Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, 1672–1674.
October 13.
Commission opened and read and oath administered. (Journal.)
Letters from Gov. Stapleton and his answer to inquiries read. (Cal., §§ 842, 896.)
"Went to my Lord Keeper, (Sir Orlando Bridgeman) at Essex House, where our new patent was opened and read, constituting us that were of the Council of Plantations, to be now of the Council of Trade also, both united. After the patent was read, we all took our oaths, and departed." (Evelyn's Diary, II, p. 85.)
October 24.
Oaths administered. (Journal.)
"Met in Council, the Earl of Shaftesbury, now our President, swearing our Secretary and his clerks, which was Mr. Locke, an excellent learned gentleman, and student of Christ Church, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Frowde [son of Philip Frowde, clerk of the former Council of 1660]. We dispatched a letter to Sir Thomas Linch Governor of Jamaica, giving him notice of a design of the Dutch on that island." (Evelyn's Diary, II, p. 86.)
October 27.