Answer of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England … to the Petition … exhibited … by Sir Paul Painter, His Royal Highness (the duke of York) and others to Lord Willoughby, January 10, 1662/3.
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C. O. 1: 18, ff. 85, 86, Modyford and Colleton to the Royal Adventurers, March 20, 1664.
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A. C. R., 75: 13, 14, J5.
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Ibid., 75: 20.
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On January 2, 1665, the company estimated the entire debt which was owing to it in all the plantations at £49,895. S. P., Dom., Charles II, 110, f. 18, petition of the Royal Adventurers to the king.
377
P. C. R., Charles II, 4: 177, 190-192, August 3, 24, 1664.
378
C. O. 1: 19, ff. 234-238, proceedings of the court of admiralty in Barbadoes, June 17, 24, 1665.
379
Ibid., f. 232, petition of the Royal Adventurers to Arlington, September 14, 1665.
380
P. C. R., Charles II, 5: 402, Privy Council to Willoughby, April 6, 1666.
381
C. O. 1: 20, f. 209, Willoughby to Privy Council, July 16, 1666.
382
Ibid., f. 335, petition of the Royal Adventurers to the king, December 7, 1666.
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P. C. R., Charles II, 6: 231, December 7, 1666.
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Ibid., 7: 162, 163, Privy Council to Willoughby, January 31, 1668.
385
C. O. 1: 22, f. 191, Willoughby to Privy Council, May 30, 1668.
386
Ibid., 20, f. 149, Willoughby to the king, May 32, 1666.
387
Ibid., 21, f. 170, Willoughby to the king, July, 1667.
388
C. O. 1: 21, f. 222, Willoughby to Williamson, September 17, 1667.
389
Ibid., f. 209, petition of the representatives of Barbadoes to the king, September 5, 1667. This document and Willoughby's letter of September 17, 1667, also urge very strongly that the bars of the Navigation Acts be let down in order to permit servants to be imported from Scotland.
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The petition and these answers are printed in a pamphlet entitled, "Answer of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa, to the Petition and Paper of certain Heads and Particulars thereunto relating exhibited to the Honourable House of Commons by Sir Paul Painter." As to the assertion that the planters refused to ship their products in the company's ships there seems to be no very good evidence on either side. Sometimes the company's vessels were sent home from Barbadoes empty. Upon such occasions the agents always said that there were no goods with which to load them.
391
C. O. 1: 22, f. 42, answer of Sir Ellis Leighton, secretary of the Royal Adventurers, to the petition from Barbadoes of September 5, 1667; C. O. 1: 22, f. 43, proposal of the Royal Adventurers concerning the sale of Negroes in Barbadoes, January, 1668
392
C. O. 1: 22, f. 204, address of the merchants and planters of Barbadoes now in London, read at the committee of trade, June 16, 1668.
393
Ibid., 23, f. 69, address of the representative of Barbadoes to the king, August 3, 1668.
394
Ibid., f. 42, account of affairs in Barbadoes by Lord Willoughby, July 22, 1668.
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P. C. R., Charles II, 8: 294, May 12, 1669.
396
Ibid., 8: 402, August 27, 1669.
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