A.D. 1637. 397 



faid term, admit any others to be partners with them in this ad\H?n- 

 ture *. [Fo'dera, V. xx, p. 146.] 



On this voyage to India Sir William Courten's flilps made a fmail 

 fettlement on the great ille of Madagafcar, which was ioon after ruined 

 by the old Eafl-Tndia company f . 



The king iflued a frefh proclamation concerning malt and brewing, 

 wherein he exprefsly enjoins, that for the fake of the poorer fort of his 

 people, whofe ufual bread was barley, as well as for the reafons alTigned 

 in hi-s proclamation of the preceding year, already recited, the common 

 maltfters in every county be incorporated, and none of them fhall fol- 

 low any other calling ; alfo, that no maltfter fhall be a brewer or 

 cooper at the fame time ; and that common maltfters and common brew- 

 ers fliall only pradtife their trades in fuch places as fhall be afligned 

 by the king and council, and none but fuch to pradtife any where. No 

 innkeeper, alehoufe-keeper, nor vidualer, fliall brew the drink they re- 

 tail, unlefs there be no common brev/er in or near the place where they 

 live; which refliidions were not, however, to extend to the city of' 

 London, nor within four miles of it. [Fa-dc'ra, V. xx, p. 157-] 



We have feen King Charles's proclamation for the reftraint of hack- 

 ney and other coaches under the year 1635 ; we fhall now fee him in a 

 contrary flrain in his fpecial commiflion to the marquis of Hamilton, 

 his mafler of the horfe, viz. ' that we, finding it very requifite for our^ 

 ' nobility and gentry, as well as for foreign ambaffadors, flrangers, and 



* others, that there fhould be a competent number of hackney coaches 

 ' allowed for fuch ufes, have, by the advice of our privy council, thought 

 ' fit to allow fifty hackney coachmen in and about London and Wefl- 

 ' minfter, limiting them not to keep above twelve horfes apiece ; alfo 

 ' fo many others in other places in England as fliall be neceffiry. We 

 ' therefor grant to you, during your life, the power and authority to 

 ' licence fifty hackney coachmen, who fliall keep no more than twelve 



* good horfes each for their coaches refpefbvely. You alio hereby have 



* power to licence fo many in other cities and towns of England as in- 



* your wifdom fliall be thought neceflary, with power to reflrain and", 



* Sir William Courten, who had the largeft fhare and tlie Dutch in 1662, fatlsfaftion was (lipulated 



in this adventure, disd btfore this firfl voyage was to be made by tlie Dutch Eail-Iiidia company for 



completed, and his fon William Courten was by the \.\vo fliips ; yet, fo late as the year i68z, we 



the king in this lait grant tubltitutedin his father's dill find complaints in print on this point ; io th,it 



place: and he has left in print fundry large ac- probably no redrefs was ever obtained ot the Dutch 



counts- of his great loffes by this adventure, a- Ead-India company for thofe daaWj^ts. To fay 



mounting to the fum of Li 5 1,612, occafioued by the truth, the iL-hcme of this new Englilli com- 



the feizure of their two rich {hips, and the de- pany was an iniquitous one againll tlie old cojn^ 



ftruttion of thdr faftorits in India by the Dutch; pany, whofe charters were doubtlefs entirely ex- 



which made much clamour both before and after clufive of all others. 



the reftoration of King Charles II, many pam- -f- An extra£l from '1 e manufciript journal of 



phlets being publilhed to Ihew the great damage this voyage, containing the traafat\ions in the ri- 



done to hundreds of families, civditors of Courten ver of Canton, is publilhed by Sir George Staun- 



and Pindar. In the treaty betv^en King Charles II- ton in his Account of an embajjy to Ch'ma, c. 1. Af. 



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