Letter: royal, 16 January 1700, Edinburgh

Judicial Proceeding, 10 December 1700, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh The Sixteenth day of January Jaj viic years

A1700/1/161

Letter: royal

Letter from the King Anent the Address from the African Company

Another Letter also following, from the King to the Councill Being Read was ordered to be Recorded, of which the Tenor Follows.
Sic Supra Scribitur William Rex
Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Right trusty and Entirely beloved Cousin and Councellor, Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousins and Councellors, Right Trusty and welbeloved Councellors, and Trusty and welbeloved Councellors we greet yow well. Whereas the Councill Generall of the Company of that our Kingdom, Trading to Africa and the Indies by their Letter to our Secretaries of the Fourth day of December last, did desire that they might give their Concurrence To procure a Gracious Return from us to the petition which They hade sent With Lord Bassill Hamilton: And The said Lord Bassill having communicated to our Secretaries both the forsaid Petition and his Instructiones: And They haveing Represented to us, what is desired in behalf of the said Company, And we having Refused the Said Lord Bassill Hamilton Access to present the forsaid Petition to us, For The Reasons we did order our Secretaries to communicate To our Chancellor, yett we being willing to give ane answer To what the said Company does desire: yow are Therfore To call for Some of the Councill Generall and acquaint them That we are Resolved In the Termes of our treaties To demand from the King of Spain, That Captain […] Pincartoun and those of his Crew, who are detained prisoners att Carthagena be released, and sett att liberty, And yow may also acquaint them, That our Subjects of that our Kingdom shall be allowed the same Liberty of Trade That others Enjoy with the English plantations, And in Generall yow may Signifie to them our Resolution to promote and advance the Trade of the Kingdom, And The Three Frigots they demand having been given by Parliament for Guarding the Trade of the Coasts, we are not resolved To disperse of them, till we have the advice of our Parliament; And So we bid yow heartily farewell Given att our court at Kensington The Tenth day of January i700. And of our Reign the Eleventh year By his Majesties Command Sic Subscribitur Seafield.

Att Edinburgh The Sixteenth day of January Jaj viic years

A1700/1/161

Letter: royal

Letter from the King Anent the Address from the African Company

Another Letter also following, from the King to the Councill Being Read was ordered to be Recorded, of which the Tenor Follows.
Sic Supra Scribitur William Rex
Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Right trusty and Entirely beloved Cousin and Councellor, Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousins and Councellors, Right Trusty and welbeloved Councellors, and Trusty and welbeloved Councellors we greet yow well. Whereas the Councill Generall of the Company of that our Kingdom, Trading to Africa and the Indies by their Letter to our Secretaries of the Fourth day of December last, did desire that they might give their Concurrence To procure a Gracious Return from us to the petition which They hade sent With Lord Bassill Hamilton: And The said Lord Bassill having communicated to our Secretaries both the forsaid Petition and his Instructiones: And They haveing Represented to us, what is desired in behalf of the said Company, And we having Refused the Said Lord Bassill Hamilton Access to present the forsaid Petition to us, For The Reasons we did order our Secretaries to communicate To our Chancellor, yett we being willing to give ane answer To what the said Company does desire: yow are Therfore To call for Some of the Councill Generall and acquaint them That we are Resolved In the Termes of our treaties To demand from the King of Spain, That Captain […] Pincartoun and those of his Crew, who are detained prisoners att Carthagena be released, and sett att liberty, And yow may also acquaint them, That our Subjects of that our Kingdom shall be allowed the same Liberty of Trade That others Enjoy with the English plantations, And in Generall yow may Signifie to them our Resolution to promote and advance the Trade of the Kingdom, And The Three Frigots they demand having been given by Parliament for Guarding the Trade of the Coasts, we are not resolved To disperse of them, till we have the advice of our Parliament; And So we bid yow heartily farewell Given att our court at Kensington The Tenth day of January i700. And of our Reign the Eleventh year By his Majesties Command Sic Subscribitur Seafield.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 59-60.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 59-60.