A. D. 1631. 369 



In a proclamation for i-eftraining the excefs of the private or clandef- 

 tine trade carried on to and fri>m the Eaft-Indies, by the officers and 

 failors in the company's own fliips, there is a catalogue of the wares and 

 merchandize licenced to be exported to India, and alfo of thofe licenced, 

 to be imported from thence, viz. 



Goods allowed to be exported to India: perpetuanas and drapery, 

 pewter, fatfron, woollen ftockings, filk (lockings and garters, riband- 

 rofes edged with gold lace, beaver hats with gold and filver bands, felt- 

 hats, flrong waters, knives, Spanifh leather ihoes, iron, and looking- 

 glalfes. 



Goods which might be imported from India : long pepper, white pep- 

 per, white powder fugar prelerved, nutmegs and ginger prelerved, mirabo- 

 lans,befoar-fT;ones, drugs of all forts, agate-heads, blood- fl;ones,mufk, aloes- 

 focatrina, ambergris, rich carpets of Perfm, and of Cambaya, quilts of 

 fatin, taffaty, painted calicoes, benjamin, damalks, fatins, and taffaties, 

 of China, quilts of China embroidered with gold, quilts of Pitania em- 

 broidered with filk, galls, worm -feeds, fugar-candy, China difhes, and 

 pullanes (i. e. porcelain) of all forts. \_F(£dera, V. xix, p. ^^sl ^^^ ^ 

 word of tea as yet. 



King Charles confirmed a grant made by King James for incorpo- 

 rating the ftarch-makers of London, who were to pay to him 1500 

 the firft year, 2500 the fecond year, and for every fucceedmg year 

 L3500. As for the monopoly of playing cards, the king bought them 

 all of the company, and fold them out again at a much higher price. 

 [Fa?drra, V. xix. p. 338.] 



This year a large Spanifii fleet, attempting to cut off the communi- 

 cation between Holland and Zeeland, were utterl\ overthrown by the 

 Dutch admiral Hollar, who took the whole fleet and near 5 00 failors. 



Wihiam Frizell and others got a grant of the office of poltmafter for 

 foreign parts, in reverfion. It appears that this office had been firft 

 erected by King James, and that before that firft appointment, and even 

 fometimes fince, private undertakers only conveyed letters to and from 

 fo eign parts. Knig Charles, therefor, now ftridly enjoined that none 

 but his foreign poftmafters fhould hereafter prefume to exercife any part 

 of that office. {Foedera, V, x\\,pp. 34.6, 385.] 



King Charles erected a fecond company for a trade to Africa, by a 

 charter granted to Sir Richard Young, Sir Kenelm Digby, and fundry 

 merchants ; to enjoy the fole trade to the coaft of Guinea, Binny (i. e. 

 Benin) and Angola ; between Cape Blanco, in twenty degrees of nor.h 

 latitude, and the Cape of Good Hope, at about thirty-four degrees of 

 fouth latitude, together with the ifles adjacent, for thirty-one years. 

 The charter prohibits, not only all his own fubjecls, the patente s 

 excepted, but likevvife the fubjedts of every other prince and ftate whac- 



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