A. D. 1635. 391 



In the fame year, a very rich lead mine, in which was faid to be 

 much filver, was difcovered in Swedifli Lapland, near the town of Pi- 

 tha, at the head of the Bothnic gulf. 



1636. — The king made a new regulation of the colony of Virginia, 

 whereby ' he appointed Sir John Harvey to be continued governor 

 thereof; and empowered him and any three of his council to appoint 

 a commifTion for enlarging its limits, and for finding out what trades 

 may be mofl neceflary to be undertaken for the benefit of the colo- 

 ny ; alfo to fend out forces for fubduing the Indians, and to make' 

 war or peace, as may befi: fuit the fafety of the colony and our ho- 

 nour. That in cafe of the governor's death, or his neceflary abfence 

 (not to be allowed by lefs than four of the council there), one of the 

 council to be appointed by the reft fhall a6l in his ftead ; the gover- 

 nor and council to be fubordinate, fubjedt, and obedient to the lords 

 commiflloners and committees here for our plantations, touching the 

 prefent government of that colony, to whom as well as to us the go- 

 vernor fhall, on the death of any member of the council, give notice 

 thereof, that we may appoint another in his ftead.' \_Foedera, V. xx, 



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As thefe regulations are in the main the fame by which the colonies 



called regal, or fuch as are immediately under the crown, are ftill go- 

 verned, they are for that reafon here exhibited, being the fir ft eftablifti- 

 ment thereof in that manner. 



' King Charles commiflloned a number of lords and gentlemen to" 

 * enable William Sandys, Efq. to make the river Avon navigable 

 ' for boats and barges, from its jundHon with the river Severn near 

 ' Tewkftjury to the city of Coventry ; and alfo the river Team, on the 

 ' weft fide of the Severn towards Ludlow.' \Fcsdera, V. xx, p. 6.] 



The king renewed a proclamation of the 7th year of his father's reign, 

 prohibiting all perfons, not his natural-born fubjects, from fiftiing on the 

 coafts and feas of Great Britain and Ireland without a fpecial licence 

 firft obtained from his majefty. ' And by thefe prefents we make pub- 

 ' lie declaration, that our refolution is, at times convenient, to keep 

 ' fuch a competent ftrength of fliipping upon our feas as may by God's 

 ' blefllng be fufficient both to hinder fuch farther encroachments upon 

 ' our regalities, and to aflift and protect thofe our good friends and al- 

 ' lies who ftiall henceforth, by virtue of our licences to be firft obtaln- 

 ' ed, endeavour to take the benefit of fiftiing upon our coafts and feas 

 ' in the places accuftomed.' He alfo confirmed another proclamation 

 of the 17th year of King James, prohibiting the importation of whale- 

 fins by any but the Rufiia company. And he now direds, for the en- 

 couragement of that company and the increafe of navigation, that none, 

 whether natives or foreigners, fliall import any whale-fins or whale-oil, 

 but the laid company only, and this in their joint- ftock capacity alone 



