496 



A. D. 1661. 



•of money to the company, on fitting out their voyages, for which he 

 had credit in the company's books, and had his proportionable dividend on 

 the profits of fuch refpedive voyage ; the whole inveftments being made 

 by the company in their corporate capacity. And they were not here- 

 by made an irrevocable corporation, but might be diflolved on three 

 years notice. 



The Portuguefe having recovered the rich and extenfive province of 

 Brafil from the Dutch, and the Dutch, on the other hand, having ex- 

 pelled the Portuguefe from their forts and fettlements at Coulan, Cana- 

 nor, Cochin, Cranganor, and Calicut, on the coaft of Malabar, in Eaft- 

 India, they now terminated the war by a treaty, whereby each power 

 retained the dominions and fettlements then adlually in their poffeflion. 



About this time many proteflant diflenters in England and Scotland, 

 to avoid perfecutions and reflraints in matters of confcience, removed 

 to New England. 



By an adl of parliament [13, 14 Car. II, c. 2] for repairing the high- 

 ways and fewers, and paving and keeping clean the ftreets in and about 

 London and Weftminfter, and for reforming annoyances and diforders 

 there, regulating and licencing of hackney coaches, and enlarging fe- 

 veral flrait and inconvenient flreets and palTages, it appears that many 

 new ftreets were then fcarcely finiflied in and about St. James's parifh. 

 The ftreet or way from the end of Petty-france to St. James's-houfe * ; 

 a ftreet from St. James's-houfe up to the high-way f; a ftreet in St. 

 James's-fields, commonly called the Pall-mall, and alfo a ftreet extend- 

 ing from the Meufe to Piccadilly J, and from thence towards the ftone- 

 bridge, to the furthermoft building near the Bull, at the corner of Air- 

 ftreet, were hereby direded to be paved, at the rate of 1/4 for every 

 fquare yard, out from the houfes or garden-walls to the middle of the 

 way, at the expenfe of the proprietors of the houfes, &c. The other 

 ways were to be kept in repair out of the money arifing from 400 hack- 

 ney coaches hereby direded to be licenced, at L5 to be paid annually 

 for every coach. The rates of the coaches by the day, by the hour, 

 and by the ground, hereby eftabliflied exadly the fame as at this day. 

 Candles, or lights in lanthorns, were to be hung out by every houfehold- 

 er fronting the ftreets, in London, Weftminfter, and fuburbs, from 

 michaelmas to lady-day, from its being dark until nine in the evening. 

 The following ftreets and narrow paflliges are alfo direded to be widen- 

 ed, viz. the ftreet or paflage near Stocks in London ; the ftreet or paf- 

 fage from Fleet-conduit to St, Paul's church in London ; the paflage 

 from the White-hart inn from the Strand, into Covent-garden ; the 

 ftreet and pafllige by and near Exeter-houfe and the Savoy, being ob- 



* It is not very dear what ftreet was thus deferlbed. ji, 

 f Now St. James's ftreet. A. 

 t Now the Haymarkct. A. 



