Confirmation of Propertyes be ready to fubfcribe to any Condition his Majefty fhall bee pleafed to propofe and a prudent fober Genr fent their Gov" will be very acceptable to the people, which is the only VOL. IV. — 3 ^vav i8 Rdward Randolph. way to preferve them from Ruine. I intreat your Lordfh^ to pardon my hafty lines & to give me leave to fay that I am in all duty y’' Lord^p^ moft obedient & moft humble ferv^ Ed. Randolph. P. S. My Lord I yefterday gave my Lord Clarendon an abflrad: of the letters with one originall which I had not tyme to tranfcribe. I hope when his Majefty is made fenli- ble that there is more need of a prudent man to reconcile, then of a hott, heady paffionate Souldier to force ; that the Genf" under prefent thoughts may be defigned for a Service more proper for his qualifications. I would be glad I might have liberty to inform his Majefty the truth & prefent flate of his fubjedls in N. Eng^^. My Lord the fooner y" Lordfhip pleafes to communicate the inclofed to y^ LordP your Lord- fliip mentioned, the better. Its great pitty & lookes like injuftice that a great Country of good fubjeds fhould not have fome tyme of tryall before they are all at once Con- demned to the paffion & avarice of an unreafonable man. Court of Judicature wanted in New Engl° State Papers.) Colonial^ Entry Book) io8, p. 140. At the Committee of Trade and Plantations In the Council-Chamber at White Hall Tuefday the 5*.’' of May 1685. Prefent : Lord Keeper, Lord Prefident, Earl of Bridge- water, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Craven. New England. The Reprefentation of Edward Randolph read, Representation. fetting forth that, in regard there is noe indifferent Court Documents and Letters. 19 Court of Judicature in New England where Caufes yeToTonfelTs"" between a Privat perfon and a whole Colony or wanted. botwixt thc Magiftrats and Inhabitants can bee tryed, for want whereof many poor people, vnable to vnder- goe the charge of a Voyage to England, are vndone; many of whofe petitions are annexed praying His Governor may bee impowred to eredt Courts as occafion may require. Whereupon their Lop® taking notice that the Colonies Mr Randolph to which the Complaints are made are by His Particulars for e Charters exempt from any other Jurifdic- tion except by Appeals to His Ma'.y, Order My Randolph to prepare a paper containing all fuch particulars vpon which a Quo Warranto may bee grounded againft their Charters. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colle^ion of the late Sir Tho?nas Phillipps., Bart. Plantation Office May 9. 85 Hon*^ Sir, Thefe two dayes have been moftly taken up with the try- all of Titus Oates : yefterday was feverall great Lords as Treafurer Privye Seale & others as Affeffores: and many upon a Summons & twelve pence left at their houfes ap- peared for him my Lord Keeper had fuch a fummons left for his LordfP but hee did not appeare. the great matter he infilled upon : in the evidence of thefe Lords was : to inform y® Court & Jury in reputation his evidence was. & how far he was. credited, no man fo much as queftioning the truth of his papers: the E. of Huntington being afked that quef- tion 20 Rdward Randolph. tion told the Court That he at that tyme had a great confi- dence in his teflimony: but confidering circumflances better fince he was cleere of another beleive & did openly afke God & the world forgivenes for his great miftake. much like this did feverall of the Lords difcourfe. the Cheife matter proved againfl him was : that at the tyme he fwore hee was in Eng'^ in fome of the confults twas fworn by above 20 perfons that hee was in St Omers : & this not onely upon bare oathes but by fuch concurrent & remarkable circum- fiances as convinced all that he was forfworn & after 7 or 8 houres fpent in the tryall which began about 10 & ended about 7 at night the jury found him guilty after they had been withdrawn not halfe an houre. he behaved himfelfe very faucily : & was heard with a great deal of patience : amongfi: the evidence Lovelace was called to come into Court, but came too late into y® Hall which his LordfP ex- cufed to Oates at his return from Court affurino: his forrow for his abfence which was occafioned by the flownes of the meflenger: however to comfort him, told him: that he be- leived his evidence as true as y® Gofpell : This day Oates appeared in y® hall about 9 the Court was not prefd with company as the day before this day they went upon Irelands being fworn by Oates to be at a confult at London when at the fame tyme proofe by very fober fub- flantiall Gent was made that he was at the very fame tyme at my Lord Affons : by good circumftances alfo. as one Gent, at the fame tyme going to his mothers funerall in his way faw Ireland at my L"^ Affons: & calling there at his return & found him which was but 14 houres difference in his going & return. So that Ml: Ireland was to ride 250 miles Documents and Letters. 2 I miles in that tyme to make Oates evidence true : Some other proofes were made about others of the preifts which fuffred the jury found him guilty of perjury alfo. his fen- tence will be given the end of y® Term. The maremaid frigott is commanded to cruife upon y® coaft of Scotland. The Lord cheife Jeffreyes was made Baron of Wenn or Wemms: (a mannor which he has lately purchafed about 2 dayes ago as I am told I remain Sf yr humble ferv^ E. Randolph. Randolph’s petition against Rhode Island & Connecticut. state Papers., Colonial., Bundle 54 (245). Pet" of Randolph Read 15 July 1685. To the Right Hon^!® the Lords of the Committee ffor Trade and fforreign Plantations. May itt Pleafe yol Lordfhips In perfuance of yoT Lordfliips Order of the fifth of May laft diredling me to prepare papers conteining all fuch par- ticul? then complained of, upon which Writts of Quo war- ranto might be granted againfi; the Coloneys of Conefticott and Rhoad Ifland in New England, I haue accordingly drawne up Seuerall Articles of High Mifdemeanours (here- unto annexed) the proofes whereof I am ready to make out againfi thofe Coloneys. And to the intent no time may be lofi; in profecuting thofe Articles to Effedl which will otherwife much hinder the Set- tlement 22 Edward Randolph. dement of New England: It’s humbly prayd that writts of Quo warranto may be forthwith iffued out againft the Gov- ern? & Companyes of thofe Coloneys, That their Charters being vacated they alfoe may thereby be United under His maj? Lawes and Government. All which is Humbly Submitted by EdRandolph Mf Randolphs Petition with Articles agl Rhode Hand and Conedlicut. \_Endorfed'\ Randolphs Petion. Read July 15? 1685. With Articles ag".‘ Rhode Hand & Conedlicutt. Randolph’s Representation read. State Papers., Colonial., Entry Book, 108, p. 163. At the Committee of Trade and Plantations In the Council-Chamber at White Hall Wednefday the 15? of July 1685. Prefent : Lord Privy Seal, Duke of Beaufort, Earl of Bridgewater, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Craven, Lord B? of London, Lord Godolphin, Lord Dartmouth. N: England.^ . • The Reprefentation of Edward Ran- Represemation dolph with feveral Articles of High Mifdemeanor with , ^ againft the Governor and Company of the Col- Rhode-isiand. Conefticut and againft the Governor and Company of the Colony of Rhode Ifland, and Providence Plantation in New England read, viz. I. That the Gov" and Comp^ of Rhode Ifland raife money contrary to Law. 2. Documents and Letters, 23 2. That they make Laws contrary to the Laws of England. 3. That they refute to fuffer the Laws of England to bee pleaded in their Courts. 4. They keep noe Authentick Records of their Laws. 5. They raze and Cancell their Laws without content of the AlTembly. 6. That the Officers of Juftice are vnder noe legal Oaths. 7. They Violate the Adts of Trade. Conecticut. I. That the Govy @ Comp^ of the Colony of Conedlicut have made Laws contrary to the Laws of Eng- land. 2. That they impote ffines and convert them to their own vte. 3. They inforce an Oath of Fidelity without Adminiftring the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. 4. They permit not the Exercife of the Religion of the Church of England. 5. The Inhabitants of other Colonys cannot obtain Juf- tice in their Courts. 6. They exclude from the Government all Gentlemen of known Loyalty. Whereupon their Lo^.® will likewife reprefent to His Ma^^ that the faid Articles bee referred to Mr Attorney General, with order forthwith to bring Writs of Quo Warranto againft thofe Corporations.^ Order P olitical A 7 inals of the United Col- is dire6led ; ” to claufe 4 “arbitrarily onies, George Chalmers. 1780. p. 301. fining thofe who refufe to come to their Under head of Connedlicut to claufe 3 congregational alfemblies ; ” to claufe 6, are added the words “as in their charter “and keep it in the hands of the inde- pendant 24 Edward Randolph. Order in Council and Report for Quo Warrantos &c. Colonial Records of ConnePlicut^ Vol. III. p. 349. At the Court at Whitehall f 17 of July 1685. By Y Kings moft excellent Majefty and y® Lords of his Ma‘.^ mofl hon'"^® Privy Councill. A Report from y® Right Hono^^® y® L® of y® Com‘®® for Trade & Foreign Plantations being this day read at the Board in y® Words following May it pleafe yo’^ Majefty ' Wee have recceived from Edward Randolph Efq : Surveyor of yo’’ Ma‘® Cuftoms in New England feveral articles of high mifdemeanors exhibited by him againft y® Gov"" & Comp^ of y® Colony of Conne6licut & againft y® Gov*” & Comp^ of Rhode Ifland & Providence Plantation in N England upon confideration pendant party in the colony.” Alfo printed by the fide of articles of high 7 nifde 7 neanour are Proofs out of the law-book of that colo 7 iyy printed at Ca 77 ibridge^ in New England^ 1673. Ibid.^ p. 280. Articles of high 7 nifde- 77 iea 7 iour exhibited to the lords of the co 77 i 7 nittee of foreig 7 i pla 7 itations againft the governor a 7 id compa 7 iy of the col- 07 iy of Rhode-iJla 7 id and Providence. From N. Eng. Ent. 2 vol. p. 245-6. 1. They raife great fums of money upon the inhabitants of that colony and others, by fines, taxes, and arbitrary imprifonment, contrary to law, and deny appeals to his majefty. 2. They make and execute laws con- trary to the laws of England. 3. They deny his Majefty’s fubje6ls the benefit of the laws of England, and will not fuffer them to be pleaded in their courts. 4. They keep no authentic record of their laws, neither will they fuffer the inhabitants to have copies of them. 5. They raze and cancel their laws as they pleafe, without the confent of the alfembly. 6. Their governor, deputy-governor, affiftants, and deputies, and other officers for the adminiftration of juflice, are un- der no legal oaths. 7. They violate the a6ls of trade, and have taken from Thomas Brindley, Efq. his late Majefly’s commiffion, appoint- ing him and others to adminifter an oath to the governor of that Colony, for his duly putting in execution the a6ts of trade and navigation ; the governor of that colony not having taken the faid oath thefe three or four years laft paft, as is required in the faid a6f. All which is humbly fubmitted Edward Randolph Doctiments and Letters. 25 confideration whereof wee are humbly of opinion that your Ma‘^ be pleafed to refer y® faid articles to yo' Attor^ Grail, with order forthwith to bring Writs of Quo Warranto againd: thofe Corporations. Wee have alfo received a Lre from y® Mayor Aldermen & principall officers of y® Citty of New York dated y® 13^’' of May laft fetting forth that fince yo’’ Ma^^ hath been pleafed to p^'mit Delaware & y® two Jerfeys to be feparated from y® Gov""* of New York that City hath extreamly fuffered by the lofs of at leaft one third p* of its Trade & hath ever fince much decayed in the number of Inhabitants Rents & Buildings And that yo*’ Ma^^® Revenue doth likewife fuffer thereby whereupon wee likewife offer o’" opinions that yo*" Ma‘® Attorney Grail, may have direftions to confider the feverall Grants & Proprietyes of Eaft & Weft New Jerfey & of Delaware aforemenconed & to enter y® like Writs of Quo Warranto againd y® refpedlive Proprietors if he ffiall finde caufe it being of very great & growing prejudice to yo' Ma^® affaires in y® Plantacon & to yo*" Cudoms here that fuch independent Governments be kept up & maintained w^^out a nearer & more Imediate Dependance on yo*' Ma^^. All which is mod humbly fubmitted. Rochester Halifax. P. Clarendon. C. P. S. Ormond. Beaufort. Council Chamber 15 July, 1685. His Ma*^ being gracioudy pleafed to approve of the fame is pleafed to order and direfl that y® faid Articles be & they are hereby referred to S'" R‘ Sawyer Kffi his Ma^® Attor^ VOL. IV. — 4 " Generali 26 Kdward Randolph. Generali who is forthwith to bring Writs of Quo Warranto againfl y® Gov’’ & Comp^ of y® Colony of Connedicutt & againfl: y® Gov’' & Comp^ of Rhode Ifland & Providence Plantacon in New England. And it is further ordered that M’’ Attorney Grail do forthwith confiderof y® feverall Grants & Proprietors of Eafl and Weft New Jerfey and of Dela- ware & enter y® like writts of Quo Warranto againft y® refpedlive Proprietors thereof if he fhall find caufe. William Bridgeman, Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. ColledUon of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps., Bart. July 30'*' 1685 S^ Little publick newes has offered fince the emprifonm* of the E. of Stamford Lord Delamere: but what Mr Yard illuminates us with his Gazetts: Its generally reported & well liked that the Earl of Ailfbury fucceeds in the oftice of L*^ Chamberlain of his Mat’®^ Houfehold : and the E. of Ffeverfham hath the hon^ of the E. of Arlingtons Garter and the Catholicks magnifye themfelves in the report & be- leife that his Lordf^ dyed in the Communion of their Church: This day his Mat: with a great attendance and Mr Blathwayt went to Winfor: to fee fitt ground for y^ Army to encamp upon during his Ma^’^® ftay here. Wheither he with the Queen go next Wednefday to continue one month. The Lord Baltamore is under a great disfavour becaufe his Mat’®^ Cuftome officers have been ill treated fmce the murther committed upon one of y® principal! of them by Cort Domments and Letters. 27 Cott Talbott & 2 Orders of Councill fucceflively direfled for a Quo Ward® ag^ his Gom! I have 5 Quo Ward®® by me : againft Conne6licutt Road Ifland. the two Eaft & Weft New Jarfeyes & Delaware: I am in great expectation of orders to go to New Eng^ in a little tyme: with a commif- fion to fettle a temporary Gom*: & alfo with a new com- miffion for my office of Collector in regard fome ill perfons have broak open the office & taken away my former Com- miffion. as y® Gov*" of Bofton writes me. Its faid that the New Chappell of St Georges Hall is pre- paring for y® followers of St Peter and that prayers & fer- mons are to [be] preached in the Great Chappell to y® family as was ufed in the new Chappell: Si” Lionell Jenkin has had feverall ApopleCtick ffitts & is expeded to leave his offices at y® Commons very ffiortly. The projeCt of y® New Duty upon Tobacco goes on but heavily as yet. for I heare not of any one who has taken up any of the fweet fented To- bacco : tho feverall hundred hogP® are come in : & they pay cuftome onely for y® Sov which they immediately fliip off to Holland upon i halfpenny in y® pound duty onely fo that tobacco is fallen i^: in y® pound in Holland: & I am told that tho’ feverall great ffiipps from Virginia are arrived fince the tym.e of that ACts commencing, yet not above 4 or 5000^^ cuftoms is paid for Tobacco : whereas by this tyme had there been no additional! duty upon that comodity his Mat'® would have above 30000* for y® duty of tobacco : but becaufe this has fome reflection on my Masters I have onely to fay that I am Sr your mofl: humble & mofl: obedient fervt Ed. Randolph My 28 Edward Randolph. My humble fervice to the young ladyes. [ With fuperJcription\ To Sr Robert Southwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll Briftoll Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. CollePlio 7 t of the late Sir Thomas Phillips., Bart. Plantation Office Aug‘ i 85. II oclock S^ I am to give you an account from hence that y® Duke of Albemarl being under diffatisfadlion to be commanded by fo many New but officers of Greater influence then his Grace has quitted the firfl; troop of his Ma‘'®^ Gards, which is to be commanded by y® lafl: Gartred Knight the E. of Ffever- fham : & his troop being the third in the Gards by y® Lord Churchill : the Dutches of Portfmouth has this day left the Court & is gone for Ffrance to flay till May next taking y® D. of Richmond with her. & 3 dayes before her fervant Dr Tayler dyed: this day at a Committee of trade, feveral com- plaints were made ag^ Mr Coney Gov*' of Bermodos to that degree that Mr Blathwayt tells me hee will be called home and at the fame tyme advifed me to have your opinion wheither I might accept of the Gom^ of that place which he queflions not but his Ma^'® would beflow on me : upon the intrefl which at this jundlure of tyme tis in your power to make for me by the happy conflellation Badminton, where befldes my noble patron & great freind y® Lord Privye Seale, are Documents and Letters. 29 are the Great Dukes of Ormond &: Beaufort to whom my fervices to the Crown are well known & I queftion not but upon occafion will be remembred to his Mab® for my advan- tage. by both their Graces. I humbly intreat you at fome tyme to difcourfe my Lord Privye Seale on this matter without whofe diredtions & confent I fliall not move one foot in this or any other affaire of this nature. S" I am heartily fo well inclined to New Eng^ that tho I have for 10 yeares tyme been mortified by their ill treatment & have now 2 writts of Quo warranto ag^ y® Colonyes of Connedfi- cutt & Road Ifland. which makes me alike (if that his Mat'^^ fervice be a ) obnoxious to the whole Plantation yett after all I am inclind to beleive, that I may live very hap- pily there, for they will in tyme be convincd of their folly in contending with their prince, unleffe they be condemnd to that mifery to have Coll. Kerk to be their Gov'' then tho’ I go under the gard of his favour & Protedfion affured me in his inftrudlions yett heel’ break thro all, and the harder he preffes the people the heavier mufl; be my tafke & the greater my perplexityes. fo that I muff expedt betwixt Gov*" & people to be ground to powder: I could not at any tyme believe he would make a fitt Gov*" for thofe people but now fince the great carnage he has made, in y® Weft, he will be much more arbitrary & oppreffing. and I had rather have 100^ a yeare in New Eng^ under a quiet prudent Gov*" then 500* if he were upon y® place. The troubles I mett there in 1681 : broak my wives heart I prefer the quiett & fatisfadlion of my family before money which I have no hopes of expedf- ing if he goes Governor : fo that upon fuch termes N. Eng^ will be no place for mee : then next to Bermodos befides my own 30 Edward Randolph. own difabilityes thofe people have been very mutinous but where the true caufe has been whether in their Gov’’^ or themfelves I have not yet informed myfelf. The profitt not above 300^ a yeare : the charg great : I have been told S’" John Heyden lived very meanely & had 500'^ a yeare be- fides tis hazardous to keep, for fhould I bring thofe people to a quiet temper & the place come to be any way by their trade to be confiderable, as N. York was to S" Edmund Andros: how foon was he upon unluckey miftakes unkindly laid afide : fo that I am now after 10 yeares tofling about the world under fuch uncertaintyes : that I can find no releife like application to yourfelfe from whom I have from y^ firfb of my undertakings received fafe & profperous direc- tions : I therefore with great confidence humbly intreat you to confider my circumflances & to engage my Lord Privye Seale one minute to contribute his direftions : alfo if his LordE be of opinion that Govf Kerk be the man for N. Engl I cannot fee how that can be a place for me. then Bermodos at firfl fight feemes full of difificultyes : but nothing like living under a debauched Atheifticall perfon who will doe his Ma^ in one yeare more differvice than 20 yeares in- dulgence can repaire. This I fpeake from y® experience I have had of the people who will not be forcd & fmce the French King at this jundture is bidding faire for the Spanifli Wefl; Indies: he will not be wanting to engage the Indians on y® backfide of New Eng'^ to make another incurfion, & then what by the oppofition of an incroaching Gov’' on y® one hand & falfe neighbours on the other : that hopefull : & mofl neceffary plantation to the Crown will in a few yeares be brought to utter ruine. S’" pardon this difcourfe very unfitt Documents and Letters. 31 unfitt for a wedding entertainm^ yet in regard it has a refpedl to the publick. as well as to the benefitt of a privat freind : I know you will accept & affift him who is S'" your moft hum- ble ferv^ Ed Randolph. Be pleafed to give my Lord Privy Seale mine & my wives humble duty: the feares of a winter voyage makes her a troublefome futor to his LordE to gett me difpatchd and as foon as may be : my humble fervice to y® young Ladyes your daughters. And all joy & happines attend the noble folemnity. [ With fuperfcriptiond\ To S" Robert Southwell at the Duke of Beauforts at Badminton in Glofterfheire Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Collection of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps., Bart. Sunderlands Office Aug‘ 3 85. Sr Here is upon examination Burton a cheefemonger of Wapping who was in the Proclamation & one of the Rye Confpirators : as alfo a Conftable of Wapping a barber who harboured him, & detected by y® Conflables apprentice here is alfo Goodenough attending Its reported that Ffergufon is got over to Holland. This afternoon his Ma^ went to Hide Park to fee the New Officers prefented to their charge in the Horfe Cards amongfl which was y® Cornbury & Newbury. I would be glad to know wheither my Lord Pr Seale’ 32 Rdward Randolph. Seale’ come to the Cockpitt before he go to Winfor for I am to attend his Lordf^ fo Toon as his returnes : my humble fervice to his LordP I am Sr your humble fer'^^ Ed. Randolph Mr. Randolph’s Proposals about Quo Warranto. Colonial Records of ConnePlicut., Vol. III. p. 351. Augufl: 3. 1685 To the Right Honorable the Lords of the Committee for Trade and Foreign Platations. May it pleafe your Lordfhips : Purfuant to his Majefty’s order in Council, of the 17th of July laft, to Mr. Attorney General, I have received three writs of Quo Warranto, ifTued out againft the feveral proprietors of Eaft and Weft New Jerfeys and Delaware; and alfo two other writs of Quo Warranto, with fummons from the Sheriffs of London, or- dered to be brought againft the Collonys of Connecticut and Rhode Ifland, in New England, which are returnable the next term. Now to the intent the time limited for ferving the writs upon the Governors and Companys of thofe Collonys may not be lapfed by delays and the difficulties of a winter voyage, and his Majefty’s profecutions thereby rendered in- effectual, as it was in ferving the writ of Quo Warranto againft the Bofton Charter: It is humbly propofed, that in three weeks time, at fartheft, a fliip is bound from London, direCtly to New England, by which Documents and Letters. 33 which (if your Lordfliips think fit), the Quo Warranto may be fent and ferved accordingly, to the end there may be no delays made in that affair. All which is humbly fubmitted. Randolph’s Proposals concerning 5 Writs of Quo Warranto. State Papers.^ Colonial^ E 7 itry Book, io8, p. 173. At the Committee of Trade and Plantations In the Council-Chamber at White Hall Munday the 3? of Auguft 1685. Prefent: Lord Prefident, Earl of Aylefbury, Lord Cham- berlain, Earl of Bridgewater, Earl of Craven. New England. A paper of Propofals from M! Randolph read Mf Randolph’s . ^ ^ ^ ^ . proposals. fetting forth that purfuant to an Order of Council of the 17^^ of July laft hee had received 3 Writts of Quo Warranto againft the Proprietors of Eafl and Weft New Jerfey and Delaware, and two others with Summons there- upon from the Sherif of London againfl the Colonys of ^ Connedlicut and Rhode Ifland which are return- ?^°coScut next Term, And therefore humbly propofing bee dispatcht by that the faid Quo Warranto’s may bee fent to ye next Ship. _ v,*i -it* New England by a Ship w. is bound directly to thofe parts. And Mf Randolph having offered to goe in The King’s porfon and ferve them vpon the refpedlive Cor- bee received. porations in New England, their Lo^.^ think fitt That His Ma‘^’® Directions bee received in this matter. VOL. IV. — 5 Edward 34 Edward Randolph. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colledlion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps^ Bart. Aug* 8 1685. Sr I am extreamely obliged to you for yours of y® 3 inflant and the great care you have pleafed therein to expreffe your kindnes to me. I have this day mett my P. Seale who has difcourfd very largly upon y® fubjeft you propofed on my behalfe and has affured, that I fhall be taken care of wheither y® Gov*' goes or not. & wee want onely a Com- mittee to give life to y® affaire : the Court being att Winfor makes this place very barren of newes. I have mett Major Thomfon who tells me many hundred of familyes are re- moving themfelves to the forain Plantations: a mafter bound now to Boffon is hired to call in at Pool & take in a freight of paffengers. they are affreighted at their N. Gov*" & fliould he paffe the feas into forain parts wheither then will they remove. I hope all will end well. Pipps has a report from y® Comm’’^ of y® Navye who exceedingly like my propofall & defire 40 trees to be provided in N. Eng^ for a prefent fupply I give you my humble thanks for all your bleffings & remain S’" My humble fervice to y® your mofl humble & mofl young Ladyes. obedient ferv^ Ed. Randolph. [ With fuperfcriptioii^ To Robert Southwell at Kings Weflon neer BriHoll Edward Documents and Letters. 35 Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Collection of the late Sir Thomas PhillippSy Bart. Aug‘ i7‘.^ 1685 Sr I give you my hearty thankes for y® favour of yours of y® 8*.^ inftant : which 1 fhould fooner have anfweared but have been taken up with preparations for y® Lords who fitt to- morrow & then I exped a full anfwear how & when I fliall go for N. E. otherwife the winter will prevent my voyage. I heare little of Coll Kirk. & many are of opinion that he will not go Gov' to that place. I was yefterday in clofe waite upon my P. Seale at Winfor in hopes to have my papers about a temporary Gom‘ read & ordred. his Mat® fate nigh 5 houres in Councill. Butt the examining of 3 prifoners from y® Weft viz^ Jones: a cabinett maker within Ludgate : a Capt of horfe. Kidd : formerly ferv^ to Mr Thin : Commander of a party of the fixth men. and Hayes, younger fon to Alderman Hayes : who are all this day carried to Newgate) tooke up great part of his Ma'^ tyme I feare his LordP forgott my paper. I heare a league with Holland Sweden & Denmark is or will in 2 or 3 dayes be ratified by his Ma'® at Winfor. Saterday next is appointed a Gen^^ Muf- ter of the Army at Hownfloe Heath to entertain Mars. d’Humeires & the French officers: Prayers for y® family are read in her Ma’® prefence, where yefterday at morning fer- vice was a very great appearance of the Nobility as D. Or- mond L? Treas. P. S Peterburro & none at court miffing. & I do not heare of any about y® Court great or fmall : are tempted to change their religion by the fplended accommodation 36 Rdward Randolph. accommodation of the New Chappell. I give my humble fervice to y® young Ladyes and am S" your moft humble Serv* Ed. Randolph. [ With fuperJcriptio 7 i\ To S" Robert Southwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll. D*" White a lufty faire complexiond man. formerly Lec- turer at St Andrewes Holburn is made Bp of Peterburrow & Dy Parker A Deacon of Canterbury to be y® next Bip® in the roome of one whofe name I know not : dangeroufly fick. E. R.' Mr. Randolph’s Proposals about Quo Warranto. Rhode IJland Colonial Records., Vol. III. p. 178. Auguft 18. 1685 To the Right Honorable the Lords of the Committee for Trade and Foreign Plantations. May it pleafe your Lordfhips : More than nine months have paired fince judgment was entered up for his late Maj- efly againfl the Charter of Bofton, whereby the government of that Collony is invefted in by his Majeffy yet to this day Some difaffedted perfons, under color of their vacated Char- ter, pretend to exercife a government there and counte- nance the breach of the Ads of Trade, by permitting their fhips laden with Plantation Commodities to go from thence diredtly to Holland, Scotland, &c. without firfl: entering in England, as the law diredls ; greatly impairing thereby his Majefly’s revenue, now increafed by A6\ of Parliament. Now Documents and Letters. 37 Now forafmuch, as there is no fettled government in that Collony, and the loyal party there (being the far greater number) have upon all occafions fliown their readinefs to fubmit to his Majefty's laws and commands, and are in daily expedation to be freed from the oppreffions they have long groaned under, but being kept out of the govern- ment, are in no capacity to relieve themfelves, or put a ftop to the irregular trade, and other growing mifchiefs com- plained of. It is therefore humbly propofed that his Maj- efty would gracioufly pleafe forthwith to order a temporary government, by his commiffion to the befl; difpofed perfons upon the place untill fuch time as his Majefly’s Governor Generali fliall be difpatched from hence to take upon him the government of all the Collonys in New England. I likewife humbly reprefent, that I have folicited the five Quo Warrantos mentioned in his Majefly’s order of Council of the 15th of July lafl, and ferved three writs upon the fev- eral proprietors of Eaft and Wefl New Jerfey and Delaware. I am now attending to receive your Lordfliips’ further com- mands about the two Quo Warrantos againfl the Collonys of Connedficut and Rhode Ifland, which are returnable the next term, now to the intent his Majefly’s profecutions againfl thofe Collonys be not by the difficulty of a winter’s voyage rendered ineffedlual. It is neceffary (as I humbly conceive) that fome perfon be difpatched thither with orders to that purpofe, upon the firfl fhip which fails from hence to Boflon ; and if his Majefly pleafe to commit that fervice to my charge, with the conveyance of a Commiffion to eredl a temporary government there, I queflion not but to give his Majefly a good account of that affair ; and alfo the two Col- lonys 38 Rdward Randolph. lonys againft which Quo Warrantos are iffued, and fo by that means bring the feveral Collonys in New England to a united and nearer dependance upon the Crown. All which is humbly fubmitted by &c. E. Randolph. Randolph’s Petition to be Secretary of N. Eng® State Papers^ Colonial Bundle 54 (358). 26 Aug. 1685. To the Right Hon^l® the Lords of y® Committee for Trade and forain Plantations. The Humble petition of Edward Randolph (To be Sec7 & Regifter of N. England Sheweth That yy Petny has been employed aboue 10 yeares in the affaires of New Eng? in order to bring that Plantation to a neerer dependance vpon yf Crown : and inafmuch as y® Bof- toners refufed to Submitt to y® gracious propofalls off red them by his late Ma?® yy Petny was diredfed to profecute them vpon a Quo Warr\° and Judgm! being therevpon entred vp agl their Charter their libertyes & Priveleges are become forfeited to His Ma‘‘.® Now for as much as yy Petny has made 8 voyages already to & from New Eng? in attending his Seruice, and is now ordred forthwith to return [theither] to feme writts of Quo Warr*;® vpon y® Colonyes of Connedlicutt & Road Ifland, againft which Articles of high Mifdemeanour haue lately been Exhibited : 3 Different hand. your Documents and Letters. 39 your Petnr humbly prayes y" Lordf^" to recommend him to his Ma'?" favour, that in Confideration of his pail Services his Ma^f would gracioufly pleafe to grant him the Office of Secretary & Regifter of thofe places which are or ffiall be brought vnder his Ma'l®" Governl: Genl* of New Eng? And y Petnli fhall euer etc. \_Endorfed~\ Petition of Edward Randolph To be Sec 7 of New England. Read 26 Aug. 85. Petitions of Randolph & Gove. State Papers^ Colonial, Entry Book io8, p. 186. At the Committee of Trade & Plantations In the Council-Chamber at White Hall Wednefday the 26^? of Auguft 1685. Prefent: Lord Treafurer, Lord Prefident, Earl of Bridge- water, Earl of Craven, Earl of Nottingham, L? Vifco! Faucon- berg, Lord B? of London, Earl of Middleton, M" Chancelor of the Dutchy. New Engld , , . The Petition of Edward Randolph read praying to bee recommended to His Ma‘^® Favor that in confideration of his paft Services hee may have a Grant of the Office of Secretary and Regifter of all thofe places which are or fliall bee Ijrought vnder His Ma‘^’® Government in New England. Whereupon their Lo^.® agree to confider further of this Petition when the Government of all the Colonys of New England fliall bee fettled The 40 Edward Randolph. New Hampshire. , . The Petition of Edward Gove prifoner Pet? of Edw: Gove. Jq Towef read, fetting forth That hee was Tryed and Condemned in New Hampfhire for High Trea- fon and being fent into England was committed Prifoner to the Tower in June 1683 And humbly praying His Maj- efly’s Pardon for the faid Treafon. Whereupon their Lo^® agree to reprefent the Petition to His Majefty for His pleafure thereupon. Memorand Their Lordfhips having accordingly A Pardon prcfentcd the faid Petition, His Majefty was for Gove. pleafod to Order, that the peP bee Pardoned, giving Security for his good behaviour for the future. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. CollePlion of the late Sir Tho7nas Phillipps., Bart. Aug‘ 29*^ 85 S! Yefterday My Southwell did me the favour to vifit me at my lodgings he is very well in health & lively. I have promifed to waite upon him at Mr Fflamfteds before I go to N. Eng'^ wheither with great zeal I am now preffed by y® Comm’’® of y® Cuftoms togoe : with large powers from them : I have gaind y^ point & am earning over with me a Commiffion for a Temporary Gom^: I hope it will fucceed & the rather becaufe they have been putt in a terrible fright with the apprehentions of being committed to y® Guardianfhip of CoR Kerk: who I think has fliortened his paffage to N. Eng'^ by his expedition in y® Weft: I heard my Jeffryes give Documents and Letters. 41 give him a fevere welcome to Winfor laft Sunday & told him he had not only a bare report but informations under his Ma^® Jufhices of y® peace upon oaths of fufficient & loyal witneffes & that he had done more then he could anfwer etc : I mett with a dangerous paper of 1 2 queries relating to the Purchafers & prefent poffeflbrs of Lands in Ireland. It refledls upon all the late proceedings in Gen^: condemnes y® D. of Ormond for joining w^^ y® Olivarian interefl & put- ting himfelfe in poffeffion of his own eftat but keeping out all others who engaged with him ag^ the Rebells : I left it with M" Boyle & I believe you will heare more of it. twas fubfcribed by Philopatriae G. F. D. which reverfed is ' — ^ David Ffitts Gerald : It declares a defign of the papifts endeavour- ing a new tryall for their effates. & not before fuch judges who are both partyes & Defend‘d : I Tent by Mr Southwell fome fmall paper cutts : done by a Frenchman at my lodg- ings. the inclofed are different from y® former : I wifli he were neerer that he might fhew them how to divert them- felves even in paper. I am going to waite upon My Blath- wayt at Winfor in hopes to gett matters difpatched before I am unavoidably furprized by a defperate winters voyage. My humble fervice to y® Ladyes concludes this from Sf your humble ferv^ Ed Randolph. [ With fuperJcription\ To S" Robert Southwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll. VOL. IV. — 6 Edward 42 Rdward Randolph. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. CollePlion of the late Sir Tho7nas Phillipps^ Bart. Sept. I 1685 Sr Laft Sunday the E. of Clarendon was declared Leif*"* of Ireland; the Prefident was not at y®Councill: neither was Y Keeper who flicks clofe to Aflrop wells. Its thought the Cheife Juflice may fupply that vacancy after his weflern expedition : ended. Mr Blaithwayt is haftning my difpatches for N. Eng'! and the propofalls about fupply- ing his Mat® with mafls will take effedl: for M*^ Sec^ Pipps has diredlions to confult & conclude the matter with y® Comm"® of the Navye as yet is no tidings of y® Earl of Macklesfeild. I faw his fon in clofe cuflody in y® Tower at the tyme I called upon Gove Mr Cranfeild traytor whom Mr Blathwayt has gott fett at liberty upon fome flight obli- gation to his Ma'® for his good behaviour : by which meanes his Ma"® will be freed from y® charge of maintaining him in y® Tower at 3^^ p weeke. The paper I acquainted you off is taken notice of pray God fend y® Earl of Clarendon a peace- able kingdome to manage: I fhall take all occafions to pay my refpefts to Mr Southwell this tyme of Vacation, all is in great peace & quiett with us. Yet the Virginia merc^*® are under diffatisfadlion about their Tobacco valin- dring none or very little but Aronoak which is the word: fort. & I feare that a6l will more empaire the navigation then improve y® Governer. I give my humble fervice to y® young Ladyes and remain S" your mod obedient fervant Ed. Randolph. I Documents and Letters. 43 I have received yours of y® 26 of Aiig^ for which I return my hearty thanks : Its thought y® Privye Seal will be man- aged by Comm’■^ [ With Juperfcription.'\ To Robert Southwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll. Memorial of M*! Randolph with Names of Men fit to BE COUNCILL^'I State Papers^ Colonial^ Bundle 54 (359), 2 Sep. 1685, To the Right Hon^l® the Lords of y® Committee for Trade & forain Plantations. May it pleafe y Lordf? I humbly annex herevnto a Note of the Names of Per- fons fitt to be concern’d in the Temporary Gom! in y® Colony of y® Maffachufetts Bay, That your LordP.® may make Choice of fo many as to yl" LordP® may feem neceffary for that Seruice. I humbly intreat That the Commiffion pre- pared by My Blathwayt may be read before y LordP.^ enter vpon the matters in difference betwixt y® Baltamore & Mf Penn. And that y’’ LordP." would pleafe to diredf a letter to be fent to My Graham to gett perfeded y® Exemplification of y® Judgml agl the Bofton Charter to be laid before y LordP.® at y® next Committee leafl I be forced to flay yet longer for it. A great part of the tyme limited for Seruing y® Quo War- rantoe’s vpon y® Colonyes of Connedlicutt & Road Ifland is allready 44 Edward Randolph. allready lapf’d & It’s neceffary for his Ma‘f® Seruice that I bee forthwith difpatch’d for New Eng'l All which is humbly Submitted. EdRandolph Sep! 2 : 1685. [E?idorfed^ Memoriall to the R : H : the Lords of the Committee for Trade prefented by Ed. Randolph. The Names of ffit perfons to be putt in to y® Commiffion. \_Endofed'] The Names of Perfons well difpofed & humbly offred to be of his Councill in the Colony of the Maffachufetts Bay & the Provinces in New Eng'l to confiffc of One Prefi- dent one Deputy- Prefident & 18 to be of y® Councill. In the Colony of the Maffa- In the Province of New chiifetts Bay Hampfhere. Jofeph Dudley Efq»^ I. Robert Mafon Efq>^ ) 13 - Symon Bradftreet Efq late ) Proprietor ) Gou’; aged 82 ) NathanHiell ffryer Gent. William Stoughton Efq’’ 2. Robert Eh^ott Gent. Peter Bulkley Erq*" John Pinchon Efq of ) 3. A John Hinks Gent. 14 Springfeild \ 4 Province of Main. Richard Wharton Gent. 5 - ffrancis Champernoon Gent. 15 - Waite Winthrop Gent. 6. Edward Ting Gent. 16. Nathanniell Saltenftall Gent. 7 - Edward Blackman Gent. Bartholomew Gidney Gent. 8. Jonathan Ting Gent. 9. Narriganfett Country or Kings John Vfher Gent. 10. Province. Dudley Bradftreet Gent ) II. John fhtts Winthrop Efq*" 17. fon to y Gou’: ) Edward Palmes Gent. Hinkfman Gent, of Chelmf- ) 12. Richard Smith Gent. 18. ford The Secretary ) ffrancis Beenley Gent. \_Endorfed\ Documents and Letters. 45 \_Endor/ed~\ The Names of Perfons ffitt to be employed in the Gom‘ of Bofton etc : \_Al/o enclofed'] The Names of fitting Perfons to be of the Councill in the Colony of Charles town Bay in N. Eng"! Symon Bradftreet Jonathan Ting William Stoughton out Jofeph Dudley putt out Peter Bulkley out. - T - he Secretory John Pinchon Sen. William Brown Sen. out. Samm - ue l l Shrim.pton - Nathanniell Saltenftall Waite Winthrop Richard Wharton Bartholomew Gidney Edward Randolph Champernoon Sec7 Symon LinoS ' Townes to haue liberty to Chufe Affembly men. Bofton 3- Salem 2 Ipfwich 2. Nubery i 2 Salifbury I. Andover J Bran try I. Hingham I Winfor 'I 1 Weymouth I Springfeild I. Rowley \ Hadley r 1 1 Beverly > I Northampton ) Cape Ann ) Dorcefter I. Charles town ) Ron [xj bury I Malden ) 2 10. Lin ) Marblehead i I [Endorfed'l The Names of fitt perfons for y® Councill. The names of y"" Townes in that Colony. 10 . \_Alfo enclofed] 46 \_Alfo enclofed'\ Rdward Randolph. N : Plymouth Colony. Perfons to be of the Councill. Thomas Hinkley. John Walley. Thomas. Lathrop. Socrotary. William Bradford Richard Burton Benjamin Church Secretary Plymouth New Briftoll Scituate Sandwich Townes to chufe Affembly men. I Marfhfeild | 1 Dun[x]bery / 2 Tanton I Barftable Swanfey Champernoon Edw'! Blackman John Shapley Prouince of Maine. Edward Ting Sam Wheelright Edw'l Rufhworth. Secry. Townes to chufe Affembly men. York 2 Kittery Wells 2 Kennebeck Cafco Bay i Prouince of N : Hampf Robert Mafon Walter Barefoot Nathanniell ffryer Robert Elliott Henry Green Secry I I I 1 2 I Townes to chufe Affembly men Porcth mouth 2 Douer i Hampton 2 Great Ifland i Exiter Documents and Letters. 47 Exiter i Greenland i Oyfter Rieur i \_Endorfed'\ The Names of Councill And affembly men inN : Plymouth Prouinces of N. Hamps & Maine. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colledlion of the late Sir Thotnas Phillips Bart. Sept 7 1685 Si I have onely to acquaint you that this evening I had the Newes of the death of y^ Keeper at his Countryhoufe : wee expedl either Jeff ryes or y^ Atturney Gen^ to fuc- ceed in that Ration as the Speaker of your houfe or S’" Ed- ward Herbart is to be mafter of the Rolls upon y® Death of y’' neighbour S’" John Churchill: I am hurried by y® Comm’’® of Y Cuftoms to be gone immediately to N. Eng"^ wheither I hope to be difpatchd w\^ a Commiffion for a temporary Gom\ My fervice to y® young Ladyes is all Sf but my humble duty and that I am your moft obliged & humble ferv‘ Ed. Randolph. [ With fuperfcriptio 7 {\ To Sr Robert Southwell At Kings Weflon neer Briftoll. Edward 48 Rdward Randolph. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. CollePlion of the late Rir Thomas Fhillipps., Bart. Plantation Office Sept io‘!^ 1685 sy This afternoon I waited upon My Boile who was pleafed to lend me the printed Articles about Ireland which My Po- vey orders to be copied & fent to you this Poft. My Boyle tells me they will do a great deal of good & will be an- fweared very accurately with a choice difcovery of many things as yett not made known to the world I will beg a copy if not printed fo foon as publifhed & fend it to Kings Weflon. he enquired after you & defired me to prefent his humble fervice to you without complement : I have not had tyme to waite upon My Sowthwell fince I had the honour of his good company to Greenwich : where My Fflamfted treated him with great refpedt & had our tyme permitted have en- tertaind him with his curious diverfions : but wee made haft to London. I am attending my good freind My Blath- wayt who makes it no fmall part of his care to improve to me the offices which I am engaging in in our New Eng^ buhnes : My Mafon is nominated one of our Councill : twill be a great favour to him and promote the generall defign of their quiett fettlement if you would pleafe by your letter before I go to advife him to moderation for I feare when he comes to be mated with fome of his former antagonifts twill tranfport his paffion & putt all into a ferment: Sy N. Butler is primeir at the Cuftome houfe Sy Dudley North being in the Country upon the Death of his brother: I lately laid before Documents and Letters. 49 before that Board a paper informing that I was ready to go : But (hewed the impoffibility of my fecuring the trade of that country extending above lOO leagues upon y® fea : & that unleffe there be a fmall frigott to plye upon that Coaft their (liipps will now more than ever (hip off Tobacco & Sugers becaufe of the late impofitions in Eng^ I find them well inclind & prepare that matter with the neceffity of my hav- ing a Boat & men alwayes to attend y" Kings fervice : & this to be prefented to my Treafurer. No newes of y® Lord Macklesfeild : nor who (hall be Keeper : the vogue runns for y® Jeff ryes : this will very much delay my dif- patches for N. Eng? & bring me upon y® Coaft in the ex- treamity of their ftormy feafon which is very hazardous upon y® beginning of their winter: I heartily thank you for taking notice of my affaires to his Grace y® D of Bewforth. & remain in all duty Sf your mod humble ferv* my humble fervice to y® Ed. Randolph. young Ladyes. [ With fuperfcription\ To S'” Robert Southwell at Kings Weflon neer Briftoll. Commission to Edward Randolph. Maffachujetts Archives., Vol. CXXVL p. 95. 21 September 1685. James Rex. James the fecond by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and to all to whom thefe prefents fhall come, greeting. Whereas VOL. IV. — 7 50 Edward Randolph. we have thought fit to appoint a Prefident and Council, un- til we fhall fend over a Governour in Chief to take care of all our Territory and Dominion in New England, commonly called or known by the names of the Colony of the Maffa- ghufetts Bay, the Province of New Hampfhire and Maine, and the Narraganfett Country, otherwife called the King’s Province, with all the iflands, rights and members thereunto belonging, Know ye, that we repofing, efpecial truft and confidence in the loyalty and abilities of our trufty and well beloved Edward Randollp, Efq., have given and granted, and, by thefe prefents, do give and grant unto him, the faid Edward Randolph, the feveral and refpedlive places and offices of Secretary and Sole Regifter of our Governor and Council, and of our government there, for the time being, of and in our Territories and Dominion aforefaid, and him, (the faid Edward Randolph, Secretary and Regifter of our Said Territory and Dominion), we do, by thefe prefents, make, ordain and conftitute, to have, hold, exercife and en- joy the faid places and offices, or to him, the faid Edward Randolph, by himfelf or his deputy or deputies during our pleafure, together with all fees, rights, privileges, profits, perquifites and advantages, to the faid places and offices, or either of them, belonging or in any wife appertaining in as full and ample manner to all intents and purpofes, as the Secretary and Regifter of our Ifland of Jamaica, or of any other our Plantations in America, have had or do now re- ceive and enjoy. And hereof all perfons, whom it may concern, are to take due notice, and yeild obedience there- unto accordingly. Given at our Court at Windfor the 2ift day of September. 1685 in the firft year of our reign. His Documents and Letters. 51 His Commission, for the Governm 7 of New England. State Papers., Colonial, Entry Book 61, p. 252. 27 Sept. 1685. James the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. To all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come Greeting. Whereas a Writ of Scire facias has been iffued out of Our high Court of Chancery againft the late Governor and Company of the Maffachufets Bay in New England, whereby the Governm! of that Colony and Members thereof is now in Our hands. And wee being minded to give all Protedlion and Encour- agem! to Our good Subjects therein, and to provide in the moft Effedluall manner that due and impartiall Juftice may be adminiftred in all Cafes Civil and Criminal, and yl all poffible care may be taken for the juft, quiet & orderly Gov- ernment of the fame ; Know yee therefore that Wee by and with the advice of Our Privy Councill have thought fit to Ere6l Conftitute and appoint a Prefident and Councill to take care of all that Our Territory & Dominion of New England in America, commonly called and knowne by the Name of Our Colony of the Maffachufets Bay, And Our Provinces of New Hampfhire and Maine, and the Narra- ganzet Country otherwife called the Kings Province, with all the Iflands, Rights and Members thereunto appertaining, and to Order Rule and Govern the fame according to fuch Methods and Regulations as are herein after fpecified and Declared, untill Our Cheif Governor fhall arrive within Our faid Colonys; And for the better Execution of Our Royall pleafure 52 Rdward Randolph. pleafure in this behalf, Wee do hereby Nominate and ap- point Our Trufty and Welbeloved Subjed Jofeph Dudley Efq' to be the firft Prefident of the faid Councill and to Continue in the faid Office untill Wee Our Heires or Suc- ceffors fhall otherwife diredl; And wee do likewife Nomi- nate and appoint Our Trufty and Welbeloved Subjects Simon Bradflreet, William Staughton, Peter Bulkeley, John Pinchon, Robert Mafon, Richard Wharton, Wait Win- thorpe, Nathaniel Saltenffall, Bartholomew Gidney, Jona- than Ting, John Ufher, Dudley Bradflreet, John Hincks, Francis Champernoon, Edward Ting, John Fitz Winthrop and Edward Randolph Efq’’f® to be of our Councill within Our faid Territorys and Colonys; And that the faid Jofeph Dudley and every fucceeding Prefident of the faid Councill fhall and may Nominate and appoint any One of the Mem- bers of the faid Councill for the time being to be his Deputy and to Prefide in his abfence : And that the faid Prefident or his Deputy and any Seaven of the faid Councill fhall be a Quorum. And our exprefs will and Pleafure is, that no perfon fhall be admitted to fit or have a Vote in the faid Councill untill he hath taken the Oath of Allegiance, and the oath hereafter mentioned for the due and impartiall Execution of Juflice, and the faithfull difcharge of the Trufl in them Repofed; which Oaths wee do hereby authorize and direft the faid Simon Bradflreet, William Staughton, Peter Bulkeley, John Pinchon, Robert Mafon, Richard Wharton, Wait Winthorp, Nathaniel Saltenflall, Bartholomew Gidney, Jonathan Ting, John Ufher, Dudley Bradflreet, John Hinks, Henry Champernoon, Edward Ting, John fitz Winthorp and Edward Randolph, or any three of them firft to adminifler unto Documents and Letters. 53 unto the faid Jofeph Dudley the firft Prelident, and the faid Jofeph Dudley having taken the faid Oaths, Wee do will authorize and require him and the Prefident for the time being to adminifter the fame from time to time to all and every other the Members of Our faid Councill ; And wee do hereby will and require and Command Our faid Prefident & Councill and every of them to whom this Our pleafure fliall be made known, that, all Excufes whatfoever fet a part. They faile not to affemble and meet together at Our Town of Bof- ton in New England affoon as may be within the fpace of Twenty dayes at the farthefl next after the Arrivall of this Our Comiffion at Our faid Town of Bofton, and there to Caufe this Our Commiflion or Letters Patents to be read before fuch of them as fhall be there Affembled, together with the Exemplification of the Judgement paffed in Our high Court of Chancery againfl the faid late Governor and Company of the Maffachufets Bay. And having duely firft taken the faid Oaths, to proceed to nominate and appoint fuch officers and Servants as they fhall think fit and necef- fary for Our Service, And alfo to appoint fuch other time and place for their future meetings as They or the Major part of them. Whereof the Prefident or his Deputy to be one, fliall think fit & agree. And Our will and Pleafure is, that Our faid Councill fhall from time to time have and ufe fuch Seal onely for the fealing their A6fs and Orders and proceedings as fhall be appointed by us Our heires and Suc- ceffors for that purpofe. And wee do by thefe prefents for Us Our heires and Succeffors Conflitute Eftablifh Declare and appoint Our faid Prefident & Councill and their fuccef- fors for the time being to be a Conftant and Setled Court of Record 54 Edward Randolph. Record for the adminiftration of Juflice to all Our Subjects inhabiting within the Limits aforefaid in all Caufes as well Civill as Criminall. And that the Prefident or any Seaven of the Councill for the time being fhall have full power and authority to hold Plea in all Cafes from time to time afwell in pleas of the Crown, and in all matters relating to the Confervation of the Peace and punifliment of Offenders, as in Civil Sutes and Adlions between party & party, or be- tween Us and any of our Subjefts there, whether the fame do Concern the Realty and relate to any Right of Freehold and Inheritance, or whether the fame do Concerne the Per- fonalty and relate to fome matter of Debt Contract Damage or other perfonall Injury ; And alfo in all mixt Aflions which may Concern both Realty and Perfonalty ; And therein, after due and Orderly proceeding and Deliberate hearing of both fides, to give Judgem! and to award Execu- tion as well in Criminal as in Civil Cafes as aforefaid : So alwayes that the formes of Proceedings in fuch Cafes and the Judgments thereupon to be given be as Confonant and agreeable to the Lawes and Statutes of this Our Realm of England as the prefent State and Condition of Our Sub- jefts Inhabiting within the Limits aforefaid, and the Circum- ftances of the place, will admit. And the Prefident and Councill for the time being and every one of them Refpec- tively, before they be admitted to their Severall and refpec- tive offices, and Charges, fhall alfo take this Oath following; You fhall fwear well and truly to adminifter JufHce to all his Ma^^.’® good Subjedts inhabiting within the Territory and Dominion of New England under this his Ma^f® Governm!, and alfo duly and faithfully to difcharge and execute the truft Documents and Letters. 55 trufl; in you repofed, according to the beft of yo^ knowledge ; You (hall fpare no perfon for favor or affedlion, nor any per- fon grieve for hatred or ill-will, So help you God. And wee do further hereby give and grant unto Our faid Prefident and Councill or to the Major part of them, full power & authority to Eredl Conftitute and Eftablifh fuch and fo many County Courts and other Inferior Courts of Judicature and publick Juflice within Our faid Colony and Dominion as they fliall think fit and NeceflTary for the hear- ing and determining of all Caufes, as well Criminall as Civill, according to Law and Equity, and for awarding of Execu- tion thereupon, with all reafonable & neceffary powers, au- thoritys. Fees & priviledges belonging unto Them. Neverthelefs It is Our will and pleafure and fo wee doe hereby exprefly Declare, that it fhall and may be lawfull from time to time, to and for all and every perfon who fliall think him or themfelves agrieved by any Sentence Judgment or Decree pronounced given or made as aforefaid in about or Concerning the title of any Land or other Reall Eftate, or in any perfonall A6lion or Sute above the Value of three hun- dred Pounds, and not under, to Appeal from Such Judgment Sentence and Decree unto Us in Our Privy Councill, but with and under this Caution and Limitation, that the Ap- pellant fliall firfl; enter into and give good Security to pay full Cofts in Cafe no Releif fliall be obteined upon Such appeale : And for the better defence and Security of all Our Loving Subjeds within Our faid Territory and Dominion of New England, Our further Will and Pleafure is, and Wee do hereby Authorize, Require and Command Our faid Prefident and Councill for the time beinsf in Our Name O and 56 Rdward Randolph. and under the Seale by Us appointed or to be appointed to be ufed, to give and jffue forth Commiffions from time to time to fuch perfon and perfons whom they fhall Judge beffc qualified for the Regulation and Difcipline of the Militia of Our faid Territory and Dominion, and for the Arraying and Muftring the Inhabitants thereof & Infirudting them how to bear and ufe their Armes ; and that Care be taken that fiich good Difcipline fhall be obferved as by the faid Councill fhall be prefcribed. And that if any Invafions fhall at any time be made, or other Deftrudlion Detriment or Annoy- ance made or don by Indians or others upon or unto Our good Subjedls Inhabiting within the faid Territory and Dominion, Wee by thefe prefents for Us Our Heires and Succeflbrs Declare Ordain and Grant that it fhall and may be Lawfull to and for Our faid Subjeds fo Commiflioned by Our faid Councill from time to time and at all times for their fpeciall Defence and Safety to encounter, Expell, Re- pell and Refift by force of Armes and all other fitting wayes and means whatfoever all and every fuch perfon and perfons as fhall at any time hereafter attempt or Enterprize the Deftrudion Invafion Detriment or annoyance of any of Our faid Loving Subjedts or their Plantations or Eflates. And above all things Wee do by thefe Prefents will, requir & Command Our faid Councill to take all poflible care for the difcountenance of all Vice, and encouragement of Virtue and good Living, that by fuch Example the Infidels may be invited and defire to partake of the Chriflian Religion. And for the greater eafe and fatisfadfion of Our faid Loving Subjeds in matter of Religion, Wee do hereby will require and Command that liberty of Confcience fliall be allowed unto Documents and Letters. 57 unto all perfons, and that fuch efpecially as fliall be Con- formable to the Rights of the Church of England fhall be particularly Countenanced and encouraged. And further Wee do by thefe prefents for Us Our heires and Succeffors give and Grant unto the faid Councill and their Succeffors for the time being full and free liberty, power and Author- ity, to hear and determine in all Emergencys relating to the Peace and good Governml of Our Subjects within the faid Province, And alfo to Summon and Convene any perfon or perfons before them, and punifli Contempts, and to Caufe the Oath of Allegiance to be adminiftred to all and every perfon & perfons who fhall be admitted to any Office or Preferment. And for fupporting the Charge of the Gov- ernm! of Our faid Territory and Dominion of New England, Our will and pleafure is, and Wee do by thefe prefents authorize and require the faid Prefident and Councill to Con- tinue fuch Taxes and Impofitions as have been and are now laid and Impofed upon the Inhabitants thereof, and that They levy and diflribute, or Caufe the fame to be levyed and diftributed to thofe Ends in the beft and molt equal manner they can. Alfo Our will and pleafure is, and Wee do hereby diredt and appoint, that if the faid Prefident of Our Councill fliall happen to dye, that then from & after the death of the faid Prefident, his Deputy ffiall fucceede him in the office of Prefident, and fhall and may Nominate and Choofe any one of the Councill to be his Deputy to prefide in his abfence ; and the faid Deputy fo fucceeding ffiall Continue in the faid Office of Prefident untill Our further Will and pleafure be known therein. And if any of the Members of the faid VOL. IV -8 Councill 5 8 Rdward Randolph. Councill fliall happen to dye, Our will and pleafure is, and Wee do hereby diredl and appoint the Prefident of Our Councill for the time being to Eleft fome other Perfon to be a Member of the faid Councill for that time, and to fend over the Name of fuch perfon fo chofen, and the Names of two more whom Our faid Prefident fhall judge fitly qualified for the faid Truft; That Wee Our heiresand fucceffors may nominate and appoint w"".^ of the three fhall be the Member in the place of the Member fo dying. And laftly Our will 6 pleafure is, that the faid Prefident and Councill for the time being do prepare and fend unto Us fuch Rules and Methods for their owne Proceedings as may beft Sute with the Conffitution of Our Territory and Dominion aforefaid, and for the better Eflablifhing Our authority there and the Government thereof, that Wee may alter or approve the fame as Wee fhall think fit. In Witnes &c. Dated the 27‘^ of September in y® firfl year of Our Reign 1685. Docket of M"! Randolph’s Comission. State Papers.^ Board of Trade., New England, Vol. V. p. 437. 0 ( 5 lober 1685 Anno Regni Regis Jacob Sndj Primo. A Grant unto Edward Randolph Efqy of the Office of Surveyor of all the Woods and Timber growing upon any of the Main Lands or Iflands within Ten or Twelve Miles of any Navigable River, Creek or Harbour, within the Province of Maine in New England. To Execute the faid Office by himfelf or Deputy with the Fee of Fifty pounds P Documents and Letters. 59 p Ann payable half yearly by the Treafurer of the Navy from Michaelmas laft, during His Ma‘f Pleafure. \^Endorfed~\ Docket of Mr Randolph’s Comiffion to be Survey' of y® Woods. N : Englad. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. ColleLlion of the late Sir Thomas Phillifps., Bart. S" Oa 3. 1685 Nothing this weeke has occurd worth troubling you with : D*" Short the Phyfitian is dead & buried. I have been taken up in foliciting my difpatches : & together with my Com- miffion to be Colledtor of his Ma‘'^® Cuftoms. I fhall I think have another paffe alfo at y® Kings charge to [be] Surveyor of all his Woods & Tymber with in 10 miles of a navigable river with 40 or 50^^ a yeare to defray the charge of Survey- ing & preferving thofe woods from fpoile. which will be all fpent in that fervice : for twill be chargeable work to travel by fea & land above 120 miles upon the coafl of that Prov- ince. But I aime at this more in the reputation \torn'\ ing the fervice then at any private advantage : I hope to gett away from hence in 10 dayes tyme: and now as to your fup- plyes of the produdlion of our Country, I fliall take care to inform myfelfe what is growing there that hath not yett been fent to Eng*^: Laft weeke My Blathwayt was propofing that My Mafon fhould quitt his pretentions in N. Eng? & lay all at his Mat’® ffeet upon his Ma‘ making him Gov’’ of Bermodos. & allowing to him & his heires 2 or 300^^ yearely for ever to be paid out of y® quitt rents which will in a fliort tyme arife to his Ma‘'® upon this fettlem* for the people will rather 6o Rdward Randolph. rather pay to his Mat'® 6^ an acre than one farthing to M' Ma- fon. & now fince Charters are at fo low an ebb I feare his Grants will hardly hold out upon a tryall at y® Councill Board : he is fure of all affiftance from y® Plantation Office : but his Enemyes have the larger purfe & upon his accept- ance of Bermodos his Ma^'® may be induced for his former extraordinary fervices to make that place more for his pri- vate advantage : but I know not what his conceptions may bee of fuch propofalls. I believe this day at Winfor I may have a further difcourfe with Mr Blathwayt of this matter. I feare he will be in a perpetuall conteft about his lands in N. Eng^ which I heartily wifh he had fetled to his fatisfac- tion. All hatts & knees are bowed to the New Great Chancellor who fince his coming to town has from his Ma'® named Sr Robert Jeffryes to be Mayor for y® enfewing yeare : Nothing now as I can think of can encourage CoH: Kerk to expedt the Gom^ of N. Eng'^ but the promife of his late Mat'® which how farr his prefent Ma'® will oblige him- felfe to take notice of is yet queflionable. I heare the Chancellour is now well fatisfied that the reports of his manage in y® Gom‘ Taunton are more then flying rumors : his Ma‘® will be in town Tuefday next. I then go to the Downes, aboard y® Rofe frigatt to gett all things in readinefs for my voyage. & then return to receive his Ma^ Commands. I have not lately feen M.*' Boile but will call upon him : for that anfwear if ready : I give you my moft humble thanks for all favors & remain S'* your mofl; humble ferv* Ed. Randolph. [ With JuperJcription\ To S'” Robert Southwell at Kings Wefton neer Brifloll. Edward Documents and Letters. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Sr Colle6lio7i of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps., Bart. 061 14 1685 Saterday lafl I went to the Downes to vifite the Rofe frigott in order make an accomodation for myfelfe & family : for the voyage : her commander is Capt. George : a civill per- fon. She is the biggeft fift [firft] rate yet one of the worft for fayling : the provifions for 6 months are aboard & I expedl to fayle in 10 dayes tyme at farthefl. At my return I mett with yours of the Io‘^inflant having juft upon my leaving the town received y’' letter of the fift [firft] : I have waited upon Mr Boile to procure a copy of the Anfwear to Y Queries: he tells me they are very well done & have been prefented to the Leift"^ but as yet no copies will be given out : his Lordf? this morning told me that next Munday come feavenight he intends to leave. the Town & fett forth for Ire- land & told me he had lately wrote to you : I hope to gett my difpatches ready to be going by the middle of next weeke at farthefl : and I am confident f letters to Mr Ma- fon will be of great ufe to him wheither hee flay or be removed to Bermodos : from your hearty affent to what Mr Blathwayt was pleafed to propofe to me I fliall review the matter & putt it in a profperous way : & fince charters are now at fo low an ebb : I feare Mr Mafon will find little benefitt by his antique Grants in N. Eng? Lafl night I mett Mr Southwell at y® Plantation Office & is this day en- tertaind with the varietyes of y® Court where in y® Clerk of Y Councills Office is kept a Splendid ball : & tis faid their Maties 62 Rdward Randolph. Maties will grace it with a Dance. I have fent down my few goods & fhall have little more to do but to receive my freinds commands: I give my humble fervice to y** young Ladyes : & hope by this tyme you have perfeflly recovered yourfelfe from y*" late paines : giving you my moft hearty thanks for all favors I remain S'" your moft obliged & moft obedient ferv^ Ed. Randolph. [ With fuperfcription\ To S! Robert Southwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll prefent Pet” of M? Randolph for fflaggs. State Papers.^ Colonial^ Bundle 54 (367). 17. 0 ( 51 : 1685. To the R! Hon'"!® The Lords of the Comm‘ 5 ® for Trade & Forreign Plantations. May it pleafe Your Lordfhips His Ma^^ hauing now by his Commiffion under the great Seal Eftablifhed a Governm! in the Colony of y® Maffachu- fets^ Bay ® in y® Provinces of Main & New hampfhire in N : Eng!^ I humbly propofe as a thing greatly neceffary for his Ma\’® Service there, that I may haue an Order to Receiue from y® Office of the Ordnance Flaggs for His Mai® Caflle & Forts in that Governml that is to fay For the Caftle w®^ commands all Shipping Coming to Bofton For y® 2 forts at Bofton 2 Flaggs For the Fort at Pifcataqua 2 Flaggs Two Flaggs For Documents and Letters. 63 For y® Fort at Salem 2 Flaggs For y® Fort at Charles Town 2 Flaggs All which is humbly fubmitted. \_Endorfed'\ Copy Mr Randolph’s Petition for Flaggs. Read 17 061 : 1685. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colledlion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps^ Bart. 06 t. 23. 1685 S*^ I have received yours of y® 19^!" inllant & the day before was with Mi Boile who has not as yet the anfwear but he fayes tis very well done : the Lord Leift"^^ tyme is not yet fetled : fome queftion wheither his Exceft will not flay till Y opning of the Pari™* I am now preparing for y® Downes as fafl as I can. the Capt being impatient of a longer flay: tomorrow I have orders for 500^^ from y® Navy board & by Munday all my Commiffions publick & private will be compleated. I fhall not be wanting in New England to acknowledge your obligations by all occafions & fhall engage fome of my freinds there to find out fome varietyes to fend to your grounds at Kings Wefton befides Nutts: & fhall lett Mf Bulkley & My Stoughton know you are pleafed to continue your refpefls to them & defire the fettlement of their dif- tracfled Country upon a good foundation : I fhall deliver yours to My Mafon upon my arrivall but My Cranfeild as S*“ Rich‘s / 64 Edward Randolph. Rich^ Dutton told me is at Barbados & flayes for Orders to come for Eng^^ So that I have left your letter to him with M*" Jo Povey where he is fooneft like to receive it. I fliall fettle a correfpondence with Mf Southwell & find out fome new divertions from our parts for him. Sy I have found extraordinary civilityes from Mf Secry Pepys & from Sr Richard Haddock beyond what I could expeft & intreat you when you come to town to give them my hearty acknowledgm^" for their civilityes. I have fpent too much tyme in difcourfing my bufines. Its now high tyme to be upon a6lion in which God willing I fhall ufe all care & circumfpedtion to acquitt myfelfe to his Mat'® who has been fo bountifull to me beyond my propofalls: formerly after I had pafd the Dangers of the feas I expected a greater florm a fhoar then I mett with in my voyage, & never failed of my expedlation : but now matters turning fo quick upon their freinds in England I fhall find them all in our N. Gov- erm! of another minde: & when they come to heare that Sheriffe Cornifh was hangd & quartered in the heart of their Citty in Cheapfide upon a Gibbett againft the Geild Hall they will be glad to be quiett even upon any tearmes. my bufines fhall be to gett all matters carried fairely for his Ma'® & the generall good of that country who know not how to be kind to themfelves. if you have any further fervices I fhall receive them in the Downes from y® Plantation Office. I have onely to repeat my humble & hearty thankes to you for all your favors ; & fhall carefully obferve all your direc- tions fcattered to me in your letters fince my arrivall in Eng? which are of conftant ufe to me : my humble fervice to Documents and Letters. 65 to the young ladyes. praying heartily for health & profperity to you & your tender Plants I remain Sr your moft humble & moft obliged ferv* Ed. Randolph. [ With fuperfcription\ To S' Robert Sowthwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll IVPr R. Ratcliff a minister to be provided for. State Papers^ Colonial., Entry Book 61, p. 259. 30 061. 1685. After Our hearty Commendations unto you; Whereas the Rr Reverend father in God the L^. of London hath reprefented unto Us that he hath made Choice of the bearer hereof, Mf Robert Ratcliffe matter of Arts, as a perfon fitly qualified to Refide in New England to take care off and In- ftru6l fuch of his Ma^r fubjedts as fhall apply themfelves unto him, or fhall defire to ferve God according to the Rites of the Church of England; Wee have thought fit to recom- mend him unto you, that you may give him a fair Recep= tion, and affoard him from time to time all neceffary Coun- tenance and Protedlion, wherein he fhall need your affift- ance ; fo that he may not faile of a kinde entertainment and futable maintenance among you. And fo not doubting of your ready Compliance herewith. Wee bid you very heartily farewell. From the Court at Whitehall the 30^!' day of Odlober 1685. Jeffreys C. Rochester Clarendon C. P. S. Yol; loving Friends Mulgrave Berkeley Sunderland Middleton Craven Preston John Nicholas. VOL. IV. — 9 List 66 Edward Randolph. List of papers given to Randolph, going to New England. State Papers^ Colonial^ Entry Book io8, p. 223. On the 5*.^ of November 1685 New^E^gkiU Is delivered to Ml: Randolph Secretary of New England now going thither An Exemplification of the Judgement againfl: the Charter of the Maffachufets Colony in New England. A Commiffion vnder the Great Seal of England confti- tuting a Temporary GovT of New England. The King’s Warrant Authorizing the vfe of the late Company’s Seal in New England. A letter from the Committee to the Prefident and Council of New England, to return Quarterly Accompts of their Proceedings. A letter from the Committee to y® Prefidt and Council of New England, with Heads of Inquiry. A Letter from the Committee to the Sec7 of New Eng- land to return Quarterly Accompts of Proceedings in New England. A LIST OF PAPERS RECEIVED FROM THE PLANTATION OFFICE THE 5'^“ OF November 1685: (by Randolph^) State Papers, Colonial, Bundle 54 (369). The Exemplification of the Judgment for the King againfl the Maffachufets Charter. The Commiffion for a temporary Gouernm! of New England. ^ Different handwriting. A Documents and Letters. 67 A warrant authorizing the late Companys Seale in New England till an other be Sent over. A letter from the Committee to the Prefident and Coun- cill of New England to tranfmit Quarterly Accounts. A letter from the Committee to the Prefident and Coun- cill of New England with heads of Inquiry. A letter from the Committee to the Secretary of New England for quarterly accompts of Proceedings. A Deputation from M’' Blathwayt to My Randolph for the office of Auditor of New England. Ed: Randolph. \Endor/ed'} 5 Nov: 85, Mf Randolph’s Red for Papers. M^y Randolph to be post master of New England. State Papers y Colonial.^ Entry Book 61, p. 269, 23 Nov. 1685. Laurence Earle of Rochefter, Vifcount Hide of Kenelworth and Baron of Wotton Baffet, Lord high Treafurer of England, One of the Lords of his Privy Council, Knight of the moft Noble Order of the Garter, and Poffc Mafter Generali in the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland and in all other his other Dominions, Territorys and Ifles thereunto belonging in Europe, Africa, and America^ To all People to whom this fhall come Greeting, Know Yee ® See The Fall of the Monarchy of eftablifhment of a poft office in England Charles /., by S. R. Gardiner, ed. 1882, in 1635. Vol. I. p. 82, for an account of the 68 Edward Randolph. Yee that I the faid Laurence Earle of Rochefler well know- ing the loyalty and fidelity to his Ma*^ of Edward Randolph Efq"®, and repofmg great Truft and Confidence in the Knowledge, Care and Ability of the faid Edward Randolph, Do by thefe prefents Depute Conftitute authorize and ap- point him the faid Edward Randolph my Deputy Poflmaf ter in New England and all the parts thereof. Subject never- thelefs to Such Inftrudions Orders and diredlions as he fhall from time to time receive from his Ma‘^ Me the faid Port mafter Generali, or from the Governor of the Generali Letter Office in London. In witnefs Whereof I the faid Laurence Earle of Rochefler have hereunto Set my hand and Caufed my Seale of the faid Office in Such Cafes ufed to be affixed : dated the three and twentieth day of Novem- ber 1685. Rochester. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. ColleRion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps^ Bart. Deal : y® Io‘^ 1685 : Sr I thanke God I am fafe arrived here, & nothing but my great defire to be upon y® place of my bufines could force me to leave London till I had taken your farewell : but I know your goodnes will pardon me : efpecially when I tell you that tho I fent my goods down about a fortnight ago : and hoped they had been all fafe aboard y® fhip yett now I find them fcattred up and down : & my whole accomoda- tion to make in the fhip which will take up my tyme & thoughts to gett fetled : juft upon my coming from y® Plan- tation Documents and Letters. 69 tation Office Mf Blathwayt advifed me to gett a Deputation from Mr Ffroud to eredt a Poft Office in New Eng'^ that night I fpoak to Mr Caftleton about it & have now fent him a letter to remind him of it under Mr Poveys cover, what profitt arifes I defign to Mr Mafons young children in Eng- land. I allow them now 20 ^ a yeare till his better fortunes will afford them a larger fupply. I fhall not be wanting to do him & his all the fervice that lyes in my power. At my taking leave of y® E. of Clarendon I reminded his LordF of Mr Mafon to be appointed to y® Gom‘ of Bermodos which was well approved of by his Lordf! & I hope will be for his benefitt: bad weather comes upon us & I feare a greater then the laft ftorm here, in which fome fhips putt to fea & are not yet heard of : I have not tyme to fay how much I am obliged to you I hope to live to expreffe & make my acknowledgm* upon all occafions & continue to be in all duty your moft obliged Serv* Ed Randolph My humble fervice to Mr Sowthwell. [ Wit^ JuperJcriptio 7 i\ To the Hon^ S" Robert Sowthwell at the Plantation Office Whitehall. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colledlion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps., Bart. Deal No^' 23 1685 Tho I have been for fome tyme out of town yet by the late newes efpecially which comes to my hands I beleive you 70 Rdward Randolph. you have been fufficiently harraffed in your publick manage : I am heartily forry to heare you are putt to a full flop. Pray God fend a calme & a happy meeting that all things may tend to his glory & to y® Hon*" of the King & benefitt & fatisfadlion of all good men. IVP Seciy Pepys my worthy freind has advifed Capt George Command" to gett all ready to attend his Ma‘‘® further Commands for the Rofe So that in 3 or 4 dayes the wind prefenting I hope wee may fett forward for our dangerous voyage : Pray God fend all to do well at home & I queftion not but to give a good tho late account of our manage in N. Eng^! I have been ill treated with an ague & y® Gravel! but at this inftant I thank God am well fatisfied that wee fhall leave this dirty town : Sr you have upon all occafions laid fuch obligations upon me that at my arrivall in N. Eng^! I will fend you from thence fuch varie- tyes as that Country dos afford. I am likewife by Mr Gwin (to whom my humble fervice) commanded to prefent y® Dutches of Beaufort with fome feads & plants from thence. We want a fkilfull Herbalifl: to difcover them to us: I give Mr Sowthwell my humble fervice & wifhes all happines to him & y® young ladyes and am S" your mofl obliged ferv^ Ed. Randolph. Sr R. Sowthwell [ With JuperJcription\ To Robert Sowthwell at y Plantation Office humbly prefent. Edward Documents and Letters. 71 Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Collection of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps., Bart. Deal: 27*? 1685. Hon" S’^ I had fooner anfweared y’’® of y® 24*^ inftant but I was obliged to be aboard y® Rofe to prepare for our fayling expedting orders of y® date of yours : you cannot queftion but I was well appointed to go to N. Engd with fuch Com- miffions & diredtions as his Ma^'® was pleafed to fend by me. and to abide fuch an event as the humors of the people at that diftance under different apprehenfions would hurry them to : But fince you have been pleafed to give me a hint of a happy underftanding which may be the produce of this prorogation : I go over with abundance of fatisfadlion and queftion not but that may be of great force to oblige thefe people to a dutyfull complyance with his Ma^'® commands. I heartily thanke you for recommending me to Mr Ffrowde to the management of y® Poft Office I received a deputa- tion (by his recommending me to y® Lord Treafurer) from his Lordft to be poft mafter of New Eng" with an affurance of an advantage to be made me when that Office is fetled. I ftiall not trouble you with any plants or produce from New Eng" but fuch as will grow in Kings Wefton and of thofe I fhall fend all the variety that country affords : but my going fo late will prevent my getting any till next yeare I would glad be furnifhed with fome diredlions about Mr Mafon being very unwilling to think he fhould be obliged to come for England to be expofed to his mercileffe creditors. Twould be very gratefull to N. Eng" if his Matie fliould fend 72 Rdward Randolph. fend over Sr Mathias Vincent or fome Gen* of good eftate : twill make the Gom* very eafye to thofe people who have been greatly oppreffed. & now will be ruined by thefe late new impofls upon Plantation Comodityes. I heartily wifh you a fafe journey home & to bee free from Y late indifpofition. My humble fervice to M" Sowthwell & to all y® young ladyes : making my fincere & mofl: gratefull acknowledgment for your never to be forgotten favors I humbly take leave & am S’’ your moft humble & moft obliged ferv* Ed. Randolph. [ With fuperJcription\ To the hon'* S" Robert Sowthwell at y® Plantation Office neer Whitehall Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colledlion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps.^ Bart. DealJanV ii. 1685. S’- Were I worthy to have forefeen fo long a flay in this Dirty & chargeable town I would have ftayd in town to receive your commands & made myfelfe happy in feeing you once more, but I meet with a fufficient remorfe & how long yet I may be detaind I cannot tell in regard our fhip broak 2 Cables in the Great Storm lafl Thirfday night & wee are to flay here or call at Portfmouth for a fupply : feverall fhips were loft upon y® Goodwin & one great Dutch Eaft India man outward bound with 3 anchors a head drewe thro’ the Downes Documents and Letters. 73 Downes northward thro the whole fleet & is not yet heard of. here were above 300 fayle wind bound & now moft of them are gon to fea. I have the newes of another proroga- tion : I could have been glad wee had fayld before that report came out, our delay I feare will be very prejudicial! : to the buflnes I am engaged in : I carry over with me a very fober Gent for our minifter who will by his modeft & pru- dent converfe gaine upon the people. Our Commander has orders to continue upon our Coafl; for a twelve month ex- cept the prefldent fe fitt to fend him home with prifoners. That Article may keep the heady in awe : my moft humble fervice to you & to Mf Sowthwell & to y® young Ladyes intreating the continuance of your favour is all at prefent from S’" your moft humble & moft obedient ferv^ Ed. Randolph. To Rob"^ Sowthwell [ With fuperJcription\ To the Hon** S" Robert Sowthwell at Kings Wefton neer Briftoll Walter Clarke to Edward Randolph, Esq. Majfachufetts Archives, Vo\. CCXLII. p. 335. Eftemed and courtious Underftanding by the blefling of God of thy landing at Bofton the 13^^ inftant, hold myfelfe obliged to congratulate thy fafe arrival once more into thefe American parts, and to affure thee that I ftand conftituted in my prefent capacity, fhall be glad to ferve thee in any office of love to my power, VOL. IV. — 10 which 74 Edward Randolph. which I prefume in the minds of all my well beloved friends ; and hope our pradlice will demonflrate the fame if time and oportunity offer ; having a true regard to all fuch whome his Majefly, in his princely wifdom, thinks meett to Imploye in his weighty conferns, is all at prefent, & with dew Re- fpedls to all fd Emediately conferned. Remaine thy Afured ffriend Walter Clarke Newport one Rhoad Ifland, this 15 day 3 mo. 1686 \Endorfed~\ ffor his eftemed Ed Randolfe Efquire in Bofton thefe. Dudley & Randolph to the Com’^P State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (65). Bofton N.E. May 16. 1686. Right Hon^^.^® May it Pleafe yor Lordf? After a tedious Voyage the Rofe frigatt Capt. George Command’’ arrived here the fourteenth Inflant with M" Ran- dolph, from whome wee received his gracious Com- miffion of Goverml together with an Exemplification of the judgem! againft the late Governf and Comp^. of the Maffathu- fetts bay in New England, and Accordingly wee are now Affembled this day, to fend Summons to the Gentlm therein Nominated (fome whereof are farre diflant) to attend at a fhort day, and humbly Aflure yol; Lordfh^ that Wee Accept this his unfpeakable favour with all duty and Obedi- ence, And fhall fend yol Lofflf an Acco! of our management by M" Mafon one of the Councill who comes to England by the Documents and Letters. 75 the next fliip, and will Attend yoT Lordlh with a full Acco* of our proceedings. Joseph Dudley Ed: Randolph Secry. \_Endorfed'\ New england May i6‘.^ 86. Mr Dudley & Mf Randolph Edward Randolph to Fitz-John Winthrop. Majfachufetts Hijlorical Society Collections^ Sixth Series., Vol. III. p. 474. Bofton, May 17^^ 1686 St, — I am commanded by MT Dudley, our Prefident, to acquaint you that his Maj'‘® hath been pleafed to appoint you to be one of the Councill now eftabliflied by his Commif- fion under the Great Seal, which wee have received, and are defirous of your company, & have no other argument to proffer your fpeed than to acquaint you his affaires here want your prefence ; which will be acceptable to the gentlemen already mett & to him who is. S’’, your humble ferv\ E: Randolph To Major Jo : Winthrop Courts reply to His Majesty’s Commissioners. Majfachufetts Records., Vol. V. p. 515. 20 May 1686, Gent” : — Wee have perufed what yow left w‘^us as a true coppy of his maj^*®^ commiffion, fhewed to us the 17*^ inftant, impowr- ing 76 Edward Randolph. ing yow for the governing of his maj^es fubjefts inhabiting this colony, and other places therein mentioned. Yow then applyed yourfelves to us, not as a Gouno’’ & Company, (but as yow were pleafed to terme us) fome of the principall gentlemen and cheife of the inhabitants of the feverall tounes of the Maffachufetts, amongft other difcourfe faying it concerned us to conhder what there might be thought hard & uneafy. I. Upon perufall whereof wee finde, as wee conceive, firff, that there is no certeine determinate rule for your adminiftration of juflice, & that which is feemes to be too arbitrary. 2^^. That the fubjedls are abridged of their liberty as Englifhmen, both in the matter of legiflation and in the laying of taxes, and indeed the whole unquefHoned priviledge of the fubjedl transferred upon yourfelves, there being not the leaft mention of an affembly in the comiffion. And therefore wee thinke it highly concernes yow to con- fider whither fuch a comiffion is fafe, either for yow or us ; but if yow are fo fattisfied therein as that you hold yourfelves obleidged thereby, and do take upon you the government of this people, although wee cannot give our affent thereto, yet hope fhall demeane ourfelves as true & loyall fubjedls to his maj^y* and humbly make our addreffes unto God, & in due time, to our gracious prince, for our releife. Paft by the whole Court, nemine contradicente. By order Edw"" Rawson, Secret. 2o‘^ May, 1686 \Juperfcribed'\ Documents and Letters. 77 \Juperfcribedd\ Thefe for Jofeph Dudley Efq. & the reft of the gent*' named in his Comiffion.® \AddreJfed\ Thefe for Jofeph Dudley Efq"® & the reft of the Gent"" named in his Maj‘‘®® Comffion & was fent unto them by Samuel Seawall Efq"® & Mr. John Saffin y® fame time. Court’s order for a repository of papers. [20 May 1686.] Majfachujetts Records^ Vol. V. p, 516. Ordered by this Court, that Samuel Nowell, Efq, M”* Jn° Saffin, & Capt Timothy. Prout be a comittee for a repofitory of fuch papers on file with the fecretary as referr to our charter, & negotiations, from time to time, for the fecurity thereof, with fuch as referr to our title of our land, by pur- chafe of Indeans or otherwife ; and the fecretary is ordered accordingly to deliver the fame unto them. [21] This day the whole Court mett at the Gounod's houfe, & there the Court was adjourned to the fecond Wednefday in Odober next, at eight of the clocke in y® morning. Edward ® M ajfachtifetts Archives., Vol. took on himfelf the Gov'^, as Prefident CXXVI. p. I. “General Courts an- thereof.’’ [In the handwriting of Ed- fwer adverfe to J. Dudley when he ward Rawfon] 78 Edward Randolph. Edward Randolph to Governor Treat and Council. [of Connecticut.] Colonial Records of ConneRicut., Vol. III. p. 352. Gentl“ BoRon May y® 27*^, 1686. I am heartily glad for your fakes that I am, through the blefling of God, fafe arrived in Bofton, where on the 25^^ in- ftant Jofeph Dudley Erq*" and the perfons named in his Maj- efties Commiffion of Governm* (fome few indifpofed excepted) entered upon y^ Governem^ w^^ y® generall Confent and ap- plaufe of the people. My time forbids me to be to particu- lar w^*" you in that matter: I am now to addrefs to the concernes of yo** Colonie ; againft w^^*" I have w^^ me two Quo Warrantoes as alfo againft Road Ifland : his Ma^'® in- tends to bring all New England under one Governem^ and nothing is now remaineing on yo*" part but to think of an humble fubmiffion and a dutifull relignation of your Char- ter, w®^ if you are fo hardie fo \_Jic\ offer to defend at law, whilfte you are contending for a fhaddow you will in the firfte place loofe all that part of your Colonie from Con- nefticot to N. Yorke and have it annexed to that gouerm\ a thing you are to certainly enformed of already : &: nothing will prevent, but yo*" obuiating fo generall a callamitie to all New England by an heartie and timely application to his Ma‘'® with an humble fubmiffion, w^^ an annexed petition : to grant libertie of confcience, a confirmatio & continuation to you of all y® lands now under your Gouernement and fuch other fauo"® as yo’’ wants can beft didfate unto you : A Court by y^ Gouerm^ is ordered fhortly to be kept in y® Narraganfit to affert the Authority graunted by His Ma‘'®® Comifiion & to Documents and Letters. 79 to prevent y® Road Iflanders further incurfions : I expeft not that you trouble me to enter your Colonie as a herauld to denounce warre ; my friendfhip for you enclines mee to perfwade an accomoda", and to that end defire you to fend me word whether you will fauor yo’^felues fo farr as to come to me in Bofton, where you will be witnelTes of our peace & beleife of His Majefties Gouernm* not fuch a fcare crow as to afright men out of their eftates & liberties rather than to fubmit & be happie : Wee expedl fome fhips will be in a moneth at farthefl readie to faile fro hence for England: and therefore whatever is intended muft be compleated on your part before that time : now if befids your felues and Some members of yoT Counfell in and about Hart- ford yo’’ Governo" & Deputie Gouerno’’ & Major Gold and fome of yo’’ Southerne Gentle° will vouchafe to come as far as M*" Smith’s in Narroganfet, fend me & expreffe a time appoint^ I queflion not but you will have Opportu- nity to conferre w^^ fome of y® principle Gentlem" of this Gouernmb S’"® blefs not yourfelues w^^ vaine expedlation of advantage & fpinninge out of time by my delay : I will en- gage tho’ the weather be warme the writs will keep found and as good as when firft landed : my great care for your aduantage fwells my paper beyond y® fize of a letter ; fliould I wright but what were neceffary twoulde tyre you & my felfe to : I defire you to reach me out any opportunity of ferving you : and to appoint you a fpeedie day : that I may communicate what is not fit now to wright : and I affure you that I am always at leifure to furve you becaus I am refolued to continue GentB Your humble Seruant, Ed. Randolph. I 8o Rdward Randolph. I greatly wrong Mr Blathwaite if I forget to acquaint you y^ he is much your friend in y® matter. ‘‘Copie of Mr. Ed. Randolph’s letter. Rec^ 9 May 87 from Coll. Dongan.” CusTOME House Fees allowed by the President and C ouNCiLL TO Edward Randolph Esq. Collector &c. Majfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVI. p. 5, 28 May 1686 Entryes inwards from Forreigne Plantations £ • • • 2.6. “ outwards to faid Places £ • • • 2.6. Cocquetts or Permits for enumerated Commodityes £ . , . 2.6. Certificates to take up Bonds £ • • • 3-o* Coafting veffells that Freight to other Colonyes 'j or Provinces to make a Generali Entry of > 2.6 their Loading, for Cocquet and Clearing. J By order of Prefident and Councill Account of proceedings of the New Government. Slale Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (337). From the Prefident & Council of Boflon to the Committee. May it pleafe Your LordR^ In obedience to Your LordF® commands Signifyed to us by Your LordP.^ letters of the 30^*" of Odtober lafl Wee humbly lay before Your LordF® that purfuant to his Maj^'^® Commiffion for the Government of this his Maj^l®® Territory and Dominion to us diredled Wee Documents and Letters. 8i Wee met at Bofton on the 25‘^ of May and Jofeph Dud- ley Erq*” Prelid! haveing lirft taken the Oathes in his Commillion required did adminilter the Same Oathes unto fourteen of the Members of the Councill then prefent and entered upon the Exercife of the Governm! Our fird: and cheifeft Care was to preferve his Majb^® peace, by publifliing a proclamation, impowring all Conltables to continue in their places, till others be appointed to Succeed them : And wee alfo Commiffionated fitting pfons to be Juftices for keeping the peace in Countyes and principall townes be- longing to this Government. Our next care was to intruft the Militia in the hands of perfons well affedled to his Maj^i® the cheifeft whereof being Members of the Councill. The Caflle of Bofton a place of great importance to this Country is now put under the Care and Command of Cap! Wait Winthrop, a perfon of known loyalty. Wee have now under Conlideration the Support of the Governm!, which we find loaden with debts, and no money to be found ; and are Examining the account of the Treaf- ury to the late Government. Wee are alfo preparing ftrid methods, for the purfuance of the Adts of trade and navigation, in every Port of this Governm! And with all cheerfullnefs fiiall apply our Selves to the Severall Branches of Inftrudtions, containd in Your LordfhP® Letters. Wee may not omit, humbly to reprefent to Your LordP.^ that there being no direftion for a fupply of Members into the Councill, Except only in the Cafe of Death, Whereas by Y Removall, conftant Sickness, or other avoidance of any of VOL. IV. — II the 82 Edward Randolph. the Members, his Councill may Sometimes faile of a Quorum or more full appearance needfull for his Maj“®® Service It is therefore humbly offerr’d that in Such cafes wherein there appears an impoflibility, or refufall of Service, his Maj^l® would gracioufly graunt, that a fupply of members may be appointed as in Cafe of Death. Your Lordfhips Letters and recommendacon of Mr Rob- ert Ratcliff to the performance of his fundtion here have been Communicated to us, and the Gentlemen and other Inhabitants in Bofton who do attend the worfhip of God with him, fhall want no Incouragement from us, nor will Mr Ratcliffe faile of a good fupport and maintainance by their means. Mr Mafon one of the Members of his Maj‘l®® Councill here, is going home, to attend upon his Maj^i® in the affair of the Province of New Hampfhire, and therefore we have recom- mended to him the p’'fenting of our humble addrefs unto his Maj*!® and thefe papers to your Lordto® and by whofe hand we may further have his Maj^l®* and Your LordfhP.® Com- mands tranfmitted to us. Right Hon^'® your LordP.^® mofl; humble and moft obedient Seru^® Bofton : June y® i : 1686. John Pynchon Pet: Bulkeley R? Wharton Jonathan Tyng. Jofeph Dudley p’'fi? William Stoughton Robert Mafon J : Winthrop EdRandolph Secfy Jn? Ufher Edward Tyng. \_Endorfed~\ Documents and Letters. 83 \_Endor/ed'\ Bofton. i June 1686. From the Prefident & Councill to the Comittee. Rec? & Read 23 July 1686. p Mf Mafon. Prefented at Windfer 26 July 1686. 26 July 1686. Address from PresidT & Councill of N. England. [In accordance with the resolve of June i^"^] State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (335). To the Kings mofl; Excellent The Humble Addrefs of the Prefident and Councill of Your Maj^‘f^ Territory and Dominion of New England in America. May it Pleafe Your Maj— Wee account it an unfpeakable Satisfadlion That this our firft Addrefs may take its beginning in the Sincere Reprefentation of the true & unfeigned joy that we take and the humble thanks wee will alwayes render unto Al- mighty God, who hath Preferved Your Sacred Perfon and Governm! from the horrid Rebellion raifed within Your Kingdomes, and fo fpeedily and wonderfully given a perfedt defeate and iffue thereto that the Rebells were utterly diffipated and the heads of them brought to deferved pun- ifliment, before the news of their execrable attempt could be brought thus farr. And whereas it hath pleafed Your mofl: Sacred Maj“® in Your Princely care and wifdome fo gracioufly to provide for y® Peace and future Settlement of this Your Maj^?® Ter- ritory and Dominion as to graunt us Your Royall Com- miffion for Government now received, and therein more efpetially. 84 Edward Randolph. efpetially, to favour us with fo large and needfull an Indul- gence in matters of Religion which unto this people hath ever been and hill is of mofl dear and tender regard Wee fhould be altogeather wanting to our Selves and all Your Maj^’f good Subjects inhabiting within the Severall Pro- vinces now united, if wee fhould not proftrate our Selves at Your Maj^‘f^ feet in all humble thankfuilnefs to Your Maj^l® for this fo early regard and Care for us here. Your Commands therein tho’ but a Very few dayes received, have been with all cheerfullnefs and Duty Perfued and Executed both by the Members of Your Councill, and by a generall appearance and acclamacon of Your Maj“f duty- full and Loyall Subjedts Summon’d togeather for that end. Your Maj‘'f Councill being Affembled in obedience to Your Royall Commiffion Do humbly Pray that wee may yet receive from Your Maj‘i® Such further Commands as maybe neceffary for Your Royall Service, and the more intire dependance of Your Maj*?^ Territory and Dominion upon Your Sacred Perfon, and the Crown of England for future times for ever. And According to the diredlions and Comands given us, wee are humbly preparing to lay before Your MajH® our opinion of what further methods and Rules may be judged neceffary for the good Governm!, happy increafe, and growth of Your Plantations here And that the happy Repofe and Quiet of all Your Domin- ions may long and Ever be continued to Your Maj‘l® and the Crown of England to the worlds end, and that the influence thereof may never be wanting to your Dominions in thefe Parts is the Prayer of Your Maj^'P mofl Dutifull and Loyall Subjedls Documents and Letters. 85 Subjefls The Prefich & Councill of Yo’’ Territory and Dominion of New England Joseph Dudley pTid^ Robert Mafon Wait Winthrop John Pynchon Wharton Peter Bulkeley EdRandolph Secry. Jn° Uflier John Hinks Edward Tyng Barthl Gedney. \_Endorfed~\ N : England. 1686. Addrefs of the Prelident & Councill to the King. Prefented at Windfor p Mr Mafon : 26 July. 1686. From y® PresidT @ Council of New Engl"^ to y® COMITTEE. State Papers., Colonial., Bundle 55 (339). Bofton in New Engr' June y® I9‘^ 1686. Right Hon’"!® Wee hope our firft letters to y*" LordE^ are before now humbly prefented to your LordE^ by Mr Mafon One of the Members of his Ma*P Councill here, by whom y® difficultyes arifmg in his Ma^®^ Service will fo farr be reprefented, and perticulerly Wee cannot avoid to lay before your LordDP^ the inconvenience hapning by y® indifpofitions & refufall of Severall perfons nominated in his Ma^'.®^ mofl Gracious Commiffion : & the great diftance of others from his Ma^’.®^ town of Bofton the vfuall place of meeting. William Stoughton J : Winthrop. Jonathan Tyng ffor 86 Rdward Randolph. ffor avoiding therefore any obftrudlion in profecuting his Ma*'f® feuerall commands in that Commiffion to vs diredled Its humbly propofed as very necelTary for his Ser- uice, and wee do accordingly nominate eight perfons, whofe names are herevnto annexed to Supply thofe vacancyes, Sub- mitting in all duty & obedience their choice & appointment to his Ma*'®, and waite his Ma‘\®* Gracious anfweare So Soon as it Shall pleafe your Lordf^" to report the Same vnto his Ma^i® all which is mofl humbly Submitted to your LordfH® by: Right HonH'® M' Bradftreet ) do not Your Lordf- molt humble T\/r • c 14- -a n I 4. e & obedient Major Saltenltall Vaccept y® _ . t ^ i n r*. Dudley Bradftreet I Commiffion. ^ ^ ’ William Stoughton J : Winthrop Ed Randolph Secry Mr Champernoon weak & vnable 1 to aft in that Commiflion j Names of perfons to Supply their | vacancyes Samuell Shrimpton : James Ruflell Symon Linds Nicholas paige Wilf Brown ju. Sam. Sewall tho : Graues Ric^? Smith. Wait Winthrop R*^ Wharton Jn° Uftier Edward Tyng. \^AddreJJed'\ \_EndorJed~\ To the Right the Lords Commiffio” of forreign Trade and Plantations humbly pTent. Bofton : 19 June 86. From the Prefident & Councill to y® Comittee. Reef 6 Aug. 86. Edward Documents and Letters. 87 Edward Randolph to Governor Hinckley of Plymouth RELATIVE TO TaXES FOR THE SUPPORT OF MINISTERS. Rhode IJland Colonial Records ^ Vol. III. p. 199. Rhode Wand, June 22d. 1686. Sir: I am come hither in my way to Narraganfett, and am here entertained with an unpleafing ftory, (if true), that is, about three weeks fince fome perfons of this place were at Scituate, where a Conflable came and demanded three pounds of Edward Wanlaye, for to pay the Minifler, and have treated others in the fame manner. Truly, I am very forry, fince his Majefly has been gracioufly pleafed to grant liberty of Confcience in our government, that it fhould be retrained in your Colony, without any particular direftions from Whitehall. Sir, let us bring the matter to the fquare, and perhaps it will be as reafonable to move that your Colony fhould be rated to pay our Minifter of the Church of England who now preaches in Bofton, and you hear him not, as to make the Quakers pay in your Colony, when what is a rule for us, is a very good diredtion to others; and may be applied fecurely if not pradlifed to the [reft] of his Majefty’s fub- jedls, who are all entitled to that bleffmg and favor ; which I leave to your very ferious conftderation, and am your affured friend, Ed. Randolph To Francis Hinckley, Efq*" Governor of New Plymouth Collony. Mr. 88 Edward Raiidolph. Mr. Randolph to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1686. Colledlion of Papers^ by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 291. [July 7th according to Mr. Palfrey.] May it pleafe your Grace, I have forborne riteing to your grace till I had been fome time upon the place, to fee how the poore people here would demean themfelves under this new government. At my firft arrivall I met with outward expreffions of joy and fatisfaftion, and many feemed well pleafed at the change, having been flruck with a panick feare upon the apri- hention of Colonel Kurcks [Kirke] coming hither to be theire governor; but finding a commiffion directed to a gentleman borne among themfelves, the then governor and companie, growing hardie by theire minifters, be- gan to perfwade Mr. Dudlie not to except of his Majef- ties Commiffion to be prefident, hoping thereby to continue the government among themfelves : But that faileing them, they adjourned the meeting of their generall affembly to the fecond of Odtober next, and fo broke up with hopes that either fome unhappie accident in affairs of flate at home, or by diffenfion raifed by their artifices among the members in this new government, they might prevaile fo far as to diflblve this new confiitution and then reaffume the government, which to accomplifli they are foliffitoufe. I take leave humbly to remind, that when your grace was prefent at a committee of the Lords and was therein pleafed to move, that one of theire meeting houfes in Bofton fliould be ordered to be fet apart for the exercife of the religion according Documents and Letters. 89 according to the church of England, it was then anfwered by fome of thofe noble Lords who difcourfed in theire favour, provided they might have libertie of confcience in matters of religion, they would voluntarilie fubmit to have one of theire three meeting houfes to be difpofed of by the prefident and councell, for that ufe. Since my arrivall with Mr. Rat- cliffe, a fober man, recommended by my Lord of London to be our minifler; who befides his Lordfliips faire teftimonials, brought with him a letter from the right honourable the Lords of the committee for trade and foraine plantations to the prefident and councell for their countenance and incour- idgement in the difcharge of his office ; yet twas a long time before they tooke the leaft notice of him or his bufinefs ; at lafi, though ftrongly oppofed, I got a little roome in the towne houfe, for fuch as were for the church of England to affemble in, but found it fo ftraite that we are forced now to make ufe of the exchange for that purpofe ; where to humor the people our minifler preaches twice a day and baptifes all that come to him, fome infants, fome adult perfons; we are now come to have praiers every Wednefday and Friday mornings on their exchange, and refolve not to be baffied by the great affronts ; fome calling our minifler Baals priefl, and fome of their meniflers, from the pulpit, calling our praiers leeks, garlick and trafh. We have often moved for an honourable maintenance for oure menifler; but they tell us thofe that hire him mufl mainetaine him, as they main- taine their own meniflers, by contribution. Of a prefident and eighteen members of the councell, there is onely my- felfe, fince Mr. Mafon’s departure for England, that is of the church of England, and twas never intended that that VOL. IV. — 12 charge 90 Kdward Randolph. charge fliould be fupported by myfelfe and fome few others of oure communion. I humbly reprefent to your grace, that the three meeting houfes in Bofton might pay twentey fliillings a weeke, a piece, out of their contribution, towards the defraieing our church charges ; that fume being lefs per annum than each of their miniflers receive. We have yet neceffitie for an- other minifler to come over to us ; for if any illnefs or indif- pofition happen to the prefent incumbent, we have no man heere to performe the office. I am not to forgit to your grace the banke of monie in the hands of the corporation for evangelizing the Indians. Your grace was very defireous that the monie might be inquired after, and applied to build us a church and a free fchooll, that our youth might be no longer poyfoned with the feditious principles of this coun- try : I am told that there is not less than two thoufand pounds here, but adventure not to ftir the leaft in it, having all redie brought upon my felfe fo many enemife, and to all my crimes added this one as the greatefl in bringing the letherdge [liturgy] and ceremonife of the church of Eng- land to be obferved amongfl us, and this day is a com- mencement at our collidge, which your grace was pleafed to honoure with a prefent of the learned Hamonds works, that rich man : They are all at prefent more taken up in puting in one Morton of Neventongreen, a rank independent, to be theire precident, than to fhew any refpedl which is due to youre graceous prefent, and I cannot expefl it fhould be otherwife till his Majefty ffiall be pleafed to fend us a gene- rall governor from England. Thus much relating to thefe affaires of oure church, that of Documents and Letters. 91 of our ftate little differs ; moft part of our chiefe officers, as juftices of the peace &c. are congregationall men, and not above three church of England men ; and not above three church of England officers in the militia ; fo that in the maine I can only affure your grace that the perfons onely and not the government is changed. Now from all this, after fo many hazards and difficulties which I have gon throw in the profecution of his Majeflies fervice in New England, I am, by their malicioufe pradfices, made very uneafie ; and fuch perfons who reape particular advantages by the change of government hate me for accom- plifhing it, and are makeing parties and fadtions to mifrepre- fent me to his Majeftie. Amongfi: thofe many noble Lords of his Majeflies mofl honourable previe Councell, who have all along countenanced and furthered my hartie defigns to ferve his Majeftie, Sir, there eminently appeared for me. I humblie pray, upon all occafions, the continuance of your graceoufe favour, by which I fhall be better inabled to attend his Majeflies affairs heer committed to my care, and I fhall remain in all dutie your graces. Edward Randolph to Sir Robert Southwell. Colle^ion of the late Sir Thomas Phillipfs., Bart. S' Bofton July lo^!' 86 I heartily thanke you for y® extraordinary favour of yours by Capt Jones of Briftoll of the 3 of Aprill laft & for your good whiles to me & mine. Capt. Jones ftiall have all the favour & kindnes this country & the lawes of England will allow. S'" I find you had newes of the feverity wee under- went 92 Kdward Randolph. went in a very dangerous & more tedious voyage & who would otherwife expedt, but coming with fuch an olive branch in my mouth, but I Ihould meet with from all par- tyes & places a gratefull reception. I confeffe at my firfl; landing all people told me they were glad to fee me: & I knowing then no reafon to the contrary beleived them : but when the Gom^ was in the hands of the Pref & Councill: I found twas dill but y® Gov*' & Company : with this alteration onely : they goodmen were moft of them old & infirm & had lands enough : But our Prefid^ in the firfl place turnes out an underftanding man Clerk of the County Court in Boflon worth above loo^ a yeare to make way for his fon a tripling of i6 yeares old and to make it worth his while has added 3 fourth parts of the perquilites of my office of Secry & Regifler & to humble me has countenanced Capt George Command'* of the frigott & lett him into all the profitts of my office of Surveyor & allowes him to make feizure or to profecute as an informer during his ffiipp lying at an anchor within 2 cables length of Bofton. I agree if he were in his ftation crufing off at fea he fliould have all the refpedl due to a Cap‘ of a kings fliip & all the encouragem^ that he could expedt: But to lye in harbour & hedtor fo that our Councill are afraid to fpeak to him or refufe what he propofes is of very ill confequence & all turnes to my unhappy account: Not long fince I fent one of my deputyes of the Cuftoms in the Cap^® boat to fee what ffiip was plying off out of Command : I did but defire to fpeak to my deputy at his return to give me an account of the veffell. & called him to me but the coxon of ye man of warr rudely denied it in the open flreet upon which I called him fawcy fellow & that defervd Domments and Letters. 93 defervd to be laid by y® heels. The Capt. came in a great fury to my houfe & abufed me beyond expreffion with a de- fign to engage him to drawe upon me This is encouraged by the fadlion who care not if wee were both hangd & makes me very uneafye. They have not fpared my wife but Mr Unton Dering a reformade aboard our fliip who knew that my wife thro her husbands improvidence was brought from a very good eftate to undertake to nurfe one of my Lady Nott- inghams children where she lived with reputation & gaind loo^^ towards fatisfiing her hufbands debts: but they report here that fhe was never married but was a Mifs : & you need not queflion but upon Cap^ Georges countenancing fuch re- ports it gaines creditt but is a great trouble to my wife. All this makes me think the tyme long till S’" Edmund comes over to us : for our Prefid^ is fo much a Gent that he gives the preference to Cap‘ George but makes the Goverm^ very cheap. The frigott lyes ftill & I have lofl above 500^^ by not hav- ing liberty to profecute according to my office. I am heartily glad to heare y® young ladyes are all well & that South- well is entring the happy date of a univerfity life for a little tyme. My contract for mads goes on very well & I quef- tion not but to give his Mat good fatisfadtion in that under- taking. I expedt to be alTalled at Court with all the Calumnies envy & ingratitude can mufter up I defire onely to be heard upon the^ place by his Ma^'® Gov’" who will treat me impartially: thefe have no other quarrell but my indefa- tigable defires to ferve his Mat’® which I ffiall alwayes do & remain S" your moft obliged & moft humble ferv* To Sr RoD Southwell Ed. Randolph. Letter 94 Edward Randolph. Letter from New England concerning Acts of Trade, Mf Ratcliffe; &c. State Papers ., Colonial Entry Book , 109, p. i. At the Committee for Trade and Plantations In the Council-Chamber at White Hall Friday the 23? of July 1686. Prefent : Lord Chancelor, Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Craven, Earl of Middleton. A Letter from the Prefident and Council of New England to the Committee, dated the firfl of June lafl, is read, giving their Lo^.® an account That, purfuant to His Commiffion, they had met at Bofton the of May lafl, and hav- ing taken the Oaths required thereby, they had appointed Juflices and other Officers for keeping the Peace in the Countys and Principal Towns within their Government and had fetled the Militia; That they had vnder confideration the fupport of the Government, and were preparing flri6l methods for purfuing the A6ls of Trade and Navigation; The Minister That purfuant to their Lo^." letter of Recommen- their Lpf should dation of Mr Robert Ratliff for the performance good support. q£ j^jg Fundiion as Minifter, hee fhould want noe encouragement nor fail of a good fupport and maintenance there. That they had recommended to Mr Mafon one of the Council, the Prefenting their Address to New England. A Letter from ye President and Council of the first of June. Gives an Account of the Settlement of the Government. Their Address to be presented by Mr Mason. His Ma^^ Mr Mason to attend at Windsor. Whereupon Mr Mafon attending is called in and ordered to Attend His Ma}l at Windfor next Sunday Documents and Letters. 95 Sunday with the Addrefs of the Prefident and Council of New England. And their Lop.® think fit that notice bee taken thereof in the Gazet; which was done accordingly. Memf On Sunday the 25^*' of July 1686 My Mafon ac- cordingly prefented the Addrefs of the Prefident and Council of New England to His Ma^^ ; expreffing their Joy for the Prefervation of His Ma^^ from the late Rebellion ; and ac- knowledging His Ma^^® Favor in y® providing for y® peace @ Settlem^ of that His Territory @ Dominion, And in the Indulgence granted them in matters of Religion. Order the Colledge in Cambridge in New England. State Papers.^ Colonial., Bundle 55 (358). At a Meeteing of the Hon^'® Prefl‘ & Councill At Cambridge July 23^’^ Ann® Dom* 1686. Prefent: Jofeph Dudley, Erq*", Prefidl; WilR Stoughton, Erq*", D: prefidl; John Pincheon, Peter Bulkely, Waite Win- throp, Barth? Gidney, John Vfher, Efq^’s. It was Vnanimoufly agreed Vpon & declared — I : That the Reverend My Increafe Mather be defired to Except of the Reflorfhip of the Collidge, & make his Vfuall Vifitati. 2: That My John Leverett & My W?" Brattle be the tutors and Enter Vpon y® Gouernment of the Collidge & mannage y® publique readeing in the hall. 3 : That Charles Towne fferry & My Penoyers Legacy, i : e : 96 Rdward Randolph. i : e: One Moyety of it as it falleth be Settled Vpon y® faid tutors as theire Sallery. 4 : That theire Pewpills Each of them pay to their refpec- tiue Tutors tenn Shiits p Quarter for theire tuition. 5 : That Andrew Boademan the prefent Cooke of the Col- lidge doe henceforth manage the office of Steward in the maner as of late. Odtof 1686. Ordered that Sr Gibbes, Rogers: Mitchell, & Dudley, Shall be Schoolars of the houfe for y® Yeare Infueing, & that they be allowed at y® leaft fiue pounds a peece. Compared with the Originall : — EdRandolph. \_Endorfed\ N. England. 23: July 86. Order about the Colledge in Cambridg in New Eng? Rec? 25 May 168 [8] from Mf Randolph. John Palmer to Edward Randolph. Majfachujetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVI. p. 36. Pemaquid July 24. 1686 Sr Since my departure from Bofton have difcovered that Capt. Phillip Severett Command^ of the Ship Johanna of Pifcattaway hath lately failed from Malliga to Penobfcott River within this part of his Collony of New Yorke & there unloading his cargoe being about 70 Pipes of Mal- laga Wines 2 Pipes of Oyle i of Brandy about 16 or 17 Barrells of ffruits which was left on a bank by the River fide covered part with a fayle and part with Bowes & two men Documents and Letters. 97 men left to looke after itt, & that y® empty fliip was gone for Pifcattaway & have fent y® floope with orders to feize the fame, which they did notwithflanding y® oppofition made by Caftine and have brought 41 Pipes thereof to this Place and am now fending againe for y® Reft a particular acct of all proceedings have wrott to y® Prefd! to which refer you & hope you will give all affiftance to feize & fecure y faid fhip that file may be proceeded ag‘ as deft red. I am Sr yo*" humble Serv* J. Palmer. Mr. Edward Randolph to Mr. Blaithwait. Colledlion of Papers by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 288. Bolton, July 28th, 1686. Sir, Inclofed is a letter fent fome time ftnce from the govern- ment of Road Ifland, they call it a furrender of their charter. I have fince the receipt of it called on them in my way to Hartford in Connedlicott, the governor tells me they will pafs a furrender in fuller tearmes under the feale of their colony, but are willing to have this fent. I was with the governor of Connedlicott and delivered to him the quo woranto. I fuppofe they intend not to ftand it out, our councill have fent Major Pincheon and Capt. Winthrop to Hartford to perfwade them to accommodate the matter, fo as they may be added to the government here ; how farr that will prevaile I know not; they are fenfible of Mr. Dud- leyes encroachment on all and every fide, and are unwilling VOL. IV. — 13 to 98 Rdward Randolph. to truft him, and are ftrongly invited to come under New Yorke, but it is more for the publick advantage to have that colony continued to us. Since my goeing to Hartford, the prefident has fo contrived the matter that Capt. George has received above two hundred pounds mony which legally belongs to me who, as collector and informer, ought to be admitted to profecute a fhip laden with Scotch goods, but its all as Capt. George pleafes, the prefident and he carry all as they pleafe, to the great difTatisfadlion of the members of the councill, that now inftead of meeting to do publick buf- inefs, tis only to quarrill and that in fuch heats that I feare it will occafion the defolving this government. I am forced to moderate others paffions (tho’ I have mofl caufe to com- plaine) and quietly to fuffer my proffitts to be fhared out amongft others till Sir Edmund Andros come over; he is longed for by all fober men who find themfelves abufed by the falfe prefident. Mr. Wharton is comeing over our agent, I have offered Mr. Mafon at leaft to be joined with him, but I think I cannot gett it to pafs. There will be I fear an eruption betwixt the French of Nova Scotia and our people in Mayne and New Hampfhire, occafioned by Capt. Palmer and Mr. Weft of New Yorke, who being at the fort of Pemmequid and haveing advice of a fhip of Pifcattaqua which landed wine at Ponopfcutt belong- ing, as they fay, to Nova Scotia, they by force went afhoar and took of the wine : I referr you to the inclofed, a copie of Mr. Palmers letter: The governor of New-Yorke I am told has given them diredlions to claim all the land as farr eaft- ward as the river St. Croix. We have fent to all places to warne our people and to the fifliermen, not venter upon their Documents and Letters. 99 their coafts, leafl they be furprifed, and made to anfwer for damages done by ftrangers. Juft now I have received a letter from my good friend Mr. Chaplin, who acquaints me of your happy recovery from a dangerous ftcknefs, for which I returne hearty thancks to allmighty God. Mr. Stoughton is inclined to the nonconformift minifters, yet ftands right to his Majeftyes intereft. Mr. Uftier is made a great criminall for informing againft Moody and Allin, who are ftirring up the people to rebellion, he is a juft honeft man, and will not fee his Majeftyes intereft fuffer. But we are over voted and cannot help ourfelves till Sir Edmund come to regulate the matter. Sir, I am under great difticultyes, and were it not for my ingagement in the bufmefs of the mafts, I would once more make a journey over, for I am treated by Mr. Dudley worfe than by Mr. Danforth, yet all under the pretence of friendfhip, and is angry that I do not believe him. Honeft Major Buckley is quite tyred out and can hardly be per- fwaded to come to Bofton. This is our prefent diftrafted condition. Wee have only patience and our friends aflift- ance to depend upon in England for redrefs. I remaine. Sir, &c. Sir, I am informed that the land whereon the wine was landed have been allwayes deemed to belong to the French and was the very place formerly belonging to Sir Thomas Temple, and was delivered up to the French upon the arti- cles of Breda by Capt. Wibourne, by his Majefty’s fpeciall command, in exchange for the Englifti plantation on St. Chriftophers and that done about the yeare 1667. Sir, Some of the members of the Councill are of opinion that lOO Edward Randolph. that fince the conflitution of this government is by a pref- ident and councill, who united are all but governor, that therefore they ought to have a proportionable fhare of the profitt as well as the charge and burthen, haveing not one penny comeing to them as members of the councill more then to any juftice of the peace; fome ftay here five or fix weeks together and negledl their own bufinefs, and have nothing to defrey their ordinary charges, befides lofs of time, which they have defired me to reprefent and pray your opinion thereupon, as alfo whether the prefident is virtute officij the ordinary to grant adminiftrations and to allow the probate of wills, he producing no authority from his Majef- ties lords of the councill, or from my Lord of London. Lre from Randolph, [to the Committee] State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (82). Bofton in New England July 28 : 1686. May it pleafe yT LordL® Purfuant to his Ma‘'f® Order in Councill of y® 15*^ of July 1685 direfting Mr Atturney Gen” to caufe writts of Quo Warranto to be brought ag‘ the Charters of y® Colonyes of Road Ifiand & Connefticutt in New Eng*l I haue accordingly Serued thofe writts tho’ by a tedious paffage of almofi: 6 months from London to this place, the tyme of their return was lapf’d : howeuer the Gouf of Connefticutt vpon my deliuering the writt to him at Hartford on y® 21 inftant has appointed a meeting of the Gen” Court of that Colony to be called together to Surrender their Charter to his Ma”.® if Documents and Letters. lOI if not perfwaded by the fadiious party here (who are vnwill- ing to depend vpon his favour) to Stand a tryall : onely to gain tyme & delay his Sending ouer a Gen’! Gour vpon my giuing the Goul" of Road Ifland the Summons of the writt, he affembled the ffreemen & they haue drawn a petition & Addrefle to bee forthwith humbly prefen ted to his Ma^i® I intended long before this tyme humbly to lay before your Lordfpp" a more early account of the prefent flate of this Gom! but haue forbore, to fee what effefts his Ma’’f" gracious Commiffion of a New Conflitution of Gom! containing liberty of Confcience would haue vpon Y people of this Colony : which at my firfl; arriuall was receiued with all out- ward fhew of Satisfadlion : and a Complement of Gratitude was returned his Ma’!^ for that favour; But tince the pro- ceedings of the prefident & Councill, what euer they write or pretend in their letters to your Lordl^P® are managed to Y Incouragement of the Independent fadfion ; & vtter dif- countenancing both the Minifler & thofe Gent & others, who dare openly profeffe themfelues to be of the Church of England, not hauing any allowance for Our Minifter more then wee Raife by contribution amongft our felues ; the form of this Gom! onely is Changed, for Our Independent Minifters flourifli and expedl to be advifed with in publick affaires : I need no other arguments to confirm the truth hereof to your Lordf^P Then to Say That but two of the Pref- ent Members of Y Councill viz : M*' Mafon & my felfe are of the Church of England; That of aboue 6o Officers in the Militia of this whole Gom! there are not aboue 2 captaines & 2 or 3 inferior officers but are either Church Members or Such 102 Rdward Randolph. Such as conflantly frequent thofe meetings : which makes Nonconformifls from all places refort heither : about 2 months ago One M*" Mourton an Excommunicated Minifter came heither from Newington Green : he was welcomed by our Prefident & defigned to be made head of Our Colledge : But not daring to proceed at firft by fuch larg ftepps ; he is called to be minifter at Charles town a very good lining, & is ready at hand to be the Prefident of the Colledge. Two brothers of the name of Bayleyes great & daring Non Conformifts minifters at lymbrick in Ireland haue been here thefe 2 yeares and well provided for: in the tyme of Munmouths Rebellion moft part of the Minifters animated the people Saying the tyme of their deliuerance was at hand & not one of them prayed for his Ma\^ & would not giue Creditt to his Ma^l® gracious letter Signffiing the Ouerthrow of the Rebells : I humbly propofe as greatly for y^ quiett & welfare of this plantation of N. Eng'S that no minifter from Em^land be admitted to land without the licence of the Gen" Gouy & That he haue power to licence or reftrain from preaching publickly fuch as are already vpon y® place ffrom all which it will appeare very needfull that his Ma^l® would be gracioufly pleafed to fend us ouer a Gen" Goul" to vnite & Settle this diftra6ted Country & alfo to make good what is newly begun in this Colony the delayes whereof may be of euill Confequence and giue way to the fadlious poeple here to realTume the Goverm! which they openly declare they haue not parted with all but expedl an opportunity to be reftored. And as to the difcharg of the truft repofed in me : I hum- bly reprefent to your LordE^ That vnder Colour of his Ma"f® Authority Documents and Letters. 103 Authority the prefident takes great liberty to impofe vpon me in my Station & would not affift me to make a Seizure of a veffell in the Harbour which my Officers were not permitted to board : I am by all accounted the Sole Enemy of the Country hauing been for 1 1 yeares attending his Ma^f^ Commands in this affaire & by feruing the writts vpon y® other Colonyes my life will be made very vneafy vnleffe his Ma^i® fhall be pleafed gracioufly to recommend me to the Care & protedlion of his Gen^! Gour for whofe fpeedy arrivall all Good men heartily pray. All which is humbly Submitted by your LordP?® moft humble Ser‘ EdRandolph To the Right Hon^l® the Lords of the Committee for trade & foraign Plantations. \_Endorfed^ Letter from M'' Randolph, July 28 Read at the Com^^® 061 . 13 : 1686. Edward Randolph to D"* Sancroft Archbishop OF Canterbury. New England Hijlorical Ge^tealogical Regijler., Vol. XXXVII. p. 270. Bofton in New England Aug‘ 2 : 1686. May it pleafe your Grace. Its long fince I received your Grace’s Bleffing and alfo your Grace’s noble gift of D" Hammonds work beftowed on our Colledge : I intended long fince to give y’’ Grace an account 1 04 Rdward Randolph. account of my proceedings therein ; but I have forborn that I might have opportunity to make y’’ Grace fome remarks upon this new Conftitution of Gov\ At my firft Landing which was not till the 14^^ of May laft, I was received by the honefb party, very kindly, who upon y® frigotts tedious paff- age did all feare that I was caff away with his Maj’ties Com- miffioners. The faftious party were of opinion, that (ac- cording to their prayers) God would never fuffer me to land againe in this Country and thereupon began in a moft arbi- trary manner to affert their power higher then at any tyme before, and having made it a capitall offence to fay their charter was vacated were profecuting a Merch^ in Bofton worth 10,000^ to death or Banifhment in faying only, that he hoped the frigott would arrive, and that very morning I landed he was to be brought upon his Tryall; but that was adjourn’d fine die. ’Twas with great difficulty that wee obtain’d y® Govm^ on y® 25'^ following & then 3 of y® perfons nominated to be of y® Councill refufed to accept & be fworn ; upon their fond opinion that their Govm^ is in being and that alth° his Maj^'®has obtained a judgm^ ag‘ their char- ter, yet they have not confented and therefore hope fome providence like that of Munmouth’s Rebellion may fall out w®^ will reftore them to their former priviledges & enjoy- ment of their precious things (which God avert) however, that they may have fome footing the Late Gov’’ & Company before they broke up adjourned themfelves to y® fecond Wednefday in Oc* next & this is one great reafon which ftill fupports the fadlion. I know y*" Grace may queftion why this new Govm^ would fuffer an adjournm^ to ftand upon Record but when ^ Grace has the account of the per- fons Documents and Letters. 105 fons now in Govn* that matter will be eafily anfwered. As to M" Dudley our Prelident he is a N : Conformifl minifler & for feverall yeares preach’d in New Eng'^ till he became a Magiflrate & So continued for many yeares, but finding his interefl: to faile amongft that party, fett up for a King’s man, and when in London, he made his application to my Lord of London and was well liked of by fome about his late perfon, whereupon he was appointed for this turn to be prefident, who at my arrivall with all outward expref- fions of duty & loyalty received his Maj*'® Commiflion. Sweetned with liberty of confcience, and now we believed wee had gain’d the point fuppofing the Prefident our own for y® C of Eng'^. At the opening his Majefties Com- miffion I defired M*" Ratcliffe our minifter to attend the cere- mony & fay Grace, but was refufed. I am not to forgett that in the late rebellion of Munmouth not one Minifter op’ned his lipps to pray for the King hoping that the tyme of their deliverance from monarchy & popery was at hand. Some tyme after the fettlem* of the Gov^ I moved fora place for the C : of England men to affemble in ; after many delayes, at lafl wee gott a fmall Room in y® town houfe, but our Company increafing beyond the expectation of the Govn‘ wee now ufe y® Exchange, and have y® comon prayer and two fermons every Sunday & at 7 o’clock in y® morning on Wednefdays & frydays the whole fervice of y® church, and fome Sundays 7 or 8 perfons are in one day Baptized, and more would dayly be' of our Communion had wee but the company & countenance of the Prefident & Councill, but inftead thereof wee are negleCted & can obtain no maintenance from them to fupport our Minifter. Butt had VOL. IV. — 14 wee io6 Rdward Randolph. wee a Gen^’ Gov’’ wee fhould foon have a larg congregation and alfo one of the churches in Boflon, as your Grace was pleafed to propofe when thefe matters were debated at y® Council! Table. I humbly remind your Grace of the money granted formerly for Evangelizing the Indians in our neigh- bourhood. Its a great pitty that there fhould be a Confider- able flock in this Country (but how imployed I know not) & wee want 7 or 800^ to build us a church. Their miniflry exclaim ag* y® Common Prayer, calling it, mans Invention & there is more hopes that whoremongers & adulterers will go to heaven than thofe of ye C of Eng'^ ; by thefe wicked dodlrines they poifon the people and their minifters Carry it as high as ever. In regard the prefident & all the Councill fave M’’ Mafon & myfelfe are C members or hangers on : and could they gett me out of the Councill their work was done ; but now they can paffe no orders without my knowl- edge. They give all encouragement to phannatticks of all Sefts & receive them from all places. About 2 months ago here arrived one Mh Mourton from Newington Green, he was under excommunication, yet treated by the prelid^ & fome of y® Councill with great refpedl : and was defigned to be head of our colledge but that was too large a ftep, they therefore call him to a very good living at Charleflown neer Cambridge, where he is ready for y® Colledge preferment. The Prefident has often told me that they intended to receive y*" Graces Gift of D'' Hammonds works with great folemnity, but both in that & in things of a higher nature relating to his Maj**®® Service I find him very treacherous, and now my 1 1 yeares experience of thefe people confirmes to me; that there muft be fomething more then wax & parchment Documents and Letters. 107 parchment to reduce them to their perfedl duty & obedience, for alth® the old Gov‘ is dead in Law yett ’tis revived in y® prefid* & Councill, and how can it be otherwife expedted when as every C member in full Comunion is obliged by Oath to obferve the orders of his church & parfon & liable to Open Cenfure upon negledl. So that I looke upon what our Prefid^ now does in accepting the Commiffion is a thing difpenc’d with to ferve y® turn, for the tyme he has been in, makes it his bufmefs to oblige that party & fo ftrongly drives on his private interefl that the members of the Coun- cill are unwilling to meet ; So that I feare the Govn* will be loft unleffe his Maj‘'® will be pleafed to fend us a Gen^^ Gov' with all convenient fpeed ; otherwife both myfelfe & thofe of y® Church of Eng^ muft leave the place. Your Grace can hardly imagine the fmall artifices they have ufed to prevent our meetings on Sundays, and at all other tymes to ferve God : they have libelled my wife & our min- ifter, and this is done (as credibly beleived) by y® minifter of the fregott yett its Countenanced by the fadlion : who have endeavoured to make breach in my family betwixt me & my wife, and have accompliftied another defigne in fetting up & fupporting Cap^ Georg, Commander of the Rofe fregott againft me ; this is their mafterpeece for he being a ftranger beleives what they fay, when at the fame tyme they would rejoice to fee us or any others intrufted by his Majefty hang’d at our doors. Now as to myfelfe, your Grace may pleafe to remember what complaints I have juftly made of their ill treatment, w®’' I received at Bofton for attending his fervice. Who would have queftioned, but that my bringing over an Olive Branch to wit, liberty of confcience, that I fhould io8 Edward Randolph. fhould bee received all refpeft, but the very thought of chang in their Govn* makes them much more my enemys then before, fo that from y® feverall grounds of their irre- confilable quarrell, I am attack’d from every part: the Minif- ters quarrell for my bringing in y® Comon prayer, the old magiflrates and freemen for vacating their Charter: the mobile are troubled that the Lawes of Eng^ are in force ; & the MercE® for putting the a61s of trade in full execution: by which they have loft feverall fhips & large quantityes of Goods ; the proprietors of Main are troubled that province is taken from them & is now (being well ftored with Mafts & other navall Stores) become his Majeftys ; the Tavern Keepers & vidlualling houfes Curfe me for advancing their excife whereas y® prefid‘ has farmed it out & his fon has one third of y® profitt : the other Colonys have a great charge ag^ me for ferving Quo warranto ag^ their Charters, and all are highly incenfed to fee me their enemy his Majefties Secre- tary of the Councill here : but without his Maj‘’®^ Extraordi- nary favour & protection I am like to expedi Sampfons fate, for fuch is their implacable malice that Oliver the late Tyrant was not more ingrateful to the Royalifts then I am to the moft of the people & now nothing can fettle this dif- tradted country & checq the Infolencyes of this people but a fober & unbyafted Gent" from England to be our Gov’' ; who muft hold the raines of Gov^ in his hands & reftrain the liberty of Confcience which they now grofty abufe. Its neceflary y® Gov" licence all their minifters & that none be called to be a paftor of a congregation without his approba- tion ; by this method alone the whole country will eafily be regulated and then they will build us a church and be will- Documents and Letters. 109 ing to allow our Miniflry an honorable maintenance. Wee have a fober prudent Gent" to be our minifter & well ap- proved ; but in cafe of Sicknefs or other caufualtyes if he have not one fent from Eng'^ to helpe him our church is lofl, ’tis therefore neceffary that another fober man come over to affift ; for fome tymes ’tis requifite that one of them vifits the other colonyes to baptize & adminifter the facra- ment, and in regard wee cannot make 40^ a yeare fterl^ by contributions for fupport of him & his affiftant, ’twould be very gratefull to our church affaires if his Maj‘^ would pleafe to grant us his Royall letters — that the 3 meeting houfes in Bofton, which feverally colledt 7 or on a Sunday, do pay to our church warden 20^ a weeke for each meeting houfe which will be fome encouragement to our Miniflers, and thefe they can but raife againft y® fervice of y® church, they have greate flocks & were they diredled to contribute to build us a church or part from one of their meeting houfes fuch as wee fliould approve, they would purchafe that exemp- tion at a great rate, and they could but call us papifts, and our Miniflers but Baal’s Priefts: as to D" Hammonds works, they are with me, but ready to be placed in the library as foon as the colledge is duly regulated that matter alfo mufl attend the fandlion of a Gen” Gov"" in which I queflion not but your Grace will pleafe t.o continue your Afliflance, in regard the beginning was promoted by your Grace’s favour. I humbly beg in all Duty your Graces Blefling and re- main your Graces mofl obedient and mofl Humble fervant E"" Randolph. 20 £ ill the printed copy, which is evidently a miftake. I lO Edward Randolph. by my matter and y® length of my difcourfe your Grace will eafily find I write from New* England of which place Our minifter and my felfe are fufficiently tyred. I could fay more &c &c. Case of John Gould, Charged with Treason. Majfachufetts Hijlorical Society CollePlions., Third Series, Vol. VII. p. 15 1. Bofton, Sc. To the Keeper of his Majefly’s Jail in Bofton. The Prefident of his Majefby’s Territory and Dominion of New England, with the Deputy Prefident and others of his Majefty’s Council, in Council aflembled, the 5th day of Au- guft, 1686, having received information upon the oaths of Ifaac Cummings, John Wild and John How, of feveral trea- fonable and feditious words fpoken by John Gould of Topf- field, againfl: our Sovereign Lord the King &c. Thefe are, therefore, in his Majefly’s name, to require you to take into your Cuflody the body of the faid John Gould, and him fafely keep, until he fliall be delivered by due courfe of Law, and for fo doing this fhall be your warrant, given at the Council Houfe in Bofton, the faid 5th day of Auguft, Anno Dom. 1686, Anno que R. R. Jacobi Dei Gratia Angliae &c. — fecundi. Vera Copia Ed. Randolph, Sec, By the Prefident and Council of his Majefty’s Territory and Dominion of New England. Upon reading the petition of John Gould, now prifoner in the Jail of Bofton, defiring liberty of the Prifon yard to Documents and Letters. 1 1 1 to walk in, by reafon of his indifpofition of body. It is Ordered, That the Prifon keeper do permit the faid John Gould, to have the benefit of the Prifon yard, to walk in during his ficknefs, (the Keeper taking care the faid Gould make not an efcape), till further order. Ed. Randolph, Secry. Council Houfe, Bofton, ) Auguft 12. 1686 3 Ordered that upon the petitioner’s payment of the fum of twenty pounds to the Treafurer, and Prifon fees and fees of Profecution, that he be difcharged his imprifonment upon giving bond for his good behaviour. Ed. Randolph. Secretary, Aug. 15. 1686. By the Prefident and Council of his Majefiy’s Territory and Dominion of New England. Upon reading the petition of John Gould, and confidering the poverty of his family, it is ordered, That upon the payment of Fifty Pounds in money, and charges of Profecution, the remainder of his fine be refpited and he be releafed of his imprifonment, he giving bonds for his good behaviour, according to order of Court. Ed. Randolph. Secretary Aug 25 th. 1686 The I I 2 Edward Randolph. The Commissioners of Customs in London to Edward Randolph. Majfachtifetts Archives., Vol. CXXVI. p. 53. Sl^ Wee have yo? of the 30^!" of June lafl: advifing us of yoy Seizure of Two fmall veffells vizy the Swallow Jofhua Weft Matter and the Succefs Jofhua Glover Matter the lat- ter of w^".^ Belongs to Scotland and hath been an’ old Tranf- greflbr Soe that Wee hope there will be noe failure in yoy Part in the Effedtuall Profecucon thereof w*^^ Wee fhall owne a very good fervice and becaufe you Informe us that the Pinke Succefs was Loaden moftly wl^ Scotch goods for . w''^ he produced his Cocquetts Wee defire you to fend the fame to us by the firft Veffell bound hither, Whereby Wee may Probably detedt fome of our officers whome Wee have fufpedled to be guilty of giving out counterfeit Cocquetts and other Difpatches to the Prejudice of his Ma^r Duties Wee fliall expedl to heare from you by all Convenient op- portunity and be ready to give you all Countenance and affiflance in the difcharge of yo*" Duty We reft Your loving freinds Sam Clarke Cuflomeh? Lond? Ch. CheynE y® 7. Aug^‘ 1686 Jo. Werden Duplicate BuCKWORTH Webster Mr. Randolph New England Edward Docitments and Letters. 113 Edward Randolph to the Lord Treasurer. M ajfachujetts Hiftorical Society Collections.^ Third Series Vol. VII. p. 154. Bofton in New England Aug 23. 1686 May it pleafe your Lordfhip, By the bleffing of God and your Lordfhip’s favour, I have performed his Majefly’s commands, and brought this people to a nearer dependence upon the Crown. I have likewife ferved 2 writs of Quo Warrmito, upon the other 2 Colonies of Connedlicut and Rhode Ifland, who are preparing to make their humble fubmiffion to his Majefly, But unlefs his Majefty pleafe, in a very fliort time, to fend us over a Gen- eral Governor from England, all that is already done, will be of little advantage to his Majefly’s intereft. The inde- pendent fadlion flill prevails, and perfons of dangerous prin- ciples from England, Ireland and other places, are here received and highly encouraged. They have put Captain Blackwell, Oliver, [Cromwell’s] treafurer, in London, fon in law to Lambert, excepted in the A 6 l of Indemnity, and a violent Commonwealth’s man, to be of the commiffion of the peace and a man confulted with in all public affairs. The independent miniflers and others, make every ill ufe of his Majefty’s indulgence and liberty of confcience, fome of them have fpoken treafonable words in their pulpits, of which (to no purpofe) I have complained to the Prefident and Council, fo that I am humbly of opinion, that liberty of confcience will much obflrudl the fettlement of this place, unlefs duly regulated by the authority of a prudent Governor fent hither. Your LordQiip may pleafe to remember, that VOL. IV. — 15 this 1 14 Rdward Randolph. this commiffion was but temporary, and ferved only to un- hinge the Commonwealth, which for many years, was ufurped and managed by a fadtion. All the members of the prefent Council, Mr. Mafon and myfelf excepted, are either Church members, or flrong abettors of that party, and even Mr. Dudly, our Prefident, was not long fince a zealous preacher amongft us, and though, while in London, he pretended to be of the Church of England, yet fince he is made Prefident, courts and keeps private cabals with thefe fadtious miniflers and others, who, in the time of Monmouth’s Rebellion, re- fufed to pray for his Majefty. His Majefly hath been gra- cioufly pleafed to make me Secretary of his Council here, but the accounts of the late Treafurer and whatever relates to the difcovery of his Majefly ’s Revenue, is kept from my knowledge. The public records, and all the grants and fet- tlement of lands in this country, which ought to be lodged in my office, are otherwife difpofed of, not being willing to intrufl them with me, who have been, and (as they fay), am flill the grand enemy of their country. Mr. Wharton, a member of the Council, did openly declare, that his Majefly, in appointing me his Secretary and Regifter, intended to inthrall this people in vaffalage. I have propofed the raif ing a revenue, yet cannot be heard in Council. I have likewife preffed the making of flrifl: orders to prevent the irregular trade of this place, but fome of the Council are traders, and others by marriage or otherwife fo nearly re- lated, that without a General Governor, interlopers will be countenanced, notwithftanding all my endeavors to the Con- trary. Here have been five or fix fhips feized and con- demned, which inflames the people’s malice againfl me. And Documents and Letters. 115 And the Prefident, who by his office and duty is obliged to affifi: me, has openly refufed, to his Majefty’s great differvice. I queflion not but by his Majefty’s uniting the feveral Col- onies under one Government, to raife his Majefty a confid- erable revenue by quit rents towards the fupport of the Government, which will yearly increafe. Of this the Pref- ident, Mr. Wharton and feveral others, who have engroffed great tradts of land are fenftble, and are, therefore, unwilling to admit me to difcover their Eftates. It was by your Lord- ftiip’s favour, that his Majefty, in confideration of my paft fervices, was pleafed to grant me the office of Regifter and Secretary of this Government, a place in his Majefty’s other plantations of confiderable advantage ; but they have taken fo great prejudice againft me, that they have difpofed of the perquifites of that office to perfons of their own ftamp, fo that, for all my trouble and attending the Council here, I am not like to make £20 a-year. My earned; expedfation of a General Governor, fupports me under all thefe difficulties and difappointments, and though they treat me fo rudely, yet I fliall continue to affert his Majefty’s intereft in the Station I am placed in, and ever remain, Right Honourable, Your Lordfhip’s moft humble and moft obedient Servant, Ed. Randolph. To the Right Honourable the Lord Treafurer. Letter 1 1 6 Edward Randolph. Letter from M"" Randolph to the Committee. State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (91). Bofton in New Eng? May it pleafe LordPP® Aug! 23 : 1686. In my letter of y® 28^^ of July lafl I humbly reprefented to 'f LordfP^ my Seruing y® Writts of Quo Warrl° ag! y® Col- onyes of Road Ifland & Connedlicutt, & that they intended to make their humble Submiffion of their Charters to his Ma^l® vnleffe vnderhand diverted by the fadtion in this Gomf who are countenanced & are not out of hopes to be reflored to the exercife of their former Authority by Charter: the late Generali Court being vpon an adjournment continued, made vpon y® 2 1 of May laft & are to meet at 8 aClock in y® morning vpon y® fecond wednefday in Odober next : and as yet y® Prefident & Councill, tho’ often moued by my felfe that their adjournml ought to be declared illegall, haue done nothing to difcountenance that adl: : but on y® Contrary, haue preferred divers of y® Magiflrates & others of the late Goml to Commands in the prefent Militia & Juftices of y® Peace in feuerall of the townes in this Country. His MaP® hauing been Gracioufly pleafed to grant me the Office of Secretary & Regifter of this Gom! I demanded the Records of the Generali Court & other Bookes of publick Concern, which ought to be lodged in my Office ; and had an Order to that purpofe ; but fome of y® Councill & others looking vpon me as y® Onely enemy of their Country haue encouraged the former Seory to keepe them in his Cuflody: to the end ^ LordfP^ might not know what Large tradls of Land they haue beftowed vpon each other & are at this day making fure to themfelues all the land in this Goml not yet difpofed Documents and Letters. 117 difpofed of, in which projedl is one Cap! Blackwell Treafurer to Y Army in Cromwells tyme & Son in Law to Lambert, & now made a Juftice of y® Peace, altho’ excepted in y® ad: of ffree & Generali pardon in y® 12*.^ of his late Ma^i® They likewife refufe to lett me haue an account of the Receites & difburfments of their late Treafurers, which I haue often de- manded, the better to difcouer to your Lordf^P^ the Rates & Taxes impofed vpon the poeple (againft the wills of moft of y® Inhabitants) to defend their Charter & continue them- felues in Gom! The Great favour of liberty of Confcience granted this poeple may in a fhort tyme be of ill confequence to this Governm! vnleffe it be in the power of his Gen!^ Gou! to putt fome limitation to their extravigant vfe of it, It plainely appeares. That altho’ his Ma^i® has been gracioufly pleafed to appoint Seuerall of the members of the late Gom! to be of his Councill here, yet they retain the Old principles ; and I humbly propofe it very neceffary for the Good governing of this plantation that his Ma^^® Gen!^ Gou! be likewife im- powred to difplace Such perfons in y® Councill who oppofe his Ma^'f^ intereft, and eledl others in their ftead, Otherwife twill not be poffible to raife a Revennue for Support of this Gom! Great numbers of poeple are tranfplanting themfelues from England Scotland, etc : to this Country One Ship has now brought vs 60 paffengers with 2 nonConformifts Minifters. I haue preffd that all perfons aboue 16 yeares old Should prefent their names & giue an account of them- felues, and alfo be obliged to take y® Oath of Allegiance, but this being looked vpon as a great difcouragement to good poeple, is referrd to the directions of his Ma^®® GenP Gou! I find the Country diffatisfied for want of an Affembly of representatiues 1 1 8 Edward Randolph. reprefentatiues from y® Seuerall townes in y® Gom! with power to raife money & make Lawes etc. the great matters they aime at, are a Genl* Pardon : a Confirmation to them of all their Lands & pofTeffions what-foeuer : and to Settle Independency by a Law: but are very cold & backward to my propofalls of Raifing his Ma^!® a Revennue vpon Quitt Rents and the Confumption of all liquors wines & other Merchandize imported this Country: which vpon the addi- tion of the Colonyes of Connefticutt & Road Ifland to this Gom! may amount to nigh 4000?' a yeare: Some part of which ought neceffarily to be applyed to maintain Officers in the Seuerall Ports of this Gom! (as in New York) to take care that the A6ts of trade be duely executed; otherwife No men of Creditt will vndertake That trufl vnleffe they haue a Competent allowance for their Seruice. Wee haue lately had a Pyrate of 14 Gunns & 100 men vpon Our Coaffs & Cap! Georg Commander of the Rofe frigott was ordred to find him Out: but he came too late, for y® Pirate hauing firft rob’d 2 Sloopes loden with Pork peafe & other provifions was gone away to the Weft Indies : not long fince Gramond a french man of 50 guns lay off Carolina, & defired leaue to trade, which was denied him : wee haue aduife y* a Small Sloop of 20 men haue been feen vpon Our Coafls: thefe very much diflurb our Trade. all which is mofl humbly fubmitted . by EdRandolph. To the Right Hon^^® the Lords of y® Committe for trade. \^EndorJed\ Documents and Letters. 1 1 9 \Endorfed^ Boflon 23 : Aug : 86. From Mr Randolph To the Comittee. Rec? 21 061 : 86 Read yf 24}^ 06 tob. 1686. Abduction by Pirates. MaJ^achufetts Hijiorical Society ColleSions, Third Series., Vol. VII. p. 157. The humble petition of William Douglafs to the Hon. Jofeph Dudley Efq. Prefident etc. Having been carried off from Carolina by a pirate, the petitioner efcaped from the fhip when in Cafco, “ your peti- tioner was put to great flreights both for food and linen, &c. whereupon he applied himfelf to the worfhipful Edward Randolph for relief, who kindly ordered Erafmus Stevens to take care of him, to help him to what your petitioner wanted, till he had an opportunity, humbly to lay my Condition be- fore your honors.” . . . William Douglass. Edward Randolph to Fitz-John Winthrop. Majfachufetts Hijiorical Society Collections, Sixth Series, Vol. III. p. 476. To Major Winthrop at New London. Bofton. Aug^ 25. 1686. Sy, — I congratulate your recovery from your late indif- pofition, and that you may not fuddainely relapfe, I fend you for a cordiall the good newes that S'" Edm*? Andros is ap- pointed our gouvl Calls firfl at Bermodos to fettle that governm^ 120 Rdward Randolph. governm\ and upon y® Kingfifher, a fhip of 50 guns, comes for Boflon, where he may arrive fome time in Nov^/ next, with his lady. God fend them a fafe paffage ! My fervice to Madam Curwin & Madam Ann: is all from, S\ your humble ferv! E: Randolph Randolph’s Petition for fees as SecV & Reg^. — p ANN. Slale Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (166) 28 Aug. 1686. To the Right the Lords of the Committe for Trade & Forraigne Plantations. The Petition of Edward Randolph Sheweth That his Maj^l® in Confideracon of Yor Petitioners paft Services and hardfhipps undergone in ten years attending his Majeftyes Comands in New England, was gracioufly pleafed as a Mark of his Royall Bounty to grant to Your Petitioner the Office of Secretary and Sole Regifter of his Majeftyes Governour and Councill, and of his Majeftyes Government in his Maj^l®® Territory and Dominion of New England to exercife and enjoy the Said Office by himfelf, or Deputy or Deputyes there for the time being, with all fees. Rights and Perquifttts to the faid Places or offices or Either of them belonging in as full and ample manner to all in- tents and purpofes as the Secretary and Regifter of his Majeftyes Bland of Jamaica or of any other his Maj‘?^ plan- tacons in America have had or do now receive and enjoy. That after his Maj*’f Comiflion of Government with great difficulty Documents and Letters. 121 difficulty was accepted of and Publifhed in this Coloney Yo" Petitioner produced to the Prelident and Councill his Maj‘i^® Grant to Yor Petitor to be Secretary and Sole Regif- ter, and demanded to be put in poffeffion of that Office, and to have all the Records and bookes of the publick concernes of the Country to be Lodged and remaine under the care of Yoy Petitioner, but Yoy Petitiony being reputed the Couion enemy for Vacating their Charter and bringing the Country under a more imediate dependance upon the Crowne, The Prefident and Councill have appointed other perfons in Severall parts of the Country to Execute the Office of Sole Regifter without haveing firfl obteined deputations from Yoy Petitioner, Neither can Yof Petitioner take the former Records into His Poffeflion to the end theirby to Conceal from Yoy Petitiony the large trafts of Land they have granted to Each other. And have alfo Refufed to Yoy Petitioner the Sume of Eighty pounds yearly (paid to their former Secre- tary) to Support the Charge of Clerks and other officers neceffary to affift in the Office of Secretary. Now forafmuch as Yoy Petitioner by the undue pceed- ings of the Prefident and Councill is defrauded and wholy difappointed of the benifit of his Maj‘r favour and reward of his paft Services, Yet in obedience to his Maj^i®® Comands does continue his attendance as Secry of the Councill leafl his Majeftyes affaires might fuffer by his abfence Your Petitioner humbly Prayes Yoy Lordfliips to take the Premifes into Your Lordfh^f confideration and to Order that the Salary of 80'”' paid the former Secre- tary may be paid Yearly to Your Petitioner to Sup- voL. IV. — 16 port 122 Edward Randolph. port the neceffary charge of Clerks and alfo to receive and enjoy all Such fees and perquifitts belonging to his office of Secfy and Sole Regifter in as full and ample manner as the Secretary and Regifter in Jamaica or any other his Maj^‘?" plantacons in America do enjoy. Bofton in New Engl Aug! 28* £6^. EdRaNDOLPH, \Endorfed'\ The Petition of Edward Randolph. PTented to y® Com‘1® y^. 24 ‘^ 061. 86. Establishment of 2 Foot Companies in N : Eng° State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (447), 30 Aug. 1686. For Two Comp®® in New England. Whereas Wee have thought fitt to appoint Two Com- panys of Foot for Our Service in New-England, Wee do hereby make and pafs this Our Eftabliffiment for the Same to commence from the firft of September next whereof the Pay Matter Generali of Our Forces Our Commiffary Gen- erali of Our Mufters and all others whom it may concern are to take notice and to conform themfelves accordingly. Given at Our Court at Windfor this 30^.^ day of Auguft 1686 In the Second Year of Our Reign. One Company. The Captain Lieutenant Enfign Two Sarjeants at i84 each p Diem Per Diem o 08 00 o 04 00 o 03 00 o 03 00 Per Annum 146 00 00 73 00 00 54 15 00 54 15 00 Three Documents and Letters. 123 Three Corporalls at 12^. each Per Diem 0 03 00 Per 54 Annum IS 00 One Drummer 0 01 00 18 05 00 Fifty Soldiers at 84 each I 13 04 608 06 08 2 15 04 1009 16 08 The Charge of one Company more at the \ ^5 16 08 Same Rates and Numbers above expreffed ' h 04 1009 A Chirurgeon to attend the faid Companys 0 02 06 45 12 06 For Contingencies 0 00 10 15 04 02 Totall 5 14 00 0 00 0 10 0 Rochester. Sunderland. P. \_Endorfed^ 1686. Eftabliihm! For Two Companys of Foot in New England. ]VP! Bullivant’s Lre to M’? Randolph abT the Records IN Rawson’s hands. State Papers .) Colonial ^ Btindle 55 (168). Sr I ferved the Order of Councill on Mr Rawfon this day about the Records &c! which ledd to many difcourfes betwixt us, too tedious to be here inferted, he gives for anfwer in General that he will fpeedily wait upon You himfelf about it, and that the oath of God is upon him to the Country that entrufled him, and he cannot Satisfie his Confcience that he is obliged to rehgn them, unlefs he be difcharged by a power that can indempnifie him, he alfo thinks it very juft that before he be difcharged of y^ truft, his arrears of Salary for his Service to the Country be payd, and that a confidera- con 124 Rdward Randolph. con be had of his paines in Sorting the papers, will be a very confiderable expence of time to him, and one, that muft be his Affiftant in it, this is all I can do, or Suppofe will be done in it at p^fent, I am Si: Yol' moft humble Serv* Benjamin Bullivant. Sept : 1 1686. \_Endorfed^ Bofton. ii Sept : 86. From Mr Bullivant to M" Randolph touching the Records in Mr Rawfon’s hands. Petition respecting the Eleutherians.^ M ajfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVI. p. 84. In anfwer to this Petition, The Prefident and Council do approve of, and allow of the petitioners removing the dif- treffed Eleutherian people into Cafco Bay, for their fettle- ment and fupport, and will recommend their prayer for the grant of their lands defired unto his majefly for his Royal favour therein. By the Prefident and Council Ed Randolph Secretary Council Houfe, Sept. 15, 1686 Alfo at the motion of the petitioners, it was farther con- fented to by Richard Wharton and Bartholomew Gedney Efq"^ that they will annex their lands in or near faid Town to ® Eleutheria is one of the Bahama Iflands. Documents and Letters. 125 to the fame and as improvement fhall be made on their refpe6live lands, to contribute to Town charge and in im- provement, and M*" Wharton contented, referving his propri- ety that the town bounds fhall extend Eaflwardly as far as Puggamugga River Ed. Randolph, Secretary Letter from Edward Randolph in case of a libeled Brig, [to the Governor of New York] Majfachujetts Archives ., Vol. LX I. p. 271. Boflon Sep‘. 1684 [1686] Hon? St I am obliged by all opportunityes to pay my duty to your HonT and now more particularly by MT Surveyor Gen? whom I have defired to give yoT HonT a fliort account of my profe- cuting a Brigantine and loading from Newfound land for un- livery before entry and in order to her Tryall I exhibited my informacon in the Court of Admiralty, But Capt. George’s mate being gone to the Eaflward to difcover and take a pirate by accident mett w‘? the goods where they were landed and concealed and brought them to this port, and the Captaine would try them in our Court of pleas held in Bofton, but that Court finding that the Caufe was by my prior Information duly lodged in the Court of Admiralty difmiffed the Caufe and ordered it to be tryed in the Court of Admiralty, I hear Captaine George intends to bring the Brigantine and goods about to New York in order to ob- taine a tryall there if fo I intreat your hon? favour to allow me time to make out my right of profecution w"".^ I fhall do effeflually by the next opportunity of fending to New York. I 126 Rdward Randolph. I undertake not to trouble your honf with any news from hence Mr Surveyor being very well informed in all the oc- currances of this place to whom I humbly referr your hour and remaine in all duty Your moft humble fervl E. R. Answer to Captain Palmer. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVI. p. 97. In anfwer to Capt. Palmers motion referring to feized fhipp. Mr. Randolph informing that the feizure of her was at the requeft of Cap\ Palmer who informed that fhe hath imported malaga wines etc. into the Gov‘ of New York where the f? wines have fmce been condemned & the rec- ord thereof before us. Wee do judge that according to y® A6l of y® fifteenth of his late Ma^'® the faid Ihip ought to fuffer her tryall in y® Territory or place where the faid breach was committed or in fome Court of record in Eng- land as the faid A6l direds. By order of the Prefid^ and Councill Ed. Randolph, Se^.® Sept 27. 1686 To THE HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT AND CoUNCILL OF HIS Ma’^ys Territory and Dominion of New England. Majfachufetts Archives, Vol. CXXVI. p. 121. [21 Odober 1686] Edward Randolph Eqf Collector and Surveyor of his Ma^^® Cuftomes doth reprefent that Jofhua Rawlins maP of the ® Alfo Majfachufetts Archives, Vol. CCXLII. p. 339. Documents and Letters. 127 the ketch Providence of Maryland came to the office of his Cuftomes to make entry of faid ketch upon report of his loading he refufed to make entry upon oath, whereupon haveing received information that the P mafter had broke bulk and unliveried part of his cargoe in this government about three oclock in the afternoon I fent M’’ Luggar Dep- uty Searcher of his cuftomes to go on board the faid ketch and feize her for his ufe ffie then lying near Capt Anthony Howard’s wharfe, the faid Luggar accord- ingly went to execute his office but was not admitted to go on board the faid ketch by David Simpfon belonging to the Rofe ffrigott who was there by order of M*" Condon Lieu- tenant to the P ffrigott as was reported and the faid David Simpfon there told the faid Luggar y^ if he came from Ml: Randolph he fhould not come on board and to that end took up a narrow ax that lay upon the deck and fwore he would cut the faid Luggar in pieces if he offered to put his foot in that veffell upon w^^'" the fd Luggar made his com- plaint to me that he was affronted in his office, prefently after William Hill one of my Deputyes came to me and alfo complained that the faid David Simpfon had fallen upon him & had cut his face and would not fuffer the P Hill to go on board the P ketch the P Hill further faith that he would lay down his deputation and not expofe his perfon to hurt and violence unlefs he could be proteded and affifted according to law. Upon the complaint of the aforef^ per- fons I went to Ifaiah Toy Conftable of this towne and took the f^ Toy with me & went to the aforef^ wharfe of M*" How- ard & there found the f^ David Simpfon walking on board the r ketch with the narrow ax before mentioned lying on the 128 Edward Randolph. the deck forward and alfo found my officers unwilling to go on board the faid ketch, At laft by the affiflance of the conflable I put on board John Burridge and W? Hill both fworn Waiters and comanded the faid Conflable to take charge of the David Simpfon and bring him before one of his Jufiices of the peace to be proceeded againfl according to law and meeting w^^ Richard Wharton Efq*' I defired him to go with me to hear the matter, but not far from IVR Shrimpton’s houfe Cap^ George & Cap^ S* Loe met the Conflable with the Simpfon where the P Capt. George in a great paffion gave threatening language both to M*" Wharton & myfelfe & in a royitous manner endeavoured the refcue of the C David Simpfon and did ftrike at the faid Conflable with his cane but the faid Conflable defended himfelfe and received the blow with his flaffe and at the fametime two of Capt George’s men came behind the con- flable endeavouring to refcue the f^ Simpfon. Capt George followed me to M’". Ufhers door where he gave me mofl vio- lent provoking language calling me pittyfull little fellow & faid that the worfl of his men on board his fhip had as much power to feize veffells as myfelfe, and threatened Erafmus Stevens (and other my officers then prefent) that iff any of them paffed by his fhippe he would fetch them on board and whippe them till their backs were raw. Ed. Randolph ColL Letters Documents and Letters. 129 Letters from Randolph & the PresT & Council. State Papers., Colonial, Entry Book, 109, p. 19. MemT On the 21 : of 06 lober 1686 Rec^ a letter without date from the Prefident @ Council New Engld. of New England to the Committee. A letter from My Randolph to the Committee dated the 3^ of Augufl laft. At the Committee for Trade & Plantations In the Council-Chamber at Whitehall Saturday the 23: of October 1686. putting off ye Hearing of his Appeal. Prefent: Lord Chancelor, Lord Treafurer, Lord Prefi- dent, Duke of Albemarle, Lord Chamberlane, Lord Vifco^ 'Preflon, Lord Dartmouth, My Chancy of y® Excheqy New England The Pet" of Nath: Wear Attorny of WilTm , , Vaimhan read, praying that the Hearing of His Wear’s peti) for ’ r y ^ Appeal may bee put off till after y® 4^*' day of November next: Whereupon it is ordered that all partys concerned have notice to attend the Committee at the firft Meeting after that day, when their Lo^.® will hear the faid Appeal. A Letter from the Prefident and Council of A letter from the c^undirto^diing New England, Informing their Lo’y®, that they have reduced the Ports there to fuch a number that the Frauds formerly pradliced to the prejudice of His Ma‘y’^ Cuffoms will bee more eafily reftraind ; That fundry Shipps had been feized and condemned, and one coming from the Canarys with Wine is, vpon fecurity given to Anfwer the Value in cafe of Condemna- tion, referred for His Ma‘^’^ determination ; That My Ran- voL. IV.— 17 dolph Seisure of a Canary-Ship. 130 Rdward Randolph. writtsofQuo dolph hath ferved the Writs of Quo Warranto Warranto. iffucd againft Rhode Ifland and Conefticut; That the Judge of the Admiralty of New- York hath made seisure made at fcizure of Goods landed at Penobfcot, being part Penobscot lands granted by the late King to His Prefent Ma?, but deliverd to the French vpon the Treaty of Breda ; That they had reel their Lo^.® letter of Recom The Minister. mendation of M’’ Ratliff with due regard, and a convenient place for publick Worfhip is allowd to him and TheTreary& ^is Hcarcrs. That the Treafury is wholy empty, Revenue. almoft all thc Laws for Publick Revenues expired, which without an Affembly they are vnable to renew. Joseph Dudley to Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives.) Vol. CXXVI. p. 134. Sr I have juft now received Cap* Georges information againft a Ketch Thomas Afhley, Mafter, now riding at Anchor in y® bay for importation of Linnens, ftioes & other European Goods that have not payd the Kings dues & to the end that his Majeftys affayr may not fuffer I have ordered Capt. George to admit of one of your Deputyes to make y® feiz- ure & I would have alfo a wayter left on board and y® Tryall ftiall come fpeedily forward. I am Sr your ferv*. Roxbury DUDLEY 25^’* Odl. 1686. Mr. Documents and Letters. 131 Mr. Randolph to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Colledlion of Papers, by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 294. Bofton in N. E. O6to. 27th, 86. May it pleafe your Grace, I have fometime fince humbly reprefented to your grace a neceffity of having a church built in Boflon to receive thofe of the church of England. Wee have at prefent 400 perfons who are daily frequenters of our church, and as many more would come over to us, but fome being tradefmen, others of mechanick profeffions, are threatened by the congregationall men to be arrefted by their creditors, or to be turned out of their work, if they offer to come to our church ; under fuch difcouragements wee lye at prefent, and are forced to addrefs your grace for reliefe. I have taken care to informe myfelfe how the money fent over hither for the company of evangelizing Indeans in New England (for foe by their pattent from his late Majefby they are fliled) is difpofed of here. Here are 7 perfons, called Cornmiffioners or truftees, who have the foie manage of it ; the chief of which are Mr. Dudley, our prefident, a man of a bafe, fervile and antimonarchicall principle, Mr. Stough- ton, of the old leaven, Mr. Richards, a man not to be trufled in publique bufinefs, Mr. Hinkley, governor of New Plim- outh collony, a rigid independant, and others like to thefe. The poor Indians (thofe who are called minifters) come and complaine to Mr. Ratclieffe, our minifter, that they have nothing allowed them : We have fpoken to the commiffion- ers to have Some allowance for them ; all we can gett is the promife of a coarfe coat againfl winter, and would not fuffer Aaron, 132 Edward Randolph. Aaron, an Indian teacher, to have a bible with the common prayer in it, but took it away from him. This money is not lefs than 3 or 400 /. which is yearly returned over hither (fome fay 600) with which they enrich themfelves, yet charge it all as layd out among the poore Indians. I humbly pre- fume to remind your grace of your promife to me, when in England, that a commiffion fhould be diredted to fome per- fons here, unconcerned, to audit and report their adts of this money. We want good fchoolemaflers, none being here allowed of but of ill principle, and till there be provifion made to redlifye the youth of this country, there is noe hopes that this people will prove loyall. The money now converted to private, or worfe ufes, will fet up good and publick fchooles and provide maintenance for our minider, who now lives upon a fmall contribution, and are yet forced to meet in the town-houfe. I cannot omit to acquaint your grace, how tender con- fcienced, members of our old church, for foe they are diflin- guiflied from the other 2 churches in Bofton, are. Not long fince, I defired them to let their clerk toll their bell at 9 clock, Wednefdays and Fridays, for us to meet to go to prayers. Their men told me, in excufe for not doing it, that they had confidered and found it intrenched on their liberty of confcience granted them by his Majeflyes prefent commiffion, and could in noe wife affent to it. The neceffity of a church and publick fchooles and en- couragement of minifters preffes me to give your grace this trouble, which I humbly intreat your grace to re- member to effeft, leaft the Small beginnings of the church of England fettled here with great difficulty, fall to Documents and Letters. 133 to the ground and be loft, for want of tymely relief and countenance. All which is humbly fubmitted by [Edward Randolph] Benjamin Bullivant to Samuel Greene. M aJlfachufetts Hijlorical Society Collegians ., Fourth Series ^ Vol. VIII. p. 663. My Greene, — I am comanded by M’’ Secretary Randolph to give you notice that you doe not proceed to print any Almanack whatever, without haveing his approbation for the fame. Yo*"^ Ben : Bullivant Bofton 29. Novemb*^ 1686. Order for the first Council Meeting under Sir Edmund Andros. Majfachufetts Archives ., Vol. CXXVI. p. 165. Sir, Council Houfe Dec. 21®.* 1686. His Excellency, Sir Edmund Andros, Knight, Captain General and Governor in Chief, arrived here yefterday, at which time his Majefty’s commiffion, bearing date the third of June laft, was publifhed, his Excellency has appointed a General Council, to be holden here on Thurfday the 30th of this inftant December, and dire6led me to acquaint all the members thereof, that they may be prefent accordingly. His Excellency prefents his humble fervice to you, and would be glad to fee you at Bofton. I am, Sir, your humble fervant Edward Randolph. Edward 134 Rdward Randolph. Edward Randolph to Fitz-John Winthrop. Majjfachufetts Hijlorical Society CollePlions., Sixth Series^ Vol. III. p. 476. To John Fitz Winthrop, Efq’’ one of the members of his Councill, at New London, pTent. Bofton, [21] 22'^ of Decembf 1686. Sr, — His Excellence Sr Edmond Andros, Knight, Cap- taine Generali & Governour in cheife, arrived here yefter- day, at w*"*" time his commiffion, bearing date the third of June laft, was publifhed. His Excellence has appointed a generall councill to be holden here on Thurfday, the 30^^ of this inflant, December, and direded me to acquaint all the members thereof, that they may be prefent accordingly. His Excellence prefents his humble fervice to you and would be glad to fee you at Bofton. I am Your humble fervant, E: Randolph. Letter of Andros to Rhode Island, concerning Rhode Island Charter. Rhode IJland Colonial Records, Vol. III. p. 219. Bofton December 22. 1686 Sir: This is to acquaint you that I arrived yefterday, at which time his Maj^^’s Commiffion, bearing date at Windfor, the 3^ Day of June laft, in the fecond year of his reign, ap- pointed me Captain General and Governor in Chief of his territory and dominion of New England, and his Majefty having Documents and Letters. 135 having upon the addrefs and fubmiffion of the Charter, ac- cepted thereof, hath commanded and authorized me upon my arrival in thefe parts, to demand in his Majefly’s name, the adual furrender of the faid Charter, and to take the Col- ony of Rhode Ifland and Providence Plantation into my care, as part of the government, and to affure his good fub- jedls in your parts of his Majefly’s countenance and protec- tion in all things, in which his Majefly’s fervice and your welfare fliall be concerned, and hath conflituted and ap- pointed you, Walter Clark, Jo. Sanford, John Coggfliall, Walter Newbury, John Greene, Richard Arnold and John Alborough Efqr’s, to be members of the Council for the faid government. And I having appointed a general Council to be held in this place on Thurfday, the 30th of this inflant December, you are to communicate this to the above named members of the Council, and together with them, to give your attendance for his Majefly, and country’s fervice as above. I am your very affedlionate friend, and defiring to hear from you in the meantime. [E. Andros.] Letter to Walter Clark, Governor of Rhode Island. Bofton 22 ^ December 1686 Sir: This is to acquaint you that his Majefty having been pleafed to fend me to the government of New England, of which you are a part, I arrived here on the 20^^ inflant, where I found all very well difpofed to his Majefly’s fervice; and his Majefly’s letter patent to me for the faid govern- ment 136 Rdward Randolph. ment having been publifhed, were received with fuitable demonftrations. I am commanded and authorized by his Majefty, at my arrival in thefe parts, to receive in his name the furrender of the Charter, if tendered by you, and to take you into my prefent care and charge, as other parts of the government, affuring his Majefty’s good fubjedts of his countenance and protedlion in all things relating to his fervice and their welfare. I have only to add, that I fliall be ready and glad to do my duty accordingly, and therefore defire to hear from you as foon as may be, and remain Your very affeClionate friend E. Andros. Sir Edmund Andros to Governor Treat. ConnePlicut Colonial Records^ Vol. III. p. 376. Bofton, ye 22^ December 1686. Sy This is to acquaint you that his Majefty haveing been pleafed to fend me to the Government of New England, of which you are a part, I arrived here the 20th Inftant, where I found all very well difpofed to his Ma^^^ fervice ; and his Ma^^^ Letters Pattents to me for the faid Government being then publiflied, were received with fuitable demonflration. I am commanded and authorized by his Ma^^ at my ar- rivall in thefe Parts, to receive in his name the furrender of your Charter (if tendered by you) and to take into my pref- ent care and charge, as other parts of the Government, affureing his Ma^^® good fubjedls of his countenance and prote 6 lion Documents and Letters. 137 protedlion in all things relating to his fervice and their welfare. I have only to add that I fhall be ready and glad to doe my duty accordingly, and therefore defire to hear from you as foon as may be, and remaine, your very affedlionate friend E. Andros. To John Treat, Efqf Governour of his Colony of Connefficut PTent \_Endorfed by Gov. Treaty as received Dec. 28///, at \ \ 0'' clock at night. Edward Randolph to Governor Treat. Colonial Records of ConneRicut., Vol. III. p. yj^. Gentlemen His Ma‘y hath commanded me to ferve another Writt of Quo Warranto upon you. It’s returnable the firfb of next Tearm. You find by a Letter from his Excellence S’’ Ed- mond Androfs, herewith fent you, that as yet a door is open for you, and ’tis your own faults if you fail of the enjoyments and indulgencies which his Ma^^ has been gracioufiy pleafed to grant to the Colonyes of New Plym° and Road Ifland now annexed to this Governmt. By ferving of this Quo Warranto, and not appearing to defend yourfelves, judgm* will be entered againft you upon your non appearance, fo that tis not in your choice how next The draft of the letter in Randolph’s handwriting is found in Majfachufetts Archives, Vol. CXXVI. p. 167. VOL. IV. — 18 138 Rdward Randolph. next to difpofe of yourfelves. You have no way to make yourfelves happy but by an early application to his Excel- lence, which is all, and more than you might expedl to hear from me with whom you have fo often and unkindly trifled with. However, I will not be difobliged, but am Gentlemen, Bofton, Dec. 23. Your humble Servant Ed. Randolph. \Endorfed'\ Receaved ys 28^^^ December 1686 at eleven of y® clocke at night ys letter p R. Treat, Govf^^ For The firft Writ of Quo Warranto from the King’s Bench againft Connefti- cut dated 8th of July, 1685, Lord Jef- freys being Chief Juftice, was returnable in November on the odtave of St. Mar- tin. The fecond one alfo dated 8th of July, 1685, was returnable on the quin- zaine of the next Eafter Thefe were ferved in perfon by Randolph and the receipt was acknowledged by John Tal- cott, an affiftant, and by John Allyn, Secretary, “upon the 20''^ of July 1686 about 12 or one in the morning.” The third one, dated 23d of Odtober, 1686, returnable in December on the oflave of the Purification of the blelTed Virgin Mary, Sir Edward Herbert being Chief Juftice. was fent by Randolph in a let- ter. The receipt of the writ was ac- knowledged by Governor Treat on the 28th of December as in the text above. The Writs are in Latin and fimilar in terms to the Writs againft Maflachu- fetts. The full text of the firft two are found in ConneRicut Colonial Records., Vol. III. pp. 356, 357. The third, the original of which is in the poffeffion of Mr. Henry H. Edes of Cambridge, was communicated by him at the April meet- ing, 1898, of the Colonial Society of Majfachujetts and printed in its Publi- cations. The firft two Writs were dated back nine days after the order was given for ifluing them. This was done that they might bear the date of the laft day of Trinity Term, which was in that year the 8th of July. See Handy-Book of Rules and Tables for verifying dates., by John J. Bond, London, 1875, PP* 424 * Documents and Letters, 139 For his Majesty’s Service. Majfachiijetts Hijlorical Society Collections,, Second Series, Vol. VIII. p. 237. To Major Pincheon at Springfield deliver. Boflon December 28. 86 Sir, Our governor arrived the 20th inftant, on the 22 wee had a council, and diredlions were given that all the members of the late government fhould be fummoned to meet on the 30th inftant, I did not fayle you, but fent the fartheft way about, for his Excellency fending a letter to Connedlicott Colony, and I difpatching a meffenger to ferve another writ of Quo Warranto on the governor of Conne6ficutt fent to him your letter, which he will be fo juft as to fend you at his coming to Hartford, where I am well affured the phyfick is to operate. I hear the little Quacks there are endeavouring to divert their coming under one government, but his Ex- cellency has his Majefty’s commands to accept of their fur- render, which they cannot avoid, they muft for publicity. Now I intreat you out of refpedl to your Son to come as foon as you can. I hope he will find the benefit of your journey, and I am to tell you his Excellency has a great kindnefs for you. If you come before you receive mine, order Mr. Glover the minifter to open the letter, in which is an order of the Governor in Council to be comm.unicated through your whole county. Be careful of yourfelf and fpeedy. We have Road Ifland already, and I fear not Conneflicutt. A dutifull fubmiffion will well become them, and place them in his Majefties favour. His Excellency will propofe greater advantages 140 Edward Randolph. advantages for their eafe and happinefs than their weak phancy’s can project. My fervice to your good Lady. I am, Sir, yours Ed. Randolph. Protest of Edward Randolph against infringement OF HIS OFFICE BY PRESIDENT DuDLEY. Maffachufetts Archives, Vol. CXXVL pp. 178-183. 30 December, 1686. To his Excellency Sr Edmund Andros Kn! Cap! Generali and Govenor in Chiefe of this his Ma,]T Territory and Dominion of New England. In all humblenefs complaining fheweth unto your Excel- lency y*" orator Edward Randolph Erq"" that whereas his gracious Maj‘^ that now is the twenty firft day of September in the fecond yeare of his Reigne by his commiflion did give to underftand to all to whome thofe prefents fhould come that whereas he had thought fit to appoint a Prefident and Councill untill he fhould fend over a Governor in Chiefe to take care of all his Territory & Dominion in New England commonly caled or knowne by the names of the Colony of the Maffachufetts Bay, the Provinces of New Hamphier and Maine and the Narraganfett Country other- wife caled the Kings Province with all the Iflands rights members thereunto belonging and doth further give to underftand that repofmg efpetiall trufl and confidence in the Loyalty and abilities of his trufly and well beloved Edward Randolph Efq’' hath given and granted unto him the faid Edward Randolph the feverall and refpeftive places and offices of Secretary and foie Regifter of his Maj‘^^ Gov- ernor and Councill of his Maj^^® Government there for the time Documents and Letters. 14 1 time being of and in his Territories and Dominion aforefaid and him the faid Edward Randolph Secretary and Regifler of his Maj*^® Territory and Dominion doth by thefe Prefents make ordaine and conftitute To have hold exercife & enjoy the faid places and offices unto him the faid Edward Randolph by himfelfe or his Deputye or Deputyes together with all fees, rights, privileges, profitts, perquifites and advan- tages to the faid places and offices or either of them belong- ing or in any wife appertaining or which fhall belong or any wife appertaine in as full and ample manner to all intents & purpofes as the Secretary and Regifler of his Maj‘^® Ifland of Jamaica or of any his Maj*^® Plantations in America have had or did there receive and injoy as in and by the fame (relation being thereunto had) may and doth moore fully appeare, whereas by an Ad made in the Ifland of Jamaica it is ordained by the Governor Councill & Affembly that the Secretaries Fees of that Ifland fhould be (1) For a permit for every Veffell that departs that Ifland one ffiilling. (2) For every Bond entred into by an Engliffiman not to carry any one of that Ifland without the Governor’s ticket five fliillings. (3) For every Bond abovefaid for an alien Ship ten fhillings. (4) For entring a caveat fetting up a name under wright- ing any perfon in the office fixe pence. (5) For a ticket to depart that Ifland two fliillings and fixe pence. (6) For taking a Bond obligatory one ffiilling and three pence. (7) 142 Edward Randolph. (7) For a licence ffor marridge fifteen fhillings & fixpence. (8) For letters of Adminiflration Warrant of Appraife- ment Bond and filing the Inventory fourteen fhillings. (9) For recording a will of one fheet two fhillings and fix pence. (10) For every fheet moore then one eight pence. (11) For every order of the Governor & Councill Copie thereof one fhilling & three pence. (12) For a licence to draw drinke fixteen fhillings & fixe pence. (13) For a Lett-pas for a Ship to depart five fhillings. (14) For every Proteft under hand & feale fixe fhillings. (15) For a citation two fliillings and fixepence. (16) For a dedimus ten fliillings : As in and by the faid Aft it may and doth moore fully appeare and whereas there is one other Act made by the Governor Councill and Affem- bly in the Ifland of Jamaica aforefaid for Regiflring of deeds and Patents it is enafled that the Clarke of the enrollments fhall and may take and receave for enrolling and coppying an ordinary Deed Grant or Patent for one or moore parfell of Land or any Deed or Conveyance not exceeding the length of fuch Pattent five fliillings. For every Deed exceeding the length aforefaid eight pence per fheet accounting twenty leaves to a fhiet & eight words to a line. For every fliort wrighting not exceeding the length afore- faid twelve pence. For fearching the records twelve pence, and for acknowl- edging Satisfaffion in the margine of a Morgage recorded one fliilling and thre pence — as in and by the faid laft recited Documents and Letters. H3 recited A6t it may and doth moore fully Appeare. Now it may pleafe your Excellency Jofeph Dudley Erq" not being ignorant of that his had granted unto your Orator The above faid offices or Places your Orator having produced and ffiowed unto him his Warrant for the faid places or offices contriving and defigning to call into queflion his Grant to your Orator and to fruftrate his gratious intentions of favor to him did refufe obftrudf and denie to permit and fuffer your Oritor to exercife and enjoye his faid places or offices of Secretary & Regifter and to receave per- ceive and enjoye all and fmguler the refpe6five Fees Perquifts rights and profits which did juflly belong and were due unto your Orator according as Secretary and Regifter of his Ifland of Jamaica have had or then did receave and enjoye and moreover the faid Jofeph Dudley did introduce nominate and ordaine Docl Daniell Allen Thomas Dudley and other perfons to execute and exercife the parts or part of the offices or places of Secretary and Regifter and did give unto them foe deputed by him the faid Jofeph Dudley power and authority to prceave receave and enjoye feverall fee and fees for the execution thereof whereby he the faid Jofeph Dudley combining and agreeing with the faid perfons did raife and procure unto himfelfe feverall great and large fome and fomes of money and to the great lofs and damage of your Orator and contrary to all right and equity and good con- fcience : may it therefore pleafe y" Excellency, The premifes confidered to grant unto your Orator his Maj^^® moft gratious Writt of Subpena to be dire6led unto the faid Jofeph Dudley Commanding him thereby at a certaine day and under a cer- taine paine therein to be limited perfonally to appear in his 1 44 Rdward Randolph. his High Court of Chancery then & there upon his Corporall oath to fhewe unto your Excellency by virtue of what power or Authority he the faid Jofeph Dudley did refufe and denye to permit and fuffer your Orator wholly and intirely to execute, exercife and enjoye his above granted places and offices of Secretary and Regifter and did nomi- nate and introduce to execute or officiate in part or in whole the above mentioned offices and places of Secretary and Regifter and becaufe your orator is wholly ignorant what fome or fomes of money were juftly due unto y Orator in relation to his faid places and offices from any perfon or perfons whofe bufinefs did juftly fall under the cognizance and management of your Orator by virtue of his faid places : may it pleafe your Excellency to enjoyne the abovefaid Jofeph Dudly upon his Corporall oath to fhewe and declare how many Aft and Afts and things were by himfelfe and by all and every perfon or per- fons foe deputed or introduced by him as above don and performed which of right did belong and pertaine unto your Orators offices and places of Secretary and Regifter as alfo what and how many fome and fomes of money were juftly due unto y Orator for and in refpefl of his above faid offices and places and further to fland unto and abide fuch order direftion and award concerning the premifes as unto your Excellency fhall feem meet and your Orator fhall dayly pray for the long continuance of y Excellence profperous Eftate. Council Documents and Letters. 145 Council of Trade to Sir Edmund Andros, Governor OF New England. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVI. p. 329. 12 January, i68f. S’’ Having notice that under Colour of a Trade to New- foundland for fifh great quantities of Wine Brandy and other European goods are imported from thence into his Ma*^® plan- tations (particularly New England) on an allegacon that the faid Newfoundland is accompted as one of the faid planta- eons to which purpofe tis now become a Magazine of all forts of goods brought thither diredily from France, Hol- land, Scotland, Ireland and other places which is not only Contrary to law, but greatly to the prejudice of his Maj‘^® Cuftomes and to the Trade and Navigation of this King- dome, to the end therefore that foe deftrudlive and growing an Evill may be timely prevented Wee defire you for his Maj‘^^ fervice to give publique notice to all perfons concerned w^Mn your Governm^ that the Newfoundland is not to be taken or accompted a PI ant aeon being under noe Governm^ or other regulation as all his Maj*^ Plantacbns are but that all European goods imported from thence will be feized together with the fhipps importing the fame as forfeited by the Adi of Trade made in the 15 yeare of his late Reigne and his faid Ma*^^ proclamation purfuant thereunto and you are ftridlly to give in charge to all his Maj‘^^ officers that they be very carefull not to fuffer any European goods (other than what are by the aforefaid law & proclamation excepted) to be imported into New England, but fuch as ffiall appeare by Coequetts or authentique certificats from fome port of England, Wales or Berwick to have there duly VOL. IV. — 19 fhippt 1 46 Edward Randolph. fhippt and put on board under forfeiture of fhipps and goods as aforefaid, and in order to prevent the acceptance of forged cocquetts or certificates which have been heretofore prac- ticed, you are (according to his Ma^® particular inftruccons to you) to give effedluall orders that the cocquetts for fuch goods be produced to the Colleftor of the Cuftomes in New England or to his deputyes there for the time being before the unloading of the goods, and that noe European goods be landed but by warrants from the fd Colledlor or his deputyes in the prefence of one or more officers appointed thereto and that for the better prevention of frauds of this kind noe fhipp or Veffell doe lade or unlade any goods or Commody- ties whatfoever untill the Mafter or Commander thereof hath firfl made knowne to yourfelfe or the perfon appointed by you the arrivall of fuch fhipp or Veffell with her name and the name of the mafter and hath fhewn that fhe is a fhipp or veffell duly navigated and otherwife quallified according to law and hath delivered a true & perfect inventory of her lading together with the place or places in which the faid goods were laden and taken into the faid fhipp or veffell under forfeiture of fuch fhipp and goods. Wee are frequently informed from our agent in Scotland of feverall fhipps coming thither with the enumerated plan- tation Commodyties without touching to clear in any port in England Wales or Berwick being generally fhipps that pre- tend to belong to and give Bond in the Plantacohs, which are plaine inftances of the great neglec5l or corruption of the officers employed in executing the laws without which wee think it almofh impoffible that fhipps fhould take in their whole ladings and not be difcovered either at their arrivall or departure. Domnients and Letters. H7 departure, wherefore Wee defire you for his fervice, not only to make a ftri6t and fpeedy examination of thefe and like frauds tending foe apparently to the prejudice of his Ma^^^ Revenue and the Trade of this Kingdome, but to take care and give effeftuall orders that the like may be pre- vented for the future which may be done thefe two ways By your care that all fhipps not producing certificats of Bond given in England Wales or Berwick be obliged to give bond to your felfe or navall officer according to law before they load or take on board any of the enumerated com- modyties under penalty of the forfeiture -thereof. 2 "^^^ that fuch fhipps having foe given bond you ufe your utmoft care and diligence to difcover whether the Conditions thereof are performed and certificats thereof produced in a convenient time after, or in failure thereof that the faid bonds be effedtually profecuted Wee are Sr your very humble ferv^® T. Chudleigh. Ch. Cheyne. Cuftome h° London D [NoRTH ?] C. O. Werden 12 January i68f W. BuTLER J. RuSHWORTH Sr Edm^^ Andros. Govern’" of New England. A TABLE OF FFEES HUMBLY PRESENTED TO HIS ExCELLENCIE THE GoVERNOUR AND CoUNCELL FOR THEIR ALLOWANCE TO THE Secretaries office in New England. Maffachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVI. p. 244. 10 March, 1686-7. for taking a bond obligatory 00.05.00 for letters of adminiflration or probate of a will oo.io.oo for 148 Edward Randolph. for recording a will or inventory the firft 24 lines 00.05.00 for every 12 lines more 00.01.00 for every petition to be read in Councell 00.06.00 for an order thereupon 00.06.00 for a coppy of an order of Councell if but one fide 00.03.00 for each fide more 00.01.06 for a lett-paffe for a fhip or veffell to depart 00.05. for recording a deed if not above 2 fides 00.05. for each fide more then 2 fides p fide 00.02. for fearching a record if within 2 yeares 00.02. if more for each yeare 00.01. for an acknowledging fatisfadtion in y® margin of a mortgage 00.03. for a certificate that a veflell was built within this "j his Majefties Dominion & for recording the V 00.12. fame J for 'a protefi; under hand & feale & recording y® fame 00.06. for a citation of a perfon to the Councell 00.02.06 for a dedimus 00.10.00 for a licenfe for marriage o. 5.0 The ffees of the Superior court of tryalls & alfize as they have been allowed in y® late Government of the Prefident and Councell The clarkes ffees what yo' Excellencie and Honours pleafe to allow. [Edward Randolph] Ffees Domments and Letters. 149 Ffees for Custome house. Majfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVI. p. 274. 17 March, 168^ Veflells inward bound. Every veffells entry not exceeding 40 tonn £ 00 . 3. 6 if above 40 tonn 5.00 ffor a permit or lycenfe to unload 1.00 ffor an oath upon a Ma? entry & clearing 0.06. Veffells outward bound. every veffells Entry to load 1.00 every veffells clearing not exceeding 40 tonn 3.06 if above 40 tonn for clearing 5.00 ffor a bond for his Maj‘^® ufe 5.00 ffor a certificate y*: Bond is given 5.00 ffor a certificate to take up a bond 5.00 ffor regiftering and difcharging a bond 00.06 ffor regiftering a certificate 0.06 ffor coafting Veffells & wood Botes, outwards to enter into bond once a yeare not to Carry European or Plantacon Comodityes without entry 5.00 ffor entry of every coafting veffell loading Eu- ropean Comodityes or of the Plantations 1.06 for a lycence to unliver their loadings 1.06 ffor all coafting veffells tradeing too and from the neighbouring Colonyes 2.06 ffor a Bond for coafting veflells carrying any of the inumerated Comodyties out of this Goverm. i.oo Ed Randolph Coll. John Rdward Randolph. 150 John Grant to Edward Randolph. Maffachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVI. p. 243. Sr I reed dated y® 26*^ of November and am glad y® goods are fafely arrived, I hope you will excufe y® trouble I have given you, but in any capacity wherein I can ferve you I fhall be glad to returne your kindnefle. ye 22"^ of Novem- ber my wife was brought to bed with a fine boy w'^’" thrives well. S’" John was pleafed to give him his own name and call him Maynard Grant : your Daughter is very well and ftill pleafed to continue as her good company w*"^ is no little fatisfaflion to my wife and myfelfe, Sr though unknowne to you and your Lady, yet y® kindneffe reed from you to- wards my humble fervices, and good wifhes for you, and herein my wife joynes with me w®^ is all from 'f unknowne but much obliged friend to ferve you. John Grant Nevils-Court in fetter-lane London March io‘!^ i68f From M*! Randolph to the Committee. State Papers., Colonial., Bundle 25 (120). Bofton : March 25* 1687. Right Hon^!® In obedience to your Lordf^P® commands are humbly laid before your Lordi^P^ the Lawes made & paffed in Councill : together with the Proceedings in Councill fmee his Excel- lencyf arrivall : the Extreamity of a hard winter & Great diftance Documents and Letters. 151 diftance of many of y® Members of y® Councill from Bofton, has occafioned the delay of Such locall Lawes found by Experience neceffary for y® common benefitt of y® Country which at next meeting of y® Councill will be perfedled. Amongfl y® lawes now tranfmitted to y’" LordP^f, That for continuing & eftablifliing Severall Rates & Dutyes etc : patTd with great difficulty, not that tis a new thing or hard- ffiip vpon the poeple for there is nothing containd in it but what is tranfcribed out of their printed Law booke & will not amount to in New Eng"! money aboue 1000?^: but they haue alwayes accounted themfelues a free poeple & looke vpon this a 6 l to be a Clogg vpon them and their eftates. His Excellence has taken care to fettle Civill and Military Officers thro’ the whole Com! & diredled that an account be giuen to y® Treafurer of Such Great Gunns & Small Arms, Ammunition & other vtenfills of Warr, which in y® time of y® late Gom! were purchafed at y® Countryes charge, to bee difpofed of for his Ma‘*f® Service & Security of y® Country, which is fo naked and vnprovided for defence ag^ any inva- fion by fea or land, that twill cofl a Great deal of money to putt y® Caflle & forts (of little flrength at befl) in reafonable repaire : The Quo Warranto brought heither vpon his Ex- cellencyes arrivall was Served vpon y® Gouf of Connefticutt Colony in December laft, hee has called an Affembly, and the poeple of that Colony are all very defirous to be vnited to this his Mati® Gom! hauing from their firft Settlement held a mutuall Correfpondence in trade & commerce, and indeed neither this Goml nor that Colony can well Subfift, if parted. Collonell Dongan has appointed the Delivery of y® ffort at pemmaquid & dependances to his Excellency who has accordingly 152 Edward Randolph. accordingly lent a Commiffion Officer & 22 men to take care of it. Vpon his Excellencyf arrivall in Bofton, he difcourf’d the neceffity of hauing the vfe (at leafl) of One of their Churches for the exercife of ye Religion of ye Church of England, & there being no convenient place affignd for that End, his Excellence hauing firft advifed with y® Councill, gaue notice to y® members of y® third Church in Bofton That he intended to haue a Sermon there on Eafler day ; and appointed our Minifter to perform his Office which he accordingly did be- tween the Houres of 1 1 and i ; in the forenoon, & 4 & 6 in y® afternoon, not in the leafl manner obflrudting them who make vfe of that place as formerly. Wee find it a difficult thing to raife a Maintenance for Our Minifler, and nothing will more obflruct the Settlement of y® Church of Engl then to haue the Minifter precarious, he is a Sober and diligent perfon & wants not onely a good encouragement for his Support, but 3 or 4 able perfons ought to be fent heither to preach in the Seuerall late Govern- ments where are fome thoufands of poeple men Women & Children vnbaptized. My Lords I humbly propofe it very neceffary for his Ma^’f® Service that the Charter of Connedlicutt Colony be profe- cuted to effedl. I know they will employ none to defend it, but let the Law take its Courfe, That (with the late Gom! at Bofton) they may be paffiue & not be Said to giue away the poeples Rights : all which I mofl humbly Submitt & remain in all Duty Right Hon^!® Your LordP^ moft humble & mofl obedient Seru! EdRandolph. To y® Right Hon^l^ the Lords of y® Committee, eL \_AddreJfed^ Documents and Letters. 153 \^AddreJfed'\ To the Right Hon^.'® the Lords of the Committee for Trade & foraign Plantations at Whitehall humbly prefent [Endorfed^ N. England. 25 Mar. 87. From My Randolph to y® Comittey. Rec'l 17 May 87. From M*! Randolph to my President. State Papers., Colonial., Bundle 55 -(122). Bofton March 25 : 1687. Right Hon^l® Purfuant to his Excellencyes Commands are humbly tranf- mitted to your Lordf? the Severall afls which haue palTd here in Councill, and are alfo tranfmitted vnder the Seal of the Gom! to be laid before the Right Hon^l® the ^^ords of the Committee for Trade : and moft humbly Submitted to his Ma^? the Extreamity of y® winter has greatly obftrudted the difpatch of publick bufines, but wee labour vnder a greater difficulty, for amongfl thofe many perfons chofen out of the Severall Colonyes to be of y® Councill there is not one, who rightly vnderftands the Lawes & praftice of the Courts of England ; from whence arifes a great want of fitt perfons to make Judges etc. & other Minifteriall Officers. They haue made themfelues Titles to very larg tradls of Land, fo that as matters are now Circumftanced Its not Safe to bring titles of Land to Tryall before them where in his Ma^l"" Right is concernd the Judges being alfo partyes. This makes all matters relating to his Ma^l® go on very heavily. His Excellence befides my Serving a Second writt of Quo Warr? agyainfl the Charter of Conne6licott, has vfed all o VOL. IV. — 20 meanes 154 Edward Randolph. meanes to a Submiffion & Surrender of their Charter. The inhabitants are very defirous to bee vnder this Gomt The addition of that Colony may in tyme raife about 3000^ a yeare thro’ the whole Dominion towards defraying y® publick charg: they fend formall & dilatory letters onely to gain tyme, but very much to the damage of the whole Territory, for as Our Shipping & fifhery cannot be carried on without Supplyes of Land provifions from thence, So neither can they find a markett for the produce of their Colony but with vs. It’s therefore for his Ma^'f® Seruice that the profecution againft their Charter be purfued to effedl : His Excellence has taken care to Settle Civill & Military Officers thro’ the whole Gom! and makes it his bufines to putt perfons well qualified in places of truft. I haue humbly tranfmitted to the Lords of y® Committee the proceedings of y® Councill, and fhall in all duty attend their Lordf?® commands, and what euer for want of able men to affift me in my Station is omitted fliall be plentifully Sup- plyed by my Continued zeal to Serue his Ma^*® I humbly intreat your LordE® favour, & remain your Lordf?^ moft obe- dient Serv^ Ed Randolph. \^AddreJfed\ To the Right Hon’"!® the Earl of Sunderland Lord Prefident of his Ma‘‘f mofl HonH® Councill : Humbly prefent. at White Hall. \_Endorfed'\ N : England. 25 Mar. 87. From Mf Randolph to my L'! Prefidii. Rec'? 17 May 8’. Lease Documents and Letters. 155 Lease of the Secretarys Office from Mf Randolph to Mr West. State Papers ., Colonial ., Bmidle 55 (217). This Indenture made the Third Day of May Anno Domini one Thoufand Six Hundred and Eighty Seaven and in the Third year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord James the Second By the Grace of God of England Scot- land and ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the ffaith, &c. Between Edward Randolph of Bofton In New Eng- land Efqy of the one part and John Weft of the fame place Gent: of the other part Whereas Our Said Soveraign Lord King James the Second By His Certaine writing or Comicon under His Royall Signett and Signe manuall bear- ing Date at Windfor the one and twentieth day of Septem- ber, one thoufand Six hundred and Eighty five, in the firft year of His Reign hath given and Granted unto the Said Edward Randolph the Severall & Refpeflive places and Offices of Secretary and Sole Regifier of His Ma^^’® Terri- tories and Dominion of New England And Him the Said Edward Randolph. Secretary and Sole Regifier of the Said Territory and Dominion hath thereby made ordained and Confiituted To Have Hold Exercife and enjoy the Said Places and Offices unto Him the Said Edward Randolph by himfelfe or His Deputy or Deputies During His Ma^^’® pleafure Together w‘^ all fees. Rights, priviledges, profitts, perquifits, and advantages to the Said places & Offices, or Either of them belonging or in any wife appertaining Or which Shall belong or in any wife appertaine in as full and ample 156 Kdward Randolph. ample manner to all intents and purpofes As the Secretary and Regifter of His Iflands of Jamaica or of any other His Plantations in America have had or doe now Receive or Enjoy as in and by the Said writing or Comiffion Relat- ing thereunto being had may more fully and at Large appear Now This Indenture Witneffeth That the Said Edward Randolph for & in Confideracon of the Rent and Covenants herein after in thefe prefents mentioned and Expreffed Hath granted bargained fett and to ffarm Lett and by thefe pref- ents Doth Grant bargaine Sett and to farm Lett unto the faid John Weft the Said feverall and Refpedtive places and Offices of Secretary and foie Regifter of His Said Ma^f® Ter- ritory and Dominion aforefaid, And Him the Said John weft Secretary and Regifter of the Said Territory and Dominion Doth by thefe prefents make and Depute To Have Hold Exerfife & Enjoy the faid places & Offices unto Him y? Said John Weft or His Affignes for and untill the full End and Tearme of ffoure years to Comence from the day of the date hereof and from thence fully to be Compleated and Ended In cafe the Said Edward Randolph fhall foe long hold and keep the Said Offices Together all fees Rights privi- ledges proffitts perquifits and advantages to the faid places and Offices, Or Either of them belonging or in any wife appertaining in as full and ample manner as is mentioned and Expreffed in y® Comiffion from His Ma\^ to the faid Edward Randolph before Refited Rendering and paying And the Said John Weft doth for himfelfe His Execute Adminiftrators & affigns Covenant Grant and Agree To and with the Said Edward Randolph his Executors Admin- iftrators and affignes To Render and pay unto the Said Edward Documents and Letters. 157 Edward Randolph his Execut? Adminiftrators & Affignes yearly and Every year During the Said Term or Soe Long time as He the faid John Weft or His Affignes by vertue of thefe prefents Shall hold and Enjoy the faid Offices the Sume of One Hundred and ffifty pounds Currant money by halfe yearly payments in Even and Equall portions And that in cafe the Rent aforementioned Referved due & pay- able to the Said Edward Randolph fhall not be by the faid John Weft or His Affignes well and truly payd at the Sev- erall days and times as the Same fhall come Due and pay- able Or within thirty Dayes after Lawfull Demand being made thereof without any Defalcacon Or abatement what- foever That then It Shall and may be Lawfull to and for the faid Edward Randolph into the Said Offices and places to Enter and the Same to have again Exerfife & Enjoy any thing in thefe prefents conteined to the Contrary Notwith- ftanding And that He the Said John Weft & His Affignes Shall and will from time to time and at all times during the faid Terme fully performe and Execute all things belonging to the Offices and places of Secretary and foie Regifter of the Territory and Dominion aforefaid And will not willfully Omit or doe any A6l or A6ls In the faid Offices & places wher[by] the faid Edward Randolph fliall or may receive any Loffe prejudice or Damage by His or their Omiffion or doeing thereof And the Said Edward Randolph doth for himfelfe His Execut? and Adminiftrators Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the Said John Weft His Execut? Adminiftrators and Affignes That He the Said John Weft and His Affignes Shall and may from time to time and at all times During the Said Tearme of ffour years (In cafe He the 158 Rdward Randolph. the Said Edward Randolph Shall Soe Long Keepe and Hold the faid Office) Quietly and peaceably Have hold Exerfife and Enjoy the faid places and Offices without any manner of Lett hinderance, Diflurbance, moleftation, interruption, or Contradi6tion of Him the Said Edward Randolph or any other perfon or perfons whatfoever by from or vnder Him and all Singular the ffees Rights priviledges profitts perqui- fits and advantages to the Said places and Offices or Either of them belonging Shall or may have & receive to His own proper ufe benefitt and behoofe without Rendering any accompt thereof or being in any manner of [or] wife ac- comptable unto the Said Edward Randolph His Execute Adminiftrators or Affignes, paying only the Annuall Rent and fume of money beforementioned Referved In Witneffe whereof the faid Parties to thefe prefents have hereunto interchangably Sett their hands and Seals the day and year firft aboue written. Sealed and Delivered in the prefence of John West Tho: Hinckley and feal. John Vsher. \_Endorfed~\ N. England. 3 May 87. Leafe of Sec^® Office from Mf Randolph to Mf Weft, Rec? 10 0 ( 51 . 87. Account Doacments and Letters. 159 Account of Publick Writings issued out of the Secre- TARYES OFFICE OF HIS TeRRITORYS & DOMINION OF New England in America since Decemb"! y^ 20’’“ 1686. MaJDachufetis Archives ^ Vol. CXXVI. p. 332. 4 May 1687. Commiflions for the peace in parchment under the Seal as followeth Suffolk I Middlefex i. Effex I. Plym‘^ & Barnaftable i New Briftol i Road Ifland, Narraganfett i. County of Hampfliire i Province of Maine i Pemaquid i Province of New Hampfhire i. Copying 5 Lawes paffed the 8^^ of March laft by the Governor and Councill Engroffing them in parchment ffive laws paffed under the feal of the Gov- ernm^ fent to the Lords of the Councill Copies of the fame fent to my Lord Sunder- land Copies of all the Laws fent to y® Seuerall Countys & Provinces of the Government at 40® each 240 Military Commiflions at 5®^ a peece 8 Dedimus Poteflatem £^ £^ £^ £^ £i £^ £^ £s £^ £2 £^o £^ 10 10 Copyes i6o Rdward Randolph. Copyes of his Ex’f Commiffion fent to New ) ^ Plym^l’ Road Ifland and Connedlicot ) 3 commiffions for Judges under y® Seal 20 copies f 3 “^ ies of y® Ordi" of Councill of March | 5 ^' 10 • . 16 . . Id-- 15 • • 10 }di 10 . . /I 10 1 686 Dec. 22. ye gth 20 copies of ye order againfl: pedlers Seuerall difburfements by order of Councill as follovveth Paid to Rexby for carrying letters to New Briftol to be fent to Road Ifland to fummon y® members of the Councill to Symon Meflenger for carriing his Excellencyes letter to the Gov' of Connedticutt to M' Maffey for carriing letters to Pif^ cataqua: to fummon M' Hincks and M' Ting o. lO. 23 15. o 26 I. 15. o Ed. Randolph Secry. R. TO Blathwait. [Extract] Majfachufetts Hijlorical Society ColleSions^ Fourth Series.^ Vol. VIII. p. 531. May 21. 1687. His Excell, has to do with a perverfe people. Here is none of the council at hand, Except Mr. Mafon, & myfelf, & Mr. Documents and Letters. i6i Mr. B. & Mr. Ufher, who appear lively for his Majefty’s Intereft. Nothing has been wanting in his Excell., to bring all things to a good pofture, both private & public. He Dif- charges the Duty of an Excellent Govern^ But this people are Rivetted in their way, & I fear nothing but Neceflity or Force will otherwife difpofe them. Mr. Randolph to Mr. Povey. ColleLlion of Papers., by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 296. . Bofton, May 21ft 1687. Sir, I have with me your three letters of March the 7th. nth and 7th April, by Mr. Mafon, for all which I heartily thank you, and for your particular diredion in the feveral ftages of my eniploy. I have very lately had the bonds of mafters of fliips bound from hence to England in my cuflody, and thofe are indorfed that copys thereof are fent for England ; you fliall not faile of the duplicates if this fliip makes not too much fpeed, and for the future you may expedl them with my other accounts of the cuftom-houfe ; however I am to take it as a favour if I be permitted to fend them direftly to the cuflom-houfe, in regard I have been cenfured for fuf- fering my papers but to look firfl into the plantation office, and the primier, there now, obje6led hard againft me. Par- don my digreffion, you are fenfible, how much bufinefs I have lying upon me, to fend accounts and duplicates from my cuf- tom office. I am at 50/. a year charge to keep an able clerke. I cannot yet get any fees fettled fufficient to pay that charge, VOL. IV. — 21 Mr. i 62 Rdward Randolph. Mr. Stoughton, Mr. Wharton and others obje6ling that his Majefties falary for lOo/. a year is to defrey all that charge, fo that I am a great lofer, befides I am to have deputies in our feveral ports, and unlefs they allow fees I am not capa- ble of doing that fervice at a diftance without deputies, and their not allowing moderate fees is only to difcourage from infpefting their irregular trade. This his excellency has endeavoured to have redified, but is oppofed by my enemies^ to my very great Ioffe, and prejudice to my deputyes. In- clofed is fuch an account as I could get from Mr. Hooke, late treafurer in the province of Mayne. Mr. Danforth, tho’ feverall times putt upon it for an account, wholly declines it, and fayed he never received any money but it was all payd to Mr. Hooke, treafurer. His excellency tryed all wayes to bring the people toquitt rents. There were feverall who would take grantes for lands, but as it now falls out his excellency has none to Dif- pofe of ; a little time will trye what our new judges Dudley and Stoughton will fay, when either Indian purchafe or grantes from the generall court are queftioned before them. Sir, you will much wonder to hear I have difpofed of the fecretaryes office, for too inconfiderable a vallue, wheras it was judged worth 5 or 600/. I loft mony confiderable, dur- ing the time I had it, one part the preftdent ran away with, and it was not fettled, tho’ his excellency endeavoured it, but allwayes oppofed, and whatever Mr. Weft can make of it, I could not get an able man to difcharge it, but the whole trouble, care and charge lay upon me. I, fome time after his excellencyes arrivall, was direfted to prepare Commif- fions, civill and military for the whole territory. I made 12 in Documents and Letters. 163 in parchment for the peace, 240 military, copied and en- groffed in parchment all the lawes, and difperfed copies through the whole government, yet they fcrupled to allow me for writing them, thefe matters have fo difcouraged me that I thought it better to have fome certainty than to leave all loofe, and know no end to the charge. I hope long ere this you have received the minutes fince his excellency’s arrivall, fince which nothing confiderable has paffed, only fome lawes about regulating cornfields and cattle, coopers and cafks, they flick hard upon that of poffeffion as of a generall concerne and next to that, for a law for miniflers maintenance, flrongly oppofed by the quakers. We have had but one meeting of the whole councill fince paffing thofe laws; that of the rates of pieces of eight does not anfwer the end, money grows very fcarce and no trade to bring it in. The members of the Councill of Rhoad Ifland and New Plimouth have enough of Comeing to fett in coun- cill, 8 or 10 dayes a time, at their own charge, and I now expe6l but very thin appearance for the future, in regard the tables are downe, but to the great diffatisfadlion of our brethren. Twill be for his Majeflyes fervice to putt Mr. Shrimpton in the place of Capt. Champernoon and Mr. Lufcombe in the place of Mr. Jo. Sandford of Rhoad Ifland, both dead. Since Colonel Dongan had notice of his excellencies letter to the governor of ConnecTicott, he has fent his to tempt them to fubmit to New Yorke government, with affurance of the injoyment of their eftates and properties, and that they fhall all be continued in the government, with I know not what other great advantages. If Connedlicott goe to New Yorke, 1 64 Edward Randolph, Yorke, it will certainly evince that collony and this govern- ment cannot fubfift without a free trade with Connedlicott, which will be debarred if they are not annexed to us, or what’s worfe for us, to pay 10 per cent, for all wheat, porke &c. brought to us, which we cannot want. Mr. Mafon is very acceptable to his excellency and to many of us. . . . reports abroad that he has the better of Mr. Mafon. Moody is out of humour, I believe he will be obliged to leave this town. I entreat you to fend the in- clofed as diredled, and be affured that I am. Sir, your moft humble obliged fervant, E. Randolph. Sir, you have herewith the duplicates of the laws fent by Capt. Ware. To John Povey, Efq; Order of Governor Andros to Edward Randolph to SEIZE THE Ship Samuel & Thomas. MaJlfachufetts Archives,, Vol. CXXVI. p. 367. Sy Edmund Andros Kn! Cap! Generali, Governo’' in Cheife & Vice Admiral of his Ma^^® Territory & Dominion of New England To Edward Randolph Efqf Colleftor Surveyor & Searcher of his Maj‘’®^ Colonies in y® Territory & Dominion aforeP Whereas Informacon is given unto me by Cap! John George Command! of his Maj^!^® ffriggatt the Rofe that there hath lately been received on board y® Ship Samuell & Thomas whereof John Tebbitt is Command! & from thence imported & landed within this his Ma^'f® Territory & Domin- ion of New England Severall goods. Wares & Merchandizes of Documents and Letters. 165 of y® growth producon & manufaflure of Europe which were not truly & bona fide fhipped & loaden in England Wales or y® towne of Berwick upon Tweed, Contrary to ye feverall Laws adt & Statutes in fuch cafes made & provided, Thefe are therefore in his Mah®® name to require & command yo“ that forthwith yo" caufe ye fhipp with all her gunns, tackell, furniture Ammunifion & Apparell to be feized & fecured, that fhe may be further proceeded ag^ according to Law & for foe doeing this fhall be yoy Warr! Given undy my hand & feale att Bofion the 24^^ day of June 1687. To THE Kings Most Excellent State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (311). The Humble Petition of Edward Randolph (to be Secretary of all New England) Sheweth That yy Petnl" by his late efpeciall commands about twelue yeares fince, entred vpon the managem! of his Ma^'f® publick affaires in New Eng? and haueing in that tyme made nyne voyages to & from thence, and fuffred all the Hardfhipps and difiicultyes a Treacherous and difcontented poeple Could Contriue, hee obtaind a Judgm! againft the Governy and Company of the Maffachufetts Bay in New Eng? and vpon vacating their Charter, That Colony together with the Kings Province the Provinces of Main & New Hampflieir were thereby brought vnder yy Ma^®® immediate Government. That yy Ma?® was there vpon Gracioufly pleafed to appoint y- Different handwriting. 1 66 Rdward Randolph. yT Petn!; to be Secretary and Sole Regifler of thofe Provinces & that Colony : which were all that at that tyme was a6lu- ally in yy Difpofe : the other Colonyes of Connedticutt and Road Ifland having obtained Patents of Incorporation from his late Ma^i® were Independent Governm^® and refolued to Stand & fall by thofe Charters. That vpon yT Petn? carriing y5 Ma?®® Royall Commiffion conflitutlg and appointing a Prefident & Councill to take vpon them the Goverml of that part of the Country then vnder yl Ma^l®^ obedience vntill the two other Colonyes were by law or otherwife obliged to a Submiffion : Your Ma‘l® was then pleafed to Command yf Petn! to Serue two Writts of Quo Warranto vpon the feverall Govern? & Companyes of the Colonyes of Road Ifland and Connedlicutt : which yf Petny has fo effectually performed, That yy whole Plantation of New Eng? hauing for nigh fixty yeares been devided into many Petty Governm? is now vnited and a Larg and Ad- vantageous Dominion added thereby to yy Ma^l®® Imperiall Crown. Now for as much as yy Ma?® in yy Princely Wifdome hath been pleafed to appoint One Generali Gouy to prelide & govern that whole Plantation, and yy Petny to the great ob- ftruCtion of all publick affaires cannot by yy Ma?®® Grant Officiate as Secretary in y® Colonyes of Road Ifland & Con- neClicutt vnlefle by your Ma‘?® New Commiffion he be im- powred there vnto your Petny humbly prayes yy Ma?® to take the Prem- iffes into your Royall Confideration, and as a farther mark of yy Ma?®® Grace & Bounty to Grant him a Commiffion to bee Secretary and Sole Regifler of yy Ma'?® Documents and Letters. 167 Territory & Dominion of New England as now vnited and Setled (like as is Granted to y® Regifter of yr Ma‘l®^ other forain Plantations:) Your Petn- hauing by yr Ma'l®® Royall favour been Eminently Seruiceable in Bringing that whole Country to an intire dependance vpon the Crown: and yr Petnr Shall ever pray etc : EdRandolph : from Boflon in New Eng^^ Augr yf 9^^ 1687. \Endorfed\ 9 Aug. 1687. Mr Randolph’s Petition to be SecV of all N : England. Declaration of Indulgence to be published in New England by S'" Edm. Andros. State Papers ^ Colonial ^ E 7 itry Book , 61, p. 341. Memorandum. On the 28^^' day of May 1687, Their Lo^® at y® Councill at Hampton Court, figne a Circular Letter to S'" Edmund Andros, requiring him to Caufe His Ma^^® Declaration for Liberty of Confcience and Indulgence in Religious Matters, to be publifhed in New England, And to be obferved and put in Execution there ; And that where Pardons fhall be defired in Cafes relating thereunto, he grant the Same under His Ma‘^^ Seal for that Plantation. Signed Jeffreys C. H. Arundell C. P. R. Bathe Sunderland P. Powis. Preston The i68 Edward Randolph. The Revolution in New England justified by Edward Rawson and Samuel Sewall contains the following extract from a letter of Edward Randolph written to Mr. Povey dated August the 25TH, 1687: Andros TraRs., Prince Society, Vol. I. p. 113. “ I believe all the Inhabitants in Bqfton will be forced to take Grants and Confirmations of their Lands, as now in- tended the Inhabitants of the Province of Maine which will bring in vafi profits to Mr, Wefi^ he taking what Fees he pleafes to demand. I lhall always have a due Honour and Refpedt for his Excellency, but I muft buy his Favour at three or four hundred pounds a year lofs.” Account of Articles from Ship Johanna under seizure DELIVERED BY EdWARD RANDOLPH. Maffachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVII. p. 75. Portfmouth Sept y® 5 : 1687 Be it remembered that I then delivered 8 fmall iron Gunns with their carriages together with all y® yards & topmafhs which did belong to the Ship Johanna of Portf- mouth Phillip Severett Matter unto M"" Butler fent by Collonell The claim made that the ovvnerfhip of the entire foil of MalTachufetts was vefted in the Sovereign by the vacating of the Charter was fimilar to the decla- ration made by Wentworth in Ireland in 1635 that “the King had a clear and undoubted title to the whole of Con- naught ... if they [the inhabitants] ventured to refufe to acknowledge the King’s title, they would do fo at their peril.” See The Perfo 7 tal Goverti?nent of Charles I by Samuel Rawfon Gar- diner, Vol. II. pp. 153, 154, ed. 1877. Domments a7td Letters. 169 Collonell Dongan to receive the faid fhip and furniture, who then accordingly took poffeffion of them in the prefence of Arthur Hoddy and James ffloud : E. R. Portfmouth Sept. Y Be it likewife be remembered that I then went to the Ship Johanna lying moored at Mr. Cutts wharfe and caufed the Ship to be cleared of William Harper who pretended to be aboard the Ship to keep poffeffion for Mr. Severtt and the Ship then hauing no perfon aboard. I tendred to M*" Butler & defired him to take her into his poffeffion, but he abfolutely refufed in the prefence of George Jeffryes Mafler &: Arthur Hoddy: W” Glanvile’s Letter of Attorney to Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives Vol. CXXVII. p. 65. Know all men by thefe p'^fents that W? Glanvile of Bof- ton within his Maj‘.® Territory & dominion of New England in America hath made Ordayned Conflituted & Apointed Edward Randolph Efq. of the fame place his true & Lawfull Attorney to afk demand & receive of W? Hooke of Kittery in the province of Newhampfhire all fuch fume or fumes of money as is due to the faid WT Glanvile and for non pay- ment thereof to arreft attach fue implead and imprifon him the fd W"" Hooke his Execut? or Adminiftrators for fuch fume or Sumes of money as aforefaid or any part thereof and upon Receipt and payment thereof him the fd W? VOL. IV. — 22 Hooke I/O Edward Randolph. Hooke his Execut'.' or Adminiftrators out of Pryfon to de- liver : & Releafe or other Sufficient difcharge to & for the fame, In witneffe whereof him the fd W” Glanvile have hereunto fett his hand & feale this one & thirtyeth day of Auguft 1687 W. Glanvile I Sept. 1687 there apeared before me ye above faid W’" Glanvile & acknowledged this to be his Act & Deed Jn? Usher. Letter from Andros ; Towns refuse to pay Taxes. State Papers., Colonial^ Entry Book 109, p. 118. At the Committee for Trade & Plantations In the Council-Chamber at Whitehall Thurfday the 1^} of Dec : 1687. Prefent : Lord Prelident, Marquis of Powis, Earl of Peter- borow, Earl of Craven, Earl of Caftlemain, Earl of Middle- ton, Lord Vifco! Prefton. A letter from Sr Edmund Andros to the Corn- New England mittee dated the 28‘^ of September laft read, giv- srEdm: ing their Lo^.® an account that feveral of the Sept. Towns in the County of Effex had refufed to ARiotat^ make their Affeffments or Rates, fome of them Asscsments* i • ttjT ro*n i having Voted very factioully, vpon which feveral of the Cheif Incendiaries had been committed, and others bound over ; to Anfwer at the next Superior Court, or to bee Tryed at a fpecial Court to bee held at Bofton. Petition i Documents and Letters. Petition of Edward Randolph for Nahant Neck. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVII. p. 172. [i 06lober 1687.] To his Excellency S'” Edmond Andros Kn! Govenor &c. The humble petition of Edw : Randolph that there is a certaine tra 6 l of land nigh the Towne fhip of Linn in the County of Eflex in this his maP.^ Territory and Dominion out of fence & undivided, Containeing about five hundred acres, commonly called Nahant Neck for which your Peti- tioner humbly prays his ma^^® grant and that your Excel- lence would pleafe to iflue a Warrant to the Surveyor Generali to admeafure the fame in order to paffing a patent, he paying fuch moderate Quitt Rent as y** Excellence fhall pleafe diredl for the fame and yr petP. etc. E. Randolph Proceedings agT Wise and others of Ipswich for Misdemeanors. State Papers., Colonial., Bundle 55 (243). 061. 1687. At a Court held in Bofton in the County of Suffolke in the Dominion of New England by an Efpeciall Comicon of Oyer & Terminer &c the third day of Odtober being Munday in y® third year of y® Reigne of our Soueraigne Lord James y® Second King of England &c before Jofeph Dudley Efq' &c. & from thence by adjourm! Continued till Munday y® 24^^ of y® fame month when it was diflblved. Memorandum, 172 Rdward Randolph. New Engfc Memorandum, That on the third day of Odlober in the third yeare of Our Lord the King abovesd before the Juftices of Our faid Lord the King at Boflon came ^ Georee ffarewell Genti who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King in this behalfe fued and brought here into the Court of Our faid Lord the King A Certaine informacon againft John Wife of Chebaco within the Townefliip of Ipfwich in the County Of Effex Minifler Jn” Appletoune of Ipfwich aforefaid Genti Jn? Andrews of the fame place Yeoman Thomas ffrench of the fame place Taylor Robert Kinfman of the fame place Yeoman And William Goodhue of the fame place Yeoman of a plea of High Mifdemeanour & John Doe & Richard Roe are pledges of profecucon which faid Informacon followeth in thefe words ff: New England ff: George ffare- well Genti who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King in this behalfe profecutes Comes here into Court in pper prfon and on the behalfe of Our faid Lord the King Gives the Court here to underfland and be informed That Whereas John Vfher Efquire Treafurer & Receiver Generali of Our faid Lord the King within this his Territory & Dominion of New England the twentyeth day of July in the Yeare of Our Lord the King abovesd Purfueant to the Laws & practice of the faid Dominion & by Vertue of A Certaine Aft Lately made by his Excellency Sr Edmund Androfs Knight his sd Matyes Governf of his faid Dominion and his Coun- cill lately publiflied Entituled An Aft for the Continueing & Eftablifhing of Certaine Rates Dutyes & Impofts did Iffue forth a Certaine warrant under his hand and feale direfted to the Conftable & feleft men of The Towne of Ipfwich in the County of Effex within his faid Majeftyes Territory Documents and Letters. 173 Territory & Dominion of New England requiring the Con- ftables of the faid Towne forthwith upon receipt thereof to Call together the Inhabitants of the faid Towne who were to Choofe One amongfl themfelves to be A Comiconer And that fuch Comiconer fo chofen together with the felefl men of Ipfwich aforesd fliould fome time in the month of Augufl Then next Enfueing make a Lift of all the male perfons in the faid Towne from fixteene yeares of Age and upwards And A true Eflimacon of all Reall & perfonall Eftates in fuch manner & forme as in the faid Ad is particularly Di- redted all which pfons & Eftates were by the faid Comiconer & the faid feledt men to be alfeffed and Rated as followeth Vizi Every fuch pfon as Aforefaid (Except the members of his Majeftyes Councill) One fhiit Eight pence p head and all Eftates Reall and pfonall at One penny p Every twenty fliilt According to the Rates of Cattle &c. in the faid Adt menconed & the sd Comiconer Was thereby likewife re- quired upon the firft wednefday in the month of September then next following to meet and Affemble with the other Comiconers of the faid County at their Shire or County Towne & bring with them fairly written the juft number of males lifted as aforefaid and the affeffment of Eftates made in the faid Towne where the Comiconers being fo affembled fliould duely and carefully Examine the lifts and Affeffments & Corredf & perfedf them According to the true intent of the faid Ad And the fame perfedled the sd Comiconers were fpeedily to tranfmitt to his faid Majeftyes Treafurer & Re- ceiver Gen'! under their hands or the hands of the Major part of them And Whereas the faid Warrant at Ipfwich in the faid County afterwards (that is to fay) the fiftenth day of 174 Edward Randolph. of Augull in the yeare of the King abovesd was Delivered to John Harris One of the Conflables of the faid Towne of Ipf- wich Nevertheleffe John Wife of Chebaco within the Towne- fhip of Ipfwich aforefaid in the County Aforefaid Minifter John Appletoune of Ipfwich aforefaid Genti John Andrews of the fame place Yeoman Thomas ffrench of the fame place Tailor Robert Kinfman of the fame place Yeoman and William Goodhue of the fame place Yeoman with divers other evill difpofed & Difaffedled perfons to the faid George ffarewell unknown nothing ignorant of the p'‘miffes but Con- triving and malitioufly & feditioufly intending the Laws Goverment and Authority of Our faid Lord the King of his faid Territory and Dominion of New England into hatred difgrace & Contempt to bring and the hearts and affedtions of his faid Majeftyes Liedge people from their Alledgiance & Obedience to Our faid Lord the King due to alienate Eftrange & withdraw the two & twentyeth day of Auguft in the third yeare of the Reigne of Our faid Lord the King that now is and divers Other dayes & times before at Ipfwich aforefaid (to witt At Bofton in the County of Suffolke) with force and armes &c : fadioufly unlawfully malicioufly and feditioufly did Affemble & meet together and then and there Did Confpire & Endeavour to make the fubjedls of our faid Lord the King of his Territory and Dominion of New England aforesd to beleive and be per- fwaded that they were not Obliedged to obey or Obferve the Laws or A6ts Made by his faid Excellency Sr Edmund Androfs Knight his sd Majeftyes Governr here and his Councill for the Government of his faid Majeftyes Territory and Dominion aforefaid or the faid Warrant fo iffued by the faid Documents and Letters. 175 faid Treafurer as aforesd thereunto purfueant and to perfedl and bring to paffe fuch their factious unlawfull feditious & malitious Contriveances & confpiracyes aforesd they the faid John Wife John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Rob! Kinfman and William Goodhue with divers Other Evill minded and difaffeded perfons as aforesd at Ipfwich aforefaid (to witt at Bofton aforesd) the three and twentyeth day of Auguft in the third yeare of Our Lord the King aforesd being mett & affembled together he the faid John Wife Did openly & publickly faftioufly malicioufly and fedi- tioufly fay publifli and declair in the prefence and hearing of Them the faid John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman & William Goodhue and divers other evill minded and difaffedled perfons That the faid Warrant fo by the faid Treafurer iffued as aforefaid was not Legall & to Obey and Comply with the fame were to lofe the liberty of ffreeborne Englifh men And he the faid John Wife did likewife then and there Excite and ftirr up the people To be wife and Confider before they aded any thing which might be to their prejudice And that they Ought to have an Affembly before they payd any Rates contrary to and in Contempt of the Laws of his sd Majeftyes Govern- ment and the faid Warrant of the faid Treafurer And to perfwade others the fubjefts of Our faid Lord the King to beleive the aforefaid fpeeches of the faid John Wife To be true They the faid John Wife John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman & William Goodhue with feverall other evill minded & difaffedfed per- fons the faid three and twentyeth day of Auguft aforesd At Ipfwich aforefaid (to witt at Bofton aforesd) Did advifedly & 176 Edward Randolph. & malicioufly Draw up and make or Caufe to be drawne up and made A certaine fadlious feditious & malicious writeing Declaracon or Vote in thefe Words Vizf At A Legall Towne meeting Augufb the twenty third One Thoufand fix hundred Eighty feven affembled by vertue of An Order from John Vfher Erq*" Treafurer for choofmg A Comiconer to joyne with the Seleft men to affeffe the Inhabitants ac- cording to an A6l of his sd Excellency the Govern' & Coun- cill for Levying of Rates the Towne then confidering that the faid A6t doth infringe their Liberty as ffree Borne Englifh Subjefls of his Majefly by interfearing with the flatute laws of the Land by which it was Enaded that no taxes fliould be levyed on the fubjefts without confent of an Affembly chofen by the ffreeholders for affeffing of the fame they do therefor Vote That they are not willing to Choofe A Comiconer for fuch an end without faid priviledges & moreover confent not that the feledt men do Proceed to lay any fuch Rate untill it be appointed by A Generali Affembly Concurring with the Govern^ and Councill Voted by the whole Affembly twice. Which sd writing the sd John Wife John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman & William Goodhue did then and there caufe to be openly read and publifhed And the faid John Apple- toune ' — V Pretending himfelfe to be Towne Clerke of Ipfwich aforefaid did then and There write and Enter the faid writeing Declaracon & Vote into the Towne Book and malicioufly and defignedly did Give out Publifh and dif- perfe feveral Copyes thereof by meanes whereof feverall Others his faid Majeftyes fubje6ts were ledd afide feduced & brought from their duty & allegeance to the great fcan- dall Documents and Letters. 177 dall fcorne & contempt of the Government of Our faid Lord the King of his Territory and Dominion of New Eng- land aforesd To the Evill Example of all Others in the like cafe offending and againfl the peace of Our faid Lord the King his Crowne and Dignity &c : And hereupon coihand was Given to the Sherriffeof the County of Suffolkethat he fliould forthwith bring here into the Court of our faid Lord the King the sd John Wife John Appletoune John An- drews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman and William Good- hue in their Propper perfons to hear and Anfwer to the faid inform aeon and they were brought and afked the hearing of the faid Informacon and it was Read to them And the faid John Wife faid that he was not Guilty of the High Mif- demeanour abovesd in manner & forme as the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c: above againft him hath informed and of that he put himfelfe Vpon the Countrey And the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c: in like manner And the sd John Appletoune faid that he was not Guilty of the hio:h mifdemeanour abovesd in manner & forme as the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him hath informed and of that he put himfelfe upon the Countrey And the sd George ffarewell who ffor Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : in like manner And the faid John Andrews faid that he was not Guilty of the High Mifdemeanour abovefaid in manner & forme as the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againfl him hath informed and of that he put himfelfe upon the Countrey And the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : in like Manner VOL. IV. — 23 And 178 Edward Randolph. And the faid Thomas ffrench faid that he was not Guilty of the high mifdemeanour abovesd in manner and forme as the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him hath informed and of that he put himfelfe upon the Countrey And the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : in like manner And the sd Robert Kinfman faid that he Was not Guilty of the High mifdemeanour abovefaid in manner & form as the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him hath informed and of that he put himfelfe upon the Countrey And the sd George ffare- well who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : in like manner And the sd William Goodhue faid that he was not Guilty of the high mifdemeanour abovesd in Manner & forme as the faid George ffarewell who for our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him hath informed And of that he put himfelfe upon the Countrey And the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : in like manner Therefore Comand was [given ?] to the Sherriffe that he fhould forthwith caufe to come here into the Court of Our faid Lord the King twelve honeft & Lawfull men &c: By whom &c: And who neither &c : to take Knowledge &c : becaufe afwell &c : And the Jurors thereupon impannelled (to witt) William White late of Bofton Merchant Anthony Howard late of the fame place Merchant Samuel Ravenfcraft late of the fame place Merchant Peter Bowden late of the fame place Gentf James Lloyd late of the fame place Merchant ^ Stephen Wefendonck late of the fame place Merchant ^ William Browne Late of the fame place Merchant Samuel Proftor Documents and Letters. 179 Proftor late of the fame place Merchant John ffoy late of the fame place Merchant Edward Perry late of the fame place Merchant Benjamin Davis late of the fame place Merchant and Richard Harris late of the fame place Mer- chant came into the Court of our faid Lord the King Who to fay the truth of the p’‘miffes being chofen tryed and fworne upon their Oaths faid that the faid John Wife was Guilty of the high Mifdemeanour abovefaid in manner & forme As the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him had informed And the sd Jurors fo as aforesd chofen tyred and fworne upon their Oaths likewife faid that the faid John Appletoune was Guilty of the high mifdemeanour abovesd in manner and forme as the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him had informed And the faid Jurors fo as aforefaid Chofen tryed and fworne upon their Oaths likewife faid that the sd John Andrews was Guilty of the High mifdemeanour abovesd in manner and forme as the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againft him had informed And the sd Jurors fo as aforefaid Chofen Tryed and fworne upon their Oaths likewife faid that the sd Thomas ffrench was Guilty of the High Mifdemeanour abovesd in manner & forme as the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c: above againft him had informed And the sd Jurors fo as aforesd Chofen tryed and fworne upon their Oaths likewife faid that the sd Robert Kinfman was guilty of the high mifdemeanour abovefaid in manner And forme as the faid George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c: above againft him had informed And the i8o Rdward Randolph. the faid Jurors To as aforesd Chofen tryed and fworne upon their Oaths likewife faid That the faid William Goodhue was Guilty of the high mifdemeanour abovesd in manner and forme As the sd George ffarewell who for Our Soveraigne Lord the King &c : above againfl him had informed Where- upon Comand Was to the Sherriffe of the faid County of Suffolke That he fhould take into his Cuflody the Bodyes of the faid John Wife John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman & William Goodhue And Becaufe the Juftices of Our faid Lord the King have not yet advifed themfelves what judgement to Give upon the p^'m- iffes therefore further day was Given untill munday the four and twentyeth day of October inflant At which day before the faid Juftices of our faid Lord the King at Bofton aforesd Came the faid Georo^e ffarewell who for Our Soveraiene Lord the King &c : and Demanded judgement againfl: the sd John Wife John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman & William Goodhue And they were brought to hear the Judgement of the Court on the p^'miffes And thereupon it was Confidered that the faid John Wife be fufpended from the publick and Private Miniftry within his Majeftyes Territory and Dominion of New Eng- land during the pleafure of his Excellency his faid Majeftyes Govern!" there for the time being Pay fifty pounds Currant money of New England as a fine to Our faid Lord the King Give fufficient furety in One thoufand pounds like money for his good behaviour towards Our faid Lord the King and all his Liedge people during one yeare next pay the Cofts of his Profecution And till this be performed that he Remaine in the Cuftody of the Sherriffe &c : And it was Confidered of Documents and Letters, i8i of the faid John Appletoune that he be incapable of Receiv- ing any publique Office within his Majeftyes Territory & Dominion of New England during the Pleafure of his Ex- cellency his faid Majeftyes Governr there for the time being pay fifty pounds Currant money Of New England As a fine to Our faid Lord the King Give Sufficient furety in One thoufand pounds like money for his Good behaviour towards Our faid Lord the King and all his Liedge people during One yeare next pay the Cods of his profecution and till this be performed that he remaine in the Ciffiody of the Sherriffe &c : And it was Confidered of the faid John Andrews that he be incapable Of Receiving any publique Office within his Majeftyes Territory and Dominion of New England During the pleafure of his Excellency his faid Majeftyes Governf there for the time being pay thirty pounds Currant money of New England as a fine to Our faid Lord the King Give fufficient furety in five hundred pounds like money for his Good behaviour towards Our faid Lord the King and all his Liedge people during One yeare next pay the Cofls of his profecution and till this be performed that he remaine in the Cuflody of the Sherriffe &c : And it was Confidered of the faid Thomas ffrench that he be incapable of Receiving any publique office within his Majeftyes Territory & Domin- ion of New England During the pleafure of his Excellency his faid Majeftyes Governf there for the time being pay fif- teene pounds Currant money of New England As a fine to Our faid Lord the King Give fufficient furety in five hun- dred pounds like money for his Good behaviour towards Our faid Lord the King and all his Liedge people during One yeare next pay the Cofts of his profecution and till this be performed i 82 Edward Randolph. performed that he Remaine in the Cuftody of the Sherriffe &c : And it is Confidered of the faid Robert Kinfman that he be incapable of Receiving any Publique Office within his Majeftyes Territory and Dominion of New England During the pleafure of his Excellency his sd Majeftyes Governour there for the time being pay twenty pounds Currant money of New England as a fine to Our faid Lord the King Give fufficient furety in five hundred pounds like money for his Good behaviour towards Our sd Lord the King and all his Liedge People During One yeare next pay The Cofts of his profecution and till this be performed that he Remaine in the Cuftody of the Sherriffe &c: And it was Confidered of the faid William Goodhue that he be incapable of Receiv- ing any publique Office within his Majeftyes Territory & Dominion of New England During the pleafure of his Excellency his faid Majeftyes Govern! there for the time being pay twenty pounds Currant money of New England As a fine to Our faid Lord The King Give fufficient furety in five hundred pounds like money for his Good behaviour towards Our faid Lord the King and all his Liedge people during One yeare next pay the Cofts of his Profecution and till this be performed that he Remaine in the Cuftody of the Sherriffe &c : And the faid John Wife John Appletoune John Andrews Thomas ffrench Robert Kinfman and Wil- liam Goodhue are in mercy, &c. Dnus Rexl u’s’ Icopjudic. \_Endorfed'\ N : Engl? 061 : 1687 Wife & at J Proceedings agf! Wife & others of Ipfwich for Mifdemean. Reef 18 Jan : 87. The Documents and Letters. 183 1346 4 7 y 2466 4 7 The State of his Revenue in New England. State Papers., Colonial., Bundle 55 (213). 10 061 . 1687. The Revenue rifes by Cuftoms Impofts Excife and Country Rate. £, s. d. £ s. d. The Excife was by the Prefident and Councill \ farmed for One yeare Ending the I2^^ of ( 450 o o June paft att ) Dureing the Prefidents time one third of the^ Cuftoms and Impofts was abated for money as was Coftomary w^^ fome time after the Governors Arrivall was altred and only Twelve p Cent allowed for Leakage and after that Manner Colledled the Cuftoms and Impoft for one full yeare amounted to Off which one thoufand and Forty two Pounds was difpofed of by the Prefident and Councill The Country rate at one peny p Pounds amounted the laft yeare to about one thou- fand Two hundred Seventy and three Pounds but the Same being in Country Pay one ^ ^70 o o third was allowed to reduce it to money as Coftomery and with other Charges will bring it in money to about But by the Prefent A6l no abutment being to \ be made Supofe may amount to about 1200^ ( 530 o o Pound w^^ is more ) The ffarme of the Excife being out & now \ managed by Commiffion will probally amount ( 600 o o to ;^iooo p Ann or upwards is more ) There being no abutment upon Customs and^ Impofts but twelve p Cent Leackage Supofe ( may amount to Sixteen hundred pounds ( which is more by about J y 1380 o o 250 o o 3846 4 7 Ml 184 Edward Randolph. All which will be - ffarr - Short of the Necceffary Charge of the Government. Therefore as the Eafiefl: and befl way to Advance the Same Its Propofed That the Impofl of Wines from Ten Shillings thirteen Shillings four pence and Twenty fhillings p Pipe as now Paid be made Equall for all Sorts and raifed to Thirty fhil- lings p Pipe. That y® Excife upon all Wines retailed be raifed from ffifty Shillings p Pipe to One Shilling p Gallon and all Brandy Rum and Strong Waters retailed from Eight pence p Gallon to One Shilling. That the Excife of all Beere Ale and Syder retailed be raifed from one Shilling three pence to Two Shillings Six pence p Barrell And whereas the peny rate by reafon of the Greate Dif- proportion in the prifes and Vallue of Horfes Cattle Sheep Come &c : in the Severall parts is both unequall and Con- trary to the Ufage in Severall places pticularly in the Dif- tant Collonys and Provinces now annexed and Occafions Greate truble and Expence to Gather and bring to the Treafury ; ' — v If His Ma‘l® would Pleafe in Stead thereof for the future to Order a Certaine Sume or Authorize the Councill there to do it for foe much as fhall be wanting yearly to defray the Charge of the Government (after the Cuftoms Impofls and Excife paid as aforefaid) by Equall Shaers and portions on the Severall Countyes and Townes leaving the manner of Affefing the fame to the Inhabitants According to former Ufuage Documents and Letters. 185 Ufuage The Same will be farr Eafier and more Certaine to His Ma‘l® The Charge of the Government Two Companyes of Souldiers in his p^y as by Eftablifhment Chaplin Maf Gunner and Armorer Two Gunners for Bofton Horthill South and North Battrey at 12‘^.each p Diem A Commoffary and Store Keeper neceffary wanted at 4S p Diem The Ma^. Gunner at the Caftle on Caftle ) Ifland at 2\ p Diem I 36: 10: o One Gunner for the Caftle and Battry on ) a Caftle Ifland ) 18 : 5:0 A Gunner at Pifcattaway at 12^ p Diem A Gunner at Pemaquid at 12^ p Diem The Cheife Judge 150: o: o Two other Judges 240 : o: o The Treafurer at V p Pound is for the laft yeare The Receiver of the Cuftoms and Impofl at 2^ p pound is for the laft yeare The Severall Officers in the Out ports (viz) Salem Pif- cattaway Briftoll and Road Ifland For the Colledling the Excife at prefent are Imployed Two Colledfors and three Survayers and Gagers the Charge whereof may be about Fire and Candle for the Souldiers and Guards — Reparations or New ffortifications and other Incidental! Charges — The Governours Sallary } } £. s. d. 2065 05 10 212 18 4 36 10 O 73 00 o 54 15 o 18 5 o 18 5 o 390 o o 122 6 O 134 12 O 100 o o 200 O O [Efidor/ed^ The State of His Revenue in N. England Ann 1687. Rec'l 10 06 t: 1687. Read aty® Com^f® 31 06 t : 1687. VOL. IV. — 24 A 1 86 Rdward Randolph. A SHORT Narrative of my proceedings and several voy- ages TO AND FROM N. ENGLAND TO WHITEHALL DURING THE TIME OF MY MANN AGEING HIS AFFAIRES IN N. England, humbly presented by Edward Randolph. i Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVII. pp. 218-220. i67s[6] Mar. 20th 1676 June 10, July 30. Sept. 10. 1678 Decemr 20 1679 Sept. 10. Octobr 23. I reed his Letters to the Govern’’ and Compa of Y Maffachufets Bay in New England to attend at Whitehall and anfwer y® complaints brought ag* them by Mr. Mafon and Mr. Gorges. I arrived in N. England and ded his Maj^’®® Letters to y® Govern’’ and Council then fitting at Bofton. I embarked myfelf for England. I landed at Dover and prefented the Rt. Hon^^® y® Lds ye Comitee for trade w^’’ a Narrative of y® Effate of their Countrey and Government, and exhibited articles of high mifdemeanour ag^ y® Governo’’ and Compa. Two agents arrived in England from Bofton to make their defence. I attended two years and made good my charge ag^ the Govern’’ and Compa at y® Councel Chamber. The agents confefs the fa6l, pray his Maj^'®® pardon, and acknowledge his Maj^’®® right to y® Governm* of the Province of New Hampfhire. The Bofton agents have leave to returne and new agents to be fent w* full power. I was commanded to go for N. England by way of N. York to carry over his Maj^’®® Commiffion of Governm^ Documents and Letters. 187 Governm* diredled to a Prefident and Council in New Hampfhire. I fhipped all my goods and houfehold Huff of a con- liderable value upon a veffel belonging to N. England and are all loft at fea, together his late Maj^‘®® picture and Royal Armes fent to N. Hampfhire. I arrived to N. York and travelled by land from thence to New Hampfhire in y® winter, nigh four hundred miles. I arrived at N. Hampfhire and after great Oppofi- tion made by y® Softeners, fettled his [Majefty’s] Government in that Province. His Governm^ declared and owned in y® Pro- vince of New Hampfliire. I returned from N. Hampfliire to Bofton impowered by the Com’’^ of his Maj‘'®^ Cuftoms to prevent y® Irregular trade. I feized feveral of their veffels w^^ their Loading. His Maj^'®^ authority and y® A6ls of Trade difowned openly in their Courts and I was caft in all thefe caufes and damage given ag^ his Maj*^ Having complained hereof I returned to England and obtained his Maj^'®® Letters Pattents to be ColP &c. of his Maj^'®® Cuftoms in New England. The Rt. Hon'"^® y® Lords of y® Comitee for trade report to his Maj^^ that in confideracon of my good fervice I ought to have a hundred pounds annually added to my former Sallary of one hun- dred pds but his Maj‘^®^ fervice requireing my fpeedy 1 88 Edward Randolph. Decemr 17. Mar. 10. 1682. Augt. 20. Septr. 20 Decemr 20. 1683 May 28. fpeedy returne to N. England I was difpatched away and that addition not fetled. I arrived again at Bofton in N. England w*^ his Comiffion appointing me Colh &c. but that Comiffion is oppofed, being looked upon as an encroachm! on their Charter. A law Revived by y® Affembly to try me for my life and for acting by his Commiffion before it was allowed by them. His Commiffion not allowed to be read openly in Courts. My Deputies and under officers im- prifoned for a6ling by virtue of his Comif- fion. Other agents from Bofton arrived in England. Bofton agents appearing are directed to procure larger Powers. I Reed orders from y® Lords of y® Comitee to re- turne to England to profecute a Quo Warranto ag^ y® Bofton Charter. I arrived in England. June 13. I was ordered to attend M*" Attorney Geffi^ w^*' proofs of y® charge ag* y® Bofton Governm*. July 20. Ordered a Quo Warranto be brought ag* Bofton Charter. octobr i 7[26]. I arrived in N. England ferved y® Quo Warranto, publifhed and difperfed two hundred of his Maj^'®® Declaracons. Decemr 14. I Imbarked myfelf for England, had a dangerous voyage, the veffel wrecked at fea, both her fides carried away in a florm, and my goods loft. I [1684] Feby. 14. 1684 Octobr 23. Decern'’ 20. 1685 July 15* Augt 15. [1686] Jany 20. 1686 May 14 May 30. June 12. July 12. Documents and Letters. 189 I arrived at Plymouth and was commanded to at- tend and profecute y® Bofton Charter. Judgm‘ was entered up for his Maj‘‘® ag^ y® Bofion Charter. I was ordered to prepare articles ag* y® two colonies of Rhode Ifland and Connetticott. The Attorney Gen^ ordered to iffue out writs of Quo Warranto ag^ y® Collony of Rhode Ifland, Connetticott &c. and againft y® feveral Proprie- tors of Maryland, Penfilvania and Eaft and Weft Jarfey. I was direfled to ferve y® Quo Warranto upon my Baltimore, Proprietor of Maryland, and y® Pro- prietor[s] of Eaft and Weft Jarfey, and to ferve y® two writts upon y® Colonies of R. Ifland and Connetticott, all w^"^ I duely pformed. I and my family Imbarked upon y® Rofe ffriggotfor N. Engid. I arrived at Bofton w‘^ his Maj‘*^^ Comiffion of Gov- ernm^ to a Prefident and Council. Then the Colony of y® Maffachufets Bay, y® Province of New Hampfliire and Maine are brought under his Maj^'^® Governm^ I ferved y® writ of Quo Warranto upon the Govern’’ and Compa of Rhode Ifland. I made a fecond journey to Rhode Ifland to receive y® Gen^ Court’s Anfwer. I ferved y® writ of Quo Warranto upon y® Govern’ and Compa of Connetticott above one hundred and fifty miles diftant from Bofton. The 190 Rdward Randolph. Decemf 28. Decemr 30. 1687. Octobr 25. The Govern^ and Compa of Rhode Ifland humbly fubmit to his Maj^‘® and are by his fpe^‘ order to his Excelh^ S’" Edmond Andros, Kn* united to this Governm‘. I rec’d a fecond writ of Quo Warranto ag* Connetti- cott and was ordered to ferve it A fecond writt upon y® Governm^ of Connetticott is ferved upon y® Governm*. They make their hum^ ble fubmiffion of themfelves and Governm^ to his Maj^'®. His Excelh^ goes to Hartford y® chiefe town in Con- netticott and erefts his Governm^ there, fo 'f now y® feveral Colonies are united under his Maj^'®® Imediate Governm* and authority vizt: the Maffachufets, New Plymouth, Connetticott, Rhode Ifland, and y® Provinces of N. Hampfhire Maine and Pemaquid, and y® King’s Province lying above feven hundred miles in length and above feven hundred miles upon the weftern Sea. Certificate from Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVII. p. 295. Cuftome houfe. Boflon in New Eng'^. Thefe may certify whom it doth concerne that James Thomas, Matter of the Bark John, late of Rochell, has fatif- fied me the full of my demands of one third part of the value of appraizement of the faid Bark due to me as profe- cutor of the fame : Witnefs Documents and Letters. 191 Witnefs my hand this twenty fecond day of December 1687 Ed. Randolph, Coll. Hats Shipped by Thomas Bradford to Edward Randolph. Majfachujetts Archives .^ Vol. CXXVI. p. 17. Shipped by the Grace of God in good order and well con- ditioned by Mr Thomas Bradford in and upon the good Ship called the Katherine of London whereof is Mailer under God for this prefent Voyage Tucker and now riding at Anchor in the River of London and by Gods grace bound for Boiton in New England, to fay, tow Deale-boxes, Con- B teining Eighty nine hatts marked as in the margent, ?i:2: being marked & numbred as in the Margent, & to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned at the aforefaid Port of Boflon (the danger of the Seas onely excepted) unto My Edward Randolph, or to his Afiigns, he or they paying Fraight for the faid Goods twelve ihellins flerlin with Primage & Average accu domed. In witnefs whereof the Matter or Purfer of the faid Ship hath affirmed to three Bills of Lading all of this Tenor and date ; the one of which three bills being accompliflied, the other two to Hand void. And fo God fend the good Ship to her defired Port in fafety. Amen. Dated in London the 30^^ Juin 1686 W” Tucker Acc’t 192 Rdward Randolph. Acc’t of hatts fold on acco“ of Edward Randolph Efq'. 1687. Aprill 7 fold Robert Glafwell i Caftor hatt N°2 June fold for cafli 2 d° N° i. at 9* “ 18 — July 2 fold James Hill i ditto N° i. at “ 10 — 7 Sold W? Gibbins 19 ditto N° i. at 9. ;£ 8 “ ii — 14 fold Samii Bryant 2 ditto N° 2 at 15 ;£ i “ 10 “ — ybery® 5 Sold David Robertfon 3 ditto 2 at “ 18 — xber y® 14 fold W™ Gibbins 16 d° n° i at 8/9 I d® N® 2 at 9 / 7 “ 9 “ — 20 “ II ‘‘ — + s. Reed 4 I. Joseph Dudley to Edward Randolph. Mather Papers.^ Vol. VI. p. 62, in Bofton Public Library. To Edward Randolph, E^q^ S’", — I made my Excufe yeflerday to M' Wefl for my abfence. I am this morning ill & uncapable to ride. You have already a coppy of y® letter you defire, & that which is in my hand is not M*" Mather’s own writing, but only his fubfeription. What may be done by y® one will alike be done by y® other. Give my humble Service to his Excel- lency. I wifh his health while I want my own. Your ferv‘, J. Dudley. 15 Dec. 1687. Memorand. that this 29^^ Decemb. 1687, I was at Roxbury with the Prefident, who owned the Inclofed to be a true coppy of Mr. Mather’s Ire, And at any tyme on occafion he would have the Originall In court. Giles Master. Warrant Documents and Letters. 193 Warrant for the Arrest of Increase Mather. Maffachufetts Hijlorical Society Colledlions ^ Fourth Series ., Vol. VIII. p. 702. Suffolk SS. By Vertue of his Maj‘f Writt of Capias to me Diredled, Returnable before his Maj^^ Juftices at the Next Superior Court of Pleas, to be held in Bofton on the Lafl: Tuefday in January nexte, you fhall A reft Increafe Mather to Anfwer g X To Edward Randolph Efquir: of a Plea of Trefpas uppon the Cafe, to the Plaintiff’s Damage five hun- dred pounds. Da‘. the 24^^ of Dece. & in the Thirde year of his Maj‘f Reigne, 1687 James Sherlock, Sher^. Vera Copia, Thomas Larkin. Randolph’s Suit against Rev. Increase Mather. Among the Andros Records in the pofTeffion of the American Antiquarian Society is a paper in Randolph’s handwriting entitled : “ Breefe in y® cafe betwixt E. R. pt. & I. M. deft, proofes : That I. M. did write the libell and fend it to Mr. Dudley: produce the copy of y® Letter fign*^ by Gyles M*" : demand his depofition G : Matter. That the letter was fent by I. M : quere. J. Dudley. That y® letter was made publick Jo : Ufher. Sam Shrimp- ton. quere who fhowed it them & where ; That it was likewife made publick at Salem Mr. Hale defire him to produce y® originall. Of whom he had it ? VOL. IV. — 25 whither 194 Edward Randolph. whither not made publick in Salem. That Edw'^ Randolph & not Barn^. * [vizt. f it was Rand, himfelfe for it is well known he did once exhibit a complaint ag^ this Colony etc. produce the Articles of High mifdemeanours : lo articles expreffes it Confeff’d by Ag^^ petition [let all men judge whither any but Rand. [whither he has imitated my hand or forged any more let- ters] produce his letters to IVB Gouge & M’’ Keek : That Rand : has been all along imployed in his Mat^® Spe- ciall fervice produce the paffes : from K. C. the Commiffions from y® how y® people do dir of the Treafury: up Y people to deftroy the paffe from K. James me : he engaging the the letter of y® Gov*' & Councill : people in his perfonall flandders. probabilityes that Mather was y® Author Mather accufes me does not excufe himfelfe of that faying as Ahab required Naboths vineyard. There was a meeting about y® 19th of December foon after my departure upon Balfton, at y® town houfe, the words proved by Capt. White & he had not the Confidence to denye them in vindication. not all to be believed in his letter: he denyed he ever knew My Gouge. M" Lufcomb.’* Documents and Letters. 195 TO Increase Mather. Hijlorical Papers of C. W. Tuttle., edited by Colonel Albert H. Hoyt, p. 305. As to the A6lion of Defamation Pleafe to Know that as to things incertaine or dubious noe pticular A6lion can be comenced vpon. Now ’tis noe where afferted in that Lre that Edward Randolph was the fforger of that Lre. As to that (that “ belike the Jewes Name was either Edward or Bernard Randolph ; ”) ’tis not pticularly appropriated to Edward Randolph, foe that for the incer- tainetye thereof Noe Adlion can lye at the Suite of Ed- ward Randolph, and “ one of the Randolphs being detedled of fuch villanye is lately fled to fave his Eares,” which can- not touch Edward, and that “ Randolph is a great Knave ” is too genall to Comence an Aftion vpon, and that “ ’tis fufpedted that he may be the Author thereof,” is too geiiall ftill to mainteyne an Adlion ; and as to an Adlion for words, it cannot bee, for that the pper words for fuch adlion are (Retulit, p’^palavit & publicavit in auditu quamplurimorum fubditorum Dni Regis in his anglicanis verbis, videf, &c.) then writeing of a Lre barely to one, I cannot vnderfland to be a publication, altho the pfon to whome the Lre was Writt doe fliew it to feverall ; but he may be faid to publifli, &c. But let them firft prove the Lre to be yours, which you need not owne, and you may fafely plead. That you are not guilty (modo & forma vt querens verfus eum queritur.) Et de hoc, pon fe fup. patriam, &c. In hafl. I am Yrs. &c. [C. C. ?] Increase 196 Edward Randolph. Increase Mather to Joseph Dudley. Mather Papers, Vol. VII. p. 2, in Bofton Public Library. Thefe for f Hon*’able Jofeph Dudley, Efq. in Roxbury. — I have for many years fhewed all y" refpedt to y’’ felfe & y*"® which I could do, & have wifhed for an oppor- tunity of doing more. Providence has fo ordered y‘ it is now in y’' power to do me a kindnefs. I defire nothing but what is jufl: & righteous, & therefore am confident you will hearken to me. I then pray you to confider whether it can fland with jufiice in Mr. R[andolph]s cafe to find for him at all. For I. I never did pofitively charge him w^^ y® forged letter; only declared my fufpicion. Now, except y® charge be pofitive & particular the cafe is not aflionable as a flander. The truth is I never thought that hee (& therefore could not charge him,) but a brother of his was the forger, only I wifh he can bona fide, clear himfelfe from being privy to that wickednefs. 2. No man can fay y^ my name was fubfcribed w‘^ my owne hand, or y‘ y® Scribe might not miftake feveral words, & fend a wrong copy to yTelfe. 3. Mr. R. is legally guilty: Hee y* has falfely to y® Secretary of State & others, charged me w^^ a letter w®^ is a forged thing, is legally guilty of y^ Forgery. But Ml^ R. has done fo. In his letter to M*" Bradflreet, (who has bin fo kind as to give it to me) dated 7^®" 4, 1684, He confeffeth y‘ hee informed Sir L[eoline J[enkins] & feverall of y® Lords, y* I was y® Author of y^ letter to My Gouge. And in his letter to Mh Shrimpton dated July i8‘^ 84, (w®^ I have by me likewife) Hee accufeth me w^^ y^ treafonable letter. I have little knowledge in y® Statutes of y® Land, but fome acquaint- ance Documents and Letters. 197 ance y® Laws of God 1 ought to have. If y® fbatute, Deut. 19, 18, 20, may take place, Mr R. ought to dye y® death for having falfly & malicioufly accufed me a capital crime. Thefe things I thought it my concern humbly to fugged; to you. I comend you to God, & reft. Sir, to ferve you I. Mather. Jany. 24^^, 1687. — I mufl: entreat you to be as kind to me as Mr Bradftreet has bin, in giving me Mr R.’® letter to y’’felfe Hee fent y® Forged Letter of mine. Mr. Randolph to Mr. Povey. Colle 6 lion of Papers.^ by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 299. Boflon Jan. 24. 1687. Sir, I am much obliged to you for yours of the 2 2d of Sept, laft, with the newes and copy of Sir Robert Holmes com- miffion, all which I gratefully received from Capt. Leg, who arrived here the loth infl. and delivered your letters, and packetts to his excellency our governor, who, being in great forrow for the Ioffe of his good lady who dyed the 2 2d inftant, defires me to prefent his humble fervice to Mr. Blathwayt and to yourfelfe, and to excufe his not writing to you by this accidental! opportunity of a veffell going for Holland with logwood and muff touch at fome port in England. By 198 Edward Randolph. By the feverall Gazetts, filled with addreffes, I find you are all at liberty at home, and I believe the court is fo taken up with the weightier matters of ftate that there will be no room for my wife to addreffe my petition for a confirmation of my office of fecretary and foie regifier, &c. which I pray may be enlarged and extended to the limitts of the prefent government. I fee no reafon why I fhould refede in my defires of getting an underfianding gentleman to come from home to engage in difcharge of the fecretary ’s and regifter’s office, which is very beneficiall to Weft, no fees being as yet agreed upon, and I have ground to believe defignedly done to difcourage any to undertake that office, whilft, in the mean time, he extorts what fees he pleafes, to the great oppreffion of the people, and renders the prefent govern- ment grievous. I have wrote you of the want we have of two or three honefl atturneys (if any fuch thing in nature) we have but two, one is Mr. Weft’s creature, came with him from New-York, and drives all before him; he alfo takes extravagant fees, and for want of more the country cannot avoid coming to him, fo that we had better be quite without them than not to have more. I have wrote Mr. Blathwait the great neceffity of judges from England. I know there are fome loyall gentlemen and able lawyers, who have not pradlice; the judges with us, being now 3, have 390/. be- twixt them all, befides their fees, which they make very confiderable to them : Now, two will ferve our occafions. They ought to be of the Councill and their Salaryes made up 400/. a yeare, apeece, they will deferve it. As for Mr. Bulkley he is ftupified and drown in melancholy, and almofi: ufeleffe, being feldom with us. I formerly wrote you about a Documents and Letters. 199 a fitt perfon to affift in my office. Befides the lofle I dayly receive, Mr. Weft is cryed out upon by all ; and whom Mr. Blathwayt or you fliould recommend will be acceptable. Capt. Nicholfon tells me Mr. Martin who was to come over with Col. Kerke, is out of bufmefs and believes he would accept of the office : I would have an honeft gentleman, who will not be drawn to ill company, but will mind his bufmefs : There are many about court, but now out of my mind. Pray, pleafe to affift my wife in what may be for my intereft. Severall veffells are gone from hence to Bermodos, but are defigned for the wreck. No news yet of Sir John Nor- burrow or Sir William Phips being there. We cannot yet agree upon the prizes [prices] of money : Some would have all peeces of 8, tho’ of 15 pennyweight, go at 6 s, New-Eng- land, others at 1 7 ; but they ftand at i Our money goes all away and ftiall have little or none to fupply ordinary occafions. Since the governor’s arrivall New Plimouth colony have great profitt whale killing : I believe they will have nigh 200 tons for to fend to England, and will be one of our beft returnes, now beaver and peltry fayles us. I have a defire to fee England once more, but I know not when I can get an opportunity, or my buftnefs will allow of my abfence, till I take leave of it, which I am not much difpofed to think of till I hear all things are fettled with you. I fliall write you all our proceedings, as opportunity offers. Not further, but that I am. Sir, Your moft humble fervant, Edward Randolph Juft now notice is come that Will. Harris is arrived at Pifcataqua. Order 200 Edward Randolph. Order of Sir Edmund Andros to Edward Randolph to KEEP ALL THE TREASURE TOGETHER AND BRING IT TO Boston, as requested by William Burroughs, Master OF THE Brigantine. 20 February i68|. Maffachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVIIL pp. 53-58. Sy Edmund Andros Kn\ Cap! Generali Governor in cheife & Vice Admirall of his Territory & Dominion of New England to Edward Randolph EfqT Whereas by his Ma*'®® Order unto me directed bearing date y® 22*^ Odlober laft pafl the one Moiety or halfe part of all Plate Silver gold or treafure of any kind taken up out of y® Wrecke near Hifpaniola or from any other wrecke whatfoever is Ordered to be recov- ered & received for his Ma^'®® ufe and whereas the Brigan- tine Supply whereof William Burroughs is Commander is lately arrived from the P Wrecke att y® Porte of Briftoll with Plate & other treafure taken up out of the fame I doe there- fore by thefe prefents Authorize and require you forthwith to repaire on board the P Brigantine & there recover and receive y® Moyety or halfe parte of all fuch plate filver gold or threafure of any kind as you fhall find on board her or that has been taken up out of y® P wrecke for his Ma‘'®® ufe as aforefaid and having received the fame fforthwith to caufe it to be brought and fafely Conveyed by land to Bof- ton in y® Executing & performing whereof all Juftices of the Peace, Sheriffs Conflables and all other his Ma^‘®® offi- cers both civill & military & all his loving fubjed:s are hereby flridly charged & required to be ayding helping & affifting to you therein as Occafion and for foe doeing this fhall be unto you and them a fufficient Warrant given under my Documents and Letters. 201 my hand & feale att Bofton y® day of ffebruary in y® 4^*" yeare of his Reigne Annoq'" Dhi 1687-8. By his Excelh Comm*^. John Weft D. Secry. Council Meeting. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVII. p. 173. Att a Councill held in Bofton on fryday the third day of ffebruary 1687 [8] Prefent: His Excellencye S’" Edmund Andros Knt. &c., Jofeph Dudley, Th° Hinckley, John Hincks, Francis Nichol- fon. Will Stoughton, John Uflier, Nathan^ Clarke, Sam^ Shrimpton, RoD Mafon, Barth. Gidney, Edw*^ Randolph, Will. Browne, Efqrs. Upon reading this day in Councill the peticon of Edward Randolph therein praying his Majeftyes grant of a certaine part of vacant land lyeing nigh the Towne of Lynn in the County of Effex comonly called Nahant neck & Conteyning about five hundred Acres. Ordered that the conftables of faid Towne or either of them on receipt hereof doe give publique notice in the faid Towne of Lynn that if any perfon or perfons have any clayme or pretend to the faid Land they appeare before his Excy the Goveno’’ in Councill on Wednefday the feventh of march next then and there to fliew forth the fame and why the faid Land may not be granted to the Petitioner as defired and that they faile not therein and to make due returne. By order in Councill &c. John West. D. Secry. VOL. IV. — 26 Received 202 Rdward Randolph, Received this order from the hands of Jeremiah Belcher the 2"!^ day of this inflant March i68| and attending there- unto have given publique notice of the matter ordered therein this 5^^ of March &c. by me John Edmonds, Conflable in Lyn. Objections of Lynn to the Petition of E. Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives, Vol. CXXVII. p. 174. To his Excellency S’’ Edmund Andros Kn* & o!: Honor- able Governl: with his Honourable Councill to fitt with him on Wednefday the feaventh of this inflant March i68| Having received the order etc . . . Wherefore wee the proprietors of the pafture of Nahant & Inhabitants of Lynn have in duty & obedience to o’’ pref- ent & Honourable Governo’' & his Honourable Councill prefented before them as followeth: Imp. our humble & moft thankful acknowledge of the favour fhowed unto us in giving us notice of fuch an enterprife (as whereby) fhould it take effedt would foe extreamely indal- mage foe many of his Majeflys good fubjefts . . . That wee have in our Records: that in the yeare 1635: this tra6l of Land viz our Nahants was in the hands of the then freemen of Lynn to difpofe of whoe did then grant unto feverall inhabitants lands to plant & build upon & poffeffe, & they did not performe the conditions, they to whome it was granted, forfeited the land, foe graunted to the Towne agayne to difpofe as fhall be thought fitt and among thofe to whome thefe lands were graunted, that worthy & honourable Documents and Letters. 203 honourable Gentleman Mf Humfreys was one who was a patentee & an affiflant in the firft Governm\ therefore fure, it was the Townes lands then. that thofe inhabitants did build & dwell there they were tributaries or tennants & paid their yearly rent to the Towne, as long as they lived or were removed by the Towne, as to inftance Robert Coates, yet living to teftify it. there have been fome that have layde a clayme to this land called Nahant & commenced a fiewt at Law with the Tovne for it, but were call at Law : the Court that then was gave the tovne the cafe, juftyfied the townes right, never denyed it nor blamed them about it. This trackt of land, it hath beene divided into planting lotts to the feverall proprietors by the voat of the Towne, as appeares in our records Anno 1656 & the whole fenced as a common feild & of the lotts beene improved by the proprie- tors in planting tilling & manuring & afterwards by the agreement of the proprietors converted into a pafture & foe ever lince to this day improved foe wee have by hard labour & induftry fubdued it into foe good a capacity as it is to this day for the Townes future benefitt and none others. Wee have honefhly purchafed the faid trackt of land with our money of y^ originall proprietors of the foyle, viz. the natives & have firme confirmations thereof under hands & feals according to law. Wee have poffeffed & improved the faid trackt of land upwards of fiifty years, for foe long fmce it hath beene built upon, inhabited by tennants paying their acknowldgm*f yeare after yeare. Wee hope arguments of this nature wil be fwaying with foe rationall a Common Wealths man as M-- 204 Rdward Randolph. M’’ Randolph whoe hath ever pretended great refpedl to his fubjedls among us & an earneft care &defigne to pro- mote their welfare & profperity. The premifes confidered wee believe a Gentleman under fuch circumftances will not bee injurious by feeking a particular benefit to impoverifh & difadvantage foe many of his maj'^^" good fubjedls by feeking the alienation of fuch a trackt of land foe eminently ufefull & needfull for thofe proprietors now in poffeffion of it. It being a thing foe confiflent with his Maj^'®^ pleafure that his fubjedts fliould enjoy their properties and flourifh under his Government. ... It will be extremly prejudicial! if not impoverifh the body of y® inhabitants of Lynn whoe live not upon Traffique & trading as many feaport townes doe, whoe have greater advantages, but upon hufbandry & raifing fuch ftocks of Cattle & Sheep as they are capable & as their out- lands will afford for this our Nahant is fuch a place for us (as God & nature hath fitted & accommodated with her- bage & likewife the only place about us for fecurity for our creatures from the teeth of the ravening wolves. . . . there- fore the faid trackt of land hath been improved by the pro- prietors as a grazing field with great benefit to the body of the whole towne. ... if the pafture be alienated from us our poore familyes will be very great fufferers. ... we fliall bee rendered very uncapable. ... to contribute fuch dues & duties to his Maj^‘®^ Government fett over us. . . . Wee then in humility crave the favour of his Excellency & his honourable Councill for fuch a tryall and proceffe as the Law may admitt off in fuch a cafe. . . . figned by the Committee in the name & behalfe of the Proprietors of Nahant. To Documents and Letters. 205 To HIS Excellence Sf Edm° Andros Gov? Majfachujetts Archives., Vol. CXXVII. p. 176. [In Randolph’s handwriting.] The humble reprefentation of Edward Randolph flieweth : That having by his humble petition to f Excellence prayed a grant of a certain tradl of land lying in the townfliip of Lin in the County of Effex etc. called Nahant, your Excel- lence was pleafed by y’’ order in Councill the 3^ day of Nov: laft to diredl that the Conftable of the town do give pub- lick notice to the town that if any perfon or perfons had any claime or pretence to the Land they fhould appeare before y Excellence in Councill on Wednefday the 7^!' of this inflant March at which tyme feverall of y® inhabitants of the faid town of Linn did appeare & prefented y Excel- lence with a paper containing their feverall objedlions to the faid petition. in anfweare whereto its humbly offered as follows : . That in their faid paper it does not appeare by whom or at what tyme the Lands petitioned for, or any part thereof were difpofed of to the inhabitants of Linn: nor that the town of Linn was incorporated in y yeare 1635 nor at any tyme fince & fo not invefted with a power of receiving or difpofmg fuch lands. That the few men of Linn mentioned in the firft Article in their f^ paper were not ffreemen of the Corporation of Lin (as they would infmuate) but inhabitants only in the townfliipp & were admitted by y Gen’^ Court to be free men of y colony with power to eleft Magiftrates etc. & their town 2 o 6 Rdward Randolfh. town of linn is equall to a village in England & no other- wife. And in regard their whole paper contains nothing more materiall than what is expreffed in their firfl Article, y' Peti"*' hath nothing further ... to offer than to praye 'f Excellence grant according to his petition all which is humbly prefented. Council Meeting. Majfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVIII. p. 36. Att a Councill held at the Councill Chamber in Bofton ye 3^ day of february 1687 [8]. Prefent : His Excye. S’" Edmund Andros, Kn\ &c. ; Jofeph Dudley, Th^" Hinckley, John Hinckes, ffran. : Nich- olfon, Wl^ Stoughton, John Ufher, Nath. Clarke, Sam’^ Shrimpton, RoN Mafon, Barth. Gidney, Edw*^ Randolph, W"" Browne, Efqrs. Forafmuch as the feverall orders formerly made for tak- ing an account of the publique Records of the late Mafla- chufetts Colony have not been attended that the fame might be putt into the Secfyes Cuftody and all perfons have recourfe to them as occafion Ordered that M*" Ifaac Addington and M*" John Herbert Coward be and are hereby defired and authorized in the prefence of M*" Edward Ran- dolph Secy and M*" Edward Rawfon the late Secry or fome one in his behalfe doe take an account in writeing of all the faid Records and that they beginn the fame on Tuefday next and continue day by day about the fame till completed and that all the faid Records be delivered into the hands and Documents and Letters. 207 and cuftody of the faid Secfy and the account thereof by them taken forthwith returned to this board under their hands. By order in Councill. etc. John West D. Secry. Warrant for Cambridge proprietors of land to appear AND PUT IN CLAIMS ADVERSE TO PETITION OF EdWARD Randolph. Maffachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVIII. p. 68. Att a Councill held at the Councill Chamber in Bolton on Wednefday the 2cf" of febr. i687[8]. His Excellency S’" Edm. Andros, Kn*, &c. ; Jofeph Dud- ley, Jn° Winthrop, Wayte Winthrop, John Uflier, John Green, Edw: Randolph, ffra. Nicholfon, Samuel Shrimp- ton, Efqrs. Upon reading this day in Councill the Petition of Edw^ Randolph Efql praying his grant of a c'tain tra6l of vacant and unappropriated land contayneing about feaven hundred acres lying between Spy Pond & Sanders Brook neere Watertown in the County of Middlefex Ordered That the Sheriff of faid County doe forthwith after returne hereof give publ . notice both in Cambridge & Watertown that if any perfon or perfons have any clayme or p^tence to the faid land they appeare before his Excellency the Gov" in Councill on Wednefday the feaven th of March next, then & there to fliew forth the fame, & why the faid land may not be granted to the Petition" as defired, of w*'^' he is not to faile & to make due return By order in Councill &c. March 2o8 Edward Randolph. March 4 i68| memd: this warrant was fent up from Bof- ton to Camby on ye fabbath day morning by a boate, w^'^' was an unufuall thinge in y‘ place to fee y® fabbath day fo pophaned, & a warrant potted up on y® meeting houfe to give notice.^^ Council Meeting. Maffachtifetts Archives.^ Vol. CXXVIII. p. 81. Att a Councill held att y® Councill Chamber on Thurfday y® day of March i687[8]. P'^fent: His Excellency S’” Edmund Andros, Kn\, &c. ; Jofeph Dudley, W? Stoughton, Jn° Winthrop, Waite Win- throp, Jn° Uther, Barn. Lathrop, Nath^ Clarke, Rich"^ Ar- nold, Edw : Randolph, ffrancis Nicholfon, Efq? The Peticon of M*" Edward Rawfon being this day read praying to be confidered for his trouble & time fpent & im- ployed in forting & taking an account of y® publique Rec- ords of y® late Maflathufets Collony Ordered that y® Sume of three pounds be payd him by y® threafurer out of his Maj‘'®^ threafury as a Gratuity for y® faid fervice. M’’ Ifaack Addington & M*" Jn° Herbert Coward praying this Board to be allowed y® fume of ;^3; 9%* 9^ for their trouble Attend- ance & Expences in forting & taking an Account of y® publique Records of y® late Maffathufets Collony pfuant to an order of this Board as by their acct pTented Ordered that Maffachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVIII. p. 56. “p virtue of this order notice is Given to y® pfons concerned, p Sam'* Gookin Sh’ff. 5 March 87/8.” Documents and Letters. 209 that fd fume be allowed them & payd by y® Threafurer out of his Ma^‘®^ threafury accordingly. Upon hearing y® Peticon of Edw? Randolph Efq’’® pray- ing an order for y® fume of ^47 110:9 being for his truble Charges & Expences in travelling from Bofton to Briftoll & there receiving & fecureing y® halfe parte of y® filver & plate imported in y® Brigantine Supply W"" Burroughs Ma' from y® Wrecke for his Ma^‘®^ ufe & bringing y® fame by Land to Boflon afforefd as by his acd thereof likewife p’^fented w®'" this Board taking into Confideracon doe allow y® fame & Order that y® P fume of ;^47*. 10: 9 be forthwith payd him out of y® money reteined for his Ma^'®^ ufe as afforefd'. Upon hearing y® Peticon of Edw^ Randolph Efq*"® pray- ing an allowance of y® fume of lo'i" y® value of his horfe loft on a journey to Hartford in July 1686 & eight pounds more for his expences being for his Ma‘'®^ fervice, w®^ this board taking into Confideracon doe Order that y® fume of ^15 be payd unto him by y® threafurer out of his Ma*'®® threafury for his Loffe & Expences on the Journey. To HIS Excellence S'" Edmond Andros Gov“ Maffachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVIII. p. 84. [In Randolph’s handwriting.] The humble petition of Edward Randolph Sheweth : That about y® month of July 1686 your petn" was diredted to go from Bofton to Hartford to tranfaft with that Gov" for his Ma^'®® Service. That your Petn’’ did accordingly perform that journey VOL. IV. — 27 and 210 Edward Randolph. and loft his horfe valued & expended the fum of eight pounds in guides horfe hire & travelling expenfes for him- felfe and Cap* Davis, your petn’' humbly prayes y** Excel- lence that the faid fums may be allowed of and added to the Generali Charges of the expedition to Hartford And yr petn*' fhall etc. Ed. Randolph Order that public Records be put into the hands of Edward Randolph, Secretary. Majfachufetts Archives ., Vol. CXXVI. p, 238. Att a Councill held att y® Councill Chamber in Bofton on Tuefday y® 6* day of March 1687 [8] PTent: His ExcelP Si; Edm? Andros, Kn* &c. ; Jofeph Dudley, Stoughton, Jn? Winthrop, Waite Winthrop, Jn? Uftier, Jn? Lathrop, Nath” Clarke, Rich? Arnold, Edw? Randolph, ffran. Nicholfon, Efq? Upon reading this day in Councill y® Reports made by Edw? Randolph Secfy, Edw? Rawfon, Ifaack Addington & Jn? Herbert Coward together with yf account by them taken of y? publique Records of y? late Maffachufetts Collony, pur- fuant to an ordr of this Board bearing date y? 3’’? of ffebruary paft Ordered that yf Records be forthwith taken into yf Cuf- tody & Charge of yf Se^y & kept with yf other Records of this Dominion in the Secfys office where all pffions may have recourfe to them as occafion [may require] & that yf key hitherto kept by Mr. Rawfon of y® place where yf Records are be forthwith delivered to yf Secfy. By order in Councill Petition Documents and Letters. 2 I I Petition and Remonstrance of inhabitants of Cam- bridge IN REGARD TO EdWARD RaNDOLPH’s PETITION. [7 March 1687-8] Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVIII. p. 85. To his Excellency Sr Edmond Andros Kn! Cap! Generali and Governour in Cheife of his Ma^?^ Territory and Do- minion of New England and his Majeflies Councill The Petition and Addrefs of his moft Loyall Subjects, the Inhabitants of Cambridge In moft humble wife fheweth : In obfervance of the Councill’s order fent unto us refferr- ing unto thofe lands petitioned for by Edward Randolph, Efq! wee humbly informe and certifie yo’’ Excellency and the Council that they are neither vacant nor unappropriated Lands and are a part of thofe Lands granted by his Ma^P Royall Charter under the Great Seale of England to the perfons therein mentioned and by the Governm! and Com- pany of the Maffachufetts Bay to the Towne of Cambridge as the Records of the Generali Court will ftiew and have been quietly pofleffed & improved by this Towne of Cam- bridge for more than fifty yeares. And was alfo purchafed of the Indian Natives that claimed title thereto. And more perticularly as to thofe mentioned by the Petition’’ Scittuate and Lying between Spy Pond and Sanders Brooke they were by allotment granted and meafured and more than Forty yeares now paft to fundry of the Inhabitants of this Towne, and they have accordingly peaceably poffeffed and improved the fame and are att this day Lawfully feized thereof. 212 Rdward Randolph. thereof. And for that other part Lying near to Water Towne Lyne the Towne hath hitherto improved thofe Lands in common for Timber ffire wood and Pafture for all forts of Cattle, the juft interefl of each pfon therein haveing been Legally fettled more than forty yeares and the proprietors have accordingly refpeftively bought and fold their interefls as they have feen meete. And for the fecureing faid Lands from Damage to ourfelves by our neighbours of Watertowne the proprietors of faid Lands have att their great Charge Eredled a ftone wall more than one mile in Length and made Provifion of gates upon the high wayes as was needfull. Wee doe alfo humbly Informe yoy Excellency and Councill that the Lands above Petitioned for are of foe great con- cernment to the Inhabitants of this Towne for their necef- fary Supplies of Timber fire wood and Paflure, that fhould wee bee Deprived thereof it would be the Inevitable Ruine of more than Eighty Familyes of his Ma^r Subjedls here fettled who have fpent their Strength and Eftates in Confi- dence of their Indubitable right and peaceable injoyment thereof by virtue of his Ma^?® Royall Charter and to them Legally derived in manner as is above recited Wee Doe therefore Render to yo*" Excellency and hon^l® Council our humble and thankfull acknowledgement of yoy refpedt to our Welfare (as well as to Juftice and Equity) in giveing us this opportunity to Informe yoy Excellency and honoys of our claime and juft title to thofe Lands Petitioned for as above faid and doe humbly pray that the Royall au- thority wherewith his Ma^?" have invefted yoy Excellency for the Governmy of this part of his Dominion may putt a check upon your P Information and unreafonable requefi: of the Petitiony Documents and Letters. 213 Petition^ for faid Lands. And that yor Petition? may not be thence Illegally Ejedled or Difturbed in their peaceable Enjoyment thereof, Contrary to his Late Ma^^® Declaration of the 26 July 1683 publiflied upon the Iffuing a Quo War- ranto againft the Late Charter of this Colony and to his prefent Ma^?® Gracious Declaration to all his Loveing Sub- jedts for Liberty of Confcience and maintaining them in all their properties and poffellxons in any their Lands and prop- ertyes whatfoevl", the benefitt whereof wee humbly claime Yoy Petitioners are his MaT mofl Loyall and yoy Excel- lencyes humble Servants and Supplyants in the name and by the order of the Inhabitants of Cambridge John Cooper Walter Hasting FFRAN cis Moore John Jackson Sam"'? Andrew Reply of the Proprietors of lands between Sanders Brook and Spy Pond. M ajfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVIII. p. 298. [28 June, 1688.] The Reply of the proprietors of thofe Lands lyeing be- tween Sanders Brooke and Spy Pond neare unto Water- towne Prefented a fecond time 28 June, on our part necelTary for the evincing See M affachufetts Archives, Vol. our claims, wee humbly pray that wee CXXVIII. p. 297. may be informed what thofe things are In the Majfachnfeits Archives, and time given us to bring in our fur- Vol. CXXVIII. p. 116 [March 7]isthe ther anfwer to yo*" Excellency and ye fame reply ending, however, with the Councill. Sam” Andrew Walter Haf- words, “ If anything be yett behind tings Zachariah Hicks John Gone.” 214 Edward Randolph. towne in the County of Middlefex To an anfwer made to their Addrefs pTented to yof Excelency and the Hono^^® Councill reffering to the Petition of Edward Randolph Efqr he praying a Grant of feaven hundred acres, part of the abouefaid Tradl of Land as vacant and unappropriated Youy humble Suppliants doe Craue leaue to remind yo! Excellency and the Honh’® Councill That in our Former addrefs wee haue briefly declared and afferted our Juft Title and Claime to faid Lands deriueing the fame from His Mafl'f® Royall Grant by his LT^ Patent under the Great Seale, under the Security whereof The Firft Planters of this Colony adventured themfelues into this then waft and defolate wildernefs and haue here wafted and fpent great Eftats and many Hues for the planting Peopling and defending themfelues and his Mah®^ right therein, the abouefd Royall Grant being made not onely to the Gentle- men named in faid L’’®.® Patent, Butt alfoe to all fuch others as they fhall admitt and make free of their Society makeing them one body Politique, By the name of the Governour and Company of the Maffachufetts Bay in New England, And under that name are Impowred to make Laws and ordinances for the good and welfare of faid Company and for the Gouernment and ordering the faid Lands and Plan- tation and the people that fhall Inhabitt therein as to them fhall feem meett. Wee further Declare that by the faid Gouernour and Company, the faid Lands Petitioned for by Edward Randolph EfqT are granted to Cambridge then called NewTowne, and by the faid Town haue binn orderly diftributed amongft their Inhabitants, the grant and fetle- ment Documents and Letters. 215 ment whereof upon the feuerall Proprietors and there names, as they ftand entered in the Town Booke wee herewith exhibitt to your Excellency and the Councill. If Further evidence be required of the fame, or of our poffeffion and Improument thereof, plainely evinceing that thofe Lands are neither vacant nor unappropriated as the petition!" hath rep re fen ted You!: Excellency have not req"®^ of us to fhew or demon- flrate that y® formalityes of the law haue binn in all the cir- cumflances theirof exadlly obferved nor doe wee Judge it can rationally be expedfed from a people foe circumflanced as the firft planters were, by whome thofe matters were adled in the Infancy of thefe plantations. They not haueing Coun- cill in the law to repaire unto, nor would the imergencies that then ineuitably happend admitt thereof. And as wee humbly Conceive nor doeth the Law of England require the fame, of a people foe circumflanced as they then were. Butt from the begining of this Plantation haue approued themfelues Loyall to His Maj*? and in all refpefts haue in- tended the true ends of His Maj^‘f^ Royall Grant and through Gods great bleffing on their Indeavou'! Raifed here a Plan- tation that redounds greatly (as is well knowne in the world) To the Honour and profitt of the Crowne, And His Late Maj‘!® by his Letters fent to the Gouernour and Company, accordingly declared His Royall Acceptance thereof with promife of Protedlion in our long and orderly fettlement of this Colony, as His Maj‘? was Gratioufly pleafed to terme the fame. The Further Security, whereof giuen as by the Declaration of His Late Maj‘‘® when the Quo-warranto was Iffued forth againfl this Colony, as alfoe by His Prefent Maj*!® 2 i 6 Edward Randolph. Maj‘i® In His Declaration, as in our Addrefs foe wee doe hereby again Humbly Claime. In the Name and by the Order of the Proprieto^’f together with our felues of thofe Lands Petitioned for By Edward Randolph Efqf. John Cooper Walter Hastings Sam"-^: Andrew FFRANCIS MOORE John Goue [Endor/ed] 28‘^ June 1688. 2"^^ Cambridge Anfwer ab’t y® lands peti- tioned for by Edward Randolph Efqf Mr. William Blaithwait to Mr. Edward Randolph. Colledlion of Papers, by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 301. 5 ir, Whitehall, loth of March 1687-8. I am to thank you for yours of the 23d of November, and would not fade to anfwer the chief particulars. If the union of all New England under one governor be acceptable on your fide the water, what will the joining and annexing to the fame government be of all the Englifh territories in America, from Delaware Bay to Nova Scotia.^ This is al- ready determined by his Majefty, and a commiffion conftitut- ing Sir Edmund Andros governor alfo of New York, as united to and parcel of his Majeflies dominion of New-Eng- land. And for the two Jerfies, fcire facias’s are expediting towards their union. This, befides other advantages, will be terrible to the French and make them proceed with more caution than they have lately done. I Documents and Letters. 2 I 7 I am obliged to you for your kind prefent of cranberries, acorns, cheflnuts &c. which came very well and are imparted to Mr. Robert Southwell. The little box of locufl trees was broken open and they are loft, which was a pity, fince they are fo fhady as you mention. I told the King of the black fox, who taking not much notice of it, I keep it myfelf, unlefs you think otherwife to difpofe of it. Care is already taken for the pafling your patent for all New-England, and if Mr. Spragg were not in the way, it might have been for the whole new dominion. Pray, prefent my humble fervice to Mr. Mafon and let him know Mr. Povey gives him particular inftrudfions by this fhip how to proceed regularly. The governour needs not any order from hence to do juftice. If Mr. Mafon be ag- grieved he may appeal. My humble fervice likewife to Capt. Nicholfon, who I hope may be the lieut. governour intended by the King for the New-England. Nor let my fervice be forgot to my coufin Treffry, whofe relations are all very well. Since you are fo mindfull of my concerns, the inclofed paper will ftiew you how the article for the auditors is to be worded. But pray remember the firft accompt of the prefi- dent and councill. It was fent back with feverall queries, in order to the fatisfying the lords commiflioners of the treaf- ury, and I expe6l your return of it. And you may do well to help Sir E. Andros to difpatch the firft accompt fince his arrivall, by fetting forth every particular, how expended, more minutely than the parchment fent me does contain, that the lords of the treafury may not except againft the method of it. VOL. IV. — 28 I 2 i 8 Edward Randolph. I fend you the gazettes touching the pirates and Sir R. Holmes. The King has granted him all pirates goods for 3 years and the power of pardoning for one year. He offers fair to difcoverers and fuch as furrender themfelves, and will certainly make good his promife. An accident on that account may make your fortune, as you are moft in the way of that fort of people. I muft not forget my humble fervice to all my other friends and acquaintance with you. Time and patience will fland you in great ftead, amidft your difappointements and afflidlions, and you will always find that I am moft truly Sir, Your faithfull friend and humble fervant, William Blathwayt. Randolph’s Answer to the Cambridge remonstrants. Majfachufetts Archives ^ Vol. CXXVIII. p. in. 17 March, i68|. In anfwer to an Adrefs lately made to yl; Excel!’.® and the Councill by the Inhabitants of Cambridge The Pety humbly remembreth yy Excel!’.® and their Hon? of the Councill That upon reading his peticon in Councill the 29*^ day of Feb^ pafl praying his Ma^\®^ grant of a certain Tradl of vacant & unappropriated Land conteyneing about 700 acres lying between Spy pond and Sanders Brooke near Water Town in y® County of Middx. It was ordered that the Sheriff of that County fliould give publike notice in Cambridge and Watertown that all perfons Claiming the fayd Land fhould apear before yy Excell'f and the Councill on the 7‘^ of March lafl Documents and Letters. 219 laft to fhew forth y® fame and why the fayd Land might not be granted was accordingly done. In objection to w':^' Grant hath bin exhibited to your Excell? and the Councill the peticbn and addrefs of y® Inhabitants of Cambridge fetting forth, That the fayd Land was by the Royall Charter granted to the perfons therein menconed and by them to the Town of Cambridge as they fay apeares by the Records; That the fayd Town hath had more then fifty years pofTef- fion thereof. That the fame was likewife purchafed by [of .^] y® Indian natives. That forty years fince the fayd Land was granted & meafured out to the Inhabitants of Cambridge and that they are now lawfully feized thereof. That for that part in Water Town, it hath bin improved in Comdn and each man’s right was lawfully fetled to him for more than forty years, for the fecuring whereof from y® damage of the neighbouring Town, at great charge they have ereded a flone wall of one mile in length and made needfull provifion of Gates on y® highway. That y® fayd Land hath afforded the Inhabitants Timber, fire-wood, and pafture Want of w®^ will occafion the mine of aboue eighty families therefore pray they may not be ille- gally ejected from the fame contrary to the Declaration of y® late and p^'fent King. To w®'^ the Pety anfwereth That in cafe the Inhabitants of Cambridge doe produce to y*" Excell? and y® Councill y® Royall grant to any perfon or perfons of y® fayd Land peti- cbned for and from fuch perfon or perfons, a legall convey- ance to y® Inhabitants of y® fayd Town and that the fayd Town 220 Rdward Randolph. Town were by that name or by what other name y® fame hath bin to them granted able and fufficient in the law to receive a grant of fuch Lands, Then y*" pety will ceafe any further profecution of his fayd prayer, Otherwife the pety humbly conceives y® Right flill to remain in his Ma‘l® and humbly prays a Grant for the fame Ed. Randolph Bofton March y® 17 : 1687 Mr. Povey to Mr. Randolph. Colledlion of Papers^ by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 303. Whitehall, 18 March 1687-8. Sir, Since mine of the eighth inftant, I can only let you know that your warrant for fecretary of New-England, with Rhode- Ifland included, and Conedicut, had pafled the King’s hand, when it came further under confideration how that New- York and the Jerfies, which are now to be added in the general commiffion, might be included without wrong to the prefent fettlement there ; and I believe it will be agreed that your deputation to them fhall be fufficient, fo as he may receive the whole profitts of it without any acknowledge- ment or charge, but in the mean time your warrant is ffopt till the amendment or rather addition be agreed of ; but you may expedl to receive it at the fame time the governor re- ceives his commiffion, which will be fent by Foy. On the loth Mr. Blathwayt writt to you and fent you a memorandum touching his falary, of which I now fend you a copy, and tho’ I writ to you before upon this fubje6t, the inclofed Documents and Letters. 22 I inclofed being as it is fettled by himfelf, you will pleafe to follow the method he prefcribes. We have no news, more than the enclofed proclamation for the recalling the King’s fubjeds out of the States fervice ; and three new regiments are raifing here. I am, with much truth. Sir, Your moft faithful humble fervant, J. POVEY. My humble fervice to Mr. Mafon, Capt. Nicholfon & Capt. Trefry. J. PovEY TO Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXVIII. p. 167. Whitehall 25 Aprill 88 Sr. This accompanies yo’’ Patent for y® Secy® office of New England which bearing date. after the annexing New York & the Jerfeys with the other Colonies of New England makes you Sec^ of the whole government of New England in its pTent extent but M" Spraug will have an order for you to make him a dignitatem of fo much as he held before I have reed the fav’’ of yo’’® of the 24th of Jan*^ lafi: and do not underftand your meaning ab* a patent for life not having heard of it before it being not granted now in any cafe M** Wharton has feull bufineffes depending tho I doubt not much to his fatisfaction, his propofals for a Grant of Mines are now under confideration, but will admitt of feu” [amendments .^] The 222 Edward Randolph. The Princefs has been very ill with her mifcarrying and is now relapfed tho it is fd there is no danger. TheQ ueen has likewife been much indifpofed but goes now abroad and is pretty well with her being with child Three Regiml® are raifing here in Scotland & Ireland to be comanded by the officers that come out of Holland Since my laft we have no other occurences than the tumult & diforder of Conftantinople for which I refer you to y® inclofed Gazett and affure that I am with much truth Sr Yof mofl: ffaithfull humble fervant Mr Randolph J. Povey Vouchers of y® Treasurers Account from y® i of July 1687 to the first of January ffollowing. Majpachufetts Archives ., Vol. CXXVIII. p. i. [In Randolph’s handwriting 5 June 1688.] Difburs money at fort hill 24 : 9 - 3 : ffor y® Gouernment 73 : 17 : 2 : ffor the ffort at Pemmaquid 55 : 17 : 5 : fFor the Caftle on Caftle Ifland 122 : 2 : I : ffor y® Dry Dock at Charles Town 332 : 19 : II : ffor y® Ketch Speedwell Ja Cook Matter 160 : 14 : 9 • paid to his Excell : 599 : II : 3 • to the Auditor &c. 192 : 0 Corn remaining unfold 938 : II : I : money remaining in Treafury 1340 : 10 : 3 : 3840 : 13 : 10 . Vouchers Documents and Letters. 223 Vouchers from y® 4'^'' of January 1687 to the 5 of June 1688. ffor his Goumt of New England by Michaell Perry 100 : 5 : 6 : Mem^ : my charge for a bullock & fpritt 4 : 6 : 9 : at Mrs. Dartmouth 4 : 0 : 0 : [in different handwriting.] . . . In the Prefidents time <£52 2 : 0. . . . more 0 13 : 9- firlf halfe year in y® Gouveno^^ time 51 : 4 : 0. 2nd 192 : 7 : 0. 3^ to the 30^^ June 1687 95 : 0 : 10. 399: 7 : 7- 202 : 6 : 6. 601 : 14 : I Difcharged by Severall pay™^^ made 1561 : 12 : 5 by money remaining 1340 : 10 : 3 by corn unfold 938 : II : I Remaining of y^ Countrys Rates in the hands of Severall Conftables yet unpaid 469 14:1 by charges upon bringing in the Country Rates to the Severall Conftables 233 : 15 : II amount of corn unfold 1512:1 : 0 Rates paid in & out 1 104 14:9 2616 15:9 The Accounts fFrom y® i of July 1687 to Jany vizt. charge by money & loan 3^40 • ^3 • the whole amount of loan amounts to 2436 . 5 • Mr. 224 Edward Randolph. Mr. Randolph to Mr. Povey. CollePlion of Papers by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 304. Bofton, June 21. 1688. Sir, I received your two letters of the 8th and i8th March, the firfl at Pemmequid, where after a tedious paflage in 5 or 6 boats and other water carriage, I overtooke his excellency, being left behind at Bofton, by ficknefs, about the end of April laft. The Governor, with his fervants, travelled by land to Pifcataqua ; Col. Mafon was vifiting the militia in the province of Maine, and was forced to follow the Gov- ernor to Cafco bay, where the Governor’s floop and barge with 10 oares attended their coming; he went amongft all the iflands in Cafco bay, vifited Mr. Wharton’s poffeffions at Pejepfgut, and rowed up many leagues in Kennebeck riuer; from thence by eafy motions, they got to Pemmequid, where he ftayed 3 or 4 dayes to refrefh themfelves with fheep and foules, and then with the Rofe frigott, made towards Penob- fcott ; his Excellency had fooner, by me before, appointed Capt. George to fpeake to Monfieur St. Cafleen, and to acquaint him with his comeing ; the captain roade with hia frigott before Cafteen’s doore, fent his lieut. afhoare, Cafleen fpoake to him and told him, but upon notice of the Govern- or’s comeing, Cafleen and all the Company retired, left the place to that . . . and left his houfe fhutt; the Governor landed, with other gentlemen with him, and went into the houfe and found a fmall altar in the common roome, which altar, and fome piflures and ordinary ornaments, they did not meddle with any thing belonging thereto, but tooke away Documents and Letters. 225 away all his armes, powder, fhott, iron kettles and fome trucking cloath and his chaires, all which were putt aboard the Rofe and laid up in order to a condemnation of trade- ing, in the forte at Pemmequid; at their returne, notice being irregularly given to the Indian Sachem, neighbour to Cafleen, that he fhould have all his goods reftored if he would demand them at Pemmaquid and come under obedience to the King, it is fuppofed he went and acquainted the Gov. ernor at Port Royall of it, and how refented we were to expeft by the returne of our fifhing veflells. This Cafteen is a Frenchman, has lived there many yeares, has 3 or 4 Indian wives and goes a hunting with the Indians, he has a tradeing houfe and fold the Indians, armes and ammunition in the late Indian wars; he does not well like to be under the French government, delires to live indifferent. Flis Excellency carryed with him carpenters and boards, nailes and all neceffary flores, intending to eredl a forte at Ponop- fcutt, the old one, as they fay, being gone to ruin, formerly made up with ftone and turfe, but finding none there, was refolved to fpare that charge till a more proper time offered, and in his Excellency’s returne from Ponopfcutt, 5 or 6 leagues off from thence, I meete the Governor at fea, I being bound to Ponopfcutt, but I then returned with him to Pem- maquid. The Governor fent out, every way, meffengers to fummon in all the Indian Sachems ; fuch as were at Pem- maquid at his firft arrivall, flayed his returne ; they were well treated with fliirts, rumm and trucking cloath, but his Excellency, with a fhort fpeech, by an interpreter, acquainted them that they fhould not fear the French, that he would defend them, and ordered them to call home all their young VOL. IV. — 29 men 226 Rdward Randolph. men and they fhould live quietly and undifturbed. There I went to one Shurt, town clarke of Pemmequid, to know what leafes were made lately and by whom, and for what quitt rent ; he told me that above 2 years agoe Capt. Palmer and Mr. Weft produced to them a commiftion from Col. Dongan, to difpofe of all their land to whoever would take leafes at ^s. the hundred acres quitt rent ; they lett there and at a place called Dartmouth, 12 or 16 miles diftant from Pemmequid, about 140 leafes, fome had 800 or 1000 acres, few lefs than 100, fome but 3 or 4 acres, and all paid 2/. lo^*. od for pafting their grantes of 100 acres of woodland with 20 acres of marfh, wherever it could be found ; but this bred a great mifchiefe amongft the people, few or none have their land meafured or marked, they were in hafte and gott what they could ; they had their emiflaries amongft the poore people and frighted them to take grantes, fome came and complained to the Governor and prayed him to con- firme their rights, which he refufed to doe, the Commiftion and whole proceeding being illegall, having notice they were to be under his government, they refented it, but it ferved their turne. The poor have been very much oppreffed here, the forte run all to ruin and wants a great deale to repaire it ; the Governor has ordered it to be well repaired ; it ftands very well to command a very good bay and harbour about it, and will in time be a good place, being the only good porte for all veffels, eaftward, to ride well and fecure by the forte from danger. At this time, Capt. Palmer and Mr. Weft laid out for themfelves fuch large lotts, and Mr.' Gra- ham, tho’ not there, had a child’s portion, I think fome have 8 or 10 000 acres ; I hear not of one penny rent comeing in to Documents and Letters. 227 to the King from them who have their grants confirmed at Yorke, and this 5^. an hundred acres was only a fham upon the people. At our returne, we faw very good land at Win- ter harbour, enough to make large fettlements for many people : The Governor will have it firfl meafured and then furveyed, and then will difpofe of it for fettlements. Mr. Graham and his family are fettled in Bofton, he is made attourny generall and now the Governor is fafe in his New Yorke confidents, all others being firangers to his councill. My coufen Mafon can make no progrefs in his bufinefs, he has attempted to try his title at Pifcataqua, but has been delayed by the judges, and the inhabitants are far more obflinate than formerly, Mr. Weft haveing told fome of them that his title is little worth. All Mr. Weft aimes at is to have the paffing grantes for all Mr. Mafon’s lands, and neither he nor Graham will allow that he has power to make a grante to any tennant; they are for leiveing him out of all. Thenewes of the diffenters being indulged and taken into favour, at home, encouraged this people, and the judges will not give a caufe for the King. They now difpute his Excellency’s grants and plead either poffeffion or Indian purchafe in barr of it. The addition of New Yorke to this government does very much inlarge our bounds and may be of greate fervice to the crowne, but they have been fqueezed dry by Colonell Dongan and his agents Weft and Graham, that there is little good to be done. We are in greate expedlation of Foyes arrivall, and fome preparations are makeing for a foutherne expedition, but I believe Sir Edmund will not goe into New Yorke till Col. Dongan is removed off the place, there is no good underftanding be- twixt 228 Rdward Randolph. twixt them, and twas not well done of Palmer and Weft to tear all in pieces that was fettled and granted at Pemmequid by Sir Edmund, that was the fceene where they placed and difplaced at pleafure, and were as arbitrary as the great Turke; fome of the firfl fettlers of that eafterne country were denyed grants of their own lands, whilft thefe men have given the improved lands amongfl themfelves, of which I fuppofe Mr. Hutchinfon has complained. Notice to Appear. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXVIII. p. 281. Bofton Tune 22".'* 1688 M^ Sheriffe You may give notice to any perfons that may lay clayme to the land in Cambridge petitioned for by Edward Ran- dolph Efqy that on Thurfday next in the forenoone they appeare before his Excell7 in Councill and give their full anfwer therein \AddreJjfe({\ I am Sy Your fervant John West. D. S^ry. Samuell Gookin Efqf High Sheriffe of the County of Middx. att Cambridge. Council Documents and Letters. 229 Council Meeting. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXIX. p. 12. Att a Councill held att the Councill Chamber in Bolton on Thurfday the 28^*" of June 1688. Prefent : His ExcelP^ St Edmund Andros Kn^etc. Jofeph Dudley, W? Stoughton, Waite Winthrop, John Ufher, Nathan'^ Clarke, Edward Randolph, ffrancis Nicholfon, Richard Smith, Sam^^ Shrimpton, Erq"® Upon further hearing of the Petition of Edward Randolph Erq" praying his Grant for a certaine parcell or Tradl of Vacant and unapropriated land Containeing about feaven hundred Acres lying betweene Spye Pond and Saun- ders brooke neare WaterTowne in the County of Middle- fex as alfoe a Certain Writeing p^'fented by Samuell An- drewes & others of Cambridge termed the Reply of the proprietors of the lands lying betweene Saunders Brooke and Spye Pond to an anfwer made to their addrefs but they declareing they had no authority to fpeake in behalfe of others but onely for them felves and by reafon of the Gen- erali difcription of the Land petitioned for not knowing whether the lands claymed by them be within the quantity defired or not, it is ordered that a Suruey and draft be forth- with made of the faid Land and returned in to the Secre- tary’s office accordingly. By order in Councill John West D. Secry. Examination 230 Rdward Randolph. Examination of William Walton about pirates at Rhode Island. 5 July 1688 Majfachufetis Archives ^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 21. [In Randolph’s handwriting.] Will. Walton being fummoned fayth that his neighbor Thomas Warner was aboard y® pirate when Capt. Pelham was aboard, that Capt. Pelham had a gun & cutlafs. John Clarke had a gun: John Woodman had a Cloake : William [Hunt.^] a Tayler bought cloathes of y® Sayler. Mr. Brin- ley had piftols a pretty many of y® Capt. & advifed Walton to take them at 21® a piece. Mordica y® Jew bought goods of y® pyrates : John Davis fold Bread & Beer to y® pyrates & gave them wine. William Wade, unlicenfed ordinary [ ] Stephen Sebears, George Halfey, Charles Beerds, Henry Palmer, he had letters to feverall perfons to Tho® Phillips wife neer Cowells. A. B. ferv‘ to Jonathan Marfh a Baker fold y® Dutch man a Black Hoge. » M*" Randolph’s testimony as to words of Sir William Phips. MaJJ'achufetts Archives Vol. CXXIX. p. 29. [In Randolph’s handwriting.] May it pleafe y' Excellency Being in company with S’" William Phips this day amongft other difcourfe hee fayd he heard twas Colt. Mafon & myfelfe oppofed the fetting afide the Sheriffs : that he would fett mee Documents and Letters. 231 mee forth in my colors & was going home & would make it known : or words to that effeft. Ed Randolph Secfy. Bofton July y* 7‘^ 1688. Oath of John West, as Deputy Secretary, Majfachufetts Archives.^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 90. Whereas yo" are by an Indenture made by Edward Ran- dolph Efqrf his Mat’®® Se^y & Sole Regifter of his territory & Dominion of New England beareing date y® 3''? day of May 1687, Authorized & Appointed to be Deputy Secry & Regifter you doe Sweare that you will faithfully & carefully manage & pftorme y® office as Deputy Secfy & Regifter Keepeing the Records of all things proper to y® office fairly fileing & coppying all fuch records and papers as are committed to yo” & in all things todemeane yo’’felfe accord- ing to yo*" charge & duty of yo*" place after yo’’ beft fkill & knowledge & purfuant to y® indenture & deputacon given yo’’. John Weft tooke y® above oath in Councill y® 20* July 1688 upon y® Defire of y® fd Ed. Randolph. Ed. Randolph Secfy. Petition of Edward Randolph for land at New- port, R. I. MaJlfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 106. [July 26. 1688] To his Excellency S’” Edmund Andros Kn!; Capt. Generali and Governour in cheife of his Majefties Territory & Dominion of New England &c. The 232 Rdward Randolph. The humble Peticon of Edward Randolph Erq*"® Sheweth. That there is next adjoyning to the Lands of Jaell Brinton of Newport in the Collony of Rhoad Ifland a Certaine tradt of vacant and unimproved Land Containing about Two hundred and fifty acres or thereabouts. Your peP therefore humbly prayes yo*" Excellency will pleafe to give him a Grant and Confirmacon for y® P Lands and in order thereto, iffue forth yo*" Warrant for y^ Survey- ing thereof, under fuch moderate Quitt Rent or acknowledge- ment to be paid to his Maj^’® as to yo*" Excellency fliall feeme meete. And yo’’ Petr as in duty bound fhall ever pray etc. Petition of Edward Randolph in behalf of the Earl OF Clarendon. M ajfachufetts Archives ., Vol. CXXIX. p. 109. [26 July 1688.] To his Excellency Sr Edmund Andros Kn‘ Cap* Generali and Governour in Cheife of his Majefties Territory and Dominion of New England etc. The humble Peticon of Edward Randolph Efqr on the be- halfe of the R* Honorable Henery Earle of Clarendon. Sheweth That neere unto the windmill in the Towne of Portf- mouth on the eaft fide of the ifland there is about one hun- dred and fifty acres of vacant and unimproved Land alfoe one hundred & fifty acres more neare M" Beard his houfe in the Towne of Newport Alfoe one hundred & fifty acres more neere a place knowne by the name of Greene End next Documents and Letters. 233 next adjoyning to the land of W"” & Thomas Coddington & Coll. Sandford in y® aforefaid Towne of Newport Alfoe Three hundred and fifty acres more lyeing neere to y® lands of John Rogers & Davyd Layton within the Townfhipps of Portfmouth and Newport as alfoe one hundred acres more neere Newport next the land of Abraham Anthony all w®^ faid lands containe in the whole one thoufand acres or thereabouts. Your Peticoner therefore humbly prayes yo*" Excellency will pleafe to give him a Grant and Confirmation for y® P feverall tradls & parcells of land for y® ufe above [men- tioned] and in order thereto to iffue forth your Warrant for y® Surveying thereof and fuch moderate Quitt Rent or fuch acknowledgement to be pd to his Ma^^ for y® fame as to yo*" Excellency fhall feeme meete. And yo' Peticon’’ as in duty bound fhall ever pray etc. Order of Council in New York for raising money. Maffachufetts Archives , Vol. CXXIX. p. 162. Att a Councill held att New York on Wednefday y® 29*^ day of Aug! 1688. Prefent : his Excellency S'" Edmond Andros, Kn*, etc. ; Jofeph Dudley, Walter Clarke, Jarvis Baxter, Edw"^ Ran- dolph, Jn° Young, Jn° Allen, Robert Mafon, Jn° Winthrop, Steph. Courtland, Jn° Walley, Nich” Bayard, Arthur Brock- lols, ffred Phillips, Jn° Ulher, Walter Newberry, Rich'* Smith, Efq’’^ VOL. IV. — 30 Whereas 234 Edward Randolph. Whereas y® Execacon of an Adi made y® 7*’' day of May lafl paft by his Excell®^ Thomas Dongan late Capt. Generali & Governor in Cheife of his Ma*'®® Province of New York in America Intituled an Adt for Raifeing y® fume of ;C^ 55 S • by or before y® firfb day of November in y® yeare of our Lord 1688 hath been & is by order of his ExcelP in Councill dated y® 3o‘^ day of July lafl pafl for y® Reafon therein menconed fufpended till further order which being taken into confid- eration It is ordered that y® Adi be fully & duly executed according to y® tenor & true intent & meaning thereof & y® money therein menconed duely Levyed Raifed Colledled & payd as therein is diredled of w®^ all Juflices of the peace & other officers & perfons concerned are to take notice & con- forme themfelves accordingly. By order in councill. Robert Livingston to Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives.^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 169. [i September, 1688.] Hon'" S!- This being y® firfl opportunity from hence after my arri- vall from N. Yorke which was but 10 days agoe I thought itt my duty to lay hold of itt & return you my hearty thanks for y® favors rec*^ of you efpecially att N. Yorke in takeing y® pains to write a letter to M*" Povey for my recom- mendation w®^ I have fent over & in all ou" things followed Y good advice & fent over a Copy of a Peticon for my cor- refpondent to make ufe off upon occafion & by this Bearer fend copies thinking there may be an opportunity for Lon- don therefore would pray you to doe me the kindneffe & write one line more & give it to M*" Graham who will for- ward Documents and Letters, 235 ward itt with my letters I doubt not in y® leaft to reap y® benefite of y® fame & yo*" may be affured I fhall not prove ungratefull ; here is no news : f from Canada a M*" Smith y® Bearer will inform you I am now goeing to y® countrey to call upon thofe officers for y® fees & by y® next ffiall be able to give you an acc*. This is all att prefent from him who is your ever obliged Freinde & moft humble ferv* Rob”^ Livingston. Randolph to [Blathwayt M ajfachujetts Archives^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 181. Fort Albany, on Hudfon River Sept. 12, 1688 Sir, I wrote you from New York and from Philadelphia, and fend this by a veffel from New York to Bofton, which ferves only to acquaint you of the death of my coufin Mafon, who dyed the 6 inftant, and was buried at Kingftone upon this river. He was much troubled at the Great delayes in his bufi- nefs, occafioned by his pretended friend, Mr. Dudley. His Excellence is much concerned for his Ioffe. We will do the befl we can for his poor children. Coll. Dongan makes it his bulinefs to perplex his Mat'®® affairs here by all wayes & meanes after our return from y® Jarfeys (both ag* his will & defires well fetled) he prefented to y® Councill his account of Charges arifing upon the forces raifed in this Province amounting to 6400^^ and fome od money: the Councill look- ing upon themfelves no way obliged to audit Amount re- fered 236 Rdward Randolph. fered that matter till his Ma^^"" pleafure was known in it : efpecially in regard Coll. Dongan had not charged him- felfe with the receite of one penny received by him towards defraying that charge: whereas it appeared he has by 2 rates : & by money received out of y® trading Revennue with 500!^ ftart from y® Gouy of Virginnia been fatisfied for almofl if not all that expenfe however his Excellence finding that feverall officers and others ferving in that expedition were unpaid moved in councill that care might be taken for their fpeedy pay & it was ordered that Coll. Dongan give notice what perfons were unpaid & what was feverally due to them & that money fhould be forthwith raifed for their payment thereby to take off the Rancor & fupport his credit with the people. Butt Coll. Dongan upon notice hereof : inflead of doing that publick juftice to the officers & foul- diers fends to his Excellence full of bitter reflexions upon y® Gouy charging the not paying the Souldiers upon Sy Ed- munds malice ag‘ Coll. Dongan and makes him the foie obftrudler : faying with all that all things were made eafy for him to his hand & nothing now to be done for his Ma^'®® fervice in this Gov! whereas indeed the fort at this place, as well as that at N. York, is wholly out of order: left as de- ferted in an enemeyes country — no powder nor one thing fitt for fervice left upon y® place : all either fold or given away. The ffrench Gouy has been too hard for Coll. Don- gan in many refpefts; he keepes his Indians in armes who have kiled 5 or 6 Englifh & as many Indians lately in Con- nefticutt Colony & keepes poffeffion of y® ffort of Quad- rakby in our Indians country Coll. Dongan never fo much as taking the leafl notice of it to the french Gouy when he fent Documents and Letters. 237 fent him the treaty & truce, who continued by force or faire meanes to draw to himfelfe all the five nations & to that end has now fent them all prefents : I know not yet what influence the notice of Sr Edmund Andros being GouT may have upon them : we expedt to heare from them dayly : & their cheife to come to this town : the 5 nations have very much gaind upon Coll. Dongan & twill be difficult for S! Edmund Andros to reduce them to their former obedience. You will receive at Court high recriminations from Coll. Dongan ag! his Excellence efpecially becaufe the Councill has not thought fitt immediately to raife money to pay him y® Sum of 6000^^ od money without any order from his Ma*‘® or further enquireing into it, which wee cannot an- fweare to his Ma^i® I have this onely to ad that Sy Edm? has carried himfelfe to Coll. Dongan with all due regard both as a Gen! and as a Gou! & be confident that wWer Coll. Dongan may fuggeft home or endeavour there. That his Ma*'®® fervice will be mofl pundlually obferved : you may expedl a particular account at our return to Bofton. this I thought my duty to fay in generall : that you may be pre- pared to fay fomething upon his previous charges fent over as I heare by our Bifhop who is to manage for Coll. Dongan. my humble fervice to Mr Povey and to all freinds I give you & him my hearty thanks for all favors & am Your humble feP. Ed. Randolph. John 238 Edward Randolph. John Skeene to Edward Randolph. Maffachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 236. Burlington the of ye mon 1688 Loving ffriend Thes are to Let the Know that I have not yit deliverd all the Commiffions for many of the perfons being Tick wer not In A capacitie to come & tak ther Ingadgments & the falem people who have fince ever I knew them been too hetoroclite are not yit come to Receave thers fo that I fear I cannot make A full Return of the day In ye dedimus poteftatem to me prefixt however I fhall w'l’ what ex- pedition I can, we doe extremly want the Copies of ye Laws by which we are to Aft, & fuch Inflruflions as are neadfull, therfor pray dyfpatch ym pr [jft?] allfo, the Com- miffion for The Recording & the deliverance of my Bill to the Go’' which was Granted or I Came Away, ther was non of the juftices wold Accept of thefe Commiffions fo as to pay A farthing for them or ther Atteflations, for y'"^ thou charrgd 6/8 A pice, ye fhirife of Burlington hath promefd pay Viz 20/8 as thou charrg’d, but Glofters fhirief Is Realy fo poor & hath been at fo much Lofs that He would not touch with his till I promifd to reprefent his poverte & plead for thy excufe of him which heerby I doe : Be per- fwaded that I wold not have preft my own Interefls fo much as I have & fhall doe thin, Prefent my Dewtefull Refpedls To y® Go^ & Give my Trew Refpefls to ... . friends Jeames Graham & Jn® weft & . . they wold Help me to A Commiflion for ... of All wills In this 3 Countes It Documents and Letters. 239 It wold . . A Great Kindnes & be no dammaee to non Ther befid ye'eas It wold be to All beer, & on pub- lick office In Town wold ferve me for: Recording y‘ too, I Beg Ther friendffiip & thyn may be Conteanued To him who conteanues to Be to you All A Cordiall weal wifher And Truly Loving ffriend Thow Maj’’ Genr^ will not fell his Hors but If he pleafes to fend fome of his befb meares to him they fhall goe In his enclofur with his own & on His on Bounds viz winthrops, excus extraordenare Head ells I wold have wrot to himfelf, as allfo Jno waft & Jam : Graham.^^ John Skene Mr. Randolph to the Lords of Trade. New York Colonial Documents., Vol. III. p. 567. New Yorke 0 ( 51 '^'’ y® 8. 1688. May it pleafe y*" Lordfp^ In obedience to Your Lordf’® commands I humbly repre- fent to your LordP^ that His Excellencie S" Edm^ Andros in the months of Aprill and May laft vifited the Englifh forts plantations and fettlements all along the fea fide & upon Y great rivers, from Pifcataqua to Panopfcott eaflward diftant MSS. mutilated. 240 Rdward Randolph. diftant from Bofton about 200 miles ; and ordred the cheife of all the Indians inhabiting thofe partes, to attend him, which they accordingly did. He commanded them to call home their young men & not fuffer them to run to the French, and to live quietly with the Englifh their neigh- bours, affuring them protedlion from thofe would harm them, & if not able to defend themfelves, to come and live in the Englifli townes : and left that country in great peace. Upon His Excellencyes return to Bofton His Ma*’®® gra- cious commifiion for the annexing the Province of New York and y® Eaft & Weft Jerfeys to his territory of N. England ; whereupon he addreffed himfelfe to that fer- vice with all convenient fpeed, and being accompanied with feverall of the members of His Ma^‘®® Councill, arrived at New Yorke on Saterday y® of Auguft laft; being mett by a regiment of foot and a troop of horfe belonging to that place ; His Ma‘‘®^ commiffion was read in y® Fort and after- wards publifhed at y® Citty Hall, and immediately His Ex- cellence fent for and received from Coll. Dongan the Seal of the late Gov* which was defaced and broaken in Councill ; then a Proclamation for continuing the revenue, and all per- fons civill & military in their refpedtive offices till further order was publifhed. From thence His Excellence with feverall of the Councill fet forward for Eaft Jarfey and arriving at Elizabeth Town belonging to that Province, on Wednefday following His Ma*’®^ commiffion was ther publifhed and alfo the proclama- tion for continuing the revennue and civill and military officers till further order: and on y® 18*^ being Saterday His Documeitts and Letters. 241 His Commiffion was likewife read at Burlington the cheife town in Weft Jarfey and the proclamation alfo. The out places of both Provinces very thinly inhabited & not one military officer in all Weft Jarfey. They all ffiewed their great fatisfadtion in being under His immediate Gov*. Upon ye 29*^ following Coll. Dongan fent to y® Councill an account of ^6482 . 7®. iild, money laid out in the late expedition to Albany: he defired it might be audited and allowed and that the money might be raifed and paid to him, to enable him to pay his neceffary difburfements. The Councill upon ferious debate refolved That they had not power to infpedl the accounts of the late Gov* nor to appoint an Auditor thereof ; but in regard feverall officers and foul- diers raifed by Coll : Dongan for His Ma*'^® fervice at Albany (and difbanded before His Excell, entring upon that Gov*) applied to His Excellence for their pay, the Councill or- dered that if Coll : Dongan would fend them word what fums of money were due to the feverall officers & foul- diers, fpeedy care fliould be taken to fatisfye them ; and that Order was accordingly delivered to Coll. Dongan, who has not thought fitt to comply therewith, but even to the laft day of His ExcelD flay in N. York, has continued to preffe for an audite and allowance of his accounts. Upon reading in Councill fome papers tranfmitted from y® Mayor and Aldermen of Albany to Coll : Dongan, and alfo a letter of y® 20*^ of Augufl laft from Mounf Denonville Gov" of Canada, it appeared that all was not well with the 5 Nations or Cantons of y® Indians. Whereupon it was thought fitt that His Excellence fliould forthwith go to VOL. IV. — 31 Albany. 242 Rdward Randolph. Albany. All things were made ready and about 50 Soul- diers to go with the Gov*', and ftores of powder and armes putt aboard to fupply the Fort, and on y® 30*^ of Augufi:, with feverall of the Councill embark’d for Albany; where the 5 Nations, having notice that His Excellence was come, fent their Cheife Warriers and many of the principall men amongfl them to bid His Excell, welcome into the country. They complained of many hardfliips done them by the French in tyme of peace and prayd to be redreffed. His Excellence told there was a cefTation of armes, that they muft carry themfelves freindly to y® French; commanding them to deliver up all their French captives, and promifed that he would take care of them. They forthwith delivered to His Excell, a French Child, ten months their prifoner, and affured His Excell, to fend the reft fo foon as the weather and the length of the way would admitt ; and fo returned to their homes well fatisfied. Severall Indians living on both fides Hudfon’s River came to His Excellence, fome at Albany, & others at a town nigh the River called Kingftone (where Coll. Mafon a member of the Councill and a loyall genF dyed and was buried ;) he commanded them to demean themfelves quietly towards y® Chriftians their neighbours, invited fuch of them as were married and gone elfe where, to return with their familyes, and that if they wanted land, it fhould be laid out for them in convenient places. During this His Excellence’s progreffe, newes is brought that five of His Ma^'®" Indian fubjefts were killed at Spec- tacle Pond neere Springfield in y® colony of Connedlicutt, and foon after, of fix Chriftians murthered at Northfield, about Documents and Letters. 243 about 60 miles diftant from that place, done by eleaven In- dians belonging to y® French, and fince the tyme the Gov’’ of Canada fent from y® King his mafter the Articles of Ceffation to Coll. Dongan. Upon which His Excell, has, amongfl other things of import for His Ma^‘®^ fervice, de- manded of y® Gov'' of Canada the eleaven murtherers to be fent to him. That morning His Excellence arrived at New Yorke from Albany, he had advice that men were raifed at Bofton with- out his order, and fent to Cafco Bay to affift the Chriftians againft the Indians who had committed fome diforders there aboutes ; all which and the uncertainty of reports from the Eaflward, engages His Excellence to go from N. Yorke overland to Bofton (intending to vifite Northfield Spring- field and other townes alarum’d by thofe mifcheifes) to pre- vent a fecond Indian warn All which is humbly fubmitted By your Lordfi^® moft humble & obedient fervant, Ed. Randolph Sec’ry. Randolph to John Povey. State Papers., Colonial, Bundle 55 (377)* Bofton 0 ( 5 t. 19*!’ 1688. Sr hearing how furioufly Mr Mather & his friends now at Whitehall driue on Sparing none in y® Gom! I thinke it not vnfeafonable to reprefent to your view Such papers as I haue by me by which you may inform yourfelfe & others of the man his 244 Edward Randolph. his qualityes & efpecially his loyalty : you haue N° one a Copy of Mr Roffes letter direfted to me at y® Plantation Office in which was inclofed the paper N° 2 : being a Copy of Mathers letter to Mr Gouge Minifter at Amfterdam : of which Sr Roger Le ’Strang by his prefent Ma^?^ directions tooke per- ticuler notice in his Obfervators. Mr Mather hath done all hee could to caft that paper vpon me as the Author & be- tides his publick difcourfes agr me in all Companyes here, he has (as he thinkes) Sufficienly proved it & alfo vindicated himfelfe by his letter to Mr Dudley N° 3 : which is full of his Chriftian frame & Temper & abounds with his Chari- table Expreffions as the other to Mr Gouge dos with loyalty. Now tho’ he has thus with his Bellarmine thou lyeft made me to be the Author of that libellous paper : yet I am able to make the Contrary appeare by feuerall materiall paffages in that paper: — the Kings defiring as they fay a Surrender of their Charter was like Ahabs requiring Naboths vineyard : — the very words he fpake publickly in a full affembly at the Town houfe in Botlon when all the ffreemen & others were mett to advife about a Surrender of their Charter. I haue a Cloud of Witneffes to proue it: & Mr Wharton then of another Kidney was prefent & vpon hearing Such expref- fions left the meeting in a great heat, and if any Sparke of honefty left in a man who oppofes all goverm! he cannot Denye but he was prefent & heard Mather make that dif- courfe. I fend you N° 4 : & N°. 5 Copyes of two of Mathers letters to Amfterdam the originalls are now with me : to proue his Correfpondence with Gouge & Keck both men- tioned in his letter to Mr Gouge : perfons whofe names habi- tations or qualityes I never knew till I had a Copy of that letter : Documents and Letters. 245 letter: and as a further Confirmation of Mr Mathers anti- monarchicall principles (what euer he now intends) I referr you to the Booke called the Cafe of y® Maffachufetts Char- ter, Sent alfo to Sf Roger ledrang by his prefent Ma^® wrote by Mather & Moode, a Copy whereof I fliall tranfmitt to you in a little tyme : & would defire no greater favour then to be admitted to difcouer the malitious principles of the party who now Crye out oppreffion : whenas by all their lawes & praftices there haue not yet been heard of a poeple more tyrannicall & Arbitrary. This his Ma‘? vpon the repeated Complaints of his perfecuted Subje6fs of imprifonments whip- pings banifhments difmembrings & Ioffe of all their Goods & Hues has been pleafed gracioufly to remedy by granting a Commiffion of Gom^ etc : & taking the whole Country into his immediate care & protedlion, & now the Sammedrim being thereby putt out of their Magifteriall Regiment of affaires both civill Ecclefiadicall & Military : they are vneafye. As to M!" Nowell of whom I wrote you largely I referr you to his printed Sermon Called Abraham in Armes : and now if thefe mens principles are the beft demonftration of Loyalty I defire to be accounted ftill a diffenter from fuch Good lord deliuer Sy your humble Seruant EdRandolph. Cap! Palmer is made a Judge & fupplyes the vacancy of Mr Bulkley. [In another hand.] Remark: Vid : Vol. 5. p. 83. Abraham Kicks addrefs to the Princefs of Orane^e On behalf of the Church and Peo- pie of New England, Dated Hague february 89. N. S. ; wherein 246 Rdward Randolph. wherein he fays : “ I haue ventured on their behalf {Jiaving had a Correfpondency with /aid people many Years^ and Know- ing how Much they will Suffer if their New Governor be not fpeedily removed) to give your Royal Highnefs the trouble of thefe lines ” \AddreJJ'ed^ To John Povey Efqr at the Plantation Office Whitehall ! \Endorfed^ N : England. 19. 061 : 1683. f fLc\ From Mr Randolph Red I Dec : 1683 \fic\ with Copies of Mf Mathers letters to Amfterdam : in 83 & 84. Francis Nicholson to Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXIX. p. 248. New-Yorke October p 21®.* 1688. Sf I received your Letter of the 9*^ inftant for which I re- turne you my hearty thankes This place is like both to Laith and Athens butt itt comes far fhort of the laft being noe learned Citty foe you muff not expedl that I can fend you an Epiftle to divert you butt rather to condole that your office is as little frequented as our church is. Jacob Morrify intends to morrow or next day to fayle Coronel Dongan is this day gone for Hampfteade. They fay that a Privateer (belonging to the ffrench of about a hundred and twenty men and twenty Guns) is att Newcaftle noe veffell gone Documents and Letters. 247 gone out onely Philips Brigantine loaded with provi- fions & Tome other trade the cleared for Newcaftle and Jamaica. Here is come in a Pinke from Barbadoes a Brig- antine from Carolina a fmall boate from Bermudas a Dogger with logwood they bring little news and not much more Merchandife abating eighty tunns of Logwood. You writt me to affifte M’’ Cortland which you may be fure when itt concerns your felfe itt fhall be readily done. The Secre- tarys office here you thinke is eclipfed butt I hope in the Springe the Sun will enlighten itt according to your defire I have inquired what ffees and perquifites now paide to the Governor and finde that a Licenfe for marryinge in ten Shillings and the like fum for mofte things which are given under the Governours hand and private Seale ffor the Pafles of Veflells bound for Europe halfe to the Govern o*' which is ten fliillings if to any other place alfoe the halfe which is five fhillings I am informed thefe fums have beene taken by Coronel Dongan and others I lhall lett the money ly in Mr Cortlands hands till I heare from you ffor as I would doe Juftice to all men foe would doe itt to my felfe and to my Succeffors foe pray lett me hear from you upon that bufi- neffe I hope you will be foe kinde as to fend me the news and in doeing of itt you will extraordly oblige him who is your mofte affured ffriend and Servant ffr: Nicholson S’" I pray give my humble fervice to all our ffriends and acquaintances and fend the inclofed letters I hope our ffriend Uflier will not be wheadled out of his place therefore doe 248 Rdward Randolph. doe you putt him in minde of itt my fervice to M’’ Rattclyffe and to the Gentlemen of Salem when you fee them. John Skeene to Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXIX. p. 259. Peachfield, near Bur . . Efq! Randolph y" 26* of ^ mdn . . Much Efteemed ffriend Since my Lafl to the p’‘phill : Ritchards Marchant In New York I have Receaved thyn but of and old dait & fo bat- terd & torn In ye Cover that all was In ye packet wer Known in Eaft Jerfey or they cam. heer naither neaded I to open ye feales But take Commiffion & Leter etc out at ye end of the wraper, however being there was no fecret It was Lefs maiter. I Look on my felfe verie much oblidged to thy Kindnes, & fhould not be A Litle Glade to Embrace Ane oportunity By which I might fubffcantially Demonflrat the Inclenation I have to Requit It I cannot but Return my thanks for the pains thou took In wreating the news & fend- ing the Gazetts for It is moft fatisfaffore to me to Know the tranfadlions In Ewrope & If at fpair owers, thou fhall be pleafed, In Like maner to devert my Rurall foletude It will be A Great addition to former obligations. I was verie Glad to Hear of ye Go’’® fafe Return togither with [others ?] who cam with him from Albanie, But I was Realy fore when I Red of that kind Gentlemans death viz Coll Mafon, who the others wer I Know . . But I could hav wifhed If It had been Gods will that . . who waited upon y® Go*" Abroad had convey’d him h . . I fent & Delivered thy Let- ters Documents and Letters. 249 ters to ye Refpedtive Recorders But In place of the Records of Deeds conveyances & furvayes of Lands I have Receaved the Inclofed Leter Which I thought Good to fend, — he mentioneth proprietors but I fopofe he fcairce confulted A dofn of the wholl nL & even fome of thos he mentioneth have told me fince that they did but wait to have the Knowledg of the Go"" pleafur there In befor they wold proceed to Giue ther Confents to the delivere of them. I have Intimat & produced my Commition to Tho: Revell but with the fame fuccefs, as when I deliverd him thy Let- ter; how foon occation ferves I fhall doe the fame to John Reading & Sam^ hodg, which Is all the fervice I can doe for thee In this Afair, till fuch time as Thou vindicat thy title — which I Reackon may be Quicklay done as for the Rolls & Records he prefers to deliver me at Burlingtone I Know no other he hath favd the old minuts of the Afembly which are but in Loos peapers too & the Law Book Which [yie?] fealed up, as for wills & Teftaments He confeffeth he hath no Record of them but hath Keept the princpalls in Bundles, which method If It be; to be conteanued or not I defir to receav thy deredlions, — which accordingly fliall be obeyed. I fliould Redilly obey thy defir In wreating to the Go" had I any thing of moment to Impairt unto Him. But Knowing how throng he Is In Bufines I fliall not prelume to . . Him, only I Requeft when convenient oper- tunity — prefen . . Give Him My Deutyfull Refpedls, & Let Him Know . . . y® Remembrance I have (& fhall flill Retaine) of his favors ... do make me Long for ane occa- tion to ferve . im. Which fhall allwayes be Imbradl with A zeal that . . Give place but to A few Who are under His VOL. IV. — 32 Goverment. 250 Edward Randolph. Goverment. My Refpe6ls allfo pray Give to prelident Dudly Jn° weft my cuntriemen James Graham & B: Brown with the Reft of my Aquaintance fliow ye prefident His friend Doc’' Cox hath Loft His Agent who Dayd about A night agoe But He Is Like to come by A Greater Lofs by A Bargain ye agent mad on his Death bed In felling A 1300 tbf Cargo which was juft Arived from ye Dodlor fo much under the Reall Value as I ame Informed he Did ye verie night befor he dayed, I have Receaved no advice concerning ye navall office, nor Know we what fees to take for want of y® Table — which pray fend per nixt, I fopos that propofall concerning making out A poft way to Amboy is deferted for want of ordering how & at whos charrg It fhould be done ; I fhall not Enlairg further at put but arfter I have told thee my wife prefents her Refpedls To Thy felfe I fhall Remaine Thy Trew Affedlionat And Much Oblidged ffriend John Skene Randolph to William Penn. [Extract] MaJ^achufetts HiJto 7 dcal Society ColleRions, Vol. VIII. p. 531. Nov. 9. 1688. This Barbarous people [the Indians] were never civilly treated by the late Governm‘, who made it their Buftnefs to encroach upon their Lands, & by Degrees to drive them out MSS. mutilated. Documents and Letters. 251 out of all. That was the ground & the Beginning of the laft War. His Excell, has all along taken other meafures with them. I hope the proclamation, & the Indian’s con- fidence in the Govern"® favour to fuch as fhall fubmit, may putt a flop to their prefent Rage. I hear M" Mather and fuch like men of Antimonarchical principles at home, are complaining againfl mee. I confefs, if being the occafion of fubverting their old Arbitrary governm^ (& thereby putting a flop to the perfecuting fpirit raging every where in this countrey) bee a crime, I mufl fubmitt. Matthew Plowman to Edward Randolph. M ajfachufetts Arc/nves, Vol. CXXIX. p. 293. New Yorke the 14 : 9*"® 88 S" I rec'^ yours of the 3 : d. by which find that the diflurb- ance occafioned by the Indians to the Eftward as a perfon vigilent in his Maj‘'® fervice attended his ExceP and hope that men and veffells fent thither will in fliort time difperfe thofe murdering villins — yeflerday arrived Cap‘ Humprey Ayles with his Clearing in which find his Tunnidge two hundred Tunnesbut altered the hundred, I am fatisfied fliee is aboue 200 Tunnes, when I queftioned the thing hee tells me was alltered in y® office, and that his onely wood take powder mony, onely for a hundred foe that you will fauor me to lett me know the certanty liekwife muff: intreate your kindneffe to fend Two quires of Certificates printed, liekwife two quires of the innumerated Comodityes, and what they cofl 252 Kdward Randolph. cofl upon y" notice fliall fatisfie; the Scoch vefell lately that came to Amboyes an unfree vefell Dauid Modey owner and Comander feafed there, burden lixty Tunnes but as I am informed very old and very indiferantly found ; as by there privelige will condeme her there but Capt Hamilton for his one fecurity will fecure the king’s part I thanck you for your nufe, here have very little more that as your friends are well and prefent there fervice with mine to his Excd^ Graham M'" Well Col. Lidgett M’’ Macarty M’’ Uflier and the honed Sheriffe Shurlock not forgetting the two Lawyers that were heere and to your felfe am y" mod humble fervf Mathew Plowman Francis Nicholson to Edward Randolph. MaJjpachufetts Archives., VoL CXXIX. p. 294. New Yorke November y® 15*? 1688 My good ffriend I received on Monday both your letters and finde my felfe mightily obliged to you for the account of affaires fent in them. I hope you will be foe kinde as to let me heare from you how things goe, efpecially if any relate to my felfe. As to what concerns any difference betwixt his Ex"^^ and me I know noe jud reafon I have given, nor hope fhall not, though may be you guefs aright when thinke w^ there hath been endeavours ufed to make me believe y^ I have not foe many ffriends, as pretend to be foe. What the Lawyers fay I thinke may not pafs for an oracle, none of them haveing dudied at Delphos. The favour his Ex7 did me Documents and Letters. 253 me at the Council boarde, I am obliged to him for it. But your being foe kinde as to tell me what you write is private, 1 will not take any notice of it to his Ex7. Pray fend me word what you write as private y^ I may not pay acknowl- edgement, when not convenient, either for you or me, neither would I willingly omit paying them, when due. I am forry to heare f you are not like to have ^100 of the Wrecke money, but hope you may have it fome other way. If I can be anywaies ferviceable to you concerning your office here, be fure I will doe it. I have writt to his Ex7 aboute the Pafs money; but thefe are times for other affaires. You have taken away all the old adls, bookes of Council and bookes of Pattents, foe people comeing to have Coppies from thofe bookes, they not being here you loofe by it. I hope your Lady is either recovered by this time, or elfe gone her long Journey. Pray be foe kinde when you write to [her?] ffriends in England, as to hinte to them about w^ our Lawyers fay concerneing my Commiffion, for you can doe it beft : feing you heare w^ they and others fay : foe can heft tell w^ they would be at. I fend you the Survey of this place and Albany. The news of this place being publicke, I will not trouble you with it but Cap* Lockhard will tell it, if you pleafe. I beg the favour of you to enquire of Mr Kaine, when his Ex7 fends the Rolls for England and then be pleafed to give in mine. My Liev*." and Enfigne fliould figne them but if not at hand, let Kaine afke his Ex'?" what muff be done in that affaire. There is one Parchement and three Paper ones for each moneth beginning at Auguft. If his Ex7 will nott fend all the five moneths, be pleafed to keepe the Rolls of thofe moneths w""’" does not goe. I have neither 254 Rdward Randolph. neither dated the place nor time, for his Ex7 muft diredle that bufmeffe. If the trouble continue, I have writt to his Ex7 that I may leave to come to your parts ; but you need take noe notice of it. Haveing gott a little Albany beere (vv*^^ I hope will prove good) for I intend to fend you a barrell of it, by the firfl; opportunity. I defire you would pleafe to accept of it, as a fmall token comeing from your moft faith- full ffriend and humble Servant FFR. Nicholson My humble fervice to all our ffriends and acquaintance and I hope the little Church and its Parfon are both well. S. V. CoRTLANDT TO EdWARD RANDOLPH. Majfachujetts Archives., Vol, CXXIX, p. 296. N. Yorcke 1688 November y® 17^.’' s- ¥*■ kind Letter dated the 2 ^ off November I received am glad the [to ?] heare yf good health and that my fon keeps him felfe well I hope next turner to fee him here againe. I give y°" my harty thancks for y’' kindneffe and afifedion to mee & fhall not be wanting thanckfully to acknowledge the fame on all occafions. Severall people have been with me for Copies out of the records, but the bookes being with you, could not anfwer their defires. All the bufmeffe in the fecretaries office here is onely fometime a paffe for the weft- indian or a licenfe for marriage and that is all fo that all this winter there wil be nothing to doe. I fpoke to Mr. Plowman about the Scoch Veffell at Amboy, he told mee you had writt to him about the fame. I underfland that fhee Documents and Letters. 255 fliee is lett to goe to fiall [Fayal]. It is to be loaden by Mr. Leifler with pipe-ftaves. But Mr. Plowman can give mee noe acct whether Ihe is condemned or cleared. A veffell from Jamaica bring us the tidings of the Duke of Albemarle being dead and the corps fent to England. All is woe here pray remember the poore people att Schenegytade, that they may be relieved off the burthen laid upon them by their neighbours. if an Opportunity to write to England pray remember me kindly to Mr. Blaithwayt or any other you thinck that may be kind to mee & y° will much oblige f freind & fer' S. V. Cortland. Francis Nicholson to Edward Randolph. Maffachufetts Archives ., Vol. CXXIX. p. 303. Att ffort James New-Yorke December the 1688 Sr I hope before this, you have had good fucceffe againft the Indians I am very much concerned not haveing hearde from your partes, fince the beginning of Odfober, foe I have writt to M’' Ufher y‘ if any extraordinary news from Eng- land or aboute the Indians that he would pleafe to fend it me by the way of Roade-Ifland. I doe imagine you are gone, to the Eaftwarde with his Ex7, therefore if you will be foe kinde to write me pray fend it with Mr Ufliers. The little news we had, I hope Cap! Lockhart has told you ; for he promifed to finde you out. Our whalers have had pretty good luck, killing aboute Graves-End three large whales. On the eafte end aboute five or fix fmall ones. Cap. Webb I 256 Rdward Randolph. I heare is to be married tomorrow by ffather Smith to one widdow Hixs of Flufhing; the wedding I thinke will be kept at her houfe. Wee have news Nicholas de Morris is below at Sandyhooke ; he comes from London, but noe news there is as yet, Cap* Sellwicke is daily expedled from London ; as alfoe the Beaver from Barbadoes. When pleafe God thefe fhall arrive, I hope wee fhall have fome news by them. I defire you would pleafe to be foe kinde as to let me heare from you (for at pfent I am in a very longing condicbn) and in doeing of it, you will infinitely oblige your affeftionate ffriend FFR. Nicholson This is by one M’’ Jackfon of Barbadoes (who goes with Madam Palmer) and if you fhould be at Bofton let me recomend him to you I hope you will doe me juftice if you write to our ffriends in England. y® 4 *^ The winde being eafterly arrived here this morne- ing Nicholas de Morris being eight weekes from the Ifle of Wight but thirteen from London. She brings news of greate preparations in England w**" greate talke of Warr betwixte ffrance and Holland. M*" Plowman heares the Scotch Ihip is condemned at Amboy & valued at thirty odd pounds I heare fhe is already difpofed of The Colle6lor hath a letter from the Commiffioners of the Cuftome houfe aboute Scotch veffells being come into thefe partes and he fuppofes this to be her. \_Endor/ed'\ Cap^ Nicholfon Dec. 3. 1688 s. Documents and Letters. 257 S. V. CORTLANDT TO EdWARD RANDOLPH. Majfachujetts Archives, Vol. CXXIX. p. 304. New Yorcke 1688 Dec. y"" 4*^ Si- Since my laft nothing has happened worth to trouble you withall a veffell from England is arrived att Sandy Hooke but noe body come afhoare. The widdow Hix is to marry with Capt Webb the licenfe is write but not figned wee have noe bufmeffe att all in the Secretaries office for want of fome Records. We long to hear from bofton & how bufmeffe goes to the eaftward. We hear his Excelh^ is gone thither with 700 men wiether true or falfe wee know nott All is well here abouts. My humble fervices to his ExcelH and all our brothers This is att pfent all from Sy yy Reall friend & fervant S. V. CoRTLANDT To My Randolph EfqT Printed clearance. Majfachufetts Archives, Vol. CXXIX. p. 308. Cujlome Hoiife Bofton in Ne 7 v England, Thefe may Certifie all whom it doth or may concern that Capt Edward Lock Mafter or Commander of the Ship or Veffel called the prince of Wales of Bojlon Burden one hun- dred Tonns or thereabouts mounted with fix Guns, Navi- gated with ffourteeji men plant a ^\x\\i,Jhipp is bound hence VOL. IV. — 33 for 258 Edward Randolph. for London having on Board ffifty Eight hhds of molajfes feaven hhds one barrell & one bundle of fkins thirty fix hhds of mufc^" Sug" foure hhds Eight barrells of Tobacco Two bar- rells & two halfe barrells of Indigoe One thoufand three hundred twenty fourejiicks of Loggwood fix tonns of Bazaletto wood thirty fix flicks of lignumvite fixteene hhds dry ffifh fff teene barrells & Tenn halfe barrells of Cranberry s fourteene baggs of hopps & eighteen thoufand feete of Deale board hath entred and Cleared his faid Veffel & Goods at his Maj- efties Cuflome-Houfe according to Law, Given un- [seal] der my hand and Seal of Office this eighteenth day of Decemb''. in the Fourth year of His Majefties Reign, Annoque Domini i688. Ed. Randolph Coll. S. V. CoRTLANDT TO EdWARD RANDOLPH. Magachufetts Archives., Vol. CXXIX. p. 304. N : Yorcke 1688 Dec. 22".'* Sr Although we have but little matter to write, nevertheleffe I can not omitt to pay my refpecls & acquaint you off our welfare and thatt all is wel here except that the ficknefle con- tinues fiill w*"^ has taken feverall people out off the world. I fpoke to Mr Plowman a’^^ the fhip condemned at Am- boy ; he has taken care about her. She is lett to Mr Laifler & loaden to faile for fyall to fetch wines & after fafe arrivall may be expedled here againe in Aprill I doe not doubt but he has given you a full acc* thereoff. Wee have but little bufineffe in the office being not the time Documents and Letters, 259 time off the yeare for it hope it will better in the fpring, my fervice to his Excellency & to y'felfe from y’’ Reall frind & Servant S. V. Cortlandt Sir Edmund Andros to Edward Randolph. MaJJachuJetts Archives^ Vol. CXXIX. p.316. Pemaquid y®; 26^ Jan 7 i688[9] St I have received y? of the I5^^ and 19^^ inftant by MajT Brockley and expreffe with the Albany letters, all well, & now Anfwer of 20^^ and all elfe here refer y°“ to IVE Wefl the bearer hereof hoping the oficers wilbe carefull and all do well weftward, where I fliall nott delay returning, as foon as the (late of thefe parts will admitt itt, am forry to hear you were nott well, and ought to keep in till p’fefi: recovered know nott what to thinck that the Gabrieli Ketch MT Buck- ley mafter is nott arrived hope is well having had no very bad weather, tho fome thick fnowing times I am yT afe6lionate humble fervant MT Randolph E. Andros. G. Muschamp to Edward Randolph. Majfachufetts Archives^ Vol. CXXIX, p. 335 [18 February i68f] Worthy St Tho a flranger being concerned in this Province on his Maties behalf to receive the Dutys and haveing heard of yo*" 26 o ___ y Edward Randolph. yo’' zeale towards his Maties fervice I muft needs fay I have a refpedt to you my inclination from the very cradle been bent to Loyalty foe that I take this freedom to creat tho at a diftance fome acquaintance that you will (if any fmall errors happen between this Port and yours) you will inter- pret them to the belt advantage I muft needs fay this office is of little value the trade of the country being but fmall however I know not in any one perticular that I failed un- lefs in the cafe of IVP Tyler w*"’" was the fault of one of my deputies the faid Tyler haveing juftly paid the duties and entred into bond with fecurity according to Law Sir let me entreat you to excufe this impertinent fcrole and believe me to be Yo*’ fervant at Command G. Muschamp If Mr Graham be in Bofton pray prefent my fervice to him and let him know I would write to him if I were cer- taine of his being there Mr Afhly fpeaks very refpeftfully of you Robert Livingston to Edward Randolph. Maffachufetts Archives ^ Vol. CXXIX. p. 334. Alb. I S'? feb. 1 68 1 Hon^ Sr My lafl to you was y® i inftant by an expreffe over land, fince when by a letter of Mr Graham, dated y® 2 ^ inftant (y* came to my hands y® ip*!") I heard of y’' being well & y^ y°“ had writt e£fe6lually in my favor to England w^^ y® Ship Prince of Wales for which am infinitely obliged. I wifli I could fludy any way to fhow my felf gratefiill. I writt you at Documents and Letters. 261 at large in my laft of y® 1 1* inftant how backward y® People were in paying of y fees & y y Commiffion officers have writt to them of N : Yorke to fee if they p'^ & they fay they will not pay & therefore ours will not I defired Mr Graham to writt a line to our May’’ & if you would doe y® fame it would doe well y he once could be but fatisfyed y it was according to y® eftablifhed fee, then I fhould have no more trouble with them but compell them every on, all which I fliall expedl at y® return of y® expreffe. I defign about y® 7 or 8 march to go for N : Yorke to fee what Col Dongan will doe about my bufinefTe who is much offended at me : I wifh I knew how to a6l cautioufly in it, I fliall not trouble y'^ farther at prefent but remain hnce y® Indian haffene to be gone Your ever obliged Serv^ R 0 B 7 Livingston. Mr Randolph Robert Livingston to Edward Randolph. Majfachiifetts Archives., Vol. CXXIX. p. 350. Alb. 22 March i68| My very Dear frinde Since my laft to y of y® i i^l" of feb. I rec^ both y*”^ of y® 1 1 & 23 Jany y® 21^} of laft month am forry y" were from home when my laft came to Bofton being fent a purpofe for advife in y® cafe of Col. Dongan who now has left off his refolution off going home w^^ y® Beaver tendring y® Shipe back again & y® owners butt whatever y® deligns he has is unknowne fome fufpedfs will goe to Maryland after he has fecured his eftate & fo leave his creditors to condole his abfence. I have 262 Rdward Randolph. have thought upon y good advife of y® 23 Jan^ & know not it may be my beft way when all is done have therefore write to my frinds Graham & Weft for a writt from y® Superior Court [Blank] & doe intend to goe to N : Yorke fpeedily & if he will not by faire means comply & give me fecurity then I muft arreft him or attach his eflate as my frinds bed: can advife me. It is a great hardfhip I am putt to & f for all my eftate y^ I have in y® world, for if I fhould loofe this all y* I have & could gett all my life time would not pay my debts. It is y® people money & my owne I have ventured to doe Col. Dongan a kindneffe but he ill requites it. I know not but he may be more calm now. Pray keep this private. I need not inform y" of y® efforts of y® unnaturall warr att home w^ y'" will have brought & confirmed from all parts fo y‘ there is a total Revolution att home. God fend peace in our land again & prevent y® effufion of more Chrif- tian blood. Pray S" if it lyes w^^ y Convenience let me have a line from you either to N : Yorke where I am bounde or for Alb. w^ will fuddenly be conveyed. I have often writt to M' Graham & M' Weft for y® lift of fees but have nott gott y? y® officers as I often writt before deny to pay y® ac- cuflomed fees for thefe Commifiions becaufe they of N: Yorke write they have not paid any. Now Sf my dear frinde one word of advife now is worth a thoufand anof time for am now in extremity I know Y have taken great pains already, I beg y® continuance of y*" favor & if all goe well (elfe I am a poor creture) then I fhall demonflrate my felfe w^^ all integrity to be M*" Randolphs Ever obliged & devoted Serv^ to command Rob7 Livingston Council Documents and Letters. Council Meeting. Majfachtifetts Archives., Vol. CXXIX. p. 354. At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Bofton on Wednefday the 2 7^^ day of March 1689 Prefent : His Exce^^ S" Edmund Andros Kn* &c. Jofeph Dudley, W"" Stoughton, Wait Winthrop, John Uflier, Ed- ward Randolph, John Palmer, Nathaniel Clarke, Sam’* Shrimpton Ordered That the Treafurer do fatisfy his ExceR. for his falary out of his Ma‘*® Revenue till X‘mas laft pad. A true copy as appeares in the minutes of Council Exam'* p Is^ Addington Secfy. Recommendation of Joseph [Joshua?] Downing by Edward Randolph. Maffachufetts Archives, Vol. CXXVIII. p. 164. Sr Aprill: 13 : 89 : The bearer hereof Jofeph Downing of Kittery is an honeft & loyall man & my old acquaintance. CoR. Mafon delivered his petition for 200 acres of Land in Kittery nigh his dwelling houfe & the CoR. by y® Gov? order appointed a furvey of it : which tho’ not fo regular yet as well as could be then done: pray give him your favour & afliftance by finding Jofliua Downing of Kittery, Pro- of one hundred and fixty acres. See vince of Maine, petitioned on April i6th, Maffachufetts ArchivesdHo\. CXXVIII. 1688, for confirmation of forty acres of p 164. land and alfo for an additional grant 264 Edward Randolph. finding out his petition & obtaining for him a regular pro- ceeding & you will thereby oblige S" your humble Ser'l^ E. Randolph. Speedy Settlement Necessary. State Papers., Colonial, Entry Book 109, p. 209. At the Committee for Trade & Plantations In the Council-Chamber at White Hall Friday the 26 : of April 1689. Prefent : Lord Prefident, Lord Privy Seal, Duke of Bol- ton, Sy Hen : Capel. • ••••• •••• . . Their Lo^.® will alfoe move His Ma^^ for the NewEngid fpeody fctling fuch a Government in New Eng- land, New York and the Jerfeys, as, vpon recalling Sr Ed- mund Andros, may enable the Englifh there, not only to oppofe, by their vnited Forces, the French of Canada and Nova Scotia; but to carry on fuch farther defigns as His Majefty may find requifit; Without w*".*" Vnion and Govern- ment the French may eafily poffefs themfelves of that Dominion and the Trade of thofe Parts. Mr. Randolph to the Governor of Barbados. CollePlion of Papers, by T. Hutchinfon, Prince Society, Vol. II. p. 314. Goal in Bofton, May 16. ’89 Sir, By a heady multitude poffeffed with jealoufyes that our Governor, Sir Edmund Andros, was a Papifi: and intended to Documents and Letters. 265 to bring on the French and Indians to cut off the inhabi- tants, a generall infurredlion was intended and fo perfedled on the 1 8th of Aprill laft, that the Governor, hoping to fecure himfelf in our fort, miffed an opportunity of going aboard the Rofe frigott, then at anchor in the harbour, and fo, being overpowered, wee were taken prifoners of warr, as the filly multitude told us. This proceeded from a dayly expedlation (that one Mather, one of their minifters in Bof- ton, had raifed by his letters to them from court in the height of popery) of a new charter. I know he or any other (having firft fubfcribed to repealing their penall lawes and tefl) might for their money obtain fair promifes of, and he had fo far prevailed with Sir Thomas Powis, atturney gen- erall, that he had obtained a report in their favour, vpon many falfe fuggeftions, which, immediately on the P. of Orange his intending to vifit the Court of England van- ifhed ; however, he had no other engine to draw fupplyes of money from the diffatisfied party here, but to feed them up with affurances of a new and much larger charter. They were impatient at his delay and, hearing the newes that all papifts were either fecured or fled out of England, and would not believe but Sir Edmund was a papift and his commiflion arbitrary and calculated onely for the fupprefling all perfons of a different perfwafion ; they caballed and accordingly executed their principall refolutions: They have not yet fent to England, expecting Mather, their Mahomett, or at leaft particular orders from court, which will not operate here unleffe confonantto their humours. We have, at this day, above 100 perfons equally concerned as conferv- ators of the peace, but their power fignifies nothing, further VOL IV. — 34 than 266 Edward Randolph. than it pleafes the people; fometymes they are for having their old magiftrates reaffume their former government; fome- tymes to form a new modellof government; but their being many more ready (and of neceffity difpofed) to pull down than build up, they know not what to be att : Some, that have eftates and fhipping abroad, feare they have done more than they can anfwer, believing other governments will treat them as revolters from their allegiance, and give them neither protection nor lett them depart till they have orders from home how to treat them. This you may pleafe to communicate to the other governments leeward of you, to whom I have not an opportunity to write, who, I am well affured, will alfo highly refent it, and fo will the prefent con- flitution at home, whoever be in the throne, and not fuffer fo high an indignity to be putt upon the moft authentick authority any Prince can give his fubje6ts for their fecurity and protection whilft they aft by a power confirmed by the broad feal. God onely knowes how affaires ftand at home. I am confident they will never part with me, unleffe de- manded, by a force or their fhips ftoped in the plantations till I am delivered up for their liberty and licenfe to trade. This country is poor, the exaCt execution of the aCls of trade hath much impoverifhed them; all the blame lyes upon me, who first attacked and overthrew their charter, and was made the officer to continue their Egyptian fervi- tude, by my office of colleClor &c. I intreat you to repre- fent my flate to the Earls of Clarendon and Rochefter, by the firfi; opportunity, and that the Governor and I may be fent for home by fome frigotts. I mufl confeffe there have been ill men from New- York, who have too much ftuddied the Documents and Letters. 267 the difeafe of this people, and both in courts and councills they have not been treated well. However, nothing done can amount to countenance fuch an open rebellion, and, were I in England, I mufl advife a generall pardon, many hundred of innocent perfons being forced to ad, otherwife to be imprifoned; and the Kingdome of England cannot loofe this Country nor govern it without fome refped and allowance to the weaknefs of thofe who are miflead and the force of education and the byas of common prejudices : However, we are, at prefent, as much diftraded and as far from cementing into any fort of government as at the build- ing of Babell. God onely keeps them from deftroying us. You will have one Robert Glanvill from Salem, mafler of a ketch, he was imprifoned here, for an abettor of pyrates and was imprifoned with 7 pyrates, he can tell you their names; he brought into this country 3700 and odd Spanifli hides, robb’d from a Portugeffe veffell, the men thrown overboard, with other goods to the value of about 2000/. This is all proved by fufficient witneffes and they kept in goal till fome particular order from Sir Robert Holmes. About Od. lafl, he fent his commiffion to the Governor and myfelfe, dated to 26 Aug. 88. which we receiving not till November, and the Governor and I flaying to the eaflward till the limite was paff, could not agree upon a method of proceeding againfl them, in regard they flood upon their juflification, but rather, wee could not be affured of a jury that would find againfl them, upon the mofl evident proofe, but now they are at liberty, have their goods, and perhaps may bring fome of the hides, or barrels of fmall barrs of copper to your ifland; However, I think the Ketch is for- feited 268 Edward Randolph. feited for bringing in the pyrates and their goods to this country, knowing the men to be fuch, for Glanvill, in his Ketch, fayled in company with the pyrates, in the veffell they tooke, as far as New England ; he went to Salem, ap- pointed to meet them at Port a Bear, in Nova Scotia, and did fo and carried them fupplyes and provifions ; when they burned the veffell and brought away the goods in this Ketch and other veffels. This I heartily refer to your conduct and privacy, my life lying at ftake for the leaft difcovery. I can- not truft Mr. Rudger, father in law to Mr. Weft, with us, who has been a great inflrument in impofmg upon this people. Sir, I wifh you all happinefs and remain Sir your humble fervant, Ed. Randolph. Edward Randolph to Dr. William Sancroft Arch- bishop OF Canterbury. New Englaiid Hijlorical Genealogical Regipier., Vol. XXXVII. p. 273. Boflon : in New England May 28^!’ 1689. May it pleafe your Grace — I humbly recommend to your Grace by the bearer hereof Mr Ratcliffe our Minifter above 3 yeares; the Sad & dif- tradled Condition of this Miniftry of New England occa- fioned by a difcontented party who on y® 18 of Aprill laft tooke Armes feized upon the ffort Caflle & Rofe ffrigott at anchor in the Harbour in Bofton, they have imprifoned y® Gov’’ in the fort under a ftridl Card, they keep me in the common Documents and Letters. 269 common Gaol, giving out he • is a Papift & that I have committed Treafon. Their printed Papers which M’’ Rat- cliffe will prefent to your Grace will give an account of their actions, but nothing therein thats juftly charged. They had a defire to return to their former Gov^ & propofed this as the onely meanes, which they have fo unhappily accom- plifhed that they have endangered the Ioffe of the whole country, for the ffrench our neighbors have above 4000 able Souldiers with the Indians now in open warrs againft us fett on by Y french & have onely waited for an opportunity to enter upon a larg part of this Colony included in their Grant from y® ffrench King who now propofes to make him- felfe matter of the Beaver trade & of all the fifliery upon y® coaft of Nova Scotia. I heare M’’ Mather a Minifter in Boflon & others are foliciting hard for a new charter; hav- ing applyed to M’' Brent & Sir Thomas Powis late Atturney Gen' & had then by them the promife of it but I hope I may have his Maj‘'®® Commands to come for England & fhew the Reafon why their former was vacated & fhew the Great & irrepairable Ioffe that will attend the Crown upon Grant- ing it, not but that such grievances as they complaine of may & ought to be redreffed, when fufficiently proved before y® Gov' who can make his defence for what they have charged upon him as maleadminiffration : It ’s true he has endea- voured to have the A6ls of Parlia^ relating to trade & navi- gation duly obferved & prevented their going out to rob in the Spanifli W : Indies & harbour pyrates as formerly: this is the bottom & ground of all their complaints & this liberty they court & Sue for under the name of a Charter : They have fett at liberty 7 pyrats in this Goal, for murther & de- ftroying 270 Edward Randolph. flroying 8 Spaniards & taking their fhips & loading worth above 200o£ & have fold lately powder & ammunition to the french & Indians in warr with us, who are come into the province of Maine, kill deflroy & burn what they left fland* ing laft winter, the prefent Gov* having withdrawn all the forces left there in very good forts, well man’d by the Gov"^ S’" Ed*^ Andros & kept them under fuch reftraint & want that the Indians would have been forced to fue for peace upon any Termes before this tyme. This I humbly fubmitt to your Graces confideration humbly intreating the favour that I may be fent for home to anfwere the crimes laid to my charge & my accufers to come & profecute me in any of the courts in England that I may not after all my difficul- tyes & hardfliips rott to death in a nafty Goal for my faith- full Service to the Crown. I intreat your Graces pardon for this hafty paper and am in all Duty, your Graces mofl humble & mofl obedient fervant. E° Randolph. I have to add that Mf Mather has publifhed here a booke called “ the Idolatry of y® Common prayer worfhip ” which renders all of us of that church obnoxious to the common people who account us popifh & treat us accordingly. M*' Ratcliffe can fay more of it. I intended to prefent one of thefe bookes to y Grace, but my books & papers & writings are all feized upon in hopes to difcover a popifh plott. E. R. The bearer hereof M*" Ratcliffe was above 3 yeares ago recommended to us by my Lord Bifhop of London. He is a very fober Gentleman has gott us a church built & a large Documents and Letters. 271 large Congregation, but now he is forced to come for Eng- land to folicit for the enlargement of many of his conftant hearers imprifoned for no other reafon but becaufe they were of the church of England which I hope his Majefly by your Graces favour will be pleafed to encourage & countenance otherwife thefe poore people are by their open profeffion fo long as they, or this prefent diflradted Gov‘ continues ex- pofed to all contumely & hardfliipps in their eftates and liber- tyes. of this M*" Ratcliffe can give you" Grace a full account E: Randolph. Mr. Randolph to the Lords of Trade. New York Colonial Documents.^ Vol. III. p. 578, 29 May, 1689. To the Right Hon^^® the Lords of the Committee for Trade & Foreign Plantacons. A fhort narrative of the prefent unfettled State of his Ma‘^® territory and dominion of New England, and of the immi- nent danger of its being overrun by the French Forces in Canada, if not timely prevented : humbly prefented by Edward Randolph. May it pleafe yo" Lordfhips. Upon the eigh tenth day of Aprill lafl the people of this country being prepoffeffed with flrange feares and jealoufyes againft S" Edmund Andros Gov" and fome of the members of the Council, took armes, and in a fhort time made them- felves mafters of the fort, caftle and Rofe frigott. They feized upon the Gov" and committed him to ftridl: guard in the Fort, Some they fent to the Caflle, and imprifoned me and 272 Edward Randolph. and others in the common goale in Bofton. The reafons of their fuddain proceedings are publiflied in their printed papers herewith humbly tranfmitted N° i. 2. Since which much time hath bin fpent in confulting with the mobile what modell of government to eredl, as by their papers N° 3. 4. But your Lord^® will finde by their paper N° 5. that they intend to reaffume and act according to the rules of their former Charter. My Lords. There were fome perfons inhabitants of Bof- ton attending laft yeare at Whitehall who under pretence of grievances and hardihips put upon them by the Govern', laboured by all meanes to fett afide the government as it was then eflablifhed, and to obtaine confirmacon of their former Charter from the late King James, and had fo farr infmuated themfelves into the good opinion of Father Peters and S' Thomas Powis late Atturney Gen\ that by the affiftance of M' Brent of the Temple, their folicitor, they obtained a report from Sir Thomas Powys to the then Lords of the Committee for Trade, in their favour, that their former Charter was illegally vacated ; a duplicate whereof they tranfmitted to their party in Bofton with affur- ance of obtaining a Charter with larger powers; and they, in confidence of their Agents good fucceffe and impatient of further delays, revolted, and thereby anticipated by force that favour they would not tarry to receive from England. About the yeare One thoufand Six Hundred Seventy Eight it was made apparent to the Right Hon^^® the Lords of the Committee for Trade by the opinion of S' WilH Jones and S' Francis Winington then Atturney and Solici- tor Gen\ that the feverall articles of high mifdemeanour objedled Documents and Letters. 273 objefled againft the Govern'' & Company of the Maffachu- fetts Bay in New England for their maleadministracon, were a fufficient ground (if proved) for his Matye to proceed againft their Charter by law ; fome of which are as follows, viz' — Coining money without his Ma'^" permiffion ; Trade- ing contrary to y® Acts of Navigcon, whereby His Ma'^" revenue was greatly impaired (as was made appeare by the peticon of feveral eminent Merchants of London prefented to His Ma'^ in Council,) Not allowing thofe or any other Adts of Parliament to be in force with them unlefs foe declared in their Geif Affembly ; — Denying appeales from their Courts to England ; Laying Cuftomes upon the goods of His fubjecfs (not freemen of the colony) tho’ im- ported directly from England ; And for profecuting by fines, imprifonment, whipping, banifhment & putting to death. His fubjects for matters in religion. All which were con- fefled by their Agents in their petition to His Ma'^ during their attendance at Court to anfwer the complaints of M' Mafon and M' Gorce for invadeins^ their Provinces of New Hampfliire and Maine in New England. Whereupon S'* Robert Sawyer, then Atturney GeH was ordered by the Lords of the Committee for Trade to bring a Writt of Quo Warranto againft their Charter, which for thofe feverall offences and alfoe for refufmgto fubmitt to fuch a regulacon in the management of their government fo as all His Ma'^^ fubjects might finde equal juflice amongft them ; and upon their refufing alfoe to plead (tho’ they had all favour and time allowed them to make their defence) was vacated, and a commiffion cmnted to feverall e:entlemen, members of their late Council, to exercifc government in that colony ; of 274 Edward Randolph. number was M’’ Bradftreet (prefent pretended Govern’’), who refufed, and the others with great difficulty accepted thereof, as appeares by the printed paper N° 6. ,.vAbout the yeare one thousand fix hundred eighty five the French of Canada encroached upon the lands of the fubjedls of the Crowne of England, building forts upon the heads of their great Rivers, & extending their bounds, diflurbed the inhabitants, and layde a clayme to thofe lands which for many yeares had belonged to the Engliffi ; and under pretence of a right to the foie fifliery between the degrees of forty three and forty fix North latitude, they feized eight New England ketches laden with fifh off the coaft of Nova Scotia, took away all their fiffi, treated their matters moft barbaroufly and afterwards carryed them and moft of the ketches to Rochell, where they were a long time imprif- oned. The matters came afterwards from thence to New Eng- land. I then affiffied them in their applicacon to the Earle of Sunderlande and to the Lord Prefton, then EmbafTador in France; but his Lordfhip, though he preffed the matter, could obtaine noe redreffe. Whereupon it was advifed and ordered in Council that the three fmall Colonyes of Con- nefticott New Plymouth and Rhode Ifland, not able to make any defence againfl the French, together with the Provinces of New Hampffiire and Maine, fhould be united and made one entire government, the better to defend them- felves againfl invafion. And accordingly a commiffion was direded to S’" Edmund Andros with inflruccons to take them all under his care, which he accordingly accepted and they in a ffiort time submitted thereunto. The French about Canada intending to engroffe the whole beaver Docu 7 fients and Letters. 275 beaver trade to themfelves, did in the time of peace furprize about twenty feven of the chiefe Captains belonging to the Five Nations of the Indians (traders with the towne of Albany in the government of New Yorke) who had fub- jedled themfelves to the Crowne of England many years agoe & have bin accounted fubjeds and p'^tedled both by the Dutch and Englifh Government att New Yorke. And accordingly Coll. Dongan received orders from England to aflift and fupport thefe Five Nations of Indians againft the French; and certainly they had destroyed and outed the French out of Canada, had not Coll. Dongan, upon the in- fmuation of a French Jefuite, kept the Indians (much againft their inclinacons) in Albany, maintained at the Kings charge for feverall weeks; in which time the French Gov- ern‘‘ fupplyed his forts with all forts of ftores and pavilions for one yeare in four hundred birch canoes, which would have otherwife fallen into the hands of our Indians, and the forts alfoe not longer able for want of fupplyes to hold out. Coll. Dongan raifed men in New Yorke, which he kept for fome time at Albany, and has charged for that expedition about fix thoufand four hundred pounds, as by his originall account appeares, of which I have fomething (when in Eng- land) to lay before your Lordfhips. The French by their artifices obtain’d at our Court a treaty of trade and com- merce, betweene the fubjedls of the two Crowns, in the yeare 1688, which tho’ very difadvantageous to the Englifh in thefe parts of America, yet fince the Provinces of New Yorke and the Jerfeys have bin united to New England under the governm^ of S’" Edmund Andros, that treaty has bin duly obferved both by our Indians and Englifli, but not generally 276 Edward Randolph. generally by the French. They very much court the F'ive Nations of Indians to fubmitt to the government of Canada, and by their Jefuites ftrangely allure them with their beades crucifixes and little painted Images, gaining many new con- verts. One Monfeiur Town-to [Tonti] a French officer from Canada has enlarged their pretenfions and fettled a Fort and garrifon upon the Lakes on the back fide of Carolina. During this ceflation upon the treaty of peace and com- merce, they are not idle, but attempting upon the Englifli interefl in thefe parts of the world. About Augufi; lafi, the time S’" Edmund Andros went to take poffeffion of the government at New Yorke, eleven French Indians, killed five of our Indians neere the towne of Springfield and foon after five Englifh at the towne of Northfield upon Connedlicutt River ; they fled to Canada, and tho’ knowne by name and demanded by S" Edmund Andros, yet Marque d’Nouville [Denonville] the French Governour refufed to furrender them. Soon after the In- dians to the Eaftward upon a mifunderftanding betwixt them and the Englifli, fell upon the Englifli townes in the Pro- vince of Maine, deflroyed their come and cattle, burnt their houfes, killed fome and took others of the inhabitants prif- oners; having with them a French priefl: in their councills. Upon the Governo"^ returne from Albany to Boflon (where the Five Nations of Indians expreff’d great duty and obedience,) finding the Indians continuing to make fpoil upon the Englifh plantacons, it was ordered in Council that a confiderable force fliould be raifed, and the condudl of that expedicon was offered upon very good terms to Major Generali Winthrop one of the Councill; but he, unwilling to Docitments and Letters. 277 to ferve his native countrey, and others alfo refufing that command, the Governo'" undertook that difficult fategue in the depth of winter; and tho’ by unufuall mildnefs of the winter the rivers and lakes were not frozen, fo as his men could march after the Indians when and where he intended, yett they were wholly reflrained from doing any dammage to the Engliffi townes, by feveral forts built by him fo advanta- geoufly, upon the rivers and paffes. Upon the firfl: froft he was out a week in the head of one hundred and twenty good men, marching a foot thro’ difmall and almofl impaffable fwamps, at which time were taken and destroyed about thirty Indian canoes. Some time after a party of one hun- dred and fixty men marched above one hundred and twenty miles right up into the countrey, in a deep snow, and burnt two Indian forts from whence they carried fome beaver, ammunition and goods taken from the Engliffi and de- ftroyed and brought away twenty-eight Indian canoes, and reduced them to the ufe of their bows and arrows that they could not much longer hold out, but beg their lives upon any termes, had not fome merchants in Boflon (Fofter & Waterhoufe) chiefe in this rebellion (during the Governo" abfence from thence) fent a veffell of forty tunns with fup- plyes of powder, ffiott, bread, Indian Come, and Engliffi linnen and woolen manufacture to trade with thofe Indians and the French, betweene Port Royall and Penobfcott, who were alfoe in great want. The Governo’’ left the forces to the Eaftward on the fix- tenth of March and arrived in Boflon about a week after, and as foon as thofe fouldiers had notice of the difturbance in Boflon, fome forfooke, others revolted, feized upon their officers 278 Rdward Randolph, officers, and fent them bound prifoners heither ; fo that all that countrey, extending above fourty leagues upon the fea- fhore, that was fecured in their fifhery and fawmills is now deferted and left to the ravage of the barbarous heathens, who are already come down, have deflroyed and burnt fome forts and feverall dwelling houfes and kill’d fome of the people, the miferable inhabitants, in no way capable to pre- ferve themfelves and cattle but by flight. The French have above four thoufand good men about Canada, ready for any defigne. I expedl that upon the newes of the Boftoners reaffuming their old government (no care being taken for the out townes and Provinces) they will joyne with the Indians, and in a ffiort time fwallow and be matters of that part of the Countrey (not long fince granted to the French Welt India Company by patent from their King) and then being poffeffed of our belt ports & harbours, be mailers of all the great mafts in New England and will infefl: the trade of other the Englifli forraine plan- tacons : the prevention whereof was one chiefe ground of putting all thofe petty governments under one generall Governour. My Lords. Notwithllanding all the pretenflons of griev- ances mencOned in their papers, and cryes of oppreffion in the Govern’'® proceedings, it’s not the perfon of S'* Edmund Andros, but the government itfelf, they defigne to have removed, that they may freely trade ; and therefore urge a neceflity of His Ma‘^® grant for a new or confirming their old charter. I take leave humbly to reprefent to yo' Lordfhipps that the bottom and plain truth of the whole matter of complaint againfl: Documents and Letters. 279 againft His Majeftyes immediate government from England arifes upon the following reafons. Becaufe fince the vacating their charter they have bin kept from the breach of the A6ts for Trade and Navigacon, encouraged by their former government to trade to France Holland Spaine Scotland and Ireland, bringing the com- modityes of thofe Kingdomes diredly to Bofton, paying only a fmall cuflome for the fupport of their own government, and alfoe carrying the plantacon commodityes diredlly to thofe kingdomes, without ever touching at or paying the cuftomes in England as the law requires. They are re- flrained from fetting out privateers who for many yeares to- gether robbed the Spanifh Wed: Indies and brought great bootyes to Bodon ; and alfo they durd not during the Gov- ernour’s time, harbour pyratts. This place was the com- mon receptacle of pyratts of all nations. 2"."^ About fifteene yeares agoe Captain I’Moin, a French- man, brought in two or three very rich Dutch prizes worth above one hundred thoufand pounds. M*" Richard Wharton one of the Agents foliciting for the Charter (if in England) was L’Moins Atturney. He was a great undertaker for pyratts and promoter of irregular trade. I forbear to trouble yo' Lorddiips with the indances of any more pyratts who have bin received and pde6ted by fome now in the prefent government. 3^ They have bin redrained from tradeing with the French at Newfoundland, by exprefs order from the Commiconers of His Matyes Cudomes, which very much enraged thofe merchants who traded in great quantityes for brandy and other French goods, brought thither diredily from France. 4 2 So Edward Randolph. 4 Their liberty of coining money is taken away which encouraged pyratts to bring their plate hither, becaufe it could be coined and conveyed in great parcells undifcovered to be fuch. M*" Sewell another of the Agents attending in England was Mafler of the Mint, and a loofer by putting that down. 5*^ The Miniders, who in their Government were chiefe in advifing and direfting matters of publique import, as well in elefting Magiftrates as in makeing laws and what elfe did relate to the government, and now chiefe in contriving & fetting on foot this generall revolt and fubverfion of the government ; were not confulted with. Their prefent pradice fince their revolt is a fufficient demonflracon of what they intend to doe when they receive a Charter. They have already fett at liberty feverall pyratts imprifoned in the common gaole, who robb’d a Spanifh fhip loaden with about four thoufand Spanifh hydes, money, plate, and rich commodityes, which they brought into this coun- trey, murthered eight of the men, & brought with them two Spanifh captives, who, with the confeffion of fome of their company at fea, have made undenyable proofe of it; and they have liberty to fell their hydes and go about their bufinefs; fince which the pyratts have fold the two Spanifli witneffes in this towne. Three privateers are now fitting out for the Spanifli Weft Indies. Five Minifters of Bofton, viz^ Moode, Allen, young Mather, Willard and Milburn an Anabaptift Minifter, were in the Councill Chamber on the eighteenth of Aprill when the GoveriV and myfelfe were brought out of the Fort be- fore Documents and Letters. 281 fore them, writeing orders, and, were authors of fome of their printed papers. My Lords. I am kept very inhumanely and the Govern- our worfe, whofe packett fent by expreffe order from White- hall and letters of both publick and private concernes of his and mine, are ffcop’d and opened by S" William Phips, who fays the Govern’’ is a rogue and fhall not have his packetts nor letters, and pretends an order for fo doing and keeps them from us. I humbly intreat the favour off your Lord- fhips that I be not expofed here to the malice of thofe who, for my faithfull fervice to the Crowne for fourteen yeares in this countrey, are become my enemyes ; but rather, if yo’’ Lordiliips pleafe, that they may be commanded to fend me and my accufers to England, to anfwer what they haue to charge me with. I have many things (relateing to the well being of this countrey) of great import to His fervice, which, being now a cloffe prifoner and all my papers and materiall write- ings kept from me, I am in no condition to tranfmitt to yo' Lordfhips, but expeft, with patience by your Lordfhips direccons for a fpeedy opportunity for fo doing. All which is humbly fubmitted by Edw. Randolph. From the Common Gaole in Boflon the 29. of May 1689. [Endor/ed] ‘‘ Rec'^ from M" Randolph ‘^3 July. 1 689.'’ VOL. IV. — 36 Petition 282 Rdward Randolph. Petition of Sarah Randolph. Board of Trade., New England, 5. (5). [Undated; probably about 22 July 1689.] To the Kings moft Excell! The humble Peticon of Sarah Randolph wife of Edward Randolph Secretary of New England Sheweth That yof PeU^ Hufband has ferved the Crowne this 30 yeares, and has alwayes demeaned himfelfe as a dutifull and Loyall Subjeft, and is & alwayes was a Proteftant. That in Aprill lafl, diverfe of the Inhabitants of New England in a violent manner did feize and Imprifon the Governol: and feverall others, together with yo! PeUf Huf- band, who has been ever fince kept under the clofeft Confinement That he has no other meanes whereby to maintain him- felfe, your Petition! & 5 Children, but by his faid Imploy- ment, fo that unlefs he be fet at Liberty, they muft inevit- ably perifh. Your Pet! mofl humbly prayes that yo! Ma^i® will be Gracioufly pleafed to give Order for the Releafing her faid Hufband from his Imprifonment, or that he may be fent for into England to anfwer before your maH® to whatfoever may be laid to his Charge. And yo! Pet! (as in duty bound) fhall ever pray &c. Randolph Documents and Letters. 283 Randolph to Blathwayt, from gaol. State Papers ., Board of Trade , New England , Vol. 5. p. 87. Comon Goal in New England. 22* July 1689. The Ketch Mary of Bofton 40 Ton John Updyke Maft" by whom I fend this, hath Loaded here the enumerated Comodityes without having firft given Bond as y® Law does require I cannot feize her here unlefs my Officer fhould be knockt o’th head There is noe Law noe Courts No Juftice no Governm! All crying Out againfl the Adis of Trade And now Veffells arive from Holland and Newfoundland loaden wl^ Wine Oyle and Brandy I cannot Trull the Goal w‘^ any of my Lrs for I am lyable to be Searched every hour And that would add to my Charge of Treafon againft their Governf As my Adling here by Comiffion and Deputacon without their Confent is already Adjudged, And I am Voted not Baylable. Edward Randolph. To William Blathwayte Efq" \_Endorfed'\ 2 06 lober 1689 Prefentm! of f Comiss of the Cuftomes touching the Violation of the A6ts of trade. New England. Duplicate 284 Rdward Randolph. Duplicate of M’! Randolph’s Letter to my Lord Privie Seale. State Papers.^ Board of Trade., New England., Vol. 5. p. 104. From f Common Goal in Bofton July 23 : 1689. May it pleafe y' Lordft Wheither Mr Mather (one of the preachers in this Town) has vpon his bare fuggeftion fo farr infinuated into the favour of y® Court as to obtaine a Grant of a New Charter, Or a Confirmation of their Old one (as they fay here illegally vacated) No fhip from Eng*? has advifed vs. Certaine it is, That vpon a prefumption of that onely, they continue Sr Edm*! Andros, my felfe, & feuerall other Gen^ in prifon vnder clofe confineml and at laft charge vs with the Breach of a Capitall Law, made by the Generali Court, when they fett vp for a Common Wealth Gomt as appeares by the Re- folues of y® Reprefentatiues of the feuerall townes in the Colony (fitting in Convention with the Gour & Councill) Duplicates of fome whereof & of their Law I humbly in- clofe to yr Lordfp And now my Lord, this poeple hauing dared to proceed to this height, vpon Hope onely of receiuing their Charter priveleges (as they term them) what can wee expedt vpon the arrivall of their Agents, loaden with fuch favors ? but that they proceed to trye vs vpon their Lawes : or if it bee his MaH^® pleafure to dire6l other methods for governing this Country, the Guilt of their Crimes already done, & the feare of deferued punifhment is fuch ; That they will Maffacre vs, & at the fame tyme call off their Allegiance to y® Crown, ac- counting Documents and Letters. 285 counting them felues his Nominall & not reall Sub- jefts, as one of their Cheife Minifters lately declared in pub- lick. I hope y*" Lordfp has long fince receiued my letters by Mr Vfher Treafurer of y® Territory, & by our Minifler Mf Ratcliffe; and that his Ma^^ (vpon Confideration of the imminent danger of this whole plantation is in to be de- flroyed by faftion & populer Rage, Or be made a prey to Indians & Our affpiring Neighbors the French) has fent heither a fufficient force to quiett the prefent diforders, & reduce this Country to a firm dependance vpon y® Crown. Here is no Goverm! No Law : Cuftoms, Excife and the A6ls of Trade & Navigation are Cryed down: All things are carried on by a furious Rabble animated & Encouraged by y® Crafty Minifters, fome whereof (as young Mather, fon to old Mr Mather their Agent) were the Cheife promoters of this Rebellion : thefe haue infedted the Neighbouring Col- onyes of New plymouth Road Ifland and Connefticutt, & fent their Agitators to New york, that they may not ap- peare the Onely Rebells in thefe parts of y® world. During this Commotion the Eaftern Indians (in armes lafl winter) dayly alarum Our out-townes : foure Confiderable Townes are wholy deflroyd, the Fifliery loft: the Forts built by Sr Edml Andros are burnt down, about \^Jic\ ^ perfons lately kild & taken Captiues, with a Rich plunder; the diflreffed poeple hauing left their houfes & Cattell in the other townes haue petitioned to the Gour & Councill for fouldiers to defend the Remaining townes in y® province of Maine, but can haue no futable Releife : the Country has No Officers fitt for Such a Seruice ; nor can they Raife Souldiers nor money to pay the Charg of this Warr, the poeple 286 Rdward Randolph. poeple not being fatisfied that they haue power to Raife either: So that in a very fhort tyme All the Eaftern Coun- try (of great Import to y® Crown) will be wholy deferted and left to the Rauage of the Heathen : All which, together with Such papers I haue Tent to Mr Blathwayt relating to the prefent affaires & flate of this place I humbly fubmitt to y^ LordP.® Confideration and in all Duly remaine Right Hon^!® your Lordft® moft humble Seru^ EdRandolph. \_Endorfed'\ N : England. 23 July 1689. Duplicat of Mr Randolph’s Letter to my Lf Privy Seale. Originall deliverd the 6 Nov. 1689. From M’T Randolph to CapT Nicholson. State Papers., Board of Trade., New England, Vol. 5. p. 107. Sr Common Gaol July 29‘^ 89. The 24 inflant wee had advife of 6 men killd out of 19 going to the weft fide of Kennebeck Riuer from y® fort at Saradehock to fecure their cattell : the 28‘^ wee had advife that on y® 22 : were killd at Saco 10 men & 4 wounded : & 4 or 5 houfes burnt: they were intended to fend men to joine with the men of New ichawannock who had certaine advife where the Indians were & fent fome for their horfes; but y® Indians fhott down 4 men mounted; this alarumd the Garrifon, who run out about 28 in great haft, Saw y® Indians at a diftance, followed them to a fwamp in very much diforder & out of breath, ftriving who fhould gett the firft fum of 8? Sett vpon y® head of Euery Indian taken in fight; but y® Indians kild there 6 more & wounded y® foure : tooke Documents and Letters. 287 tooke aboue 20 good armes, they neuer making a fland : I exped to haue 2 or 3 tymes aweeke Such newes fo long as they continew in y® Remaining Out townes. They haue left Saco, the Cattell & corn at the favour of the Enemy. Its a queftion wheither y® Gom! will take any care to pre- ferue thofe parts being out of their Colony : the reprefenta- tiues decline it wholy. [The] 25 was a fafl kept as by y® Inclofed order: Mf Bradftreet recommended to Allen & Moode to exhort their flock to obedience to y® prefent Gom! they tooke no notice of him : Allens text was y® 9^^ Chap Ezra 3 lafl verfes & greatly fhowed his diffatisfa6lion that his people fuffred their Children to marry to perfons out of their pale : Moode En- couraged them to fland to y® liberty whereto they are called : Gaue God thanks that he had reflored their Judges as of old. They are in great want of M! Mather & their Charter : he told them fome had petitioned the King for a Gou! from Eng'! but he faid his Curfe was vpon them & they fhould not profper. They make very fure of Continuing to themfelues the Gom! & will not accept of anything leffe then their old Gom* refoluing to fland it out to the lafl man, hau- ing now Gott the Militia in their power ; & they take more care how to oppreffe all who are not of their party then to preferue the diflreffed poeple from y® Indians. Marke Emerfon & One Clem of your Company & one of y® Gou? were kild at Sacadehock. Old Alden is lately returnd in y® Sloop Mary from Penobfcot : he fayes [Cafleen] told him that [Moros] was lately returnd from Canada with fupplyes ; that there were 4 men of warr & as many Merc*.® fliips arriued at Quebeck & that y® Gou! fent him word there 288 Rdward Randolph. there was warr betwixt Eng'? & france. The Mifcheifes al- ready done by y® Indians & what more mines which wee dayly expe6t both from them & y® french who will not lye flill hearing of the Confufions here are all Charged vpon Sr Edm*? Andros. S!" I know not how this Country can be preferued from vtter deftrudlion euen from y® Civill diffentions vnlefle His Ma^l® has fent a Confiderable force to Subdue them : as for Letters & Comm*".^ from his Ma‘'®, vnleffe well backd by a Good force will rather encourage the fadlion then the honeft party, who are by all meanes kept vnder Hatches. I expeft the french will attack pifcataqua & make them felues Maf- ters of that place or Salem if not Bofton, wee being in no Condition to oppofe them. I wifh you all happines ; pray giue my poore wife a vifit, I heare fhe has been long lick. Young Mather & Willard are high ag! the Old Church; they are very much devided. Peter Sarjeant was yeflerday admitted into y® New Church. I am S' your humble Seru* EdRandolph. I am to acquaint you that tomorrow is held a County Court in Boflon. Leiftn^ Jordan is (till in Goal: Cap! Man- ning is out vpon bond: Mr Jemifon wrote ,to them per- emptorily enough for his liberty, they anfweared him that he muft flay till y® County Court, & if nobody vpon pro- clamation had ought to Charge him with he fhould haue his liberty: this is the firft part of New England Juftice & y® liberty of the Subjedl. \^AddreJjfed~\ Documents and Letters. 289 \^AddreJfed~\ To Capt. ffrancis Nicholfon Leiftn! Gouf of his Ma“f Territory & dom of New Eng'! or in his abfence to Mf Jo Vflier : Whitehall. \_Endor/ed~\ New England 29 July 1689. From Mf Randolph to Capt. Nicholfon. Rec*! from Cap! Nicholfon 8 Nov. 89. . Petition of Andros, Randolph, &c. to be sent to England. State Papers., Colonial, E 7 itry Book, 109, p. 246. At the Committee for Trade and Plantacons At the Councill-Chamber at Whitehall Munday the 29*!^ of July 1689. Prefent: L*! Privy Seal, Earl of Nottingham, Vifcount Lumley. A Lre to N : England. Upon Their Lops Reprefentacon of Cap! Nicholfons Letter, together with the Narrative of Mr Riggs, and the Peticons in behalf of S! Ed- mond Andros, Mf Trefryand M! Randolph, it having been Order’d in Councill, that A Lre from His MaV' be fent to New England, requiring that the Peticors and others Seiz’d in like manner be fent into England to Anfwer what may VOL. IV. — 37 be 290 Edward Randolph. be Objefted againft them Their Lops Agree that the orders fent thither may be to fuch as for the time being take Care of preferving the Peace, and Adminiftring the Laws in their Colony of the Maffachufets Bay in N. England. Order for sending Sir Edmund Andros to England. Majfachujetts Hijlorical Society ColleEions, Fourth Series^ Vol. VIII. p. "]\\. 30 July 1689. To fuch as for the Time being take Care for preferving the Peace and Adminiftring the Laws in Our Colony of the Maffachufetts Bay in New England in America. Duplicat. William R, Whereas S' Edmond Andros, Late Governour of Our Dominion of New England, has been feiz’d by fome People in Boflon, and is detein’d under Clofe Confinem* there, to- gether with Edward Randolph, John Trefry, and Divers others. Our Subjedls, Who have humbly requefled us that they may be either fett at Liberty, or fent in fafe Cuftody into England, to anfwer before us what may be objected againft them ; We do hereby will and require that the faid S' Edmond Andros, Edward Randolph, John Trefry, and others Our Subjects, that have been in like manner feiz’d by the fd People of Boflon ; and fhall be at the Receipt of thefe Our Commands detein’d there under Confinem\ be forthwith fent on Board the firft fhipp bound hither, to anfwer before Us, what may be Objeded againft them, and that yo"" take care that they be Civilly ufed in their PalTage from New England, and fafely Convey’d to Our Royall Prefence. Given Documents and Letters. 291 Given at Our Court at Whitehall, this Thirtieth Day of July, 1689, in the Firft year of Our Reign. By His Command: Nottingham [fealed with the Privy Seal] PresentmT touching IVP! Randolph. State Papers^ Board of Trade^ New Engla?id^ Vol. 5. p. 84. Cuftome Houfe. London. 23 Auguft 1689. To the R^ Hono^!® the Lords Comm? of their Ma? Treary. Prefentment By the Comm? for manageing and Caufing to be Leavyed and Colledled their Ma? Cuftomes Subfidys and other Duties. The Comm"^ have lately Received a Letter of the 29*^ of May Laft from My Edward Randolph Colleftor Surveyor and Searcher of their Ma? Cuftomes in New England, Set- ting forth his being Throwne into the Common Goale and there Deteyned on Accompt of the late Revolution, That he was in Danger of his Life by the Fury of the Multitude, That all his Books and Papers were Seized, and that Lib- erty was now there taken to Violate the A6t of Navigation as formerly. And the Comm? doe Underhand That his Ma? hath been Pleafed already to fend his Orders to the Government there, for the fending home the Said Mr Ran- dolph as well as the Late Govern! Sf Edmond Androfs, to anfwer here, what may be Objected againft them. But if noe Admonition hath yet been given to thofe People of New 292 Edward Randolph. New England for Preferving the Said A6l of Navigation, The Comm? doe humbly Pray, That their Lord^V^ will be pleafed to Move his Ma? for Orders to that Effeft, As alfo That all the Books and Papers' of the faid Ml Randolph which have been taken from him may be Sealed up and fent to one of his Ma? Principal Secfys of State, That foe much of them as Concernes his Ma? Publick Revenue may be Placed with the Comm? here til Some other Pfon be appointed to goe and Execute the faid office of Colledtor, Surveyor and Searcher in thofe parts. Robert Southwell G : Boothe Jo. Werden T. Pelham RobT Clayton. P. Ward. \_Endorfed~\ 23 Aug. 1689. Prefentm^ Touching Mf Randolph in New England. For the Comittee of Plantacons Read in Councill Sept. 2?^^ 89. “ M^" Radolp to the Com”^?® ” State Papers.^ Board of Trade., New England, Vol. 5. p. 94. Common Goal in Boflon N. Engl Sep^ 5 : 1689. May it pleafe y LordP?® Fine months are paffd fince My Bradftreet & y® former Magiftrates entred by force of Arms upon y® Gomy of this Colony Documents and Letters. 293 Colony, Imprifoning S! Edm^ Andros, my felfe & others of the Councill, for Exercifmg a power of Gom! amongft them, which they call vfurpation & fay y! the Crown of Eng^ can- not appoint a Goul^ in their Colony without an open viola- tion of their Charter Rights: During which tyme y® In- dians haue ouer-run y® greateft part of y® Eaflern Country, from y® River of S! Croix (the Eaflern boundary of this Ter- ritory) to Pifcataqua River, aboue 200 miles in length vpon y® Sea Coafls: they haue taken the Town & fort at Pemma- quid, (the place of mofl import in thofe parts) together with y® Townes of New Harbour, Newtown & New Dartmouth, & y® Strong fort there ; The fort vpon y® Paffe at Damaras Cottar River, the fort of Tueffett on Kennebeck River, and alfo the fort vpon Pojepfcott River: All built & well mannd by Sy Edm'! Andros order: The townes alfo of Saccadehock, North Yarmouth, Richmonds Ifland; & Saco, where 2 Good forts well fetled, & Cachecha in the townfliip of Douer vpon Pifcataqua River ; mofl of the houfes. Corn & Cattell burnt & deflroyed ; about 300 Chriflians Kild & taken Captiues. In the Province of Main the townes of Wells Cafco York & Kittery & fome few fortified houfes (ill mannd) are yet remaining, but expedl not long to continue, for no fufficient care is taken by y® Gom! at Boflon for their Releife, being out of their Colony (as y® poore diftreffed peo- ple applying to them for help are told). About 3 weekes ago the Enemy did attack fome fcattring houfes in y® Townes of Havarell & Andouer (30 miles from hence) wherevpon the Gom! are raifing 3 : or 400 men horfe & foot, but haue No Officers fitt to Command them, & therefore the Souldiers chufe rather to lye in Goal then feme viider them (as 294 Edward Randolph. (as many at this tyme do) and in cafe they can Compleat their Numbers, they defign them onely to defend their Out Townes, & not to Suppres or deftroy y® Indians. The damage already done amounts to aboue 60000 fieri : The fifhery & Lumber (y® Cheife Comodityes of this Country) are quite deflroyed, befides the Ioffe of a very fruitefull Country for Corn & Cattell, with many Good Harbors, & all y® Great Mails fitt for y® vfe of y® Royall Navy (are in y® hands of french or Indians) not to be valued. Thefe (My Lords) are but y® beginning of y® Defolation brought vpon this Country by y® Tumultuous defignes of an Antimonar- chicall fadlion : Three dayes after they had fubverted y® Eflablifhed Gom! the Councill of fafety diredled their Orders to Cap! Savage & others their Confidents to difmifs all y® Officers (as by a Copy of that Order N? i :) and to draw off the Souldiers fetled there by S! Edm^ Andros in thofe feuerall forts aboue named : by which adlion, from the tyme y® Indians firfl broak out into Rebellion to that day, the whole Eaffern country was well Secured, & y® Enemy brought to Such Extreamityes, That they were Coming in to deliver vp y® Cheife Rebells & Submitt to mercy. Butt by this fuccefs & Extraordinary Booty they haue gott from y® Englifh, their Numbers are now Greately increafed, feu- erall Nations who all laff winter declined to affifl them, are now joind & make vp a body of 5 : or 600 fighting men. In March lafl; they were fupplied with Ammunition by fome Merc*? from Bofton, & fince by the french from Canada: who euery way Countenance & affift the Indians in their attempts ag! y® Englifh: befides the Inhabitants at Cape Codd are apprehenfiue that y® Indians (about 1000 in num- ber Documents and Letters. 295 ber in that part, euer till now in good freindfhip with their Englifh Neighbors) intend a Rifmg, in regard of their great meetings & frequent Dances, the vfuall indication of their taking Arms. Thefe & many fuch like Calamityes befalling other Colonyes & places in y® Territory no way related to Bofton, putt Sr Edml Andros vpon attempting his liberty, and on y® third of Auguft laft came to Newport on Road Ifland; intending to moderate & Compofe y® minds of y® deluded poeple, but y® Councill at Bofton hearing he was gone fent their Orders by Sea & land to apprehend him, & by their Agitators ftird vp a Rabble at Road Ifland who ‘ treated him vnhumanely, & betrayed him to 2 Troopes of horfe fent by y® Bofloners to receiue & bring him back to y® Caftle : and being charged with unbailable crimes (as by the enclofed copye of Refolues N° 2) and his Keeper treates him as y® word; of Malefaftors, not permitting his Doflor or Cooke to come to him, & provide him neceffaryes. My Lords this poeple by their Refolues & proceedings there- vpon, haue difcouered, That what euer fpecious pretences (of being Papifts or popiflily affedted) were at fird objefted ag* S'" Edm^ Andros & others continued vnder ftridf imprif- onm* they are refolued to mainetaine their Charter Gom^ (as they call it) and that y® Crown of Eng*^ is to Expedt no further Obedience from them then what they are obliged to by Charter. My Lords, Some of y 5 Lordd^ may pleafe to remember, that his late Ma^l® King Charles y® Second, tak- ing notice of y® Create mifcheifes which had befallen his Plantation of New Eng^! from y® many independent and petty Gom^^ fett vp in y® feverall Colonyes ; for prevention whereof, vpon mod advifed delibeation was determined to vnite 296 Rdward Randolph. vnite them All vnder one Gen’! Gou!" : which afterwards in y® yeare 1686 was happily accomplifhed by a CommisS : vnder y® Great Seal to ST Edm"! Andros : the better to Secure them from a forain power, or from another Incurfion of y® Indians: being in y®yeares 1675 & 76 greately infefted by them, many Townes deftroyed & aboue 1000 men kild in that warr; & Notwithflanding all the force the Boftoners raifed & fent Eaftward, they were no wayes Capable to fubdue thofe Indians vntill ST Edm*! Andros then GouT of New York fent a Confiderable party of Souldiers and built a fort at Pemma- quid (then vnder his GomT) & thereby obliged y® Indians to deliver vp to y® Boftoners aboue 100 Englifh Captiues & 12 fifhing Ketches taken from them that warr. At this diflance I know not what Arguments may be vfed by fome out of pri- vate Intereft or by others vnacquainted with the true ftate of this Country to reftore to the feuerall Colonyes their feperate formes of GomT Butt from my 14 yeares experi- ence in y® publick Tranfadtions of y® whole plantation I humbly propofe it abfolutely neceffary for y® honour & In- terefl of y® Crown & for y® lafting well being of New Eng^ That 1500 or at leafl 1000 Good Souldiers be fpeedily fent heither to reduce this poeple to a firm dependance vpon y® Crown & to regaine what is already loft: otherwife. Not onely New Eng^l but the Neighbouring Plantations of Maryland Virginnia & Carolina (couered to y® Weflward by divers populous Nations of y® Indians) will in a fliort tyme be ouer-run & made a prey to the Incroaching French, who if not prevented will become Maflers of all the Englifh foraine Plantations; having already fettled feuerall forts amongfl thofe Indians as far as the backfide of South Caro- lina. Documents and Letters. 297 Una. I may not omitt to acquaint y’’ Lordf^.® that the Revolt of this poeple was puihd on by their Agent Mf Mather, who fent his letter diredted to Ml; Symon Bradftreet Gouf in which he encouraged them to go cheerefully to fo acceptable a peece of feruice to all Good poeple. Butt how difadvanta- geous to y® Crown & deftrudtiue already it has proved to this whole Plantation I humbly fubmitt to y! Lordf?^ Con- fideration, & in all Duty remaine Right HonM® your Lordf?® moft humble & obedient feru! Ed Randolph Secfy. \Endorfed'\ Mf Randall Sept. 5‘^ 1689 to the Comittee Read at y® of Plantations Febr : 25^^ 1689. Concern N : England. [Addrejfed'] To the Right Hon^*® the Lords of y® Committee for Trade & forain Plantations at Whitehall humbly prefent. M’! Randolph to the ComL^® State Papers., Board of Trade., New Etigland, Vol. 5. p. 96. From f Common Goal in Bofton May it pleafe y*" Lordf^P® 0 ( 5 l^f 15* 1689. Doubting the fafe conveyance of my letter of y® 5^.^ Sept, laft w^^ papers I fent to Y LordP?® by way of Barbados, I humbly take leaue to inclofe a duplicate thereof & alfo to VOL. IV.— 38 reprefent 298 Rdward Randolph. reprefent to yT Lordf'^P^ that the poeple of this Colony haue with great impatience expedled the arivall of their Agent Mr Mather a Charter, but 6 months are lapfd, & no Newes of it (tho’ the Minifters affured it in 3 weekes after the fubvertion of y® Com!) they difcouer the fraud & find themfelues deluded, Now therefore they difown openly the power of the Gomt& refufe to pay Rates & Taxes laid vpon them, notw^^ftanding they haue prefumed to iffue forth their warr^® for Colledling them in their Ma^‘f® Names, And inaf- much as they are difappointed in their hopes of a Charter, feare of punifhment for what they haue already done & the dayly expectation of a force from Eng'l diftraCts & putts them vpon taking care how beft to fecure them felues. Some of the Cheife are defirous to haue Sr Edm^l Andros & others at liberty, & to manage the Com! as formerly: at leafl vntill their Ma^’f® pleafe to Signify their Commands to him (or to whom elfe they fhall appoint to that Seruice) for fetling & re-eflablifhing their Royall Authority ouer y® whole Dominion of New Eng‘1 ; they abominate alfo y® Continued hardfhipps putt vpon them, when as y® moft faCtious man amongfi: them cannot in 6 months tyme fhew a Reafon, why any of them fhould bee imprifoned one Minute : but their will is a law : The plaine truth is (what euer their Agents may pretend to gaine favour at Court) they hold fail the Antimonarchicall principle fpred amongfi: them by Sr Henry Vane, Hugh Peters, etc : & Venner, who made the Infur- reCtion in London foon after the reflauration, had his edu- cation here alfo. The other Colonyes finding all but a fliam, are too late fenfible of their hafty reaffuming their former Com?, & forbeare to aft, they onely make ufe of the Name Documents and Letters. 299 Name & fliew of Authority, to quiett poeple, till Newes from Eng^ The Gom^ here, tyred out with y® Continuall Cryes of daughter & dedrudlio made by the Enemy vpon y® Inhabitants in feuerall places, at lad (by threatning fome & by faire promifes to others) gott together a body of 7 or 800 men Englifh & Indians & fent them to fecure the Eadern parts of y® Colony: but they haue neither difcipline nor Officers who know how to Command. On y® I3*^ Sept, lad at Oyder River in y® Province of New Hampdieire, a fort was taken by y® Enemy 19 Englidi kild & made Captiues : tho’ 200 of their forces were then not far from that fort. On y® 20* of that Month the Indians intended to attack Cafco in y® Province of Main : but Cap! Church accidentally arriving there with forces droue them off with the Ioffe of 8 men kild, & 14 more dyed of their wounds. No chyrurgeon being allowed them. They are all dayly expefted home, finding no care is taken to fupply them with bread & other Neceffaryes. The Major of Albany, Aldermen & principall Inhabitants being apprehenfiue that the French from Canada will attempt that place, voted to addrede to New York for a fupply of 10 or 20 Bar’l^ of pouder, 300 fhott, & 200^ in money, with fome men to defend their fronteeres from y® French & their Indians, who had already kild 3 poeple nigh Scanaidade (but 20 miles didant from Albany). Jacob Leiflier (head of y® Rabble at N : York) vpon receite thereof, fends to M! Braddreet in Bodon for the like quantity of pouder & fhott, & in cafe he could not fpare pouder, one Ton of Saltpeter: vpon a Survey of the Stores here, were found but 8 barr'l^ powder in y® publick Store, & about 20 at the 300 Rdward Randolph. the two fortifications, So that he could fpare him none. Albany trades with y® fiue Nations of Indians for about 40000^ value a yeare in Beuer & furrs : & are yearely brought from thence to N : Yorke 100000 bufhells of wheat, peafe & Indian Corn : their cheife dependance for fecurity is vpon the arrivall of Generali Orders & a Sufficient force from Eng^. to take care of the whole dominion, & regaine what is already taken & in the poffeffion of y® Enemy. Here is no regard had to y® A6ls of trade, or Lawes ag? pyrates : Abra- ham Fiffier a Scotch Rotterdammer a pyrate, in a flpop with 40 men from Carofoe tooke a French fhip of 16 Gunns & 8 Peteraras, etc : at Newfoundland, & with her tooke another ffiip vpon y® Banks (plundred more) loaden with Salt, fifh, etc : came a month ago into Salem harbour with his prize : he has fold his prize & loading to two Merc!^ in Salem for 250^? has liberty to trade there & in Bof- ton, & from 40 has increafed his Number to 70 men. The French haue lately taken 6 Salem fifhing ketches off Cape Sables : whilfh the Rofe frigott is flill kept as a prize in Bofton harbour, & nothing will oblige them to deliuer to Cap! George her fayles, that he may be in a Condition to fecure y® Coafis. Thus (may it pleafe y*" LordP®) the Authority of y® Crown of Eng'! & y® peace of this large plantation by the turbulent & vngouernable fpiritts of a few in this Colony is fhamefully trampled vpon & Contemnd ; euen fo openly, & to that degree, that they haue thereby plainely vnmafkd them- felues, & difcouer to the world. That force is the Onely Argument to convince and oblige them to a dutyfull & intire fubmiffion to y® Crown & the Lawes of England, and that Documents and Letters. 301 that the Gomf of this Country be Supported by eafier Methods. \_AddreJJed ] All which is humbly fubmitted by EdRandolph. To the Right Hon^!® the Lords of the Committee for Trade & forain Plantations at Whitehall humbly prefent. \_Endorfed ] N : England 15 06 t : 89. From Mf Randolph to ye Comittee. Red 23 : Feb. 1689 Read 25 Feb. 1689. Abstract of M.^ Randolph’s Letters. State Papers., Board of Trade, New England, Vol. 5. p. 448. 8, 25, Odl. 1689. The Indians haue taken the Fort at Oyfter River near To Mr Biathwayt Exeter, and killed and carryed away Prifoners 2s.octobr eighteen Chriftians, Six or Seaven hundred men are Marcht out againft them. The Treafurer has Iflued his Warrants to Raife a Rate but the people deny their Power. Mr Graves a luftice of Peace and a very Sober man is called before the Councill together with others of Charles Town for a Paper to that purpofe, They owned the Paper, and being thereupon Order’d to Prifon, they refufe to go, faying the Councill have no Power to fend them. The Councill and Reprefen- tatives 302 Edward Randolph. tatives are met but dare do nothing with them, The men of Charles Town, and feverall Towns thereabouts threatening to pull down the Gaole if they put them in. Connefticuts are now very inclining to Sf Edmond An- dros, and fay, if they muft pay any mony, it lhall be by Orders from him who has a legall Authority. Agents have been fent to the Maquas Indians to fall upon our Eaflern Indians, nine of them are come to Bofton and entertained at the publick Charge. They enquire for S' Edmond Andros. The French have ordered their Indians to fall upon us and accordingly they have killd fome Chriftians near Schoneflade, whereupon the Dutch at Albany have de- fired fome Amunition from New York. They at New York fend to Broadftreet, who fends them word he has not above Sixty Barrels of powder in Store in the whole Government. At Salem is a Pirat of 24 Gunns 24 Patereros and 75 men, but takes in more dayly from hence, a Dutchman he pretends to be, but has no Commiffion. A Veffell with 148 h^?® of Tabacco is come hither from Maryland (where Bond was given to go diredtly to England) to flop a Leak. The Owners hired out the Mafler becaufe he would proceed on his Voyage and intend to unload it and fend it abroad. A Ketch is now gone to Bilbao loaden with Fifh & Tobacco. A Ketch lately from Maryland with Tobacco came in here having given Bond there. The Matter has left her, and another Mailer is gone with her to Holland. Broadflreets Documents and Letters. 303 Broadftreets Officers Seized upon a Barrell of Brandy from Newfoundland, the Owner told Broadftreet if he did not Order the Delivery of it, he would bring a hundred men and put him out of his Governm! telling him they had put Sr Edmond Andros &c. in prifon for hindring their Trading &c. They know not how to keep their People in Quiet much longer finding no Charter come as was promifed. Some are for letting us out, others fear the People will put them in, who were the occafions of this trouble. The Governor is treated mofl barbaroufly in a Ground room in the Caftle very fmall, no Chimney, every Rain makes a Flood under his bed. The Governor, Capl Palmer and Mf Graham are kept in a lefs place than the roome next the Parke in M" Blathwayts houfe. The Governor is not allowed Penn or Ink nor any to fpeak, but his Keeper or Lievtenant to be in the roome. To My Povey. 8 : Octobf S- Edmond Andros is kept in a low damp Roome is very To Mr Biathwayt Hiuch difordered and will not be able to bear the 25:Octobr the winter. I fee no remedy, tho’ fome have defired he may be removed to Bofton and have Offered 20000^ fecurity for his forthcoming. We have now certain Advice that the French from Quebeck intend for Albany next January. I hear the Commiffioners of the three United Colonies are Projedf- ing to fend a hundred men to Albany, but cannot agree about it. The 304 Rdward Randolph. The Boftoners fay they are at iio^^ a day Charges, but To capt Nicholson they know not where to Raife the mony, People 25. October. pcDHy in the Country. They made a poor Sefs in Bofton, fome of the Fadtion pay, moll refufe, but no remedy. M? Palmer has got leave for her hufband to be removed to Bofton. The Governor is treated worfe than any of us, kept in a low roome, &c. where they have fometimes fix inches of Standing water, and their Shoes pull’d off at night, are all mouldy next morning. A Dutch pirat from Curafao, with 40 men, has made up his number here to 70 men, bought feverall Barr’!® of Powder at any price, lyes off ready for the next good Offer, has kept in Fairweather a month already. Cap! George cannot have his failes to go out and Secure the Coafl. Yeflerday arrived an Interloper from Scotland, he pretends he cleared at Whitehaven, But I know the contrary, for he went from hence loaden with Tobacco without giving Bond in July lafl. He relates that the New-England Charter was paffed, and in poffeflion of M! Mather, &c. The Government here re- joice exceedingly upon this Report, talk of nothing now but Trying and Executing the Governor, Myfelf, &c. \_Endorfed'\ Abftra(5l of Ml: Randolph letters to . . . From Documents and Letters. 305 From Randolph to the Bishp of London. State Papers, Board of Trade, New England, Vol. 5. p. 1 19. From Common Goal in New Algeires 0 ( 5 t : 25 : 89. My Lord, By Mr Ratcliffe y' Lordf? had an account of y' Generali Infurredion of this poeple, occafioned by the inftigation of Mr Morton & others of that fadion, as alfo the imprifoning Sy Edm'! Andros my felfe & feuerall of the Councill, with many of y® Inhabitants of this town, for being of y® Commu- nion of y® Church of Eng'? My Mathers booke ag^ y® Com- mon Prayer (by My Ratcliffe to y*" Lordf?) managed by y® Minifters has perfwaded the poeple that wee were Idolaters & therefore not fitt to be intrufled longer w^^ y® Com! that was One very plaufable Argument to fett them at worke. By the inclofed Duplicates of my letters fent to y® Lords of y® Committee for Trade, y’’ LordR will find our State very much Altred, & that thofe who were made to be ag! Sy Edm*? Andros, difcouering y® fraud & finding Nothing but Loffes in their trade & confufion & diforder to follow, are impatient till orders come from England for the fetlement of the Country, & to putt them in a Condition to defend themfelues from y® french & Indians. I haue this day Cer- taine advife that the french intend to attack Albany in January next, when the Lakes & Rivers betwixt that & Quebeck on y® River of Canada are all frozen. I queftion not but they will take it, vnleffe Orders arriue from Eng'? tyme enough to prevent them. I humbly inclofe to yy Lordf? fome papers which are well liked of by the moderate VOL. IV. — 39 poeple : 3 o 6 Edward Randolph. poeple: Copyes of the paper called the prefent date of N. Engl dated etc : has been Tent to divers of the Miniders, but make little Impredion vpon them, nor has any one of them offred to anfweare any part of it. Your Lordf? will do an A6l of extraordinary Judice & favour as well to all thofe who are now vnder clofe Condnemt as to others alfo who are great Sufferers by this revolt, that ader y’’ Lordf? has pleafed to appoint the pervfall thereof with fuch emenda- tions as are neceffary to be made, that it may be directed by Authority to be printed in Eng'? with their libellory Declara- tion predx’d, & feuerall Copyes tranfmitted heither & ordred to be didributed where neceffary. I may not omitt to in- clofe to 'f Lordf? a Sermon preached & publifhed by young Mr Mather, difcouered to be y® Abettor (if not y® Author) of a Scandalous libell difperfd 3 months before the Revolt, which prevented his being proceeded againd for that & y® booke ag! the Common prayer (at lead for cauhng it to be printed) the Court following. This man (but more openly) with Mr Morton & others of that Gang are very adliue in promoting the pradlice as well as y® Antimonarchicall prin- ciples, & will oppofe all Commands from their Ma‘K® which will not feme their Intered (but by them called the Intered of Jefus Chrid). It’s now aboue a yeare & halfe ago Since Mr Morton preachd at Charles Town, encouraging his hearers to waite with patience, telling them. That tho’ their former Magidrates were laid afide for a while, ’twould not be long but God would redore them etc. Their Miniders haue perfwaded them that their Charter Could not be vio- lated, & therefore the vacating it by proceffe at law was alto- gether an illegall aft, & that it dill continues as valid & firm as Documents and Letters. 307 as euer: & that all the lawes made purfuant to that Charter are as binding as at the tyme of their making : that by their Charter they had an abfolute power to Eledt once a yeare all their Civill & Military officers, & alfo thereby impowred to refifl & withfland any who fhould attempt the alteration of it : & from thence they Conclude, That K: James his fending Sy Edm'! Andros with a Commiffion for y® Com!, of this Country & 100 Souldiers to mann the Caftle & forts, was an open & hoftile Invafion made vpon them & their libertyes, & that they wanted but onely an oppertunity to affert their Charter Right by force to deftroy all who oppofed them. At the tyme wee were feized vpon they told vs wee were prifoners of warr & to this day Continue a Card of ffoot Souldiers vpon vs, & euery night relieue their Cards & beat the Tattoo as if Bofton were a Garrifon Town. They are fome tymes for trying vs by a Court Martiall, but would be glad to haue Mr Mather with their freinds returnd with their Charter. The Refolues of the Reprefentatiues which I alfo inclofe ffiew y" Lordf? that in all this tyme they can- not find anything to charge ag! S’: Edm'! Andros myfelfe & others but the breach of their Capitall Law. My Lord this poeple haue quite vnmafkd themfelues & difcouerd the whole intregue of their Chriftian policy: that they are in plain Englifh an hypocriticall wicked & By-gothed poeple, following their minifters with a mofl zealous & implicite faith : & now all impartiall Eyes may fee, that force is the Onely Argument to convince & oblige them to a dutyfull & intire Submiffion to y® Crown & the lawes of England : & that No man of y® Church of Eng'! or of any other perfwa- fion in matters of Religion different from theirs of the Con- gregational! 3 o 8 Edward Randolph. gregationall way can be fafe : nor can this plantation thriue or be of advantage to England, vntill fome of the principle promoters & Adlors in this Rebellion receiue their meritts. Sr Edm^ Andros Commands me when I write for Eng'l to prefent his humble duty to y" Lordf? he is in danger to be ftarud this winter with Cold being kept in a very Damp low Room in y® Caftle without a fire herth : vnleffe fhipping fpeedy arriue from England. Humbly praying for y® Con- tinuance of your Lordfp.® favour & bleffing I remaine in all Duty your Lordf?® moft humble & moft obedient Seru! EdRandolph. y ITX. nrTTTXTS w x ii — OT" rr 1 i-t- TTtT-> /"> TlTlII T-^ /-^ XN-' wv_/ X X A A. vy X XX j. v \_/ a, \ t a. • [y^^] perticulery of the Affaires of this place: to whom I humbly referr your Lordf? to my Lord of London. \_AddreJed~\ To the Right Hon^!® & Right Reverend ffather in God : Henry Lord Bifhop of London. [^Endor/ed~\ N : England 25 061 : 1689. From Mr Randolph To the Bifhop of London. Rec'? 25 Feb. 89/90. Mather & Morton. Lre Documents and Letters. 309 Lre from M”! Randolph to the Bishp of London. State Papers.^ Board of Trade.^ New England., Vol. 5. p, 121. 061. 26. 1689. My Lord The inclofed are y® printed papers mentioned in myne of yefterday to your Lordfhip. Not long fince Major Howard a man of a good effcate declared in his will that he was of y® Communion of the Church of England, & made Collonell Lidgett & Mr ffoxcroft his Executors, both of Our church & men of very good eftates. He foon after dyed & they had a Graue made in y® Buriing place by our church & intended to bury him there & to haue the Office of the Buriall read (as he had appointed alfo in his will). But his wife, with the advife of Mr Moode one of our Independent preachers, had a graue made for him at y® North Church Buriing place : & Mr Moode fent word to the Executors that he would haue men enough ready in the ftreet to fhew them the place of his buriall ; & accordingly he was buried as Moode had dire6ted : thus Imperious are the Godly poeple of N : England grown already, who will take vpon them to dif- pofe of the dead as well as they do of the living. I inclofe to y*" Lordf? a Copy of y® Ward to Our Keeper made halfe a yeare after our Imprifonmr & his executing that office without either Order or Commiffion for the fame. I hum- bly obferue, that they keep to their form of words in their printed Declaration “what Juflice ffiall be ordred from Our Soverain Lord & Lady K : William & Q : Mary with y® parlm! of Eng^ ” intending thereby that they will not admitt of & acquiefce in their Ma“.®® Orders vnleffe they find alfo 310 Edward Randolph. alfo the aflent of y® Parlm! which is not to bee imputed to their Ignorance, but intended for a plain Evafion vnlefle fuch orders favour their late proceedings. Thofe refolues inclofed in mine of yefterday to y*" LordfP Conclude that Sr Edm*! Andros My felfe are not Baylable : in this Warr! to y® Keeper they allow them felues a latitude of Judging who fhall be baylable : for y® Reprefentatiues are part of y® Convention, & nothing is done or approved valid without their Confent. By thefe idle & impertinent prac- tices your Lordf? fees in what a miferable condition the In- habitants of this plantation will be brought to fhould they haue their Charter fo much wanted. I am yy LordfP® mofl: obedient feru! EdRandolph. \AddreJfed^ To the Right & Right Reverend ffather in God : Henry Lord Bifhop of London. humbly prefent by Mf Wallis \Endor/ed\ N : England 26 061 : 1689. From Mr Randolph to the Bishop of London. Rec'^ 25 Feb : 1689/90. INDEX. INDEX A. Aaron, the Indian, 132. A6t of Indemnity, 113. Adis of Trade and Navigation, 23, 24, 36, 81, 94, 108, 1 18, 165, 187, 269, 273, 279, 283, 285, 291, 292, 300. Addington, Ifaac, 206, 208, 210, 263. Africa, 67. Ailefbury, Earl of, 26, 33. Albany, 241, 242, 243, 248, 253, 254, 259, 261, 262, 275, 276, 299, 300, 302, 303, 305. Albemarle, Duke of, 3, 28, 94, 129, 255. Alborough, John, 135. Allen, Mr., 287. Allen, Captain, 5. Allen, Dr. Daniel, 143. Allen, John, 233. Allen, Rev. Mr., 99, 280, 287. Allyn, John, 138. Amboy, 250,252, 254, 256, 258. America, 50, 51, 67, 141, 156, 159, 169, 216, 234, 275, 290. American Antiquarian Society, 193. Amflerdam, 244, 246. VOL. IV. — 40 Andover, 45, 293. Andrew, Samuel, 213, 216, 229. Andrews, John, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182. Andros, Sir Edmund, 13, 30, 93, 98, 99 , 133, I 34 » 137, J39, 140, 145, 147, 152, 160, 1 61, 164, 167, 168, 170, 1 71, 172, 174, 190, 199,200, 201,202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 21 1, 213, 216, 217, 218, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233,235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 252, 254, 257, 259, 263, 264, 265, 270, 271, 275, 276, 277, 280, 284, 285, 288, 289, 290, 293, 294, 295, 296, 298, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307, 308, 310. Anne, Princefs, 14, 15, 222. Anthony, Abraham, 233. Appleton, John, 172, 174, 175, 176, i77> i79» 180, 181, 182. Arlington, Earl of, 26. Arnold, Richard, 135, 208,210. Arundell, H., 167. Afhley, Mr., 260. Afhley, Thomas, 130. Aflbn, Lord, 20. Index. 314 Aftrop, 42. Athens, 246. Ayles, Humphrey, 251. B. Badminton, 28, 31. Bahamas, the, 124. Balfton, Captain, 194. Baltimore, Lord, 4, 5, 26, 43, 189. Barbadoes, 2, 5, 64, 247, 256, 264, 297. Barefoote, Walker, 46. Barnftable, 46, 159. Bath, Earl of, 167. Baxter, Jarvis, 233. Bayard, Nicholas, 233. Bayley, Mr., 102. Beard, Mr., 232. Beaufort, Duchefs of, 70. Beaufort, Duke of, 22, 25, 29, 31, 49. Beenley, Francis, 44. Beerds, Charles, 230. Belcher, Jeremiah, 202. Berkeley, Lord, 65. Berklhire, County of, 15. Bermuda, 28, 29, 30, 59,60, 61, 69, 119, 199. Berwick, 145, 146, 147, 165. Beverly, 45. Bilboa, 302. Blackman, Edward, 44, 46. Blackwell, Captain, 113, 117. Blathwayt, William, i, 4, 26, 28, 41, 42, 43, 48, 59, 60, 61, 67, 69, 80, 97, 160, 197, 198, 199, 216, 218, 220,255, 283, 286, 301, 303. Boademan, Andrew, 96. Bolton, Duke of, 264. Bond, John J., 138. Boothe, G., 292. Bofton, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 27, 32, 34, 36, 37 » 43 , 45 , 53 , 62, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 100, 103, 104, 106, 107, 109, no. III, 1 13, 1 16, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 150, 15^, 153, 161, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174, 175, 180, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 197, 200, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 220,224, 227, 228, 229, 231, 235, 237, 240, 243, 244, 256, 257, 260, 26[, 263, 264, 265, 268, 269, 272, 276, 277, 279, 281, 283, 284, 288, 290, 292,293, 294,295, 297, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304, 307. Bowdoin, Peter, 178. Boyle, Mr., 14, 41, 48, 60, 61, 63. Bradford, Thomas, 191. Bradford, William, 46. Bradftreet, Dudley, 44, 52, 86. Bradftreet, Simon, 6, 13, 44, 45, 52, 86, 197, 274, 287, 292, 297, 299, 302, 303. Braintree, 45. Brattle, William, 95. Breda, 99, 130. Brent, Mr., 269, 272. Bridgeman, William, 26. Bridges, Mr., 6. Bridgewater, Earl of, 18, 22, 33, 39. Brindley, Mr., 230. Brindley, Thomas, 24. Brinton, Jaell, 232. Briftol, 28, 34, 36, 41, 43, 47, 49, 60, 62, 65, 73 > 9 G i 85 » 200, 209. Brockholft, Anthony, 233, 259. Brown, B., 250. Brown [Browne], William, Sr. , 45, 86, 178, 201, 206. Bryant, Samuell, 192. Buckley, Mr., 259. Buckworth, J., 1 12. Index. Bulkley, Peter, 14, 16, 44, 45, 52, 63, 82, 85, 95, 99, 198, 245. Bullivant, Dr. Benjamin, 123, 124, 133. Burlington, 238, 241, 249. Burridge, John, 128. Burroughs, William, 200, 209. Burton, Mr., 31. Burton, Richard, 46. Butler, Mr., 168, 169. Butler, Sir N., 48. Butler, W., 147. C. Cachecha, 293. Cambridge, 24, 95, 96, 106, 138, 207> 208, 21 1, 213, 214, 216, 218, 219, 228, 229. Canada, 235, 241, 243, 264, 271, 274, 275, 276, 278, 287, 294, 299, 305. Canaries, the, 129. Canterbury, 36. Canterbury, Archbifhop of, 88, 103, 131, 268. Cape Ann, 45. Cape Cod, 294. Cape Sables, 300. Capell, Sir Henry, 264. Carolina, 118, 119, 247, 276, 296. Cafco, 293, 299. Cafco Bay, 46, 119, 124, 224, 243. Caftle Ifland, 185, 222, 271. Caftlemaine, Earl of, 170. Callleton, Mr., 69. Chalmers, George, 23. Chamberlain, Richard, 6. Champernoon, Francis, 44, 45, 46, 52, 86, 163. Chaplin, Mr., 99. Charles II., 2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 15, 16, 60^ I3i» 194, 215, 295. 315 Charleftown, 45, 63, 95, 102, 106, 222^ 301, 302, 306. Chebaco, 172. Chelmsford, 44. Cheyne, Charles, 112, 147. Chudleigh, T., 147. Church, Benjamin, 46, 299. Church of England, 23, 57, 65, 87, 89, 90, 91, loi, 105, 107, 1 14, 131, 152, 271? 305 > 307, 309- Churchill, Lord, 1 5, 28. Churchill, Sir John, 47. Clarendon, Earl of, i, 18, 25, 42, 61, 63> 65, 69, 232, 266. Clarke, John, 230. Clarke, Nathaniel, 201, 206, 208, 210, 229, 263. Clarke, Samuel, 112. Clarke, Walter, 73, 74, 135, 233. Clayton, Robert, 292. Clem, Mr., 287. Coates, Robert, 203. Coddington, Thomas, 233. Coddington, William, 233. Coggfhall, John, 135. Coinage, 280. Colonial Society of Maffachufetts, 138. Condon, Lieutenant, 127. Coney, Mr., 28. Connaught, 168. Connecticut, 4, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 32, 33 » 37 , 38, 43 , 78, 97 , 100, 113, 116, 118, 130, 137, 138, 139, 151, 152, 153, 160, 163, 164, 166, 189, 190, 220, 236, 242, 274, 285, 302. Connecticut River, 276. Conltantinople, 222. Cook, James, 222. Cooper, John, 213, 216. Cornbury, Lord, 31. Index, 316 Cornifh, Henry, 64. Courtland, Stephen, 233, 247, 254, 255, 257, 258, 259. Coward, John Herbert, 206, 208, 210 Cowells, 220. Cox, Dr., 14, 250. Cranfield, Edward, 3, 5, 17, 42, 63. Craven, Earl of, 18, 22, 33, 39, 65, 94, 170. Cromwell, Oliver, 108, 113, 117* Cummings, Ifaac, no. Cura9oa, 300, 304. Curwin, Mrs., 120. Cutts, Mr., 169. D. Damaras Cottar River^ 293. Danforth, Thomas, 99, 162. Dartmouth, 226. Dartmouth, Lord, 22, 129. Dartmouth, Mrs., 223. Davis, Benjamin, 179. Davis, Captain, 210. Davis, John, 230. Deal, 68, 69, 71, 72. Delamere, Lord, 26. Delaware, 2, 5, 26, 27, 32, 33, 37. Delaware Bay, 216. Denmark, 35. Denonville, Mr., 241, 276. Dering, Unton, 93. D’Humieres, Marquis, 35. Diffenters, the, 227. Dongan, Colonel, 80, 15 1, 163, 169, 226, 227, 234, 235, 236, 237, 240, 241, 243, 246, 247, 261, 262, 275. Dorchefter, 45. Douglafs, William, 119. Dover, 46, 186, 293. Downing, Jofhua, 263. Downs, the, 60, 61, 63, 64, 73. Dudley, Jofeph, 12, 16, 44, 45, 52, 53, 74, 75, 77, 78, 81, 82, 8s, 86, 88, 92, 93 , 94 , 95 » 97 , 98, 99 , 102, 105, 114, 1 15, 1 19, 130, 131, 140, 143, 144, 162, 171, 192, 193, 196, 201, 206, 207, 208, 210, 229, 233, 23s, 244, 250, 263. Dudley, Thomas, 143. Dunkirk, ii. Dutch, the, 302. Dutton, Sir Richard, 64. Dyre [Dyer], Mr., 5. E. Edes, Henry H., 138. Edmonds, John, 202. Eleutheria, 124. Elizabeth Town, 240. Elliott, Robert, 44, 46. Emerfon, Mark, 287. England, 7, 8,9, 10, ii, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 36, 40, 49, 5 L 54, 59, 64, 66, 67, 69, 74, 79, 84, 89, 90, 91, 99, 102, 108, 109, 113, 1 17, 126, 132, 145, 146, 147, 153, 155, 161, 165, 171, 186, 187, 188, 197, 198, 199, 206, 211,215, 253, 255, 256, 257, 260, 265, 267, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 279, 280, 281, 284, 287, 288, 289, 290, 293, 295, 298, 299, 300, 302, 305, 306, 307, 308. England, Church of, 271, 305, 307,309. Ernie, J., 15. Effex, County of, 159, 170, 171, 172, 201, 205. Europe, 67, 165, 247, 248. Exeter, 47, 301. F. Farewell, George, 172, 174, 177, 178, 179, 180. Index. 317 Father Peters, 272. Fauconberg, Lord, 39. Fayal, 255, 258. Fenwick, Mr., 9. Fergufon, Mr., 31. Feverfham, Earl of, 26, 28. Fifher, Abraham, 300. Fitz-Gerald, David, 41. Flamftead, Mr., 40, 48. Floud, James, 168. Floyd, Sir Philip, 6. Flulhing, 256. Fort Albany, 235. Fort Hill, 185. Fort James, 255. Fofter, Mr., 277. h'oxcroft, Mr., 309. Foy, John, 179, 220, 227. France, 15,28, 49, 51, 145, 155, 256, 274, 279, 288. French, the, 16, 17, 98, 99, 130, 216, 225, 240, 242, 243, 264, 265, 269, 270, 271, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 285, 288, 294, 296, 299, 300, 302, 303, 305. French, Thomas, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182. Frond, Mr., 69, 71. Fryer [Frier], Nathaniel, 44, 46. G. Gardiner, S. R., 67, 168. Gedney, Bartholomew, 44, 45, 52, 85, 95, 124, 201, 206. George, Captain, 61, 70, 74, 92, 93, 98, 107, 1 18, 125, 128, 130, 164, 224, 300, 304- Gibbes, Mr , 96. Gibbins, William, 192. Glanvile, William, 169, 170. Glanville, Robert, 267, 268, Glafwell, Robert, 192. Gloucefter, 238. Gloucefterfhire, 31. Glover, Rev. Mr., 139. Godolphin, Lord, 15, 22. Goodenough, Mr., 31. Goodhue, William, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 182. Gookin, Samuel, 228. Gorges, Ferdinando, 186, 273. Gouge, Mr., 194, 196, 244. Gould, John, no, in. Gould, Major, 79. Gove, Edward, 39, 40, 42. Gove, John, 213, 216. Graham, Mr., 43, 226, 227, 234, 238, 239, 250, 252, 260, 261, 262, 303. Grant, John, 150. Grant, Maynard, 150. Graves End, 255. Graves, Mr., 301. Graves, Thomas, 86. Great I Hand, 46. Green, Henry, 46. Greene End, 232. Greene, John, 135, 207. Greene, Samuel, 133. Greenland, 47. Guernfey, 13. Gwin, Mr., 70. H. Haddock, Sir Richard, 64. Hadley, 45. Hague, the, 245. Hale, Mr., 193. Halifax, Earl of, 25. Halfey, George, 230. Hamilton, Captain, 252. Hammond, Dr., 90, 103, 106, 109. Index, 318 Hampfhire, County of, 159. Hampflead, 246. Hampton, 46. Hampton Court, 167. Harper, William, 169. Harris, John, 174. Harris, Richard, 179. Harris, William, 199. Hartford, 79, 97, 98, 100, 139, 190, 209, 210. Harvard College, 90, 95, 96, 102, 106, 109. Haftings, Walter, 213, 216. Haverhill, 293. Hayes, Alderman, 35. Hayes, Mr., 35. Herbert, Sir Edward, 47, 138. Heyden, Sir John, 30. Hicks, Mrs., 256, 257. Hicks, Zachariah, 213. Hill, James, 192. Hill, William, 127, 128. Hinckley, Thomas, 46, 87, 131, 158, 201, 206. Hingham, 45. Hinks [Hincks], John, 44, 52, 85, 160, 201, 206. Hinksman, Mr., 44. Hifpaniola, 200. Hoddy, Arthur, 169. Hodge, Samuel, 249. Hodfon, James, 9. Holland, i, 13, 27, 31, 35, 36, 145, 197, 222, 256, 279, 283, 302. Holmes, Sir Robert, 197, 218, 267. Hooke, Mr., 162, 169. Hounflow Heath, 35. How, John, 1 10. Howard, Anthony, 127, 178. Howard, Major, 309. Hudfon River, 235, 242. Humphreys, Mr., 2, 203. Huntington, Earl of, 19. Hutchinfon, Mr., 228. Hyde Park, 31. I. Indians, the, 90, 106, 131, 132, 21 1, 219, 225, 236, 240, 241, 243, 250,251, 255, 265, 270, 275, 276, 277, 278, 285, 286, 287, 288, 293, 294, 296, 299, 300, 301, 302, 305. Indian Sachem, 225. Ipfwich, 45, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 182. Ireland, 41, 42, 48, 49, 51, 61, 67, 102, 1 13, 145, i55» 222, 279. Ireland, Mr., 20 J- Jackfon, John, 213. Jackfon, Mr., 256. Jamaica, 5, 50, 120, 122, 141, 142, 143, 156, 247, 255. James I., 292. James II., 14, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29> 31, 35. 37, 40, 49, 5 h 59, 60, 61, 70, 71, 74, 78, 83, 85, 86, 90, 91, 94, 95, loi, 103, 104, 105, 109, no, 1 13, 115, 116, 130,134,137, 139, 153, 155, 165, 166, 171, 172, 174, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 190, 194, 2 i6, 217, 218, 220, 225, 227, 245, 307. Jeffreys, George, 169. Jeffreys, Lord, 21, 47, 49, 65, 138, 167. Jeffreys, Sir Robert, 60. Jemifon, Mr., 288. Jenkins, Sir Lionel, 27, 196. Jerfey, Eaft New, 26, 27, 32, 33, 37, 189, 240, 241, 248. Index. 3>9 Jerfey, Weft New, 26, 27, 32, 33, 37, 240, 241. Jerfeys, the, 25, 216, 220, 235, 264, 275. Jones, Captain, 91. Jones, Mr., 35. Jones, Sir William, 272. Jordan, Lieutenant, 288. K. Kane, Mr., 253. Keck, Mr., 194, 244, 245. Kennebeck, 46. Kennebeck River, 224, 286, 293. Kidd, Mr., 35. King’s Province, 44, 50, 51, 140, 165, 190. Kings Wefton, 28, 34, 36, 41, 43, 47, 48, 49, 60, 62, 63, 65, 71, 73. Kingfton, 235, 242. Kinfman, Robert, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182. Kirke, Colonel Percy, 3, 6, 12, 29, 30, 35, 40, 60, 88, 199. Kittery, 46, 169, 263, 293. L. Lambert, Mr., 113, 117. Larkin, Thomas, 193. Lathrop, Barnabas, 208. Lathrop, Mr., 46, 210. Layton, David, 233. Legg, Captain, 197. Leifler, Jacob, 255, 258, 299. Leith, 246. Lemoine, Captain, 279. Leftrange, Sir Roger, 244, 245. Leverett, John, 95. Leward Iflands, 5. Lii)erty of Confcience, 13, 17, 56, 78, 87, 89, loi, 108, 1 13, 1 17, 167, 213. Lidgett, Colonel, 252, 309. Limerick, 102. Lines, Simon, 45, 86. Livingfton, Robert, 234, 235, 260, 261, 262. Lloyd, Dr., 15. Lloyd, James, 178. Lock, Edward, 257. Lockhart, Captain, 253, 255. London, i, 10, 20, 32, 33, 48, 64, 68, 105, 112, 113, 114, 138, 147, 150, 191, 256, 258, 273, 291, 298. London, Biftiop of, 22, 39, 65, 89, 100, 105, 237, 270, 305, 308, 309, 310. Louis XIV., II, 30. Lovelace, Lord, 20. Luggar, Mr., 127. Lumley, Vifcount, 289. Lufcomb, Mr., 163, 194. Lynn, 45, 171, 201, 202, 204, 205. M. Maccarty, Mr,, 2, 52. Macklesfield, Earl of, 42, 49. Maine, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 58, 62, 98, 140, 159, 162, 165, 168, 189, 190, 224, 263, 270, 273, 274, 276, 285, 293, 299. Malaga, 96. Malden, 45. Manning, Captain, 288. Marblehead, 45. Marfh, Jonathan, 230. Marfhfield, 46. Martin, Mr., 199. Mary, Queen, 309. Mary of Efte, Queen, 15, 26, 61, 222. Maryland, 4, 5, 127, 189, 261, 296, 302. Mafon, Robert, 3, 6, 44, 46, 48, 52, 59, 60, 61, 63, 69, 71, 78, 82, 83, 85, 89, 94,95, 98, loi, 106, 114, 160, 161, 320 Index 164, 186, 201, 206, 217, 221, 224,227, 230, 233, 235, 242, 248,263, 273. Maffachufetts, 6, 7, 43, 44, 50, 5 ^ > 53 ^ 62, 66, 74, 76, 138, 140, 165, 168, 186, 189, 190, 206, 208, 210, 21 1, 214, 245, 273, 290. Maffey, Mr., 160. Mafter, Giles, 192, 193. Mather, Rev. Cotton, 280, 285, 288, 306. Mather, Rev. Increafe, 12, 95, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 243, 244, 24s, 246, 250, 265, 269, 270, 284, 285, 287, 297, 298, 304^ 305, 307, 308. Maynard, Lord, 15. Middlefex, County of, 159, 207, 214, 218, 228, 229. Middleton, Earl of, 39, 65, 94, 170. Milborn, Rev. Mr., 280. Mint, 280. Mitchell, Mr., 96. Monmouth, Duke of, 102, 104, 105, 1 14. Moody, David, 252. Moody, Rev. Jofhua, 12, 99, 164, 245, 280, 287, 309. Moore, Francis, 213, 216. Mordecai, the Jew, 230. Moros, Mr., 287. Morris, Nicholas de, 256. Morrify, Jacob, 246. Morton, Rev. Mr., 90, 102, 106, 305, 306, 308. Mulgrave, Lord, 65. Mufchamp, G., 259, 260. N. Nahant Neck, 171, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205. Narraganfett, 4, 44, 50, 5 L 78 , 79 > ^ 7 > 140, 159. New Briftol, 46, 159, 160. Newbury, 45. Newbury, Lord, 31. Newbury [Newberry], Walter, 135, 233 - Newcaftle, 9, 10, ii, 246, 247. New Dartmouth, 293. New England, i, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33 > 34 , 35 , 37 , 38, 39 , 4o, 42, 44 , 45 , 47 , 48,49, 50, 51, 53 , 54 , 55 , 57 , 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 78, 83, 85, 91, 94, 95, 96, 100, 102, 103, 105, no, III, 1 12, 113, 116, 120, 122, 123, 126, 131, 134, 135, 136, 140, 145, 146, 147, 151, 153, 154, 155, 158, 159, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 199, 200, 21 1, 214, 216, 217, 220, 221, 223, 231, 232, 240, 245, 246, 264, 268, 271, 273, 274, 275, 278, 282, 283, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 296, 297, 298, 301, 306, 309,310. Newfoundland, 125, 145,279, 283,300, 303- Newgate, 35. New Hampfhire, 3, 7, 17, 40, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 62, 82, 98, 140, 159, 165, 169, 186, 187, 189, 190, 273, 274,299, New Harbor, 293. Newington Green, 90, 102, 106. New Ireland, 5. New London, 119, 134. New Plymouth, 46, 47, 13 1, 137, 160, 163, 190, 199, 274, 285. Newport, 74, 231, 232, 233, 295. Newport, Lord, 15. Newtown, 214, 293. New York, 7, 25, 30, 78, 96, 98, 118, N Index. 125, 126, 130, 163, 186, 187, 198,216, 220, 227, 233, 234, 23s, 236, 239, 240^ 241, 243, 246, 248, 251, 252, 254, 255, 257, 258,261, 262, 264, 266, 275, 276, 285, 296, 299, 300, 302. Nicholas, John, 65. Nicholfon, Captain Francis, 199, 201, 206, 207, 208, 210, 217, 221, 229, 246, 247, 252, 254, 255, 256, 286, 289, 304. Norburrow, Sir John, 199. North, Sir Dudley, 48. Northampton, 45. Northfield, 242, 243, 276. North Yarmouth, 293. Nottingham, Earl of, 39, 289, 291. Nottingham, Lady, 93. Nova Scotia, 98, 216, 264, 268, 269, 274- Nowell, Samuel, 77, 245. O. Oates, Titus, 19, 20, 21. Oath of Allegiance, 52, 57, 117. Oath of Fidelity, 23. Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, 23- Oath to Execute Juftice, 52. Orange, Prince of, 265. Orange, Princefs of, 245. Ormond, Duke of, 15, 25, 29, 35, 41. Oyfter River, 47, 299, 301. P. Page, Mr., 14. Paige, Nicholas, 86. Palfrey, J. G., 88. Palmer, John, 96, 97, 98, 126, 226, 228, 245 » 263, 303. Palmer, Henry, 230. Palmer, Mrs., 256, 304. Palmes, Edward, 44. 321 Parker, Dr., 36. Peachfield, 248. Pejepfgut, 224, 293. Pelham, Captain, 230. Pelham, T., 292. Pemequid, 96, 98, 151, 159, 185, 190, 222, 224, 225, 226, 228, 259, 293. Penn, William, 4, 5, 43, 250. Pennfylvania, 189. Penobfcot, 224, 225, 239, 277, 287. Penobfcot River, 96, 98, 130. Penoyer, Mr., 95. Pepys, Samuel, 34, 42, 64, 70. Perry, Edward, 179. Perry, Michael, 223. Peterborough, 36. Peterborough, Earl of, 35, 170. Peters, Hugh, 298. Philadelphia, 235. Phillips, Frederick, 233. Phillips, Thomas, 230. Phips, Sir William, 199, 230, 281. Pincheon, John, 44, 45, 52, 82, 85, 95, 97, 139- Pifcataqua, 7, 62, 96, 97, 98, 160, 185, 199, 224, 227, 239, 288. Pifcataqua River, 3, 293. Plowman, Matthew, 251, 252,254, 255, 256, 258. Plymouth, 8, 46, 87, 159, 189. Port a Bear, 268. Port Royal, 225, 277. Portfmouth, 46, 72, 168, 169, 232, 233. Portfmouth, Duchefs of, 28. Povey, John, 48, 64,69, 161, 164, 168, 197, 217, 220, 221, 222, 224, 234, 237, 243, 246. Powis, Marquis of, 167, 170. Powis, Sir Thomas, 265, 269, 272. Prelton, Lord, 65, 129, 167, 170, 274. VOL. IV. — 41 322 Index. Prefton, Samuel, 178. Prout, Timothy, 77. Providence Plantation, 22, 24, 26, 135. Puggamugga River, 125. Q- Quadrakby, 236. Quakers, the, 5, 87. Quebec, 287, 303, 305. Quit Rents, 115, 118, 162, 171. Quo Warranto, 8; againft Connedlicut and Rhode Ifland, 21 ; 23, 24, 25, againft Delaware, Eaft and Weft New Jerfey, 25; 26, againft Mary- land, 27; 29, 32, 33, 37, 38, 43, 78, 100, 108, 1 13, 1 16, 130, 137, 138, 139, 151, 153, 166, 188, 189, 190, 213, 2155 273 * R. Randolph, Bernard, 194, 195. Randolph, Edward, recommended by the King, 2 ; writes about troubles in Maryland, 5 ; his narrative, 6 ; fpeaks of James II., 14 ; objects to Colonel Kirke being fent as Gover- nor to Maffachufetts, 18 ; ordered to prepare Quo Warrantos, 19 ; pre- pares Quo Warrantos againft Con- nedlicut and Rhode Ifland, 21 ; arti- cles of mifdemeanors againft Rhode Ifland and Connedticut, 23 ; gives political news, 26; expedls to carry Quo Warrantos foon to New Eng- land, 27 ; oppofes Colonel Kirke as Governor of Maffachufetts, 29 ; fears time for ferving the Quo Warrantos againft Connecticut and Rhode Ifl- and will lapfe before he reaches the Colonies, 32 ; ordered to ferve the Quo Warrantos, 33 ; hears that Col- onel Kirke may not go to New Eng- land, 35 ; petitions to be Secretary of New England, 38; fucceeds in obtaining a temporary government for Maffachufetts, 40 ; gives lift of perfons fit to be Councillors, 43 ; has commifflon for a temporary govern- ment of Maffachufetts, 47 ; is ready to fail, 49; his Commifflon, 50; Sur- veyor of Woods and Timber, 58 ; gives Court news, 61 ; afks for flags, 62 ; predicts that the execution of Mr. Cornifli in London will frighten the people of Maffachufetts into fubmiffion, 64; made Auditor of New England as deputy of Mr. Blathwayt, 67 ; Poftmafter of New England, 67 ; at Deal, 68 ; in Bofton, 74 ; new government eftablifhed, 78; writes to Governor Treat of Connecticut to fubmit, 79 ; gives account of the new government, 80; blames Governor Hinckley of Plym- outh for taxing the Quakers to fup- port the Minifters, 87; gives ac- count of the firft fervices of the Church of England in Bofton, 89 ; fettlement of the new government, 92 ; reports that Rev. Increafe Mather has been appointed ReCtor of Harvard College, 95 ; delivers the Quo Warranto againft Rhode Ifland, 97 ; internal quarrels of the Maffachufetts government, 98 ; ferves Quo Warranto upon Connecti- cut, 100; writes that no minifter in New England prayed for James II. during Monmouth’s rebellion, 102; fuggefts that no minifter from Eng- Index. 323 land Ihould land without permiffion from the Governor, 102; withes a church built for the Church of Eng- land, 106; hopes a General Gover- nor will be fent fpeedily to Mafla- chufetts, 107 ; complains that the records are not put in his hands, 1 16; writes that Sir Edmund An- dros is to be Governor General, 1 19 ; petitions for his fees as Secre- tary, 1 21 ; is obftrudted in his office, 127; reports that Rev. Mr. Ratcliff has a convenient place to worfhip in, 130; wiffies fchoolmafters to be fent from England, 132 ; ferves Quo Warranto on Connedticut, 137 ; pro- tefts agajnft Prefident Dudley, 140; fends copies of laws paffed by the Council to England, 150; reports that it is difficult to raife a mainte- nance for the minifter of the Church of England, [52 ; wiffies Connedlicut to be joined to Maffachufetts, 153 ; cedes his office of Secretary to John Weft, 155; fays few only attend the Council, 160; petitions to be Secre- tary of all New England, 165; peti- tions for Nahant Neck, 171; his narrative, 186; hats ffiipped to him, 191 ; writes that Weft extorts what fees he pleafes, 198; wiffies judges to be fent from England, 198; peti- tions that Nahant Neck ffiould be granted to him, 201 ; Lynn remon- ftrates againft his petition for Na- hant Neck, 202 ; to take pofleffion of Maflachufetts records, 206 ; peti- tions for payment, 209; Cambridge remonftrates againft his petition for land, 21 1 ; hears from Blathwayt that all the colonies are to be united, 216 ; anfwers the Cambridge remon- ftrants, 218 ; made Secretary of all New England, including New York and the Jerfeys, 221 ; goes to Pema- quid, 224 ; petitions for land at Newport, Rhode Ifland, 232; peti- tions for land for the Earl of Claren- don in Rhode Ifland, 232; writes of the death of Robert Mafon, 235; blames Colonel Dongan for his ac- tions, 236 ; defcribes reception of Sir Edmund Andros in New York and in the Jerftes, 240 ; news of murders committed by the Indians at the eaft- ward, 243 ; writes to William Penn, 250 ; hears of Revolution in Eng- land, 262 ; writes that people in New England think Sir Edmund Andros a papift, 264 ; Revolution in Bofton, 265 ; writes of his imprifonment, 266 ; about pirates, 268 ; oppofes new Charter to be given to Maffa- chufetts, 269; fears French will overrun New England, 271 ; re- views the reafons for condemning the Charter of Maflachufetts, 272 ; complains of his continued imprifon- ment, 284; devaftations by the In- dians in Maine, 285 ; hears there is war between England and France, 288 ; fpeaks of maflacre at Sche- ne6lady, 299 ; of Jacob Leifler, 299. Randolph, Mrs., 93, 253, 288. Randolph, Sarah, 282. Ratcliff, Rev. Robert, 65, 82, 89, 94, 105, 130, 13 1, 248, 268, 269, 270, 271, 285, 305. Ravenscroft, Samuel, 178. Rawlins, Jofliua, 126. 324 Index. Rawfon, Edward, 76, 123, 124, 168, 206, 208, 210. Reading, 15, 77. Reading, John, 249. Revell, Thomas, 249. Rexby, Mr., 160. Rhode Ifland, 4, 14, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 32, 33 » 37 , 38, 43 , 74 , 78, 87, 97, 100, loi, 1 13, 116, 1 18, 130, 134, 135, 137, 139, 159, t6o, 163, 166, 185, 189, 190, 220, 230, 231, 232, 255, 285, 295. Richards, John, 13 1. Richards, Philip, 248. Richmond, Duke of, 28. Richmond’s Ifland, 293. Riggs, Mr., 289. Robertfon, David, 192. Rochelle, 190, 274. Rochefter, Earl of, 15, 25, ’65, 67, 68, 123, 266. Rogers, John, 233. Rogers, Mr., 96. Rofs, Mr., 244. Rotterdam, 9, 10. Roufby, Chriftopher, 4. Rowley, 45. Roxbury, 45, 130, 192, 196 Rudger, Mr., 268. Rufli worth, Edward, 46. Rufh worth, J., 147. RufTell, James, 86. S. Saco, 286, 287, 293. Saffin, John, 77. Sagadehock, 286, 287, 293. St. Afaph, Bifhop of, 15. St. Caftine, Mr., 224, 225, 287. St. Chriftophers, 99. St. Croix River, 98, 293. St. Loe, Captain, 128. St. Omers, 20. Salem, 45, 63, 185, 193, 194, 248, 267, 268, 288, 300, 302. Salifbury, 45. Saltonftall, Nathaniel, 44, 45, 52, 86. Sancroft, Dr. William, 103, 268. Sanders Brook, 207, 21 1, 213, 218, 229. Sandford, Colonel, 233. Sandford, J., 135, 163. Sandwich, 46. Sandy Hook, 256, 257. Sargent, Peter, 288. Savage, Captain, 294. Sawyer, Sir Robert, 25. Schene6fady, 255, 299, 302 Scituate, 46, 87. Scotland, 9, 10, 21, 36, 49, 51, 67, 1 12, 1 1 7, 145, 146, 155, 222, 279, 304. Sebears, Stephen, 230. Sedley, Mrs., 14. Sellwicke, Captain, 256. Severett, Philip, 96, 168, 169. Sewall, Samuel, 77, 86, 280. Shapleigh, John, 46. Sherlock, James, 193, 252. Short, Dr., 59. Shrimpton, Samuel, 45, 86, 128, 163, 193, 196, 201, 206, 207, 229, 263. Shurt, Mr., 226. Simpfon, David, 127, 128. Skeene, John, 238, 239, 248, 25c. Smith, Mr., 4, 79, 235. Smith, Rev. Mr., 256. Smith, Richard, 44, 86, 229, 233. Somerfet Houfe, 14. Southwell, Edward, 6, 40, 41, 47, 48, 61, 64, 70, 72 , 73 » 93. Southwell, Robert, 217. Southwell, Sir Robert, i, 6, 14, 15, I 9 > Index. 325 26, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73 , 9 ^, 93 , 292. Spain, 279. Speflacle Pond, 242. Spragg, Mr., 217, 221. Springfield, 45, 139, 242, 243, 276. Spy Pond, 207, 21 1, 213, 218, 229. Stamford, Earl of, 26. Stevens, Erafmus, 119, 128. Stoughton, William, 13, 16, 44, 45, 52, 63,82, 85, 86, 95, 99, 131, 162, 201, 206, 208, 210, 229, 263. Suffolk, County of, 159, 1 71, 174, 177, 180, 193. Sunderland, 9, 10, ii. Sunderland, Earl of, 18, 22, 31, 65, 123, 154, 167, 274' Swanzey, 46. Sweden, 35. Symon, Mr., 160. T. Talbott, Colonel, 4, 5, 27. Talcott, John, 138. Tangiers, 6, 12. Taunton, 46, 60. Tayler, Dr., 28. Taylor, Mrs., 13. Tebbitt, John, 164. Temple, Sir Thomas, 99. Thin, Mr., 35. Thomas, James, 190. Thomas, Major, 34. Thomas, Mr., 46. Toll, Mr., 6. Tonti, Mr., 276. Topsfield, no. Tower, the, 40, 42. Toy, Ifaiah, 127. Trant, Mr., 6. Treat, Governor, 78, 136, 137, 138. Treffry, Mr., 217, 221, 289, 290. Tucker, William, 191. Tueffett, Fort, 293. Tweed, River, 165. Tyler, Mr., 260. Tyng, Edward, 44, 46, 52, 82, 85, 86. Tyng, Jonathan, 44, 45, 52, 82, 85. Tyng, Mr., 160. U. United Colonies, 303. Updyke, John, 283. Ufher, John, 44, 52, 82, 85, 86, 95, 99, 128, 158, 161, 170, 172, 176, 193,201, 206, 207, 208, 210, 229, 233, 247, 252, 255, 263, 285, 289. V. Vane, Sir Henry, 298. Vaughan, William, 129. Venner, Thomas, 298. Vincent, Sir Mathias, 72. Virginia, 4, 27, 42, 236, 296. W. Wade, William, 230. Wales, 145, 146, 147, 165. Walley, John, 46, 233. Wallis, Mr., 308, 310. Walton, William, 230. Wanlaye, Edward, 87. Wapping, 31. Ward, P., 292. Ware, Captain, 164. Warner, Thomas, 230. Waterhoufe, Mr., 277. Watertown, 207, 212, 213, 218, 219, 229. 326 Index Weare, Nathaniel, 129. Webb, Captain, 255, 257. Webfter, Mr., 112. Wells, 46, 293. Wentworth, Lord, 168. Werden, C. O., 147. Werden, John, 112, 292. Wefendonck, Stephen, 178. Weft, John, 98, 155, 156, 157, 158, 162, 168, 192, 198, 199, 201, 207, 226,227, 228, 229, 231, 239, 250, 252, 259, 262, 268. Weft, Jofhua, 1 12. Weft Indies, 30, 118, 269, 279, 280. Weftminfter, 15. Weymouth, 45. Wharton, Richard, 16, 44, 45, 52, 82, 85, 86,98, 114, 115, 124, 125, 128, 162, 221, 224, 244, 279. Wheelwright, Samuel, 46. White, Captain, 194. White, Dr., 36. White, William, 178. Whitehall, i, 12, 14, 15, 18, 22, 24, 33, 39» 65, 69, 72, 87, 94, 129, 153, 154, 170, 186, 216, 220, 221, 243, 246, 264, 272, 281, 289, 291, 297, 301. Whitehaven, 304. Wibourne, Captain, 99. Wight, Ifle of, 256. Wild, John, no. Willard, Rev. Mr., 280, 288. William III., 264, 282, 287, 289, 290, 291, 309. Windfor, 26, 32, 34, 35, 41, 45, 50, 60, 83» 85, 94, 122, 131, 155. Winnington, Sir Francis, 272. Winter Harbor, 227. Winthrop, Fitz-John, 44, 52, 75, 82, 85, 86, 1 19, 134. Winthrop, John, 207, 208, 210, 233. Winthrop, Wait, 44, 45, 52, 81, 86, 95, 97, 207, 208, 210, 229, 263, 276. Wife, Rev. John, 171, 172, 175, 176, i77» 179 j 180, 182. Woodman, John, 230. - Y. Yard, Mr., 26. York, 46, 227, 293. York, Duke of, 12. Young, John, 233. 410073 boston COLLEGE RANDOLPH > Edvard Bapst Library Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167