At the court at Whitehall, December the thirteenth, 1682. Present, the Kings most excellent Majesty, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Godolphin. Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard, where they have been seized and carried by force to His Majesties plantations in America;

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  • At the court at Whitehall, December the thirteenth, 1682. Present, the Kings most excellent Majesty, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Godolphin. Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard, where they have been seized and carried by force to His Majesties plantations in America;
  • Orders in Council. 1682-12-13
  • Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard
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Imprint
London : Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1682.
Added name
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Gwyn, Francis, 1648?-1734.; Hills, Henry, -1689?, printer.; Newcomb, Thomas, -1691, printer. ; England and Wales. Privy Council.; Assigns of John Bill, printer.
Publication year
1682
ESTC No.
R25577
Grub Street ID
375204
Description
2 sheets (versos blank) : 1 coat of arms ; obl. 1°.
Note
Title from caption title and first lines of text

Imprint from colophon on sheet 2

Refers to "Regulations for hiring servants for the plantation. Complaints have been made of the 'Spirits' who seize persons for the Plantations, and also of persons who fraudulently claim to have been deceived. No shipmaster will be prosecuted who obeys these regulations"-- Crawford

Signed at end: Francis Gwyn

Woodcut royal coat of arms (Crawford no. 96); woodcut factotum

Steele notation: lewd friends 2) fu- whom.