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pofitivly debarred a liberty, which, being innocent in irfelf, the meanefl 

 free fubjed would never patiently part with, of remaining where he 

 likes beft. Even this command was not without a view to the king's 

 emolument, fince thofe who did not obey pundually, were condemned 

 in grievous fines by the flar-chamber for the king's ufe. 



King Charles this year licenced the Eafl-lndia company to export 

 1.40,000 in foreign goid bullion to Perfia and India in lieu of fo much 

 of the Li 00.000, which by King James's charter they were impowered. 

 annually to export thither in foreign filver bullion. [Fa^dera, V. xix, 

 />. 386.] 



A dearth of provifions continuing, the king prohibited the exporta- 

 tion of corn for one year. And by the fame proclamation, he renewed 

 a former one, againft the exportation of wool, fuUer's-earth, and leather. 

 \Fadcra, V. xix, p. 387.] 



King Charles by a fpecial v.'arrant to his treafury declared, that not- 

 withftanding the laws and cufloms of England forbid the exportation of 

 any gold and filver to foreign parts, either in coin or bullion, yet he, 

 being defirous to cultivate the friendfliip of his moft dear brother King 

 Philip IV of Spain, and of the merchants of the Spanifli Net^ierlands, 

 grants a licence for the laid merchants to export gold aiid filver, either 

 in our coin or othcrwife, being the produce of the merchandize they 

 fhall import into England, as far as the amount of L2000 fterling, in 

 eveiy fliip returning home; fo as the faid money be exported within 

 the fpace of one hundred days from their unlading the merchandize 

 they import, until we fhall otherwife ordain, any ftatute or cuflom to 

 the contrary notwithftanding. \Fcedera, V. xix, p. 396.] 



In the iEnglifh Eafl-lndia company's vindication before the privy 

 council, in anfwer to the allegations of the Turkey company in the year 

 1 68 1, amongfl; other points for fhewing the great difl[icuhies attending 

 an Eaft-India trade, it is afferted, that although formerly they had a 

 (lock of Li, 500, coo, yet in fifteen years time, viz. from 1617 to ihis 

 year, their whole profit was no more than 12-V per cent. 



This year gave birth to the prosperous colony of Maryland. Sir 

 George Calvert, fecretary of ftate, having, in the years 1621 and 1622, 

 obtained of King James a grant of part of Newfoundland, he fome time 

 after removed thither with his family, but he loon found it to be one of 

 the worft countries in the habitable world. Whereupon he returned 

 back to England ; and he, being a confcientious Roman Catholic, (lays 

 Sir William Kciih, in his hiftory of Virginia) v.^as inclined to retire 

 with his family to lonie part of Virginia, there quietly to enjoy the free 

 exercife of his religion ; for which purpofe he went thither himlelf, 

 about the year 1631 : but being difcouraged by the univerfal diflike 

 which he perceived the people of Virginia had to the very name of a 

 papift, he left Virginia, and went farther up the bay of Chefapeak j and 



