Documentary History of the State of Maine, Volume 10

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Bailey and Noyes, 1907 - Local history

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Page 434 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 436 - Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.
Page 234 - State, speedy notice thereof, that so you may receive Our Ratification, if We shall approve the same : Provided always, that you do not, by colour of any Power or Authority hereby given you, commence or declare War without Our Knowledge and particular Commands therein...
Page 7 - May, in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign lord and lady William and Mary, by the grace of God of ' England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king and queen, defenders of the faith, &c.
Page 8 - Province, against Their Majesties Subjects the English, through the instigation and influences of the French; and being sensible of the miseries which we and our people are reduced unto, by adhering to their ill council: We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being Sagamores and Chief Captains of all the Indians belonging to the several rivers of Penobscote and Kennebeck, Amarascogin, and Saco, parts of the said Province of the Massachusets Bay, within Their said Majesties...
Page 105 - For as much as great inconveniencies may arise by the Liberty of Printing in Our said Province, you are to provide by all necessary Orders, that no Person keep any press for printing, nor that any Book, Pamphlet or other matters whatsoever be printed without your especial Leave and License first obtained.
Page 86 - To the King's most Excellent Majesty May it please your Majesty In obedience to your Majesty's Commands signified to us by a Letter from...
Page 116 - Present. The Kings most Excellent Majesty in Council. Upon reading this day at the Board a Representation from the Lords Com™ for Trade and Plantations dated the 10th inst.
Page 314 - ... me 20 pence a pound; 2 pounds of powder at 4 livres a pound; 20 pounds of tobacco at 20 pence a pound; a pair of scales 8 livres; Tow cloth blankets each 23 livres; Tow bear skins 8 livres apiece; 4 skins of sea wolf...
Page 4 - Governour, and the rest were persons of the best prudence and ffigure that could then be pitched upon, and I depended vpon the Court for a right method of proceeding in cases of witchcraft ; att that time I went to Command the Army at the Eastern part of the Province, for...

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