Instructions from Secretary of State to prepare commission, etc., for New England Commissioners. (Cal., § 512.)

February 16.

Account of the militia in the Province of Maine read. (Cal., § 762.)

February 20.

Letter from Sir Thomas Lynch to the Council read. (Cal., § 640.)

March 1.

"A full Council of Plantations, on the danger of the Leeward Islands, threatened by the French, who had taken some of our ships, and began to interrupt our trade. Also in debate, whether the new governor of St. Christopher's should be subordinate to the Governor of Barbadoes. The debate was serious and long." (Evelyn's Diary, II, p. 75.)

April 2.

Report concerning the general state of the Leeward Is. and the differences depending between the English and French at St. Christopher. (Cal., § 850.)

April 9.