By his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, Captain General and Governour in Chief of his Majesties provinces of the Massachusetts-Bay, New-York, &c. in America, and of the territories thereon depending, and Vice-Admiral of the same.A proclamation.

People / Organizations

• Richard Coote Bellomont (Author)

Imprint

[Edinburgh]: Boston, printed by Bartholomew Green, and John Allen, printers to his Excellency the Governor, and Council, 1699. Edinburgh, Re-printed exactly according to the originals, Anno 1699.

Publication year

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ESTC No.

R172705

Grub Street ID

66495

Description

[1] p. ; 29 cm (2⁰)

Note

Forbidding assistance to the Darien settlers.

Caption title.

Signed and dated at end: Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, the third day of June 1699. In the eleventh year of his Majesties reign. By order of his excellency and council. Isaac Addington secr. Bellomont.

The fourth part of Wing B1695, ESTC R231653, a work containing reprints of five proclamations: 1. By Sir William Beeston concerning 'the intentions and designs of the Scots settling at Darien'; 2. By R. Gray, Barbados, dated 13 April 1699, commanding his Majesty's subjects on St. Thomas not to assist Scots in any way; 3. By Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Fort William Henry, New York, dated 15 May 1699, printed by W. Bradford, New York prohibiting his Majesty's subjects from assisting Scots; 4. By Richard, Earl of Bellomont, dated 3 June 1699, printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen, Boston and reprinted at Edinburgh, prohibiting any assistance to give any 'assistance to any person or persons, who have been fitted out of Scotland ... and are said to have settled in a certain place in the West-Indies, by them called Caledonia ...'; 5. By R. Gray, dated 5 September 1699, A second proclamation published in Barbados, against the Scots company and colony.