Given at Our Mannour of Greenwich, the eighteenth day of May, in the seventeenth yeere of our Raigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the two and fiftieth.
Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most excellent Majestie. Anno. M.DC.XIX.
2 pp. folio. There are two issues slightly varying in set-up. Copies in Antiq., B. M., Dalk., I. T., P. C., P. R. O., and Q. C.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Refers to the proclamation of September 11, 1614. In 1618 the East India Adventurers had joined stock with the Muscovy Company to form one joint company for the whale fishery, but after two years of unsuccessful adventuring the agreement was dissolved (Anderson, Origin of Commerce, ii, 360, 367).
[2] Spitzbergen, rather than Greenland proper.
[1619, October 6.]
[Manufacture of Tobacco-pipes.]
An abstract of some branches of his Majesties late Charter, Granted to the Tobacco-Pipe makers of Westminster; declaring his Majesties pleasure touching that Manufacture, and also all persons whom it may concerne.